Difference between revisions of "Bering-uClibc 5.0.x - Changelog"

Revision as of 13:07, 19 December 2012

Changes between 5.0-alpha1 and 5.0-alpha2

(unreleased)

general 

removed "old (visible) atexit support" and "Linux kernel module functions(<2.6)" from uClibc config.

shorewall 

updated to 4.5.9.2

bird 

fix initscript permissions

quagga 

fixed ospfd segfault that happens sometimes, when neighbor is lost

hostapd 

updated to new upstream version 1.1

Changes between 4.x and 5.0-alpha1

(released 10 Nov 2012)

general

updated uClibc to 0.9.33.2

updated Linux kernel to version 3.2.33

used -O2 instead -Os for binaries

updated gcc in build environment to 4.6.3

removed autoconf/automake/libtool/nasm from tree (used ones that are available into build system)

kernel modules are gzipped to save memory

updated binutils to 2.22

core scripts/kernel options changes

support for vlans/bonding is moved from separate packages to basic packages (initrd, etc, root)

hotplug helper: added hardware re-check after device unplugging

busybox

enabled verbose help messages

enabled applets ifenslave, vconfig, bunzip2, unlzma, lzma, modinfo, setserial, beep, chat, mpstat, pstree, watch, nohup

bugfixes

atd: removed unneeded check of PID presence in init script

updated packages

bash 4.2

perl 5.14.2

iproute2 3.1.0

ipset 6.13

iptables 1.4.12.2

iscsitarget 1.4.20.2

libgmp 5.0.2

mdadm 3.2.2

mysql 5.1.60

net-snmp 5.7.1

nut 2.6.2

samba 3.6.7

smartmontools 5.42

shorewall/shorewall6 4.5.6.2

openssl 1.0.1c

hostapd 1.0

igb 3.4.8

tor 0.2.2.39

bird 1.3.8

new packages

accel-ppp

libdigest-sha1-perl

libgssglue

librpcsecgss

libmnl

argp-standalone

rng-tools (support for hardware random generator)

e1000e Intel network adapter driver

fwlogwatch - firewall analyzer, provided AS-IS (successfully tested notify mode)

removed packages due to integration 

vlan.lrp

lpthread.lrp

ifenslave.lrp

sysmon