From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why wasn't the 25.3 release based on the then-head of the emacs-25 branch? Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:24:18 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505445878 23135 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2017 03:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:24:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 To: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 05:24:31 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dshEz-0005iL-98 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:24:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dshF3-00043V-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49634) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dshEx-000434-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:24:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dshEs-0004aP-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:39946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dshEs-0004Yn-7x; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:24:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD57160A78; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id kMxIo_gxgqmX; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252FC160D02; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:24:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id J51cI-_diMRe; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.18.85]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 087EC1600EC; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:24:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218308 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > There were very few > changes in the emacs-25 branch post 25.2, and I don't see why they were > omitted. Eli decided on a very thin 25.3 release, with just a patch for the=20 newly-discovered serious bug, along with minimal other changes such as=20 renumbering 25.2 to 25.3. > In particular, it's disappointing that 94a6c96 isn't included. This > (security) issue was reported to emacs-devel three years ago. Although I also argued privately for releasing based on the emacs-25 bran= ch=20 instead of just a thin release, Eli worried that the other changes in ema= cs-25=20 (including the change you mention) might have caused problems in 25.3's h= asty=20 release. As I recall, the security issue that you mention is not as serio= us as=20 the one fixed in 25.3, since it occurs only in an unlikely installation n= owadays=20 (no gnutls library or binaries available) whereas the 25.3 issue is an ea= sy way=20 to break into anyone using Gnus to read email.