This may be the first release with (significantly) more work from other people than from me. To all of the developers, and to users who sent patches, thank you!
Special thanks to Shad, who tested every Windows+IIS+Office combination, ensuring that this is probably the most robust release we have had for a long time. NEWS.txt entry is appended. - Pat ** Changes in version 4.5 (2004-Oct-23) Completely overhaul sample-config.pl to allow automatic machine configuration from spreadsheet or MySQL database (slords). (Linux) Compile everything for i586 to fix "Illegal Instruction" crash on older machines (dolphinbofh). New script install/tools/script-update, to keep a local installation up-to-date with our CVS repository (nrichthof). (Linux) Add /etc/protocols so that LDAP and MySQL modules can actually work. Thanks to Andrew Bartlett. (Linux) Add partitioning support for logical partitions, extended partitions, and Linux partitions. Thanks to Jordan Share. (Linux) Use DHCP-supplied WINS servers (in addition to DNS) when mapping install share. New script install/tools/msparse.pl, which slurps direct download URLs from Microsoft download pages (dolphinbofh). Include version on boot disk and install share, and warn if they do not match. Fix bootini.pl not to damage boot.ini for unrecognized languages (ekot). Add --icon switch to shortcut.pl. Thanks to Moritz Engel. Several todo.pl improvements: Add new .missing-ok directive (slords). Add CHS language (thanks to Andrew Clark). Set "Administrators" environment variable to localized name of Administrators group (thanks to Jan Brauer). Use localized Administrators group name when adding users to Administrators group. Upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.3, Sun JRE 1.5.0, .NET 1.1 SP1 (nrichthof), and Winamp 5.05 (nrichthof). Fix numerous non-English download URLs (ekot). (Linux) Upgrade to Linux 2.6.9, Bash 3.0, DBI 1.45, MySQL 4.0.21, Parted 1.6.15, BusyBox 1.00, Samba 3.0.7, and zlib 1.2.2. Upgrade to SYSLINUX 2.11. (DOS) Upgrade Realtek RTL8169/RTL8110S driver to 1.03. Add September and October hotfixes (MS04-027 through MS04-038). Upgrade to Media Player 10. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
