4.19.1 Release plan - 2026-01

[alejandro-colomar]

4.19.0 contains one important regression:

• chpasswd encrypted hash check breaks various things #1483
  • Debbug 1124835: lib/chkhash.c: Fix support for ! and * in hashes #1486

There's also some important bugs that have been discovered after the release:

• vipw: Use fmkomstemp for temporary file #1485

I plan to branch and release 4.19.1 next week, no earlier than 2026-01-11, and no later than 2026-01-18. It will include at least these two bug fixes.

It will also include backports of smaller bug fixes that get merged to master before the release:

• vipw: set SIGCHLD before fork #1484

Cc: @hallyn , @ikerexxe , @zeha , @stoeckmann , @floppym , @jubalh , @dvzrv , @Zugschlus