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Date:      Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:58:09 +0530
From:      Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
To:        "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit
Message-ID:  <b2807d040807192028w1a84a5bfn4b5789d936937bf9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200807200321.VAA17553@lariat.net>
References:  <200807200230.UAA17164@lariat.net> <4882AAC1.6010501@delphij.net> <200807200321.VAA17553@lariat.net>

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Brett,

You need to understand the release engineering process of FreeeBSD.
The release edition is essential created from the stabe edition. 7.1R
would not be something new which is *not* present on 7-STABLE today.

In addition, while a particular branch is alive (not declared as end
of life) all security updates are backported. The fix which you are
looking for is also present on 7.0-R so you may well install that.

Thanks
Subhro

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote:
> I'd like to install a fully tested 7.1-RELEASE, rather than
> a snapshot of 7-STABLE (in which there have, apparently, been
> some problems due to driver updates and work on the TCP stack).
>
> Alas, I haven't seen any schedule or "to do" list for the release
> process yet -- just a note saying that 7.1-RELEASE is scheduled
> for August.
>
> I'm sure that a lot of folks are in the same boat as I: they'd
> like to start with a complete release that doesn't need patching
> and recompiling.
>
> --Brett Glass
>
> At 09:02 PM 7/19/2008, Xin LI wrote:
>
>>Yes.  FreeBSD 7-STABLE and RELENG_7_0 errata branches are already
>>patched and not vulnerable to the problem.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>- --
>>Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>    http://www.delphij.net/
>
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-- 
Subhro Kar
Software Engineer
Dynamic Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
EPY-3, Sector: V
Salt Lake City
700091
India



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