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Ubuntu team hrdě oznamuje vydání nového Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, druhá opravná aktualizace po vydání Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Tato verze obsahuje aktualizovaný server, desktop a alternativní instalační CD pro i386 a amd64 architektury.

Celkově bylo zahrnuto 200 oprav, a vylepšený media update, díky kterému se bude stahovat méně věcí po samotném nainstalování. Součástí tohoto media update jsou vylepšení security a opravy pro další velice vážné chyby s hlavním zaměřením na perfektní stabilitu a kompatibilitu s původním Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

Ke stažení Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS

Download Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, nebo získat instalační CD, můžete provést zde:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Tady je v angličtině detailní popis toho, co je v Ubuntu nového.

About Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS
———————–

This is the second maintenance release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, which
continues to be supported with maintenance updates and security fixes
until April 2011 on desktops and April 2013 on servers.

Over 200 post-release updates have been integrated, and a number of
bugs in the installation system have been corrected. These include
security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a
focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

See http://www.ubuntu.com/usn for a full list of Ubuntu security updates.
As of 2009-01-20, all updates affecting packages on the CD have been
applied.

A summary of notable updates follows. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu for specific information about a
particular bug number. A complete list of post-release updates can
also be found at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/8.04.2

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)

Helping Shape Ubuntu
——————–

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways
you can participate at

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but
aren’t sure, try asking on the #ubuntu channel on IRC.FreeNode.net, on
the Ubuntu Users mailing list, or on the Ubuntu forums:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

About Ubuntu
————

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and
servers, with a fast and easy install and regular releases. A
tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and
an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and
hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about
support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support