[development] Re: [support] Drupal 4.6.6/4.5.8 security releases

Darrel O'Pry dopry at thing.net
Mon Mar 13 23:45:02 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 00:24 +0100, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> El Martes, 14 de Marzo de 2006 01:03, Gerhard Killesreiter escribió:
> > are now available. See drupal.org/node/53524
> 
> It's a problem only here, or the list where the security advisories are 
> supposed to be sent, is completely useless?
> 
> By pure luck, I've checked my news aggregator, and I've found the new release 
> which fixes 4 security bugs, but I haven't received _anything_ from the 
> mailing list yet (which I check a lot more often).
> 
> I'm really very disappointed about how the Drupal project is handling releases 
> and security advisories. IMHO, it's the worst "big" free software project in 
> this regard.
> 

Wow, that whole lag between notifiction channels... I can see the script
kiddies firing up their bots trying to exploit sites between when the
notifications are sent on the dev list, posted to drupal.org, and sent
to the security list... 

.darrel.

--I think I'm in a slightly sarcastic mood today.



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