8.1-RELEASE Errata - Security Advisories

[Hiroki Sato]

"Crispy" <crispy at hushmail.com> wrote
  in <20100724174334.1D95628049 at smtp.hushmail.com>:

cr> Hi,
cr>
cr> Apologies if I am asking a silly question, but I'm curious what
cr> decides whether a security advisory gets listed in a release
cr> errata. My question relates specifically to the following two
cr> documents:
cr>
cr> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/errata.html
cr> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/errata.html
cr>
cr> The errata for 8.1 lists ten security advisories, all of which have
cr> been corrected in 8.1-RELEASE, yet few of them even mention 8.1-
cr> RELEASE in any form. On the other hand, the 8.0 errata lists only
cr> three advisories, when it should contain many of the ones on the
cr> 8.1 page.
cr>
cr> I do not mean to be critical if it is merely a case of documents
cr> not being kept up to date, or a mistake being made in the 8.1
cr> errata. However, reading the errata for 8.1 makes it look as if
cr> there are a lot of security issues with the release already. I find
cr> this a bit confusing.

 Gr, the same list of SAs as in the Release Notes was accidentally
 included.  I removed just now.  Thank you for pointing out it.

-- Hiroki
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