[getdata-devel] GetData-0.11.0 released

[D. V. W. <ge...@ke...>]

Hi! I'm probably as surprised as you are, but GetData-0.11.0 has
been released!

You can get it here:

  https://github.com/ketiltrout/getdata/releases/tag/v0.11.0

The primary reason for a new release is to fix a use-after-free
vulnerability assigned CVE-2021-20204.  All users are encouraged to
upgrade.

The security advisory is here:

  https://github.com/ketiltrout/getdata/security/advisories/GHSA-3m22-hpcj-m3pp

There are a few other bug fixes and one new function (gd_open_limit() which
you can use to try to avoid running out of file descriptors) in this
release, almost all of which have been sitting in the repository for
years and probably should have been released some time ago!


Where is GetData these days?
============================

Also, speaking of repositories, as you may have guessed from the above
URLs, I've moved getdata to GitHub:

  https://github.com/ketiltrout/getdata

I think it should be an improvement.



The future of this mailing list
===============================

Submissions to this list are almost entirely spam at this point, so if
you've attempted to contact me via this list in the past, and I've
ignored you, it's not because I didn't want to talk to you, it's because
your message got lost in the mess.  Apologies!

For the moment, I think it's best to think of this as an annoucement
list, though I'm not sure I'm convinced that's even worth it in the long
term.

For bug reports and other questions in general, I'd strongly suggest
using GitHub issues instead.  Similarly, to keep up to date with
GetData, it's almost certainly going to be better to watch the project
there than to monitor this list.


Cheers, and have fun!
=====================

It's been a fair bit of time since I've had to do this, so hopefully I
got it right.  If I haven't and this release doesn't work for you, make
an issue for it and we'll sort it out.

-don
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D. V. Wiebe
ge...@ke...
https://github.com/ketiltrout/getdata