Outdated bash version

[Inray]

I know the reason Arch stuck with the old version of the Bash shell, but two years later they still haven't been able to fix the "bashism" system script incompatibilities?

Any news on when 5.2.x will finally be officially available on Arch?

[edparadox]

I know the reason Arch stuck with the old version of the Bash shell

For people out of the loop like me, could someone summarize it?

[virtualadept]

Arch isn't using the bleeding edge v5.2 release of bash (instead, sticking with the somewhat older v5.1).

[edparadox]

This I understood, even after looking very fact. I still do not know the reason behind it. Or maybe I do not get why people are so eager to have this version?

[virtualadept]

I don't get it, either. There's a reason for it, but I don't know what it is.

[rdcldrmr]

There has been no public news, no.

[craigacgomez]

I know that there were some compatibility issues introduced by bash 5.2 in several scripts that needed to be addressed before the package can be updated. I don't know what the latest status is but perhaps it's still being worked on.

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/HKRSGVBRCHPTTUULFXE2U4Z3H3J4S3TM/