patch 8.1.0993: ch_read() may return garbage if terminating NL is missing commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/772153f8d85c83e08427d93460a676d7f079f002 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Mon Mar 4 12:09:49 2019 +0100 patch 8.1.0993: ch_read() may return garbage if terminating NL is missing Problem: ch_read() may return garbage if terminating NL is missing. Solution: Add terminating NUL. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/4065)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 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-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!