On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:12 AM Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org> wrote:

I'm not going to publish updates that just remove an important feature.  Rather there needs to be discussion in the normal KDE method and that feature should be fixed.

Sorry but i'm going to categorically reject in the strongest possible terms the above statement.

What you are in essence saying is that your view is that it is acceptable to conduct a distributed denial of service attack on someone (even if it unintentional) and then refuse to disable the functionality in question while the issue is investigated in full and fixed properly.

That quite simply is appalling.

Jonathan

Regards,

Ben

 

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 18:46, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 7:52 AM Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org> wrote:

The tars for Plasma 5.24 are ready on deino for packaging in distributions.  Release is due next Tuesday.

Hi Jonathan,

I've now withdrawn these tarballs as they contain code that performs a denial of service attack on KDE.org infrastructure.

As this affects more than just Discover (with KWin, plasma-workspace and kdeplasma-addons all containing defects that are part of this series as well) a full respin of all packages will be required.

We also need patch releases of Discover for all versions going back to Plasma/5.18. While I appreciate that some of these are "out of support" the extraordinary nature of the problem we are facing requires it to be made (much like how Microsoft released a fix for Windows XP in the wake of Wannacry)

 

Jonathan

Thanks,

Ben