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Cadence of security release does not match documentation

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#25,559 创建于 2023年2月14日

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It takes a lot of hard for from volunteers on the security team to put out a security release. The documentation in RELEASES.md suggest that security releases will happen quarterly. However the most recent security release was in June of 2022, which was 8 months ago. This leave the project in a position where there are open security bugs which have been unreleased for 9 months. This is not ideal.

This was discussed at the most recent Envoy Community meeting. The core issue seems to be that running the security release is a volunteer position. It seems likely that unless someone is hired specifically for this purpose, we will continue to see long periods between release. There were a couple of proposal for how to mitigate this situation.

  • Only kick off a security release for Critical or High impact issues.
  • Only backport fixes to the most recent stable branch

It would be a good idea to get consensus within the project for how we'd like to handle this.

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