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Is there a list of which features were added to specific releases (versions) of Bash?

Here are some links to official Bash documentation:

NEWS: a file tersely listing the notable changes between the current and previous versions
CHANGES: a "complete" bash change history (back to 2.0 only)
COMPAT: compatibility issues between bash3 and previous versions

Here's a partial list of the changes, in a more compact format:

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+Here are some links to official Bash documentation:
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-  * [http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/NEWS NEWS]: a file tersely listing the notable changes between the current and previous versions
  * [http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/CHANGES CHANGES]: a complete bash change history
  * [http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/COMPAT COMPAT]: compatibility issues between bash3 and previous versions
+  * [[http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/NEWS|NEWS]]: a file tersely listing the notable changes between the current and previous versions
  * [[http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/CHANGES|CHANGES]]: a "complete" bash change history (back to 2.0 only)
  * [[http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/COMPAT|COMPAT]]: compatibility issues between bash3 and previous versions
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+||read -N||4.1-alpha||
||associative arrays||4.0-alpha||
||&>> and |&||4.0-alpha||
||coproc||4.0-alpha||
||globstar||4.0-alpha||
||mapfile/readarray||4.0-alpha||
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+||printf -v var||3.1-alpha1||