=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/Attic/y2k.html,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 --- www/Attic/y2k.html 1998/07/14 21:33:12 1.3 +++ www/Attic/y2k.html 1999/06/03 17:20:14 1.4 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ - + @@ -22,22 +22,37 @@ significant work to audit the source tree for Y2K flaws. When found, these were fixed before the 2.3 release shipped. We feel that we were pretty thorough -- we even found problems in the -dating of nroff-generated manpages. +dating of nroff-generated manpages. Releases were carefully handled +to avoid introducing new flaws.

+A few extremely minor flaws were fixed in the 2.4 and 2.5 releases, +but all of these were problems without impact. Most of these issues +related to programs that still printed dates in 2 digit form -- though +they would have correctly printed the year as 00 and not 100. Not a +serious issue in our mind when considering that there are other +programs in the system which are required (by existing standards) to +print dates in such form. + +

+We recommend that paranoid people update to our latest release (which +should already be obvious considering our continual improvements to +security). + +

A non-comprehensive list of the problems we solved can be gleaned from -our Changelogs (available on the 2.3 CD in CD2:/Changelogs/) +our Changelogs (available on each CD in CD2:/Changelogs/) or in web-based our abbreviated daily log.

At this time, we do not know of any Y2K flaws. If anyone becomes aware of a flaw which we missed, please inform our developers so that it can -be fixed. +be fixed.

OpenBSD www@openbsd.org -
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