GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 787316
Release 3.18.12
Last modified: 2017-09-05 20:44:57 UTC
Is there a plan to release 3.18.12 containing the fixes after 3.18.11 was released? It is easier for distributors to push micro-releases updates than cherry-picking single commits.
I am talking about stable and long-term support distributions in particular.
Unfortunately that branch is broken right now, there's a crash on startup in the history service: (gdb) bt
+ Trace 237931
Problem is that self->priv is NULL. Not sure why priv is not being initialized. That's bad.
I bisected it to "history-service: Fix multiple initialization race conditions" so maybe something went wrong when I backported that patch.
The following fix has been pushed: 9114b58 Fix EphyHistoryService
Created attachment 359220 [details] [review] Fix EphyHistoryService Accidentally deleted initialization of priv when backporting aaf8763d6615185faebde926ce7084437489f344
OK, released: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/2017-September/msg00059.html. Thanks for the reminder; it was time for a new one. Note that I'm not likely to do another LTS series after 3.18. Instead the plan for the next couple years is to freeze Epiphany's dependencies at what is available in Ubuntu 18.04, that way elementary OS can upgrade to newer major versions instead of being stuck on an LTS release forever. I'm still maintaining 3.18 mainly for elementary at this point. I'm convinced that's where most of our users are.
Thanks Michael.