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Re: Any plans for a new release?


From: Carsten Mattner
Subject: Re: Any plans for a new release?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:07:17 +0200

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Andrew Savchenko <address@hidden> 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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