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Subject: Re: PHP 8.0.1 Released!
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 09.01.2021 at 21:31, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:

> "Christoph M. Becker" in php.internals (Fri, 8 Jan 2021 11:37:38 +0100):
>
>> On 08.01.2021 at 10:28, Christian Wenz wrote:
>>
>>>> The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP
>>>> 8.0.1. This is a security release.
>>>
>>> The release page (https://www.php.net/releases/8_0_1.php) states that =
it's a
>>> bug fix release. I assume that's correct?
>>
>> PHP 7.3.26, 7.4.14 and 8.0.1 fix CVE-2020-7071, so all three releases
>> are actually security releases (which also have regular bug fixes).
>
> CVE-2020-7071 has a long history: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=3D7742=
3
> The strange thing is that the fix was also applied to the official PHP 7=
.2
> branch, which should not receive security fixes anymore.

That was by mistake.  I don't think it doesn't really matter to have
that commit there; there won't be another release, and the tags are
still correct.

> Would not it be better to keep these kind of security backports limited =
to
> https://github.com/microsoft/php-src/commits/PHP-7.2-Security-backports =
?

Well, there may be other (security) backport repos, but generally,
that's the idea.

(I should note that Microsoft does not maintain the branches in this
repo except for the PHP-5.6-security-backports-openssl11 branch.)

Christoph