From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Jul 22 08:37:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21406 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21387 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:37:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14467 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.7 is now released! Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:36:25 -0700 Message-ID: <14464.901121785@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Reply-To: postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It is my usual pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2.7, our next (and next to the last) release along the 2.2-stable branch. Those folks who are still running 2.1.x and wish to upgrade to 2.2 technology are encouraged to do so as 2.2.7 has reached a more than equivalent level of stability in all of our tests. A number of problems with 2.2.6 have also been fixed (see the release notes appended). FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE is available on ftp.freebsd.org and its various FTP mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from Walnut Creek CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly as a 4 CD set containing a lot of extra stuff of interest to programmers and general users alike. IMPORTANT NOTE: All of the profits from the sales of this CD set go to support the FreeBSD Project! Like many businesses in the field of high-tech, Walnut Creek CDROM has realized that in order to make any product for an emerging market grow, you have to make a significant investment in such growth, even if it means abandoning short-term profits. Walnut Creek CDROM is the only CDROM vendor who currently does anything like this and it's certainly my hope that you will help support the project by buying (or getting someone else to buy :) one of their CDs. Thanks! The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Or use your web browser to access: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/index.html Or, you can get it on CDROM from Walnut Creek CDROM: Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, #F Concord CA, 94520 USA Phone: +1 925 674-0783 Fax: +1 925 674-0821 Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234 Email: info@cdrom.com WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/ If you are in Japan, please refer to http://www.pht.co.jp for information on ordering a localized (or the english) version of the 2.2.7 product. Pacific HiTech is now an affiliate of Walnut Creek CDROM for Japanese sales of FreeBSD. Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've never even heard of :). Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp..freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (eBones and secure dists) are also being made available at the following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get these files from one of the following foreign distribution sites: South Africa ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Brazil ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD Finland ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt More information about this release: ================================================================ RELEASE NOTES FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE VERSION ================================================================ 1. What's new since 2.2.6 ------------------------- Kernel features: ---------------- o DPT SCSI RAID controller updated (including support for EISA cards) and is now enabled by default. o MSDOS FAT32 (Win95 long filename) support. o Various bugs in the SCSI changer code fixed. o New support for Crystal Semiconductor CS8920 based ethernet cards. o Dead LFS code removed. o New updated Specialix SI/XIO/SX driver. o dmesg (history buffer) now user-sizeable. See MSGBUF_SIZE option in /sys/i386/conf/LINT. o Various bugfixes for the Adaptec aic7870/aic7880 chipsets. o Identify Pentium II processors properly at startup now. o pcm audio driver updated to support Avance Logic ALS100 card and basically improve audio support all around. o Various fixes to NFS credential checking. o Many updates for the NEC PC98 platform. Userland features: ------------------ o inetd(8) now allows rate-limiting for services. o ppp(8) utility significantly updated. See man page for details. o Many (MANY!) man pages and other docs updated and cleaned up. o libc_r (part of POSIX pthread support) is now part of the system by default and incorporates numerous bug fixes. o ls(1) has grown a number of new flags - man ls for details. o cvs(1) updated to version 1.9.26 o Various parts of /etc updated with selected features from 3.0. o as(1) now understands fildll/fistpll opcodes. o Various improvements to the installation procedure. o Various minor curses(3) positioning errors fixed. o Several bugs in dump(8) and restore(8) fixed. o Various enhancements made to the login class mechanism and default limits raised for workstation users. o ftpd disables Nagle on the control channel for better response. Security issues: ---------------- o XFree86 updated to 3.3.2.3 - an important security release containing changes from The Open Group which close several possible root-exploits from local users. o Crypto repository updated from 3.0 branch. o popper and imap upgraded in ports collection to close some nasty security holes (see Bugtrax). o Various buffer overflows in utilities like rcp(1) and more(1) (just to name a few) have been closed. o Bounds-checking added to numerous "attackable" locations in BIND and much of BIND significantly updated. 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the 386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided. What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet received confirmation of this. 2.1. Disk Controllers --------------------- WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) IDE ATA Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers. Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers. ** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them. Check your system/board documentation for more details. Buslogic 545S & 545c Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller. Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI controllers: ASUS SC-200 Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants) NCR cards (all) Symbios cards (all) Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F Tyan S1365 Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the AMD 53c974 as well). NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. WD7000 SCSI controller. With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: (cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) (scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) (wcd) ATAPI IDE interface Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware: Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight) (mcd) Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models) 2.2. Ethernet cards ------------------- Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974) SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. SMC Elite Ultra. SMC Etherpower II. Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following: Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc) DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A). Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability) Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink 4110 (8 bit) Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. 3Com 3C501 cards 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II 3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ 3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL Toshiba ethernet cards PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also supported. Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any takers? 2.3. Misc --------- AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial. Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) Comtrol Rocketport card. Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards. Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64, ONboard 4/16 and Brumby. Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. Connectix QuickCam Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber Cortex1 frame grabber Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI) STB TV PCI Intel Smart Video Recorder III Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 chip. HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives. PS/2 mice Standard PC Joystick X-10 power controllers GPIB and Transputer drivers. Genius and Mustek hand scanners. FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. 3. Obtaining FreeBSD -------------------- You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: 3.1. FTP/Mail ------------- You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from `ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site. For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome! Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to become an official mirror site. If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to `ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism. Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute LAST resort! 3.2. CDROM ---------- FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP and 2.2.