playing with YOU and working with mediawiki, I noticed the last YOU update was 1.4.x (with x=7, but I'm not sure of that)
Mediawiki being at stable 1.6.3 I wondered if this was a good choice.. I asked the mediawiki list and got the answer below: mediawiki is maintained for approx 1 year. Given SUSE Linux is said to have security updates for two years, I wonder what is going to be done. Will a Novell programmer make the necessary patches to 1.4? will SUSE (YOU) provide upgrade to 1.5 or 1.6... giving I'm stuck with the 1.6 upgrade :-) php scripts are very sensitive materials. vulnerability found there can severely impact a server. But of course my question is not about mediawiki (I already cope with this one :-), but more generally, giving the speed of the working Linux flow, how is the update policy setup? 10.0 is pretty fresh :-) jdd -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] security update policy Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:48:43 -0700 From: Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jdd wrote: > after installing and update to the very last security > updates, I ended up with mediawiki 1.4.7 (not sure of the "7") > > so my question: > > how long do you plan to make security updates on old > products? About a year, generally. > I wonder if a 1.4 will still be secure :-) and how > long :-) 1.4.0 was released March 20, 2005, a bit over a year ago. The most recent fix release on 1.4 is 1.4.14, released January 19, 2006. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
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