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* [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 not on bitcoin.org?
@ 2015-02-01 20:08 xor
  2015-02-01 20:40 ` Wladimir
  2015-02-01 20:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: xor @ 2015-02-01 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-development

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Why is that?

Also, is it correct that there wasn't a release candidate before the release? 
Sounds dangerous to me.

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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 not on bitcoin.org?
  2015-02-01 20:08 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 not on bitcoin.org? xor
@ 2015-02-01 20:40 ` Wladimir
  2015-02-01 20:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Wladimir @ 2015-02-01 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xor; +Cc: bitcoin-development


On Sun, 1 Feb 2015, xor wrote:

> 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)

> 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




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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 not on bitcoin.org?
  2015-02-01 20:08 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 not on bitcoin.org? xor
  2015-02-01 20:40 ` Wladimir
@ 2015-02-01 20:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gregory Maxwell @ 2015-02-01 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xor; +Cc: Bitcoin Development

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:08 PM, xor <xor@freenetproject•org> wrote:
> Why is that?

Because Binaries on Bitcoin.org have always been unaffected by the
issue 0.9.4 was released to address.

> 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.



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