URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1055
The PostgreSQL Project today released
updates to all active branches of the
PostgreSQL object-relational database
system, including versions 8.3.6,
8.2.12, 8.1.16, 8.0.20 and 7.4.24. These
updates include two serious fixes, for
autovacuum crashes in version 8.1 and
GiST indexing data loss in 8.3, and
those two versions should be updated as
soon as possible.
These update releases also include
patches for several low-risk security
holes, as well as up to 17 other minor
fixes, depending on your major version
of PostgreSQL. Included as well are
Daylight Savings Time changes for Nepal,
Switzerland and Cuba. See the release
notes for full details.
The first serious issue affects users
who are using version 8.1 with
Autovacuum, which will fail when XID
rollover is required. The second serious
issue can cause data loss when CLUSTER
is used with GiST indexes (such as full
text indexes) on version 8.3. Both
issues are fixed in these releases.
Updates for all maintained versions of PostgreSQL are available today:
8.3.3, 8.2.9, 8.1.13, 8.0.17 and 7.4.21. These releases fix more than
two dozen minor issues reported and patched over the last few months.
All PostgreSQL users should plan to update at their earliest
convenience. People in affected time zones, in particular, should
upgrade as soon as possible.
Release Notes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release.html
Also, fix umask error in periodic script [1].
PR: ports/124457 [1]
Submitted by: Alexandre Perrin
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
long-awaited version 8.3 of the most advanced open source database,
which cements our place as the best performing open source
database. Among the performance features you'll be excited about in
8.3 are:
* Heap Only Tuples
* BGWriter Autotuning
* Asynchronous Commit
* Spread Checkpoints
* Synchronous Scan
* "Var-Varlena"
* L2 Cache Protection
* Lazy XID
8.3 also has a lot of cool features for PostgreSQL DBAs and developers, including:
* CSV Logging
* SQL/XML
* MS Visual C++ support
* ENUMs
* Integrated Tsearch
* SSPI & GSSAPI
* Composite Type Arrays
* pg_standby
[1] Fix problem installing from package.
[2] Use DISTVERSION instead of PORTVERSION.
(the port reports now correct version 8.3.r2)
[2] Enable more 8.3 features:
- Add OPTION for the new XML data type (default: enabled)
- Add OPTION for usage of system timezone data (default: included tzdata)
PR: ports/119770 [1], ports/119561 [2]
Submitted by: Artis Caune [1], Martin Matuska [2]
This includes a bunch of security fixes: CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-4772,
CVE-2007-6601, CVE-2007-6600 and CVE-2007-4769.
Security: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905
The recent security release (8.0.11, 8.1.7, 8.2.2) has been withdrawn.
It contained an issue which causes error with custom data types, type
constraints and expression indexes. These upgrades fix the problem.
A vulnerability allows suppressing the normal checks that a SQL
function returns the data type it's declared to do. These errors can
easily be exploited to cause a backend crash, and in principle might
be used to read database content that the user should not be able to
access. [CVE-2007-0555]
A vulnerability involving changing the data type of a table column
can easily be exploited to cause a backend crash, and in principle
might be used to read database content that the user should not be
able to access. [CVE-2007-0556]
The release includes a set of other fixes as well. Please see the
release information at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release-8-2-2.html
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0555
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0556
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today released versions 8.1.4, 8.0.8,
7.4.13 and 7.3.15. This is an urgent update to close a security hole which
can permit a SQL injection attack on some applications running PostgreSQL.
Users are urged to apply the update as soon as reasonably possible. Since the
update affects client functionality, most driver projects will be updating
this week as well.
Because the security issue involved is complex, we have added a section in
Techdocs to explain it: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.52. Please
read this first before applying the updates.
Also, fix rc_subr startup problems on FreeBSD-7.x.
Security: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.50
PR: ports/95154
We have not checked for this KEYWORD for a long time now, so this
is a complete noop, and thus no PORTREVISION bump. Removing it at
this point is mostly for pedantic reasons, and partly to avoid
perpetuating this anachronism by copy and paste to future scripts.
A critical fix repairs an error in ReadBuffer that can cause data loss
due to overwriting recently-added pages. This applies to the 8.1 and
8.0 branches on all platforms.
Note that this update might require a reindex of textual columns under
certain conditions; please see UPDATING.
Other fixes included are:
-- Character string locale comparison bug. This may require a REINDEX
on text column indexes in some locales, such as Hungarian.
-- Prevent accidental changes of locale by plperl
-- Two fixes for Japanese encodings
-- Two fixes for COPY CSV
-- Fixes for functions returning RECORD
-- Fixes to autovacuum, dblink and pgcrypto
"start" when booting, since there's no need waste time checking for
running processes when the OS is starting up.
Bumping portrevision.
PR: 90884
Submitted by: Victor Snezhko <snezhko@indorsoft.ru>
in bsd.autotools.mk essentially makes this a no-op given that all the
old variables set a USE_AUTOTOOLS_COMPAT variable, which is parsed in
exactly the same way as USE_AUTOTOOLS itself.
Moreover, USE_AUTOTOOLS has already been extensively tested by the GNOME
team -- all GNOME 2.12.x ports use it.
Preliminary documentation can be found at:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.txt
which is in the process of being SGMLized before introduction into the
Porters Handbook.
Light blue touch-paper. Run.
