=== SMP Support ===
The major news is the support for SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing).
SMP is supported by most modern operating systems like Linux, Windows, Mac OSx,
Solaris and is becoming more important now when dual processors,
hyper-threading technology and multi-core systems are a reality.
With Erlang, most of the problems which occur in multi-threaded programs have
been solved once and for all in the Erlang VM and do not have to be handled by
the application programmers.
In the SMP version of the Erlang virtual machine, there can be many process
schedulers running in separate OS threads. As default there will be as many
schedulers as there are processors or processor cores on the system.
The SMP support is totally transparent for the Erlang programs. That is, there
is no need to change or recompile existing programs. Programs with built-in
assumptions about sequential execution must be rewritten in order to take
advantage of the SMP support, however.
In this release, the Erlang VM supports SMP with focus on stability. There will
follow a number of subsequent steps with necessary optimizations and support
for more platforms.
=== Erlang Language and Related Issues ===
* The andalso and orelse operators are now allowed to be used in guards.
That also applies to match specifications.
* The BIF is_record/3 can now be used in guards. Also, is_record/3 can now
be called without an erlang: module prefix for consistency with the other
is_* functions.
* The compiler options ignore_try and ignore_cond, which allowed code that
used unquoted try or cond as atoms or record tags, has been removed. Old
code that depended on the options need to be revised to have occurrences
of try or cond as atom or record tags single-quoted. (Note: Although cond
is a reserved keyword, there is no cond statement. It might be introduced
in a future release.)
* (ERTS 5.4.8) The new fun M:F/A construct creates a fun that refers to the
latest version of M:F/A. This syntax is meant to replace tuple funs {M,F}
which have many problems.
* (ERTS 5.4.8) The new type test is_function(Fun, Arity) -- which may be
used in guards -- test whether Fun is a fun that can be applied to Arity
arguments.
=== New Applications ===
Dialyzer
Dialyzer is a static analysis tool that identifies software discrepancies such
as type errors, unreachable code, unnecessary tests, etc in single Erlang
modules or entire (sets of) applications.
Inviso
The Inviso application, together with some new extensions to Runtime_Tools, is
aimed at providing features for efficient tracing of production Erlang/OTP
systems:
* Distributed tracing - tracing on any number of Erlang nodes.
* Autostart - tracing during system start-up.
* Overload protection - mechanisms for suspending and later reactivating
tracing, should an overload situation occur.
* Enhanced use of meta tracing.
* Trace cases - predefined specifications of what to trace.
* Off-line merging and formatting of log files.
Inviso is still under development. An easier-to-use trace tool, using the
features listed above, is planned to be released as an R11B patch in Q3/Q4
2006.
SSH
The SSH application is an Erlang implementation of the secure shell protocol.
It is considered to be a beta release, meaning there can be changes made to the
API before it reaches 1.0.
=== Existing Applications ===
Compiler
(Compiler 4.3.6) It is now possible to encrypt the debug information in Beam
files.
Debugger
(Debugger 2.0) The debugger can now handle the try/catch language construct.
Inets
The Erlang implementation of the TFTP procotcol, tftp, is now documented.
Kernel
In Kernel 2.10.X, several bug fixes and improvements have been made in global ,
the global name registration facility.
OS_Mon
(OS_Mon 2.0) The entire OS_Mon application (code and documentation) has been
reviewed and consequently updated with the goal to make the application more
robust, homogeneous and easier to configure.
STDLIB
Added the zip module with functions for reading and creating zip archives.
**************
NRPE Changelog
**************
2.5.2 - 06/30/2006
------------------
- Fixed incorrect service name in sample xinetd config file
- Added note on how to restart inetd for OpenBSD users (Robert Peaslee)
- Fix for nonblocking accept()s on systems that define EAGAIN differently than EWOULDBLOCK (Gerhard Lausser)
- Fix to (re)allow week random seed (Gerhard Lausser)
1.4.3
Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
libtool now required for development systems
Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
1.4.3
Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
libtool now required for development systems
Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
#####################
Nagios 2.x Change Log
#####################
2.5 - 07/13/2006
----------------
* Bug fix for excluding hidden files from config file processing
* Bug fix for incorrect links to trends CGI from notification CGI
* Hopefully faster shutdown during host checks
* Lock file is now closed just prior to shutdown, instead of when SIGINT is received
* Bug fix for segfault during startup due to extended service definition duplication
* Bug fix for segfault with wildcards in servicegroup members
* Bug fix for segfault when p1.pl file was missing and embedded Perl interpreter was enabled
2.4 - 05/31/2006
----------------
* Fix for missing <limits.h> include that prevented CGI compilation under Solaris
* Better error message reporting in the command CGI (cmd.cgi)
* Fix for order of recovery/flapping notifications immediately after end of host/service flapping
* Bug fix for potential crash (SIGBUS) of CGIs when reading mmap()'ed status, comment, and downtime files
* Added 'install-unstripped' option to Makefile to allow installing unstripped binaries for debugging
* Minor bug fix to sample redundancy handle-master-proc-event script
- Adapt buildlink framework and fix compile problem with des.h header file.
