cURL / Mailing Lists / curl-library / Single Mail

curl-library

Re: a security patch release

From: dev_user <dev_at_cor0.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 05:46:19 -0400

On 09/09/2016 04:00 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> We've gotten another security problem reported that affects libcurl.
> This particular problem has already been discussed in public in some
> circles so I think it would be unfortunate to wait a whole release cycle
> until we ship a fix.
>
> I suggest we ship a 7.50.3 release on Wednesday the 14th with this fix
> (and whatever other bug fixes we manage to merge before then). If this
> causes problems to anyone, please speak up and we can discuss what to do.
>
> In case anyone has a strong desire to merge a new feature before then,
> I'm fine with creating a 7.50 branch to build the release from and we
> can continue working toward 7.51.0 in master.
>
> Your feedback is appreciated!
>

I have no problems with awaiting the 14th of Sept for the actual
package release.

Dennis

-------------------------------------------------------------------
List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library
Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
Received on 2016-09-09