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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
COMPAT: compatibility issues between bash3 and previous versions

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

-  ⇤ ← Revision 2 as of 2007-11-07 00:20:46 → 
  Size: 1076
  Editor: cpe-74-65-28-251
  Comment: printf -v added between 3.0-release and 3.1-alpha1
+   ← Revision 6 as of 2010-03-25 18:25:21 → ⇥
  Size: 1184
  Editor: geirha
  Comment: added globstar
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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
  * [[http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/COMPAT|COMPAT]]: compatibility issues between bash3 and previous versions
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||mapfile||4.0-alpha||