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Milestones

RSC Linux changed over the years and here is a complete list of the important steps.

Thursday, June 18th, 2020:

• Updated to irssi 1.2.2-3 from Fedora Rawhide

Wednesday, June 17th, 2020:

• Updated to gcc 4.4.7-23, kernel 2.6.32-754.30.2, glibc 2.12-1.212.3, microcode_ctl 1.17-33.26 and udev 147-2.74 from RHEL 6

Sunday, April 15th, 2018:

• Removed packages tcp_wrappers (like Fedora 28) and tcpick

Saturday, March 31st, 2018:

• Added lightweight "Let's Encrypt" ACMEv2 client dehydrated 0.6.1-1 from Fedora EPEL 6 (same as in Fedora Rawhide)

Saturday, January 6th, 2018:

• Updated to gcc 4.4.7-18, kernel 2.6.32-696.18.7 and microcode_ctl 1.17-25.2 from RHEL 6 (fixes Spectre and Meltdown)

Friday, October 6th, 2017:

• Updated to openssl 1.0.2k-8 from RHEL 7

Monday, August 28th, 2017:

• Added lzip-1.19-1 from Fedora Rawhide

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017:

• Added libusb 0.1.12-23, usbutils 0.86-2, gperf 3.0.3-9.1 and patchutils 0.3.1-3.1 from RHEL 6
• Updated to kernel 2.6.32-696.3.2, glibc 2.12-1.209.2 and udev-147-2.73.2 from RHEL 6 (fixes Dirty COW, Stack Clash)

Sunday, April 30th, 2017:

• Added x509viewer 0.1.0-1

Sunday, January 29th, 2017:

• Removed the (meanwhile retired) package purple-whatsapp
• Added purple-skypeweb 1.2.2-6.20161220gitfa888e0 package from Fedora Rawhide (F26)

Sunday, June 5th, 2016:

• Added purple-telegram 1.2.6-1 from Fedora Rawhide (F25)

Thursday, July 10th, 2014:

• Removed mysql package in favour of mariadb 5.5.38-1 based on Fedora 20 and RHEL 6

Friday, June 20th, 2014:

• Added libpurple 2.10.9-1 based on pidgin from Fedora 21, because purple-whatsapp 0.4-1.20140413git requires it

Thursday, December 26th, 2013:

• Removed the packages pexpect, python-GnuPGInterface and duplicity as duplicity is just fast developing forward but doesn't seem to provide Enterprise strength and qualities

Sunday, November 3rd, 2013:

• Upgrade to php 5.3.27-1 based on Fedora 16 and RHEL 6
• Removed the packages libedit 3.0-1.20090923cvs and gperf 3.0.3-9 as they are is no longer any package requirement
• Added roundcubemail 0.9.5-1, php-pear-Mail-Mime 1.8.8-2, php-pear 1.9.4-23 and php-pear-Mail-mimeDecode 1.5.5-9

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013:

• Rebuilt all openssl related packages against 1.0.1c
• Removed krb5 package as it is no longer any requirement

Friday, August 24th, 2012:

• Upgrade to spamassassin 3.3.2-12 which requires pyzor 0.5.0-7, perl-Razor-Agent 2.85-12, perl-Mail-SPF 2.007-6, perl-Mail-DKIM 0.39-6, perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA 0.28-4, perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random 0.04-18, perl-Encode-Detect 1.01-10 and perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum 0.04-16 from Fedora
• Added spamassassin-iXhash2 2.05-3 to enhance SpamAssassin

Friday, August 10th, 2012:

• Added rpkg 1.18-2, because fedpkg 1.9-2 requires it now

Monday, December 26th, 2011:

• Added perl-NetAddr-IP 4.058-1 for spamassassin 3.3.2-7

Friday, October 14th, 2011:

• Replaced cdrtools 2.01-11 by xorriso 1.1.6-1, an ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge image manipulation tool (libburnia project)

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011:

• Upgrade to zarafa-server-7.0.0-0.2.svn24874 (7.0.0beta2)
• Updated zarafa-today to 0.3.0 to add full UTF-8 support

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011:

• Added boost 1.45.0-1 and libvmime 0.9.1-1 for Zarafa 7

Saturday, January 15th, 2011:

• Added icu 4.4.2-4, because PHP 5.3 and Zarafa 7 require it

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010:

• Removed perl-Unix-Syslog package as mimedefang 2.71-1 can depend on internal Sys::Syslog or on external Unix::Syslog

Friday, July 30th, 2010:

• Added python-setuptools 0.6.14-2, python-argparse 1.1-2, GitPython 0.2.0-0.2.beta1 and fedora-packager 0.5.1.0-1; they're the replacement after CVS with GIT for packagers

Sunday, July 11th, 2010:

• Replaced libjpeg 6b-46 by libjpeg-turbo 1.0.0-2 package

Saturday, May 29th, 2010:

• Added zarafa-today 0.2.0 to display today's appointments

Saturday, December 26th, 2009:

• Added hostname 3.01-1, a utility to set/show the host or domain name; net-tools >= 1.60-100 doesn't ship hostname
• Added python-pycurl 7.19.0-4, python interface to libcurl, required by the package python-urlgrabber >= 3.9.0-1

Sunday, December 20th, 2009:

• Upgrade to perl 5.10.1-106 and rebuilt most perl packages
• Removed specspo package as of size and is always outdated
• Removed the iso-codes package as it is no longer required by filesystem for locales, file iso_639.tab isn't provided

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009:

• Added pyOpenSSL 0.9-1, an OpenSSL python wrapper module
• Added koji 1.3.2-1, the Fedora building and tracking tool
• Added plague 0.4.5.7-6.20090612cvs, the former distributed build system of Fedora and EPEL, now used in RPM Fusion

