[Announcement] linux-kernel v2.0.39

From: David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 17:48:04 EST


Everyone laughs, I guess. The 2.0.39final didn't became the final
release (could've told you so...) The good thing? Well, some bugs were
found and removed. But this is it. Enjoy!

Changelog for v2.0.39

o Fix memory-leak in af_unix (Jon Nelson,
                                                 Alan Cox, me)
o Added headerfiles for devfs (Richard Gooch)
        to simplify backports of
        drivers
o Fix a bug involving syncronous (Jari Ruusu)
        writes and -ENOSPC that could
        cause file-corruption
o Added new versions of PCI-2000 (Mark Ebersole)
o Added new versions of PCI-2220i (Mark Ebersole)
o Fixed a few typos in PCI-2000, (me)
        PCI-2220i, PSI-240i and related
        files
o Removed unused variable in xd.c (me)
o Renamed the initfunctions in (me)
        pi2.c and pt.c, as their names
        clashed with paride-names
        (obviously, noone uses paride
         together with hamradio)
o Changed most references to (me)
        vger.rutgers.edu to
        vger.kernel.org
o Fix the few vger.rutgers.edu (Daniel Roesen)
        references that I missed
o Fix a bug in af_unix that wrote to (Michael Deutschmann)
        a socket after freeing it
        (aka the Win9x-related oops)
o Fixed typo in Documentation (Martin Douda)
o IDE-patches (Andre Hedrick)
o Fixes for the IDE-patches (Andries Brouwier,
o Move memory-offset for dynamic (Michael Deutschsmann)
        executables
o Fixes to the Cyclades-driver (Ivan Passos)
o Fix for a bug in ext2 (Stephen C. Tweedie)
o Added marketing-names for 3Com (Yann Dirson, me)
        NICs in drivers/net/Config.in
o Fix for a buf in smbfs (Rick Bressier)
o Large-disk fixes (Andries Brouwer)
o Wavelan-driver cleanup & bugfixes (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Security-fixes (Solar Designer)
o Quota-fixes (Jan Kara)
o Fixed GPF using IPsec Masquerade (Rudolf Lippan)
o Fixed Config.in bugs in (Marc Martinez)
        drivers/net and drivers/isdn
o Added IPX-routing of NetBIOS packages (Jan Rafaj)
o Fix for a bug in paride (Wolfram Gloger)
o Fix an erroneous printk in ip_fw.c (Todd Sabin)
o Fix for IP multicast on WAN-adapters (Matthew Grant)
o Big updates to MAINTAINERS (me)
o Big updates to CREDITS (me, others)
o Various updates in Documentation/* (me)
o Styled up all Configuration-files (me)
        in a similar manner to newer
        v2.3 kernels, and various other
        cleanups
o Updated CodingStyle to the one used (me)
        in recent v2.3 kernels
o Backported nls_8859-14 (me)
o Added support for sparse superblocks (Theodore T'so)
o Fix for the ping -s 65468 exploit (Andrea Arcangeli, others)

Enjoy!

/David Weinehall
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