mutt stable release?

[Remco Rijnders]

From http://www.mutt.org/ the following:

Development

Mutt 1.5.21 was released on September 15, 2010. The most notable user-visible change (aside from bug fixes) is the new $mail_check_recent flag to partially address NewMailHandling (the major blocker for 1.6). It also contains a larger than usual number of bug fixes, thanks to the long time between releases. More details. We're still in feature freeze (mostly) for 1.6. The list of items blocking the release of mutt 1.6 may be found here: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/milestone/1.6 Patches for any issues found there would be greatly appreciated.

Stable






Best,

Remco

Mutt 1.4.2.3 was released on June 9, 2007. This release fixes CVE-2007-2683 (gecos overflow) and CVE-2007-1558 (APOP MD5 collision attack). Would it not be time to promote 1.5.21 to stable? Or to declare mutt 'finished' barring any security issues? It seems silly that almost every distribution ships the development version as the stable version, while the official stable version is so outdated that hardly anyone uses it anymore.

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