Moin,
On Sunday 23 April 2006 09:29, jdd wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
> jdd wrote:
>> after installing and update to the very last security
>> updates, I ended up with mediawiki 1.4.7 (not sure of the "7")
>>
>> so my question:
>>
>> how long do you plan to make security updates on old
>> products?
>
> About a year, generally.
I also saw that SuSE 10.0 has 1.4.7, it is simple a problem of long
overlapping release cycles. When they bundles mediawiki (I was astonished
that they do), they take whatever is there at the time they go into a
freeze. Half a year later, it's completely outdated.
However, as far as SuSE goes, they have an active security patching going
on, and if mediawiki x.y.z is part of their system, you should ask them
to backport security patches for it (or release a new onem). I don't know
what the exact timeframe for SuSE is, but they provide security patches
for quite old installations.
I don't know what 10.1 will contain, but I doubt it is mediawiki 1.6.3
(one can hope, though :)
Unfortunately, 10.1 is already late, and 10.2 (or 11.0) will arrive in
like 6..9 months and until then people using SuSE will be stuck with
whatever they stick on their DVD.
Well, or use the latst mediawiki, like I did :-D
Best wishes,
Tels
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