Re: updates beyond 4.99 release

On 19/11/2025 13:23, Bernard Quatermass via Exim-users wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Branches with fixes were nice earlier (but that's additional big burden 
on devs)

$ git branch | grep fixes
   exim-4.96+fixes
   exim-4.98+fixes

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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