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Athena 9.4.44/9.4.45 patch release Wednesday December 26

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Dec 20 14:20:50 2007

Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:18:33 -0500
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The Athena 9.4.44 patch release (9.4.45 on Linux) is currently
scheduled for the evening of Wednesday December 26.  Changes include:

On both platforms:
  * Firefox has been updated to 2.0.0.11.
  * OpenAFS has been updated to 1.4.5.
  * zenity dialog text should be selectable.
On Linux:
  * RHEL 4 is updated to 4.6 (the newest quarterly update).
  * VMWare Player has been added to the release.
  * Fixed an rpmupdate crash affecting public kernel-smp machines.
  * kernel-smp and kernel-smp-devel are now installed everywhere.
On Solaris:
  * numpy should load correctly into Python.
  * Patches 121296-01 and 126868-01 are installed.
  * Patch 125332-02 is installed, upgrading Flash Player to version 9.

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

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