Re: Potential spiped 1.6.0 release -- please test

[Denis Krienbühl <denis@href.ch>]

I ran the tests on macOS 10.12.4 and I manually tried the release on our Ubuntu images. Looks good.

Denis

> On 22 Apr 2017, at 07:41, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
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> Hi spiped users,
> 
> I've just uploaded a tarball which may be (modulo version number update)
> spiped 1.6.0.  Please test this -- even if all you have time to do is check
> that it compiles on your platform, that's better than nothing, but running
> 'make all test' and/or testing with live usage would be much better.
> 
> You can download the spiped code at
>  https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped/spiped-1.5.99.tgz
> and the tarball has SHA256 hash
>  5621013cdfb0e8aaf1d8e2d3c637b8f54f0ef059b1700645dce87532b70ce2d9
> .  You can also see the tree from which I rolled this almost-release at
> https://github.com/Tarsnap/spiped if you find it useful to crawl through
> VCS history.
> 
> Significant changes since 1.5.0:
> * The limit of 500 connections to the spiped -n flag has been removed.
> * spiped now performs a graceful shutdown on SIGTERM.
> * The -k option now accepts "-" as a synonym for standard input.
> * A new -v option prints the version number of spipe and spiped.
> 
> There are also a variety of less visible changes: Performance improvements in
> the SHA256 routines, a workaround for a docker signal-handling bug, minor bug
> and compiler warning fixes, the addition of a test suite, and some minor code
> reorganization.
> 
> Assuming nobody finds any problems (or the problems are things I can fix
> quickly and easily) I'll roll the official spiped 1.6.0 release a week from
> now.  As always, Tarsnap bug bounties apply to issues found in spiped.
> 
> - -- 
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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