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Re: Any plans for a new release?
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Carsten Mattner |
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Re: Any plans for a new release? |
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Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:00:21 +0200 |
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Amadeusz Sławiński <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:07:17 +0200
> Carsten Mattner <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Seconded.
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> Hi,
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> 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).
May I suggest a soft schedule that would aim for 3 or 4 releases
per year? Soft as in, no hard requirement for a release if nothing
happened yet.