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Items affecting the mports and packages system can be found in |
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/usr/mports/UPDATING. |
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20090405: |
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xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not |
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yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then |
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add |
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Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" |
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to your ServerLayout section. This will cause X to use the configured |
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kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf |
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20090610: |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p10 |
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This should be applied to all systems running 0.2.1. Users on |
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p9 simply should update their kernels. No world update is required. |
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20090403: |
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mksh was disconnected a few day ago do to bugs with |
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buildworld and mports. Now, connect it back |
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for use as /bin/sh with a conditional called |
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MK_ASH. By default, ash is the standard /bin/sh |
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but we may change this later. This will allow further |
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testing by users and developers of mksh without |
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causing an unpleasant default experience. In the |
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long run, we need to fix mksh compatibility. |
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ipv6: |
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The SIOCSIFINFO_IN6 ioctl is missing a necessary permissions check. |
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Don't let everyone on the planet (with local access) change the |
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properties on the ipv6 interfaces. |
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20090328: |
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Bring in mksh R37 from CVS. The dot.mkshrc files for root |
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and skel were changed. mksh(1) now replaces ash aka sh(1) |
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as the default /bin/sh. Please report bugs with |
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ports, etc. The ash code will remain in the repo for awhile |
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as I decide if we'll add something like MK_SHELL_ASH as |
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an optional build parameter. |
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anonymous pipes: |
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Stop unprivileged processes from reading pages of memory belonging |
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to other processes with anonymous pipes. |
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ahd was disconnected from the lint environment until |
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the compiler bug is sorted (by updating gcc?) |
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20090521: |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p9 |
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Remove freebsd-tips from fortune files and change the |
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default for login and profile. |
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This fix is only in configuration files for ssh and sshd. Users on |
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p8 should simply add |
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20090327: |
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Update libarchive to 2.5.5, tar, and add bsdcpio. |
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Ciphers aes128-ctr,aes256-ctr,arcfour256,arcfour,aes128-cbc,aes256-cbc |
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Also previously, ctriv has been connecting Perl 5.10 |
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to the build (part of os). This will have an impact |
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on mports. |
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to their configuration files for sshd_config and ssh_config in etc/ssh |
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20090325: |
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Update Bind to 9.4.3-P1 |
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20090422: |
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MindightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p8 |
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Update mksh to R36b |
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The function ASN1_STRING_print_ex does not properly validate the lengths |
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of BMPString or UniversalString objects before attempting to print them. |
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Update tcpdump to 3.9.8, fix libpcap to work with current. |
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20090326: |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p7 |
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Update pnpinfo, sync with FreeBSD. |
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Fix several security problems with sudo. It is now 1.6.9-p20 |
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20090115: |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p6 |
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Fix a problem with DNSSEC and BIND. |
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Correct an issue with BIND that allows for DNSSEC spoofing |
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attacks. |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p5 |
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For applications using OpenSSL for SSL connections, an invalid SSL |
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certificate may be interpreted as valid. This could for example be |
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used by an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. |
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Stop cross site request forgery attacks in lukemftpd |
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20081231: |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p4 |
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Import GNU libreadline 5.2 |
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Correct a problem where function pointers for netgraph |
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and bluetooth sockets are not initialized properly. |
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20090101: |
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Update time zone data to 2008i. |
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20081124: |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p3 |
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20081231: |
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Correct a problem where bluetooth and netgraph sockets are not |
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properly initialized. |
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Correct a problem in arc4random which causes the device |
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not get get enough entropy for system services. Geom |
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classes initialized at startup will still have problems. |
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Happy 2009. |
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20081002: |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p2 |
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20081206: |
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Due to the massive change in the underlying system under way, |
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we're naming the next release 1.0. The sys/sys/param.h was |
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changed accordingly. ipfilter and ncurses were corrected |
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using __MidnightBSD__ tests in the code. |
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IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability |
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The GENERIC kernel config was caught up on i386 today. Consider |
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i386 still broken, but amd64 is running again. |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2476 |
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/472363 |
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mdoc.local was updated with the new MidnightBSD version info. |
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This fix causes IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Neighbor Solicitation |
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messages to be ignored from non-neighbors. |
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batt(1) was rewritten in C. It now supports several flags and |
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runs about 8 times faster on my laptop. The default output |
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shows the number of minutes of battery life remaining and the |
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percentage. You can use -u to display the number of batteries or |
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-c to get script friendly output. Consult the man page for more. |
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This can be re-enabled, if needed, by setting the newly added |
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net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_onlink_ns_rfc4861 sysctl to 1. |
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20081204: |
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Work has completed on importing ZFS, jemalloc, several |
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new devices, SCTP, updated pf, a new tempfs, linuxolator 2.6 kernel |
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support, improved locking for file desc., audit (openbsm), |
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openssl .98e, nfe, imporved intel high def audio, midi, updated |
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intel gigabit (em), support for several wifi cards (intel), ... |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE-p1 |
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Renamed 0.3-CURRENT officially. Switched to using MidnightBSD version |
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data from param.h instead of the FreeBSD version. This means |
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testing is now possible in the ports tree for the version |
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and that any ports or code relying on the FreeBSD version from |
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sys/sys/param.h will need to be fixed. |
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Fix a defect in ftpd. The command buffer was split which allowed |
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attackers to send arbritrary commands over the network. |
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Update nve(4) to support newer hardware. |
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update nve(4) to support new hardware. |
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Correct two defects in MidnightBSD. AMD64/EMT64 systems had a |
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privledge escalation issue. CVE-2008-3890 |
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Import OpenBSM 1.0 |
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In case of an incoming ICMPv6 'Packet Too Big Message', there is an |
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insufficient check on the proposed new MTU for a path to the |
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destination. |
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CVE-2008-3530 |
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Modify src/release to create 3 isos instead of 2 for packages. |
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MidnightBSD 0.2.1-RELEASE |
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etc/rc.d/firstboot now enables kdm, gnustep + slim and bsdstats. |
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Oops, fix some bugs with sysinstall's handling of packages found |
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on the release ISOs. Tweak etc/firstboot while where here. |
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Many ia64, alpha, powerpc items were removed. |
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MidnightBSD 0.2-RELEASE |
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The recent diffutils 2.8.7 import was fixed. |
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Correct problem with pcc and DESTDIR that affected creating live cds |
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and jails. |
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pcc was not installed properly when setting DESTDIR for live cds, |
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or posibly jails. |
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sysinstall would incorrectly truncate DHCP info when configuring |
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ipv4 networking. This was the result of a bad patch several months |
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ago. Fix this error. Found via testing a snapshot. |
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Add firmware(9), WEP, CCMP, TKIP to GENERIC. |
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pcc connected to the build on i386. (alternative compiler) |
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Begin work for MidnightBSD 0.2-PRERELEASE |
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ath added to GENERIC. (Atheros wireless NICs) on amd64/i386 |
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20080528: |
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Sendmail 8.14.3 |
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this document. |
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$FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.416.2.18 2006/02/22 11:51:57 yar Exp $ |
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$MidnightBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.38.2.18 2009/05/21 23:11:43 laffer1 Exp $ |
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$MidnightBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.56 2009/04/03 06:28:03 laffer1 Exp $ |
