echo compatibility cleanup.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1afb1d455be7863cc0ec3abef95bb46a20f3fefd..a9e0bb01e96aa70889a85d6d6c0f1bdb641444c5 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   ls no longer segfaults on systems for which SIZE_MAX != (size_t) -1
 
+  echo now conforms to POSIX better.  It supports the \0ooo syntax for
+  octal escapes, and \c now terminates printing immediately.  If
+  POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and the first argument is not "-n", echo now
+  outputs all option-like arguments instead of treating them as options.
+
 ** New features
 
   For efficiency, `sort -m' no longer copies input to a temporary file
@@ -86,6 +91,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   `date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs
   nanosecond-resolution time stamps.
 
+  echo -e '\xHH' now outputs a byte whose hexadecimal value is HH,
+  for compatibility with bash.
+
 
 * Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable]