Title: Please help test: Bitcoin stable maintenance versions (0.6.4rc3, etc) Post by: Luke-Jr on September 17, 2012, 10:27:52 PM Now that 0.7.0 is tested and out the door, please help test some of the stable maintenance versions :)
These are bugfix-only releases. Please report bugs by replying to this forum thread. Note that the 0.4.x wxBitcoin GUI client is no longer maintained nor supported. If someone would like to step up to maintain this, they should contact Luke-Jr. Also note that CVE-2012-4682 and CVE-2012-4683 are not fixed in 0.4.8: 0.4.x did not have any anti-DoS system at all, and that is not changed with this release. If you want to be secure against this class of DoS attacks (network flooding of invalid data to verify), upgrade to a newer version! bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.4 release candidate 3 (sigs (http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bitcoind/0.6.4/test/rc3/SHA256SUMS.asc)) are now available for download at:
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Thanks to everybody who contributed code or helped test this release: Luke Dashjr Sergio Lerner Gavin Andresen Philip Kaufmann fanquake xanatos Wladimir J. van der Laan Gregory Maxwell Matt Corallo Ricardo M. Correia Michael Ford Jeff Garzik Pieter Wuille Rune K. Svendsen Stephane Glondu Title: Re: Please help test: Bitcoin stable maintenance versions (0.6.4rc3, etc) Post by: kuzetsa on September 20, 2012, 03:03:09 PM Now that 0.7.0 is tested and out the door, please help test some of the stable maintenance versions :) (...snip...) waaaait a minute. are you saying 0.7.x is an unstable / testing branch? 0.6.x is basically stable branch? perhaps 0.7.x has "crazy, new, untested features" and isn't broken in yet? immediately, what comes to mind is odd-numbered branches of linux are "development / test" versions and not considered stable. (I'm remembering when I was on linux 2.4.x upgrading to 2.6.x years back) more simply, my only ACTUAL question: So uhm, is 0.6.x effectively "long term support" version? Title: Re: Please help test: Bitcoin stable maintenance versions (0.6.4rc3, etc) Post by: Luke-Jr on September 20, 2012, 06:23:14 PM waaaait a minute. are you saying 0.7.x is an unstable / testing branch? 0.6.x is basically stable branch? 0.7.0 is a "master" branch release, but should be stable in theory.perhaps 0.7.x has "crazy, new, untested features" and isn't broken in yet? Of course it has new features. The only one I am particularly concerned about, though, is the time refactoring I did. It did get plenty of testing, but gmaxwell found some bugs in it last-minute that were not fixed in the final.immediately, what comes to mind is odd-numbered branches of linux are "development / test" versions and not considered stable. (I'm remembering when I was on linux 2.4.x upgrading to 2.6.x years back) Bitcoin does not use such a system.more simply, my only ACTUAL question: Likely whatever version Debian ends up shipping will be "LTS". Other than that, it all depends on which backports people still need - hence the polls ;)So uhm, is 0.6.x effectively "long term support" version? Note that unless 0.6.0.x is still needed, I plan to discontinue it as soon as Eligius has upgraded to 0.7.0 - so if anyone needs that, speak up ASAP. Title: Re: Please help test: Bitcoin stable maintenance versions (0.6.4rc3, etc) Post by: Gavin Andresen on September 21, 2012, 01:34:50 AM So uhm, is 0.6.x effectively "long term support" version? No, these are Luke's pet branches, which I think are a bad idea because they divert development and testing efforts away from the latest release.The first real 'stable' release will be 1.0, and we're not there yet. Title: Re: Please help test: Bitcoin stable maintenance versions (0.6.4rc3, etc) Post by: dree12 on September 21, 2012, 01:41:23 AM So uhm, is 0.6.x effectively "long term support" version? No, these are Luke's pet branches, which I think are a bad idea because they divert development and testing efforts away from the latest release.The first real 'stable' release will be 1.0, and we're not there yet. |