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4 <TITLE>History and Bug fixes</TITLE>
8 <center><h1>History and List of Bugfixes</h1></center>
10 <p>This is the short release history of PicoBSD, as well as the list of bugs
11 which were found. Some of them were already corrected, so that you should read
12 the list before reporting a new one.</p>
14 <p>We tried to make this software bug-free, but life is life... Sorry for the
20 1999.05.10: Slightly refreshed version to match 3.2-RELEASE.
21 No significant changes (yet)... :-(
27 1999.01.19: A lot of fixes related to architectural changes in
28 3.0-current code. Most importantly, we run now ELF kernel and we use
29 the new bootloader. This is most probably the last release of PicoBSD in
30 its present shape - the next version will (hopefully) become a part of
31 normal release building process.
38 1999.01.15: Well, it seems that this version was for developers
39 only... ;-) It was abandoned when recent massive changes in -current
40 demanded more serious measures...
43 1998.10.15: Small fixes and updates to match the 3.0-RELEASE
44 source tree. The binary snapshot built from 3.0-R sources will
52 1998.10.12: Two small buglets has been discovered, and fixed in CVS
53 copy of the sources. 'kget' utility was dumping core due to unexpected
54 change in behaviour of dumpnlist. 'ns' utility poorly handled other
55 netmasks than class C network.
56 <p>I prepared new tar archive containing these corrected sources.</p>
59 1998.09.26: Yes, this took more than just "a few days"... :-(. This is
60 mainly a bugfix release of 0.4 - almost no new features were added,
61 except the 'dmesg' to examine kernel messages buffer. Also, all
62 programs are compiled in ELF format. SNMP services are provided now
65 <p>Unfortunately, I had to remove DEVFS for now - there are too many
66 problems with it for now. This also means that we're back to creating
67 device nodes manually, and chances are that the one you need is
75 1998.08.28: Serious bug was discovered in MFS code (thanks to Eric
76 P. Scott for detailed bug report!). Though the bug itself is in
77 FreeBSD-current kernel code and not in the PicoBSD-specific sources,
78 it makes PicoBSD very fragile and easy to crash.
79 <p>Some people are already working on it, so expect the fixed version
80 in a few days. Its availability will be noted here, on this page,
81 so keep an eye on it.</p>
84 1998.08.27: PicoBSD source tree is now a part of official FreeBSD
85 source tree (you can find it in src/release/picobsd). From now on,
86 all the fixes and changes will go directly to this tree, and from
87 time to time I'll be preparing a stand-alone snapshot of the sources.
90 1998.08.19: PicoBSD 0.4 released.
91 <p>New features include: NATd,
92 netstat, DEVFS/SLICE instead of standard /dev, additional network
93 drivers, and several minor fixes. Distribution contains also
94 a collection of small versions of system programs (TinyWare), among
95 them custom init(8).</p>
96 <p>I added also the fourth type of setup - 'router' - which is a
97 specialized version of PicoBSD that focuses on providing as small
98 as possible router solution.</p>
101 <h3>PicoBSD 0.31</h3>
104 1998.03.28: Some people reported that the binary files (*.flp) were
105 being corrupted during download because their browsers assumed that
106 these are text files. I changed the names to *.bin - their contents
110 1998.03.20: PicoBSD 0.31 released. New features include: SNMP daemon,
111 better creation of /kernel.config, some other minor fixes. Massive
112 changes in the building scripts. I also removed vn(4) driver from
113 "net" and "isp" floppies.
117 <p>The following bugs were found in this release of PicoBSD:</p>
119 <li> 1998.02.27: A bug in kget(8) utility caused it to dump core in certain
120 situations. As a consequence, it wasn't possible to save the changes
121 made in UserConfig (-c). This will be corrected in the next release (or
124 <li> 1998.02.24: Wrongly sized MFS caused the passwd(1) on "net" type
125 floppy to fail because of lack of space for temporary files. This bug
126 affected only "net" floppies, and of course the scripts ("2000" looks
127 quite similar to "2200" :-(( ). Also, the 'update' script didn't work
129 <p> This was fixed the same day, and the corrected files are: pb03en1.zip,
130 pb03pn1.zip, and pbsd-s031.tgz respectively. They are now under standard
131 links on the main page of PicoBSD project, so if you downloaded after
132 this date, you shouldn't worry.</p>
133 <p> Please check that you have the fixed versions - the archive name should
134 contain the tiny number, such as "pb03en<b>1</b>.zip", or
135 pbsd-s03<b>1</b>.tgz".</p>
137 1998.02.15: PicoBSD 0.3 released. This is the first version that I can
138 truly recommend - previous one was too buggy... :-)
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