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Xen 4.1.2-6 & kernel-xen-2.6.32.56-1 available

Another round of updates just pushed out. Some of the mirrors are still syncing so you may have to be a little patient.

NOTE: You will need to upgrade to kernel-xen-release 6-3 or above to get these updates.

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* Mon Feb 20 2012 Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au> - kernel-xen-2.6.32.56-1
- Linux 2.6.32.56
  USB: ftdi_sio: fix initial baud rate
  USB: cp210x: do not map baud rates to B0
  USB: serial: CP210x: Added USB-ID for the Link Instruments MSO-19
  hwmon: (sht15) fix bad error code
  hwmon: (f71805f) Fix clamping of temperature limits
  USB: usbsevseg: fix max length
  usb: io_ti: Make edge_remove_sysfs_attrs the port_remove method.
  USB: cdc-wdm: updating desc-&gt;length must be protected by spin_lock
  USB: ftdi_sio: Add more identifiers
  USB: serial: ftdi additional IDs
  USB: ftdi_sio: add PID for TI XDS100v2 / BeagleBone A3
  USB: ftdi_sio: fix TIOCSSERIAL baud_base handling
  dm: do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the underlying device
  block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
  Revert "ARM: 7220/1: mmc: mmci: Fixup error handling for dma"
  crypto: sha512 - reduce stack usage to safe number
  crypto: sha512 - make it work, undo percpu message schedule
  drm: Fix authentication kernel crash
  eCryptfs: Make truncate path killable
  ecryptfs: Improve metadata read failure logging
  eCryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfs</netwiz></code>

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* Thu Feb 02 2012 Michael Young <m .a.young> - 4.1.2-6
- Fix buffer overflow in e1000 emulation for HVM guests [CVE-2012-0029]

* Sat Jan 28 2012 Michael Young </m><m .a.young> - 4.1.2-5
- Start building xen's ocaml libraries if appropriate unless --without ocaml
  was specified
- add some backported patches from xen unstable (via Debian) for some
  ocaml tidying and fixes
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