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Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS, the first maintenance update to Ubuntu's 8.04 LTS release. In all, over 200 updates have been integrated, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. To Get Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS ------------------------ To download Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS, or obtain CDs, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download Beginning with this maintenance release, users of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 8.04 via Update Manager. As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge. For further information about upgrading, see http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/804 About Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS ----------------------- This is the first maintenance release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, which continues to be supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until April 2011 on desktops and April 2013 on servers. Since its release, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has seen widespread use in a variety of desktop and server deployments, and received a great deal of feedback from users. The Ubuntu team has focused their efforts on resolving issues reported by people deploying Ubuntu out in the real world, including: * Firefox has been upgraded to the final 3.0 release from Mozilla, correcting a number of issues discovered during their beta test. (#237690) * The Samba client allows LANMAN authentication again, correcting problems connecting to some NAS and older Windows servers (#209520). * Various problems with the FUSE interface to GNOME's new virtual file system have been fixed, correcting certain problems accessing network file shares (#211205, #212789). * The behaviour of the timezone map in the live CD installer has been improved, making it simpler to understand and use (#203423). * The "Hardware Drivers" application no longer reports the proprietary nVidia driver as being enabled when it isn't installed (#216650). * The Transmission menu item is now called "Transmission BitTorrent Client" to clearly explain its purpose (#184238). While we have fixed a number of audio-related issues, including a scheduler problem that caused audio stuttering under load (#188226), other audio playback problems may still exist, because so far we have been unable to verify a targeted fix that does not cause regressions for other users. We will continue to investigate this, and would welcome people with problems to provide feedback on Luke Yelavich's test packages. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191027 for details. Updated images have also been released for members of the Ubuntu family which do not carry the LTS (Long-Term Support) label, namely Kubuntu, the Kubuntu KDE4 remix, Gobuntu, Xubuntu, and UbuntuStudio, with images for Mythbuntu to follow soon. These additional images are provided to the community in response to USN-612-1, a major security vulnerability identified earlier in the Ubuntu OpenSSL packages, to ensure that secure installation images are available to all users in the Ubuntu family. For more information about this security vulnerability, please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1 See http://www.ubuntu.com/usn for a full list of Ubuntu security updates. As of 2008-07-02, all updates affecting packages on the CD have been applied. A summary of notable updates follows. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu for specific information about a particular bug number. Installer Updates ----------------- * If the user opts to install "only free software", don't enable the 'restricted' repository after installation (#220805) * Correct root disk autodetection when using Wubi (#217348) * Support displaying international filenames from the host system when running under Wubi (#136682) * Fix hang when importing settings from Windows XP French edition and others (#222690) * Fix netboot installation failures due to incorrect handling of installer components that had been updated since the 8.04 release (#94398, #234486) Desktop Updates --------------- * Remove a workaround which caused performance issues for evolution and should no longer be required (#219587) * Disable window manager compositing for i815 chips due to garbled display output (#221920) * Fix a hang when using the desktop panel clock together with evolution calendaring (#204775) * Don't show mounts on the desktop that the user cannot access (#210379) * Fix problem with Remote Desktop Viewer connecting to some servers (#206227) * Fix hangs with gksu and update-manager when the hostname cannot be resolved (#237325) * Restore frequency scaling on Intel Core 2 Duo systems after suspend/resume (#183033) * Fix display on multiple systems with the intel video driver (#236001, #235643, #228519, #221984, #204603, #216490, #201257, #224102) * Fix display on Geode GX2 hardware (#219630) * Update to GNOME 2.22.2, fixing numerous bugs. Server updates -------------- * Present apache2 directory index listings as UTF-8 by default (#193753) * Provide logging feedback to dovecot users when the login limit is reached (#189616) * Fix network device ordering on some servers with multiple NICs (#225811) * Incorporate significant fixes to OpenLDAP syncrepl functionality General Updates --------------- * Fix a problem with excess logging when libpam-smbpass is not installed (#216990) * Update apparmor profile to allow access to /var/lib/samba/*.tdb, fixing an authentication-related CUPS crash (#217787) * Fix duplex printing to Ricoh printers (#219999) * Require password on root account when set and using recovery mode (#220986) * Restore support for dmraid raid45 arrays (#220493) * Return an error immediately instead of hanging when an NFS server returns permission denied (#214041) * sudo no longer errors out if the hostname cannot be resolved (#32906) Helping Shape Ubuntu -------------------- If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/ If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren't sure, try asking on the #ubuntu channel on IRC.FreeNode.net, on the Ubuntu Users mailing list, or on the Ubuntu forums: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ About Ubuntu ------------ Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers, with a fast and easy install and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away. Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support More Information ---------------- You can find out more about Ubuntu on our website: http://www.ubuntu.com/ To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's very low volume announcement list at: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce -- ubuntu-announce mailing list ubuntu-announce@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce (Log in to post comments)
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 14:20 UTC (Fri) by wertigon (guest, #42963) [Link] I wonder when the Linux world will realise that a modern, GPL:ed sound API exists that works in nearly all UNIXes and makes all sound servers (with the possible exception(s) of jackd and pulseaudio) obsolete, and would make the entire Linux sound scene a much, much happier place to live in? Talking, of course, about the Open Sound System v4. http://www.opensound.com/
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 14:28 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Last time I looked at it, it was really mmap()/ioctl()-happy. Not good.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 21:41 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] Last time I looked at it, it did not do 4-channel output for cs46xx. (And now it is too late, distros switched to ALSA and ALSA is what is suppoted.)
