Subject: Timeline for a new c-ares release

Timeline for a new c-ares release

From: Gregor Jasny <gjasny_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 20:56:36 +0100

Hello,

since c-ares 1.10.0 release in May 2013 some useful commits have landed
in master:

> Andrew Andkjar (1):
> added another version case to Makefile.msvc
>
> Daniel Stenberg (8):
> bump: start working towards 1.10.1
> gitignore: ignore all ares_*pdf but also CHANGES.dist
> timeadd: make static
> timeoffset: made static and private
> nowarn: use <limits.h> instead of configure for size of long
> refresh: updated now with automake 1.14
> Revert "ares_parse_aaaa_reply: fix leak when reply contains 1 alias and no address"
> ares_getnameinfo.3: there is no ares_getaddrinfo
>
> David Drysdale (10):
> single_domain: Invalid memory access for empty string input
> Allow specification of search domain in ahost
> Don't override explicitly specified search domains
> Update ahost man page to describe -s option.
> Move memset call below platform-specific declarations
> Add -t u option to ahost
> CONTRIBUTING: add file to indicate mailing list is preferred
> Continue loop if space for hostname not large enough
> Merge pull request #26 from bitbouncer/vs-2013
> Merge pull request #30 from p-push/vs-2015
>
> Doug Kwan (1):
> ares_build.h: fix building on 64-bit powerpc
>
> Frederic Germain (1):
> ares_parse_aaaa_reply: fix leak when reply contains 1 alias and no address
>
> Gisle Vanem (2):
> Comment in ares_ipv6.h
> Support Visual Studio 2015
>
> Gregor Jasny (5):
> Null check before dereference
> Fix integer shift overflow if both tcp_socket and udp_socket are set
> Free temporary variable in error path
> Re-start loop if select fails
> Prevent tmpbuf from overrunning
>
> Guenter Knauf (1):
> Fixed warning 'type specifier missing'.
>
> Jakub Hrozek (4):
> ares_parse_soa_reply: Do not leak rr_name on allocation failure
> host_callback: Fall back to AF_INET on searching with AF_UNSPEC
> Destroy options if ares_save_options fails
> ares__read_line: free buf on realloc failure
>
> Tor Arntsen (1):
> ares_rules.h: CARES_SIZEOF_LONG doesn't exist anymore, don't test for it
>
> Yang Tse (4):
> xc-am-iface.m4: provide XC_AUTOMAKE macro
> configure: automake 1.14 compatibility tweak (use XC_AUTOMAKE)
> configure: fix 'subdir-objects' distclean related issue
> xc-am-iface.m4: comments refinement
>
> svante karlsson (1):
> added define for visual studio 2013

Would it make sense to create a new release?

Thanks,
Gregor
Received on 2016-01-09