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  • Gawk 5.3.2 is now available

    From arnold@arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) to comp.lang.awk on Sun Apr 6 12:38:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.awk

    Greetings all.

    This note announces the next release of GNU Awk: version 5.3.2.

    The following files may be retrieved via HTTPS from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk:

    -rwxrwxr-x 1 arnold arnold 1136504 Apr 6 12:19 gawk-5.3.1-5.3.2.diff.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 6570029 Apr 2 08:38 gawk-5.3.2.tar.gz
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3558101 Apr 2 08:38 gawk-5.3.2.tar.lz
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3749260 Apr 2 08:38 gawk-5.3.2.tar.xz

    This is a bug-fix release. The relevant part of the NEWS file is appended below. A diff file from the previous release is included in the list above.

    The usual GNU build incantation should be used:

    tar -xpvzf gawk-5.3.2.tar.gz
    cd gawk-5.3.2
    ./configure && make && make check

    Please use the gawkbug script to report bugs. If it doesn't
    work for you, then send email to bug-gawk@gnu.org.

    NOTE that the manual's instructions for sending bug reports were
    updated for the earlier 5.2.0 release. Please review them carefully before submitting a report!

    ONLY bug reports should be submitted to the bug-gawk list. All other
    questions should use the help-gawk@gnu.org mailing list.

    Enjoy!

    Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers)
    arnold@skeeve.com
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    Changes from 5.3.1 to 5.3.2
    ---------------------------

    1. The pretty printer now produces fewer spurious newlines; at the
    outermost level it now adds newlines between block comments and
    the block or function that follows them. The extra final newline
    is no longer produced.

    2. OpenVMS 9.2-2 x86_64 is now supported.

    3. On Linux and macos systems, the -no-pie linker flag is no longer required.
    PMA now works on macos systems with Apple silicon, and not just
    Intel systems.

    4. Still more subtle issues related to uninitialized array elements have
    been fixed.

    5. Associative arrays should now not grow quite as fast as they used to.

    6. The code and documentation are now consistent with each other with
    respect to path searching and adding .awk to the filename. Both
    are always done, even with --posix and --traditional.

    7. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
    See the ChangeLog for details.
    --
    Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com
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