How will Python releases made in response to security bugs be done:
will they just include the security fix (rather than being taken from
CVS HEAD), without the usual alpha / beta testing cycle? Or what...?
Guido On python.org, however, we tend to take the maintenance branch
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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hope at least one person from the release team can be involved, e.g.
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Guido, from python-announce list:
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Python 2.3.5 will be released from www.python.org within a few days
containing a fix for this issue. Python 2.4.1 will be
If you read BugTraq, python-announce or the Daily Python URL today,
you would have noticed a Python Security Advisory. (If you missed it:
http://www.python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/ .)
This was the first one issued in this form, but I'm sure it won't be
the last one. Until now, we haven't had
