The lynx I've been using - 2.8, from 1999 - started exhibiting a disturbing failure mode, today: I got "lynx in free(): warning: chunk is already free.", indicating a memory-management bug, and, in at least one session, got a coredump (ditto, but even more so).
I could just treat this as a debugging exercise. But I wanted to at least look at version-jumping instead. It appears to me that the latest release is 2.8.9, with 2.9.0 being still in development versions. But a lot of development versions, especially for open-source software, are plenty usable enough. And I notice that 2.9.0dev looks relatively stable; the last-change time I see is 2021-08-07. So, my question is, is 2.9.0 in good enough shape that I should (FWVO "should") use it, or would 2.8.9 be better? (Of course, it's possible that either one has some property that will render it unsuitable for my purposes, but I figured I should at least look into it.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
