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On Mar  9 08:51, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 9 March 2011 02:54, Karl M wrote:
> >
> >> From: BBuchbinder
> >> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:49:29 -0500
> >> Subject: RE: New Cygwin release
> >>
> >> Karl M sent the following at Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:57 PM
> >> >Is another Cygwin release planned for after the current round of bug
> >> >fixes settles down and before significant new development starts again?
> >>
> >> As of last Monday:
> >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00583.html
> >>
> > Hi...
> >
> > I was referring to a post 1.7.8-1 release, I am running 1.7.8-1.
> > The bug fixes to which I refer are the ones going on now in response
> > to 1.7.8-1 getting wider usage. So I was looking at getting most of
> > these bug fixes released before development resumes.
> 
> That's certainly been the pattern in previous rounds: 1.7.2 to 1.7.5
> were released in quick succession, as were 1.7.6 and 1.7.7.

Right.  AFAICS, we have one open problem with pipes.  We will release
1.7.9 as soon as that's fixed.

In the meantime, the more people test the latest snapshots, the better.


Corinna

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