After upgrade to version 7, I am having trouble with the R function in readline (search for previous input containing a given string). It finds the previous input and presents that, but when I push one of the cursor keys, the line goes blank. The cursor will move over that blank space and I can type input and have the edited lines show up in the history. But editing 'blind' is not a satisfactory experience. This is the behavior in a TTY. In an xterm, the cursor key causes the line to be re-printed starting a few character cells to the left of where it was at first, and that number of character cells at the end does not get erased. I can edit that line normally (ignoring those extra characters on the screen).
My readline library is libreadline.so.6.3 dated 18 Mar 28  2014

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