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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!news13.agis.net!agis!newsgod1.agis.net!agis!news4.agis.net!agis!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.6 replaced with point release (2.1.6.1) Date: 26 Nov 1996 00:55:42 -0600 Organization: FreeBSD Project Lines: 54 Sender: daemon@taronga.com Approved: peter@taronga.com Message-ID: <57e49e$6jh@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.taronga.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa" ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Original Message To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.6 replaced with point release (2.1.6.1) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:58:42 -0800 Message-ID: <11168.848991522@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Following Murphy's law to the letter, a significant security hole in sendmail 8.8.3 was found just one day after 2.1.6 was rolled and put up on ftp.freebsd.org, requiring some sort of response before putting 2.1.6 onto CDROM. While investigating this, it was also decided to integrate a fairly simple fix for the SYN attack problem (less sophisticated than the one in FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA) which provided effective protection without introducing any potential instabilities which would violate 2.1.6's stability charter. Several other more minor changes were made to make(1) and the bsd.port.mk file in order to more effectively support the 2.2.x ports collection on 2.1.x machines, should people desire this, but that's about it for 2.1.6 -> 2.1.6.1 changes. In order to prevent the mirror sites from murdering us in our sleep for wasting space (not to mention Walnut Creek CDROM, who has already printed up the covers saying "2.1.6" on them), the 2.1.6.1 release was also simply overlayed on top of the 2.1.6 release on ftp.freebsd.org and will be released on CD as 2.1.6 - if it makes it easier to understand, just pretend that the 2.1.6 I announced before was really 2.1.6-BETA. :-) If you look at our timeline, we're still ahead of our December deadline for 2.1.6 in either case. Please read the RELNOTES.TXT file in the 2.1.6-RELEASE directory for more details on what you should upgrade if you're already running 2.1.6 and don't want to reinstall. The 2.1.6.1 README.TXT file also reads "RELEASE Version +1" at the top for easy identification, and the uname(1) command prints out 2.1.6.1 as well, so you'll know if you're running the security patched version on an installed system. Apologies in advance for any confusion this causes, but I believe we chose the lesser of several possible evils, and at least now 2.1.6 will be going out without any clearly obvious security holes. Thanks! Jordan ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa--