[210] in Zephyr Mailing List
Zephyr 2.1 beta 1 available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Apr 5 14:59:55 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:57:14 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: zephyr@MIT.EDU
Zephyr 2.1 beta 1 is now available on athena-dist.mit.edu in
pub/ATHENA/zephyr/dist/zephyr-2.1.beta1.tar.gz.
Zephyr 2.1 fixes the ${AR} problem on HPUX machines and the
conflicting krb_rd_req() declaration on Alphas. It also contains the
following changes:
* Interrealm support has been folded in. It hasn't been
tested yet (the code has been tested, but not the result of
my merging it in), so expect to find some problems.
* Your location will be set properly if you use zwgc -display
instead of setting the DISPLAY environment variable.
* syslogd no longer uses the compatibility prefix; it reads
/etc/syslog.conf instead of /etc/nsyslog.conf.
* The server now sends messages to its hosts when you shut it
down cleanly, like it did in versions before 2.0.
* A server.list file is not necessary if you only have one
server.
* The server database dump format has been cleaned up
slightly, and can now be translated rigorously back into the
information that was dumped.
* The server takes a "-k" option to specify the Kerberos
realm.
* Zephyr clients will use the Kerberos realm from your ticket
file rather than assuming the local realm of the machine.
* A new "zctl wg_exit" command causes the currently running
zwgc process to exit.
* A new stylestrip() function in zwgc strips formatting
commands out of zephyrgrams.
* "zctl unhide" will set your exposure level properly, rather
than assuming realm-visible.
A couple of performance changes, not user-visible:
* The server uses a hash table to track unacknowledged
packets, for improved performance under low-memory
conditions.
* zhm has been substantially changed; it now uses select()
instead of alarm() for better reliability.
Comments and bug reports should go to zephyr-bugs@mit.edu.
