On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 10:04:09AM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> > > Hopefully it won't be too long until the next release, given the last
> > > one looks to have been a couple of years...
> >
> > Something between 6-12 months?
> >
> > v1.8.11: Wed Nov 6 11:47:59 2024 +0100
> > v1.8.10: Tue Oct 10 11:20:12 2023 +0200
> > v1.8.9: Tue Jan 10 17:46:43 2023 +0100
> > v1.8.8: Fri May 13 15:26:12 2022 +0200
> >
> > There's no rule though, we tend to release whenever there's "enough"
> > pending work. Right now we're just 14 commits in, I'd say we keep
> > collecting a bit more. :)
>
> Fair enough. I think the previous release sat in my distro's repos for
> around 18 months before we got 1.18.11, so I was hoping I wouldn't have
> to wait that long again before 1.18.12 comes along and gets my
> bandwidth monitoring scripts working again!
Which distribution are you using?
> I'll probably do a custom package with the git version, then I can get
> things going once more without hassling you for more frequent
> releases :)
Can't you file a ticket in downstream bug tracker and request a
backport? They probably also want commit 40406dbfaefbc ("nft: fix
interface comparisons in `-C` commands").
Cheers, Phil
