--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2006-806 2006-07-12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.17 Release : 1.2157_FC5 Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:

Rebase to latest upstream 2.6.17.4 -stable release, which fixes a security issue which could result in local priveledge escalation.

More details at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.4

In addition, an optimisation was performed to use significantly less memory for several heavily used kernel data structures. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17.4 - Disable split pagetable lock * Sat Jul 8 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - enable CONFIG_CRASH on xen kernels. - enable CONFIG_PCIDEV_BACKEND on xen kernels. - make BLKDEV_FRONTEND a module on xen kernels. - rebase with linux-2.6-xen-fedora 28918. - Update to xen-unstable HV cset 10508. - xen: credit scheduler is the default now. * Wed Jul 5 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Get rid of stack backtrace on panic, which in most cases actually caused a loss of info instead of a gain. * Tue Jul 4 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - new merge with xen upstream. - xen kernel don't require xen userland. - new xen kernel (same as rawhide one) with PAE support. - removed xen0-PAE & xenU-PAE (see xen kernel). * Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17.3 - 2.6.17.2 - Fix the ALSA list_add bug. * Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437) - Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581) * Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Enable profiling for 586 kernels. * Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Make 'quiet' work again. * Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5] - Rebuild with slab debug off. * Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5] - 2.6.17.1 * Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17 - Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels. * Tue Jun 6 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5] - Add a PPC64 kdump kernel. * Mon Jun 5 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5] - 2.6.16.20 * Thu Jun 1 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Reenable Xen builds. * Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.16.19 * Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333) * Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Improve list corruption debugging patch. * Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed. * Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - Remove ARCH=xen reminiscences on spec file

--------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/

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This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------