Re: Extra security measures for next week's releases - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Extra security measures for next week's releases
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Msg-id CABUevEyk=_fZG7yQrFz4n18AQRdFbvYE=V2X=sYihUf=cGVnWA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Extra security measures for next week's releases  (roadrunner6@gmx.at)
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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:09 PM,  <roadrunner6@gmx.at> wrote:
> Am 28.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Tom Lane:
>
>> The core committee has decided that one of the security issues due to be
>> fixed next week is sufficiently bad that we need to take extra measures
>> to prevent it from becoming public before packages containing the fix
>> are available.  (This is a scenario we've discussed before, but never
>> had to actually implement.)
>>
>
> 8.3 has reached EOL in February 2013, I guess there will be no fix for 8.3,
> right?

That is correct.

Some distributions may backpatch fixes manually, but there will be no
official patch for 8.3.


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