Changeset c093e6b for chapter01/whatsnew.xml

Timestamp:

10/01/2022 10:30:12 PM (19 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl (Moody) <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib

Children:

f3b2f16

Parents:

f29824e (diff), 4349661 (diff)
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Message:

Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

File:

• chapter01/whatsnew.xml (modified) (8 diffs)

chapter01/whatsnew.xml

@@ -12 +12 @@
   <title>What's new since the last release</title>
 
+  <para>In 11.3 release, <parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter>
+  and <parameter>--enable-default-ssp</parameter> are enabled for GCC.
+  They can mitigate some type of malicious attacks but they cannot provide
+  a full protection.  In case if you are reading a programming textbook,
+  you may need to disable PIE and SSP with GCC options
+  <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>
+  because some textbooks assume they were disabled by default.</para>
+
   <para>Below is a list of package updates made since the previous
   release of the book.</para>
@@ -39 +47 @@
       <para>Automake-&automake-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Bash &bash-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Bc &bc-version;</para>
@@ -63 +71 @@
       <para>DejaGNU-&dejagnu-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem revision="systemd">
+    <listitem revision="systemd">
       <para>D-Bus-&dbus-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</para>
@@ -75 +83 @@
        <para>Eudev-&eudev-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
        <para>Expat-&expat-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
        <para>Expect-&expect-version;</para>
@@ -123 +131 @@
       <para>Gzip-&gzip-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>IANA-Etc-&iana-etc-version;</para>
-   </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Inetutils-&inetutils-version;</para>
@@ -150 +158 @@
       <para>LFS-Bootscripts-&lfs-bootscripts-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Libcap-&libcap-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Libelf-&elfutils-version; (from elfutils)</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Libffi-&libffi-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Libpipeline-&libpipeline-version;</para>
@@ -219 +227 @@
       <para>Python-&python-version;</para>
     </listitem>
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Readline-&readline-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Sed-&sed-version;</para>
@@ -246 +254 @@
       <para>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Tzdata-&tzdata-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Util-Linux-&util-linux-version;</para>