27.Nov.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis on ANF
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NetBSD-1.4.3 Released
The NetBSD-project announced the release of NetBSD-1.4.3.
This release fixes problems known from former versions, increases stability
and adds support for additional hardware.
NetBSD-1.4.3 is a patch release of the NetBSD-1.4-branch. The new 1.5-branch
will be released as a main release soon. The 1.4 release contains some new features
imported from the NetBSD-development branch:
- Support for Lucent Wavelan (Orinoco) IEEE 802.11 radio-ethernet-card.
- A potential "CPU-Hog"-problem concerning big input-output operations were fixed. Look at SA #2000-005.
- The danger of a denial-of-service-attack were removed. Look at SA #2000-004
- A problem with /etc/ftpchroot were fixed. Look at SA #2000-006.
- A problem with the reserving of semaphor-resources were fixed. Look at SA #2000-006.
- The DHCP-software were updated (ISC 2.0pl3).
Many more bugs were fixed - altogether about 70 problems.
A complete list of the changes from NetBSD-1.4.2 to -1.4.3 is available at:
CHANGES-1.4.3.
Please read the INSTALL-guide for your system; there you can find out more about
the supported hardware, installation, and known problems with this release.
Further informations are available at:
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