Summer 1995 Release Features

The Summer 1995 Release focuses on stabilizing the existing base across all platforms. As a part of that, there will not be any major changes in the existing base, although bug fixes, consolidation of libraries, and similar "clean up" efforts will be made.

The major effort will go into developing a stable source tree and recompiling the complete tree on all platforms.

This is Release 8.0A on all platforms in the summer. The major revision number indicates that this consists of programs compiled and verified as part of the Athena source tree. It does not indicate that there are significant new features.

One area which will have significant new features is EZ.

Items which will change

  1. AUIS 6.3, with HTML features (New EZ) (wdc)
  2. Revised printing software
  3. running vold on SUNs
  4. revised mtools to work with vold
  5. /etc/services ORACLE lines
  6. shared memory on SUNs for MAE, Oracle
  7. Basic SGI services
  8. AIX 3.2.5 in RS6000
  9. Public Workstation Root Password
  10. telnetd -a off in inetd.conf
The schedule currently is

Schedule as of 6/8

  1. Test--June 28
  2. Release--July 25