It became too difficult to maintain, especially the move from samba 3.x.x to 4.x.x that has both samba3 and samba4 code to deal with effectively doubling the code size.
The Samba model is release eg 4.8.x and generally no new features are added. Each point release after that is bug / security fixes till the next release eg 4.9.x is released and then it becomes security only fixes and support ends entirely when the next release 4.10.x is released. Rinse and repeat the cycle. Keeping track of back ported fixes in the 3.x.x days was easier than trying to do it with the 4.x.x series. Ian McWilliam ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:20 PM To: ports; Ian McWilliam; Stuart Henderson Subject: Re: [SECURITY] samba-4.8.11 Jeremie Courreges-Anglas: > samba-4.8.11 has just been released: > https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.8.11.html BTW, whatever happened to cherry-picking the relevant security fix and only committing this before release (or in -stable), instead of whole updates? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
