If there is a 5.3.2 release, we should probably also backport this one:

SOLR-8269 <http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8269>: Upgrade 
commons-collections to 3.2.2. This fixes a known serialization vulnerability

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> 17. des. 2015 kl. 07.35 skrev Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net>:
> 
> Yes, there was already a 5.3.2 version in JIRA. I will start back-porting 
> stuff to the lucene_solr_5_3 branch later in the day today.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Noble Paul <noble.p...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:noble.p...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Agree with Shawn here.
> 
> If a company has already done the work to upgrade their systems to
> 5.3.1 , they would rather have a bug fix for the old version .
> 
> So anshum, is there a 5.3.2 version created in JIRA? can we start
> tagging issues to that release so that we can have a definitive list
> of bugs to be backported
> 
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net 
> <mailto:ans...@anshumgupta.net>> wrote:
> > Thanks for explaining it so well Shawn :)
> >
> > Yes, that's pretty much the reason why it makes sense to have a 5.3.2
> > release.
> >
> > We might even need a 5.4.1 after that as there are more security bug fixes
> > that are getting committed as the feature is being tried by users and bugs
> > are being reported.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org 
> > <mailto:apa...@elyograg.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/16/2015 2:15 PM, Upayavira wrote:
> >> > Why don't people just upgrade to 5.4? Why do we need another release in
> >> > the 5.3.x range?
> >>
> >> I am using a third-party custom Solr plugin.  The latest version of that
> >> plugin (which I have on my dev server) has only been certified to work
> >> with Solr 5.3.x.  There's a chance that it won't work with 5.4, so I
> >> cannot use that version yet.  If I happen to need any of the fixes that
> >> are being backported, an official 5.3.2 release would allow me to use
> >> official binaries, which will make my managers much more comfortable
> >> than a version that I compile myself.
> >>
> >> Additionally, the IT change policies in place for many businesses
> >> require a huge amount of QA work for software upgrades, but those
> >> policies may be relaxed for hotfixes and upgrades that are *only*
> >> bugfixes.  For users operating under those policies, a bugfix release
> >> will allow them to fix bugs immediately, rather than spend several weeks
> >> validating a new minor release.
> >>
> >> There is a huge amount of interest in the new security features in
> >> 5.3.x, functionality that has a number of critical problems.  Lots of
> >> users who need those features have already deployed 5.3.1.  Many of the
> >> critical problems are fixed in 5.4, and these are the fixes that Anshum
> >> wants to make available in 5.3.2.  If a user is in either of the
> >> situations that I outlined above, upgrading to 5.4 may be unrealistic.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Shawn
> >>
> >>
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