Heads up: upcoming back-branch re-releases

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

Any last-minute issues out there?

Not a last minute issue or a big deal, but I see no reason for this patch
not to be applied to back branches.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-12/msg00128.php

It fixes this problem:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-12/msg00048.php

Kris Jurka

Tom Lane said:

Just FYI, the core committee has agreed we need re-releases to fix the
locale environment issue and other recent bug fixes. Current thought
is to wrap tarballs tomorrow (Thursday) evening, North American eastern
time, with public announcement scheduled for Sunday evening or Monday.
The longer-than-usual interval is because Dave Page and the other
Windows installer team members need a bit of extra time to prepare the
Windows version.

Any last-minute issues out there?

I have not had time to test the locale fix on Windows, and don't know when I
will. Can anyone else help (Magnus maybe?)

cheers

andrew

Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:

Not a last minute issue or a big deal, but I see no reason for this patch
not to be applied to back branches.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-12/msg00128.php

Well, it hasn't been applied to the *front* branch yet ... but I'll take
a look.

regards, tom lane

+<listitem><para>Fix bug in <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> Openwall
+gen_salt processing (Marko Kreen></para></listitem>

I guess it should be bit more explicit:

<listitem><para>Fix bug in <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> gen_salt,
which caused it not to use all available salt space for md5 and
xdes algorithms (Marko Kreen, Solar Designer)</para>
<para>Salts for blowfish and standard des are unaffected</para></listitem>

This hopefully makes it clear who is affected and how important is to
upgrade. Also the 'Openwall' is confusing, better credit fix author.

--
marko

Thanks. Updated.

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Marko Kreen wrote:

+<listitem><para>Fix bug in <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> Openwall
+gen_salt processing (Marko Kreen></para></listitem>

I guess it should be bit more explicit:

<listitem><para>Fix bug in <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</> gen_salt,
which caused it not to use all available salt space for md5 and
xdes algorithms (Marko Kreen, Solar Designer)</para>
<para>Salts for blowfish and standard des are unaffected</para></listitem>

This hopefully makes it clear who is affected and how important is to
upgrade. Also the 'Openwall' is confusing, better credit fix author.

--
marko

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