A new release of dash, 0.5.8-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 0.5.7-1 on 32-bit and 0.5.7-4 on 64-bit. (0.5.8-1 appeared briefly on mirrors, but had a compilation flaw on my end that caused it to lack debuginfo)
NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release; among other things, it teaches dash to behave sanely in the presence of non-identifier names in the environment (all the more relevant given the recent bash ShellShock fixes putting such names in the environment). This is my first build for 64-bit cygwin (thanks to others for helping bootstrap the initial 64-bit environment), and is also the first build with a separated debuginfo package. For now, there are no immediate plans of replacing /bin/sh with dash, but the possibility remains for the future. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/dash/. DESCRIPTION: ============ DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'diffutils' in the 'Base' or 'Shells' category (it should already be automatically selected). Be sure that you do not have any cygwin programs running during the upgrade. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from cygwin.com aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin dash package maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.
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