Missing 06-a5-03 update in IPU 2024.3 release?

[stormi]

I compared the release notes with the actual contents of the .tar.gz archive, and I see no changes for 06-a5-03 in the archive, despite it is mentioned in the release notes.

[stormi]

$ iucode_tool -L 06-a5-03 
microcode bundle 1: 06-a5-03
  001/001: sig 0x000a0653, pf_mask 0x22, 2023-07-16, rev 0x00fa, size 97280

Revision 0x00fa when 0x00fc is expected according to the release note.

[whpenner]

Good catch. We will be posting the correct file shortly.

[jonathangray]

In future, please don't rewrite the history and retag. Make a new release. When checksums change, builds break.

[hmh]

Hmm, I second that. An 20240813v2, or 20240813a, or even 20240814 release would have been nice. But now that many people already got the new branch-head, it is best if we carry on as is, or it will be twice the pain.

For a possible next time this is needed, please consider doing a "minor update incremental release", instead.

For the record, Debian (and likely Ubuntu) intel-microcode package tagged as 20240813 will be the corrected (current) release. I won't tag it as 20240813a or 20240814 to not cause confusion when people compare version among distros.

[eworm-de]

Another vote for not re-tagging... Pushed the re-tagged release for Arch Linux now:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/intel-ucode/-/commit/e2e2dc0cbc21d21e55f81ad655a765ecb960502e

[whpenner]

Thanks - I'll take that back to our folks who do the posting.