Thursday, December 10th, 2009:

• Replaced lzma 4.32.7-1 by xz 4.999.9-0.1.beta.20091002git
• Removed the obsolete xorg-x11-filesystem 7.3-2 package

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009:

• Added libedit 3.0-1.20090923cvs, NetBSD editline library
• Replaced anacron 2.3-65 by cronie-anacron 1.4.3-2 package
• Added the package fipscheck 1.2.0-4, library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules
• Upgrade to gcc 4.4.2-14 and glibc 2.11.90-3 (2.12 preview)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009:

• Added the packages libical 0.43-4 and libvmime 0.71-1

Sunday, May 24th, 2009:

• The package mod_log_post 0.1.0 reached freshmeat.net site

Friday, May 22nd, 2009:

• Added the package mod_log_post 0.1.0-1 to RSC Linux the first time, own development based on mod_security module
• Removed the package mod_security 2.1.1-3, because it is outdated and the logging is now provided by mod_log_post

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009:

• Upgrade to gcc 4.4.0-3 and glibc 2.9.90-22 (2.10 preview)

Friday, December 26th, 2008:

• Added the package pwgen 2.06-3 to easily generate random, meaningless but pronounceable and mostly secure passwords

Saturday, December 6th, 2008:

• Upgrade to libtool 2.2.6-5 and rebuilt depending packages

Monday, October 20th, 2008:

• Upgrade to rsc-firewall 0.3.0-1; a rewrite of 0.2.1, which allows easy rule definitions for IPv4 and IPv6 firewalling including masquerading (NAT) support for IPv4; individual iptables rules can be used as well by own iptables chains

Saturday, July 12th, 2008:

• Upgrade from db4 4.6.21-5 to db4-4.7.25-2 and rebuilt all depending packages against it (#449735)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008:

• Upgrade to rpm 5.2-0.1.20080630cvs from RPM5, I'll likely maintain this package in a private Fedora repository

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008:

• Added the package ca-certificates 2008-5, because the new openssl 0.9.8g-10 package depends on it since now

Saturday, May 17th, 2008:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.25.2-5 from Fedora Rawhide (F10)

Sunday, May 11th, 2008:

• Removed the packages tk 8.5.1-3 and tix 8.4.2-5, because they are nearly useless without having a running X server

Sunday, April 27th, 2008:

• Removed the package event-compat-sysv 0.3.9-14 again, as initscripts 8.73-1 and upstart 0.3.9-19 are obsoleting it
• Added the package setroubleshoot-plugins 2.0.4-5, because the new setroubleshoot 2.0.6-1 package depends on it now

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008:

• The package sip-redirect 0.1.2 reached freshmeat.net site
• Removed the package setools 3.1-4 as the new setools 3.3.4 would depend somehow on sqlite for a internal library

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008:

• Added the packages upstart 0.3.9-17 and event-compat-sysv 0.3.9-13, because initscripts 8.70-1 are requiring it now
• Package sysvinit 2.86-17 is mostly gone, content and files moved to upstart, rest stays in sysvinit-tools 2.86-24

Monday, April 14th, 2008:

• Added the package perl-Error 0.17012-2, because the new git 1.5.5-1 depends on the package for build and runtime
• Removed the package kudzu 1.2.85-1, no longer required

Sunday, April 13th, 2008:

• Removed the package inet-monitoring 0.2.3-2, not required
• Added the package indent 2.2.10-1, because the new libcap 2.06-4 depends on it during building of the package

Sunday, March 16th, 2008:

• Switched from perl-DateManip 5.44-4 to perl-Date-Manip 5.48-3, it is just a renamed package; everything is same
• Removed perl-Archive-Tar 1.34-1, perl-Compress-Zlib 1.42-1 and perl-IO-Zlib 1.04-4.2.1, because new perl 5.10.0-15 is providing and maintaining all of them with newer versions

Saturday, March 15th, 2008:

• Removed the package sparse 0.3-2 as nothing requires it
• Removed the package mktemp 1.5-25, because the coreutils 6.10-11 are providing it and obsoleting the old package
• Switched from vixie-cron 4.2-2 to cronie 1.0-5 (by Fedora)

Monday, March 10th, 2008:

• Added lzma 4.32.5-1, utility and library for a very high compression ratio and fast decompression, similar to gzip

Sunday, March 9th, 2008:

• Upgrade to gcc 4.3.0-2 and glibc 2.7.90-9 (2.8 preview)

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007:

• Added the package git 1.5.3.4-1, another revision control system, but fast, scalable and distributed

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007:

• Added ustr 1.0.1-6, because libsemanage >= 2.0.5 depends on it at building and at run-time

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007:

• Upgrade to rpm 4.5-0.1.20070904cvs from RPM5, I'll likely maintain this package in a private Fedora repository

Monday, September 3rd, 2007:

• Removed the packages esmtp 0.5.1-13 and libesmtp 1.0.4-2, because mutt 1.5.16-2 provides fully internal smtp support

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007:

• Switched from util-linux 2.13-0.49 to util-linux-ng 2.13-1 and from sysklogd 1.4.2-10 to rsyslog 1.19.2-1 like in Fedora 8 Test 2, next generation just replaces both times
• Renamed package from SysVinit 2.86-16 to sysvinit 2.86-17

Saturday, September 1st, 2007:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.23-0.157.rc4.git2 from Fedora CVS

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007:

• Added the packages pexpect 2.1-5 and python-GnuPGInterface 0.3.2-1, because duplicity 0.4.3 will depend on these for the new features

Sunday, August 19th, 2007:

