What changed: ------------- - Support WSL symlinks. Create those by default now. - FIFOs can now be opened multiple times for reading. Bug Fixes: ---------- - Fix accidental evaluation of NUL (\0) characters in xterm console output. Don't move cursor to the right in case of a NUL character in the console output stream, this is not backed by terminfo. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-02/msg00162.html - Fix a segfault when starting, e.g., mintty from a bash in a console running xterm emulation. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-02/msg00197.html - Fix TIOCINQ to always return number of inbound chars if available. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-02/msg00258.html - Fix error handling in raw disk writes and allow full disk writes including necessary locking on floppies as well. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-April/244610.html - Fix several FIFO bugs. Addresses: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-March/000206.html https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-April/244518.html - Make sure pseudo tty doesn't hang if cygwin-console-helper.exe is non-functional. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2020q2/010191.html - Fix a bug causing FIFOs to have incorrect permissions. Addresses: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/245031.html