[theora-dev] Time for a new theora release

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

Petter,

It's been a while since I've seen activity on libtheora and it's a busy 
time with Ramadan happening, However, I am truly happy that you're 
helping make a new release happen.

Also, make sure we remember to name the official 1.2 release 
"Eyjafjallajökull" as we discussed, what, a decade ago? :-p

Sincerely,

Basil

On 3/10/25 2:43 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Thanks to good help from Timothy B. Terriberry, most of the proposed
> patches for libtheora are now in the master branch.  The only major
> obstacle is the proper fix for CVE-2024-56431 discussed in
> <URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/merge_requests/28 >.  Once a
> good solution for this is found, I believe it is time to wrap up a new
> release.
>
> I assume the underwelming response on my earlier emails on this list
> indicate the level of interest from others in making such release
> happen.  Not to worry, I am able to move forward independent of this.
>
> As for version number, I am currently more leaning towards 1.2.0beta1,
> to indicate that there might still be some issues that would be nice to
> have fixed before 1.2.0 release, but it is a lot better than the alpha
> version.  Feel free to provide your input on
> <URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/merge_requests/30 >
> regarding the release number and the release process if you have input
> or opinions.
>
> I still hope to see more people on IRC, #theora on irc.libera.chat. :)
>