[Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Tue Oct 17 11:02:10 CEST 2006

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 18:54, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote: > In 2.3.6, there wouldn't just be that change, but also a few other > changes that have been collected, some relevant for Windows as well

why not just do a "2.3.5+security" source release, and leave the rest to the downstream maintainers?

I think we'd need to renumber it to 2.3.6 at least, otherwise there's the problem of distinguishing between the two. I'd hope that all the downstreams will have picked up the patch (if you know of someone who hasn't, let me know and I'll kick them for you if it would help).

But I'm certainly thinking if there's a 2.3.6, it's going to be 2.3.5 with the email fix and the unicode repr() fix, and that's it. No windows or Mac binaries - they'll be pointed to the perfectly fine 2.3.5 binary installers.

And no, I'm not doing another 2.2 release :)

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