From 6811f3c501f8f0d2595e3bf9c33edb91a7069766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitri Shuralyov Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:17:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add note that 'Security releases' section is not current --- MinorReleases.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/MinorReleases.md b/MinorReleases.md index d174acd4..7bdd0068 100644 --- a/MinorReleases.md +++ b/MinorReleases.md @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ The Go standard library includes some generated files whose source of truth is o ## Security releases +Note: This section describes process used for security releases before the [new security policy](https://go.dev/issue/44918) was applied. It is not current. + Security releases preempt the next minor release and need to ship only the security fix. To avoid rolling back the release branch in that exceptional case, a new release branch is created based on the previous release. For example `release-branch.go1.9-security` is branched from tag `go1.9.4`. The release is tagged from that branch, and the branch is then merged into the main release branch. For example `go1.9.5` is tagged from `release-branch.go1.9-security`, which is then merged into `release-branch.go1.9`.