1.6.  amanda

the "amtapetype" command had a bug in memory management: an invalid pointer was passed to the free() function. In some circumstances this caused amrecover to fail with a "Extractor child exited with status 2" error. The invalid pointer is no longer passed to free() and amrecover extracts files from a tape backup as expected. (BZ#476971)

previously, amanda sub-packages (including amanda-devel, amanda-server and amanda-client) were only required to be the same version as amanda: they did not check that their release was in sync with the base amanda package. This could cause the packages to go out-of-sync and malfunction if an attempt was made to update either the base amanda package or any of amanda's sub-packages. With this update, both the version and release are checked, ensuring all dependent packages remain in sync if either the base package or any sub-packages are updated. (BZ#497111)