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Jan. 22, 2009
 Ubuntu has released the second "maintenance update" to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (long-term support). The 8.04.2 LTS release features some 200 software updates, as well as new i386 and amd64 installation CDs aimed at reducing the amount of code that must be downloaded following a fresh install.
Launched in April of this year, Ubuntu 8.04 will be supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until April 2011 on desktops, and until April 2013 on servers.
Highlighted updates, with links to associated bug database entries, include:- Installer Updates
- Create sambashare group and add the initial user to it (238224)
- Permissions on some system files and directories were set wrong when installing from Desktop CDs. For users tracking the recommended hardy-updates repository, this issue has already been corrected post-install (288479)
- Record the partition table as changed when a single partition's file system type has changed, fixing bootloader installation failures when installing onto existing partitions (149832)
- Fix writing of /var/log/installer/oem-id in OEM mode (251751)
- Use the correct mirror for -security in the event of apt-setup/security_host being preseeded (306356)
- Desktop Updates
- Fix a race which can lead to a gvfs-fuse-daemon crash when closing session (235698)
- Prompt for restarting session when installing samba to take into account sambashare group membership and the need for libpam-smbpass to create NTLM password hash (212098)
- Fix undeletion of menu items with the alacarte menu editor (225941)
- Stop/start anacron on suspend/resume and on power-cycle (249220)
- Fix hang on "Loading..." when opening a PDF file (256048)
- Fix incorrect handling of authentication cases leading to excessive gnome-keyring CPU usage (236171)
- Fix printing to remote ipp:// printers (258104)
- Don't look for a Trash directory on autofs mounts (210468)
- Fix GNOME session blow-up when using GUI to join a Windows domain (222224)
- Fix ICQ connections in pidgin (244591)
- Server updates
- Fix race with mdadm/devmapper while looping for the root filesystem (244926)
- Revert "TC action parsing bug fix", which broke shorewall and wondershaper (194623)
- Support booting degraded RAID devices (290885)
- General Updates
- Set hdparm power management to 254 for all hard drives while on AC, and 128 while on battery (note that suspend/resume still breaks this, and a more complete fix will be forthcoming for Ubuntu 8.04.3) (59695)
- Support CDs with no uncompressed Packages files, only compressed ones, enabling upgrade to future releases using CDs (255545)
- Conflict with old mysql 4.1 packages to ensure smooth upgrades from Ubuntu 6.06 (208695)
- Backport cifs.upcall, to support Kerberos-authenticated CIFS kernel mounts (236830)
- e1000 checksum recheck after reset (60388)
Availability
The new 8.04.2 LTS installation CDs can be downloaded here.
Other links of interest:
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