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authorDavid Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>2022-10-17 15:19:01 -0500
committerDavid Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>2022-10-17 15:19:01 -0500
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parent99ecc765772b3e496dc5a9eed31234b6f1902de4 (diff)
Corrected grammar and idiom, clarified a couple of things.
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<title>What's new since the last release</title>
- <para>In 11.3 release, <parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter>
+ <para>In the 11.3 release, <parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter>
and <parameter>--enable-default-ssp</parameter> are enabled for GCC.
- They can mitigate some type of malicious attacks but they cannot provide
- a full protection. In case if you are reading a programming textbook,
- you may need to disable PIE and SSP with GCC options
- <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>
- because some textbooks assume they were disabled by default.</para>
+ These techniques can mitigate some malicious attacks, but they do not provide
+ perfect security. If you are reading LFS and a programming textbook,
+ you may need to disable PIE and SSP with the GCC options
+ <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>,
+ because some textbooks assume these options are disabled by default.</para>
- <para>Below is a list of package updates made since the previous
- release of the book.</para>
+ <para>Here is a list of the packages updated since the previous
+ release of LFS.</para>
<!--
Every package in the book is listed in the "Upgraded to:" section.