Re: Draft for next update release (scheduled for 27th Oct)

On 10/19/2016 12:06 PM, Umair Shahid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are in the process of writing up draft notes for the upcoming update
> releases. To initiate the process, we need to list out the major fixes
> going into the release. Need help from -hackers to generate that list.

I think you need to read through the commit log, since the last minor 
releases. There's a script to help with that, in 
src/tools/git_changelog. You can do something like 
src/tools/git_changelog  --since=2016-08-09 to list all commits since 
the last minor releases. Compared to plain "git log", it lists commits 
from all the stable branches, and back-ported commits are listed only once.

Off the top of my head, these two recent commits were quite significant:

1c02ee314bc17ba0ff226c33a64935d02ff1208a (FSM corruption leading to errors)

a5f0bd77a2fab60a52dc335a63efc21abc806aa7 (use-after-free around DISTINCT 
transition function calls.)

There have been a lot of other commits, though.

- Heikki