[CANCEL][VOTE] Release Commons Collections 3.2.2 Based on RC2

[Thomas Neidhart <th...@gmail.com>]

On 11/11/2015 05:27 PM, Thomas Neidhart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> in order to provide a work-around for the known remote code exploit via
> java de-serialization of malicious InvokerTransformer instances, I would
> like to start a vote to release Commons Collections 3.2.2 based on RC2.
> 
> Notes:
> 
>  * the site will not be published, it just serves as a reference to
> access the various reports. After a successful vote, the current 4.X
> branch site will be updated with relevant information and published.
> 
>  * some tests might fail with various IBM JDK 6 JREs, these are known
> issues and have been worked-around in the 4.X branch but are not
> back-ported to this release.
> 
>  * Collections 3.2.2 can not be compiled with JDK 8 due to a name clash
> with a newly introduced default method in the Map interface.
> 
>  * the collections-testframework.jar that has been published in previous
> versions is not included in this release
> 
> 
> Changes from RC1:
> 
>  * fixed RAT report
>  * fixed NOTICE file
>  * improve the security fix: it has been made symmetric in the sense
>    that also the serialization of an unsafe class is disabled by
>    default and will result in an exception
>  * changed the system property to re-enable serialization of unsafe
>    classes. It is now
>    "org.apache.commons.collections.enableUnsafeSerialization"
>  * all classes in the functor package which (based on current
>    knowledge) have to be considered unsafe cannot be serialized/
>    de-serialized any more by default. This includes the following
>    classes:
> 
>  ** CloneTransformer
>  ** PrototypeFactory (inner classes
>                       PrototypeCloneFactory and
>                       PrototypeSerializationFactory)
>  ** InstantiateFactory
>  ** InstantiateTransformer
>  ** ForClosure
>  ** WhileClosure
>  ** InvokerTransformer
> 
> 
> 
> Collections 3.2.2 RC2 is available for review here:
>     https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/collections/
>     (svn revision 11147)
> 
> Maven artifacts are here:
> 
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-1116/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.2.2/
> 
> Details of changes since 3.2.1 are in the release notes:
> 
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/collections/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
> 
> http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/collections/3.2.2/RC2/changes-report.html
> 
> The tag is here:
> 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/collections/tags/COLLECTIONS_3_2_2_RC2
>     (svn revision 1713883)
> 
> Site:
>     http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/collections/3.2.2/RC2/
> 
> Clirr Report (compared to 3.2.1):
> 
> http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/collections/3.2.2/RC2/clirr-report.html
> 
> RAT Report:
> 
> http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/collections/3.2.2/RC2/rat-report.html
> 
> KEYS:
>   https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/KEYS
> 
> Please review the release candidate and vote.
> 
> 
> Considering that this is a security related release and that RC1 did not
> show any functional problems with the release, I plan to close this vote
> in 24 from now, i.e. after 1800 GMT 12-November 2015
> 
>   [ ] +1 Release these artifacts
>   [ ] +0 OK, but...
>   [ ] -0 OK, but really should fix...
>   [ ] -1 I oppose this release because...

The vote is cancelled to fix the test errors on some java versions.

Thomas

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