Bash 4.4 and Readline 7.0 released

The GNU Bourne Again SHell(Bash) project has released version 4.4 of the tool. It comes with a largenumber of bug fixes as well as new features:"The most notable newfeatures are mapfile's ability to use an arbitrary record delimiter; a --help option available for nearly all builtins; anew family of ${parameter@spec} expansions that transform the value of`parameter'; the `local' builtin's ability to save and restore the stateof the single-letter shell option flags around function calls; a newEXECIGNORE variable, which adds the ability to specify names that shouldbe ignored when searching for commands; and the beginning of an SDK forloadable builtins, which consists of a set of headers and a Makefilefragment that can be included in projects wishing to build their ownloadable builtins, augmented by support for a BASH_LOADABLES_PATH variablethat defines a search path for builtins loaded with `enable -f'. The existingloadable builtin examples are now installed by default with `makeinstall'." In addition, the related Readlinecommand-line editing library project has released Readline 7.0.