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 15:26 UTC (Fri) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link] OSS had their chance years ago, and blew it [*]. For better or worse, we're stuck with ALSA for the foreseeable future. [*] Open sourcing OSS and replacing OSS/Free with it before ALSA gathered steam.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 18:34 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] Wait, why are we stuck with it? Are you saying that OSS people were jerks back then and now we're going to punish them by continuing to ignore their software?
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 19:31 UTC (Fri) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link] No, I'm not saying they should be "punished". Actually, I find the idea of Linux users somehow collectively deciding to punish OSS by using ALSA because they've been bad to us in the past as somehow hilariously absurd. What I'm saying is that there is a cost to switch, and while I don't claim any particular expertise in either ALSA or OSS, if not anything else, the lukewarm reception to OSS being finally being open sourced suggests that it's not good enough (compared to ALSA + the cost of transitioning) to be worth bothering about, now that the Linux world has more or less completely transitioned to ALSA. Now, back before ALSA was around, if they had open sourced OSS then I suspect it's likely it would have been the default choice, and perhaps ALSA would never have been born. But that's not how things turned out.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 15, 2008 17:29 UTC (Tue) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] pulseaudio usage is supposed to be transparent to applications that already target ALSA; unfortunately, PulseAudio's ALSA module sometimes expose quirks in the way applications use the ALSA API; it's not bug-for-bug compatible. IIRC, a long-term goal is to merge pulseaudio and jack.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 17:41 UTC (Fri) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link] Sadly, the random kernel freeze that have afflicted hardy since its release and that are fixed upstream (see http://lwn.net/Articles/287840/) do not appear to be fixed or mentioned in the release notes of this maintenance release. Since those who are already users of hardy have most probably already received all the updates automatically, this release is probably most relevant to those who are not already hardy users. Having arrived at a maintenance release may give them a strong feeling of reliance and really encourage them to upgrade now. This is generally a good thing. However, it is unfortunate that the release notes do not mention the hard lockup problem cited above. Regardless of how infrequent it may be, it is now well documented on the ubuntu bug traker, acknowledged by the kernel developer and discussed on the forums (see the above link and comments therein for details). As a general recommendation, before upgrading I would suggest everybody to play with hardy from the live CD for at least a few (7-8) consecutive hours at high loads (including disk and network activity) to make sure that their platform is not affected by the hard lockup issue. Indeed, after having upgraded it is difficult to go back and the hard freeze problem may result in data loss. Typically, the random freeze manifests itself every few hours, so 7-8 hours without lockups should mean that your platform is unaffected and can safely receive a hardy installation. For those that might have installed hardy (either the original hardy or the maintenance release) discovering only too late that their platform is affected by the freeze, please consider that: 1) The bug appears to be fixed upstream, so any custom compilation of a 2.6.25 or higher kernel from kernel.org should fix the issue. 2) The -rt kernel comprised in ubuntu hardy (in opposition to the default -generic one) pays some performance penalty but appears not to be afflicted by the bug. I really hope that the above notes are not taken as an attack to the Ubuntu teams, but as constructive and helpful comments for users and as an incentive to finally bring to resolution an issue that I regard as maybe infrequent by very serious.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 5, 2008 2:17 UTC (Sat) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] I upgraded my father's laptop from Dapper to Hardy last week. After upgrading, just a few seconds after he logged in the laptop would simply turn itself off. If you turned it back on it would come right back up (didn't even need to fsck the disks, but it did really boot; it wasn't coming back from hibernation or anything). I just booted the Dapper kernel and that still worked fine with the Hardy userspace. Then I installed the Feisty and Gutsy kernels as well, and discovered that while Feisty worked, Gutsy also caused the system to turn off. I set the grub menu to always boot the Gutsy kernel and he was happy. That's a lot easier, IMO, than building your own kernel. Of course you don't have the newest kernel, but the older one worked fine for all those months so... Just an alternative idea.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 5, 2008 9:18 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
This doesn't always work though... I've had a different freeze bug ("IRQ nn, nobody cared" -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2....) on Feisty, Gutsy
and Hardy kernels - the only cure is to run with "irqpoll".
