Re: updates beyond 4.99 release

Bernard Quatermass via Exim-users <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:23:03 +0000

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On 19/11/2025 02:55, Jim Pazarena via Exim-users wrote:
> I've seen or rather heard of two updates past 4.99 presented by Jeremy Harris.
> One on 2025-10-30 where Jeremy states '385887862327 in git' corrects an issue.
> One on 2025-11-04 where Jeremy was going to provide a fix direct to the complainant. I haven't seen a follow-up to that status.
> 
> I wonder if these potential updates would trigger a 4.99.1 ? or something to that effect. I've never seen update releases like that but rather instructions to fetch them from git.
> 
> I'm curious why git is used and why not an actual dot.1/2/etc release ?
> 
> 

No, these will not trigger a release.

Patches for issues occur all the time and will continue until we get
to 4.100 at which point they will be wrapped up into a numbered release,
and then the cycle repeats.

Releases are simply points-in-time in the git history, on which a fair amount
of testing has been done - not only by the project developers but
by users who are prepared to put the effort in, when Release Candidates
are announced during the weeks leading up to a numbered release.

The latter is important because the developers have no visibility of
(and no resources to duplicate) the platforms, environments, configurations
and load-patterns of every user of Exim.  Exim does not gather usage data
for transmission back to the mothership.

Minor-point releases are reserved for security or major data-loss issues.

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Bernard Quatermass

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