diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 608ef1986..77e8d560f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2020-07-29:
+
+- On a ksh compiled to use fork(2) to run external commands, a bug has been
+  fixed that caused signals (such as SIGINT, Ctrl+C) to be ignored within a
+  non-forked subshell after running an external command within that subshell.
+
 2020-07-25:
 
 - Fixed BUG_MULTIBIFS: Multibyte characters can now be used as IFS
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index 066f85373..eb535a6dd 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 *                  David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>                   *
 *                                                                      *
 ***********************************************************************/
-#define SH_RELEASE	"93u+m 2020-07-25"
+#define SH_RELEASE	"93u+m 2020-07-29"
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
index a6ad50747..baa8d6d12 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
@@ -2951,13 +2951,10 @@ pid_t sh_fork(Shell_t *shp,int flags, int *jobid)
 	shp->savesig = -1;
 	while(_sh_fork(shp,parent=fork(),flags,jobid) < 0);
 	sh_stats(STAT_FORKS);
-	if(!shp->subshell)
-	{
-		sig = shp->savesig;
-		shp->savesig = 0;
-		if(sig>0)
-			kill(getpid(),sig);
-	}
+	sig = shp->savesig;
+	shp->savesig = 0;
+	if(sig>0)
+		kill(getpid(),sig);
 	job_fork(parent);
 	return(parent);
 }