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Athena 9.4.47 patch release Tuesday May 27
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Mon May 19 17:47:18 2008
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 17:46:03 -0400 (EDT)
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The Athena 9.4.47 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Tuesday May 27. Changes include:
On both platforms:
* Firefox will start up properly for profile names containing spaces.
* The jwrite man page documents the -t option.
* A file descriptor leak is fixed in nmh.
* Double-sided printing will become the default for new users.
* bash dotfile handling for graphical logins has been improved.
On Solaris:
* vold will be reenabled.
Users of bash will want to be aware of the following dotfile changes
for graphical logins:
* tcsh dotfiles will no longer be sourced by the top-level shell.
* .bash_environment will be sourced just once by the top-level shell.
* .startup.X will be sourced with bash instead of tcsh.
* On logout, .bash_logout will be sourced with bash instead of
.logout with tcsh.
None of these bash dotfile changes affect console or remote logins.
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
