[Info-vax] Monthly Update

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/21/2023 6:30 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 2/21/23 1:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 2/21/2023 8:25 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 
>>> "OpenSSH V8.9-1C for Integrity and x86"
>>> "OpenJDK 8 (8u342) for Integrity"
>>
>> Those should just be regular upgrades.
> 
> OpenJDK is a minor update.  OpenSSH was previously available until it
> wasn't until it became available again with the new version just now.
> So it could be regarded as new.

OK.

I know I have seen it before.

(I just checked - I seem to have a version 8.8 downloaded April 2022)

So I assumed that it was just a small update.

But you say that it is really the first version. Sort of like 9.2 is
first real x86-64 version.

>                                  And it's a major paradigm shift that
> replaces a proprietary SSH service whose algorithms were always
> out-of-date and that used a quirky scp server protocol that didn't match
> what most scp clients do.  I'm looking forward to (at last) being able
> to try this.

Yes.

All part of the very much needed modernization.

Arne