On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Until very recently we did not have stable branches to which we backported
> anything. This was mainly due to lack of dev manpower. With the last big
> release (1.8) we decided to try and maintain a branch to backport things
> to, which we named 1.8.x. The general notion here is to backport all
> non-trivial fixes that can easily be backported, esp if they are
> significant such as is always the case with security related bugs. Though
> that is the goal, we have only backported a limited number of things so
> far, and could do better. Then again, there are many other things we ought
> to do better, and only so little time people have.
>
> Personally I've been wanting to do a new minor release ever since the fix
> you are talking about, though have not found the time so far. We need more
> devs! :)
>
>
So... is the 1.8.x branch currently secure, or insecure? If it's insecure,
what alternative is there? Using master isn't really an option as breaking
changes land very often in SMW.
- Ryan
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