Subject: Re: Translation of 1.5.3 release announcement
To: None <www@netbsd.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 07/18/2002 22:34:48
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 10:10:31AM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> > We have only Polish and Swedish translations at the moment.
> 
> We also have a German and French translations.  See
> http://www.netbsd.org/de/Releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html and
> http://www.netbsd.org/fr/Releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html.
> 
> If these are out of date, please let me know.

I've just committed some minor changes as per Havard's updated
announcement.

I've attached the diff of Havard's announcement. Please update the
translations to reflect these changes. :)

g.


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--- 153-announce.orig	Thu Jul 18 22:18:54 2002
+++ 153-announce	Thu Jul 18 22:15:48 2002
@@ -4,17 +4,18 @@
    The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.5.3 of the
    NetBSD operating system is now available.
 
-   NetBSD 1.5.3 is a maintenance release, following NetBSD 1.5.2, which
-   provides the following updates:
+   NetBSD 1.5.3 is a maintenance release for users of NetBSD 1.5.2 and
+   earlier releases, which provides the following updates:
 
     * A number of security problems have been fixed
     * Some performance fixes have been incorporated
     * Improved device support in some existing drivers
     * Some new device drivers have been added
 
-   It should be mentioned that NetBSD is also currently preparing for
-   the next major release, NetBSD version 1.6, and it will provides a
-   more featurefull update compared to NetBSD 1.5.3.
+   Please note that a new major release of NetBSD, version 1.6, is
+   currently in beta test and should be released within a few weeks.
+   NetBSD 1.6 will be a substantial functional improvement over
+   NetBSD 1.5.3.
 
    A complete list of changes are available in the CHANGES-1.5.3 file
    in top directory of the NetBSD 1.5.3 release tree. Also, included
@@ -161,12 +162,14 @@
      * Handling of init/fini section support and DWARF2 exception
        handling has been added to the C runtime startup code.
 
-     * OpenSSH has been upgraded to version 3.0.2.
+     * OpenSSH has been upgraded to version 3.0.2.  Additionally,
+       two security problems in OpenSSH have been fixed (SA2002-004,
+       SA2002-005) via ``point patches''.
 
      * A security issue arising from a race between set-uid execution
        and use of ptrace has been fixed (SA2002-001).
 
-     * The package tools has been extended to provide for optional
+     * The package tools have been extended to provide for optional
        digital signatures on binary packages. Additionally, binary
        package version number handling has been rewritten.
 
@@ -191,31 +194,26 @@
      * IPSEC policy check has been fixed for forwarded IPv4 packets
        (SA2002-003).
 
-     * Two security problems in OpenSSH has been fixed (SA2002-004,
-       SA2002-005).
-
      * A buffer overrun in the resolver part of the C library has been
        fixed (SA2002-006). To fix this problem in the BIND user
        utilities, BIND has been upgraded to version 8.3.3.
 
-     * Various other kernel stability and robustness fixes has been
+     * Various other kernel stability and robustness fixes have been
        applied.
 
    The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), which is used to maintain,
    build, track dependencies, and maintain NetBSD-specific fixes to
-   third-party programs, has been updated for NetBSD 1.5.3 compared to
-   what was shipped with NetBSD 1.5.2 and NetBSD 1.5.1.
+   third-party programs, has been updated for NetBSD 1.5.3.
 
    Please note that at the moment, sysinst will not assist you in
    installing pre-built third-party binary packages or the pkgsrc system
-   itself, so you will have to manually install packages using
-   pkg_install or fetch and extract the pkgsrc.tgz tar file to get
-   started.
+   itself, so you will have to manually install packages using pkg_add or
+   fetch and extract the pkgsrc.tgz tar file to get started.
 
    Lastly, it should be noted that the X11 binaries shipped in NetBSD
    1.5.3 are still based on XFree86 version 3.3.6. Several newer graphics
    cards are inadequately supported by that code base, but on the other
-   hand sup port for several older graphics cards is not available in
+   hand support for several older graphics cards is not available in
    newer XFree86 code.
 
    NetBSD is in the process of moving to XFree86 version 4, and is

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