The Other Maintainer Disappeared

Text on the meme

Update maintainer and author info. The other maintainer suddenly disappeared. XZ Utils is developed and maintained by Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> and Jia Tan <jia.tan@...? >. XZ Utils is developed and maintained by Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>. Major parts of liblzma are based on code written by Igor Pavlov, specifically the LZMA SDK <https://7-zip.org/sdk.html>. Without - Jonathan Neder - Joachim Henke Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when this was discovered. Many people have contributed improvements or reported bugs. Most of the people are mentioned in the file THANKS.

What it means

A GitHub commit updates the XZ Utils maintainer information after Jia Tan and the team behind him inserted the CVE-2024-3094 backdoor and disappeared when it was discovered. The joke is the suspiciously casual commit message, “The other maintainer suddenly disappeared,” referring to the real XZ Utils supply-chain backdoor incident. It is used as a reaction to someone quietly vanishing after causing serious trouble.

Who

Jia Tan Lasse Collin Igor Pavlov (Игорь Павлов)

Objects

GitHub commit page / страница коммита GitHub code diff / сравнение кода red deletion block / красный блок удалений green addition block / зелёный блок добавлений dark user interface / тёмный интерфейс repository file tree / дерево файлов репозитория text editor / текстовый редактор maintainer information / информация о сопровождающем email address / адрес электронной почты backdoor reference / упоминание бэкдора CVE identifier / идентификатор CVE XZ Utils project / проект XZ Utils