All releases of Openwall GNU/*/Linux
Release Notes: GCC has been updated to 4.6.1, and packages of GMP, MPC, and MPFR have been added (these are arbitrary precision arithmetic libraries required by recent GCC releases). The system has been rebuilt with the new GCC. VLAN support has been added to networking startup scripts. Timezone data has been updated, primarily for the latest reconsideration by Ukraine. Security fixes have been made to pam_env (not used on default installs of Owl, but available for use). The hardlink(1) program has been added. New ISO images and OpenVZ container templates have been generated for i686 and x86_64.
Release Notes: Relevant updates recently tested in Owl-current have now been merged into 3.0-stable, including rebasing of the kernel on OpenVZ/RHEL 5.7, an RPM security fix, and a timezone data update (critical for Russia and certain other countries, and now updated for the latest reconsideration by Ukraine). Security fixes have been made to pam_env (not used on default installs of Owl, but available for use). The hardlink(1) program has been added. New ISO images and OpenVZ container templates have been generated for i686 and x86_64.
Release Notes: The Linux kernel has been rebased on OpenVZ's latest stable from their RHEL5.7 branch. A tzdata package with up-to-date timezone data has been included. A security issue in RPM has been fixed, and certain minor and development-focused changes have been made, including changes in preparation for a GCC update to 4.6.x.
Release Notes: The 3.0-stable branch has been updated to include almost all changes made and tested in Owl-current in recent months, including new package additions, and excluding only changes that would break binary compatibility with the 3.0 release (specifically, Owl-current's OpenSSL update and related changes are excluded from 3.0-stable). New ISO images and OpenVZ container templates have been generated for i686 and x86_64.
Release Notes: The Linux kernel has been rebased on OpenVZ's latest stable from their RHEL5-based branch, and support for LSISAS8208ELP disk controllers has been added. strace, Nmap, John the Ripper, iputils, iproute2, and LILO have been updated to new versions. Security fixes and security-relevant enhancements to Owl's packages of the kernel, iptables, RPM, and glibc have been made. New ISO images and OpenVZ container templates have been generated for i686 and x86_64.
Release Notes: Since the 3.0 release, a Vim packaging error has been corrected, a vulnerability in the patch(1) program (CVE-2010-4651) and two vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (CVE-2010-4180, CVE-2009-0590) have been fixed, vsftpd has been updated to 2.3.4 (which fixes CVE-2011-0762), and patchutils was updated to 0.3.2.
Release Notes: OpenSSL, vsftpd, and patchutils have been updated to the latest stable versions. The kernel has been updated to OpenVZ's latest from their "RHEL5 testing" branch (-238.5.1.el5.028stab085.2), with the usual changes. A bug in checksum calculation of fragmented ICMP echo requests has been fixed. The eepro100 driver has been disabled in favor of e100. New ISO images and OpenVZ container templates have been generated.
Release Notes: The kernel has been updated to OpenVZ's latest from their "RHEL5 testing" branch (-238.1.1.el5.028stab084.3), with the usual changes. A vulnerability in patch(1) has been fixed (CVE-2010-4651). The usb_modeswitch package has been added (along with usb_modeswitch-data and libusb-compat). New ISO images and OpenVZ container templates have been generated.
Release Notes: A move from RHEL 5.5-based to 5.6-based Linux/OpenVZ kernels has been made, support for non-raw ICMP sockets has been added to the kernel and made use of in ping (avoiding SUID root or capability), new packages have been added (ethtool, pv (Pipe Viewer), bridge-utils, libusb1, usbutils, and vconfig), Nmap, e2fsprogs, and LILO have been updated to the latest upstream versions, Nping has been enhanced to drop privileges, and other enhancements and corrections have been made. New ISO images and OpenVZ container templates have been generated.
Release Notes: Upgrades were improved and some security fixes were added to Perl. Since the last stable release, x86-64 architecture support, the ext4 filesystem, and xz compression support were added, a move to RHEL 5.5'ish Linux 2.6 kernels made, with the kernel RPM'ed in a way allowing for easy non-RPM'ed builds as well. OpenVZ container-based virtualization was integrated, "make iso" and "make vztemplate" targets added, a few new packages added and lots of packages updated, hardware compatibility improved and installation made more intuitive, and many other enhancements and corrections made. New ISOs were generated.