• Upgrade to rpm 4.5-0.5 (from the RPM5 project), disabled sqlite, signature checking and default rollback
• Added the packages popt 1.12-2, mpfr 2.2.1-1, because they are no longer automagically provided with another package

Monday, July 16th, 2007:

• Added the package gc 7.0-1, because the gc is no longer shipped per default by w3m 0.5.2-1

Saturday, July 14th, 2007:

• Added the package urlview 0.9-2, because it is no longer provided per default by mutt 1.5.16-2

Monday, May 28th, 2007:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.21-1, equals 2.6.21-1.3201.fc7; which is a Linux kernel 2.6.21.3 final

Saturday, May 26th, 2007:

• Switched from unifdef 1.171-5 to sparse 0.3-1, because the kernel 2.6.21-1.3201 at Fedora changed its requirements

Monday, May 21st, 2007:

• Upgrade to rpm 4.4.9-1 (from Jeff Johnson's ftp server), disabled sqlite, signature checking and default rollback

Thursday, May 17th, 2007:

• Switched from own imap 2006g-1 package to uw-imap 2006h-1 of Fedora which obsoletes the Fedora Core libc-client now

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007:

• Added the packages pygobject2 2.12.3-3 and setroubleshoot 1.9.4-1 from Fedora Core for better SELinux reporting

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007:

• Added the package php-pecl-Fileinfo 1.0.4-1 from Fedora Extras, because php's mime_magic extension is deprecated

Monday, March 12th, 2007:

• Removed the package gdbm 1.8.0-26.2.1, because it's very very old and not really needed for perl, python and mutt

Sunday, March 4th, 2007:

• Disabled building packages gcc-java, libgcj, libgcj-devel and libgcj-src, because these would buildrequire or depend on alsa, firefox, gtk2, libXtst and eclipse packages; this would be too much overhead when having no java software
• Switched from own vnstat package that of Fedora Extras

Monday, February 19th, 2007:

• Upgrade to rpm 4.4.8-1 (from Jeff Johnson's ftp server), disabled the new transaction color scheme and reverted to the old one, disabled sqlite, signature checking, rollback

Saturday, February 10th, 2007:

• Switched from own mutt 1.5.13-1 package back to that of Fedora Core Development, which is 1.5.13-1.20070126cvs now

Saturday, January 20th, 2007:

• Removed the packages docbook-dtds 1.0-30.1, sgml-common 0.6.3-19, xmlto 0.0.18-13.1, docbook-style-xsl 1.71.1-2 and termcap 5.5-1.20060701.1, they are no longer required

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007:

• Removed obsolete libtermcap 2.0.8-46.1 rpm package like at Fedora Core, applications are using ncurses as replacement

Saturday, December 30th, 2006:

• Replaced the package utempter 0.5.5-7.2.2 by libutempter 1.1.4-3, which does exactly the same but fits all needs

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006:

• Added the rpm package perl-Unix-Syslog 0.100-8 from Fedora Extras, because the mimedefang 2.58-3 requires it to use Unix::Syslog over deprecated Sys::Syslog support (#219988)

Sunday, December 17th, 2006:

• Switched from own duplicity rpm package to that of Fedora Extras, which is maintained by me anyway

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006:

• Switched from own rrdtool package to that of Fedora Extras

Saturday, November 11th, 2006:

• Switched from own phpmyadmin rpm package to that of Fedora Extras named as phpMyAdmin 2.9.1-1alpha there

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006:

• Switched from own libopm package to that of Fedora Extras, which is maintained by me (and upgraded to CVS 20050731)

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006:

• Made the new unrealircd 3.2.5-1 package more conform for a correct filesystem hierarchy; moved many just files around

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006:

• Upgrade from anope 1.6.4-1 to 1.7.17-1, a switch from the stable to the development branch; stable is pretty old

Sunday, October 29th, 2006:

• Switched from own duplicity rpm package to that of Fedora Extras, which is taken and now maintained by me

Saturday, October 28th, 2006:

• Removed the package xfsprogs 2.8.11-3, no longer needed
• Rebuilt gmp 4.1.4-9 using a patch to avoid automake 1.6.3
• Removed the package automake16 1.6.3-7, no longer required

Thursday, October 26th, 2006:

• Upgrade to python 2.5 and rebuilt most packages against it
• Switched from own bitlbee package to that of Fedora Extras
• Removed the package python-elementtree 1.2.6-5, because the new python 2.5 is providing it within upstream package

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.18-1, equals 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6; which is a Linux kernel 2.6.18.1 final; the kernel-header package obsoletes glibc-kernheaders 3.0-45.3 and below

Saturday, October 14th, 2006:

• Added the package iso-codes 0.53-1, required by filesystem 2.4.0-1 package to solve Red Hat Bugzilla ID #120196

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006:

• Upgrade to rpm 4.4.7-1 (from Jeff Johnson's ftp server), disabled some things and enabled legacy rpmrc per default

Thursday, October 5th, 2006:

• Upgrade from db4 4.3.29-9 to inofficial 4.5.20-1 and built all depending packages against it (#198038)

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006:

• Added the package subversion 1.3.2-6, a modern version control system which is another alternative to cvs

Saturday, September 16th, 2006:

• Switched from own mimedefang package to Fedora Extras
• Removed the package pinfo 0.6.8-11.2.2 as it is unused

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006:

• Removed packages libXi 1.0.1-3.1, libXinerama 1.0.1-2.1, libXrandr 1.1.1-3.1, libXcursor 1.1.7-1.1, libXfixes 4.0.1-2.1, libXft 2.1.10-1.1, libXrender 0.9.1-3.1 and libXtst-1.0.1-3.1, because they are unneeded now
• Removed gtk2 2.10.2-6, libglade2 2.6.0-2, cairo 1.2.4-1, pango 1.14.2-1 and atk 1.12.2-1 and rebuilt most packages

