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From: perry@jekyll.piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: What are the "new" things in 1.2.1
Date: 14 May 1997 18:41:53 -0400
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bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) writes:
> Christoph Rimek (chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de) wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > Recently I looked to one of the NetBSD mirror sites and found a new
> > distribution release 1.2.1 (March 97), but without any documents or
> > READMEs that explain the changes to the 1.2 release?
> > 
> > Can anyone help me out?
> > What is new in this 1.2.1 release, is there so much new/better stuff
> > included that it is worth upgrading?
> 
> 1.2.1 is a bugfix release for 1.2. It is worth upgrading only if you have
> some stability problems with your 1.2 system, or unsupported (or not well
> supported) hardware, or if you care about security.

Not *quite* true. There are some significant security fixes, and there
was a very important fix that improves VM performance a lot.

However, you are correct -- its simply a bugfix release, nothing
more. 1.3 will be the next "major" release.