[Man-db-announce] man-db 2.4.2 released

[Colin Watson]

I've released man-db 2.4.2.

Description
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man-db contains an implementation of the man command, which is the
primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other
utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching
the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual
page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
zsoelim. The package requires a troff installation, such as groff (GNU
troff) to format and display the manual pages.

About this release
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This release features revamped locale support: in conjunction with the
multibyte patches to groff distributed by Debian and others, it should
work well in almost all singlebyte locales and some multibyte locales,
notably EUC-JP and UTF-8.

It includes fixes for several security problems: buffer overruns as
described in CVE CAN-2003-0620, and a problem with the semantics of
~/.manpath as described in CVE CAN-2003-0645.

A number of performance improvements have been made, particularly in the
routines which purge obsolete entries from manual page databases.

Support for the GDBM library has been improved, working around
differences between it and the other supported database back-ends.

For full details of these and of the other improvements in this release,
please see the files docs/NEWS and docs/ChangeLog in the source
distribution.

  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man-db/
  
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/stable.pkg/2.4.2/man-db-2.4.2.tar.gz

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden

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