similar to: SYSLINUX 2.11-pre3 released - release candidate

Hello, I just received a serious bug report from Stas Kysel of rPath (with a great test case); it appears that deleted files can confuse extlinux so that it misses files. This is bad. As a result, I have pushed out 3.63-pre3, and intend to make a 3.63 final shortly. I would appreciate any help testing this. Furthermore, I would like to finish the SDI booting module, but I have yet to

Hi all, Since it seems 2.03-pre3 solves some significant problems for people, I'm going to release it as 2.03 some time later in the week. I would *greatly* appreciate people testing it before then. Thanks, -hpa

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 2.11. It's basically -pre3 with a few last-minute fixes. 2.11: Bug fix release. Changes in 2.11: * ALL: Add an API call to get the configuration file name. * SYSLINUX: Fix bug in 2.10 that prevented it from working correctly for a lot of people. * SYSLINUX: In the installer, make mtools a bit less fussy. * Make

This is a minor tweak on 3.11-pre2. If nothing new comes up, I will release this as 3.11 probably early next week. -hpa

I just found a rather embarrassing bug in PXELINUX -- and what's worse -- I wrote an email about it and killed it off accidentally :-/ It appears PXELINUX doesn't free its internal socket buffers (it has 32 of them) when it gets an error reply from the server, including "file not found." This means it will eventually run out of sockets and "go deaf." This

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 3.35-pre5 to the Testing directory; this is a release candidate and I intend to release this as 3.35 early next week unless I hear of any showstopper bugs, so please, pretty please, try it out. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ kernel.org has been overloaded lately, so it might take a while to show up. Changes in 3.35: *

I think I botched syslinux-6.04-pre3. There are two fundamental problems with the build: a) The selection of what pieces of the library gets included in the core is done manually whereas it really should be automatic; b) The build doesn't fail if there are unresolved dependencies between the libraries and the core. I will fix these. (b) is IMO fundamental to avoid this error in the

On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 12:15 -0800, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote: > > > I think I botched syslinux-6.04-pre3. There are two fundamental > problems with the build: > > a) The selection of what pieces of the library gets included in the core > is done manually whereas it really should be automatic; > > b) The build doesn't fail if there are unresolved

On February 11, 2019 12:29:41 PM PST, Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com> wrote: >On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 12:15 -0800, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote: >> >> >> I think I botched syslinux-6.04-pre3. There are two fundamental >> problems with the build: >> >> a) The selection of what pieces of the library gets included in the >core

I just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.73-pre3. The only significant difference over -pre2 was changing MEMDISK to use "safeint" by default. -hpa

I have released a SYSLINUX 2.06-pre3. This includes modifications to ppmtolss16 so that it should now be completely compliant with all modes of the PNM specification, raw/plain, PBM/PGM/PPM, with comment lines or without. ftp://ftp.zytor.com/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ Please test it out ASAP if at all possible. Since the fixes for -pre1 and -pre2 were pretty essential, I'd like

This version has the missing syslinux.exe file, plus a few minor fixes to libcom32 (in particular, ARP should no longer time out while sitting in the menu.) I still want to fix sparse files (easy) and symlinks (a bit harder) in extlinux before releasing 3.08 proper, so this isn't a release candidate yet. -hpa

Hi all, I have finally gotten SYSLINUX 3.50 what it feels like feature-complete for release, or something pretty close to it. As a consequence, I am declaring 3.50-pre16 a release candidate. Here is what's news since 3.36: Changes in 3.50: * New keywords allow the type of file to be specified in the configuration file. * It is now supported to load a different

I just uploaded SYSLINUX 3.54-pre1. This is a release candidate, since it fixes a bug which I considers significant. As it turns out, the problem with the graphical menu under Qemu/KVM (requiring -std-vga) was actually an invalid assumption that SYSLINUX was making, and didn't verify. Fixing the assumption was easy enough to do, so I have fixed it. Added is also a new set of menu

I have released SYSLINUX 3.11-pre8; this is a release candidate. The differences versus -pre6 is that I have reverted the PXELINUX stack changes I did in SYSLINUX 3.10 since there are confirmed reports that they break at least one platform. As before, I hope to release 3.11 on Tuesday unless I get objections. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

I have, hopefully, found and fixed the issue with non-kernel binaries that appeared in 3.35. As a result, I have pushed out 3.36-pre6 and am classifying it as a release candidate. Please try it out, especially if you have had problems with 3.35. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

Okay, nothing like user mail at 3 am to keep one awake... I have implemented a filename-based syntax for downloading from an alternate TFTP server in PXELINUX. If the filename starts with IP address:: it will: a) Download from the alternate TFTP server; b) Suppress the common pathname prefix. I was considering also adding a configuration file option to set the default TFTP server, but I

Based on a few reports I've gotten today, I have make a new release candidate, 3.11-pre9, and am pushing out the release target to Friday, September 2. New in this release candidate: - Change to MEMDISK, which hopefully will work right both on machines with and without physical floppies. - Try to enable the 16550A FIFO for serial console. I'm hoping this will help eliminate dropped

SYSLINUX 3.11-pre5 is hereby a bug fix release candidate. If I don't receive any problem reports, I will release it as-is on Tuesday, August 30. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

After thinking a bit of the multi-file support in 3.31-pre1, and considering a few users' feedback on the subject, I have made a couple of changes: 1. The dummy filename ~ can be used to mean "the main config file". 2. There is a MENU INCLUDE directive now. -hpa