ABI change in cyrus sasl 2.1.25

Ondřej Surý ondrej at sury.org
Tue May 29 10:54:38 EDT 2012


Just quick reply from my phone.

No additional breakage, I just opened the bug after some longer time and didn't realize it applies to 2.1.24.

Ondřej Surý

On 29. 5. 2012, at 16:46, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov at isode.com> wrote:

> On 29/05/2012 15:15, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> Hi,
> Hi Ondřej,
> Coincidentally I just started discussing your bug with Ken 15 mins ago.
>> [speaking about: https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3692]
>> 
>> is there a timeframe for releasing 2.1.26?
>> 
>> The ABI change should have changed and this is causing some havoc in
>> OpenLDAP runtimes, thus it would be really nice to have fixed version
>> with bumped SONAME. I don't want to bump SONAME solely in Debian
>> package since it would break compatibility across the ecosystems, but
>> we are discussing doing that even though it will create some problems
>> later.
>> 
>> So it would be really nice if you could just release 2.1.26 or
>> 2.1.25.1 (whatever suits you) with bumped SONAME.
> 
> Reading the bug you submitted (and references), it looks like the original problem was against 2.1.24. 2.1.25 was released since then.
> Was there another instance of an incompatible ABI change since then?
> 
> --------
> 
> As far as changing ABIs (or adding new APIs) is concerned:
> 
> In saslplug.h:
> 
> #define SASL_UTILS_VERSION 5
> 
> is bumped when sasl_utils structure is changed incompatibly (e.g. addition of new struct members which will grow the struct size. Changing a "spare_XXX" doesn't count, as long as such members are optional).
> 
> 
> #define SASL_CLIENT_PLUG_VERSION         4
> 
> is bumped when the "struct sasl_client_plug" or related functions change.
> 
> 
> #define SASL_SERVER_PLUG_VERSION 5
> is bumped when "struct sasl_server_plug" or related functions change.
> 
> 
> #define SASL_CANONUSER_PLUG_VERSION 5
> 
> is bumped when "struct sasl_canonuser" or related functions change.
> 
> 
> #define SASL_AUXPROP_PLUG_VERSION 9
> 
> Is bumped on any auxprop_* API changes. I have updated this version when I changed auxprop_lookup.
> 
> And then there is the version number in sasl.h, which should change when
> there are any other semantics changes or changes to APIs (including addition
> of new functions).
> 
> --------
> 
> As far as 2.1.26 is concerned. I've started on it now. There are a couple of blocker bugs that I would like to resolve (1 of them is under control and just needs testing). If I am lucky, this will take about 2 weeks to wrap up.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Alexey
> 


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