Next release of rsync - when?

[jonlists]

rsync-bounces+jonlists=cbsol.com at lists.samba.org wrote on 11/10/2003 
10:02:19 PM:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:52:22PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > ... This fix is also in CVS (along with several others).
> > 
> > As another poster pointed out recently, it's been a long time since
> > 2.5.6 was released (Jan 28 2003).
> > 
> > Many recent replies to questions posted to this list are variants
> > of "It's already fixed in CVS".
> > 
> > Are there any particular reasons for holding back the next release?
> 
> As far as i can tell it is just a matter of a maintainer
> committing the time needed to do the release.
> 
> > Will the next release be 2.6.0 because of the protocol number bump?
> 
> I don't think so.  It should be 2.5.7.  While there have
> been some UI changes they haven't been the sort that require
> changing existing scripts.
> 
> > I'd sure like to see the full list of changes since 2.5.6 and begin
> > testing a release candidate.
> 
> It is in the changelog and a summary is in NEWS.
> 
> CVS is stable and qualifies as a candidate now.
> 
> 
> -- 
> ________________________________________________________________
>    J.W. Schultz            Pegasystems Technologies
>    email address:      jw at pegasys.ws
> 

That'd be good, because I'm sure I'm not the only one who isn't ever going 
to bother with CVS. 

Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
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