diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cf9f5f1b9..4d1c71c64 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ 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.
 
+2022-01-28:
+
+- Fixed longstanding job control breakage that occurred on the interactive
+  shell when suspending (Ctrl+Z) an external command invoked by a dot script
+  or POSIX shell function.
+
 2022-01-26:
 
 - On Cygwin, ksh now executes scripts that do not have a #! path itself,
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index 7443e29f0..55be850f8 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	"2022-01-26"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-01-28"	/* 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/xec.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
index bafcc23d4..eb594cb1a 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
@@ -1586,16 +1586,6 @@ int sh_exec(register const Shnode_t *t, int flags)
 			&& !sh.st.trap[SH_ERRTRAP]
 			&& ((struct checkpt*)sh.jmplist)->mode!=SH_JMPEVAL
 			&& (execflg2 || (execflg && sh.fn_depth==0 && !(pipejob && sh_isoption(SH_PIPEFAIL))));
-			if(sh_isstate(SH_PROFILE) || sh.dot_depth)
-			{
-				/* disable foreground job monitor */
-				if(!(type&FAMP))
-					sh_offstate(SH_MONITOR);
-#if SHOPT_DEVFD
-				else if(!(type&FINT))
-					sh_offstate(SH_MONITOR);
-#endif /* SHOPT_DEVFD */
-			}
 			if(no_fork)
 				job.parent=parent=0;
 			else