Feb. 4, 2005
7:06 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Guido van Rossum wrote: [...]
hope at least one person from the release team can be involved, e.g. [...]
Guido, from python-announce list: [...]
Python 2.3.5 will be released from www.python.org within a few days containing a fix for this issue. Python 2.4.1 will be released later this month containing the same fix. Patches for Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 are also immediately available: [...]
Hope this question isn't too dumb: How will Python releases made in response to security bugs be done: will they just include the security fix (rather than being taken from CVS HEAD), without the usual alpha / beta testing cycle? Or what...? John