On 7 Jul 2008, at 14:00, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Derick Rethans wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Marcus Boerger wrote:
how about this. We edit php_config.h to be version 4.4.8pl1. Then
provide a patch for download. All reasonable distributions will
pick up
that patch anyway. But at least we didn't do a release as we
promised, we
wouldn't.
Uh, no. We didn't promise we wouldn't make releases. It clearly
says that if there are security issues we look at them case-by-case
to see if we should make a release. There are security issues, we
make a release. There is nothing more to discuss about this.
We did actually. The exact text from the announcement was:
After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will
continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case
basis until 2008-08-08.
The two statements do contradict each other a little bit, and I am
ok with another release, but technically Marcus is correct.
However, to further extend our analysis of past writings... the
following is taken from the 4.4.8 release announcement[1]:
"... This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for
the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last normal PHP 4.4
release. If necessary, releases to address security issues
could be made until 2008-08-08."
This indicates a potential future release.
Regards,
Philip
[1] http://news.php.net/php.announce/72
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