Bug#1117120: Berkeley DB new upstream maintainer and release

On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 08:49:26PM +0000, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> in an interesting turn of events, libdb is seeing serious development
> activity now under a new upstream maintainer
> 
> there is also a new bugfix release v5.3.29 from April 23
> 
> https://github.com/berkeleydb/libdb/releases/tag/v5.3.29

I looked a bit at the recent commits.

Would be nice if the author would put Co-authored-by: tags on their 
commits identifying the used LLM tooling.

Also I somewhat doubt that a new file (os_atomic.c) can be 
copyrighted 2013 by Oracle.

Oh well.

Chris