AWK news
April 2023
BETA release of GNU Awk 5.2.2 now available
Arnold Robbins announced that BETA 5.2.2 release of GNU Awk is now available.
Read more at comp.lang.awk.
September 2022
Release 5.2.0 of GNU Awk now available
Arnold Robbins announced that 5.2.0 release of GNU Awk is now available.
Read more at comp.lang.awk.
September 2021
BETA release of GNU Awk 5.1.1
Arnold Robbins announced BETA 5.1.1 release of GNU Awk.
Read more at comp.lang.awk.
April 2020
Release 5.1.0 of gawk now available
Arnold Robbins announced the new 5.1.0 release of gawk.
Read more at comp.lang.awk.
March 2018
Release 4.2.1 of gawk now available
Arnold Robbins announced the new 4.2.1 release of gawk.
Read more at comp.lang.awk.
Call for participation
If anybody would like to take on the project of package maintenance for
gawkextlib
extension libraries, Andrew Schorr will be happy to help.
Read more at comp.lang.awk.
January 2018
Beta release of gawk 4.2.1 now available
Arnold Robbins announced the beta release of gawk 4.2.1.
Read more at comp.lang.awk.
SPAWK gawk dynamic extension
SPAWK stands for SQL Powered AWK and is now implemented as a gawk dynamic extension.
If you are using MySQL/MariaDB databases, you can use SPAWK to submit SQL queries
from your gawk scripts.
Visit the offcial SPAWK site
for more information.