Many non-techies would not be able to diagnose what was happening here, so I think this sort
of kernel bug will slow Linux and Ubuntu adoption on the desktop. Maybe the Ubuntu kernel
team is under resourced, but I get the feeling that stability bugs aren't always the high
priority they should be.
resource Posted Jul 10, 2008 13:38 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] <em>"Maybe the Ubuntu kernel team is under resourced"</em> Certainly compared to a company like RedHat which has a fair number of high profile kernel hackers. I'm not sure how big the core distro team is but I get the sense a lot gets done on a shoestring, building as they are able to do on the groundwork done by Debian. I think RedHat also test their stuff on a wider range of hardware.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 5, 2008 9:19 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
This doesn't always work though... I've had a different freeze bug ("IRQ nn, nobody cared" -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2....) on Feisty, Gutsy
and Hardy kernels - the only cure is to run with "irqpoll".
Many non-techies would not be able to diagnose what was happening here, so I think this sort
of kernel bug will slow Linux and Ubuntu adoption on the desktop. Maybe the Ubuntu kernel
team is under resourced, but I get the feeling that stability bugs aren't always the high
priority they should be.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 6, 2008 22:05 UTC (Sun) by gavinmc (subscriber, #46316) [Link] that sounds rather like this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/75704 Is it an L400? Did you try disabling ACPI? Gavin
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 7, 2008 13:06 UTC (Mon) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] No, it's a Toshiba and it doesn't go into suspend: it actually turns off completely. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/242400 Also, it actually works with 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04. It fails with 7.10 and 8.04. I didn't try disabling ACPI, which is a good idea in any case, but it'll have to wait for a month until my father comes back into town since I don't have access to the system. My dad's a long-time computer user/etc. but... I don't feel comfortable trying something like this long-distance.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 5, 2008 9:32 UTC (Sat) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link] > However, it is unfortunate that the release notes do not mention the > hard lockup problem cited above. Regardless of how infrequent it > may be, it is now well documented on the ubuntu bug traker, > acknowledged by the kernel developer and discussed on the > forums (see the above link and comments therein for details). Which specific bug was the one that was well documented and understood? You're linking to ca. 10 bugs in those linked comments, most of which are quite vague and have no clear idea about what's going wrong. If the bug is well understood, there is probably a patch for 2.6.24 doable for it, but so far the only "fix" was to upgrade to 2.6.25, which is just a shot in the dark.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 5, 2008 13:57 UTC (Sat) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link] Please, don't make me say what I am not actually saying: I have never suggested that the bug is well understood. Indeed if it was, it would be fixed already. Suggesting the contrary would mean believing that it is left there on purpose, that I surely don't. I am only saying that: 1) the bug /existence/ is well documented as proved by the many (often duplicate) bug reports. And although these do not allow one to count the statistical incidence of affected systems, surely it says that it is > 0%. 2) the bug is acknowledged by the ubuntu kernel team. Otherwise, they would not be the first saying that it is fixed in the intrepid kernel, and there wouldn't have been some of them suggesting that something should (should have) possibly be done for 8.04.1 3) the bug appears to be fixed (maybe even incidentally, as the side effect of other changes) in more recent versions of the kernel. In my opinion (but I think that we may agree on it), this - together with the fact that the bug is marked at a high priority, and that frequent lockups can easily result in data loss - should have made this problem mentioned in the release notes, together with notices on how to identify if a platform is affected and with workarounds. Also in my opinion (and here evidently we do not agree), using a 2.6.25 "point 10" is not such a shot in the dark. In my opinion it would be wise to provide it /in addition/ to 2.6.24 /for those/ experiencing this showstopping bug on ubuntu's 2.6.24. In the end 2.6.25 is what everybody is using from Fedora to Opensuse. Indeed, (but again this just "pour parler"), I think that one of the reasons why some kernel bugs have not yet been fixed in Hardy is not only to be sought in the lack of resources of the kernel team (which surely plays a role), but also in the very initial choice of 2.6.24 that prevents from "re-using" the work of other distros kernel teams (thus relaxing the resource scarcity issue).
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 5, 2008 18:27 UTC (Sat) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link] Right, the word "understood" was made up by me, from the "documented". I believe there are hang reports on every kernel, but possibly these hardy ones are now more common than with some of the earlier Ubuntu kernels (2.6.22, 2.6.20, 2.6.17, 2.6.15...). I'm not sure if the release notes could have something more than disclaimer-like "it may be that not all hardware combinations continue to work flawlessly in 8.04", and the same is true with every release. I agree to disagree with the 2.6.25 stableness vs. shot in the dark, and agree to agree with the fact that Ubuntu kernel team could use more resources. I've heard before there are no resources to support more kernels at the same time, which is why .25 cannot be offered in addition to .24. In the gutsy times people would have wanted the kernel team to offer differently compiled kernel flavors because ATI's binary drivers didn't resume from suspend with newer kernels with the new allocator. Thanks for elaborating the issue and answering my questions. I do think the issue is real, any regression is, and it's just details that I'm checking and also wondering how realistic any one solution is (if no clear patch can be found). It's not just a problem of Ubuntu 8.04, it's a problem with the generic problem of regressions that always happen.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 11, 2008 6:03 UTC (Fri) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] They did not fix fail2ban bugs 123916, 222804, 223706. Let's wait for 8.04.2 while our SSH servers are kept being scanned :>
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