From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: 5.0.8 notes
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 00:13:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3R_=BnTfn8M9eBP8X_d3-i9tSNihvv1CnWMK2R4atoP_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150430210312.5c62314e@ntlworld.com>
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> There ought to be more worth mentioning...
>
> -Note in particular there is a security fix to disallow evaluation of the
> -initial values of integer variables imported from the environment (they
> -are instead treated as literal numbers). That could allow local
> -privilege escalation, under some specific and atypical conditions where
> -zsh is being invoked in privilege elevation contexts when the
> -environment has not been properly sanitized, such as when zsh is invoked
> -by sudo on systems where "env_reset" has been disabled.
> +This is version 5.0.8 of the shell. This is a stable release.
> +There are no significant new features since 5.0.6, but there
should this say .7? ^
I'm not sure how much we usually list here but here's some stuff from
a look through the git log,
${(p.$param.)
some numerous changes to the vi mode, i don't use it but maybe oliver
can chime in?
waiting on already exited processes
whence -v lists file function was defined in
-S shows intermediate symlink steps
$(< error not fatal anymore
faster history lockfile retrying
zsh/db/gdbm module, ztie -r / zuntie -u
pattern support in watch variable
aliasing && and other tokens (this is already in NEWS, but not listed
separately for .8)
posix builtins and exec + assignments
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-30 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-30 20:03 Peter Stephenson
2015-04-30 22:13 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2015-05-01 20:32 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-03 18:09 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-03 20:11 ` Mikael Magnusson
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