- Proper dependency with openssl.
- Use subst framework for replacing path.
- Fix minor pkglint warning.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Changes from 1.4.7:
- A security fix for CVE-2006-4019
- A collection of bugfixes
Changes from 1.4.6:
- Fixed URL for Read Receipts being incorrect in some cases (#1177518).
- Fixed endless loop when trying to parse "From: )(" (#1517867).
- Using is_file() instead of file_exists() in fortune plugin (#1499134).
- Add manual page for conf.pl under contrib.
- Don't allow selecting INBOX as Sent, Draft or Trash folder (#1242346).
Todo:
Make squirrelmail-decode and squirrelmail-locale depend on ja-squirrelmail
as well as squirrelmail.
- Use preludedb_delete_(alert|heartbeat)_from_list(). Require
libpreludedb 0.9.9. Provide a deletion performance improvement
of around 3000%.
- Handle multiple listed source/target properly. Separate
source/target in the message listing.
- Make host command/Information link available from the Sensor
listing.
- Always take care of the "external_link_new_window" configuration
parameter.
- Make external command handling more generic. Allow to specify
command line arguments.
- Allow to define unlimited number of external commands rather than
only a defined subset (fix#134).
- Avoid toggling several popup at once in the HeartbeatListing.
- Only provide lookup capability for known network address type (fix#76).
- New address and node name lookup provided through prelude-ids.com service.
- Link to new prelude-ids.com port lookup instead of broken portsdb
database (fix#162).
- Various bug fixes.
- Implement an idea from Lex van Roon <r3boot@r3blog.nl.eu.org> providing
an alert/heartbeat deletion performance improvement in the order of
3000% (preludedb-admin already benefit from it, next Prewikka release
will benefit from it too).
- Fix --with-(perl|python|swig) detection path ordering.
- Verbose error reporting on logfile opening error.
- Various bug fixes.
- Fix checking for swig/perl/python when full path to the
application is specified.
- Fix OpenBSD getaddrinfo() AI_ADDRCONFIG issue (apply to
some other system as well).
- Fix workaround for system with broken libtool,
that prevented the use of plugin (#168).
Changes since version 2.6.2:
- Updated translations (de, el, es, fr, gl, hu, nl, sr, sv, vi, zh_TW).
- Fixed the invisible cursor color when using GTKSpell and a black
input box (when "Use the text box font & colors" is ON).
- Allow loading a cert/privatekey file from ~/.xchat2/<NetWorkName>.pem
- Improved the fallback routine when you receive non-UTF8 messages. It
can now handle CP1252 from mIRC users and the ISO-8859-15 Euro symbol.
- Added CHANOPT command for setting channel specific options such as showing
of joins and part, beep on message and color paste (Lian Wan Situ).
- /CLEAR HISTORY will clear your command history.
- Fixed a crash if you left a Ban-List window open after closing the
associated channel and then clicking Refresh.
- Added an option of using 'Last-Spoke' nick completion order in Settings >
Input Box.
- The /QUERY command now has -nofocus arg, which scripts might find useful.
- You can now /set gui_url_mod 0, to allow left-clicking URLs (default is
4, for CTRL).
- XChat will now respect gtk-button-images=0 set in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
- Added a ./configure option to use your preferred spelling library:
--enable-spell=type. Where type can be: none static libsexy gtkspell.
Note that using gtkspell will force the inputbox to become a GtkTextView.
- Advanced users can /set tab_small 2, to get _extra_ small tabs.
- Added /SPLAY <soundfile>.
- Plugin API:
* The second args to xchat_list_int and xchat_list_str can now be NULL as
a shortcut to "channels" list for current context only.
* Added bits 6-8 to the field "flags" in the "channels" list.
* /GUI MSGBOX <text> can now contain Pango markup.
