Announcements

[aron]

A critical change was made. This notice valid if your system has vfs version below 0.1-366, and the upgrade will raise the version number to at least version 0.1-366 or above.
We highly recommend to upgrade your system as described below:

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# PATH=/run/bin:/run/usr/bin:$PATH
# pkman -Syu --disable-hooks
# /run/usr/bin/mkbic -Pv

The new features are introduced: openat(), faccessat(), etc...
Furthermore, the kernel uses the third parameter in the GetAddressView() system call (package: threos-kernel version 0.1-366).

[aron]

Improvements of buffer group management in df version 0.2.12:

• Fixed a security issue with the buffer groups
• Much less views are made for endpoint-programs

New packages became available (requires at least vfs version 0.1-368):

• patch
• diffutils

[aron]

A new set of packages were uploaded. The upgrade shall work fine with a simple upgrade:

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# pkman -Syu

[aron]

The pkman (from version 0.2.65) implements a deferred package integrity validation mechanism. This will make the pkman faster.

[aron]

A new set of packages were uploaded, includes several bug and security fixes. The upgrade shall work fine with a simple upgrade, after the upgrade, the system should be restarted, because the loadersvc is also affected:

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# pkman -Syu

[aron]

Numerous packages in the core repository has been upgraded. Also, the following packages were added:

• libedit
• libssh2
• ssh2-tools
• libunistring

Note to bsd-utils: the make program has renamed to bsd-make.

[aron]

New package added: curl
Other packages were upgraded.

[aron]

New packages: argon2, make (GNU Make)
Updated core system packages to fix various bugs.

[aron]

New packages: sed (GNU sed), grep (GNU grep), lz4, cgames, libxml2
Changes: new vfs, and findutils gives better error messages around the missing fork()s

Due to the new grep and sed packages, the old versions in bsd-utils were renamed to bsd-grep and bsd-sed respectively.

[aron]

Fixed the dependencies of the libarchive package.