[MapServer-dev] Plan for 8.6.6 release

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Seth,

Yes great activity, will wait until next Friday.

-jeff



On 2026-08-28 10:34 a.m., Seth G wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Seeing as there is still lots of activity probably best to wait another week for a security release?
> 
> Seth
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> On Fri, Aug 21, 2026, at 4:58 PM, Jeff McKenna via MapServer-dev wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There are a few very important fixes in branch-8-6 now for users, so I
>> propose to push out a 8.6.6 release a week from today.  This will give
>> us time to triage the security reports & any further feedback, by then.
>> (milestone: https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/milestone/68 )
>>
>> Also, recently we created a security "team" in GitHub (that contains the
>> MapServer PSC and a few interested developers) to tackle the pending
>> security reports, so if you're reading this & interested in helping
>> please let me know.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
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