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Athena 9.3.15 patch release Monday November 8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Nov 1 16:36:13 2004
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:32:58 -0500
Message-Id: <200411012132.iA1LWwZ6029018@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
Errors-To: release-announce-bounces@MIT.EDU
The Athena 9.3.15 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Monday November 8. Changes include:
On both platforms:
* Mozilla is updated to version 1.7.3.
* Mozilla is fixed not to crash when printing certain pages.
* sawfish will not reload fonts unnecessarily.
* sshd will not destroy krb5 creds when krb524 conversion fails.
* tcsh users who run bash won't get environment intialization.
* xscreensaver will run unlock commands correctly.
On Solaris:
* /usr/sfw/bin is now in the default path.
* emacs should no longer crash loading tiffs.
* file-roller should work on lha, rar, tar, and zip files.
On Linux:
* A full Java SDK is now provided, making "java" and "javac" work.
* The font for console logins should no longer be screwy.
* There is a security fix to the Cyrus SASL code.
* "df /afs" should show predictable values for available space.
* pax is added to the release.
* Many native RHEL-3 RPMs are updated to the latest from 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 any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu. Please
report any bugs you find with the "sendbug" command.
