On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:53:04 -0500
"Steven A. Falco" <stevenfa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are some CVE's against KiCad that have been fixed in the latest
> version, namely KiCad 6.0.2. I've built that for F36 and Rawhide.
>
> I have not released KiCad 6.0.2 into Fedora 34 and 35, because my
> understanding is that by policy, we don't generally allow "major version"
> updates in stable Fedora releases. Thus F34 and F35 still ship KiCad 5.1.12,
> which is affected by the CVE's.
>
> I could easily build KiCad 6.0.2 for F34 / F35 - in fact, I have done so in
> the KiCad Copr repository.
>
> So, should this situation be an exception to the policy of "no major version
> changes in a stable release"?
as often, it depends :-)
- what's the severity level of the CVEs?
- does KiCad 6 come with substantial changes like UI redesign,
compatibility issues with previous release, etc?
Dan
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