Seeing this release makes me cringe. I've used Bash as an interactive shell for decades but really I'm sick and tired of it.<p>As a scripting language, I loathe it and really don't understand its purpose. I always write shell scripts in POSIX shell for portability reasons. Most of the time I don't need to use any of Bash's features. In cases where advanced features are needed and portability is not a concern, there are other scripting languages much better suited for this (Python, Ruby, etc).<p>As an interactive shell, the only features I ever use are command history and tab completion. Bash is way too bloated for my use case (it's only a matter of time before the next Shellshock is discovered). Other lightweight shells are missing the couple of interactive features which I do use.<p>If anyone knows of a shell which meets my criteria of being lightweight but with command history and tab completion (paths, command names and command arguments), I'd really appreciate any suggestions. Otherwise I may have to look into extending dash or something.