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5 <TITLE>History and Bug fixes</TITLE>
9 <center><h1>History and List of Bugfixes</h1></center>
11 <p>This is the short release history of PicoBSD, as well as the list of bugs
12 which were found. Some of them were already corrected, so that you should read
13 the list before reporting a new one.</p>
15 <p>We tried to make this software bug-free, but life is life... Sorry for the
21 1999.05.10: Slightly refreshed version to match 3.2-RELEASE.
22 No significant changes (yet)... :-(
28 1999.01.19: A lot of fixes related to architectural changes in
29 3.0-current code. Most importantly, we run now ELF kernel and we use
30 the new bootloader. This is most probably the last release of PicoBSD in
31 its present shape - the next version will (hopefully) become a part of
32 normal release building process.
39 1999.01.15: Well, it seems that this version was for developers
40 only... ;-) It was abandoned when recent massive changes in -current
41 demanded more serious measures...
44 1998.10.15: Small fixes and updates to match the 3.0-RELEASE
45 source tree. The binary snapshot built from 3.0-R sources will
53 1998.10.12: Two small buglets has been discovered, and fixed in CVS
54 copy of the sources. 'kget' utility was dumping core due to unexpected
55 change in behaviour of dumpnlist. 'ns' utility poorly handled other
56 netmasks than class C network.
57 <p>I prepared new tar archive containing these corrected sources.</p>
60 1998.09.26: Yes, this took more than just "a few days"... :-(. This is
61 mainly a bugfix release of 0.4 - almost no new features were added,
62 except the 'dmesg' to examine kernel messages buffer. Also, all
63 programs are compiled in ELF format. SNMP services are provided now
66 <p>Unfortunately, I had to remove DEVFS for now - there are too many
67 problems with it for now. This also means that we're back to creating
68 device nodes manually, and chances are that the one you need is
76 1998.08.28: Serious bug was discovered in MFS code (thanks to Eric
77 P. Scott for detailed bug report!). Though the bug itself is in
78 FreeBSD-current kernel code and not in the PicoBSD-specific sources,
79 it makes PicoBSD very fragile and easy to crash.
80 <p>Some people are already working on it, so expect the fixed version
81 in a few days. Its availability will be noted here, on this page,
82 so keep an eye on it.</p>
85 1998.08.27: PicoBSD source tree is now a part of official FreeBSD
86 source tree (you can find it in src/release/picobsd). From now on,
87 all the fixes and changes will go directly to this tree, and from
88 time to time I'll be preparing a stand-alone snapshot of the sources.
91 1998.08.19: PicoBSD 0.4 released.
92 <p>New features include: NATd,
93 netstat, DEVFS/SLICE instead of standard /dev, additional network
94 drivers, and several minor fixes. Distribution contains also
95 a collection of small versions of system programs (TinyWare), among
96 them custom init(8).</p>
97 <p>I added also the fourth type of setup - 'router' - which is a
98 specialized version of PicoBSD that focuses on providing as small
99 as possible router solution.</p>
102 <h3>PicoBSD 0.31</h3>
105 1998.03.28: Some people reported that the binary files (*.flp) were
106 being corrupted during download because their browsers assumed that
107 these are text files. I changed the names to *.bin - their contents
111 1998.03.20: PicoBSD 0.31 released. New features include: SNMP daemon,
112 better creation of /kernel.config, some other minor fixes. Massive
113 changes in the building scripts. I also removed vn(4) driver from
114 "net" and "isp" floppies.
118 <p>The following bugs were found in this release of PicoBSD:</p>
120 <li> 1998.02.27: A bug in kget(8) utility caused it to dump core in certain
121 situations. As a consequence, it wasn't possible to save the changes
122 made in UserConfig (-c). This will be corrected in the next release (or
125 <li> 1998.02.24: Wrongly sized MFS caused the passwd(1) on "net" type
126 floppy to fail because of lack of space for temporary files. This bug
127 affected only "net" floppies, and of course the scripts ("2000" looks
128 quite similar to "2200" :-(( ). Also, the 'update' script didn't work
130 <p> This was fixed the same day, and the corrected files are: pb03en1.zip,
131 pb03pn1.zip, and pbsd-s031.tgz respectively. They are now under standard
132 links on the main page of PicoBSD project, so if you downloaded after
133 this date, you shouldn't worry.</p>
134 <p> Please check that you have the fixed versions - the archive name should
135 contain the tiny number, such as "pb03en<b>1</b>.zip", or
136 pbsd-s03<b>1</b>.tgz".</p>
138 1998.02.15: PicoBSD 0.3 released. This is the first version that I can
139 truly recommend - previous one was too buggy... :-)
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