Re: Release APR 1.7.4?

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:12 AM Evgeny Kotkov via dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Unfortunately, one of the fixes in APR 1.7.3 that was authored by me has
> caused a significant regression, where writing to files opened with both
> APR_FOPEN_APPEND and APR_FOPEN_BUFFERED now may not properly append
> the data on Windows.  The issue has been reported in [1].
>
> Compared to the potential impact of the regression, the original fix seems to
> be of lesser concern, so I reverted the change in r1909088 [2] and backported
> it to 1.7.x in r1909095 [3].
>
> Would it be feasible to release 1.7.4 with a fix for this regression?
>
> (I can try to RM if needed, although in such a case it would be my first time
>  preparing an APR release.)

I will RM but it might be a bit piecemeal between now and the weekend.
  At the mercy of a lot of inflexible $bigco stuff.

Hoping to improve a little this time by porting more of icings amazing
httpd release work.