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NetBSD 1.6.1 Released
jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.6.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available
.
NetBSD 1.6.1 is a maintenance release for users of NetBSD 1.6 and earlier,
with binary releases for 40 ports,
and of course also including NetBSD's Packages
Collection. A complete list of changes can be found in CHANGES-1.6.1. Please use a mirror close to you."
Major Changes Between 1.6 and 1.6.1
The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES-1.6.1 file in the top directory of the source tree. Some highlights include:
Kernel
* Support for some newer Ultra/133 controllers has been added to pciide(4).
* Hardware random number support for some Intel chipsets has been added.
* Support for additional Adaptec RAID controllers has been added to aac(4).
* A number of bugs in the VM system have been fixed.
* Bug fixes to audio(4), dpt(4), eap(4), emuxki(4), iop(4), siop(4) and umass(4).
* Some Linux compatibility bugs have been fixed.
* A number of USB bugs have been fixed.
Networking
* IPv6 fixes to various tools.
* Bug fixes to the fxp(4), sip(4), tlp(4), rtk(4), wi(4) and xi(4) drivers.
* Enhancements to the aue(4), fxp(4), pcn(4), wi(4) and wm(4) drivers.
* A driver for Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet cards has been added, bge(4).
* IP Filter has been updated to 3.4.29 and bugs fixed.
* Some IPsec bugs have been fixed (from KAME).
* Some ftpd(8) interoperability bugs have been fixed.
* A number of pppoe(4) bugs have been fixed.
File Systems
* A number of FFS and NFS bugs have been fixed.
* Some NFSv3 fixes have been applied to amd(8).
* Some fsck(8) bugs have been fixed.
Security
* BIND has been updated to 8.3.4 and security patches applied to named(8) and the libc resolver.
* Various security patches have been applied to sendmail.
* OpenSSL has been updated to 0.9.6g and a number of security patches applied.
* A potential buffer overflow in zlib has been fixed.
* Buffer overflow bugs in file(1) have been fixed.
* Some Kerberos 4 security bugs have been addressed.
* A umask security problem in GNU tar(1) has been fixed.
System administration and user tools
* Various bugs in user(8) have been fixed.
* The pkg_* tools have been updated, adding new features and fixing a number of bugs.
Miscellaneous
* Bug fixes to sysinst, the NetBSD installer.
* Various fixes to the toolchain and build process.
* Various fixes to the rc.d subsystem.
* A large number of sparc64 fixes have been applied.
* Timezone files have been updated to tz2002d.
* Many new packages have been added to The NetBSD packages collection, including the latest open source desktop KDE3, OpenOffice.org, as well as a large number of bugs fixed, many addressing security issues.
And of course there have also been innumerable bug fixes and other miscellaneous enhancements.
BSD might not be dead, but people sure don't have a lot to say about it these days. WTF?
Joe
http://www.joegrossberg.com
I was weaned on slackware, then tried FreeBSD and got hooked. Been learning the drivers code of the FreeBSDs lately, to try and add some tokenring cards to em, especially to OpenBSD, so I could use BSD again on my machine. Sadly, will have to stick to FreeBSD till nVidia opensources the Geforce drivers.
A lotta people using Linux and Solaris are torn between idealism (BSD) and pragmatism (M$), instead of being just Penguin zealots
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
NetBSD Rules!