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[edit] Purpose

DRAFT

This maintenance release resolves provides enhancements to antitheft features of 8.2.1, resolves WPA connectivity regressions and resolves a set of targeted bugs.

[edit] Changes since release 8.2.1

[edit] Bug fixes

Antitheft/Security

• ticket #9439 Sync RTC clock to OATS server from initrd
• ticket #9441 Workaround OFW's ignorance of sig02
• ticket #9442 Support large lease.sig files
• ticket #8524 Anti-Theft Lease Activation over the air fails with AP, only works with Mesh
• ticket #9246 activation over open IBSS networks
• ticket #9288 update lease in olpc-update-query
• ticket #9757 olpc-update-query: allow better control of server list
• ticket #9758 olpc-update-query: if the response doesn't have a lease, try other servers

Networking

• ticket #8104 dhclient dbus message gets lost
• ticket #9715 wpa_supplicant debugging broken in NM 0.6.5
• ticket #9936 First WPA2 association (TKIP/AES) always fails, retries succeed

Note: these changes appear to have fixed most 8.2.1 regressions, see Release_notes/8.2.1#WPA_connectivity_regressions

Smoother, faster shutdown

• ticket #7531 Shutdown sometimes appears to hang - need ctl-alt-F2 for it to complete
• ticket #9289Slow shutdown due to runinit.pyx failure to unmount /security/.private

Other changes

• ticket #8622 ticket #9317 Fix release name in /etc/olpc-release
• ticket #9773 Safe touchpad improvements for ALPS touchpads.
• ticket #9775 Safe touchpad improvements for Synaptics CL1A users.
• ticket #10159 Add AZERTY kb map to 8.2.x builds
• ticket #9248 Add sanitization of sound settings
• ticket #9747 First-boot: avoid "update your activities" dialog
• ticket #9731 olpc-configure: use external devkey request template
• ticket #7537 olpc-configure marks all of /home/olpc as read/exec
• ticket #9726 Connect to gabble immediately after registration with XS
• ticket #9259 Activity updater is horribly slow on high latency connections
• ticket #2229 Write activity doesn't do Arabic shaping

Activity changes.

TO DO

[edit] Notable current bugs

[edit] libxml2, GCompris and Write

The included libxml2-2.7.1-1 has a nasty XML parsing bug. A newer libxml2 with the fix is available but breaks Write.xo (when initializing libabiword).

The impact of this bug is limited to newer versions of GCompris -- the GCompris release targetted for 8.2.x works around this bug and is recommended.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Unless noted in the bug fixes above, the open bugs are the same as in release 8.2.0, and 8.2.1 .

[edit] ECO

TO DO ECO/8.2.1