[Python-Dev] Fixing 2.7.x

Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 20:55:42 CEST 2014


On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> 3. security: "fixing issues exploitable by attackers such as crashes,
> privilege escalation and, optionally, other issues such as denial of
> service attacks. Any other changes are not considered a security risk
> and thus not backported to a security branch."
>    = 3.2.x and 3.3.x

3.1 is still in this category, is it not?  According to PEP 375, it's
a few months past due for its last release.

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0375/#maintenance-releases

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Zach


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