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Fish 4.1 Released With Nearly 1,400 Commits To This Rust-Based Shell

([Free Software] 61 Minutes Ago Fish 4.1)


Following the release earlier this year of the [1]Fish 4.0 shell that was ported from C++ to Rust , Fish 4.1 was released this weekend as the next major feature release.

Fish 4.1 brings 1,396 commits over the latest Fish 4.0.9 point release from more than one hundred developers. Fish 4.1 brings new features such as supporting compound commands written using braces in similar style to other shells, support for transient prompts, tab completion improvements, reworked gettext-based message localization, and a variety of other improvements.

Fish 4.1 also brings a number of scripting improvements, various interactive usage enhancements, improved terminal support, and updated language translations.

Fans of the Fish shell can learn more about the Fish 4.1 feature release via [2]GitHub along with downloads.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-Shell-4.0-Released

[2] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/4.1.0



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