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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Troy Hinckley <comms@dabrev.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Emacs 28.3 Release
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:20:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r0src1rc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ea47b22-f2d8-4225-b5f2-966ca0d797f9@Spark> (message from Troy Hinckley on Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:05:04 -0500)

> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:05:04 -0500
> From: Troy Hinckley <comms@dabrev.com>
> 
> I am asking again what we can do to complete the Emacs 28.3 release. My concern is that we have a
> narrow window in which this version will be viable. As it currently stands the latest stable release has a
> high severity CVE that prevents Emacs from being installed in security sensitive domains. 28.3 will
> resolve that and make the latest stable release usable. However, someone will inevitably find another
> CVE against Emacs. At that point 28.3 will no longer be useful. Given how hard it has been to get this
> release, I doubt there would be resources to add another security patch to Emacs 28. 
> 
> I am requesting to see if there is anything the community can do to help complete this release before
> it becomes irrelevant. The release candidate has been out for couple months at this point.

Stefan was working on 28.3, prepared an RC, and is silent for the last
4 weeks or so.  I think any work on this should pick up where he left
off, but for that we need him to tell us where he left off...



  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-10 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <f4b95933-46bd-4bcb-b9ca-ceed72b1c6ee@Spark>
2023-04-10 13:05 ` Emacs 28.3 Release Troy Hinckley
2023-04-10 13:20   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-04-10 14:33     ` lux
2023-04-10 14:44       ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-04-10 14:46         ` lux
2023-04-10 13:50   ` Po Lu
2023-04-11  8:14   ` Jean Louis
2023-04-12 15:37     ` Troy Hinckley
2023-04-12 16:31       ` lux
2023-04-12 16:56         ` Corwin Brust

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