Comment # 5 on bug 1124481 from Dr. Werner Fink

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #4)
> CCing Werner for his input - with a statement like "The problem is bash v5",
> I'd call this mandatory

IMHO this is not a new bash behaviour but the the bash can not read from or
write to its HISTFILE aka ~/.bash_history

 noether:/ # echo $BASH_VERSION 
 5.0.2(1)-release
 noether:/ # ll /proc/$$/fd
 total 0
 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar  9 08:47 0 -> /dev/pts/3
 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar  9 08:47 1 -> /dev/pts/3
 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar  9 08:47 2 -> /dev/pts/3
 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar  9 08:47 255 -> /dev/pts/3
 noether:/ #