Gregory Shapiro
2007-Apr-20 05:21 UTC
HEADS UP: Recompile milters after sendmail 8.14 upgrade
sendmail has been updated from version 8.13.8 to 8.14.1 in the HEAD and RELENG_[456] branches. This upgrade includes a new libmilter library which requires all dynamically linked milters to be recompiled (no source code changes are required). Unfortunately, this problem (the need to recompile filters) was found after the MFC. The release engineering team has asked for this notice instead of doing a full backout of sendmail 8.14 in the RELENG_[456] branches. I'm sorry for the adverse effects from the change and will be more careful with future sendmail commits.
Gregory Shapiro
2007-Apr-21 04:00 UTC
HEADS UP: Recompile milters after sendmail 8.14 upgrade
> Unfortunately, this problem (the need to recompile filters) was found > after the MFC. The release engineering team has asked for this notice > instead of doing a full backout of sendmail 8.14 in the RELENG_[456] > branches.Note that I have some new code, currently under review, that eliminates the need to recompile filters by removing fixing the ABI change. I will post another HEADS UP when that change is committed (first to HEAD, then to the RELENG_[456] branches). In the mean time, you may want to delay upgrades until the new code is in place.
Derek Ragona
2007-Apr-21 08:04 UTC
HEADS UP: Recompile milters after sendmail 8.14 upgrade
At 12:21 AM 4/20/2007, Gregory Shapiro wrote:>sendmail has been updated from version 8.13.8 to 8.14.1 in the HEAD and >RELENG_[456] branches. This upgrade includes a new libmilter library >which requires all dynamically linked milters to be recompiled (no >source code changes are required). > >Unfortunately, this problem (the need to recompile filters) was found >after the MFC. The release engineering team has asked for this notice >instead of doing a full backout of sendmail 8.14 in the RELENG_[456] >branches. > >I'm sorry for the adverse effects from the change and will be more >careful with future sendmail commits.For those of us with RELENG_[456] servers do we just need to buildworld and installworld? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.