[feat]: update to Zsh 5.9

[vladdoster]

Would you be open to a PR that would update Zsh version to 5.9?

Understandable if not as it is a recent release.

Changelog for brevity.

[romkatv]

Would you be open to a PR that would update Zsh version to 5.9?

Yes.

[vladdoster]

Okay, @romkatv. Will open a PR for this as well. 👍🏻

[vladdoster]

Update: working on this now

[romkatv]

Word of warning: the code is a complete mess. A proper solution would be to branch off 5.9, apply changes that are currently applied with sed and other hacks, and commit that to a separate branch of zsh-bin. You don't have to do this of course. If you can update the current script to work with zsh 5.9, I'll merge that.

[Un1q32]

any updates on this?

[ofek]

@romkatv Is this project no longer maintained?

[romkatv]

It is barely maintained.

[ofek]

Are there plans to update the version to 5.9 or would you recommend that folks use prebuilt binaries from somewhere else?

[romkatv]

At the moment I don't plan to release 5.9. I might get around to it in the future but I wouldn't bet on it. If you need 5.9, you'll have to use a different distribution -- I don't have any recommendations, sorry. FWIW, I'm still using 5.8 -- there is nothing that 5.9 brought to the table that I care about.

[ofek]

Understood, thanks! Do you have any guidance for others who may wish to build their own standalone distributions of Zsh? Anything you've learned that's not necessarily documented would be immensely helpful.

[romkatv]

If you know on which OS you are going to be installing zsh, you can build specifically for that OS -- natively, in a docker container, in qemu, or cross-compile. The purpose of zsh-bin is to have a single distribution that works everywhere, but each individual user of zsh is unlikely to need that freedom.