On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 02:17:38PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Daniel and all,
Heya, > On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:17:56 +0800 > Daniel Veillard <veill...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > This is a security release, I didn't tried to push a number of other > > patches considering urgency. > > > > That release is dedicated to the memory of Bill Brack who was my > > co-maintainer for many years on libxml2 and libxslt, we became friends, > > he has a huge influence still on way I do things. Unfortunately he passed > > away last February. I'm sure he would have commented that celebrating > > his legacy with a release with so many CVE would be a tribute to his > > programming skills, because he always approached life with a sense of > > humor. RIP Bill, the code still lives but OpenSource is more about > > people than code ! > > RIP Bill! Sorry to hear about his death. And I enjoyed reading this paragraph > dedicated to his memory. > > ======== > > That put aside: > > 1. The Subject line says "libvirt" instead of "libxml2". I'm doing upstream releases for libvirt every month, Pavlov in action, sorry about that, yes it's definitely a libxml2-2.9.3 release > 2. I have packaged and submitted libxml2-2.9.3 for Mageia Linux Cauldron. So > it > should appear in its repositories soon. Seems like all of our downstream > patches were no longer necessary. Ack, thanks to all downstream packagers to push that down to users ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veill...@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
