Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.7.0-0.2

[Patrick Knight <pknight at cylance dot com>]

What is the link to download the test release please?

Thanks,

Patrick Knight
Security Research Architect
http://www.cylance.com
561.768.9466 (Office)
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On 2/4/17, 8:00 AM, "cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com on behalf of Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com on behalf of corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

    Hi folks,
    
    
    I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.7.0-0.2
    
    This is the same as 2.7.0-0.1 just with additional patch to speed
    up socket connections in certain scenarios.
    
    This is most likely what I'll release next week.
    
    =======================================================================
    
    What's new:
    -----------
    
    - Support for /proc/<PID>/environ.
    
    - New API: getentropy, getrandom, NL_LOCALE_NAME.
    
    
    What changed:
    -------------
    
    
    Bug Fixes
    ---------
    
    - Fix rename(2) fail with EACCES if newfile is in use.
      Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00108.html
    
    - Always try to write all incoming bytes to blocking pipes, as required
      by POSIX.
      Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00087.html
    
    - Fix handling of Alt-Numpad sequences in console handler.
      Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00135.html
    
    - Fix erasing UTF-8 multibyte characters in cooked mode.
      Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00299.html
    
    - Fix handling of a literal '+' by cygcheck -p
      Addresses:  https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00287.html
    
    - Fix limited Internet speeds caused by inappropriate socket buffering.
      Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2017-q1/msg00010.html
    
    =======================================================================
    
    Please test.
    
    
    Thanks,
    Corinna
    
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