Announce: OpenSSH 8.5 released

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Mar 3 19:45:14 AEDT 2021


On Tue, 2 Mar 2021, Josh Soref wrote:

> Hi Damien,
> 
> A peer was reading the 8.5 announcement [1] and noted:
> 
> > the new openssh release notes sometimes end bugfixes with period, sometimes they don't;
> > sometimes it's bzNNN and sometimes it's bz#NNN.
> > Not all entries have a bugzilla number
> 
> Could I prevail upon you to use a consistent formatting?
> 
> I could probably help a bit (in a past life, I actually worked on a
> release notes process, and I do at times try to help others with
> theirs, although I haven't followed the release process here
> particularly closely, I did see some of the calls-for-testing posts).

I try to be consistent but aren't always successful. If you want to help,
the notes in the call for testing are usually copied verbatim from what
becomes the release notes, so any corrections offered at that stage will
usually end up in the final notes.

-d


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