Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!217.188.199.168.MISMATCH!takemy.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!newsfeed.esat.net!171.64.64.130.MISMATCH!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Bash-5.0-alpha available Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:42:28 -0400 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 18 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <180523192833.AA99377.SM@caleb.ins.cwru.edu> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1537116167 11961 208.118.235.17 (16 Sep 2018 16:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, bug-bash , bash-announce@gnu.org, coordinator@translationproject.org To: Eduardo Bustamante Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:reply-to:cc:subject:to:references:from :organization:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SGSX6k/hnRTTq4ieOaT/niByscuyT6udY32mVoKZGwU=; b=LTwBt/SIK8FqeTUvjcDjk4L/qVjfar4L31TwecTY7+Es+iSPe/gn8ywBmVZkLIFAzR KhxRSYklzUKGbJeFmdKQu6QnXJ2klstsrxwAIumpuv/qdMaLyAefMgajxW3W0XCiJlU4 JgWGr9s4gu4PUyuXSZCNZmR77JLiEPjPHzZQsKh8YWtXddGUnB7+/t0g3XTNr0dTfRdA aeUVVmk12VIIec2Blb09WxpFPlj0uicu+ueTUHl+7H8Eg7Es0rA3zN7tkssVSqF6YoBg D8X/2+MdzkFSWDz797Uxvxpah+53l6LOF/hAZU3/ZGKOyZ0mHoB7gebjaHaoAL8xdj4y OMrw== X-Gm-Message-State: APzg51DAgZYoPNjJ8zhV+yh2np5HdHATkLDhU1IBzhUI1LzyVt31cgqT BtKycuQ9wGnJW0KztST8PEzmSH5RNMcZ9IClAb/VGKguNe2R5Sl2w0GXjHH2z+WVob+f1D6Y7OE r3XJvLlXOsAE= X-Received: by 2002:a24:ca84:: with SMTP id k126-v6mr10089125itg.27.1537116150270; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:42:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ANB0VdaKXmTqqv0FpSnUKajlgO4xnhF++lEnQwSOmPJgcp8bmA/1cyRsSwQE/6vsOqy+REdSuqGrjA== X-Received: by 2002:a24:ca84:: with SMTP id k126-v6mr10089116itg.27.1537116150016; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:42:30 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=8/90, host=mpv2-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=8/90, refid=2.7.2:2018.9.16.160616:17:8.317, ip=, rules=__YOUTUBE_RCVD, __X_GOOGLE_DKIM_SIGNATURE, __HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __MULTIPLE_RCPTS_CC_X2, __CC_NAME, __CC_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __SUBJ_REPLY, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __ANY_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __FORWARDED_MSG, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODY_SIZE_700_799, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, IN_REP_TO, MSG_THREAD, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.227 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:14589 On 9/16/18 3:00 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote: > Out of curiosity, when / how will bash 5.x become a stable release? > > The main reason I ask is that I'd like to ensure that there's > reasonable fuzzing coverage of the parser, readline and other > easy-to-fuzz areas of bash before that happens. Bash-5.0 is about to go into beta test. While fuzzing has some interesting results, I haven't really seen any security problems or any serious bug that would cause me to hold up a release from the fuzzing-uncovered issues I've seen so far. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/