wolf2k5 wrote:
It looks like RH finally decided to bump up the base version of some packages (e.g.mysql: 5.0.22-2.1.0.1 -> 5.0.45-6.el5) instead of backporting fixes to the older base version.
Note that it's a minor version bump, they're both 5.0.x versions. They did this before with mysql in RHEL4 (4.1.7 -> 4.1.10a -> 4.1.12 -> 4.1.20). My guess is that it's a fairly special case; as I understand it, MySQL AB tend to be quite careful about their security and bug fixing (and not introducing major new features), so updating to a newer version in the same release train is likely easier than / as safe as backporting fixes.
Anyway, as I mentioned, they've upgraded mysql this way before, so it isn't a sudden update policy shift.
Will we see more of this? For starters, it would be great to see the current PHP 5.1.x version upgraded to 5.2.x.
I very much doubt that'll happen, so don't get your hopes up. 5.1 to 5.2 is a major bump, with incompatibilities that can break existing scripts.
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