Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Oh, now I see why it's not here: it was back-patched into 9.5, so it
>> will not be a new feature in 9.6.0. It will be listed in the 9.5.3
>> release notes, instead.
> I was really hoping that the OpenSSL bugfix patch would receive the
> same treatment (commit 7c7d4fddab82dc756d8caa67b1b31fcdde355aab).
> Should I take its inclusion here in the 9.6 release notes as
> portending a backpatch never happening?
No, it just means that hasn't happened yet.
> There seems to be a lack of urgency about it,
Perhaps, or maybe it's just a lack of cycles. I certainly haven't
had any time to think about it.
regards, tom lane
