Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YI1Kv-0007Cm-W6 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:41:42 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.213.180 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.213.180; envelope-from=gmaxwell@gmail.com; helo=mail-ig0-f180.google.com; Received: from mail-ig0-f180.google.com ([209.85.213.180]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1YI1Kv-0001nA-5w for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:41:41 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f180.google.com with SMTP id b16so12988169igk.1 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:41:35 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.25.144 with SMTP id a16mr16470401icc.66.1422823295627; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:41:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.107.6.18 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Feb 2015 12:41:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2472472.uuMyyaUxq1@1337h4x0r> References: <2472472.uuMyyaUxq1@1337h4x0r> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 20:41:35 +0000 Message-ID: From: Gregory Maxwell To: xor@freenetproject.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gmaxwell[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1YI1Kv-0001nA-5w Cc: Bitcoin Development Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 not on bitcoin.org? X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:41:42 -0000 On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:08 PM, xor wrote: > Why is that? Because Binaries on Bitcoin.org have always been unaffected by the issue 0.9.4 was released to address. > Also, is it correct that there wasn't a release candidate before the release? > Sounds dangerous to me. The changes were tried first by many people as part of git master. This was narrow bug fix backport required to prevent the software from no longer working at all for people who compiled it themselves and received software updates for their system.