[aspell-devel] New Aspell 0.60.8 Pre-Release Snapshot Now Available

[Kevin Atkinson]

A new pre-release snapshot of the next stable version of Aspell is now 
available at:
   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.8-20190921.tar.gz

Important changes from from Aspell 0.60.7:

Fix an buffer over-read as already announced.  Unfortunately it has the 
potential to break some applications.  See the manual for more info.

Changes from last snapshot (20190817)

   * Add new 'wordlists' option, which is a list of UTF-8 files that
     contain additional words to accept.
   * Provide support for checking camelCase words.
   * The 'clean' option and command will no longer split a word.

Changes so far (from Aspell 0.60.7):

    * Add Markdown filter.
    * When typo analysis is used, ensure that possible typos are listed
      before other suggestions.  Also fix a bug so that suggestions that
      split a word using a space or hyphen are not always first.
    * Change ‘ultra’ suggestion mode to only find words that are within
      one-edit distance or have the same soundslike.
    * To prevent a potentially unbounded buffer over-read Aspell no
      longer supports null-terminated UCS-2 and UCS-4 encoded strings
      with the original C API.
    * Fix a bug in ‘AspellDocumentChecker’ that prevented it from working
      with UCS-2 and UCS-4 encoded strings.
    * Implement ‘aspell filter’ command.
    * Remove unused ‘sug-edit-dist’ option.
    * In order to work with the new Markdown filter
      ‘AspellDocumentChecker’ now expects the document a line at a time.
      If the document is split on white space characters instead, nothing
      will break, but new filters such as the Markdown filter may give
      incorrect results.
    * Fix various crashes and other problems found by Google’s OSS-Fuzz.

I plan to release Aspell 0.60.8 sometime in the coming weeks.

I am not sure yet, but Aspell 0.60.8 might be the last release before Aspell 
0.62.  Planned changes for Aspell 0.62 include some API additions and a switch 
to using C++11 with select C++14 features.  Aspell 0.61 was the planned next 
major release back in 2011 so to avoid confusion that version number will be 
skipped.