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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