Re: Librsvg 2.40.20 is released and is the last release in the 2.40.x series

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>]

2017-12-16 1:28 GMT+01:00 Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>:
> Hello,
>
> I have just released librsvg-2.40.20.  This is the last release that I
> will make in the 2.40.x series - the C-only version.
>
> This release is to avoid having unreleased commits in the 2.40 branch.
> It also has a security fix.
>
> People are *STRONGLY* encouraged to switch to 2.41.x as soon as
> possible.  Librsvg 2.41.x is ABI and API compatible with 2.40.x, so it
> is a drop-in replacement.  You only need a Rust toolchain to compile
> it.  If you or your distro can compile Firefox 57, you can probably
> compile librsvg 2.41 without problems.

We'd love to switch in Debian, but

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc&suite=unstable

is effectively preventing us from doing that.
Looks like Firefox 57 is not coming to stable Debian release either
anytime soon:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox&suite=sid

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