What is the project about? Why should I be interested in it? [rhetorical questions]
The Announce emails are sent to people not on the developer or user lists. Most will have no idea what the project is about. So the e-mails should contain at least brief details of what the product does, and some info on why the new release might be of interest to them. Readers should not have to click the link to find out the basic information (although of course it is useful to have such links for further detail). Please can you add that information to future announce mails? Thanks. On 1 September 2016 at 13:47, <rhuij...@apache.org> wrote: > I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Serf 1.3.9. > > https://serf.apache.org/download > > Apache Serf 1.3.9 [2016-09-01, from tags/1.3.9, r1758195] > serf is now Apache Serf; apply header changes (r1700062) > Fix issue #151: SCons build broken when only one library in ENVPATH > Fix issue #153: avoid SSPI handle leak > Fix issue #167: Explicitly use the ANSI version of SSPI > Fix issue #170: Allow building with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 > Fix build of 'check' target when using VPATH-style builds (r1699858, ...) > (builddir != srcdir). > Resolve a bucket (aka "memory") leak when a request bucket is > destroyed before it is morphed into an aggregate bucket (r1699791) > Reset state variables when resetting connection (r1708849) > Fix types of passed, but unused batons (r1699986, r1699987) > Fix some usages of the openssl BIO api (r1699852) > Improve handling of bad data in the response state line. (r1699985) > Resolve several compiler issues with less common compilers > Support more overrides via SCons arguments (r1701836, ...) > Adapt to OpenSSL 1.1.x api (r1750819) > > The SHA1 checksums are: > 26015c63e3bbb108c1689bf2090e4c26351db674 serf-1.3.9.tar.bz2 > 801cc1b5737e3a949ebb66e3a10e2572ac76ce0f serf-1.3.9.zip > > PGP Signatures are available at: > https://www.apache.org/dist/serf/serf-1.3.9.tar.bz2.asc > https://www.apache.org/dist/serf/serf-1.3.9.zip.asc > > For this release, the following people have provided PGP signatures: > Andreas Stiegler > Ivan Zhakov > Bert Huijben > > You can find the list of changes between 1.3.9 and earlier versions at: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/serf/tags/1.3.9/CHANGES > > Questions, comments, and bug reports to dev@serf.apache.org. > > Thanks, > - The Apache Serf Team >
