Re: Yay! The 4.4 ship has been launched.

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who helped
to make this happen!

Best,

		Ph.


On Saturday 13 March 2010 03:54:03 pm sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> The Release Announcement, source tarball, and Windows binaries for
> version 4.4.0 are now on SourceForge.  Many thanks to everyone who
> helped to  bring this major release to fruition.  I'd particularly
> like to thank everyone who contributed to the final push to upgrade
> the Windows binaries to support not only an upgraded version of the
> old win terminal but also to include the new wxt terminal.
>
> Pour yourself a nice beverage of your choice and make a toast to
> our joint success.
>
> Things were held up for a few days to squish a last-minute but serious
> bug that only made itself apparent when tested on 64-bit linux [*].
>
> I also made a pass over the web pages, but probably missed updating
> version numbers in various places.  Let's give it a couple of days to
> propagate to mirrors before sending announcements to the world at large.
>
> 	cheers,
>
> 		Ethan <sf...@us...>
>
> [*] Although I have been using 4.4 and current CVS practically every day
> all along without problems, 4.4 keeled over and died when installed as the
> back end to a production web server.  It didn't like the sanitized
> environment, and on a 64-bit system the dislike was fatal.  The cause
> turned out to be the "too simple to hurt anything" change made a week ago
> that removed look-up of GECOS information in the password file.
> Once again I have learned that last minute changes, no matter how simple,
> are a really bad idea.
>
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