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Re: 64 bit HEADSUP: Restart of *everything* today


>> I added working *shared* Perl 5.16.2. Recent improvements to Cygwin64 made
>> this version possible. I also added Autoconf 2.69 and Automake 1.13.1 and
>> removed the old versions.
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cyg64files/files/perl-5.16.2-3.x86_64.tar.xz/download
>
> Hi Teemu,
>
> Great.
> But I'm, not quite happy with 5.16 being released on cygwin. First
> there is a new 5.14.4
> and 5.16.3 which do fix most security issues, but secondly 5.16 itself
> is so inherently
> insecure, that I warned packagers not to distribute it at all. And did
> choose to not
> fully disclosure the issues publicly since it affects a lot of people.

I wasn't aware of any security issues and basically just wanted to
release the latest version of Perl to get autotools working. I can
compile a new version tomorrow (5.14.4).


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