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authordequis <dx@dxzone.com.ar>2016-09-21 18:56:23 -0300
committerdequis <dx@dxzone.com.ar>2016-09-21 18:56:23 -0300
commit63f3957befad85fba2ca63a20c9e5ac4a3eeddfe (patch)
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parentf859e6893e37e53ea52913b4fc6236f67636a275 (diff)
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Clarify distro hotfix versions
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@@ -15,14 +15,28 @@ for various Linux distributions are automatically generated by the
[openSUSE Build Service](https://build.opensuse.org/) and are
available for download in the
[irssi-test](https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:ailin_nemui:irssi-test;package=irssi)
-repository. Please check with your distro whether they provide
-officially updated packages.
+repository.
+
+Please check with your distro whether they provide officially updated
+packages. This is a possibly incomplete list of distros which have
+applied the hotfix to their stable versions instead of updating to
+0.8.20:
+
+- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial): `0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2`
+ ([USN-3086-1](http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3086-1/))
+- Debian 8 (jessie): `0.8.17-1+deb8u1`
+ ([DSA 3672-1](https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00251.html))
+
+Note that the version shown by irssi internally is kept the same, but
+they are safe to use anyway.
Read the [security advisory](/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt).
Those who cannot upgrade right now, but with Perl support enabled in
their Irssi, can load [this](/security/sa_patch.pl) script and add it to
-`~/.irssi/scripts/autorun` as a first aid to mitigating these issues:
+`~/.irssi/scripts/autorun` as a first aid to mitigating these issues.
+
+----
Furthermore, we are always looking for testers of the development
version. Binaries of the current git development version are