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Athena 9.1.10 patch release

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 26 20:52:42 2002

Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:52:37 -0400
Message-Id: <200206270052.UAA02954@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: early-announce@MIT.EDU

The Athena 9.1.10 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Monday, July 1.  Changes include:

  * authwatch and grenew will center their windows with
    non-GNOME-compliant window managers.

  * A new program has been added, gurlview, which displays a URL using
    the standard GNOME routine.  htmlview may be modified to use it at
    some point.

  * hostinfo has been fixed to cope with hosts which have MX records
    but no A records and to work with the 9.1 host command.

  * Some network syslogging has been added to make it easier to count
    machines.

  * The update to 9.1 should now work when swapping can't be turned
    off initially.

  * openssh has a fix to tighten a security vulnerability with
    Kerberos authentication.

  * The xscreensaver screen hacks julia and penrose have been removed
    since they trigger bugs in the Solaris X server on some machines.

  * The annoying esd error message on login has been squished harder.

  * On Solaris, the update to 9.1 has a safety check for sun4m
    machines, and the space checks are fixed.

  * On IRIX, xfsmd has been turned off, and the mode of
    /var/adm/appletalk/icons has been fixed.

  * On Linux, the ghostscript RPM and its dependencies were added so
    that ImageMagick can do conversions.

  * On Linux, the glibc and kernel RPMs were updated to stay current
    with Red Hat.

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 questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu.

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