[ale] Ubuntu 21.10 Released

[Horkan Smith]

FWIW, xfce4-terminal added a "Show unsafe paste dialog" option somewhere between versions 0.8.7 (Ubuntu 18) and 0.8.10 (current Arch).

Ubuntu 18's bash is 4.4.18, Arch's current bash is version 5.1.008.  If I run the Arch xfce4-terminal, the "unsafe paste" option works as expected, vs if I run xterm on the same system bash still happily accepts multi-line pastes....

I haven't run Ubuntu 21.x yet, a quick look says it's xfce4-terminal version 0.8.10, bash version 5.1 so I'd expect similar behavior.

later!
   horkan

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 07:04:57AM -0400, Scott Plante via Ale wrote:
>Would that be bash or the terminal GUI program? I don't believe bash itself
>knows if you're pasting or just typing fast. I bring it up because if it
>bothers you, you could look in the GUI settings, or try a different
>terminal program.
>Scott
>
>On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 5:47 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Don't like the sound of that bash change even though I understand the
>> automatic enter is a operational security issue. I use it deliberately when
>> doing repetitive entries. Yet I have also run something that needed editing
>> because I also picked up the line end.
>>
>> On October 16, 2021 10:07:01 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> However, if you plan to use ZFS with it, there is a data corruption warning in the release notes here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/21951
>>>
>>> Quote:
>>> Linux kernel
>>>
>>>     The version of the ZFS driver included in the 5.13.0-19 kernel contains a bug that can result in filesystem corruption. Users of ZFS are advised to wait until the first Stable Release Update of the kernel in 21.10 before upgrading.
>>>
>>> End Quote
>>>
>>> I installed the full Gnome4 DE version (with Canonical Gnome layers to make it less weird like Gnome4 stock) and found most things worked well.  They are still pushing snap packages and even more are part of the base install. Wayland worked, but I haven't checked whether it works with more important packages that I need which have kept me on xorg.  Spice works into VMs, if they are physically on the same system. I've been unable to connect via Spice to a VM over the LAN, but don't know what the root cause could be, yet.
>>>
>>> The install into a VM took just 8 minutes. The only non-standard thing I selected was LVM+ext4. There were a few VM display issues around reboot and startup. Seems some key event is needed to get the screen to display anything. I waited a minute for shutdown only to find it was showing a black screen waiting for a key to be pressed. That could have been my VM display setup.
>>>
>>> There's a new release of bash which has a paste behavior I don't like. Saw that on 21.04 as well. The fix has other implications that are worse.  Basically, a paste will not send the <enter> when a full line is part of the buffer. It inserts text and goes into edit mode.
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