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Reminder: Athena 9.1.11 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 1 13:45:25 2002
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:45:10 -0400
Message-Id: <200207011745.NAA01850@lockpicking-tools.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: early-announce@MIT.EDU
This is a reminder that the Athena 9.1.11 patch release (it was going
to be 9.1.10, but we had to correct some problems) is currently
scheduled for this evening. 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.
