On 19/11/2025 02:55, Jim Pazarena via Exim-users wrote:
I've seen or rather heard of two updates past 4.99 presented by Jeremy Harris. One on 2025-10-30 where Jeremy states '385887862327 in git' corrects an issue. One on 2025-11-04 where Jeremy was going to provide a fix direct to the complainant. I haven't seen a follow-up to that status. I wonder if these potential updates would trigger a 4.99.1 ? or something to that effect. I've never seen update releases like that but rather instructions to fetch them from git. I'm curious why git is used and why not an actual dot.1/2/etc release ?
No, these will not trigger a release. Patches for issues occur all the time and will continue until we get to 4.100 at which point they will be wrapped up into a numbered release, and then the cycle repeats. Releases are simply points-in-time in the git history, on which a fair amount of testing has been done - not only by the project developers but by users who are prepared to put the effort in, when Release Candidates are announced during the weeks leading up to a numbered release. The latter is important because the developers have no visibility of (and no resources to duplicate) the platforms, environments, configurations and load-patterns of every user of Exim. Exim does not gather usage data for transmission back to the mothership. Minor-point releases are reserved for security or major data-loss issues. -- Bernard Quatermass
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