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Athena 9.0.23 patch release January 22
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Jan 20 23:25:00 2002
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:23:33 -0500
Message-Id: <200201210423.XAA32478@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
The Athena 9.0.23 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Tuesday January 22. (The previous announcement said 9.0.22 and
January 21, but we found some bugs in testing and Monday is a holiday,
so it will be 9.0.23 and Tuesday.) Changes in this patch release
include:
* panel won't nuke your external applets (such as the taskbar)
anymore if you double-click on the logout button.
* ifhp (the HP printer control program we use with lprng) should be
properly configured on Linux.
* krb5.conf has some new realms.
* ntpd should actually synchronize time now, on all platforms, we
hope.
* There are some security fixes (none of the problems are easily
exploitable, just worrisome) in the krb5 login, ftp, and ftpd
programs.
* On Solaris, patches 109279-18, 109742-04, 111310-01, 109904-05,
109906-06, 111293-04, and 108528-12 were applied to fix a problem
which could lock up Sunblade and Netra X1 machines (among others).
* On Solaris, there are some fixes for SUNWski (which provides
/dev/random and affects ssh and sshd) for machines which recently
upgraded from 8.4 to 9.0 or which have yet to upgrade.
* On Linux, the root and bot filesystems will be changed from ext2fs
to ext3fs, for greater robustness.
* On Linux, the iptables, pam, usermode, kernel, and kernel-headers
RPMs were upgrade to stay current with Red Hat 7.1.
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.
