Hi, all! As part of an effort to actually be predictable about supporting old releases, I'm hoping to put out stable releases of 0.2.4 through 0.2.9 some time early next month. (See [1] for our planned schedule of when we're dropping support for what.)
This isn't an easy effort, though! Some of those release series haven't seen updates in quite a while. Moreover, the 0.2.7 branch had drifted substantially far away from what a stable release should backport, and I had to re-create it starting at the last 0.2.7 release [2]. Because of this, these stable releases are probably going to need more testing than usual before we can call them ready for mass consumption. So instead of just testing them internally, I'm putting up the some preliminary source distributions now. You can see them at https://people.torproject.org/~nickm/volatile/stable/ [3]. Each of them has a "-dev" suffix in its version number to indicate that it is a development version -- not yet an official release. The changelogs are not yet correct for these tarballs. I haven't even started them yet. I hope I'll find time over the next week or so. You can look at the "changes" directories in the appropriate release-0.2.* Git branches for the inputs that will go into the changelogs. If you're interested in helping make sure that the next stable releases really are stable, and you're already experienced at building from source, please give one or more of these releases a try. (If you don't build your own "tor" from source, don't worry. You probably don't want to touch these yet.) Any bug reports would be really helpful, especially if there are any regressions since the previous stable version in each series. I hope that in the future, a clear backport policy combined with a more regular habit of putting out stable releases will keep us from having to do big backport collections of this kind. [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20512 [3] I am aware of the contradiction in the URL. cheers, -- Nick -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
