diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 72b9be4c1..87e19b1cb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2021-05-13:
+
+- Fixed a bug with 'test -t 1' that was introduced on 2021-04-26:
+  v=$(test -t 1 >/dev/tty && echo ok) did not assign 'ok' to v.
+
 2021-05-10:
 
 - Release 1.0.0-beta.1.
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
index a97f60adf..f48f83741 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
@@ -161,13 +161,11 @@ int tty_check(int fd)
 {
 	register Edit_t *ep = (Edit_t*)(shgd->ed_context);
 	struct termios tty;
-	/*
-	 * The tty_get check below does not work on 1 (stdout) in command substitutions. But comsubs fork upon redirecting 1,
-	 * and forking resets sh.subshell to 0, so we can safely return false when in a virtual subshell that is a comsub.
-	 */
-	if(fd==1 && sh.subshell && sh.comsub)
-		return(0);
+	Sfio_t *sp;
 	ep->e_savefd = -1;
+	if(fd < 0 || fd > shgd->lim.open_max || sh.fdstatus[fd] == IOCLOSE
+	|| (sp = sh.sftable[fd]) && (sfset(sp,0,0) & SF_STRING))
+		return(0);
 	return(tty_get(fd,&tty)==0);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index 93c1eb886..fa0e53090 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 #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	"2021-05-10"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2021-05-13"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
 #define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2021 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh
index 0101a4747..2975bb4b1 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh
@@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ actual=$(echo begin; exec >/dev/tty; [ -n X -a -t ] && test -n X -a -t) \
 # [ -t 1 ] to fail in non-comsub virtual subshells.
 ( test -t 1 ) && echo OK9 || echo 'test -t 1 in virtual subshell fails'
 ( test -t ) && echo OK10 || echo 'test -t in virtual subshell fails'
+got=$(test -t 1 >/dev/tty && echo ok) && [[ $got == ok ]] && echo OK11 || echo 'test -t 1 in comsub fails'
 EOF
 tst $LINENO <<"!"
 L test -t 1 inside command substitution
@@ -599,6 +600,7 @@ r ^OK7\r\n$
 r ^OK8\r\n$
 r ^OK9\r\n$
 r ^OK10\r\n$
+r ^OK11\r\n$
 r ^:test-2:
 !