Sorry, I'm not ignoring the list (entirely). Seems Thunderbird and my ISP have decided not to dance anymore and it looks like I'm spending Thursday doing some fundamental email restructuring (sigh). Hopefully I'll have the list traffic back sometime by Friday, thanks to Jeff, Reindl, and Steffen for your review, I didn't read Ruediger, Rainer, or Jim as voting one way or another - even with my vote there is still a missing PMC +1 for release.
Rainer, are your observations a regression? Because the security issues are relatively minor, I took this opportunity to update to a slightly refreshed autoconf (not a radically new version, nor the last in that version minor which barfs on our configure.in and m4 files)... so it's possible I had introduced this. If not a regression, please confirm.
