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Surfing Summer, 1995
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Mar 9 17:04:57 1995
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 17:04:40 EST
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
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Summer 1995 Release Notes
Note: The Release Team recommends that the Summer 1995 Release focus
on stabilizing the existing base across all platforms. As a part of
that, we expect that there will not be any major changes in the
existing base, although bug fixes, consolidation of libraries, and
similar "clean up" efforts will be made.
The major effort will go into developing a stable source tree and
recompiling the complete tree on all platforms.
We expect to start with Release 8.0A on all platforms in the summer.
The major revision number will indicate that this consists of programs
compiled and verified as part of the Athena source tree. It does not
indicate that there are significant new features.
We do expect to include print handling.
Schedule
1. Code Cut--Early April
2. Beta Test--May 23
3. Graduation--June 6
4. Early Test--June 20
5. Release--July 18
6. Students on Campus--August 20
Items Considered for Release (most on hold for Winter Release)
1. Solaris 2.4 (Miki)
2. Kerberos V5 support (Ted)
3. Uniform Login Library (Bruce)
4. Upgrade default Athena shell to Cornell 6.0.{4,5}
5. Mkserv Print for Suns (Miki)
6. Recover Print server sources
7. Andrew patches (Bill)
8. Emacs 19 as default (on hold)
9. Update RCS
10. Sendmail 8.6.x (jweiss)
11. Use local disks better (Craig)
12. OLC/OLTA use $PAGER (Mark)
Items Under Investigation for Release
1. AFS 3.3 servers + Ultrix 4.3
2. Change mount pt for X11 lockers (Craig)
3. Faster Login (Bill)
4. Select a default sun compiler; recompile Athena with it (Craig, wdc)
5. AFS patches
6. Change window manager from mwm to twm
7. Perl 5.0 (Mark)
8. AUIS 6.3, with HTML features (New EZ) (wdc)
Other Brilliant Ideas
1. mime support in mh
2. move Hesiod "cluster" info into AFS
3. move session dependent files from /tmp to some other place
4. clear "-c" from default more options
5. fix SNMPD for all platforms
6. motif libraries
7. SKEY support (1 time passwords)
8. config_afs still painfully slow
9. Xlogin resource for ticket lifetime
10. better testing
