On Jan 27, 8:27 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Along with the release of 2.5.2, I would also like to release > new versions of 2.3 and 2.4. These will be security-only releases, > and include a few security-relevant bug fixes that are still being > finalized. > > As we don't have the infrastructure to produce full releases of 2.3 > or 2.4 anymore, this will be a source release only. As such, it > will likely see less testing than other releases, and users will have > more difficulties in obtaining the software for their system - the > releases will be targeted primarily at system vendors who can chose > to include them as security patches in their system updates. > > As a consequence, I would like to roll back all changes from the 2.3 > and 2.4 branches which aren't security fixes. In specific cases, the > nature of a change might be debatable; clear security fixes are > prevention of memory corruption and interpreter crashes, clear > non-security fixes are documentation and test-suite changes. > > For 2.3, there are only few revisions that would be rolled back: > r52798, r52803, r52824, r54342. > > For 2.4, the list is longer; all changes on the branch since > r52382 are candidate for roll-back. I would like to prepare > a white-list of patches that should be preserved; if you think > any of the patches committed in the 2.4 branch is a security > fix, please let me know. > > Regards, > Martin
Don't know if this concerns 2.3 but there was a debate whether including patch #1745035 in 2.4 branch: http://groups.google.it/group/python-dev2/browse_thread/thread/33cad7b7c1cdb19f?hl=en# _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com