Heads up: upcoming releases in all branches back to 7.2

The core committee has agreed that we need to put out security releases
to deal with the LOAD vulnerability described here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00269.php
Accordingly we'll be releasing 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9, 7.2.7.
Current thought is to wrap these on Thursday for release Friday.

What timezone is that? Meaning at what time GMT (approx) can we expect
the .tar.gz to show up?

Also, consider that wwwmaster is down ATM, so the mirror selection stuff
does not work. We're recommending everybody to go the UK mirrors ATM
(because that's what was served up as static pages). Hopefully that'll
be fixed by thursday, though.

If you have any last-minute fixes for the back branches, now's the
time to get them in.

None from me other than those already sent:
*) I'd really like to see the NT4 patch go in (SHGetFolderPath). I
beleive it's safe.
*) The stack size patch

//Magnus

"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:

Current thought is to wrap these on Thursday for release Friday.

What timezone is that?

Uh, we didn't set an exact time, but I was imagining Thursday
afternoon/evening north-american-east-coast time. So maybe (very roughly)
midnight GMT.

Also, consider that wwwmaster is down ATM, so the mirror selection stuff
does not work. We're recommending everybody to go the UK mirrors ATM
(because that's what was served up as static pages). Hopefully that'll
be fixed by thursday, though.

I'm assuming the pgsql-www crowd will have some solution in place by
Friday.

None from me other than those already sent:
*) I'd really like to see the NT4 patch go in (SHGetFolderPath). I
beleive it's safe.
*) The stack size patch

Right, they're on my to-do list. The stack size patch is just waiting
for someone to tell me whether it applies to Cygwin builds or not.

regards, tom lane

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

The core committee has agreed that we need to put out security releases
to deal with the LOAD vulnerability described here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00269.php
Accordingly we'll be releasing 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9, 7.2.7.
Current thought is to wrap these on Thursday for release Friday.

What timezone is that? Meaning at what time GMT (approx) can we expect
the .tar.gz to show up?

I generally try to do them around 8pm ADT (00:00 GMT) ...

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On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

Current thought is to wrap these on Thursday for release Friday.
If you have any last-minute fixes for the back branches, now's the
time to get them in.

Sorry for the last minute commit, but I realized that I forgot to
backpatch the cursor buffer overrun fix to 7.3 and 7.2. I've done that
now, and I've got nothing else I wanted to get into any of these
releases.

-Neil

Not really last minute, since wrap is tomorrow evening :)

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Neil Conway wrote:

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

Current thought is to wrap these on Thursday for release Friday.
If you have any last-minute fixes for the back branches, now's the
time to get them in.

Sorry for the last minute commit, but I realized that I forgot to
backpatch the cursor buffer overrun fix to 7.3 and 7.2. I've done that
now, and I've got nothing else I wanted to get into any of these
releases.

-Neil

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