From f0d45712e3cff1d3117693e8216a2a8e9185586d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Henning=20P=C3=B6ttker?=
 <25299532+hpoettker@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:52:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Relax version string validation for SAS 7

---
 src/sas/readstat_sas.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/sas/readstat_sas.c b/src/sas/readstat_sas.c
index 5dfd583e..7f7e3c3c 100644
--- a/src/sas/readstat_sas.c
+++ b/src/sas/readstat_sas.c
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ readstat_error_t sas_read_header(readstat_io_t *io, sas_header_info_t *hinfo,
         goto cleanup;
     }
     // revision_tag is usually M, but J has been observed in the wild (not created with SAS?)
-    if (revision_tag != 'M' && revision_tag != 'J') {
+    if ((major == '8' || major == '9') && revision_tag != 'M' && revision_tag != 'J') {
         retval = READSTAT_ERROR_PARSE;
         goto cleanup;
     }