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Athena 9.4.28/29 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Aug 14 23:45:40 2006
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:44:38 -0400
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The Athena 9.4.28 (9.4.29 for Linux) patch release is currently
scheduled for the evening of Monday August 21. Changes include:
On both platforms:
* The "listeners" athinfo query will display IPv6 listeners.
* The gaim-encryption plugin is now available.
* Attachandrun scripts are added for realplay, ivview, and freewrl.
* GNOME MIME type handlers are added for the above programs.
* Quota warning dialogs have been added to the default X login.
* clean_tmp_areas won't remove files owned by logged-in users.
* Firefox is upgraded to 1.5.0.5
* The Firefox wrapper script handles more locked-profile cases.
* sendmail will deliver mit.edu mail through outgoing by default.
On Linux:
* Public workstation verification won't reinstall Firefox.
* Many native RPMs are updated for RHEL 4 update 4.
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.
Greg Hudson
Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture
Information Services and Technology
