> -----Original Message-----
> From: William A Rowe Jr <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:28 PM
> To: httpd <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] Release httpd-2.4.32
> 
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Ruggeri <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > *** Changes here
> >    We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available for
> >    non-Windows platforms, and encourage users of all prior versions to
> upgrade.
> >
> >    Please note, a bug after shipping this release was discovered that
> prevents
> >    the server from starting on Windows when mod_proxy_balancer is used.
> >    This manifests in error message "AH01179: balancer slotmem_create
> failed."
> >    Windows users are encouraged to postpone upgrades until the soon-to-
> be-available
> >    2.4.33+ release is made.
> > *** End Changes
> 
> This looks sensible, or do we say that users of mod_proxy_balancer
> on Windows should defer their upgrade? A more limited audience?
> 
 
Yes, definitely. Thanks for the pointer.

> >    Please note that while the Apache HTTP Server Project may publish some
> >    security patches to the 2.2.x flavor through at least December of 2017,
> >    no further maintenance patches of 2.2.x will be considered and no further
> >    releases will be distributed. The 2.2.x branch has now reached the end of
> >    its maintenance, and users are strongly encouraged to promptly complete
> >    their transitions to this 2.4.x flavor of httpd to benefit from security
> >    and bug fixes, as well as new features.
> 
> This is not current, see /repos/dist/dev/httpd/ for the current
> Announcement
> text draft, please.

Right. I'll use that one.

-- 
Daniel Ruggeri

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