From:	 Trustix Secure Linux Advisor <tsl@trustix.com>
To:	 tsl-announce@trustix.org
Subject: Announcing Trustix Secure Linux BETA 1.4.90
Date:	 Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:10:53 +0200


This is the second BETA release for the upcoming Trustix Secure Linux 1.5
release.  It has version 1.4.90, and is nicknamed "ADSL" (guess why :).

It is in serveral ways INCOMPATIBLE with 1.2, and you do not want to
just continue without knowing a little more of what is ahead.

Compared to 1.4.80, we have fixed a number of bugs.  If you liked 1.4.80,
you will love 1.4.90 :)

If it breaks your system, let us know so we can prevent it from happening
to others.  But don't say you didn't know it would :-)


So, still here?  Good.  I'll start the list:

The following packages have incompatible changes:

* Swup.  Config file changed.
* Postfix.  Going from the last stable to the first release of Postfix
         is a huge step and a lot of features added.
* Apache.  Instead of two separate .src.rpm's, there is now one.  And if you
         need SSL, mod_ssl is there for you.
* Syslog.  Now being run as a user as opposed to root.  Meaning it will need
         write permissions to the logs you want it to write to.
* RPM.   If you upgrade, you need to start with rpm.  And rebuild it's
         database.

Version numbers:

We changed the version numbers on a few dated packages as we got inspired
by Debian.  This affects the following packages:
* Postfix
* Shadow-utils
* Iputils
* Console-tools.

You will need to help swup (or the installer for that matter) in the task
of upgrading these.


Now for the good stuff:
We've added (in no particular order):

* SWUP.  We know you will love it, we sure do.
* RP-PPPoe.  (Did I mention I just got ADSL?)
* PPP support.
* Postfix-TLS.  
* PHP4.  With support for god knows what.
* MySQL.
* RPM 3.0.6 with support for RPM v4 packages.
* Netatalk.
* Kernel 2.2.19.  2.4 will have to wait
* pump.  You can now get dynamic IP addresses also on your servers to
  confuse your users.
* Modutils 2.4.  Guess why :)
* netcat.  "nc your-printer 9100 < file.ps" is good printer spooling.
  I think.
* wget.
* jwhois.
* libcap.
* bonnie.  Time your disks.
* rdate (we think)
* Python-bindings for OpenSSL.
* Guess we left out something.

In addition to the usual load of package updates.


Stuff we left out:
* OpenLDAP is still in 1.2 series.  There is a new 2 series out, but we
  found no way of getting a smooth upgrade.
* perl.  Version 5.6.1 is out, but again we found no clean way of making an
  rpm for it.  Sorry.

And yes, there are some imaginary unresolved dependencies during install.
Just ignore them and they will go away.


Please test it, and give us feedback so we can get rid of most of the bugs
before 1.5.

So where on earth is this?  On our servers, it is available at

http://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/beta/
ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/beta/
http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/beta/

Some mirrors have it, others don't and I don't blame them :-)


Erlend··
-- 
Erlend Midttun                                       erlendbm@trustix.com
Product Development Manager, Trustix Secure Linux
http://www.tihlde.org/~erlendbm/                         A Unix Admin
              Where do you want to fly today?  Linux.

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