Thursday, August 24th, 2006:

• Switched from own ncftp package to that of Fedora Extras

Sunday, July 16th, 2006:

• Rebuilt most packages for new DT_GNU_HASH support in glibc
• Switched from own pam_abl rpm to that of Fedora Extras

Saturday, July 15th, 2006:

• Removed the packages symlinks 1.2-24.2.1, gtk+ 1.2.10-50 and glib 1.2.10-18.2.2, they seem to be completely unused
• Update to glibc 2.4.90-13, binutils 2.17.50.0.2-7 and rpm 4.4.7-0.13, which provide the new DT_GNU_HASH support

Saturday, July 8th, 2006:

• The package sip-redirect 0.1.0 reached freshmeat.net site
• Removed packages libosip2 2.2.2-3 and partysip 2.2.3-4
• Added the package sip-redirect 0.1.0-1, a tiny IPv4 and IPv6 capable SIP redirect server written in Perl

Saturday, July 1st, 2006:

• Added the package perl-Socket6 0.19-2, which provides IPv6 support to perl by adding getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo()

Friday, June 30th, 2006:

• Added the package iftop 0.17-2, a top for bandwidth usage; thanks to Andreas Schiermeier for pointing me to the tool

Sunday, June 25th, 2006:

• Removed mcstrans 0.1.6-1, isn't really needed (#195916)
• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.17-1, equals 2.6.17-1.2293_FC6; which is a Linux kernel 2.6.17 final; i686 has no longer any kernel-smp package, main package got full SMP support
• Worked around two mkinitrd problems (#196305 and #196360)
• Switched from own apachetop, php-idn, irssi, eggdrop and tcpick rpm package to these of Fedora Extras

Monday, June 12th, 2006:

• Switched from own librsync, libesmtp, perl-Convert-BinHex, perl-MIME-tools, perl-IO-stringy, perl-MailTools, esmtp, libosip2, perl-Text-Iconv and mod_security rpm packages to these of Fedora Extras

Saturday, June 10th, 2006:

• Added the packages perl-Compress-Zlib 1.41-2, perl-IO-Zlib 1.04-4.2, perl-IO-String 1.08-1.1, perl-Archive-Tar 1.29-1 to fulfill the dumb requirements of spamassassin 3.1.3-2

Friday, June 9th, 2006:

• Added rpmlint 0.76-1, a tool for checking common errors in RPM packages; also used for Fedora Extras

Thursday, May 25th, 2006:

• Added the sysfsutils 1.3.0-2 package (library interface to sysfs) because lm_sensors 2.10.0-1 is requiring it

Saturday, May 13th, 2006:

• Added unifdef 1.171-3 package, tool for removing ifdef'd lines, because glibc-kernheaders 3.0-30 are requiring it
• Packages libvolume_id and libvolume_id-devel 091-3 were initially added by update to udev 091-3
• The new package mcstrans 0.1.2-1 (a translation daemon) obsoletes and replaces libsetrans 0.1.20-1

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006:

• Included a patch for full cciss support (HP Smart Arrays) in smartmontools 5.36-0, Red Hat Bugzilla ID #191288

Saturday, May 6th, 2006:

• Added an open proxy scanner to unrealircd 3.2.4-3 (using libopm) for detecting DNSBL, HTTP-CONNECT and -POST, Socks 4 and 5, Wingate and insecure Cisco routers

Friday, May 5th, 2006:

• Added the package libopm 20030106-1, an open proxy monitor library developed by the Blitzed IRC network team

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.16-1, equals 2.6.16-1.2068_FC6; which is a Linux kernel 2.6.16 final

Monday, March 20th, 2006:

• Switched from kickservices 0.54-2 to anope 1.6.4-1; other feature rich and powerful IRC Services, that are hopefully less buggy and have better support and forward development
• Added the package swig 1.3.24-2.2.1, which is a Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator and required by audit

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006:

• Upgrade to hotsanic 0.5.0-0.57, which provides hp_sensors 0.0.4 with performance speedups and fixes for hplog/hptemp

Sunday, March 12th, 2006:

• Switched from proftpd 1.2.10-7 to vsftpd 2.0.4-1.2, which is a very secure and small FTP daemon, that does not have any PAM problems like proftpd
• Switched to the selinux-policy-targeted 2.0.1-2, a modular Security Enhanced Linux Reference Policy

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006:

• Removed the packages perl-Net-LibIDN and bogl, because nobody and nothing are using it

Friday, March 3rd, 2006:

• Upgrade to rpm 4.4.5-1 (from Jeff Johnson's ftp server), but disabled the SQLite support and automagic repackaging of erasures. Fixed SELinux context verification using a hack (Red Hat Bugzilla ID #182998)

Saturday, February 11th, 2006:

• Upgrade to mkinitrd 5.0.22-1, which fixes Red Hat Bugzilla ID #181016 (missing and broken nash showlabels support)

Saturday, February 4th, 2006:

• Splitted the rsc-linux-release package up into two ones, rsc-linux and rsc-tools (for better handling); the rktime 0.6-2 package is now shipped with the new rsc-tools

Sunday, January 29th, 2006:

• Developed version 2006 of the tools 'office2text' and 'image2text' and upgraded them to this latest release

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006:

• Upgrade to initscripts 8.21-1, which removes and obsoletes the hotplug 2004_09_23-10.1 package now
• Added the package eggdrop 1.6.17-1, which is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot

Sunday, January 8th, 2006:

