The discussion addresses an issue with upgrading to Discourse 2.9.0.beta6 to fix CVE-2022-31096. 41821 reports being unable to find the version, noting the fix is in the commit 115859964d. Benjamin_D confirms the patch is present but no version bump has occurred. pfaffman clarifies that the upgrade can still be done as the issue isn’t critical, so no version bump was made. Osama explains that 2.9.0.beta6 was released the previous week, resolving the issue, and provides the release post link here.
We do a beta bump for a high severity CVE shortly after the fix is released, but we missed to do that for the last CVE (CVE-2022-31096). We released 2.9.0.beta6 last week (Thursday) so this should be resolved now.