Author: branden
Date: 2004-05-20 03:17:37 -0500 (Thu, 20 May 2004)
New Revision: 1420
Modified:
NEWS.xhtml
Log:
Add item announcing unplanned downtime and warning of Subversion security
flaw.
Modified: NEWS.xhtml
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--- NEWS.xhtml 2004-05-18 15:58:32 UTC (rev 1419)
+++ NEWS.xhtml 2004-05-20 08:17:37 UTC (rev 1420)
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@
<h2 id="news">News and announcements</h2>
+ <p>[20 May] <strong>The X Strike Force Subversion repository experienced
some brief downtime and has been upgraded
+ to Subversion 1.0.3, a security release.</strong> Client/server
compatibility is not affected, so people using
+ earlier versions of Subversion to connect to the repository should
experience no problems, but I strongly urge
+ fellow SVN repository administrators to restrict access to their SVN
repositories until they can install the fix.
+ Information about the <a
href="http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/082004.html";>vulnerability</a> is
available,
+ and updated packages are entering <a
href="http://incoming.debian.org/";><code>incoming.debian.org</code></a> as I
+ write this. <address>branden</address></p>
+
<p>[3 May] <strong>A "sanitized" checkout of XFree86 CVS HEAD as of
2004-02-12, with the files affected by the X-Oz
commit of 2003-10-08 deleted and dialed back to the safe revisions as
necessary, has been prepared, and is available
for <a
href="/xsf/XFree86/xfree86-CVS-pre-4.4.0-RC3-new-license-sanitized">browsing</a>
or <a
