AWK news
November 2023
Thanks for all who have contributed to GNU awk, by J. Naman
This is a tribute, celebration and thanks to all who have so generously contributed to the development of GNU awk over the past 35 years -- from GNU Awk 1.x (1988) through 5.3.0 (Nov 2023). Gawk is an exemplar of freely shared software developed, maintained, and expanded by an extraordinary world-wide group of volunteers.
Gawk users -- students, everyday users, systems programmers, language developers -- owe an immense debt of gratitude to a vast network of contributors and collaborators who have given so much time, effort, and code to the benefit of us all. The most recent version of the User’s Guide for Gnu AWK lists 45 "Major" contributors to Gawk. Many other volunteers appear in the 989 contributions to bug-...@gnu.org since 2011. And uncounted others on comp.lang.awk.
One of the awk language super-heroes is Dr Brian W Kernighan, a co-creator of the awk language. I single him out as a super-hero for releasing open-source awk in 1993, continuing to maintain it for the past 30 years!, AND expanding awk, most recently to accommodate Unicode and built-in support for CSV files. He is 81 years old and still giving.
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins is an awk and Gawk super-hero, who has been the lead maintainer of Gawk since 1994, 29 years!, POSIX contributor, important author (21 books) and editor (7 books) on languages, programming, software development and utilities. Arnold began collaborating with Brian Kernighan in the early years of awk, currently co-maintains the open source onetrueawk, and continues to selflessly share his personal time, effort, code, and words with the rest of the world.
All of us are most appreciative of all of you.
Release 5.3.0 of GNU Awk is available
Arnold Robbins announced 5.3.0 release of GNU Awk.
October 2023
BETA release of GNU Awk 5.3.0 now available
Arnold Robbins announced BETA 5.3.0 release of GNU Awk.
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.
