From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Alerting users to new releases
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:59:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170912175921.6503935d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
As it stands, when a security vuln shows up, and a new release gets
pushed out, there isn't a good way to alert the vast majority of
users to its presence.
One way such things are handled these days for a lot of projects is
to have the code periodically check if a newer version of the
software is available.
Would it be reasonable if a feature was added to Emacs to alert the
user that a newer version of Emacs existed? Or would the potential
privacy issues, even if the check could be turned off, exceed the
benefit?
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-12 21:59 Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2017-09-12 23:35 ` Alerting users to new releases Etienne Prud’homme
2017-09-21 20:05 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-12 23:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-09-13 5:29 ` Sebastian Christ
2017-09-13 12:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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