Freeipa 4.7 released long ago, but we still on beta version

[semyon]

The freeipa 4.7.90 pre release were build long ago. there is a lot of time passed and new stable versions released with many security and bugfix in upstream, but ubuntu 18.04 still use old version.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

True, but we can't blindly jump to a new upstream stable release. For instance, 4.7.3 has changes applied upstream for Debian/Ubuntu support, which require a newer tomcat that uses systemd and not an init file. And it kind of requires Dogtag 10.7.0, unless (the new) ipa-cert-fix can be left uninstalled.

But we'll see, one problem is getting someone to review the pkg(s), but at least I could push updates to a ppa for pre-SRU testing.

[Dave Chiluk (chiluk)]

Unfortunately Ubuntu is not a rolling release. If there are specific issues that you'd like patched please link to the specific patches so they can be discussed.

[Dave Chiluk (chiluk)]

I'm moving this to won't fix in 18.04 as it doesn't follow the Ubuntu ethos of bug/security-fix only after release.

Also it looks like 4.9.8-1 is being worked on for jammy.