Re: Any plans for a new release?

Amadeusz Sławiński <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:07:17 +0200
Carsten Mattner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Andrew Savchenko
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > it looks like git head contains many important fixes: code
> > hardening (e.g. strcpy -> strncpy) and fix for hardoded screenterm
> > value (commit 37ca949e462a7608572f653848b5a7554964fd53). The latter
> > is very important, since it fixes segfault which happens when $TERM
> > is longer than 20 chars, e.g. screen-256color-bce-s[1]. And having
> > segfault in the latest release of setuid program is not nice.
> >
> > Of course I can build from git or my own use, but it is hard to
> > deliver such fixes to distro users, because backporting is required.
> > So it will be really nice to see screen-4.3.2 release :)
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585696  
> 
> Seconded.
> 
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Hi,

right it was quite a while, I will do release this weekend.
If anyone has any other patches they want to get in before release
please send them.
I'll backport mentioned commit to screen-v4 branch (master is
development branch for v5).

Best regards,
Amadeusz Sławiński

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