Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> wrote: > 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.)
Thomas will be more modest, but basically every 'dev' release of Lynx is rock steady and might as well be released as a simple point release. Stability bugs are extremely rare. Now if you are really leaping forward from a 1999 release, there may be differences which bug you. You should leap forward and then report any issues, so that they will cease being issues. >Bela<