patch 8.0.1287: temp file used for viminfo may have wrong permissions commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/aeeb6888ca3ee5122793b37c5aacc6c960b02c37 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Nov 11 16:45:19 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.1287: temp file used for viminfo may have wrong permissions Problem: The temp file used when updating the viminfo file may have the wrong permissions if setting the group fails. Solution: Check if the group matches and reduce permissions if not.

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!