diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 49fef7c35..9d21d6a4d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2021-05-03:
+
+- Completed the 2021-04-30 fix for ${var<OP>'{}'} where <OP> is '-', '+',
+  ':-' or ':+' by fixing a bug that caused an extra '}' to be output.
+
 2021-04-30:
 
 - The emacs 'ESC .' (M-.) and vi '_' commands now take shell quoting into
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index b09b3e228..c12566b2a 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-alpha"	/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
-#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2021-04-30"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2021-05-03"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
 #define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2021 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
index b5cc3645d..254451800 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
@@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@ retry1:
 			}
 			else
 			{
-				sh_lexskip(lp, RBRACE, 0, sh_lexstates[ST_BRACE][c]==S_MOD1 ? ST_QUOTE : ST_NESTED);
+				sh_lexskip(lp, RBRACE, 0, sh_lexstates[ST_BRACE][c]==S_MOD1 ? ST_MOD1 : ST_NESTED);
 				stkseek(stkp,offset);
 			}
 			argp=stkptr(stkp,offset);
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/quoting2.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/quoting2.sh
index cab135481..d9f8382e8 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/quoting2.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/quoting2.sh
@@ -254,14 +254,30 @@ actual=$(printf %q $'1\x[11]1')
 # https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/290
 var=dummy
 exp='{}'
-got=$(eval 'echo ${var:+'\''{}'\''}' 2>&1)
+got=$(set +x; eval 'echo ${var:+'\''{}'\''}' 2>&1)
 [[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit "Single quotes misparsed in expansion operator string (1)" \
 	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
 unset var
 exp='}'
-got=$(eval 'echo ${var:-'\''}'\''}' 2>&1)
+got=$(set +x; eval 'echo ${var:-'\''}'\''}' 2>&1)
 [[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit "Single quotes misparsed in expansion operator string (2)" \
 	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+exp='x'
+got=$(var=x; set +x; eval 'echo ${var:-'\''{}'\''}' 2>&1)
+[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit "Single quotes misparsed in expansion operator string (3)" \
+	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+exp=''
+got=$(var=; set +x; eval 'echo ${var:+'\''{}'\''}' 2>&1)
+[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit "Single quotes misparsed in expansion operator string (4)" \
+	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+exp='{}'
+got=$(unset var; set +x; eval 'echo ${var-'\''{}'\''}' 2>&1)
+[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit "Single quotes misparsed in expansion operator string (5)" \
+	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+exp=''
+got=$(unset var; set +x; eval 'echo ${var+'\''{}'\''}' 2>&1)
+[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit "Single quotes misparsed in expansion operator string (6)" \
+	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
 
 # ======
 exit $((Errors<125?Errors:125))