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Re: Reminder: Athena 9.2.15 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Jamous)
Tue Aug 5 09:38:36 2003
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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 09:38:11 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, release-announce@mit.edu
From: Daniel Jamous <jamous@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
Not sure whether this is a bug or not but I thought I would let you know:
I had to renew my personal certificate on my Mozilla 1.4 Linux Athena even
though I had renewed it last week.
Thanks,
Daniel
At 07:00 PM 8/3/2003 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
>This is a reminder that the Athena 9.2.15 patch release is currently
>schedule for the evening of Monday August 4. Changes include:
>
>On both platforms:
> * Evolution is upgraded to 1.4.
> * Mozilla is upgraded to 1.4.
> * The error output of "from" with expired tickets is cleaned up.
> * sawfish will match zwgc/console/maple windows more carefully.
> * GNOME 2 printing will default to US Letter paper, not A4.
> * zwgc will ignore the scrollwheel unless scrollDelete is set.
> * The mozilla history byte-order bug should be fixed.
> * A new athinfo query "install.log" retrieves the install logfile.
> * athena_path and athena_manpath are visible in all shells.
> * sawfish workspace grid movement is fixed.
> * sawfish will remember the number of workspaces across sessions.
> * /var/athena/infoagents will be removed, freeing up disk space
>
>On Linux:
> * nfs-utils is upgraded to prevent a denial of service attack.
> * hosttype and HOSTTYPE will be set correctly in all shells.
> * xsession won't fail gratuitously if /usr/bin is first in path.
> * Invalid LD_LIBRARY_PATH values will result in a warning dialog.
> * A startup race between named and syslogd should be less likely.
> * The wl and kernel RPMs have updates from Red Hat.
> * RPM will be updated to hopefully fix a hang bug.
> * machtype -d will produce better output
>
>On Solaris:
> * update_ws will no longer kill sshd.
> * CD drives should work again.
> * The mozilla lock file option dialog should work a little better.
> * gnome-terminal won't spew to the console on window title change.
> * Evolution should be able to compose HTML mail again.
> * Solstice Disk Suite should be properly installed.
> * /usr/dt/bin will be in the default user path
> * Patches 113096-03 and 112785-17 are added to fix an X server crash.
> * Patch 112963-09 is added to close a local root exploit.
>
>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.
