fish Files

This release exists mainly to work around an issue with the Konsole terminal which would cause shift-pageup to stop working.

This release brings 151 new commits since 4.8.1, contributed by 26 authors, 18 of which are new faces.

Interactive improvements

• To mitigate issues in Konsole version v26.07.80’s implementation of the kitty keyboard protocol, fish no longer requests that protocol on Konsole. The omit-term-workarounds feature flag can be turned on to enable the kitty keyboard protocol on Konsole again (#12948).
• On some terminals like kitty, keys like shift-space and space can now be mapped independently (#12898).
• Fixed slow tab completion in directories that contain slow-to-resolve symlinks (e.g. links to network-mounted files) (#12905).
• Abbreviations can now be given a description, which will be displayed in the completion pager (#11291).
• Vi mode commands like cF and cT now work correctly (#12947).

Scripting improvements

• List indexing can now be nested in more cases; for example $foo[$bar[1] 2] is now allowed (#12903).
• Escaped square brackets (e.g. \133 for [) are no longer considered a slicing operator (#7969).
• Variables containing a closing square brackets and used to index into another variable will no longer close the slice early (#12819).
• Builtin help pages now respect an override of the man function (#12886).
• Commands like status=123 echo $status now throw an error instead of silently ignore the variable override (#7790).

Regression fixes:

• (From 4.6.0) Chinese and Japanese translation of error messages owned by the C library were broken (#12895).
• (From 4.3.2) Erasing read-only variables with set --erase was accidentally allowed.
• (From 4.0.0) Builtin fg was not working on NetBSD (#12929).

Thanks to everyone who contributed through issue discussions, code reviews, or code changes.

Welcome our new committers: AbhinavMir, Aelin, Alex Le Blanc, Alexia, Guflly, MeGaurav4, Philipp Jungkamp, SR0725, Tommi Virtanen, Vaibhav Srivastava, Valentyn Yefimov, avbest, developic, hazel, nekoside, orpheus6678, tianrking, yakakay

Welcome back our returning committers: David Adam (zanchey), Fabian Boehm, Ilya Grigoriev, Johannes Altmanninger, Michael Jarvis, Nahor, Peter Ammon, Wes Higbee

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The files called fish-4.9.0-linux-*.tar.xz contain standalone fish binaries for any Linux with the given CPU architecture.