[sldev] Security Update 2008-10-06 to SL Viewers and source code

[Mike Monkowski]

Soft,
     That was my plan, but I had hoped to be able to run the branch as 
is to verify that my patch was correct.
     My reading of the original notice on this security update was that 
even viewers that specified -channel would not work.  Is that correct?

Mike


Soft wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Mike Monkowski <monkowsk at watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>Ramzi wrote:
>>
>>>Earlier versions of Second Life (1.19.1, 1.19, and before) include the
>>>serious vulnerabilities and are no longer supported. You will be prompted to
>>>upgrade to the latest version on your next login.
>>
>>I hope the puppeteering branch will still be supported.  Will someone at
>>Linden add the patch to that branch?
> 
> 
> The puppeteering branch is frozen. There was an announcement that it
> would be unsupported when it dropped, which we should probably put
> somewhere prominent in that source tree.
> 
> I would suggest doing a diff against the base and newer revision and
> applying that to a live branch if you want to use it as a production
> viewer. There are likely other security updates that never made that
> branch.
>