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From: "Patrick Lühne" <patrick@luehne.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Officially supported Git versions
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 19:20:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5856696-bfcf-173a-49ac-6aa6989316d3@luehne.de> (raw)


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Hi,

Is there an official list of the Git versions that are still actively
supported? According to hearsay from colleagues, the latest five release
series receive security patches. I can’t find a source for that, but
might that be correct?

There’s also the Wikipedia page on Git [1], but it doesn’t point to a
proper source either.

According to Wikipedia, versions 2.4.x to 2.9.x are still supported.
This surprised me, because the fix for CVE-2017-14867 [2] hasn’t been
backported to versions earlier than 2.10 if I see that correctly.
CVE-2017-14867 was fixed for Git series 2.10.x and newer on September
22, 2017, and publicly disclosed on September 29, 2017. However, the
latest releases for the 2.7.x, 2.8.x, and 2.9.x series date back to July
30, 2017 (and 2.4.x hasn’t been touched since September 4, 2015).

Best wishes,
Patrick




[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Releases

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-14867/


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             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-22 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-22 17:20 Patrick Lühne [this message]
2018-05-23  3:16 ` Officially supported Git versions Junio C Hamano

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