[ANNOUNCE] T2 SDE 6.0.2 - "Continuity"

Hi all,

we are pleased to announce the maintenance release T2 6.0.2 
named "Continuity".

It also comes with some updated packages, but mostly security updates, bug 
fixes and some improvements!

The release primarily focuse to iron out all known sparc64 issues for smooth 
support on Sun T1 Niagara CPU systems such as the T1000 and T2000 - but also 
includes non SPARC security fixes, updates and improvements along the lines.

Prebuilt ISO images of the minimal target are available for SPARC64 at:
 
  http://osiris.tfh-berlin.de/mirror/t2/stable/6.0.2/
  http://nexus.tfh-berlin.de/t2/binary/stable/6.0.2/
 
Please note our updated roadmap and known issue lists at: 
http://www.t2-project.org/releases/
 
For more information please check out the full anounncement below.
 
= About T2 =
 
T2 is not a common Linux distribution - it is a flexible Open Source System 
Development Environment, allowing the creation of custom distributions with 
bleeding edge technology.
 
With T2 you can define targets for various purposes, ranging from embedded
Linux systems with a few MB of size over server configurations to a full 
desktop system featuring X.Org foundation, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.Org and 
many more. Those targets can be compiled for use on the most common 
architectures: Alpha, ARM, HPPA/HPPA64, IA64, MIPS/MIPS64, PowerPC/PowerPC64, 
SPARC/SPARC64, SuperH, x86/x86-64 - theoretically any GCC/Linux supported 
one.
 
You can find more info about T2 at http://www.t2-project.org/about.html,  and 
the supported architectures at http://www.t2-project.org/platforms.html.
 
= T2 6.0 Tree (Branch) Overview =
 
This release includes bug fixes, security fixes, updates and even some
improvements to the SDE. Most notable are:
 
        * multilib gcc library installation was fixed
        * sparc64 TLS was fixed
        * gcc C++ STL build with uclibc was fixed
        * building a uclibc based build with single dietlibc binaries was fixed
        * the installer now checks the terminals to use and it is no longer
           possible to enter invalid device names, such as typos
        * grub auto-setup for seperate /boot partition was fixed
        * the terminal beep is now globally configurable
        * the python imaging (PIL) headers are now installed as expected
          (which fixes some packages such as skencil)

You can find more info about the 6.0 series at
http://www.t2-project.org/releases/6.0.html
 
= Getting T2 6.0.2 =
 
The source tarball of 6.0.2 release can be found at:
 
  http://dl.exactcode.de/t2/t2-6.0.2.tar.bz2
 
or via svn:
 
  svn co http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/tags/6.0.2 t2-6.0.2
 
ISO images of minimal T2 for sparc64 where created with this release and can 
be found, as usual at:
 
  http://osiris.tfh-berlin.de/mirror/t2/stable/6.0.2/
  http://nexus.tfh-berlin.de/t2/binary/stable/6.0.2/

Important note: we recommend to use 6.0 branch to stay up-to-date with
the latest bug-fix and security updates, you can grab it:
 
  svn co http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/branches/6.0 6.0-branch

Previous 6.0 installation can be updated from this source via the build
system running:

./scripts/Emerge-Pkg -system

= T2 6.0.2 Changes =
 
Generated statistics (6.0.1-> 6.0.2):
 
There where 28 changesets with 58 lines of commit messages.
Approximately 24 packages got updates and 6 issues fixed.

Commits by contributor:
     15  rene
     13  aldas

(This considers which contributors did fixes and merges on 6.0 branch,
 not necessarily who originally did the contribution to trunk!)

