From 4ecbe49e41e9bf5a1de1141d325ab62f21ee2bfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Verweij Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:59:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add NEWS.md entry noting need to quote special characters in Cmds (#19786). (#21809) --- NEWS.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index eb03244b5518e..db9875f72448f 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -449,6 +449,10 @@ Deprecated or removed * `convert` methods from `Diagonal` and `Bidiagonal` to subtypes of `AbstractTriangular` have been deprecated ([#17723]). + * Special characters (`#{}()[]<>|&*?~;`) should now be quoted in commands. For example, + ``` `export FOO=1\;` ``` should replace ``` `export FOO=1;` ``` and + ``` `cd $dir '&&' $thingie` ``` should replace ``` `cd $dir && $thingie` ``` ([#19786]). + * The zero-argument constructor `MersenneTwister()` has been deprecated in favor of the explicit `MersenneTwister(0)` ([#16984]). @@ -531,6 +535,7 @@ Deprecated or removed [#19741]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19741 [#19771]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19771 [#19784]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19784 +[#19786]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19786 [#19787]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19787 [#19791]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19791 [#19800]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19800