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.