Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 not on bitcoin.org?
3 messages, 1 Feb 2015. Started by xor.
xor, Wladimir J. van der Laan, Greg Maxwell
Why is that?
Also, is it correct that there wasn't a release candidate before the release? Sounds dangerous to me.
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015, xor wrote:
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> Why is that?
v0.9.4 is not really a release, just a tag in git.
It contains merely a workaround for a change in OpenSSL which caused problems - see Gregory Maxwell's post. As the releases are statically built against OpenSSL, it is not necessary to upgrade if you use releases from bitcoin.org. Hence no change on the site.
(but it can be used by people building from source, or distributions packages such as the Ubuntu PPA, which unwisely dynamically link OpenSSL)
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> Also, is it correct that there wasn't a release candidate before the release? > Sounds dangerous to me.
Again, there hasn't been any 0.9.4 release, neither a release candidate or anything else. Testing and such should be focused on the 0.10 release candidates.
Wladimir
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:08 PM, xor <xor@freenetproject•org> wrote:
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> Why is that?
Because Binaries on Bitcoin.org have always been unaffected by the issue 0.9.4 was released to address.
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> 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.