Fossil SCM
Updated the "A Pure SHA3 Future" section of www/hashpolicy.wiki to track the recent decision to make "sha3" mode the default in Fossil 2.10.
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| 168 | 168 | artifacts with SHA3 names, because once you do that your recalcitrant |
| 169 | 169 | coworkers will no longer be able to collaborate. |
| 170 | 170 | |
| 171 | 171 | <h2>A Pure SHA3 Future</h2> |
| 172 | 172 | |
| 173 | -At some point in the future, after everybody has finally upgraded to | |
| 174 | -Fossil 2.0 or later, the default hash policy will probably change to | |
| 175 | -"sha3", or maybe even "shun-sha1". By the time that happens, you will | |
| 176 | -probably already be using SHA3 on all your projects and so you are | |
| 177 | -unlikely to notice. | |
| 178 | - | |
| 179 | -This probably won't happen until after all of the operating systems | |
| 180 | -shipping binary versions of Fossil switch to Fossil 2.1 or later. The | |
| 181 | -big standout is Debian Stretch (v9), since it still ships Fossil 1.37 | |
| 182 | -due to its stable packages policy. Stretch will be the current release | |
| 183 | -version of Debian until "some time mid 2019" according to | |
| 184 | -[https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/04/msg00006.html|the latest | |
| 185 | -published release plan]. Debian Stretch will then remain in | |
| 186 | -support until June 2022. We do not yet know if we will switch the | |
| 187 | -default hash policy during that window or not until after Stretch is | |
| 188 | -fully out of support. | |
| 173 | +Fossil 2.10 will change the default hash policy to "sha3" mode. We | |
| 174 | +decided to make the change since the last known distributor of Fossil | |
| 175 | +1.x binaries — Debian 9 — was finally replaced in June 2019 by a newer | |
| 176 | +version distributing Fossil 2.x. All other known sources of Fossil 1.x | |
| 177 | +binaries upgraded well before that point. | |
| 178 | + | |
| 179 | +Because Fossil 2.x tends to silently upgrade existing repos to SHA-3 | |
| 180 | +mode unless carefully forced not to, you probably won't even notice the | |
| 181 | +change. | |
| 189 | 182 |
| --- www/hashpolicy.wiki | |
| +++ www/hashpolicy.wiki | |
| @@ -168,21 +168,14 @@ | |
| 168 | artifacts with SHA3 names, because once you do that your recalcitrant |
| 169 | coworkers will no longer be able to collaborate. |
| 170 | |
| 171 | <h2>A Pure SHA3 Future</h2> |
| 172 | |
| 173 | At some point in the future, after everybody has finally upgraded to |
| 174 | Fossil 2.0 or later, the default hash policy will probably change to |
| 175 | "sha3", or maybe even "shun-sha1". By the time that happens, you will |
| 176 | probably already be using SHA3 on all your projects and so you are |
| 177 | unlikely to notice. |
| 178 | |
| 179 | This probably won't happen until after all of the operating systems |
| 180 | shipping binary versions of Fossil switch to Fossil 2.1 or later. The |
| 181 | big standout is Debian Stretch (v9), since it still ships Fossil 1.37 |
| 182 | due to its stable packages policy. Stretch will be the current release |
| 183 | version of Debian until "some time mid 2019" according to |
| 184 | [https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/04/msg00006.html|the latest |
| 185 | published release plan]. Debian Stretch will then remain in |
| 186 | support until June 2022. We do not yet know if we will switch the |
| 187 | default hash policy during that window or not until after Stretch is |
| 188 | fully out of support. |
| 189 |
| --- www/hashpolicy.wiki | |
| +++ www/hashpolicy.wiki | |
| @@ -168,21 +168,14 @@ | |
| 168 | artifacts with SHA3 names, because once you do that your recalcitrant |
| 169 | coworkers will no longer be able to collaborate. |
| 170 | |
| 171 | <h2>A Pure SHA3 Future</h2> |
| 172 | |
| 173 | Fossil 2.10 will change the default hash policy to "sha3" mode. We |
| 174 | decided to make the change since the last known distributor of Fossil |
| 175 | 1.x binaries — Debian 9 — was finally replaced in June 2019 by a newer |
| 176 | version distributing Fossil 2.x. All other known sources of Fossil 1.x |
| 177 | binaries upgraded well before that point. |
| 178 | |
| 179 | Because Fossil 2.x tends to silently upgrade existing repos to SHA-3 |
| 180 | mode unless carefully forced not to, you probably won't even notice the |
| 181 | change. |
| 182 |