KornShell

1980

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983.

1983

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983.

1996

Northrup and Jeffery Korn The New KornShell—ksh93, Linux Journal, Issue 27, July 1996 == External links == MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) Cross-platform software Free software programmed in C Scripting languages Software that uses Meson Unix shells

1998

In this tradition MorphOS uses in its SDK. MKS Inc.'s MKS Korn shell – a proprietary implementation of the KornShell language from Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) up to version 2.0; according to David Korn, the MKS Korn shell was not fully compatible with KornShell in 1998.

2000

In 2000 the source code was released under a license particular to AT&T, but since the ksh93q release in early 2005 it has been licensed under the Eclipse Public License.

2005

In 2000 the source code was released under a license particular to AT&T, but since the ksh93q release in early 2005 it has been licensed under the Eclipse Public License.

2012

UnixWare also includes when CDE is installed. The ksh93 distribution underwent a less stable fate after the authors left AT&T around 2012 at stable version ksh93u+.

2014

The primary authors continued working on a ksh93v- beta branch until around 2014.

2017

That work was eventually taken up primarily by Red Hat in 2017 (due to customer requests) and resulted in the eventual initial release of ksh2020 in the Fall of 2019.

2019

That work was eventually taken up primarily by Red Hat in 2017 (due to customer requests) and resulted in the eventual initial release of ksh2020 in the Fall of 2019.

2020

In March 2020, AT&T decided to roll back the community changes, stash them in a branch, and restart from ksh93u+, as the changes were too broad and too ksh-focused for the company to absorb into a project in maintenance mode.




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