This note is to announce the BETA release of GNU Awk 5.2.1.

It is available from:

http://www.skeeve.com/gawk/gawk-5.2.0b.tar.gz

This is a bug-fix release.

The important part of the NEWS file is below.

As far as I can tell, the documentation and code have both hit the
freeze point.

So, why do a beta release? So that you, yes you, the end user, can see
if anything I've done breaks gawk for you. Then you can TELL ME ABOUT
IT so that I can fix it for the final release.

Thanks,

Arnold Robbins
arnold@skeeve.com
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Changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1
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1. Infrastructure upgrades: PMA version Avon 8.

2. Issues related to the sign of NaN and Inf values on RiscV have
been fixed; gawk now gives identical results on that platform as
it does on others.

3. A few issues with the debugger have been fixed.

4. More subtle issues with untyped array elements being passed to
functions have been fixed.

5. The rwarray extension's readall() function has had some bugs fixed.

6. The PMA allocator is now supported on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux on S/390x.
Is is now supported also on both Intel and M1 macOS systems.

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