[Greasemonkey] 0.4.2 - last call before open beta

[chris feldmann]

On 7/29/05, Mark Pilgrim <pilgrim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/28/05, Aaron Boodman <zboogs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Given the complete lack of any resemblance to or compatibility with
> > > 0.4.0 or 0.4.1, could you please bump the version number to 0.5 before
> > > unleashing it onto the world?
> >
> > 0.4.2 is extremely similar to 0.4.1. ... Am I missing something?
> 
> 0.4.0a1, 0.4.0a2, and 0.4.0a3 were vulnerable to the security holes
> reported last week.
> 
> 0.4.1a1 introduced an entirely new security architecture and broke
> compatibility with Deer Park. It also failed on application/xhtml+xml
> pages, failed on invalid pages like Bloglines and Passport, failed if
> a script called a function defined later
> 
> 0.4.1a2 fixed the known bugs in 0.4.1a1 but removed the anonymous
> function wrapper around user scripts, which broke compatibility with
> 19 of my scripts that used a top-level "return" statement. It also
> had a bizarre bug -- probably left over from 0.4.1a1 -- where function
> foo() failed in certain cases, but var foo = function() always worked.
> 
> 0.4.1a3 re-added the anonymous function wrapper and fixed all known
> bugs in 0.4.1a2.
> 
> 0.4.2a1 moved the location of the scripts directory outside the
> extensions tree and deleted everybody's scripts, re-introduced an old
> problem with forward-defined functions, and introduced a new scope
> chain (which, as it turned out, introduced a new security
> vulnerability).
> 
> 0.4.2a2 re-fixed the problem with forward-defined functions, and fixed
> migration routine.
> 
> 0.4.1a3 changed the scoping chain, which closed the security
> vulnerability introduced in 0.4.2a1 but broke at least 2 of my scripts
> which I had modified for Deer Park compatibility under 0.4.1a3 or
> 0.4.2a1.
> 
> 
> Please, for the love of God, let the 0.4.x.y.z line die a quiet and
> well-deserved death, and call the next public release "0.5".



The ugly dark underbelly of version numbering. 

--
> Cheers,
> -Mark
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