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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 + Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, @@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ Changes from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 accidentally omitted from the initial 4.2 release, for which we apologize. +2. The manual received a number of updates to make it format better + for PDF. + +3. A configure new option, --enable-versioned-dir, causes the directory + holding extensions to include the API version in its name. + +4. extension/configure.ac has been improved considerably. + +5. A number of bugs, some of them quite significant, have been fixed. + See the ChangeLog for details. + Changes from 4.1.4 to 4.2.0 --------------------------- @@ -106,7 +117,7 @@ Changes from 4.1.4 to 4.2.0 disable optimizations so that the output program is the same as the original input program. -18. Gawk now uses fwrite_unlocked if it's available. The yields a 7% - 18% +18. Gawk now uses fwrite_unlocked if it's available. This yields a 7% - 18% improvement in raw output speed (gawk '{ print }' on a large file). 19. Passing negative operands to any of the bitwise functions now |