From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 28.3 Release Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:20:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83r0src1rc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9ea47b22-f2d8-4225-b5f2-966ca0d797f9@Spark> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38051"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Troy Hinckley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 10 15:20:54 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1plrS0-0009iy-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:20:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1plrR5-0000U4-7s; Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:19:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1plrQu-0000Te-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:19:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1plrQt-0004fO-Rt; Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:19:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=03pTpE4AXE8Y6vBbpi9X2rVSdcTr3j+K9x/DV6lPjFE=; b=cf4tP1cXRQKL 4WwYgxV68vJpyzES8tOQYx51JI29mS63hwDAEIShCT3azGh/ohQQOxocAoUbZ4D1Yc0uMxs0Zwis1 AjJYeLsQE6o0TnhP877RBF5lRF4wla0gKzRfbzOvmE4ZURTV1lluUSL3yBosuonj3iK1IP0Ye15PG hWfrGaLgN1eieUXPnD4k56N1UKizfYE06YzIGB7DHIbGJgw8h6PIcswnrog2GNteUr7SHvmydAgmK UdiEKQWU9dD67uazK2ysqMgCrCGRQmnAMga8GG0uk7rha2v/+SACaaQYxcpEA5t9/da8CJuoNqJgM S1ke5F4Pn+Ax4QeolKa+Qg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1plrQs-0006Bx-RX; Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:19:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9ea47b22-f2d8-4225-b5f2-966ca0d797f9@Spark> (message from Troy Hinckley on Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:05:04 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:305219 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:05:04 -0500 > From: Troy Hinckley > > 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...