From: Kevin Atkinson
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:42:40
Subject: New Aspell 0.60.8 Pre-Release Snapshot Now Available

A new pre-release snapshot of the next stable version of Aspell is now 
available at:
    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.8-20190921.tar.gz

Important changes from from Aspell 0.60.7:

Fix an buffer over-read as already announced.  Unfortunately it has the 
potential to break some applications.  See the manual for more info.

Changes from last snapshot (20190817)

    * Add new 'wordlists' option, which is a list of UTF-8 files that
      contain additional words to accept.
    * Provide support for checking camelCase words.
    * The 'clean' option and command will no longer split a word.

Changes so far (from Aspell 0.60.7):

     * Add Markdown filter.
     * When typo analysis is used, ensure that possible typos are listed
       before other suggestions.  Also fix a bug so that suggestions that
       split a word using a space or hyphen are not always first.
     * Change ‘ultra’ suggestion mode to only find words that are within
       one-edit distance or have the same soundslike.
     * To prevent a potentially unbounded buffer over-read Aspell no
       longer supports null-terminated UCS-2 and UCS-4 encoded strings
       with the original C API.
     * Fix a bug in ‘AspellDocumentChecker’ that prevented it from working
       with UCS-2 and UCS-4 encoded strings.
     * Implement ‘aspell filter’ command.
     * Remove unused ‘sug-edit-dist’ option.
     * In order to work with the new Markdown filter
       ‘AspellDocumentChecker’ now expects the document a line at a time.
       If the document is split on white space characters instead, nothing
       will break, but new filters such as the Markdown filter may give
       incorrect results.
     * Fix various crashes and other problems found by Google’s OSS-Fuzz.

I plan to release Aspell 0.60.8 sometime in the coming weeks.

I am not sure yet, but Aspell 0.60.8 might be the last release before Aspell 
0.62.  Planned changes for Aspell 0.62 include some API additions and a switch 
to using C++11 with select C++14 features.  Aspell 0.61 was the planned next 
major release back in 2011 so to avoid confusion that version number will be 
skipped.