'Twas brillig, and Wil Sinclair at 27/01/09 17:01 did gyre and gimble:
We decided not to do a release announcement for patches. We've released them in the past for other packages like GData and didn't announce them then. Plus, there are no new features, bug fixes, etc., so it's not much of an announcement. :) If it would help avoid confusion, I can send a quick note to fw-general if we ever have to patch again.
Thanks for the explanation (especially Matthews explanation of version_compare() usage - although as this is used inside Version.php, should the actual VERSION constant not be set to 1.7.3PL1 in there rather than left as 1.7.3 which is how the 1.7.3 release went out?)
A quick "headsup" email would be good, although I think an official announcement on the zf-announce should also be sent. Many users will be using this as their only means of keeping up to date on things and surely even a patch to a release (which, let's face it is just another way of saying "there were some bugs that we've now patched") is worth letting people know about?
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