/bin/echo and echo no longer interpret the newline escape
character embedded in a string. E.G.

TMP="This is some text"
TMP=${TMP}"\nwith a newline in the middle"

/bin/echo ${TMP}

This code work fine in 6.0 and other flavors of unix:

This is some text
with a newline in the middle

but in RH 6.1 this is the output:

This is some text\nwith a newline in the middle

This bug has cost us a lot of time and money! What are you
guys smoking over there?! (sorry)