fish-shell/fish-shell 3.0.1

fish 3.0.1 (released February 11, 2019)

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This release of fish fixes a number of major issues discovered in fish 3.0.0.

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Fixes and improvements

• exec does not complain about running foreground jobs when called (#5449).
• while loops now evaluate to the last executed command in the loop body (or zero if the body was empty), matching POSIX semantics (#4982).
• read --silent no longer echoes to the tty when run from a non-interactive script (#5519).
• On macOS, path entries with spaces in /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d now correctly set path entries with spaces. Likewise, MANPATH is correctly set from /etc/manpaths and /etc/manpaths.d (#5481).
• fish starts correctly under Cygwin/MSYS2 (#5426).
• The pager-toggle-search binding (Ctrl-S by default) will now activate the search field, even when the pager is not focused.
• The error when a command is not found is now printed a single time, instead of once per argument (#5588).
• Fixes and improvements to the git completions, including printing correct paths with older git versions, fuzzy matching again, reducing unnecessary offers of root paths (starting with :/) (#5578, #5574, #5476), and ignoring shell aliases, so enterprising users can set up the wrapping command (via set -g __fish_git_alias_$command $whatitwraps) (#5412).
• Significant performance improvements to core shell functions (#5447) and to the kill completions (#5541).
• Starting in symbolically-linked working directories works correctly (#5525).
• The default fish_title function no longer contains extra spaces (#5517).
• The nim prompt now works correctly when chosen in the Web-based configuration (#5490).
• string now prints help to stdout, like other builtins (#5495).
• Killing the terminal while fish is in vi normal mode will no longer send it spinning and eating CPU. (#5528)
• A number of crashes have been fixed (#5550, #5548, #5479, #5453).
• Improvements to the documentation and certain completions.

Known issues

There is one significant known issue that was not corrected before the release:

• fish does not run correctly under Windows Services for Linux before Windows 10 version 1809/17763, and the message warning of this may not be displayed (#5619).

If you are upgrading from version 2.7.1 or before, please also review the release notes for 3.0.0 and 3.0b1.