4.4.2 (November 11, 2026)

[tleonhardt]

What's Changed

• Security
  • Fixed shell command injection through file names in the edit command and Cmd.run_editor().
    A file name containing shell syntax such as $(...) or backticks was interpreted by the shell
    instead of being passed to the editor as-is. On Windows, run_editor() now raises
    ValueError for an editor or file path containing a double quote, which cannot be passed
    safely to cmd.exe.
  • The persistent history file is now readable and writable only by its owner (mode 0600 on
    POSIX), since history can contain secrets typed as command arguments. The permissions of an
    existing history file are tightened the next time history is saved.

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This discussion was created from the release 4.4.2 (November 11, 2026).