[1868] in Release_7.7_team
The public 8.3 release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 19 09:41:50 1999
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:41:04 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199907191341.JAA13614@rcn-sucks.fsck.com>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
The Athena 8.3 release is scheduled to go into public use in roughly
one week. We are going to do the public release over several days to
spread out the network bandwidth used by updating machines. The
current schedule (which is subject to change) is:
Monday, July 26: Sun update
Tuesday, July 27: Indy update
Wednesday, July 28: O2 update
We also plan to do early Hesiod propagations for some of the updates
(particular the Indy one) so that most machines will finish updating
before the next morning.
There are a lot of things new in the Athena 8.3 release, although most
of them are fairly subtle. Some notable new features include:
* SGI machines will be updated from IRIX 6.2/6.3 to IRIX 6.5.
* emacs has been updated to 20.3.
* The MH mail suite has been replaced with nmh, a heavily
updated version. There are some small behavior differences.
* We have added support for reading of MIME attachments in
mail messages.
* Our printing software has been replaced with lprng.
* We have added a new supported screensaver installed as xss.
(Users familiar with the SIPB xscreensaver should run
"xss-button".)
There are also some corresponding upgrades to third-party software:
* Netscape 4.6.1
* Maple Version V Release 5.1
* MATLAB 5.3
* Framemaker 5.5.6
* Tecplot 7.5
More details are available in the release notes, which are available
through "help".
Please send any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu. If you
encounter bugs, please report them in as much detail as possible using
the "sendbug" command.
