2.18 will never be released. They are shutting down the project. Joe Schaefer, Ph.D. <https://sunstarsys.com/orion/features> Orion - The Enterprise Jamstack Wiki <https://sunstarsys.com/orion/features> <j...@sunstarsys.com> 954.253.3732 <//954.253.3732>
On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you clarify this - 2.17 has a critical bug and 2.18 is about to come > out which doesn't have a good enough patch so how would trunk be any better? > > Also how is this passing make test or were the test cases modified to make > the bug pass ? > > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 1:12 PM Joe Schaefer <j...@sunstarsys.com> wrote: > >> Trunk is the safe bet. >> >> Joe Schaefer, Ph.D. >> <https://sunstarsys.com/orion/features> >> Orion - The Enterprise Jamstack Wiki >> <https://sunstarsys.com/orion/features> >> <j...@sunstarsys.com> >> 954.253.3732 <//954.253.3732> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 2:11 PM Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> So is there a cleaner/saner version of libapreq2 or is the 2012 version >>> better ? >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 12:58 PM Joe Schaefer <j...@sunstarsys.com> wrote: >>> >>>> For the past 25 years, I have been the lead developer of the libapreq2 >>>> subproject within the Apache HTTPd Server Parent Project. The original idea >>>> of libapreq as a safe/performant HTML form and Cookie parsing library came >>>> out of a collaboration between Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern in the >>>> late 90s. >>>> >>>> It was my vision back then to transform the library into a generic, >>>> non-Perl related C library that would support language bindings from other >>>> programming languages, which is why I pushed for the project to be homes >>>> under the HTTPd umbrella instead of the Apache-Perl project. >>>> >>>> While this vision was wildly successful, with language bindings >>>> available for several languages like Perl, TCL, R, etc, ever since about >>>> 2010 its proven tragic for the existing user community consisting of all of >>>> them, not just Perl. >>>> >>>> What happened? Philip Gollucci, a Perl/FreeBSD olleague of mine at the >>>> time, started agitating that we promote the project to be released from >>>> inside the HTTPd server itself. What Philip didn’t know very well back then >>>> was how utterly vapid and territorial that team had become, which would >>>> have meant having to collaborate with them directly on user-facing >>>> decisions about the code base. >>>> >>>> In 2012, Philip got what he wanted and I stopped resisting, so he >>>> forked the existing project and copied the C library components into HTTPd >>>> core. >>>> >>>> In 2016 I resigned from the Foundation en masse. You can guess the >>>> reasons. >>>> >>>> In 2020 or so, Google’s Security Team took advantage of an alpha >>>> release of httpd 2.5 by fuzzing its 8 year old copy of apreq. It found a >>>> few hotspots that needed repair. >>>> >>>> Instead of having the courtesy of reaching out to me, or anyone else >>>> involved in development of apreq, a junior engineer on the HTTPd team went >>>> about the business of “bug fixing” the vulnerabilities Google found. You >>>> can see a record of his trial and error work in every release since then. >>>> >>>> But the coup de grace was the 2022 release of 2.17, wherein the rookie >>>> developer purposely introduced a fatal bug into the codebase, breaking a >>>> fifteen year old regression test. >>>> >>>> If you are wondering how something with a broken regression test winds >>>> up on CPAN, you’ll have to look into how RELENG is done in the server >>>> project. >>>> >>>> Long story short, they commented out the test and shipped it anyway, >>>> and called it a Security Release that fixed a vulnerability every prior >>>> release was susceptible to. >>>> >>>> Why do I care now? Because I’m the sucker users reach out to for >>>> answers as a known subject matter expert. >>>> >>>> This sucks, but I’m sorry to tell you that my days wearing the Superman >>>> cape at Apache ended 8 years ago. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Joe Schaefer, Ph.D. >>>> <https://sunstarsys.com/orion/features> >>>> Orion - The Enterprise Jamstack Wiki >>>> <https://sunstarsys.com/orion/features> >>>> <j...@sunstarsys.com> >>>> 954.253.3732 <//954.253.3732> >>>> >>>> >>>>
