[Privoxy-devel] Release date for Privoxy 4.2.0 stable

[Fabian Keil]

Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel <privoxy-devel at lists.privoxy.org> wrote on 2026-05-31 at 12:50:49:

> Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel <privoxy-devel at lists.privoxy.org> wrote on 2026-05-16 at 07:28:59:
> 
> > Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel <privoxy-devel at lists.privoxy.org> wrote on 2026-05-02 at 15:20:01:
> > 
> > > Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel <privoxy-devel at lists.privoxy.org> wrote on 2026-04-11 at 09:46:09:
>  
> > > I also would like the yet-to-be-drafted 4.2.0 announcement
> > > to mention the financial problems the project is having and
> > > announce additional donation options (as proposed on the
> > > team-internal list). This will take a bit more time.
> > > 
> > > Delaying the release a couple of weeks should also
> > > allow me to push MbedTLS 4.0 support.
> > 
> > That didn't happen (yet), but I received a report of two
> > potential security issues and am currently testing patches.
> > 
> > Therefore I propose that we do the release on the weekend
> > starting on 2026-05-30.
> 
> I've pushed the patches to git ([0],[1]).
> 
> A preliminary announcement is available at [2]. It contains a
> paragraph about the lack of funding but maybe it should also
> mention the fact that there will not be Windows packages at
> the time of the release.
>
> If there are no objections, I'd like to create the tag
> for Privoxy 4.2.0 later today or early tomorrow.

I've received a response from the reporter so I'll have to
modify the preliminary announcement before sending it out.

I will therefore not create the v_4_2_0 tag today.

It could still happen tomorrow, but it probably won't be early ...

Fabian
 
> [0]: <https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commitdiff;h=4963aa4f08a378d0ea8a89433a95c3948a14bb9e>
> [1]: <https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commitdiff;h=5b3bb22b771c93adddf1726ec904c9378d584a66>
> [2]: <https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/webserver/announce.txt;hb=c93c69df8ff0b22e6d0a1bc02d7ce170e850cf02>
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