On Sun, 2025-06-22 at 15:30 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2025-06-22 at 11:21 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 10:58 Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, 2025-06-22 at 10:52 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM Oleg Kalnichevski
> > > > > <ol...@apache.org>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Sun, 2025-06-22 at 14:28 +0000,
> > > > > > ggreg...@apache.org wrote:
> > > > > > > This is an automated email from the ASF dual-hosted git
> > > > > > > repository.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > ggregory pushed a commit to branch master
> > > > > > > in repository
> > > > > > > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents-client.git
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master
> > > > > > > by
> > > > > > > this
> > > > > > > push:
> > > > > > >      new cdd8e934d Add missing release notes for 4.3.5
> > > > > > > and
> > > > > > > 4.3.6
> > > > > > > cdd8e934d is described below
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > commit cdd8e934d08d6802b874f8f287fa33c83a041ab4
> > > > > > > Author: Gary Gregory
> > > > > > > <garydgreg...@users.noreply.github.com>
> > > > > > > AuthorDate: Sun Jun 22 10:28:31 2025 -0400
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > >     Add missing release notes for 4.3.5 and 4.3.6
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Why? There are not missing.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES-4.3.x.txt
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi Oleg,
> > > > > 
> > > > > The above is a link to a dist file; the text was missing in
> > > > > the
> > > > > git
> > > > > file containing the release notes.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > No, it is not. Those releases were released from a stable
> > > > branch
> > > > and
> > > > not master, like a dozen of other releases, but the release
> > > > notes
> > > > are
> > > > in the repository. It is unclear to me what makes those two so
> > > > special.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It is important IMO to have a release history that's continuous
> > > without
> > > holes somewhere, and master seems like the best place for that. I
> > > shouldn't
> > > have to hop between branches or various files in git or dist to
> > > get
> > > this
> > > history. This is a good thing for example when one is trying to
> > > understand
> > > what security fixes ended up in which release.
> > > 
> > 
> > There is already such please and I do not understand why there
> > needs to
> > be another one once of a sudden
> > 
> > https://hc.apache.org/news.html
> 
> Thanks for the link, I would have never looked there. A name like
> "Version History" might be better.
> 
> The page as it is now contains less information than the release
> notes
> text file, so it's not helpful for my historical digging: There is no
> Jira issue reference, security issues, or CVEs. At least the text
> file
> is less shy on mentioning security issues, even if it doesn't call
> out
> CVEs by ID.
> 

Feel free to improve it

https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-website/

Oleg


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