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Re: Regressions and a patch release proposal
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From: Christoph M. Becker via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 12:58:11 +0100
On 09.11.2024 at 11:50, Jeroen Ooms via curl-library wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 8:07 AM Christian Schmitz via curl-library
> <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8. Nov 2024, at 01:00, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> After the 8.11.0 release earlier this week several regressions have been reported. Some of them rather annoying for the users experiencing them.
>>
>> If anyone is annoyed, they can download the current state from the repository and build it.
>
> The problem is that packagers don't know about these regressions when
> they visit https://curl.se/download.html so it will automatically get
> pushed into many distros. For the same reason, many of us are dealing
> with several with problems in libcurl 8.7.1 which is the production
> version on MacOS for this year because it was the latest "stable" when
> apple updated their OS stack. However it had several known
> regressions.
>
> Perhaps it could be discussed to consider a policy in the future to
> officially mark regressed releases as such.
Or maybe there could some sort of LTS releases. For distro maintainers,
stability might be way more important than new features.
Christoph
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 12:58:11 +0100
On 09.11.2024 at 11:50, Jeroen Ooms via curl-library wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 8:07 AM Christian Schmitz via curl-library
> <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8. Nov 2024, at 01:00, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> After the 8.11.0 release earlier this week several regressions have been reported. Some of them rather annoying for the users experiencing them.
>>
>> If anyone is annoyed, they can download the current state from the repository and build it.
>
> The problem is that packagers don't know about these regressions when
> they visit https://curl.se/download.html so it will automatically get
> pushed into many distros. For the same reason, many of us are dealing
> with several with problems in libcurl 8.7.1 which is the production
> version on MacOS for this year because it was the latest "stable" when
> apple updated their OS stack. However it had several known
> regressions.
>
> Perhaps it could be discussed to consider a policy in the future to
> officially mark regressed releases as such.
Or maybe there could some sort of LTS releases. For distro maintainers,
stability might be way more important than new features.
Christoph
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