krb5-1.7.1 is released

[Tom Yu]

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The MIT Kerberos Team announces the availability of MIT Kerberos 5
Release 1.7.1.  Please see below for a list of some major changes
included, or consult the README file in the source tree for a more
detailed list of significant changes.

RETRIEVING KERBEROS 5 RELEASE 1.7.1
===================================

You may retrieve the Kerberos 5 Release 1.7.1 source from the
following URL:

        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/

The homepage for the krb5-1.7.1 release is:

        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.7/

Further information about Kerberos 5 may be found at the following
URL:

        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/

and at the MIT Kerberos Consortium web site:

        http://www.kerberos.org/

DES transition
==============

The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is widely recognized as weak.  The
krb5-1.7 release will contain measures to encourage sites to migrate
away from using single-DES cryptosystems.  Among these is a
configuration variable that enables "weak" enctypes, but will default
to "false" in the future.  Additional migration aids are planned for
future releases.

Major changes in 1.7.1
======================

This is primarily a bugfix release.

* Fix vulnerabilities: MITKRB5-SA-2009-003 [CVE-2009-3295],
  MITKRB5-SA-2009-004 [CVE-2009-4212].

* Restore compatibility for talking to older kadminds and kadmin
  clients for the "addprinc -randkey" operation.

* Fix some build problems and memory leaks.
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