[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.6.0.9 Now Available

[Russell Bryant]

On Apr 7, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Klaus Darilion wrote:

> Mark Michelson wrote:
>>
>> 1.6.0.7 was released last week with all fixes up to the point of  
>> its release.
>> 1.6.0.8 is 1.6.0.7 + security fix (AST-2009-003)
>> 1.6.0.9 is 1.6.0.8 + fix for a SIP regression (a crash resulting  
>> from freeing
>> invalid memory if transmission of a sip message fails)
>>
>> So even though bugs were fixed in the 1.6.0 branch between the  
>> release of
>> 1.6.0.7 and 1.6.0.9, they are not included in the 1.6.0.9 release,  
>> but will be
>> in 1.6.10, assuming that no new security issues arise before then.
>
> Sorry for my ignorance, but why are the other bug fixes are not  
> included
> - it would not hurt.


1.6.0.9 was rushed out to address a regression.  To include a new big  
set of bug fixes, we like to put the code through a release candidate  
cycle to (hopefully) get some reasonable testing on it before release.

Unfortunately, in the case of 1.6.0.7, the RC process didn't help  
catch the bug in question.  Formalizing some of the testing that we do  
for each release is definitely something we need to work on as a  
development community in general.

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Russell Bryant
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