Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/949829/

The GNU awk text-processing utility, gawk has released version
5.3.0. The main new features add compatibility with “The One True Awk” (also known
as “BWK awk”); version 5.3.0 adds CSV (comma-separated values) parsing and
the ability to use \u escape sequences for Unicode code points.
Read on for other changes in the release.