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Subject: Re: what is the rule of merging fix to release branch?
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

On 06/17/2012 09:36 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>      there comes some bug of a already fixed issue (PHP5.4.4)
>>
>>      the fix(#61998)  is here
>> https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/90e23107a2acba1fd53b7e799372eb9f24194a56
>>
>>      but seems this fix is not merged into 5.4.4 when it was released?
>>
>>      so, what is the rule?  :)
>
> The fixes are merged into 5.4 branch (never in release branches).
> Releases are regularly started from 5.4. Next one will be started in 2
> weeks.

This fix was committed on 2012-05-21, so I'm surprised why it's not 
included into release.

Thanks. Dmitry.