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@ -37,21 +37,12 @@ to breathe new life into the KornShell by extensively refactoring the last
unstable AST beta version (93v-).
While that ksh2020 branch is now abandoned and still has many critical bugs,
it also had a lot of bugs fixed. More importantly, the AST issue tracker
now contains a lot of documentation on how to fix those bugs, which makes
now contains a lot of documentation on how to fix those bugs, which made
it possible to backport many of them to the last stable release instead.
In February 2020, having concluded the AST 93v- beta was too broken to
base new work on, others decided to start a new fork based on the last stable
93u+ 2012-08-01 release. Unfortunately, as of June 2020, the new
[ksh-community](https://github.com/ksh-community/ksh/)
organisation is yet to see any significant activity four months after its
bootstrapping. I hope that will change; I am ready to join efforts with them
at any time, as well as anyone else who wants to contribute.
The last stable ksh93 release from 2012 is the least buggy release currently
available, but it still has many serious bugs. So it is well past time to
start fixing those bugs, leave the rest of the code alone, and get an
improved release out there.
This ksh 93u+m reboot now incorporates many of these bugfixes, as well as
many patches from Red Hat, Solaris, as well as new fixes from the community.
Though there are many bugs left to fix, we are confident at this point that
93u+m is already the least buggy branch of ksh93 ever released.
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