[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash with GDB 10.2 and release plan

[HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁)]

-----Original Message-----
> Hi,
> 
> We have worked on updating the GDB contained by the crash utility to
> version 10.2.  We are going to merge the patch series [1] next week.

Done by Lianbo, thanks.

The crash-7-branch is for distributions using crash-7 to have the time
for moving to crash-8, normally we will accept only fixes for bugs and
latest kernels to the branch.

Thanks,
Kazu

> 
> [1] https://github.com/lian-bo/crash-gdb10.2-devel-temp
> 
> And, here is the plan of the next releases:
> 
>  1. create "crash-7-branch" to maintain the current gdb-7.6 crash
>     for more several months.
>  2. merge the gdb-10.2 patch series into the master branch.
>  3. release crash-8.0.0 with gdb-10.2 and crash-7.3.1 with gdb-7.6
>     in this November or December.
>  4. release crash-7.3.2 with gdb-7.6 next year as its end of life.
> 
>                         Nov or Dec        May? (every 6 months)
>                           8.0.0          8.0.1
>   master -------+--gdb10.2--*--------------*------>
>                 |
>   crash-7-branch `-----------*--------------| (end of life)
>                            7.3.1          7.3.2
> 
> It would be helpful if you would test it and report/fix bugs.
> 
> We would like to thank Alexey Makhalov, who has done this excellent work,
> Tao Liu also has helped us test and fix bugs a lot, Youling Tang has tested
> on MIPS architecture, and all developers who have tested and reported bugs.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kazu
> 
> 
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