diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 04d9b2dc5..6f54dff3f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/tree/1.0
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2022-06-08:
+
+- If -B/--braceexpand is turned on in --posix mode, it now only allows brace
+  expansion on literal strings and not on the values of unquoted expansions.
+  This behaviour is like bash and zsh, as well as compliant with a future
+  version of the POSIX standard that may specify brace expansion:
+  https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1193
+
 2022-06-07:
 
 - Fixed a bug in 'typeset' where compound variables could acquire a spurious
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index 4cc62d08e..dcf1e9c1f 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 #define SH_RELEASE_FORK	"93u+m"		/* only change if you develop a new ksh93 fork */
 #define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.0-beta.2"	/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
-#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-06-07"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-06-08"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
 #define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2022 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1 b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
index 290c3c34e..391dd5032 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
@@ -7704,6 +7704,9 @@ In addition, while on, the \fBposix\fR option
 disables exporting variable type attributes to the environment for other ksh
 processes to import;
 .IP \[bu]
+if the \fB\-B\fR/\fBbraceexpand\fR option is turned back on,
+disallows brace expansion on the results of unquoted expansions;
+.IP \[bu]
 disables the special handling of repeated
 .I isspace
 class characters in the
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
index b1ade153e..dcc95d70c 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
@@ -2494,7 +2494,8 @@ static void endfield(register Mac_t *mp,int split)
 		{
 			sh.argaddr = 0;
 #if SHOPT_BRACEPAT
-			if(sh_isoption(SH_BRACEEXPAND))
+			/* in POSIX mode, disallow brace expansion for unquoted expansions */
+			if(sh_isoption(SH_BRACEEXPAND) && !(sh_isoption(SH_POSIX) && mp->pattern==1))
 				count = path_generate(argp,mp->arghead);
 			else
 #endif /* SHOPT_BRACEPAT */
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/posix.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/posix.sh
index 8f98907ea..4330c2898 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/posix.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/posix.sh
@@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ if ((SHOPT_BRACEPAT)); then
 fi
 (set --noposix; ((SHOPT_BRACEPAT)) && set +B; eval 'set {1..4}'; let "$# == 1") || err_exit "--noposix does not allow independent control of braceexpand"
 
+# When brace expansion is turned back on in POSIX mode, the values of unquoted variable expansions are not subject to it.
+# (note that, in typical quirky ksh fashion, this only happens if pathname expansion is also on, i.e. -f/--noglob is off.)
+if	((SHOPT_BRACEPAT))
+then
+	got=$(set -B +f; a='x{1,2}'; print $a)
+	exp='x{1,2}'
+	[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit "posix braceexpand expands unquoted variable expansions" \
+		"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+	got=$(set --noposix +f; a='x{1,2}'; print $a)
+	exp='x1 x2'
+	[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit "non-posix braceexpand does not expand unquoted variable expansions" \
+		"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+fi
+
 # Furthermore, the posix option is automatically turned on upon invocation if the shell is invoked as sh or rsh,
 # or if -o posix or --posix is specified on the shell invocation command line, or when executing scripts
 # without a #! path with this option active in the invoking shell.