[Zope-PAS] Re: New PAS release

[Tres Seaver]

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Alec Mitchell wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

>> In general, you should prefer a 1.4.1 (to get bugfixes only).  That
>> makes the PAS release cycle less coupled to your needs, as well.
> 
> That is indeed my preference, though in the past we have had single
> dot releases for each revision, so I thought that might just be some
> PAS version policy.  A 1.4.1 would be great, though I have to admit
> the new authentication caching stuff sounds pretty desirable.

It isn't that critical for the "default" case (ZODB-based users), but it
does help for SQL / LDAP-backed auth.

>>  Can you identify the bugfixes on the trunk which are important to PlonePAS?
>>
>> Unless you use DelegatingMultiPlugin, the only one I can see which might
>> matter is:
>>
>>   ZODBUserManager: Already encrypted passwords were encrypted again in
>>   addUser and updateUserPassword.
>>   (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1926)
>>
>> I've just backported this to the 1.4 branch, along with a fix for
>> emergency user breakage.
> 
> Thanks, these certainly are important to have, additionally:
> 
>   BasePlugin: The listInterfaces method only considered the old-style
>   __implements__ machinery when determining interfaces provided by
>   a plugin instance.

OK, I've backported that as well.

> Would probably be helpful as well.  Thanks for looking at this and
> backporting those changes.  Do you think you'll have time to make a
> release?  Also, does the PAS release policy require a 1 week beta/rc
> period for minor releases like 1.4.1?

Nope.  I can cut one at will, especially if you are willing to help test
it. ;)


Tres.
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