Requested by Peter Bex.
4.8.0.5
- Security fixes
- CVE-2013-4385: read-string! no longer reads beyond its buffer when
length is #f.
- poll() is also used on cygwin by enabling the fix for CVE-2012-6122
- file-creation-mode now passes a valid value to umask when its argument
is omitted. (Also ensure it always returns the old umask value.)
- Fix a data corruption problem in list->queue.
- Core libraries
- read-string! behaves correctly in presence of EOF.
- Several subtle problems in the reader in the presence of EOF are fixed.
- Use poll() instead of select() on cygwin.
- Runtime
- Fix an issue on initial seed of the random number generator.
4.8.0.4
- Runtime
- Ensure correct type is used for sigsetjmp(3) buffer. This fixes,
for example, a bus error in 32-bit OS X builds (#1021).
- Core libraries
- Export file-type from the posix unit.
- Build system
- Use inexact comparison for flonum tests, as there is sometimes a
miniscule difference between trig functions computed by libc and
those precalculated by gcc.