diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9fa489b83..2a2f5af01 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2021-01-08:
+
+- Fixed a crash on exceeding the maximum size of the $PS1 prompt.
+  The maximum size is also increased from 160 to 256 bytes.
+
 2021-01-07:
 
 - Fixed a crash that could occur while ksh updated ${.sh.match}.
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
index 0f23b3103..e19a7d277 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
@@ -658,7 +658,8 @@ void	ed_setup(register Edit_t *ep, int fd, int reedit)
 			{
 				int skip=0;
 				ep->e_crlf = 0;
-				*pp++ = c;
+				if(pp<ppmax)
+					*pp++ = c;
 				for(n=1; c = *last++; n++)
 				{
 					if(pp < ppmax)
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/edit.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/edit.h
index d3c3fab25..b167e3aaf 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/edit.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/edit.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 #endif /* SHOPT_MULTIBYTE */
 
 #define TABSIZE	8
-#define PRSIZE	160
+#define PRSIZE	256
 #define MAXLINE	1024		/* longest edit line permitted */
 
 typedef struct _edit_pos
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index a147e2d1f..e01ec5839 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 #define SH_RELEASE_FORK	"93u+m"		/* only change if you develop a new ksh93 fork */
 #define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.0-alpha"	/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
-#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2021-01-07"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2021-01-08"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */
 /* Arithmetic $((.sh.version)) uses the last 10 chars, so the date must be at the end. */