Thanks, you're wellcome.
Regarding the news: it is the kind of add-on functionality that I hardy touch or test. Could be that install process fails to create a few directories or files (when testing, I usually install on top of an existing installation). I'll look into it.
This must be an artifact. This bug was solved before 1.1.21.
The random() thing is still there, though.
(I manually added the prototype, because autoconf failed to find one)