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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 01:00:25PM +0100, Martin Siegumfeldt wrote:
> Backport libiio patches from master bumping libiio to v0.18 and

Upgrading on an upstream stable branch can be OK,
especially when this is the lowest risk way to fix CVEs.

But upgrading to new releases on the master branch is usually not worth 
the regression risk - the default is to avoid changes in OE stable branches.

> allows building python3 bindings
>...

No new features in OE stable branches.

cu
Adrian

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