[Plash] Plash 1.19 "Anxious Albert" released

[Mark Seaborn]

Plash 1.19 "Anxious Albert" is released.

Packages are available for Debian lenny and various versions of
Ubuntu.  To install them, add one of the following lines to your
/etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://plash.beasts.org/packages ubuntu-edgy/
deb http://plash.beasts.org/packages ubuntu-feisty/
deb http://plash.beasts.org/packages ubuntu-gutsy/
deb http://plash.beasts.org/packages ubuntu-hardy/
deb http://plash.beasts.org/packages debian-lenny/

(See http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/DownloadPackages)


Changes in this release:

The build system for PlashGlibc has been changed to integrate better
with glibc's normal build process.  As a result, it is easier to build
Plash on architectures other than i386, and this is the first release
to support amd64.  PlashGlibc is now based on glibc 2.7, and the
changes are stored in a Git repository.  See Story6 [1] for details.

The forwarding of stdin/stdout/stderr that was introduced in the
previous release by Story9 caused a number of bugs which should now be
fixed. The FD forwarding code has been rewritten.

Story7 [2] changed FsObjReal to use glibc's new *at() calls and /proc.

StoryTest1 [3] and Story6 together added a lot more unit tests.

Bugs fixed:
 * http://plash.beasts.org/PlashIssues/PlashPkgAssumesI386
 * http://plash.beasts.org/PlashIssues/X11GrantFailsUnderSsh
 * http://plash.beasts.org/PlashIssues/ForwardingStdinHangs
 * http://plash.beasts.org/PlashIssues/ForwardingUnwritableFDHangs
 * http://plash.beasts.org/PlashIssues/NestedSandboxesNotWorking
 * http://plash.beasts.org/PlashIssues/StdoutGetsTruncated
 * http://plash.beasts.org/PlashIssues/LibcThreadSafety
 * http://plash.beasts.org/PlashIssues/LintianExecutableStack

[1] http://plash.beasts.org/Story6
[2] http://plash.beasts.org/Story7
[3] http://plash.beasts.org/StoryTest1

Regards,
Mark