Gawk 5.3.1 released

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings all.

This note announces the next release of GNU Awk: version 5.3.1.

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

-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 6264553 Sep 17 21:44 gawk-5.3.1.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3320465 Sep 17 21:44 gawk-5.3.1.tar.lz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3510032 Sep 17 21:44 gawk-5.3.1.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 will be made available
shortly.

The online manuals will be updated soon as well.

The usual GNU build incantation should be used:

        tar -xpvzf gawk-5.3.1.tar.gz
        cd gawk-5.3.1
        ./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 5.3.0 to 5.3.1
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1. More subtle issues related to uninitialized array elements have
   been fixed.

2. A number of bugs in the debugger related to handling of arrays
   have been fixed.

3. Some subtle bugs in the API have been fixed.

4. Use of MPFR is now possible again on 32-bit Power PC Mac systems.

5. Race conditions around broken pipes for system() and read and write
   pipes should now be closed off.

6. Support for OSF/1 has been removed.

7. The never-documented --nostalgia option has been removed. It was
   causing bug reports.

8. The implementation of printf/sprintf has been thoroughly reworked
   in order to make the code more maintainable and to fix a goodly
   number of corner cases.

9. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
   See the ChangeLog for details.