Installer Updates
- Create sambashare group and add the initial user to it (#238224)
- Permissions on some system files and directories were set wrong when
installing from Desktop CDs. For users tracking the recommended
hardy-updates repository, this issue has already been corrected
post-install (#288479)
- Record the partition table as changed when a single partition's file
system type has changed, fixing bootloader installation failures
when installing onto existing partitions (#149832)
- Fix writing of /var/log/installer/oem-id in OEM mode (#251751)
- Use the correct mirror for -security in the event of
apt-setup/security_host being preseeded (#306356)
Desktop Updates
- Fix a race which can lead to a gvfs-fuse-daemon crash when closing
session (#235698)
- Prompt for restarting session when installing samba to take into
account sambashare group membership and the need for libpam-smbpass to
create NTLM password hash (#212098)
- Fix undeletion of menu items with the alacarte menu editor (#225941)
- Stop/start anacron on suspend/resume and on power-cycle (#249220)
- Fix hang on "Loading..." when opening a PDF file (#256048)
- Fix incorrect handling of authentication cases leading to excessive
gnome-keyring CPU usage (#236171)
- Fix printing to remote ipp:// printers (#258104)
- Don't look for a Trash directory on autofs mounts (#210468)
- Fix GNOME session blow-up when using GUI to join a Windows domain
(#222224)
- Fix ICQ connections in pidgin (#244591)
Server updates
- Fix race with mdadm/devmapper while looping for the root filesystem
(#244926)
- Revert "TC action parsing bug fix", which broke shorewall and
wondershaper
(#194623)
- Support booting degraded RAID devices (#290885)
General Updates
- Set hdparm power management to 254 for all hard drives while on AC, and
128
while on battery (note that suspend/resume still breaks this, and a more
complete fix will be forthcoming for Ubuntu 8.04.3) (#59695)
- Support CDs with no uncompressed Packages files, only compressed ones,
enabling upgrade to future releases using CDs (#255545)
- Conflict with old mysql 4.1 packages to ensure smooth upgrades from
Ubuntu 6.06 (#208695)
- Backport cifs.upcall, to support Kerberos-authenticated CIFS kernel
mounts
(#236830)
- e1000 checksum recheck after reset (#60388)
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