New 2024 POSIX Standards specify features for sh and standard shell utilities
The document itself is paywalled like all the POSIX specifications, so here are some highlights courtesy of some comments at HackerNews, especially from a-french-anon.
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IMO the NUL-delimited options are by far the biggest win for shell scripting.
$' 'will be the most commonly used addition, but"$(printf '...')"was always an option before. You don't really have an alternativeread -d ''.