Toolchain updates:
        * none
 
= T2 6.0.2 ChangeLog =

*) 2006-12-07

Rene Rebe:

r21184  * set tags/6.0.2 version to 6.0.2
r21183  * tagged 6.0.2
r21182  * merged r19758 from trunk: added a STONE configuration option for the
          console beep interval and set the default to 0
r21181  * merged r21147 from trunk: fixed x86/grub stone module to correctly
          determine the bootpath during the auto-setup procedure
r21180  * merged r20540 from trunk: added a safeguard to the install init to
          check if the supplied console devices are actual character devices

*) 2006-12-06

Rene Rebe:

r21140  * merged r21136  from trunk: fixed gcc sparc64 TLS
r21139  * merged r21064 from trunk: some gcc.conf cleanups

*) 2006-11-22

Rene Rebe:

r20960  * merged r18289 and r20209 from trunk: fixed gcc to not apply the
          libgcc_s MULTILIB workaround for sparc64 with 32bit default

*) 2006-11-21

Aldas Nabazas:

r20944  * security update: added libpng/CVE-2006-5793.patch in branch/6.0
r20943  * merged r20937 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated mod_auth_krb5 (5.0rc7 -> 5.2)
          security update: CVE-2006-5989
r20942  * merged r20713, r20936 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated dovecot (1.0rc10 -> 1.0rc15)
          security update: CVE-2006-5973
r20939  * merged r20803, r20854 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated trac (0.10.1 -> 0.10.2)
          removed trac.conf, it breaks everything instead of helping at all
          security update: CVE-2006-5878
r20938  * merged r20787 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated trac (0.9.4 -> 0.10.1)
          security update: CVE-2006-5848

Rene Rebe:

r20929  * merged r20928 from trunk: always peal off the last host target
          triplet part in the dietlibc parse-config so it works also with
          uclibc as primary C library
r20926  * merged r20924 and r20925:
          * fixed pil to install the header files (at the location where Debian 
installs them)
          * adapted skencil to use the PIL headers where we install them, now

*) 2006-11-13

Rene Rebe:

r20823  * merged r18312 from trunk: workaround for the uclibc gcc patch

*) 2006-11-09

Aldas Nabazas:

r20750  * merged r20749 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated seamonkey (1.0.5 -> 1.0.6)
          security update

*) 2006-11-08

Aldas Nabazas:

r20737  * merged r20725 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated openssh (4.4p1 -> 4.5p1)
          security update

Rene Rebe:

r20730  * updated thunderbird (1.5.0.7 -> 1.5.0.8)
r20729  * updated firefox (1.5.0.7 -> 1.5.0.8)

*) 2006-11-07

Aldas Nabazas:

r20717  * merged r19780 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated dvd+rwtools (6.0 -> 7.0)

*) 2006-11-04

Aldas Nabazas:

r20664  * security update: added php/CVE-2006-5465.patch in branch/6.0
r20663  * security update: added ruby/CVE-2006-5467.patch in branch/6.0
        * updated copyright notes

*) 2006-11-03

Aldas Nabazas:

r20649  * merged r20639 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated bind (9.3.2-P1 -> 9.3.2-P2)

*) 2006-11-02

Aldas Nabazas:

r20632  * merged r20626 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated wireshark (0.99.3a -> 0.99.4)
          security update: CVE-2006-4574, CVE-2006-4805, CVE-2006-5468, 
CVE-2006-5469, CVE-2006-5740
r20628  * merged r20547 from trunk to branches/6.0:
          updated mysql (5.0.26 -> 5.0.27)

*) 2006-10-30

Rene Rebe:

r20570  * merged r20568 from trunk: fixed glibc.conf to not rely on a tar with
          wildcard matching enabled by default. Thefore just specify the
          offending, to be skipped files.
r20569  * merged r20384 from trunk: fixed Emerge-Pkg -system and -repository
          updates to not build blacklisted packages (such as glibc and co)

Thanks go to every contributer, tester, user as well as our sponsors for their 
ongoing contribution, help and patience.

Special thanks go to Aldas Nabazas for his ongoing security review.

On behalf of the T2 stable team,
  René Rebe - ExactCODE

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  http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
  +49 (0)30 / 255 897 45

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