Re: IPFire 2.17 - Core Update 91 release schedule

[Rod Rodolico <rodo@dailydata.net>]

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Michael,

I for one appreciate this kind of message. It lets me plan my testing
and deployment planning.

Thank you,

Rod

On 06/11/2015 03:51 AM, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just wanted to update you quickly about the upcoming Core Update 91
> release plan.
> 
> There will be a new OpenSSL release at some time today (Thursday) which
> fixes several security vulnerabilities in this library. We do not know
> much about the severity of those vulnerabilities, yet, but we will
> release a new Core Update any ways.
> 
> The changes that have been pushed into the next branch will be released
> as well with an exception of Python. The Python package won't build on
> some systems and due to lack of time to debug this properly the Python
> update has been postponed.
> 
> As soon as the OpenSSL update is released we will start the build. We
> expect this to be late at night (as it has been in the past) and
> therefore the will be a build available Friday morning/noon European
> time. The ARM build will take much longer to complete though.
> 
> We will push that build to the testing tree so that as many people can
> help testing as possibly can.
> 
> If everything goes well we intend to release the final update 24 hours
> after that - which will be Saturday some time after mid day.
> 
> Best,
> -Michael
> 
> P.S. I was asked to send a short release plan for Core Updates on this
> list because it is not so easy to find out what the current status is
> sometimes. I would like your feedback about if this is a good idea and
> if this is helping. I am hoping that it is helping us to engage more
> testers into the testing procedure of new Core Updates and let you plan
> some time for doing that.
> 

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