[bug-gawk] beta release of what will be gawk 4.0.1 now available

[Aharon Robbins]

This note is to announce the first BETA release of GNU Awk 4.0.1.

It is available from:

        http://www.skeeve.com/gawk/gawk-4.0.0h.tar.gz

This is a bug-fix release.

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
address@hidden
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Changes from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1
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1. The default handling of backslash in sub() and gsub() has been reverted to
   the behavior of 3.1. It was silly to think I could break compatibility that
   way, even for standards compliance.

XXX. Lots of minor bugs fixed and portability clean-ups along the way. See
   the ChangeLog for details.