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On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:25 PM Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
[...]
> What's more, reporting bugs in bash 4.3 is just a waste of everyone's time.
> Upgrade to (at least) the current released version, and use that instead.

Adding to this point:

* bash 4.3 was released 4 years ago (2014-02-26)
* bash 4.4 is the current release of bash (2016-09-15)
* bash 5.0 is in alpha state (2018-05-22)

I know that some stable Linux distributions might still be
distributing 4.3, but that just means that you have to report the bug
against these distros, not upstream.