Next release

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

As 4.3 seems to be pretty stable I'd like to release 5.0 shortly without
any further major changes.  The release number won't change until I
actually do that --- the policy is that version numbers always
increment, so 5.0_mumble comes after 5.0 --- although nearer the time
when everything looks ready I may bump the number to 4.99-test-X for the
final test releases just to indicate the intention.

The only significant thing to do for this is rework the source
documentation (NEWS, release notes, etc.) to show changes since 4.2
rather than within 4.3.  If anyone thinks they can make a good attempt
at this, they're welcome.  Otherwise, I will try to make a start on
that.

It would also be useful to document any bugs or major unexpected
restrictions that aren't already documented.  I'm aware of a couple of
weak areas in completion: correspondence classes don't handle multibyte
characters, and nested quoted completion where the contents of the
quotes are interpreted non-trivial (e.g. as a command line by a call to
another shell) are buggy.  This is *not* a call for feature requests.
Any undocumented derogations from POSIX behaviour can be added to the
FAQ.

If you think there's anything significant left to do, it would be a good
time either to do it or try to persuade someone else (good luck with
that).

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