theora dev - Mar 2025 - Time for a new theora release

I believe it is time to get out a new release of theora.
<URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/issues/2319 > and
<URL: https://github.com/xiph/theora/issues/17 > list a few interesting
views on the need for a new release.

I plan to wrap up a new release, and is working on it using
<URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/ > and the #theora IRC
channel.  So far I focused on getting automatic testing working on
gitlab and getting rid of compiler warnings and cruft left behind since
the previous release, 15 years ago.  There is also a reported CVE which
need a tested patch.  There are pending patches on both gitlab and
github.  Tristan Matthews volunteered on IRC to migrate the github
patches to gitlab soon, so I suspect we can wait for that before
considering merging them into master.  I suspect some of them need more
work.

I do not plan to spend a lot of time on this, and expect to wrap up a
new release next week with whatever changes have been prepared so far.
It would be great if more people have time to review patches, provide
fixes for reported issues and test the end result to make sure it is
still working as it should.  More automated tested would be nice too, to
make sure the CI trigger if we do a mistake.

An open question is which version number such new release should get.

I hope to see you on IRC, #theora on irc.libera.chat. :)

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

My initial email have not made it to the web archive yet, so I repeat
the basic premise:

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> I believe it is time to get out a new release of theora.
> <URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/issues/2319 > and
> <URL: https://github.com/xiph/theora/issues/17 > list a few
interesting
> views on the need for a new release.
I plan to wrap up a new release next weekened with whatever is in the
master branch at that time.
> There are pending patches on both gitlab and github.  Tristan Matthews
> volunteered on IRC to migrate the github patches to gitlab soon, so I
> suspect we can wait for that before considering merging them into
> master.  I suspect some of them need more work.
I've now had a look at the github pull requests, and moved the ones I
feel competent to handle as merge requests under
<URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/merge_requests >.  The only
remaining one is the cmake build system one, where I lack the skills and
interest and hope someone else can decide.

There are now seven merge requests in need of a review on gitlab,
including a CVE related fix.  I hope someone got time to help check if
they are correct.

There are several issues left to check out on both gitlab and github.
> An open question is which version number such new release should get.
Any views on this?  Note, my plan is to make a new 1.2 based release,
not one based on 1.1.1 and the theora-1.1 branch.  Perhaps there is a
need for a update of 1.1.1 too, but I leave that for others.

I still hope to see you on IRC, #theora on irc.libera.chat. :)

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen