This release of fish contains a number of fixes for problems identified in fish 3.6.0, as well as some enhancements.

Notable improvements and fixes

• abbr --erase now also erases the universal variables used by the old abbr function. That means

    abbr --erase (abbr --list)

can now be used to clean out all old abbreviations (#9468).

• abbr --add --universal now warns about --universal being non-functional, to make it easier to detect old-style abbr calls (#9475).

Deprecations and removed features

• The Web-based configuration for abbreviations has been removed, as it was not functional with the changes abbreviations introduced in 3.6.0 (#9460).

Scripting improvements

• abbr --list no longer escapes the abbr name, which is necessary to be able to pass it to abbr --erase (#9470).
• read will now print an error if told to set a read-only variable, instead of silently doing nothing (#9346).
• set_color -v no longer crashes fish (#9640).

Interactive improvements

• Using fish_vi_key_bindings in combination with fish’s --no-config mode works without locking up the shell (#9443).
• The history pager now uses more screen space, usually half the screen (#9458)
• Variables that were set while the locale was C (the default ASCII-only locale) will now properly be encoded if the locale is switched (#2613, #9473).
• Escape during history search restores the original command line again (fixing a regression in 3.6.0).
• Using --help on builtins now respects the $MANPAGER variable, in preference to $PAGER (#9488).
• Control-G closes the history pager, like other shells (#9484).
• The documentation for the :, [ and . builtin commands can now be looked up with man (#9552).
• fish no longer crashes when searching history for non-ASCII codepoints case-insensitively (#9628).
• The Alt-S binding will now also use please if available (#9635).
• Themes that don’t specify every color option can be installed correctly in the Web-based configuration (#9590).
• Compatibility with Midnight Commander’s prompt integration has been improved (#9540).
• A spurious error, noted when using fish in Google Drive directories under WSL 2, has been silenced (#9550).
• Using read in fish_greeting or similar functions will not trigger an infinite loop (#9564).
• Compatibility when upgrading from old versions of fish (before 3.4.0) has been improved (#9569).

Improved prompts

• The git prompt will compute the stash count to be used independently of the informative status (#9572).

Completions

• Added completions for:
  • apkanalyzer (#9558)
  • neovim (#9543)
  • otool
  • pre-commit (#9521)
  • proxychains (#9486)
  • scrypt (#9583)
  • stow (#9571)
  • trash and helper utilities trash-empty, trash-list, trash-put, trash-restore (#9560)
  • ssh-copy-id (#9675)
• Improvements to many completions, including the speed of completing directories in WSL 2 (#9574).
• Completions using __fish_complete_suffix are now offered in the correct order, fixing a regression in 3.6.0 (#8924).
• git completions for git-foo-style commands was restored, fixing a regression in 3.6.0 (#9457).
• File completion now offers ../ and ./ again, fixing a regression in 3.6.0 (#9477).
• The behaviour of completions using __fish_complete_path matches standard path completions (#9285).

Other improvements

• Improvements and corrections to the documentation.

For distributors

• fish 3.6.1 builds correctly on Cygwin (#9502).

Download links: To download the source code for fish, we suggest the file named "fish-3.6.1.tar.xz". The file downloaded from "Source code (tar.gz)" may not build correctly. The SHA-256 sum of this file is 55402bb47ca6739d8aba25e41780905b5ce1bce0a5e0dd17dca908b5bc0b49b2. A GPG signature from David Adam (key ID 0x7A67D962D88A709A) is available as "fish-3.6.1.tar.xz.asc".