[Mageia-sysadm] Question about Sympa

Tue Nov 9 15:56:43 CET 2010

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 09/11/10 00:41 did gyre and gimble:
+> * Dexter Morgan (dmorganec at gmail.com) wrote:
+>> Hello,
+>>
+>> in alamut we have sympa 6.0.2, the last version is 6.1.x and contains
+>> in its changelog "WE STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU TO UPGRADE ANY PREVIOUS
+>> VERSION TO 6.1.1"
+>> There is a lot of changes and they looks interesting (
+>> http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS ).
+>>
+>> What do you think about this ? do we only update our sympa to last
+>> 6.0.x version or do we switch to sympa 6.1.x ?
+> 
+> I don't have a rule that work all the time about this.
+> 
+> The main question is "what would we update and what is the cost ?".
+> 
+> By cost understand: the time to backport it, the problem this new
+> version can cause and will we be affected by potentials bug fixed by
+> this version.
+> 
+> In doubt, do nothing,  it will still be time to upgrade later.
+
+So those CSS, CSRF, brute force and DoS attack vectors the changelog
+mentions are nothing to worry about then?
+
+Col
+
+
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