On 09.11.2024 at 11:50, Jeroen Ooms via curl-library wrote: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 8:07 AM Christian Schmitz via curl-library > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 8. Nov 2024, at 01:00, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> After the 8.11.0 release earlier this week several regressions have been >>> reported. Some of them rather annoying for the users experiencing them. >> >> If anyone is annoyed, they can download the current state from the >> repository and build it. > > The problem is that packagers don't know about these regressions when > they visit https://curl.se/download.html so it will automatically get > pushed into many distros. For the same reason, many of us are dealing > with several with problems in libcurl 8.7.1 which is the production > version on MacOS for this year because it was the latest "stable" when > apple updated their OS stack. However it had several known > regressions. > > Perhaps it could be discussed to consider a policy in the future to > officially mark regressed releases as such.
Or maybe there could some sort of LTS releases. For distro maintainers, stability might be way more important than new features. Christoph -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
