ANN: refdb-0.9.8-pre5 available for download, fixing possible segfault

Hi all,

get the latest prerelease of RefDB as usual:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz

This is a bugfix release for pre4. No new features, but a few memory
problems detected by valgrind were fixed. I recommend upgrading to
pre5 due to a possible segfault that affects 0.9.8-pre2 through
pre4. The symptoms and implications are described below.

regards,
Markus


Bug Alert
=========

Adding references with refdbc:addref may crash refdbd. The crash may
lead to the last reference before the crash being added incompletely,
thus causing a possible loss of data.

Symptoms:

You'll see the message "could not read to refdbd", usually after a few
references were added successfully. In addition, you should find a
refdbd dump file (refdbd.core on Unix-like systems,
refdbd.exe.stackdump on Windows) somewhere on your system.

Affected systems:

I never managed to bump into this problem on FreeBSD, but I
encountered it on Cygwin a couple of times. Other operating systems
may be affected as well.

Fix:

Avoid 0.9.8-pre2 through pre4 and upgrade to pre5 if you use one of
the affected prereleases. The latest release 0.9.7 is not affected.

If you ran into this problem previously, you can usually fix the
affected datasets by updating them (refdbc:updateref).



-- 
Markus Hoenicka
[email protected]
(Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka")
http://www.mhoenicka.de


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