Re: [aspell-devel] Aspell 0.60.8 Now Available

[Hypo Stases]

Thank you, Kevin, for your continued support of Aspell.

Are there any good chances that MSVC Windows platform will be coming one
day?


On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 1:58 AM Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> wrote:

> GNU Aspell 0.60.8 is now available at:
>     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.8.tar.gz
>
> Please note that this version has the potential to break some applications
> that use null-terminated UCS-2 and UCS-4 encoded strings in order to fix a
> potentially unbounded buffer over-read.  Very few applications do this
> however.  For additional information please see "Upgrading from Aspell
> 0.60.7"
> in the manual.
> (http://aspell.net/man-html/Upgrading-from-Aspell-0_002e60_002e7.html)
>
> Major changes from 0.60.7 to 0.68.8:
>
>     * Prevent a potentially unbounded buffer over-read by no longer
>       supporting null-terminated UCS-2 and UCS-4 encoded strings with the
>       original C API.
>
>     * Ensure that possible typos are listed before other suggestions when
>       typo analysis is used.  Also fix a bug so that suggestions that
>       split a word using a space or hyphen are not always first.
>
>     * Add Markdown filter.
>
>     * Add new ‘wordlists’ option, which is a list of UTF-8 files that
>       contain additional words to accept.
>
>     * Add new ‘camel-case’ option, which enables support for checking
>       camelCase words.
>
>     * Sort personal and replacement dictionaries.
>
>     * Change ‘ultra’ suggestion mode to only find words that are within
>       one-edit distance or have the same soundslike.
>
> Other changes from 0.60.7:
>
>     * Implement the ‘aspell filter’ command.
>     * Fix a bug in ‘AspellDocumentChecker’ that prevented it from working
>       with UCS-2 and UCS-4 encoded strings.
>     * Remove unused ‘sug-edit-dist’ option.
>     * ‘AspellDocumentChecker’ now expects the document a line at a time
>       in order to work with the new Markdown filter.  If the document is
>       split on white space characters instead, nothing will break, but
>       new filters such as the Markdown filter may give incorrect results.
>     * The ‘clean’ option and command will no longer split a word.
>     * Various documentation improvements.
>     * Removal of several outdated appendices that don’t really belong in
>       the main manual.  Parts that are still relevent may eventually be
>       moved elsewhere, but for now they are available online at
>       <http://aspell.net/0.60.7/man-html/>.
>     * Fix various crashes and other problems found by Google’s OSS-Fuzz.
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