• Included arrayprobe 2.0, a good open source cciss array information tool, into the package hp 7.4.0-3

Sunday, January 1st, 2006:

• Released ntpdate 0.1.1 and pushed it up to freshmeat.net, but switched back to 4.2.0.a.20050816-10.1, because it has about 100 times better offsets to the time servers
• Removed the at package, while nobody is using it and it is a big mess of patches, because upstream seems to be dead

Thursday, December 29th, 2005:

• Upgrade to setuptool 1:0.1.4-1, containing new language and mouse configuration utilities and further small fixes

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005:

• Added the package xorg-x11-filesystem 0.99.2-3 to ensure, that upgrading from X.Org 6.8 to 7.0 really works fine

Sunday, December 11th, 2005:

• Upgrade to gcc 4.1.0-0.6, a pre-release of gcc 4.1, which deliveres libgomp for OpenMP 2.5 support the first time

Sunday, December 4th, 2005:

• Hop from bitlbee 0.92-4 to 1.0-1, because 0.93 didn't have working oscar (AIM and ICQ) typing notification support
• Upgrade to apr 1.2.2-1, apr-util 1.2.2-1, httpd 2.2.0-1, php 5.1.1-3 and mod_auth_useragent2 0.9.1-1

Sunday, November 20th, 2005:

• Switched to the selinux-policy-targeted 2.0.1-2, a modular Security Enhanced Linux Reference Policy and a rewrite of the common used selinux-policy-targeted 1.27.x
• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.14-2, equals 2.6.14-1.1697_FC5; and which is a Linux kernel 2.6.15-rc2, fixes Red Hat Bugzilla IDs #171846, #172198 and #173749

Saturday, November 12th, 2005:

• Upgrade to MySQL 5.0.15 (from Fedora Development) and rebuilt all MySQL specific packages against it
• Switched from slocate to the replacement mlocate 0.11-1

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005:

• Upgrade to openssl 0.9.8a-1 and rebuilt most packages
• Added audit 1.0.12-1, it offers much more possibilities to to handle and to debug the SELinux stuff

Monday, November 7th, 2005:

• Replaced libungif by giflib (API and ABI are compatible), because the Unisys LZW patent is no longer in effect
• Changed from xorg-x11 6.8.2-58 to a release candidate of the new modular xorg (which is the upcoming X.Org 7.0), so we've about 20 packages more, but needing 72 MB less space
• Added phpmyadmin 2.6.4.3-1, whichis phpMyAdmin 2.6.4-pl3, a very useful web-based MySQL administration tool

Saturday, November 5th, 2005:

• Added the package perl-Net-IP 1.24-2, because the new perl-Net-DNS 0.53-1 package requires it

Monday, October 31st, 2005:

• Added SELinux configuration utility to setuptool 1:0.1.2

Saturday, October 29th, 2005:

• MLS/MCS support in selinux-policy-targeted >= 1.27.2-10 is enabled per default; required a reboot for enabling, more infos: coker.com.au/selinux/talks/auug-2005/mcs-tut.html
• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.14-1, equals 2.6.14-1.1633_FC5; which is a Linux kernel 2.6.14 final

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005:

• Added the packages librsync 0.9.7-1 and duplicity 0.4.1-1 to provide the possibility for doing easy remote backups; thanks to Andreas Schiermeier for pointing me to the tool
• Removed the finger packages, an alias for 'finger' doing a 'who -H -u -w' fulfills all my wishes completely

Sunday, October 16th, 2005:

• Removed the package lockdev, nothing seems to require it
• Upgrade to ncftp 3.1.9-1 and support further on, because Red Hat dropped the package at Fedora Core
• Patch for cciss support (HP Smart Arrays) at smartctl in smartmontools 5.33-1.7, thanks to Praveen Chidambaram

Thursday, October 13th, 2005:

• Removed the package pam_krb5, nobody needs or wants it
• Added the package pam_abl 0.2.3-1, which provides auto blacklisting for repeated failed authentication attempts; thank you to Alexander Dalloz for pointing me to it.

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005:

• Pushed rsc-linux-release 0.0.2-4 with features and fixes
• Added the new package setuptool 1:0.1.0-1, which provides small system-config-* replacements, it also replaces the current setuptool package

Monday, October 3rd, 2005:

• Removed the package hesiod, because fetchmail and sendmail also work very well for me without any hesiod support

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005:

• Replaced the package ntp 4.2.0a by my own small ntpdate replacement, which is completely written in perl
• The package ntpdate 0.1.0 reached freshmeat.net

Saturday, September 24th, 2005:

• Removed the packages openldap, dhcp, dhcpv6, squid, dante, dialog, rp-pppoe, ppp and httptunnel, there is no need

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005:

• Removed the packages net-snmp, libmng and krbafs, because nothing seems to require them really

Friday, September 16th, 2005:

• Added the SELinux specific packages libsemanage 1.3.1-1 and libsetrans 0.1.5-1, which are needed for the MLS/MCS support; have a look to: redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2005-September/msg00067.html

Thursday, September 1st, 2005:

• Removed the packages perl-Filter and perl-Time-HiRes, because they are now obsoleted by perl >= 5.8.7-0.1

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.13-1, equals 2.6.13-1.1527_FC5; which is a Linux kernel 2.6.13 final

Saturday, August 20th, 2005:

• The package cairo >= 0.9.2-1 obsoletes libpixman <= 0.1.6, which was (unwanted) introduced with gtk2 2.7.0-1

Friday, July 1st, 2005:

• Added the package bitlbee 0.92 the first time; it enhances irssi providing a gateway from IRC to other chat networks

Sunday, June 26th, 2005:

