summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/NEWS
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
-rw-r--r--NEWS12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a0009406f..a55cb583b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,18 @@ definitely unused---this is notably the case for modules that are only
used at macro-expansion time, such as (srfi srfi-26). In those cases,
the compiler reports it as "possibly unused".
+* Bug fixes
+
+* Hashing of UTF-8 symbols with non-ASCII characters avoids corruption
+
+This issue could cause `scm_from_utf8_symbol' and
+`scm_from_utf8_symboln` to incorrectly conclude that the symbol hadn't
+already been interned, and then create a new one, which of course
+wouldn't be `eq?' to the other(s). The incorrect hash was the result of
+a buffer overrun, and so might vary. This problem affected a number of
+other operations, given the internal use of those functions.
+(<https://bugs.gnu.org/56413>)
+
Changes in 3.0.9 (since 3.0.8)