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Every six months for the last 24 or 25 years (the web pages came after the early releases so a bit of uncertainty there. Explore for yourself at https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/www/)

And even vi gets fixes these days (Fixed handling of escaped backslashes in vi(1) ex_range).

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Almost 28 years.

6.8 was released Oct 18, 2020. (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)

https://www.openbsd.org/68.html

Nice. I ran into an nvi bug years ago... if ":set numbers" and ":set noleftright" and then loaded a file of more than several kilobytes it would go into a malloc loop and segfault. We tracked it down and submitted a patch (this was to FreeBSD) and was told patches to src/contrib were not accepted (nvi was still "owned" by sleepycat). Good to know that at a certain point, function can overtake form!

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