CVS

The very latest and greatest version of Zsh is held in a CVS repository hosted by SourceForge. Instructions on how to access this is on the Zsh CVS Repository web page. To build it, you will need to run Util/preconfig to build the configure script. This requires that you have a copy of autoconf installed. Documentation is pre-built for the releases so unless you have Yodl installed builds from cvs sources will fail when they come to build documentation. This is after zsh itself has been built so don't let that error worry you.

Currently we have two active branches in the CVS repository. The cvs HEAD branch contains the latest 4.3.x changes while the 4.2.x branch is tagged zsh-4_2-patches. You can check out the latter with the -r option to cvs checkout.

If you don't have a CVS client, you can download a snapshot of the cvs repository. The following snapshots are available:

• 4.3 branch, bzip2 compressed
• 4.3 branch, gzip compressed
• 4.2 branch, bzip2 compressed
• 4.2 branch, gzip compressed

Be aware that if you obtain your copy of Zsh in any of the ways described on this page, it is likely to contain many more bugs than the official releases. If you're not interested in having the very latest features and just want to get on with some real work get the latest stable release.