Snapshots are not releases, but rather in-progress development work
towards the next release. If the goal is to fix a CVE, then you should
backport the patch.

As explained here:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#latest_version

Alex

On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 10:22, Florin Diaconescu
<florin.diaconescu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Latest patch in ncurses GitHub mirror
> Includes the fix for CVE-2023-29491, done in 6.4+20230408
>
> Signed-off-by: Florin Diaconescu <florin.diaconescu...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  .../ncurses/{ncurses_6.4.bb => ncurses_6.4+20230514.bb}       | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  rename meta/recipes-core/ncurses/{ncurses_6.4.bb => ncurses_6.4+20230514.bb} 
> (78%)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.4.bb 
> b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.4+20230514.bb
> similarity index 78%
> rename from meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.4.bb
> rename to meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.4+20230514.bb
> index 166e30713c..44aaac3613 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.4.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.4+20230514.bb
> @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ SRC_URI += "file://0001-tic-hang.patch \
>             file://exit_prototype.patch \
>             "
>  # commit id corresponds to the revision in package version
> -SRCREV = "1003914e200fd622a27237abca155ce6bf2e6030"
> +SRCREV = "b9f9d6304f6abd71a5fdbfd500a645e521edf8b6"
>  S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
>  EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-abi-version=5"
>  UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)$"
>
>  # This is needed when using patchlevel versions like 6.1+20181013
> -#CVE_VERSION = 
> "${@d.getVar("PV").split('+')[0]}.${@d.getVar("PV").split('+')[1]}"
> +CVE_VERSION = 
> "${@d.getVar("PV").split('+')[0]}.${@d.getVar("PV").split('+')[1]}"
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>
> 
>
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