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Re: 1.6.6 up for signing/testing

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:26:11 -0500

Still waiting on one more *nix signature...

-Hyrum

On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:

> As promised, I'm pleased to announce that Subversion 1.6.6 is up for
> testing and signing. The magic revision is r40053. You can find the
> tarballs here:
>
> http://orac.ece.utexas.edu/pub/svn/1.6.6/
>
> Please be sure to test the bindings.
>
> You know the drill: signatures from full committers back to me, and
> enthusiastic tester feedback is welcome. At this point, this candidate
> is not yet blessed for wide release, so please don't make it available
> to people not interested in test-driving the new release.
>
> Distro package maintainers, please do NOT include any pre-release
> builds, even blessed, into operating system distros. The reasons for
> not doing so were very eloquently outlined by Karl in a mail, which is
> summarized at the above address.
>
> The quick version is: we don't guarantee compatibility between the
> pre-
> releases and the final release, so if people install the release
> candidate, all their repositories and working copies might break
> irreparably when they upgrade to 1.6.6 proper. We don't want that
> kind of bad publicity, and neither do you.
>
> -Hyrum
>
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