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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-02-13 19:27:39 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-02-13 19:27:39 +0000
commitbe551fabe782f964e6105f41296debea0ad47c28 (patch)
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New release notes: ipfw(8) support for dynamic IP addresses, isp(4)
updated, OpenSSH vunerability in SA-01:24 fixed, local support improved, compat4x distribution, compat3x distribution update.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT21
-rw-r--r--release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT21
2 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
index e9aba68..d641553 100644
--- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -267,6 +267,11 @@ bridge(4) and dummynet(4) have received some enhancements and bugfixes.
The API CS20 1U high server has been verified to work OK.
+ipfw(8) has a new feature that allows for packet matching on
+interfaces with dynamically-changing IP addressess.
+
+The isp(4) driver has been updated. [MERGED]
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -353,6 +358,11 @@ FreeBSD-SA-01:13). [MERGED]
To fix a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow, BIND has been updated
to 8.2.3 (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:18). [MERGED]
+OpenSSH now has code to prevent (instead of just mitigating through
+connection limits) an attack that can lead to guessing the server key
+(not host key) by regenerating the server key when an RSA failure is
+detected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:24). [MERGED]
+
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
@@ -722,6 +732,17 @@ The rfork_thread(3) library call has been added as a helper function
to rfork(2). Using this function should avoid the need to implement
complex stack swap code. [MERGED]
+Significant additions have been made to internationalization support;
+FreeBSD now has complete locale support the for LC_MONETARY,
+LC_NUMERIC, and LC_MESSAGES categories. A number of applications have
+been updated to take advantage of this support.
+
+A compat4x distribution has been added for compatability with FreeBSD
+4-STABLE.
+
+The compat3x distribution has been updated to include libraries
+present in FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE. [MERGED]
+
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
index 72857f2..bf4d274 100644
--- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -346,6 +346,11 @@ version.)
bridge(4) and dummynet(4) have received some enhancements and bugfixes.
+ipfw(8) has a new feature that allows for packet matching on
+interfaces with dynamically-changing IP addressess.
+
+The isp(4) driver has been updated. [MERGED]
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -432,6 +437,11 @@ FreeBSD-SA-01:13). [MERGED]
To fix a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow, BIND has been updated
to 8.2.3 (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:18). [MERGED]
+OpenSSH now has code to prevent (instead of just mitigating through
+connection limits) an attack that can lead to guessing the server key
+(not host key) by regenerating the server key when an RSA failure is
+detected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:24). [MERGED]
+
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
@@ -819,6 +829,17 @@ The rfork_thread(3) library call has been added as a helper function
to rfork(2). Using this function should avoid the need to implement
complex stack swap code. [MERGED]
+Significant additions have been made to internationalization support;
+FreeBSD now has complete locale support the for LC_MONETARY,
+LC_NUMERIC, and LC_MESSAGES categories. A number of applications have
+been updated to take advantage of this support.
+
+A compat4x distribution has been added for compatability with FreeBSD
+4-STABLE.
+
+The compat3x distribution has been updated to include libraries
+present in FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE. [MERGED]
+
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
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