Heads up: 7.3.6 and 7.4.2 coming soon

Started by Tom Lanealmost 22 years ago5 messages
#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

The core committee has agreed that it's about time to put out new
dot-releases in both the 7.3 and 7.4 branches. (The main thing forcing
this is the realization that permissions checks on view updates were
pretty badly broken by the now-reverted patch of 13-Feb-03 --- this
could be labeled a security issue.)

We have not chosen an exact date yet, but we are thinking of 7.3.6 late
this week or early next week, and 7.4.2 a week later.

So, if you've got any fixes you wanted to get into those branches,
time to get on it. I know that I discouraged a couple of people from
back-patching into 7.3.* on the grounds that "there probably won't be
another 7.3 release" ... well, I was wrong, so do it if you want.

regards, tom lane

#2Gaetano Mendola
mendola@bigfoot.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Heads up: 7.3.6 and 7.4.2 coming soon

Tom Lane wrote:

The core committee has agreed that it's about time to put out new
dot-releases in both the 7.3 and 7.4 branches. (The main thing forcing
this is the realization that permissions checks on view updates were
pretty badly broken by the now-reverted patch of 13-Feb-03 --- this
could be labeled a security issue.)

We have not chosen an exact date yet, but we are thinking of 7.3.6 late
this week or early next week, and 7.4.2 a week later.

So, if you've got any fixes you wanted to get into those branches,
time to get on it. I know that I discouraged a couple of people from
back-patching into 7.3.* on the grounds that "there probably won't be
another 7.3 release" ... well, I was wrong, so do it if you want.

Do you think that we'll have too a RPM binary distribution for the 7.3.6
( the 7.3.5 don't have it yet ) ?

We are stick on the 7.3.4 just because the guys on the operational side
install only precompiled pachage :-(

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

#3Lamar Owen
lowen@pari.edu
In reply to: Gaetano Mendola (#2)
Re: Heads up: 7.3.6 and 7.4.2 coming soon

On Sunday 22 February 2004 05:57 pm, Gaetano Mendola wrote:

Do you think that we'll have too a RPM binary distribution for the 7.3.6
( the 7.3.5 don't have it yet ) ?

Yes. I apologize for the lag; my wife miscarried and that has thrown my free
time for a loop as I help her and my other four children through this
difficult time.
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#4Neil Conway
neilc@samurai.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Heads up: 7.3.6 and 7.4.2 coming soon

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

So, if you've got any fixes you wanted to get into those branches,
time to get on it.

I just wanted to note that IMHO a fix for the PL/PgSQL crash in
7.4.1 and HEAD (not sure about 7.3.x) that Chris Campbell recently
reported should definitely be included in 7.4.2. If the bug is present
in 7.3.x, it might also be worth backpatching.

I'm happy to review & apply the patch Chris C. included with his bug
report, but due to a lack of free time I won't be able to get around
to it before Friday -- if you or anyone else wants to get it done
before then you're more than welcome to.

Cheers,

Neil

#5Marc G. Fournier
scrappy@postgresql.org
In reply to: Neil Conway (#4)
Re: Heads up: 7.3.6 and 7.4.2 coming soon

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Neil Conway wrote:

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

So, if you've got any fixes you wanted to get into those branches,
time to get on it.

I just wanted to note that IMHO a fix for the PL/PgSQL crash in
7.4.1 and HEAD (not sure about 7.3.x) that Chris Campbell recently
reported should definitely be included in 7.4.2. If the bug is present
in 7.3.x, it might also be worth backpatching.

I'm happy to review & apply the patch Chris C. included with his bug
report, but due to a lack of free time I won't be able to get around
to it before Friday -- if you or anyone else wants to get it done
before then you're more than welcome to.

We're looking at a 7.3 for next Monday, so if you can do it over the
weekend, that would be great ...

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