• Upgrade to office2text and image2text 2005-3 (bug fixes)

Saturday, June 25th, 2005:

• Upgrade to hp 7.3.0-1, which contains new man pages

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005:

• Added the packages cairo 0.5.1-2 and libpixman 0.1.5-1, because the stupid gtk2 2.7.0-1 and also the stupid pango 1.9.0-1 are wanting it and we can't live without gtk2 (for example 'usermode' doesn't build without); I even tried it

Sunday, June 12th, 2005:

• Switched from selinux-policy-strict 1.23.18-4 to selinux- policy-targeted 1.23.18-5, because strict is too heavy and even Fedora Core 4 uses targeted by default

Saturday, June 11th, 2005:

• Release of RSC Linux 0.0.2 (Alcatraz)

Friday, June 10th, 2005:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.11-4, equals 2.6.11-1.1381_FC5; which is a Linux kernel 2.6.12-rc6-git3

Thursday, June 9th, 2005:

• Obsoleted the comps package, provided py rsc-linux-release

Saturday, June 4th, 2005:

• Build rsc-linux-release 0.0.2-0 package for testing

Friday, May 27th, 2005:

• The xfsprogs 2.6.25-0 are now part of the distribution; where pending since April. XFS is a very fast and good journaling filesystem which is full SELinux capable

Thursday, May 26th, 2005:

• Removed the pyxf86config package, rhpl >= 0.167-1 at RSC Linux has no longer python code which would require it

Saturday, May 21st, 2005:

• Added the package libart_lgpl 2.3.17-2 to RSC Linux, because rrdtool 1.2.8-1 and gcc 4.0.0-8 require it

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005:

• Added the packages libselinux, libsepol, checkpolicy, policycoreutils, selinux-policy-strict-sources, setools and selinux-policy-strict for upcoming SELinux support

Friday, May 13th, 2005:

• IDN support (umlaut domains) for ping(6) and traceroute(6) at the packages iputils-20020927 and traceroute-1.4a12

Monday, May 9th, 2005:

• Developed own small tui and cli only variants of some system-config-* packages/tools as replacement; included them into the rsc-linux-release package

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005:

• The partysip 2.2.3-1 (a modular implementation of a SIP proxy server) and libosip2 2.2.0-3 (an implementation of SIP) are now part of the distribution; pending since March

Sunday, April 17th, 2005:

• Upgrade to rsc-linux-release 0.0.1-6, which contains the new scripts mailget and usage as well as further fixes

Friday, April 15th, 2005:

• Removed usbutils package, because an update would require the package libusb; nobody needs lsusb at a server system
• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.11-3, equals 2.6.11-1.1240_FC4; it solves a kernel panic at rebuilding of gcc 4.0

Saturday, April 9th, 2005:

• Removed dosfstools and mkbootdisk, anaconda doesn't really need these packages; kernel 2.6 is too big for a floppy
• Built anaconda and -runtime 10.2.0.47-1 the first time
• Pushed rsc-linux-release 0.0.1-5 with features and fixes
• Added python-elementtree 1.2.6-4 to RSC Linux, because the new yum 2.3.2-1 will require it

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005:

• Upgrade to rsc-firewall 0.1.0-1; a rewrite of 0.0.2, which is optimized for kernel 2.6 and has an improved cronjob

Thursday, March 31st, 2005:

• Upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.7f
• Removed compat-* packages for c/c++, everything is built against gcc 4.0.0 and glibc 2.3.4

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.11-2, equals 2.6.11-1.1208_FC4

Saturday, March 26th, 2005:

• Upgrade to glibc 2.3.4-18 (Fedora Core Development)

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005:

• Development of 'nodaemon', a startup script for userland programs, that should be start with a specified user

Monday, March 21st, 2005:

• Upgrade to kernel 2.6.11-1, equals 2.6.11-1.1191_FC4
• Upgrade to udev 050-9, MAKEDEV 3.19-1, initscripts 8.05-1, module-init-tools 3.1-2 and device-mapper 1.01.00-1.1

Friday, March 18th, 2005:

• Removed package lvm (LVM1) and no replacement with LVM2
• Pushed rsc-linux-release 0.0.1-2 with features and fixes
• Merged redhat-rpm-config 8.0.33-2 into rsc-linux-release; debuginfo package is disabled

Thursday, March 17th, 2005:

• Upgrade to kudzu 1.1.111-1, rhpl 0.153-2, hwdata 0.152-1, mkinitrd 4.2.3-1 and hotplug 2004_09_23-3; these will be needed for kernel >= 2.6
• Added the package hardlink 1.0-1.11 the first time to RSC Linux; will be needed for kernel >= 2.6

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005:

• Upgrade to OpenSSH 4.0p1
• Added the package python-urlgrabber 2.9.6-1 the first time, it's splitted out of the yum package in yum 2.3.1-2
• The python-docs disappeared with python 2.4-6

Saturday, March 12th, 2005:

• Upgrade to gcc 4.0.0-0.32 (Fedora Core Development)
• Upgrade to glibc 2.3.4-14 (Fedora Core Development)
• Added redhat-rpm-config 8.0.33-2 the first time

Thursday, March 10th, 2005:

• Switched from XFree86 4.3.0-78 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3) to xorg-x11 6.8.2-7 from Fedora Core Development, this obsoletes the packages chkfontpath and ttmkfdir

Sunday, March 6th, 2005:

• Removed the package ash from the distribution

Friday, March 4th, 2005:

• Upgrade to inet-monitoring 0.2.0-1 which has no longer a python daemon; uses the PAM-unaided vixie-cron now

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005:

• Upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.7e and rebuilt packages against it
• Support the package 'libesmtp' further on, even if Red Hat dropped it for Fedora Core
• Removed the packages 'dump', 'rmt', 'mt-st', 'pax', 'lha', 'star', 'fbset', 'setserial' and 'eject' from RSC Linux

Monday, February 28th, 2005:

• Added the package mod_security 1.8.6-1 the first time to RSC Linux, having (hopefully) a save default configuration

Monday, February 21st, 2005:

• Upgrade to hp 7.2.0-1, which contains a new command line interface (new feature by upstream)

Sunday, February 13th, 2005:

• Upgraded HotSaNIC package to 0.5.0-pre6-snapshot to have new features and developed the module 'hp_sensors' for having sensors support with hp 7.1.1-1 and hplog/hptemp

Friday, February 11th, 2005:

• Developed version 2005 of the tools 'office2text' and 'image2text' and upgraded them to this latest version.

Sunday, February 6th, 2005:

• Added the package kickservices 0.54-1 the first time to RSC Linux; provides IRC Services optimized for UnrealIRCd

Friday, February 4th, 2005:

• Added the package rsc-firewall 0.0.1-1 the first time to RSC Linux; contains a simple iptables firewall script

Sunday, January 30th, 2005:

• Added the package hp 7.1.1-1 the first time to RSC Linux, it contains hp ProLiant Server Management Tools
• Obsoleted the own internal very buggy python daemon of the vnstat package; vixie-cron is now used as replacement

Saturday, January 29th, 2005:

• Built vixie-cron 4.1-22 and at 3.1.8-64 without PAM authentication support to avoid the masses of log entries

Friday, January 28th, 2005:

• The RSC Linux development system moved to new server

Monday, January 24th, 2005:

• Rebuilt kernel 2.4.21-4 without i586 support, but enabled smp support for i686 and athlon

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005:

• Upgrade to RHEL3's kernel 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL (as 2.4.21-4)

Sunday, January 16th, 2005:

• Deliver the root and the ORSN name servers for the bind package in one (merged) file to /var/named/root.hint
• Added the package of the IRC server unrealircd 3.2.2b-1 to RSC Linux the first time (contains a security fix)

Friday, January 14th, 2005:

• Splitted up kernel-utils into smaller own packages, like microcode_ctl, smartmontools, dmidecode as in Fedora Core
• grub 0.95-7 fixes the problem, that the bootsplash image of RSC Linux isn't displayed (comments before xpm header)
• Upgrade to readline 5.0 and rebuilt all requiring packages against it

Thursday, December 30th, 2004:

• Various mkinitrd changes and backports, which allow to set new kernels as default using /etc/sysconfig/kernel

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004:

• mod_auth_useragent2 and rpm2python reached freshmeat.net

Monday, December 27th, 2004:

• Added the package mod_auth_useragent2 0.9.0-1 to RSC Linux the first time, it's (more or less) an own development

Saturday, December 25th, 2004:

• Upgrade to RHEL3's kernel 2.4.21-27.0.1.EL (as 2.4.21-3)

Friday, December 24th, 2004:

• Removed the dietlibc package, because it isn't needed any longer; the packages will be rebuilt direct against glibc

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004:

• Replaced /usr/kerberos by the current Fedora Core standard

Thursday, December 16th, 2004:

• Upgrade to rpm2python 0.1.2, which adds the possibility to strip everything between '<' and '>' at the vendor tag etc

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004:

• Upgrade to rpm 4.4.1-0.4 (from Jeff Johnson's ftp server), but disabled signature checking and Horowitz's Key Protocol
• Introduced the vendor tag 'RSC Linux' and the packager tag 'Robert Scheck <rsc-linux@robert-scheck.de>' for all new (re)built rpm packages.
• Hop from beecrypt 3.1.0-6 to 4.0.0-1

Sunday, December 12th, 2004:

• Included the package neon 0.24.7-4 to RSC Linux the first time, because rpm 4.4.x will need it

Thursday, December 9th, 2004:

• Upgrade to Python 2.4 (from Fedora Core Development) and rebuilt most packages against it

Saturday, December 4th, 2004:

• Upgrade to RHEL3's kernel 2.4.21-20.0.1.EL (as 2.4.21-2)

Saturday, November 20th, 2004:

• Upgrade to php 5.0.2-7 (from Fedora Core Development)

Friday, November 19th, 2004:

• Upgrade to rpm 4.3.2 (from Fedora Core Development)
• Upgrade from db4 4.2.52 to 4.3.21 and rebuilt most packages against it

Sunday, November 14th, 2004:

• Release of RSC Linux 0.0.1 (Sahira)

Monday, November 8th, 2004:

• Downgrade gawk from 3.1.4-1 to 3.1.3-10, to match with FC3 and to avoid problems of changes between 3.1.3 and 3.1.4

Sunday, November 7th, 2004:

• Build first rsc-linux-release 0.0.1-0 package for testing purposes

Saturday, November 6th, 2004:

• Added Fedora Core 3's README and RELEASE-NOTES to the release history of the rsc-linux-release package
• Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.7 (from Fedora Development) and rebuilt all MySQL specific packages against it

Monday, October 25th, 2004:

• Petri Damstén designed the RSC Linux GRUB boot splash, which will be included to rsc-linux-release, which will merge fedora-logos and fedora-release in one package

Monday, October 18th, 2004:

• Switch to Fedora Core's ipv6calc 0.47-3, which already was part of the RSC Linux distribution before

Sunday, October 10th, 2004:

• The traffic monitoring tool vnstat is now part of the distribution, it includes a daemon.

