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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!usenet From: perry@jekyll.piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: What are the "new" things in 1.2.1 Date: 14 May 1997 18:41:53 -0400 Organization: Partnership for an America Free Drug Lines: 23 Message-ID: <87hgg5y8um.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> References: <6Wp4Ai-3o$B@rimki.toppoint.de> <5lcq8c$6bl$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: jekyll.piermont.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5942 bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) writes: > Christoph Rimek (chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de) wrote: > > Hello > > > > Recently I looked to one of the NetBSD mirror sites and found a new > > distribution release 1.2.1 (March 97), but without any documents or > > READMEs that explain the changes to the 1.2 release? > > > > Can anyone help me out? > > What is new in this 1.2.1 release, is there so much new/better stuff > > included that it is worth upgrading? > > 1.2.1 is a bugfix release for 1.2. It is worth upgrading only if you have > some stability problems with your 1.2 system, or unsupported (or not well > supported) hardware, or if you care about security. Not *quite* true. There are some significant security fixes, and there was a very important fix that improves VM performance a lot. However, you are correct -- its simply a bugfix release, nothing more. 1.3 will be the next "major" release.