Comment 12 for bug 1247107

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better, and to Nick for your investigation of the issue.

It looks like Debian is still on 1.0.6 but has https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773843 open requesting an update.

However, we won't update the versions in existing stable releases for stability reasons. If someone can verify the fix Nick identified though, we can cherry-pick just this fix back to 14.04 and to 14.10. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for details of update policy, rationale and procedure. The memory leak seems trivial and obvious enough to fix - we just need someone to test that the cherry-pick works, prepare the updated packaging and to test the final binary proposed package before it is recommended to all users.

It's tricky for me to do it because I don't have appropriate hardware to verify the fix. But if someone who is affected can follow the procedure documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure please, I'd be happy to sponsor an upload for you if you are prepared to complete the final verification.