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Athena 8.4.21 (8.4.22 on Solaris) patch release on Mon April 9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 3 17:11:16 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:11:07 -0400
Message-Id: <200104032111.RAA07042@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
The Athena 8.4.21 patch release (8.4.22 for Solaris) is currently
scheduled for the evening of Monday April 9. Changes in this patch
release include:
* xss will no longer blank the screen if it cannot grab both
the mouse and keyboard.
* The Solaris athinfo.defs file now includes a query for CPU
speed.
* The sshd security fixes were cleaned up a bit.
* On Linux, config_afs will be run at boot time.
* lprng was reverted to what we had in Athena 8.3 (where the
server worked), plus the local changes we've made since
then.
* On Solaris, the tetex scripts e2pall, epstopdf, texi2pdf,
and thumbpdf are now installed (they were erroneously
omitted before).
* On Solaris, Sun patches 106327-08, 106541-14, 106950-13,
106980-15, 107081-25, 107636-05, 108374-04, and 108376-18
were applied to improve JVM support.
* On Linux, rpmupdate was split out from the athena-ws package
into its own RPM (athena-rpmupdate) so that it can be
updated separately from the workstation management scripts.
* The Linux update script no longer requires cluster
information.
* The Linux update script now handles trailing newlines in
/etc/athena/version.
* The Linux update script now supports "staging" RPMs of
rpmupdate, which we will need to get from Red Hat 6.2 to Red
Hat 7.x.
* On Linux, the athena-sendmail RPM should stop repeatedly
triggering the public workstation verification script.
* On Linux, /usr/athena/bin/passwd should work properly for
local accounts.
* On Linux, the textutils, glibc, glibc-devel, glibc-profile,
nscd, inetd, kernel, and kernel-pcmcia-cs RPMs were updated
to fix locally exploitable security holes.
* On Linux, there is a Motif library symlink for compatibility
with externally compiled Motif libraries which use a
different soname. (Our Motif library's soname is incorrect;
which should hopefully be fixed in the next full release.)
If you have a machine set AUTOUPDATE=false, you can update it manually
after the release goes out by doing a console login as root and
running "update_ws".
Please send any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu.
