gawk 4.0.2 released

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings all.

This note announces the next minor release of GNU Awk: version 4.0.2.

The following files may be retrieved from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk,
or via HTTP from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2742713 Dec 25 20:49 gawk-4.0.2.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 1626808 Dec 25 20:49 gawk-4.0.2.tar.xz

This is a bug fix release.  The relevant part of the NEWS file is
appended below.

Differences from gawk 4.0.1 are in the following file:

-rw-r--r-- 1 arnold arnold  307643 Dec 25 22:19 gawk-4.0.1-4.0.2.diff.gz

The usual GNU build incantation should be used:

        tar -xpvzf gawk-4.0.2.tar.gz
        cd gawk-4.0.2
        ./configure && make && make check

Bug reports should be sent to address@hidden

Enjoy!

Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers)
address@hidden
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Changes from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2
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1. Infrastructure upgrades: Autoconf 2.69, Automake 1.12.6, bison 2.7.

2. `fflush()', `nextfile', and `delete array' are all now part of POSIX.

3. fflush() behavior changed to match BWK awk and for POSIX - now both
   fflush() and fflush("") flush all open output redirections.

4. Various minor bug fixes and documentation updates.

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