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

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

[alejandro-colomar]

I'm unable to publish the 4.19.1 release. make dist is giving me errors.

...
Error: Could not parse document:
 /tmp/tmp.5qh8hHeNlu/chage.1.xml.out:281:  I/O  warning :  failed to load "/tmp/tmp.5qh8hHeNlu/login.defs.d/USE_TCB.xml": No such file or directory
       &USE_TCB;
                ^

make[7]: *** [Makefile:90: shadow-man-pages.pot-update] Error 1
make[7]: Leaving directory '/srv/alx/src/shadow/shadow/master/man/po'
make[6]: *** [Makefile:204: update-po] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory '/srv/alx/src/shadow/shadow/master/man/po'
make[5]: *** [Makefile:179: distdir] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory '/srv/alx/src/shadow/shadow/master/man/po'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:860: distdir-am] Error 1
rm sulogin.8.xml-config
make[4]: Leaving directory '/srv/alx/src/shadow/shadow/master/man'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:856: distdir] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/srv/alx/src/shadow/shadow/master/man'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:587: distdir-am] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/srv/alx/src/shadow/shadow/master'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:581: distdir] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/srv/alx/src/shadow/shadow/master'
make: *** [Makefile:693: dist] Error 2
$ echo $?
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@hallyn , the tag is signed and pushed. The only missing part is uploading the tarballs. Please do it when you can.

We should find out why it is failing for me. :/

https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/releases/tag/4.19.1