Difference between revisions of "Bering-uClibc 6.1.x - Changelog"

Revision as of 17:50, 27 June 2017

Changes between 6.1.0-beta1 and 6.1.0-alpha2

(unreleased)

kernel

updated to upstream version 4.9.34

openvpn

updated to upstream version 2.4.3

perl

updated to upstream version 5.26.0

sqlite

updated to upstream version 3.19.03

strace

updated to upstream version 4.17

New Package:

libndp

It contains a library which provides a wrapper for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol and a tool named ndptool for sending and receiving NDP messages.

Changes between 6.1.0-alpha2 and 6.1.0-alpha1

(released 18 Jun 2017)

general

uClibc-ng updated to upstream version 1.0.25

Add support for armv8a architecture aka Raspberry Pi 3 (and probably Raspberry Pi 2, though this hasn't been tested)

kernel

updated to version 4.9.33

disable built-in ixgbe

disable CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option (breaks 3rd-party modules)

re-add support for Raspberry Pi Model 1B

accel-ppp

update to 1.11.1, enable vlan_mon building

bird

update to 1.6.3

ca-certificates

move ca-certificates.crt from /etc/ssl/certs to /usr/share/ca-certicficates/mozilla

link /usr/share/ca-certicficates/mozilla/ca-certificates.crt to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

Therefor ca-certificates.crt will not be saved in configdb.lrp (approx. 200kb) and will alleviate future updates of ca-certificates.

clamav

updated to upstream version 0.99.2

dhcpd

updated to upstream version 4.3.5 and added ldap support

iproute2

updated to upstream version 4.9.0

ixgbe

run depmod after module copying

kismet

updated to upstream version 2016-07-RC1

libnl3

updated to upstream version 3.3.0

minicom

updated to upstream version 2.7.1

monit

updated to upstream version 5.22.0

nfs-utils

updated to upstream version 1.3.4 (Note: Does currently fail on x86_64 images)

enabled nfsv4 support

disabled tcp-wrappers

openvpn

updated to upstream version 2.4.2

ser2net

updated to upstream version 3.4

shorewall[6]

updated to upstream version 5.1.4.1

strongswan

updated to upstream version 5.5.3

syslinux

replace mtools/syslinux with linux/syslinux, fixes codepage issues when installing syslinux

tinc

updated to upstream version 1.0.31

tor

updated to upstream version 0.3.0.8

New Packages:

libaio

Library for doing asynchronous I/O

libtirpc

The libtirpc package contains libraries that support programs that use the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) API.

rpcbind

The rpcbind program is a replacement for portmap. It is required for import or export of Network File System (NFS) shared directories.

sqlite

SQLite is a self-contained, high-reliability, embedded, full-featured, public-domain, SQL database engine; required for NFSv4 support.

Changes between 6.1.0-alpha1 and 6.0.0

(released 5 March 2017)

general

uClibc-ng updated to upstream version 1.0.22

replace full blown libiconv package (approx 650kb) with uClibc-ng 1.0.22 implementation of libiconv (adding a few kb to initrd).

initrd: merge root.lrp and config.lrp into initrd.lrp

update gcc to 5.4.0

update binutils to 2.27

kernel

updated to upstream version 4.9.13 (i486, i686 and x86_64 versions only)

improve building for architectures with device tree's

bmon

updated to upstream version 4.0

e2fsprogs

updated to upstream version 1.43.4

igb

updated to 5.3.5.4

krb5

updated to upstream version 1.15

libevent

updated to upstream version 2.1.8

lzo

updated to upstream version 2.10

monit

updated to upstream version 5.20.0

openvpn

updated to upstream version 2.4.0

ser2net

updated to upstream version 3.3

shorewall

updated to upstream version 5.1.1

NOTE: /etc/shorewall/masq has been replaced by /etc/shorewall/snat config file

Therefor you'll need to run "shorewall update" before reboot; have a look into the

eventual error messages and resolve issues, save the configuration before reboot.

After reboot remove /etc/shorewall/masq.bak and save the config again to get rid of that file.

sysstat

updated to upstream version 11.4.3

tor

updated to upstream version 0.2.9.10

unbound

updated to upstream version 1.6.0

usbmodeswitch

updated to upstream version 2.5.0

xtables-addons

updated to upstream version 2.12

New Packages:

ca-certificates

ca-certificates provides a list of Certification Authorities. It is based on the Debian package, which itself provides the ones from Mozilla (version 20161130)

dehydrated

ACME client implementation for Let's Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/)