Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:60704 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67755 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2012 07:48:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jun 2012 07:48:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain nebm.ist.utl.pt from 193.136.128.22 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt X-Host-Fingerprint: 193.136.128.22 smtp2.ist.utl.pt Linux 2.6 Received: from [193.136.128.22] ([193.136.128.22:42908] helo=smtp2.ist.utl.pt) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 15/B5-45898-8B378CF4 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:48:09 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.ist.utl.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5BE6700044F; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 08:48:04 +0100 (WEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.6.4 (20090625) (Debian) at ist.utl.pt Received: from smtp2.ist.utl.pt ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp2.ist.utl.pt [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with LMTP id gG-Vxjyxxa9U; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 08:48:04 +0100 (WEST) Received: from nebm.ist.utl.pt (unknown [IPv6:2001:690:2100:4::58:1]) by smtp2.ist.utl.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id A310F7000430; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 08:48:04 +0100 (WEST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=nebm.ist.utl.pt) by nebm.ist.utl.pt with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SaMaa-0005cQ-GS; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:48:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:48:04 +0100 To: internals PHP , David Soria Parra Organization: =?UTF-8?Q?N=C3=BAcleo_de_Engenharia_Biom=C3=A9dica_do_Insti?= =?UTF-8?Q?tuto_Superior_T=C3=A9cnico?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <30c8ea5d8c44b9a380f764f499eaf2d4@nebm.ist.utl.pt> X-Sender: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.5.3 Subject: NEWS again (was: PHP 5.4.4RC2 Released) From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt (Gustavo Lopes) On Thu, 31 May 2012 21:01:50 -0400, David Soria Parra wrote: > > We would like to announce the second RC of the 5.4.4 version. This > is mainly a bugfix release. The release includes a fix for a weakness > crypts() DES implementation (CVE-2012-2143). Please test it and > notify > us of any problems you may encounter. The full list of the fixes is > as > always in the NEWS file. > Sorry to bring this up again, but they aren't. 5.3 NEWS are not being merged. Right now, NEWS is pretty useless. If I want to know whether some change is in one release, 5.4 NEWS won't tell me that. For instance, 0f180a63 was committed to 5.3 in April 7 (a stream_get_line() fix). It is most definitely in 5.4.4RC2: $ git merge-base 0f180a63e php-5.4.4RC2 0f180a63ebb2d65bbe49b68d2430639b20443e9a However, there's no mention in NEWS. The current policy of changing only the lowest branch NEWS obviously can only work if these changes are then merged to the most recent branches on release. If the RMs are unwilling to do such merging, we should change the policy to require updating the NEWS files in every stable branch to which the fix was merged. -- Gustavo Lopes