This note is to announce the BETA release of GNU Awk 5.3.2.

It is available from:

http://www.skeeve.com/gawk/gawk-5.3.1c.tar.gz

This is a bug-fix (patch) 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 5.3.1 to 5.3.x
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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 the used to.

6. As usual, 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

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