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Re: release 3.2.1


From: Jaroslav Hajek
Subject: Re: release 3.2.1
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:02:12 +0200

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Jaroslav Hajek<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Jaroslav Hajek<address@hidden> wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> The Octave 3.2.1 semi-official tarballs are available at
>> http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~hajej2am/ulozna/octave/
>>
>> We have 82 patches (mostly bug and doc fixes) since the 3.2.0 release.
>> I sincerely thank all contributors and testers for their valuable
>> work.
>> If your favorite bug was not fixed, don't give up hope; Octave is going on :)
>>
>> John, please upload the tarballs to the GNU FTP site.
>>
>> free computing, free society!
>>
>
> OK, so hold up the fanfares; the release is flawed and should not be
> used. I've removed the tarballs. See this thread:
> http://www.nabble.com/Bug-in-octave-3.2.x-with-custom-atlas-multithread-td24319610.html
> In short, any use of unwind_protect can cause a segfault (depending on
> calling sequences).
>
> The development version does not suffer from this problem; it's caused
> by a special patch created (by me) for 3.2.x rather than transplanting
> from the development version to avoid breaking ABI compatibility.
>
> This is similar to the issue of 3.0.4 - a very serious bug was
> reported very shortly after the release. Also, the bug was caused by a
> patch specialized for the stable branch to avoid breaking the ABI.
>
> Since this is the second time I've managed to produce a flawed
> release, I think I'm doing a poor job as the stable branch manager,
> and it's time for a change. Who wants to take on the role?
>
> Forgive me my bitterness, but I'm really disappointed.
>
> Sorry for all the noise. Please don't use the tarballs (if you already
> downloaded them) for packages. Recent RCs also suffer from the bug;
> right now I can't check which ones.
>
> best regards
>

As a follow-up, I've just committed a fix to the repo; so if anyone is
interested in making the release, feel free. I won't be able to do it
for the following two weeks.

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz


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