inetutils-2.5.90 released [alpha]

[Simon Josefsson]

This is to announce inetutils-2.5.90, a alpha release.

The purpose of this release is to do testing before the final 2.6
release.  Please build and test it on any exotic (or non-exotic) systems
you may have access to.  It is not intended for production systems.

There have been 48 commits by 4 people in the 36 weeks since 2.5.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:

  Collin Funk (22)
  Erik Auerswald (6)
  Flavio Cruz (1)
  Simon Josefsson (19)

Simon
 [on behalf of the inetutils maintainers]
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Here is the GNU inetutils home page:
    https://gnu.org/s/inetutils/

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
  https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=inetutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.5.90
or run this command from a git-cloned inetutils directory:
  git shortlog v2.5..v2.5.90

Here are the compressed sources:
  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-2.5.90.tar.gz   (2.9MB)
  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-2.5.90.tar.xz   (1.7MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures:
  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-2.5.90.tar.gz.sig
  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-2.5.90.tar.xz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:

  fd9fc76d9d111d7b15168bf4e01f57b3328f707c  inetutils-2.5.90.tar.gz
  4ha1nrLhGZkwAEa93MNl0ySsnZH+DUQbxZQfgAm3wzY=  inetutils-2.5.90.tar.gz
  8ea93ee207bb02b95e6a7be84c7d813479b94cfc  inetutils-2.5.90.tar.xz
  RFsp9gJcR2dQCkVXYijfwk/etIhFOfdd2C3oEREjnbM=  inetutils-2.5.90.tar.xz

Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.

Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify inetutils-2.5.90.tar.gz.sig

The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:

  pub   ed25519 2019-03-20 [SC]
        B1D2 BD13 75BE CB78 4CF4  F8C4 D73C F638 C53C 06BE
  uid   Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

  gpg --locate-external-key simon@josefsson.org

  gpg --recv-keys 51722B08FE4745A2

  wget -q -O- 
'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=inetutils&download=1'
 | gpg --import -

As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:

  wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
  gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify inetutils-2.5.90.tar.gz.sig

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Gnulib 63107d9788
  Autoconf 2.71
  Automake 1.16.5
  Bison 3.8.2
  M4 1.4.18
  Makeinfo 6.8
  Help2man 1.49.1
  Make 4.3
  Gzip 1.10
  Tar 1.34

NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.90 (2024-09-04) [alpha]

** The release tarball is now reproducible.
The following pairs are tested continously: Trisquel 11 and Ubuntu
22.04, PureOS 10 and Debian 11, AlmaLinux 8 and RockyLinux 8,
AlmaLinux 9 and RockyLinux 9.

** syslogd: Build fixes for macOS.
Thanks to Rui Chen and Caleb Xu, see
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65093>.

** Fix link errors of syslogd, talkd and tests/readutmp for --with-systemd.
Thanks to Collin Funk:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2024-03/msg00000.html

** ifconfig: With -A, reject invalid prefix length specifications, and
correctly handle a prefix length of 0.

** ifconfig: Fix a 'dynamic-stack-buffer-overflow' detected by AddressSanitizer
when using the --format or --short option. More details in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2024-05/msg00020.html>.

** Inetutils can now be built with C23 compilers.
Except for when configured to support Kerberos 4.

** telnet: Fix signed integer overflow handling when using any of the
commands 'send do', 'send dont', 'send will', or 'send wont' with a
numerical argument.  On some systems a signed integer overflow using
one of these commands could have lead to an out-of-bounds array access
usually resulting in a crash.

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