Zojuist heeft de AbiSource community versie 2.4.1 van de open source tekstverwerker AbiWord uitgebracht. Downloads voor Windows, Mac OS X en verschillende distributies van Linux kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden. Versie 2.4.1 is een bugfix-release en er zijn dan ook een hoop problemen opgelost, waaronder verschillende buffer overflows in de RTF-importer. Het volledige changelog ziet er als volgt uit:
AbiWord v2.4.1 ChangeLog[break]
- CAN-2005-2972: Fix several stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF importer - reported by Chris Evans
- Update copyright information in various files
- Gratuitous speed optimization in the Mac OSX renderer (Mac OSX)
- Fix refusal to save files due to special characters in the filename (bug 9600)
- Fix BiDi direction wrong in menu strings (bug 3999, Windows)
- Re-spellcheck the document after changing the language settings (bug 9562)
- Fix typo in the man page (Unix)
- Installer cleanup: Change error messages to be understandable, and to encourage a "Retry" because with high traffic, sometimes the download fails on the first try. (Windows)
- Fix a nasty potential (and real!) race condition in the Word Count dialog (Unix, bug 9582)
- Fix a crash when turning on Format Marks when the document contains equations
- Fix a crash when undoing the Insert Header operation
- Make Undo Insert Equation work
- Make Redo Insert Equation not crash
- Enable the RTF 1.7 Spec file to load: fix infinite loop discovered by Johnny Lee
- Fix a typo in a debug message
- Check for strnlen() when running configure
- Add a new function UT_strnlen() function
- Fix a possible out of bounds read in the clipboard handling code (Unix)
- Plug a memory leak
- Allow hex digits in panose strings in the RTF importer
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