[mosh-devel] Please test mosh 1.2 release candidate

Keith Winstein keithw at MIT.EDU
Mon Apr 23 20:32:10 EDT 2012


Hello all,

achernya found that we were missing a script necessary to enable
binary hardening flags in the 1.1.95 distribution tar.gz.

Could you please retest with:

https://github.com/downloads/keithw/mosh/mosh-1.1.96.tar.gz

Thank you,
Keith

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks for all your hard work on mosh! We have a release candidate for mosh
> 1.2:
>
> https://github.com/downloads/keithw/mosh/mosh-1.1.95.tar.gz
>
> This is the first "post-deluge" release, and adds many improvements based on
> our experience with mosh in the real world, including:
>
> * Helpful error messages for a variety of common problems
>
> * Locale passing in mosh (so less likely to get UTF-8-related errors)
>
> * Eliminates Boost and skalibs as dependencies
>
> * Fixes to build on FreeBSD, Cygwin, RHEL 5, OS X 10.5 on PPC
>
> * Improved responsiveness
>
> * Bugfixes and improvements re: terminal emulation and startup
>
> * Uses binary "hardening" compilation flags by default
>
> ===
>
> Please test the release candidate on your systems (and package managers) and
> let us know of any problems. I'm particularly concerned that our binary
> hardening flags may conflict with those on some distributions -- we already
> had to override this on Ubuntu and I have heard reports that it may also be
> a problem on Arch Linux.
>
> If all goes well, we should have mosh 1.2 by the end of the week.
>
> Thanks all,
> Keith
>
> for the mosh developers



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