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Reminder: Athena 9.4.47 patch release Wednesday May 28
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 28 15:44:13 2008
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:38:59 -0400
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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The Athena 9.4.47 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Wednesday May 28. (It was previously announced as being scheduled
for yesterday but is coming out one day behind schedule.) 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
