5 Nov
2018
5 Nov
'18
1:56 p.m.
At risk of stating the obvious, it is quite important for security of our ecosystem that maintainers of key components use up-to-date software. Both Git and OpenSSL have had serious security bugs in the recent past, including remote-code execution in the case of Git. On 2018-10-30 17:11, Malcolm Wallace via Libraries wrote:
Github for instance is not able to accept any upload from my version of git (an ancient 1.7.7.5 on MacOS 10.7), because my machine's version of OpenSSL is too old. I have tried various ways to build a newer git, but am so far continuing to fail.