[bug-gawk] Beta release for gawk 4.2.1 now available

[Arnold Robbins]

This note is to announce the BETA release of GNU Awk 4.2.1.

It is available from:

        http://www.skeeve.com/gawk/gawk-4.2.0e.tar.gz

This is a bug-fix release.  The important part of the NEWS file is below.

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 4.2.0 to 4.2.1
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1. Support for OS/2 has been brought up to date.  This support was
   accidentally omitted from the initial 4.2 release, for which
   we apologize.

2. The manual received a number of updates to make it format better
   for PDF.

3. A new configure option, --enable-versioned-dir, causes the directory
   holding extensions to include the API version in its name.

4. extension/configure.ac has been improved considerably.

5. In MPFR mode, When ROUNDMODE changes, string values for numerically
   type values will be redone.

6. The various 'inplace' tests now pass on modern BSD systems.

7. A number of bugs, some of them quite significant, have been fixed.
   See the ChangeLog for details.