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@@ -1,9 +1,42 @@ - Copyright (C) 2019, 2020, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +Changes from 5.1.x to 5.2.0 +--------------------------- + +1. Numeric scalars now compare in the same way as C for the relational +operators. Comparison order for sorting has not changed. This only +makes a difference when comparing Infinity and NaN values with +regular numbers; it should not be noticeable most of the time. + +2. If the AWK_HASH environment variable is set to "fnv1a" gawk will +use the FNV1-A hash function for associative arrays. + +3. The CMake infrastructure has been removed. In the five years it was in +the tree, nobody used it, and it was not updated. + +4. There is now a new function, mkbool(), that creates Boolean-typed +values. These values *are* numbers, but they are also tagged as +Boolean. This is mainly for use with data exchange to/from languages +or environments that support real Boolean values. See the manual +for details. + +5. As BWK awk has supported interval expressions since 2019, they are +now enabled even if --traditional is supplied. The -r/--re-interval option +remains, but it does nothing. + +6. The rwarray extension has two new functions, writeall() and readall(), +for saving / restoring all of gawk's variables and arrays. + +7. The new `gawkbug' script should be used for reporting bugs. + +8. The manual page (doc/gawk.1) has been considerably reduced in size. +Wherever possible, details were replaced with references to the online +copy of the manual. + Changes from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 --------------------------- |