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D Concord CA 94520 1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX) Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com. Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription. FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $39.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further obligation. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax. Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an unconditional return policy. 4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. ----------------------------------------------------------- Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find (preferably with a fix attached, if you can!). The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to watch out for. If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether the problem might have already been fixed since. Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant* amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may find it preferable to subscribe instead to: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone wishing to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword `help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo and ask about them! 5. Acknowledgements ------------------- FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD project staffers, please see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html or, if you've loaded the doc distribution: file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html Special mention to: The donors listed at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/donors.html Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible. We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! The FreeBSD Project This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Jul 23 18:14:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08536 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08516 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01264 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.2.7 boot floppies updated. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:13:32 -0700 Message-ID: <1259.901242812@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Reply-To: postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org An 11th hour bug in the boot floppies, having to do with the way XFree86 distributions are chosen, was discovered during final CD testing. Though this problem is not fatal and can be easily worked around by either choosing one of the "canned" XFree86 distributions (X-Developer, X-User, etc) or by installing XFree86 by hand, it was deemed annoying enough to re-roll the boot floppies and update them on ftp.freebsd.org. If you have grabbed the 2.2.7 boot floppies earlier, you may wish to get them again. Those getting 2.2.7 on CD will never see this problem and this is only of concern to the folks who install over the net. Just FYI! - Jordan This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Jul 23 23:31:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28108 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28100 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11972 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:30:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Summary of final changes to FreeBSD 2.2.7 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:30:32 -0700 Message-ID: <11967.901261832@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Reply-To: postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As I previously announced, there were some problems encountered with sysinstall in the 11th hour during our CDROM media testing which I fixed, rolled an updated boot.flp for, and uploaded to the master FTP site. I also fixed a problem I introduced at the last minute via a fumbled file copy which caused the XF86Setup utility to be replaced by the Japanese version (heh). In addition to this, I've just received updated distribution tarballs from The XFree86 Project which merge all of the 3.3.2.3 security updates directly into the "standard" tarballs rather than having an extra update file (X3323upd.tgz) which needed to be applied by hand. In other words, it's totally plug-and-play now. Just install XFree86 as you normally would to get the latest security fixes and the correct setup utility for your language. Since the X332*upd.tgz files are now obsolete, they have also been removed. My apologies to those who were momentarily inconvenienced by this, but c'mon, this is free software and a 24 hour turnaround time is pretty good in any part of this industry! :-) Comments in comp.unix.bsd.misc claiming that these problems made "2.2.7 totally unusable" are also as cruel and unnecessary as they inaccurate, and certain folks really need to get a grip on their prescription bottles if they think this hasn't happened before. Post- release updates are a fact of life and most folks probably aren't even aware of the fact that almost every release since 2.2.1 has had its boot media and various other bits updated at least 3 or 4 times over its lifecycle. We're still building up our testing resources here to the point where these problems can be even more quickly dealt with or avoided entirely, but it's still an undenyable fact of life that there's really just no testing like end-user testing since they simply push different buttons than we're used to pushing. :) That is also specifically why we do "early releases" on the net well before the CDs have even entered production rather than holding the network release back for the CD, as many other companies do. The pre-testing we get from this goes to make the CD, which is far less mutable than an FTP site, a far better release and well worth the occasional wear-and-tear on the front-line users, grumble about it though they occasionally might. The FreeBSD Project doesn't have a well-staffed testing department and don't have the $$$ to staff one yet, so in the meantime you folks will just have to do! :-) If you're running a mirror site or have downloaded a copy of 2.2.7, please verify the following checksums to make sure you've got the essential fixes from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/ MD5 (floppies/boot.flp) = 53ecc3f85bddee6a7a4388b7d6ef36f0 MD5 (XF86332/X332bin.tgz) = e2801288fb766d11ba523240518f429c MD5 (XF86332/X332lib.tgz) = 16927e4247848c6abbaf757c167d5f55 MD5 (XF86332/X332prog.tgz) = e358322d9ad03856273a63bbf3fddc4e MD5 (XF86332/X332set.tgz) = e0a341054c043ecba28d019bcd54bfb2 You can also delete XF86332/X332upd.tgz as it is no longer necessary. Thanks to all the users who threw themselves into initial release testing and took the time and care to send me careful bug reports. Thanks also to David Dawes of The XFree86 Project for providing the updated tarballs for XFree86 3.3.2.3 in time to make the CD. - Jordan This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Jul 24 11:16:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01980 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01921; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA14126; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:15:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA03576; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:15:38 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:15:38 -0600 Message-Id: <199807241815.MAA03576@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: java-port@FreeBSD.ORG, announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: JDK1.1.6 for FreeBSD 2.2.* Released X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Reply-To: postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It is my pleasure to announce that after a long wait, the Java Development Kit version 1.1.6 is released for FreeBSD. Details are available at: http://www.freebsd.org/java Thanks go to Keith White who did most of the work to make this happen. Fixed in this release: - Update to JDK1.1.6 - More standard 'naming' for java.version and such. - Fixes for UDP/Multicast sockets. - The signal abort error may be fixed (knock on wood). - Add support for the "KOI8-R" and "CP866" encodings. - Timezone's now work correctly under FreeBSD (this required some native code, but it is embedded in the JDK so shouldn't affect users. However, FreeBSD has one of the few (only?) VM's that correctly support Timezones now). - sysRmdir() now correctly removes directories. - Link in the xpg4 library to support CJK locales. Known Bugs: ------------------------------------ JDK1.1.6 has a number of 'visual' bugs in it that are reflected in this port as well. Notably, on some window managers all new windows end up in the upper-right corner, windows can sometimes be 'shown' w/out any data in them, windows with small default sizes show are displayed before they are resized, and other similar bugs. Before reporting any bugs of these type please try to verify that they don't exist on the reference unix platform (Solaris) first. Note: A BETA tester noted there are still some bugs in Multicast support, but there are still some issues that need to be resolved in the proposed fix. Rather than wait another period of time before releasing the JDK, we opted to release it first and resolve the issue in a later release. --- The Java Porters This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message