As stated in the release notes, this is a bugfix-only release to fix CVE-2017-10965 and CVE-2017-10966. Congratulations to Brian ‘geeknik’ Carpenter for discovering both issues. There has been a noticeable uptick in vulnerabilities discovered in irssi this year. I think in large part due to more effort put in to fuzz testing.
Good: improving software that works without adding more feature. :)
Actually their 1.1.x branch has a much improved irc proxy feature which is why I’m using it.
Wait what I’ve been using irssi for like a decade. How is it only at 1.0.something?
I started using my favorite window manager around when it was first released. Now it is old enough to drink but is “only” at version 0.95.8.
The version number arms race/great acceleration/lie is a relatively new invention!
I used wmaker for the longest time, and it wouldn’t require much to pull me back in :)
Sometimes software is pretty much complete for what it wants to .
Enlightenment 0.17 was in development for over 12 years.
TeX, out of all things, has been at version π since 1978.
A great number of programs do not ever achieve version 1.0.
Unless you’re Google Chrome or Firefox, a high version number means very little to a lot of open source projects.
As stated in the release notes, this is a bugfix-only release to fix CVE-2017-10965 and CVE-2017-10966. Congratulations to Brian ‘geeknik’ Carpenter for discovering both issues. There has been a noticeable uptick in vulnerabilities discovered in irssi this year. I think in large part due to more effort put in to fuzz testing.