The fix has been applied to the code in SVN and will be included in the next release.
@Eduardo:
Using malloc and wxChar does not solve the issue. Memory could still leak in case of an exception. Even worse the storage amount of wxChar depends on the build of wxWidgets. In ANSI build it's 1 byte, in Unicode build it might be 2 or even 4 bytes. In case of a blob the size is always measured in...
The bug is now fixed in the SVN repository.
Some other bugs were fixed, too.
The next file release is not yet scheduled, since a complete rework of the font management is still in progress.