Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution
- Version 3, Release Candidate 1
- April 17, 2001
+ Version 3, Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
+ April 18, 2001
Release Notes
The 3.0 Release Candidate 1 lease file is not backwards compatible
with the 3.0 Beta 1 lease file, so if you have to go back, you will
have to convert your lease files back to the 3.0 Beta 1 format - if
-you try to run a 3.0 Beta 1 server on a 3.0 Beta 2 lease file, it will
+you try to run a 3.0 Beta 1 server on a 3.0 lease file, it will
cheerfully delete all your leases.
If you are running 3.0 beta 1 and are doing dynamic DNS updates, the
thanks to all of these good people here, both for working on the code
and for prodding me into improving it.
+ Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
+
+- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
+ Transmeta.
+
+- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
+ ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
+ UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
+ Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
+
+- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
+ Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
+ because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
+ a new release candidate is expected shortly.
+
+- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
+ bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
+
+
Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all