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Minimum bash versions

Ville Skyttä edited this page May 8, 2020 · 9 revisions

4.2

  • code cleanups: negative array indexes (but not assignments); suspect grep: [${#
  • more robust test suite: completion-display-width 0 in inputrc
  • code cleanups: test/[[ -v
  • TBD: lastpipe option

LTS OS versions with bash 4.1:

  • CentOS 6 etc, EoL 2020-11-30

4.3

  • code cleanups: negative array indexes (but not assignments); suspect grep: [${#
  • code cleanups, major niceties: namerefs

LTS OS versions with bash 4.2:

  • CentOS 7 etc, EoL 2024-06-30

4.4

TBD, but will likely skip this directly to 5.0; see 4.2 LTS OS's

LTS OS versions with bash 4.3:

  • Debian 8, EoL 2020-06-30
  • Ubuntu 14.04, EoL 2022-04
  • Ubuntu 16.04, EoL 2024-04

5.0

TBD

LTS OS versions with bash 4.4:

  • CentOS 8 etc, EoL 2029-05-31
  • Debian 9, EoL 2022
  • Ubuntu 18.04, EoL 2028-04
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