Re: Postgres upgrade, security release, where?

On 02/04/13 21:34, Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Mark Kirkwood
> <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz> wrote:
>> On 02/04/13 13:55, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 09:40:07AM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Due to the security nature of the release, the source and binaries will
>>>>> only be publicly available on April 4 --- there are no pre-release
>>>>> versions available.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The PostgreSQL homepage has a big announcement saying
>>>> "PostgreSQL minor versions released!", including a mention of a
>>>> "security issue";
>>>> unfortunately it's not obvious that this is for the prior 9.2.3 release
>>>> and as
>>>> the announcement of the upcoming security release
>>>> ( http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1454/ ) does not mention the
>>>> new release number, methinks there is plenty of room for confusion :(
>>>>
>>>> It might be an idea to update the "splash box" with details of the
>>>> upcoming
>>>> release.
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree updating the "spash box" would make sense.
>>>
>>
>> Or perhaps include a date on said splashes, so we know when to panic :-)
>
> I've added the date to the splash. You can cease panicing now :-)
>

...wipes forehead...