[PATCH] NEWS and README

[PATCH] NEWS and README

[Bart Schaefer]

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Please ignore the diffs to NEWS and README that were accidentally
included in the patch for compinit in workers/49917.  Attached is the
corrected diff for those files.

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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1e9926c05..8441610b0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ The option CLOBBER_EMPTY was added to enable the overwrite behaviour
 of CLOBBER for empty files only. It is disabled by default.
 
 The compinit function learnt a -w option to explain why compdump runs.
+When run without the -i or -u options and compaudit discovers security
+issues, answering "y" to the "Ignore insecure ..." prompt removes the
+insecure elements (like the -i option) where previously it ignored the
+result (thus formerly like the -u option).  Further, removing those
+elements includes dropping directories from the $fpath array.
 
 The zsh/datetime module's strftime builtin learnt an -n option to omit
 the trailing newline when printing a formatted time.
@@ -70,6 +75,12 @@ attributes such as numeric type, sorting, and padding are retained until
 the parameter is explicitly unset or a conflicting value is assigned.
 This is similar to default behavior of bash and ksh.
 
+The "jobs" command and "$jobstates" and related parameters can report on
+parent shell jobs even in subshells.  This is a snapshot of the parent
+state, frozen at the point the subshell started.  However, if a subshell
+starts its own background jobs, the parent state is discarded in order
+to report on those new jobs.
+
 Changes from 5.7.1-test-3 to 5.8
 --------------------------------
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 353667289..c27d6881a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ details, see the documentation.
 Incompatibilities since 5.8
 ---------------------------
 
+compinit: A "y" response to the "Ignore ... and continue?" prompt removes
+insecure elements from the set of completion functions, where previously
+it ignored the compaudit result and included all elements.
+
 PROMPT_SUBST expansion is no longer performed on arguments to prompt-
 expansion sequences such as %F.
 

Re: [PATCH] NEWS and README

[Daniel Shahaf]

Bart Schaefer wrote on Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:11 +00:00:
> Please ignore the diffs to NEWS and README that were accidentally
> included in the patch for compinit in workers/49917.  Attached is the
> corrected diff for those files.
>
> Attachments:
> * NEWS_README.txt

> +When run without the -i or -u options and compaudit discovers security
> +issues, answering "y" to the "Ignore insecure ..." prompt removes the
> +insecure elements (like the -i option) where previously it ignored the
> +result (thus formerly like the -u option).  Further, removing those
> +elements includes dropping directories from the $fpath array.

WDYT of s/Ignore/Skip/ in that prompt?  This would make it crystal clear
to anyone seeing that prompt that its semantics have changed: both to
new users and to upgrading users who won't have read the list of
incompatibilities.

Cheers,

Daniel
(Larry: saw your ping; will reply later)