1Version 5.0.0 of zsh is the new stable release. There are many changes 2since the last stable release series, 4.2, of which the most important 3is handling of multibyte characters. The file NEWS in the distribution 4gives more information. The file README details some incompatibilities 5with previous versions, mostly minor. 6 7Users of the development release series will not see major changes since 8the previous release, 4.3.17. 9