Re: lets think about 3.3 release

[Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>]

James Carter <jwcart2@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:38 AM Dominick Grift
> <dominick.grift@defensec.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> > Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I's about 184 commits and 5 months since the last release so I think
>> >> it's time to slowly stop the development and start with 3.3 release
>> >> candidates.
>> >
>> >
>> > Currently patchwork contains just these patches which should be relevant
>> > to 3.3:
>> >
>> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12435365/ New [1/2] libsepol/cil:
>> > Improve in-statement to allow use after inheritance
>> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12435363/ New [2/2] libsepol/secilc/docs: Update the CIL documentation
>>
>> Strictly speaking these can probably wait until after 3.3 although it would
>> be nice to get this in.
>>
>> Maybe eventually some day in the distant future we can re-consider
>> disallowing duplicate macro and block declarations in favor of this functionality.
>>
>> >
>> > These are probably superseeded already, but I'm not sure. Please take a look.
>> >
>
> They are waiting for the three patches below, so they can all be
> merged together.
>
>> >
>> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12470297/ New [1/3,v2] libsepol/cil: Remove redundant syntax checking
>> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12470301/ New [2/3,v2]
>> > libsepol/cil: Use size_t for len in __cil_verify_syntax()
>> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12470299/ New [3/3,v2]
>> > libsepol/cil: Fix syntax checking in __cil_verify_syntax()
>> >
>> > Wait for review.
>> >
>
> The only changes are what Nicolas suggested when he reviewed them, so
> I don't think it will be too long before these will be merged. I don't
> have anything else other than these.
>

Great, thanks!

Petr



>
>
>
>> > So I think selinux-3.3-rc1 can be released on next Wednesday 2021-09-08
>> >
>> > If you have any concerns, comments or suggestion, let us know.
>> >
>> > Also I really don't understand all the changes in libsepol so please help me
>> > to collect release notes information for it. I'll post a release notes
>> > draft with other components later today.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Petr
>> >
>> >
>>
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