The patches enclosed are for the released version of bash 1.05. All of the bugs specific to Bash 1.05 have been fixed (as far as they have been reported), and some older bugs as well. This is the first time that I have made patches available This is because Bash is approaching a stable state. You can apply these patches to a pristine version of Bash 1.05 by running the `patch' program with bash-1.05-patches as input in the distribution directory: patch