Installer Updates:
· Fix persistent mode on the live CD (#219192, #274076)
· Fix GPT/MBR syncing on modern Intel Macs (#222126)
· Fix handling of UUIDs on existing swap partitions during install (#336992)
Desktop Updates:
· Set hdparm power management based on AC state on resume/thaw (#59695)
· Fix LSB compliance in foomatic-rip (#376732)
· Work around crash when navigating around ssh locations (#236953)
· Don't inaccurately report all suspends >= 6 hours as failed (#242713)
· Disable the ability to create a new user whose name is owned by a previously defined group, which, if allowed to happen, would overwrite the old group. If this happened to 'admin', for example, it would render any system administration by sudoers impossible (#236305)
· Fix nautilus shortcuts to smb shares (#216104)
· Recover lost DAV over HTTPS mounting functionality (#222532)
· Fix connection issue with new ICQ protocol (#340151)
Server updates:
· Fix for mod_proxy with SSL using all the CPU (#306293)
· Fix kernel oops when shutting down NFS server (#253004)
· Fix open-iscsi installation and startup (#227848, #236640)
· Adjust openldap apparmor profile to allow cnconfig (#243525)
· Avoid getting stuck in infinite loops in redhat-cluster-suite (#290399)
General Updates:
· /etc/lsb-release: include "LTS" in the DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION field (#225735)
· Fix libgomp to work with shared libraries (#235070)
· Fix kernel oops when invalid character occurs in filename on udf filesystem (#321606)
· Fix kernel oops in the NFS client (#341783, #212485)
· Upgrade the lsb package to support LSB 4.0 (#370066)
Installer Updates:
· Create sambashare group and add the initial user to it (#238224)
· Permissions on some system files and directories were set wrong when installing from Desktop CDs. For users tracking the recommended hardy-updates repository, this issue has already been corrected post-install (#288479)
· Record the partition table as changed when a single partition's file system type has changed, fixing bootloader installation failures when installing onto existing partitions (#149832)
· Fix writing of /var/log/installer/oem-id in OEM mode (#251751)
· Use the correct mirror for -security in the event of apt-setup/security_host being preseeded (#306356)
Desktop Updates:
· Fix a race which can lead to a gvfs-fuse-daemon crash when closing session (#235698)
· Prompt for restarting session when installing samba to take into account sambashare group membership and the need for libpam-smbpass to create NTLM password hash (#212098)
· Fix undeletion of menu items with the alacarte menu editor (#225941)
· Stop/start anacron on suspend/resume and on power-cycle (#249220)
· Fix hang on "Loading..." when opening a PDF file (#256048)
· Fix incorrect handling of authentication cases leading to excessive gnome-keyring CPU usage (#236171)
· Fix printing to remote ipp:// printers (#258104)
· Don't look for a Trash directory on autofs mounts (#210468)
· Fix GNOME session blow-up when using GUI to join a Windows domain (#222224)
· Fix ICQ connections in pidgin (#244591)
Server updates:
· Fix race with mdadm/devmapper while looping for the root filesystem (#244926)
· Revert "TC action parsing bug fix", which broke shorewall and wondershaper (#194623)
· Support booting degraded RAID devices (#290885)
General Updates:
· Set hdparm power management to 254 for all hard drives while on AC, and 128 while on battery (note that suspend/resume still breaks this, and a more complete fix will be forthcoming for Ubuntu 8.04.3) (#59695)
· Support CDs with no uncompressed Packages files, only compressed ones, enabling upgrade to future releases using CDs (#255545)
· Conflict with old mysql 4.1 packages to ensure smooth upgrades from Ubuntu 6.06 (#208695)
· Backport cifs.upcall, to support Kerberos-authenticated CIFS kernel mounts (#236830)
· e1000 checksum recheck after reset (#60388)
