Aquileo | Recent posts to news

Aquileo | zsh 5.4.2

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:01:08 -0000

Version 5.4.2 is the latest stable release (as of a few weeks ago).

Note there are some known problems with the ERR_RETURN option in this release (replacing other known problems in previous releases). These are already fixed in the git repository.

Aquileo | zsh 5.2 release

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:24:21 -0000

This is a stable release. There are many bug fixes and a few minor new features since 5.1.1.
This release includes .asc files containing a detached signature for each tar ball. The signature is for the key 2048R/4BDB27B3 (Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com). You can find it on the keyserver at pool.sks-keyservers.net.

Aquileo | zsh 5.1.1 release

Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:41:49 -0000

5.1.1 is mostly an update to 5.1 with fixes for bugs identified since; however, there are a couple of small new features

Aquileo | zsh 5.1 released

Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:38:42 -0000

Version 5.1 of zsh has been released and is available as a download from Sourceforge as well as the master zsh site, http://www.zsh.org/pub/

Note that in addition to the tar.gz files (for people who like traditional compression schemes) there are also tar.xz rather than tar.bz2 files (for people how like the latest compression scheme). The latter are uncompressed with "tar xJf", rather than "tar xjf".

This is an upgrade from 5.0.8. A two-digit release number has been picked as a simplification: it does not imply that this version is substantially different from the previous release.

There are a couple of interesting enhancements. In particular, there is now support for genuine assignment syntax after keywords such as "local" and "typeset"

Also, text pased within X terminals is safer as it appears as characters rather than raw input (so in particular you need to hit Return to execute it). Note that slight tweaks to this may occur in future
versions, though the general scheme is likely to remain the default.See the README and NEWS files for more.

There are also many bug fixes, notably better protection against race conditions in interrupts (typically, but not necessarily, those resulting from exiting child processes), as well as enhancments to completion functions.

Thank you to the many people who have contributed or otherwise helped.

Please report problems to zsh-workers@zsh.org.

Aquileo | zsh 5.0.7 released

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:44:33 -0000

Version 5.0.7 of zsh is released. You can get it from
http://www.zsh.org/pub and mirrors (see below). This is a stable
release. There are minor new features as well as bug fixes since 5.0.6.

Note in particular there is a security fix to disallow evaluation of the
initial values of integer variables imported from the environment (they
are instead treated as literal numbers). That could allow local
privilege escalation, under some specific and atypical conditions where
zsh is being invoked in privilege elevation contexts when the
environment has not been properly sanitized, such as when zsh is invoked
by sudo on systems where "env_reset" has been disabled.

Aquileo | zsh 5.0.5 released

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:24:04 -0000

Version 5.0.5 of zsh has been released. This is a stable version.

This fixes various significant bugs reported following the release of 5.0.4 a couple of weeks ago.

Aquileo | zsh 5.0.4 released

Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:59:23 -0000

Version 5.0.4 of zsh has been released. This is a stable version. It contains
bug fixes and minor feature enhancements since the last widely distributed release,
5.0.2. 5.0.3 was not widely released as it contains a bug in pattern matching.

Aquileo | Source (and web) archive moved to git

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:51:30 -0000

The old CVS archive for zsh code has been replaced by git; in addition, the source for the web pages is also available in git. For access, follow the links from

http://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/_list/git

That will display the top level of the code or web tree; at the top you will see the commands you need to allow you to check out the code.

Aquileo | zsh 4.3.12 released

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:30:25 -0000

Version 4.3.12 of zsh has been released. This is mostly a bug fix release, but with a few minor new features; see the NEWS file.

The 4.3 series should migrate to a new stable release series 5.0 in the not too distant future.

Aquileo | zsh 4.3.2 with multibyte (UTF-8) support

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:03:54 -0000

zsh version 4.3.2 has been released. This is a development release, but is believed to be fairly stable. This is the first version of zsh to support multibyte character sets, in particular (but not just) UTF-8. The support in the line editor is nearly complete, but it is patchy in other parts of the shell.