Monday, October 4th, 2004:

• Upgrade to rpm2python 0.1.1, which fixes an error in the changelog view, if only one changelog entry is available

Sunday, October 3rd, 2004:

• Upgrade to perl 5.8.5-6 and rebuilt of lots of perl packages, trying to use always the vendor directory
• The completely in python re-designed 'inet-monitoring' 0.1.0 is now part of the distribution; contains a daemon

Monday, September 20th, 2004:

• First 'own' initscripts package initscripts 7.31.16-0.1 based on RHEL3's initscripts 7.31.16.EL-1 with lots of backports, changes and fixes - but with kernel 2.4 support

Sunday, September 12th, 2004:

• rpm2python 0.1.0 replaces rpm2php 0.1.1 now, because it was too far away from its name with MySQL and C programs; rpm2python is completely written in Python and very fast

Friday, September 3rd, 2004:

• Upgrade to glibc 2.3.2-95.27 (from RHEL3), including IDN (umlaut domain) support, even if Red Hat seems to refuse it (unwilling to patch and test?): bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127998

Thursday, September 2nd, 2004:

• Upgrade from rpm 4.2.2 to 4.2.3 (both from RHEL3) built against python 2.3 with RSC Linux specific fixes
• Upgrade to gcc 3.2.3-42 (from RHEL3), patched against the new bash 3 posix conformity

Wednesday, September 1st, 2004:

• Change from update-agent to an modified yum (2.1.0) with metadata support and createrepo 0.3.7

Saturday, August 21st, 2004:

• Switched to own mutt package, because Fedora Development will stay at 1.4.x for longer time and not switch to 1.5.x

Saturday, August 14th, 2004:

• Upgrade from openldap 2.0.27 to 2.2.13, because db4 4.2.52 is now shipped and 2.2.13 rebuilds against db4 4.2.52 fine

Thursday, August 12th, 2004:

• Upgrade from db4 4.0.14 (Red Hat Linux 9) to 4.2.52 (Fedora Development) to have a current db4

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004:

• Shipped first rsc-linux-release package with the version number 0.0.1 based on fedora-release-2-4
• Rebuilded anaconda 9.2-2 from Fedora Core 1 with lots of patches and fixes for rebuilding and RSC Linux specific stuff; tried first rebuild for images
• Upgrade from rpm 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 (both from RHEL3) built against python 2.3 with RSC Linux specific fixes

Monday, August 9th, 2004:

• Change from Fedora Core 1's kernel 2.4.22-1.2194.nptl to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3's kernel 2.4.21-15.0.4.EL for more stable and longer support of kernel 2.4 - one of our main goals of RSC Linux

Sunday, August 8th, 2004:

• Broke out patched and for kernel 2.4 optimated mkinitrd and modutils from Fedora Development
• Downgrade from the kernel 2.6 optimated kudzu 1.1.75 to Fedora Core 1's kudzu 1.1.36.1 which equals mostly Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3's kudzu 1.1.22.2

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004:

• Merged 'development' and 'alpha', included gcc 3.2.3 and glibc 2.3.2 with IDN support (from RHEL3)

Monday, July 26th, 2004:

• Thinking about replacing update-agent by the new yum with metadata support (createrepo/rpm-metadata) announced at redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg01115.html
• The tools 'office2text' and 'image2text' and corresponding viewers are included to read office files and images at a textbased console

Sunday, July 18th, 2004:

• rpm2php 0.1.1 (testing) released containing a C binding (API) to rpm for better performance

Thursday, July 15th, 2004:

• Switched to XFree86 4.3.0-62 (RHEL3) to have support and fixes for the next time, xorg-x11 currently is to heavy development

Monday, July 12th, 2004:

• Splitted up into 'development' and 'alpha' for new gcc and glibc as announced

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004:

• Plans about splitting up into 'development' and 'alpha' for building, developing and testing gcc 3.2.3 and glibc 2.3.2 with IDN support (from RHEL3)

Sunday, May 30th, 2004:

• First own release of an update tool called 'update-agent' (written in php) with the first release 0.1.0

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004:

• Added the socks server dante 1.1.14-1 with socksifying libraries the first time to RSC Linux

Monday, May 24th, 2004:

• Initial release of rpm2php 0.1.0 a tool like rpm2html, but only php, mysql and rpm are used

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004:

• Initial (virtual) 'rsc-linux-release' package bases on Fedora Core 2
• Three-quarter of the system contains rebuilt RPM packages out of Fedora Core 2

Wednesday, April 14th, 2004:

• Added the HTML overview to System and Network Information Center 'HotSaNIC' with version 0.5.0-pre5 the first time

Friday, April 9th, 2004:

• IDN support (umlaut domains) for jwhois 3.2.2-2

Thursday, March 11th, 2004:

• First 'own' rebuild of rpm 4.2.1 (RHEL3) against the new updated python 2.3.3 (Fedora Development)

Tuesday, January 6th, 2004:

• First 'own' kernel package kernel 2.4.22-1 based on Fedora Core 1's kernel package kernel 2.4.22-1.2140

Thursday, December 4th, 2003:

• Added the package tcpick 0.1.10-1, a tcp stream sniffer

Saturday, November 1st, 2003:

• Merged fedora-release 1 package
• About the half system contains rebuilt Fedora Core 1 RPM packages

Monday, October 27th, 2003:

• Added the package esmtp 0.4.1-1, which provides a user configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for mutt

Saturday, May 17th, 2003:

• Added the package proftpd 1.2.8-1, a flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP Server

Sunday, May 4th, 2003:

• First 'own' package at Red Hat Linux 9: httpd with version 2.0.45 (security release)

Saturday, May 3rd, 2003:

• First installation of a plain Red Hat Linux 9 system at a dedicated server