Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Re: version 9.0 and patches

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 9:30 AM Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
> On Di, 13 Dez 2022, Michael.Pearson2 via vim_use wrote:
[...]
> > Is there a cumulative patch for version 9 that will encompass all the
> > patches for all the following CVE's?
>
> No, we do not provide cumulative patches. If you are installing vim,
> best is always to go from the lastest patch in the master branch and
> keep it updated regularly.
>
> If you are using a Distribution with Security Support, it will probably
> take care of those. But you should check with the maintainers separately
> to be sure.

I agree with Christian, and in addition, if you can (or can learn to)
compile your own Vim (it is not outlandishly difficult, it just takes
a little getting used to), the latest source is available on both a
git repository on github, maintained directly by Bram (see
https://www.vim.org/git.php for info) and a Mercurial repository
maintained by Christian at https://hg.256bit.org/vim mirrorring Bram's
git repository (see https://www.vim.org/mercurial.php for details).

I used to have a pair of HowTo pages, about compiling Vim on Windows
and on Linux (and other Unix-like systems), but my ISP (Belgacom
Skynet aka Proximus) has removed all user sites not maintained by
their own engineers, and I wasn't ready to let other people decide how
my user site should look. I still have HTML backups of this user site
but, alas, they are not available on the Web anymore.

Best regards,
Tony.

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