NCSA Mosaic for X 2.4 available.

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Mon, 11 Apr 94 16:16:28 -0500

It is with great embarrassment that I offer my apologies to the 2135
people who downloaded Mosaic 2.3 before I withdrew it. In my rush to
get out a version that fixed the telnet URL security problem, I left in
an ugly flaw that caused Widget names to appear to the right of all
toggle buttons in all forms. I'm very sorry for all the inconvenience
this may have caused. I am now releasing Mosaic 2.4, which is identical
to 2.3 with the exception of fixing that one foolish oversight.

- Eric

NCSA Mosaic for X 2.4 is now available.

..ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Mosaic:

o Source in /Mosaic/Mosaic-source.

o Binaries for SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3 (a.k.a. SunOS 5.3),
AIX 3.2.4 with X11R5, IRIX 4.x, IRIX 5.1.x,
DEC Alpha (OSF/1), DEC Ultrix, and HP/UX 9.x (700-series) in
/Mosaic/Mosaic-binaries.

NOTE: Binaries and source are now compressed with gnu zip to save
space on our overloaded ftp server.

As always, thanks for all the feedback!

If you have any comments, questions, or problems with Mosaic 2.4,
please send mail to [email protected]. Also please drop us a
note if you enjoy using Mosaic or if you are using it in any
interesting projects or applications -- we love to hear from our
users!

Changes from version 2.3 to version 2.4 include:

o Fixed really embarassingly dumb bug that made widgets names appear
next to toggle buttons on forms.

Changes from version 2.2 to version 2.3 (in case you never saw 2.3) include:

o Fixed security bug in telnet URLs. <--This is the IMPORTANT change,
and the reason for this early release. For details see:
http://south.ncsa.uiuc.edu/telnet-details.html
o Fixed bug with dithered images inverting on some displays.
o Fixed bug with non-direct-WAIS clients core dumping on WAIS URLs.
o Fixed bug with uninitialized gatewayed for proxy gateways.
o Fixed memory overrun in PEM_AUTH code.
o Fixed loss of small messages in PEM_AUTH code.
o Fixed improper defaults for VerticalScrollOnRight.
o Fixed more GIF decoding core dumps.
o Fixed mispelling of XtSpecificationRelease in gui.c
o Fixed 24bit handling bug that caused some displays to switch red and blue.
o Added names to child widgets in forms.
o Added autoconfiguration of MOTIF1_2 based on XmVERSION and XmREVISION.
o Made dialogs rise to the top when selected a second time.
o Added 24bit DirectColor support.
o Added 16bit TrueColor support.
o Changed dithering to Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
o 2 color images go to black & white on monochrome, instead of dithering.
o FORM now uses ENCTYPE and ENCENTITY to submit encrypted if PEM_AUTH
defined.
o New menu under "Options" to always request enrypted if PEM_AUTH defined.

Cheers,
Marc (in absentia) & Eric

- - - - --
Marc Andreessen & Eric Bina
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana
[email protected] & [email protected]