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authordana <dana@dana.is>2019-12-31 03:41:28 -0600
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@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH)
Version
-------
-This is version 5.8 of the shell. This is a stable release. There are
-a few visible improvements since 5.7 as well as many bugfixes.
+This is version 5.8 of the shell. This is a security and feature release.
+There are a few visible improvements since 5.7, as well as many bugfixes.
+All zsh installations are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
Note in particular the changes highlighted under "Incompatibilities since
5.7.1" below. See NEWS for more information.
@@ -56,6 +57,12 @@ This only affects you if you override that function in your dotfiles.
The cd and chdir builtins no longer interpret operands like -1 and +2 as
stack entries when POSIX_CD is enabled.
+Dropping privileges with `unsetopt privileged` may fail (with an error
+message) on some older and uncommon platforms due to library dependency
+changes made in the course of fixing CVE-2019-20044. Please report this
+to the zsh-workers mailing list if your system is affected. See NEWS for
+more.
+
Incompatibilities between 5.6.2 and 5.7.1
-----------------------------------------