Re: [ANN] CHICKEN 5.4.0 release candidate available

Hi'all! About testing 5.4.0rc1

Operating system: Linux Mint 21.3
Hardware platform: x86-64
C Compiler: GCC 11.4.0
Installation works?: yes
Tests work?: yes
Installation of eggs works?: yes

PS.sha256sum chicken-5.4.0rc1.tar.gz
d936e3ac81b68c9709feceb7dd093bd5e43d9f9d6aba9bcb8848c0cbdd055006
 chicken-5.4.0rc1.tar.gz

not  61d59cb4f3ca226995d7dca3510c7a646c2cf1e28ebc771bf6c5177e28d14c81
sorry?

PPS  one small question. Does or not cache files produced by
chicken-install 5.4.X  interfere with chicken-install 5.3.X? Thanks All!

пт, 31 мая 2024 г. в 11:09, Peter Bex <[email protected]>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> We are happy to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming
> CHICKEN 5.4.0.
>
> CHICKEN 5.4.0rc1 is now available at this location:
> https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2024/05/31/chicken-5.4.0rc1.tar.gz
>
> The SHA256 sum of that tarball is
> 61d59cb4f3ca226995d7dca3510c7a646c2cf1e28ebc771bf6c5177e28d14c81
>
> This is mostly a bugfix and maintenance release, preparing for the
> upcoming CHICKEN 6 release (hopefully later this year).
>
> It contains some security hardening regarding option parsing and a
> fix for CVE-2022-45145 handling of escape characters in egg metadata.
>
> Notable new features are new thread-safe APIs for POSIX signals and
> finalizers, support for weak pairs and having line numbers available
> on error traces in the interpreter.
>
> The complete list of changes since version 5.3.0 is available here:
> https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2024/05/31/NEWS
>
> Please give it a test and report your findings to the mailing list.
>
> Here's a suggested test procedure:
>
>   $ make PREFIX=<some dir> install check
>   $ <some dir>/bin/chicken-install pastiche
>
> If you want to build CHICKEN with a compiler other than the default one,
> just use C_COMPILER=<the compiler> (e.g., C_COMPILER=clang) on the make
> invocation.
>
> Of course, feel free to explore other supported build options (see the
> README file for more information) and actually use CHICKEN 5.3.0rc1 for
> your software.
>
> If you can, please let us know the following information about the
> environment you tested the RC tarball on:
>
> Operating system: (e.g., FreeBSD 14.0, Debian 12, Windows 11 mingw-msys
> under
> mingw32)
> Hardware platform: (e.g., x86, x86-64, PPC)
> C Compiler: (e.g., GCC 11.3.0, clang 16.0.6)
> Installation works?: yes or no
> Tests work?: yes or no
> Installation of eggs works?: yes or no
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> The CHICKEN Team
>
>