Updated: libidn/-doc/-devel/12 mingw64-x86_64-libidn 1.44 - International Domain Name library

Cygwin libidn Maintainer Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Sun Aug 9 20:11:49 GMT 2026


Encode and decode Internationalized Domain Names implementing
IETF IDN WG Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications.

Mingw packages provide MS VC RT-linked binaries, NOT Cygwin binaries,
for use with the mingw64-x86_64 gcc cross compiler, installed in
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/{bin,lib,include}/.

For more information see the project home page:

	https://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
	https://sv.gnu.org/projects/libidn/

or the repo README:

	https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn

The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:

- libidn		1.44
- libidn-doc		1.44
- libidn-devel		1.44
- libidn12		1.44
- mingw64-x86_64-libidn	1.44

For details of changes since the previous Cygwin release, see below or
read /usr/share/doc/libidn/NEWS after installation:

	https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn/-/blob/master/NEWS


2026-06-16	1.44

- libidn: Fix read-out-of-bounds error in ToUnicode APIs.

- examples: Fix strcpy buffer overflow.

- Update gnulib files, translations and various maintenance fixes.



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