Re: file name and stable tag to 2.3.13 (was: Openldap 2.3.11 cannot autorecover from abnormal shutdown.)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:23 AM +0100 Michael StrÃder 
<michael@stroeder.com> wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > --On Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:20 AM +0800 Yingbo Qiu
> > <qiuyingbo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If the slapd was killed by SIGKILL(9), bdb database will be
> > > autorecovered at startup, I can read recovery message from 'slapd -d
> > > 5'
> >
> > You may with to upgrade to 2.3.13, where there were fixes to
> > autorecovery since 2.3.11.
>
> IMHO http://www.openldap.org/software/download/ is confusing.
>
> I think the stable tag should be moved away from 2.3.11 to 2.3.13 since
> 2.3.13 seems to be much more stable and people should be discouraged to
> use 2.3.11.
>
> I'd also vote for just keeping the release number in the tar.gz file
> name of source distribution marked stable. Placing a release date into
> the file name (like openldap-stable-20051018.tgz) is not a good
> reference to the content of file CHANGES.

Well, 2.3.11 definitely wasn't stable, but 2.3.13 isn't really that stable 
either... I had to patch it a bit to get it to where it is stable on my 
production servers.. So maybe 2.3.14.

--Quanah

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