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what makes you pick this, of all programs? just because it hasn't had a release in four years?
Skimming the commit log one can see it certainly has had some bugs, and given that it is written in C it is reasonable to assume it has had some security-relevant ones. (eg, i'm not certain but this commit from a few months prior to the latest release looks like it could be fixing an actually exploitable bug?)
Currently there are 13 commits newer than the latest release. From a quick glance none appear to be obviously fixing security bugs (i guess there will be a new release when they next find some) but there are actually as-yet unreleased commits there fixing bugs... such as this one, made two days after the last release, which fixes searching being left-anchored.