Re: Emacs 28.3 Release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:05:04 -0500
> From: Troy Hinckley <comms@dabrev.com>
> 
> I am asking again what we can do to complete the Emacs 28.3 release. My 
> concern is that we have a
> narrow window in which this version will be viable. As it currently stands 
> the latest stable release has a
> high severity CVE that prevents Emacs from being installed in security 
> sensitive domains. 28.3 will
> resolve that and make the latest stable release usable. However, someone will 
> inevitably find another
> CVE against Emacs. At that point 28.3 will no longer be useful. Given how 
> hard it has been to get this
> release, I doubt there would be resources to add another security patch to 
> Emacs 28. 
> 
> I am requesting to see if there is anything the community can do to help 
> complete this release before
> it becomes irrelevant. The release candidate has been out for couple months 
> at this point.

Stefan was working on 28.3, prepared an RC, and is silent for the last
4 weeks or so.  I think any work on this should pick up where he left
off, but for that we need him to tell us where he left off...