Re: Any plans for 2.4.9?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Howard Chu writes:
> > Seems to me that we're just about there now. The only other issue I'd
> > like to close out is 5383, assigning a public OID to the config
> > schema.

> Do anyone have opinions about my questions in ITS#5408, back-ldif bugs?
> In particular, how much and when should be rename the LDIF files?
> (back-ldif is broken if it gets used as a regular backend so it gets
> filenames with escape characters and the like.)  If we rename files in
> 2.4 instead of punting to 2.5, it would be better if it happens early.

Fair enough. Do it now. We ought to be getting 2.4 stable within the next 
release or two.

back-ldif was never promoted as a general purpose backend, so I wouldn't worry 
too much about backward compatibility. Just publish a note to slapcat old DBs 
and reload them in this release.
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