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| author | nia <nia@pkgsrc.org> | 2021-10-06 05:49:55 +0000 |
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| committer | nia <nia@pkgsrc.org> | 2021-10-06 05:49:55 +0000 |
| commit | 6a566b5cd6d4322a1116ba6b29487333d568bb70 (patch) | |
| tree | 0196df5383582d5eedd59e6284079a910fc2ea48 /doc | |
| parent | 18af2781a534255130f1b81a96916a63046f8c25 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-6a566b5cd6d4322a1116ba6b29487333d568bb70.tar.gz | |
doc/NEWS: Document recent infrastructure changes
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.19 2021/07/04 08:56:47 nia Exp $ +# $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.20 2021/10/06 05:49:55 nia Exp $ PKGSRC NEWS =========== @@ -7,6 +7,32 @@ PKGSRC NEWS pkgsrc. The intended readers are the pkgsrc developers as well as anyone tracking pkgsrc-current. +Default Python version changed to 3.9 [nia 2021-10-01] + +Increased enabled-by-default hardening options [nia 2021-09-27] + + PKGSRC_USE_MKPIE was enabled on some architectures. + Packages that provide static libraries to other packages + should be rebuilt with MKPIE enabled. + Some packages may experience runtime errors on platforms + like i386 - usually this is due to unsafe assembly code, + which should be disabled when MKPIE is enabled. + + PKGSRC_USE_RELRO was enabled on some architectures. + This should not affect the majority of packages that properly + honor CFLAGS/LDFLAGS when building. Packages experiencing + problems loading dynamic ELF plugins at runtime should have + RELRO disabled. + + PKGSRC_USE_SSP was bumped from "yes" to "strong". This + is not expected to have a noticable effect. + + More information: + https://www.NetBSD.org/docs/pkgsrc/hardening.html + (or see "Security hardening" section of doc/pkgsrc.txt) + +Default MySQL implementation changed to MariaDB 10.6 [nia 2021-09-27] + Default PostgreSQL changed to 13 [nia 2021-06-28] Default MySQL implementation changed to MariaDB [nia 2021-06-24] |