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| author | dana <dana@dana.is> | 2019-12-31 03:41:28 -0600 |
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| committer | dana <dana@dana.is> | 2020-02-14 16:06:58 -0600 |
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diff --git a/README b/README index a3701abe5..7f1dd5f92 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH) Version ------- -This is version 5.8 of the shell. This is a stable release. There are -a few visible improvements since 5.7 as well as many bugfixes. +This is version 5.8 of the shell. This is a security and feature release. +There are a few visible improvements since 5.7, as well as many bugfixes. +All zsh installations are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. Note in particular the changes highlighted under "Incompatibilities since 5.7.1" below. See NEWS for more information. @@ -56,6 +57,12 @@ This only affects you if you override that function in your dotfiles. The cd and chdir builtins no longer interpret operands like -1 and +2 as stack entries when POSIX_CD is enabled. +Dropping privileges with `unsetopt privileged` may fail (with an error +message) on some older and uncommon platforms due to library dependency +changes made in the course of fixing CVE-2019-20044. Please report this +to the zsh-workers mailing list if your system is affected. See NEWS for +more. + Incompatibilities between 5.6.2 and 5.7.1 ----------------------------------------- |