Bash 5.3 Now Available
The GNU Foundation released version 5.3 of the Bash command-line interpreter.
This latest release fixes several outstanding bugs from Bash 5.2 and introduces new features, says maintainer Chet Ramey.
Features to note include:
- A new form of command substitution that executes the command in the current shell execution context.
- The source builtin has a new `-p PATH' option, which makes it use the PATH argument instead of $PATH to search for the file.
- The source code has been updated for C23 conformance. This means that Bash will no longer compile with K&R-style C compilers.
A new release of the standalone Readline library is also available with its own configuration scripts and Makefiles.
For more info, refer to the announcement page or to the Bash documentation.
07/24/2025
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