This is a brief summary of bugs fixed between Ubuntu 8.04.3 and 8.04.4. This summary covers only changes to packages in "main" and "restricted", which account for all packages in the officially-supported CD images; there are further changes to various packages in "universe" and "multiverse". Some of these fixes were by Ubuntu developers directly, while others were by upstream developers and backported to Ubuntu. For full details, see the individual package changelogs.
In addition to the bugs listed below, this update includes all security updates from the Ubuntu Security Notice list affecting Ubuntu 8.04 LTS that were released up to and including January 20, 2010. The last updates included were USN-889-1 (gzip vulnerabilities) and USN-890-1 (Expat vulnerabilities).
Top bugsThese changes address very high-profile issues, usually with many reports.
gvfs, nautilus
Fix handling of SMB/CIFS shares on the desktop
Installation bugsUpdated CD images are provided with this release, including fixes for some installation bugs. (Many installation problems are hardware-specific; for those, see "Hardware support bugs" below.)
cdrom-detect, debian-installer-utils
Add support for using the contents of the CD image on a USB device with the cdrom-detect/try-usb=true preseed option
grub
cache_coherency.diff: Flush buffer cache on disk devices after writing to any partition devices they contain, so grub can be installed onto JFS partitions
lilo-installer
Grab change from version 1.27 to fix check for lilo-installer/skip
Upgrade bugsThese changes fix upgrade issues, smoothing the way for future upgrades to later releases of Ubuntu.
adept
Update kubuntu_33_skip_intrepid.diff to support hardy to karmic upgrades
tzdata
Fix version number ordering between Ubuntu releases by renaming orig.tar.gz
Hardware support bugsConsiderable work has been done in Ubuntu 8.04.4 on improving support for many specific items of hardware.
linux
init: Add extra mark_rodata_ro quirk for Acer Aspire One
linux
USB: EHCI: fix remote-wakeup regression
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24
rt2x00: Hardcode TX ack timeout and consume time
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24
Report TX retry and fail count to mac80211 in rt73usb
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
include igb support for Intel 82576
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
Fix the problem with the microphone of the Lenovo webcam
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
Merge WEXT scan capabilities to iwlwifi
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
Add support in e1000e for a couple of ICH10 PCI IDs
Desktop bugsThese changes mainly affect desktop installations of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and other Ubuntu-based systems.
firefox-3.0
fix firefox crash in NSSRWLock_LockRead_Util()
nss
fix regression in stack memory protections caused by unmarked assembly
nss
add debian/libnss3-1d/usr/lib/nss to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the shlibsign invocation used to sign libs in debian/rules, fixing a package build failure
pidgin
Backport support for version 16 of the Yahoo! Messenger Protocol. The old authentication mechanism was disabled, meaning that it can no longer be used for signing in to Yahoo! services
sudo
add /usr/lib/kde4/bin to secure_path
In addition, these packages were upgraded to new upstream versions, fixing several bugs not explicitly listed here.
nspr
New upstream version: 4.7.5
nss
new upstream release 3.12.3.1 RTM (NSS_3_12_3_1_RTM)
Server bugsThese changes mainly affect installations of Ubuntu on server systems.
freeradius
Fix 'reload' action so that it doesn't just stop the daemon
linux
x86: use cpu_khz for loops_per_jiffy calculation
linux
Enable multicast routing (including PIM1 and PIM2) for hppa, ia64, sparc
net-snmp
Fix flooding syslog - Syslog fills with hundreds of these errors if you have a network interface, e.g. eth2, with no IP address, but you have an alias, e.g. eth2:1, that does have an IP address (and netmask)
net-snmp
Point to the right place for /etc/sensors3.conf
net-snmp
Fix for Counter64 in perl subagent
net-snmp
Fix python segmentation fault
net-snmp
Suppresses annoying registrations in startup
postgresql-common
pg_maintenance: Fix $PATH to include /usr/bin, so that the cron job can run the "id" command
postgresql-common
PgCommon.pm, change_ugid(): Use /usr/bin/id instead of manual parsing with getgrent(), which is reportedly magnitudes faster for environments with a large number of groups in remote databases
vblade
Fix init script failure because pid file is not created properly
vblade
Backport fix from vblade-15 for vblade discovery bug
Other bugsA number of other changes were made in this release to fix significant bugs all across the Ubuntu system, or to make other well-understood improvements.
devscripts
Update rmadison's Ubuntu URL to cope with people.ubuntu.com -> people.canonical.com; invoke curl in such a way as to follow redirects by default
glibc
use stack guard randomization patch from Intrepid to eliminate use of a static sentinel
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
unionfs: enable delete=all mount option LP: #445673
tzdata
Bangladesh DST change (effective from 2010-01-01)
tzdata
Fiji will use DST this year (effective from Nov 29)
tzdata
bdst-workaround.diff: Move end date to 2038, so that it works on 32 bit systems, too
tzdata
Adjust DST rules for Argentina
In addition, these packages were upgraded to new upstream versions, fixing several bugs not explicitly listed here.
tzdata
New timezone data 2009n
HardyReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/8.04.4 (last edited 2010-01-29 02:47:26 by c83-254-157-23)
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