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

Revision as of 13:08, 25 November 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

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