[ANNOUNCEMENT] lftp 4.9.0-2

[ANNOUNCEMENT] lftp 4.9.0-2

[Andrew Schulman via cygwin]

lftp 4.9.0-2 is now available in Cygwin. This is a Cygwin-only update that
tries to fix a segmentation fault some users are seeing in the previous
release, 4.9.0-1[1].

The bug appears to happen only on hosts that aren't IPv6-enabled. The fix
was helpfully contributed by Henry S. Thompson[2]. Thank you, Henry.

I haven't been able to test the patch, since the problem doesn't occur on
any of my hosts. Since version 4.9.0-1 seems to be partly or completely
broken for many users, rather than wait I decided to go ahead and release
this new, patched version to see if it fixes the problem.

Please test this new release, and report on the Cygwin list if the problem
is fixed for you. 

lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent
client. It supports multiple network protocols.  It offers tab completion,
command history, job control, and bookmarks. It can mirror sites and
transfer multiple files in parallel. It keeps trying interrupted operations
until it can complete them.

Andrew E. Schulman

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00076.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00143.html

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] lftp 4.9.0-2

[Joe Bloggs]

This was already fixed on lftp 4.9.1 released by the developer. You should probably just release that version instead of the patched version.

https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/commit/5d344937d60380341c20409c11f135afb630d7ee


Actual release

https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/releases/tag/v4.9.1

On 22/01/2020 21:16:28, Andrew Schulman via cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
lftp 4.9.0-2 is now available in Cygwin. This is a Cygwin-only update that
tries to fix a segmentation fault some users are seeing in the previous
release, 4.9.0-1[1].

The bug appears to happen only on hosts that aren't IPv6-enabled. The fix
was helpfully contributed by Henry S. Thompson[2]. Thank you, Henry.

I haven't been able to test the patch, since the problem doesn't occur on
any of my hosts. Since version 4.9.0-1 seems to be partly or completely
broken for many users, rather than wait I decided to go ahead and release
this new, patched version to see if it fixes the problem.

Please test this new release, and report on the Cygwin list if the problem
is fixed for you.

lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent
client. It supports multiple network protocols. It offers tab completion,
command history, job control, and bookmarks. It can mirror sites and
transfer multiple files in parallel. It keeps trying interrupted operations
until it can complete them.

Andrew E. Schulman

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00076.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00143.html

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] lftp 4.9.0-2

[Andrew Schulman via cygwin]

> This was already fixed on lftp 4.9.1 released by the developer. You should probably just release that version instead of the patched version.

OK, yep. Thanks.


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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] lftp 4.9.0-2

[thierry blind]

> Please test this new release, and report on the Cygwin list if the problem
> is fixed for you. 

Hi,
thank you very much for this release and the 4.9.1-1 release, no more segmentation fault, everything seems ok! :)

Greetings,
Thierry.
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