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Athena 9.2.28/29 patch release

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Mar 15 18:20:47 2004

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:20:43 -0500
Message-Id: <200403152320.i2FNKhZd005365@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU

The Athena 9.2.28 patch release (9.2.29 for Linux) is currently
scheduled for the evening of Monday March 22.  Changes include:

On both platforms:
  * Mozilla is updated to 1.6.
  * gathrun has a usage message fix and a gdialog invocation fix.

On Linux:
  * sshd will use the old thread library, working around a crash.
  * The XFree86, kernel, libxml2, mc, netpbm, slocate, and tcpdump RPMs
    are updated from Red Hat.

On Solaris:
  * An xterm-color terminal type is added.
  * The SUNWqu packages are added for LVD Ultra3 SCSI card support.
  * Patch 112706-03 is applied (updates for above driver).
  * Patch 112233-11 is applied (jumbo kernel patch, fixes panics).
  * Patches 112540-18, 112620-10, 112621-11, and 112622-13 are applied
    (graphics driver updates).
  * Patch 113476-11 is applied (passwd local root exploit fixed).

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.  Please
report any bugs you find with the "sendbug" command.

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