* Added -m arg to /MENU. See plugin20.html for more.
- Fixed opening a irc:// URL via "xchat -a --url=abc123" command while
"Skip serverlist on startup" is off. This fix is only relevant when
opening an initial instance of xchat (i.e not via dbus).
- Fixed the tree layout "flashing" (redrawing slowly) after you
switched to tabs and back to tree.
- Fixed plugin/script get_list("users") causing a critical GDK warning
when not executed from the front-most tab.
- Added spelling support in the input-box via GTKSpell.
- Improved the error reporting when connecting through a Socks proxy.
- DCC file transfers via http/socks45/wingate proxy is now supported
(Damjan Jovanovic & me).
- Fixed Socks 5 failing on 64-bit CPUs.
- Added support for connecting through a Microsoft ISA Proxy, requires
libntlm at build time (Pavel Fedin).
- You can now mark and copy timestamps if you hold down SHIFT.
- Timestamps are now preserved in the /lastlog command. Also fixed a
bug where the separator line disappeared during /lastlog.
- Added a Browse button to the DCC download folder setting.
- Made the setup window a little neater and Gnome-like.
- Improved the notify window a little and fixed a small memory leak.
- Fixed CTCPs being truncated in the RawLog window.
- Added an option to open a "Save As..." dialog when receiving a
DCC file offer.
- Fixed a crash if you try to remove a network from the list while
it's in a auto-reconnect delay [debian bug #364858].
- Python: Fixed some memory usage bugs.
pkgsrc option for kqueue support. Hence, remove --with-ioloop=best again, and
enable the "kqueue" option by default on *BSD platforms (as already suggested
by grant when he first added the option). The pkg's default behaviour does
not change, so don't bump PKGREVISION.
==============
Evince 0.5.5
==============
New Features:
* Evince have preview mode for using with gtk+
* New print dialog is used with gtk 2.10
* New recent files framework is used
UI Improvements:
* Sidebar is unified with Epiphany
* Escape unfocus page entry
Bug Fixes:
* Automake updates
* Link coordinates now used correctly
* Desktop file is corrected
* Memory leak fixes
Translations:
* ca cs de dz el es et eu fi fr gu ja ko mk nl ru sl sv th zh_HK zh_TW
Thanks:
Carlos Garcia Campos, Christian Persch, Radoslav Dorcik,
Ricardo Markiewicz, Sebastien Bacher, Wouter Bolsterlee
and especially translators:
Ankit Patel, Arangel Angov, Benoît Dejean, Changwoo Ryu, Chao-Hsiung
Liao, Christophe Merlet, Daniel Nylander, Francisco Javier F. Serrador,
Guntupalli Karunakar, Hendrik Richter, Ilkka Tuohela, Inaki Larranaga,
Jakub Friedl, Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó, Jovan Naumovski, Nikos
Charonitakis, Priit Laes, Takeshi Aihana, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Version 0.11.7
==============
2006-08-15
- Added: BomberClone Icon to the bomberclone win32 binary.
- Added: resolution 1280x800
- Testing: Security Problems found by Luigi Auriemma
Bugs: A] memcpy crash in rscache_add
B] information disclosure in send_pkg
C] simple error message termination
for more informations look here:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bcloneboom-adv.txt
Solutions to
A) rewrote the whole resend cache system, also send_mapinfo needed a
bad workaround for a bug i couldn't find out. (to disable the workaround
use ./configure CFLAGS=-DBUG_MAPINFO)
B) made sure that the size of a packet is set right before send over
the network. Found only the function (do_gameinfo) where something
like this occured.
do_pkg will also check the size of the incoming packet with the
p->h.len value.
C) accept the error packets only from the server of a game. Since only the
server will send such type of packets.
- Fixed: Security Problem found by Stefan Cornelius.
For more information look here:
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/sec-info/Week-of-Mon-20060313/006561.html
- Added: "more random" by Patrik Nilsson:
This map type is just a hacked version of "autogenerated",
and is as the name tells more random. Since both block,
rock and nothing are placed randomly inside the border.
- Fixed: High CPU usage in menus.
This fix was made by Chris E..
- Fixed: Bug with more as 8 different player graphics.
The window size hasen't changed if there where more as
8 different player graphics to choose from.
- Removed the Dedicated Server Support from the game.
The whole bomberclone game is not designed for a dedicated
server. The test shown that the whole game would have to
be rewritten. Also that the host can leave the game would
not work no more.
