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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Book ships with 2.2?
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:27:11 GMT
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John J. Rushford Jr. (wjjr@bugs.alisa.org) wrote:
: Louis Epstein (le@put.com) wrote:
: : Dan Benjamin (dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com) wrote:
: : : Will the "Installing and Running FreeBSD" book be shipping with 2.2?
: 
: : I expect at some point...or at least the "Complete FreeBSD" book will.
: : I gather that they were going to substitute 2.1.6 for 2.1.5...now that
: : the emergency has brought the probably-non-CDROM 2.1.7 onto the front
: : burner I don't know if they will hop straight to 2.2R when it comes
: : out this month.
: 
: Whats the problem with 2.1.6?  I'm running it and haven't heard.

A security hole was discovered last week,there's a patch but a 2.1.7 is
being rushed while 2.1.6 has been dropped from the FTP sites.

(I use 2.1.0 right now,wondering when there'll be a secure,stable
upgrade!)