The recently discovered memory-context-switch bug in 8.1's autovacuum seems serious enough to force an update release for that branch, since it could result in crashes in an installation that had been working fine for a long while. Although this only affects 8.1, the core committee has concluded that we might as well update the other back branches at the same time. Accordingly, we're planning to wrap tarballs next Thursday (1/29) for public announcement Monday 2/1. If you've got any back-branch bug fixes sitting around, now would be a good time to send them in...
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