Re: notes for 2023 release

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Sergey Bugaev, le sam. 10 juin 2023 19:06:35 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 12:47 PM Samuel Thibault
> <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Do you think about anything else to announce?
> 
> Not an announcement, but please consider backporting
> 346b6eab3c14ead0b716d53e2235464b822f48f2 "hurd: Run init_pids ()
> before init_dtable ()" if it's not too late (or doing it after release
> if it is too late).

It is too late: I produce images quite ahead of the release week-end,
since people tend to start uploading not-for-the-release packages during
the week before the release, and thus breaking our snapshot.

> This was an important fix; currently ctty handling is completely
> broken in Debian.

How does it manifest in practice?

> Maybe mention the 'setauth (19)' vulnerability getting fixed?

I didn't include the details, but like the previous release:

- Many fixes, including some important security fixes.

Samuel