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  Re: Bash-5.0-alpha available Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-09-16 12:42 -0400

#14589 — Re: Bash-5.0-alpha available

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.

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