diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 258481890..e2cbfab54 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/tree/1.0
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2022-06-28:
+
+- Fixed a bug that caused the <#((num)) or >#((num)) arithmetic seek
+  redirection operator to fail if used with file descriptor 0, 1 or 2
+  connected to a block device.
+
 2022-06-22:
 
 - Fixed: 'echo' failed when used inside a command substitution that
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index 8f918ada4..6c331703f 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 #define SH_RELEASE_FORK	"93u+m"		/* only change if you develop a new ksh93 fork */
 #define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.0-beta.2"	/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
-#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-06-22"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-06-28"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
 #define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2022 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */
diff --git a/src/lib/libast/sfio/sfseek.c b/src/lib/libast/sfio/sfseek.c
index 651cdee3e..271ad977a 100644
--- a/src/lib/libast/sfio/sfseek.c
+++ b/src/lib/libast/sfio/sfseek.c
@@ -87,9 +87,8 @@ Sfoff_t sfseek(Sfio_t*	f,	/* seek to a new location in this stream */
 	}
 
 	if(f->extent < 0)
-	{	/* let system call set errno */
-		(void)SFSK(f,(Sfoff_t)0,SEEK_CUR,f->disc);
-		return (Sfoff_t)(-1);
+	{	/* not seekable with sfio: let the system call either set errno or succeed */
+		return SFSK(f,p,type,f->disc);
 	}
 
 	/* throw away ungetc data */