Re: [Wireshark-dev] 4.2.0 release schedule

2023-09-15 Thread João Valverde
Should 4.1 be developed on the release-4.2 branch already? Obviously it would require some backporting work from developers, but also provide some stability. Right now the 4.1 release is just a snapshot of master, so really 4.1.x micro versions are meaningless. There are some changes that migh

Re: [Wireshark-dev] 4.2.0 release schedule

2023-09-15 Thread Gerald Combs
I have no objections to creating the 4.2 branch earlier. As you point out, it mostly comes down to how much backporting we want to do. The release numbers are a reflection of the fact that "run tools/make-version.py -v ..." is in the new release branch checklist. On 9/15/23 12:06 PM, João Valv

Re: [Wireshark-dev] 4.2.0 release schedule

2023-09-15 Thread João Valverde
I would like that. We can be liberal backporting changes to the 4.1 release, but some care should be taken to avoid very big or risky changes. Then for the 4.2 release candidates, ideally only bugfixes would be backported. On 9/15/23 22:51, Gerald Combs wrote: I have no objections to creating