From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> To: Debian Announcements <debian-announce@lists.debian.org> Subject: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r4 released Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 07:39:48 +0100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r4 released press@debian.org November 5th, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The fourth revision of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (codename `potato') has been released. This point release, revision 2.2r4, mostly includes security updates, along with a few corrections of serious bugs in the stable distribution. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the `apt' package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list is available at: <http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist> Security Updates ---------------- This release contains the following security updates, for which the Security Team has released the advisories listed below. Debian Security Advisory ID Package(s) DSA 006 zope DSA 007 zope DSA 043 zope DSA 046 exuberant-ctags DSA 048 samba DSA 049 cfingerd DSA 050 sendfile DSA 051 Netscape DSA 052 sendfile DSA 054 cron DSA 056 man-db DSA 057 gftp DSA 058 exim DSA 059 man-db DSA 060 fetchmail DSA 061 gnupg DSA 062 rxvt DSA 063 xinetd DSA 065 samba DSA 066 cfingerd DSA 068 openldap DSA 069 xloadimage DSA 071 fetchmail DSA 072 groff DSA 073 horde/imp DSA 074 wmaker DSA 075 netkit-telnet-ssl DSA 076 most DSA 077 squid DSA 078 slrn DSA 079 uucp DSA 080 htdig DSA 081 w3m, w3m-ssl DSA 082 xvt DSA 083 procmail DSA 084 gftp DSA 085 nvi, nvi-m17n Miscellaneous Bugfixes ---------------------- boot-floppies Important ARM and PowerPC corrections cslatex Important correction devscripts Fix for insecure regexp e2fsprogs Fix for serial console installs glibc Important correction Kernel Important security bugfix mac-fdisk/pmac-fdisk Important fix for PowerPC mailcrypt Compatibility upload for GnuPG 1.0.6 mailman Important correction quik Important fixes for PowerPC webalizer Fix for the Oct 5th problem xcal Important correction A complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with rationale is found on the preparation page: <http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r4/> URLs ---- A complete list of the packages that have changed with this release is found at: <http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r4/ChangeLog> <http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/Debian2.2r4/non-US/ChangeLog> The current stable distribution is found at: <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable> <ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable> Proposed updates to the stable distribution are found at: <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates> <ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/proposed-updates> Stable distribution information (release notes, errata, etc.): <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/> Security announcements and information: <http://security.debian.org/> About Debian ------------ The Debian Project is an organization of free software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating systems Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at <http://www.debian.org/> or send mail to <press@debian.org>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-announce-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org