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List:       freebsd-security
Subject:    Re: Lack of notification of security notices [via digest]
From:       rb () gid ! co ! uk
Date:       2022-04-19 8:28:53
Message-ID: 67782447-C01D-44DA-B676-DD7FF1E924B5 () gid ! co ! uk
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Hi,

> From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
> Subject: Lack of notification of security notices
> Date: 18 April 2022 at 20:57:12 BST
> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
> 
> 
> As per the FreeBSD Security Information web page, security notifications are sent \
> to:  • FreeBSD-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org
> 
> 	• FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org
> 
> 	• FreeBSD-announce@FreeBSD.org
> 
> This policy has lately been ignored. No postings show up in the archives of \
> FreeBSD-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org since January. Likewise for \
> freebsd-announce. The only list showing the April 6 announcements is this one, \
> freebsd-security@freebad.org.

Purely as a data point, I'm seeing the same symptoms here.

> In the past, Security Announcements and Errata Notes have also been copied to the \
> stable and current lists as appropriate, although this is not mentioned.  This \
> delayed the update of my systems by several days. Fortunately, only one of these \
> vulnerabilities was relevant to my systems. 
> Even though the announcements are almost 2 weeks old, it is still likely that some \
> people are unaware of them, so I would strongly urge that they be posted to, at \
> least, FreeBSD-Announce and  FreeBSD-Stable lists. 
> In passing, I will note  that the same issue appears to be occurring with posts of \
>                 Errata Notices.
> -- 
> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
> PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683

--
Bob Bishop
rb@gid.co.uk


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