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-OpenAFS News -- history of user-visible changes.  December 9, 2002.
+OpenAFS News -- history of user-visible changes.  April 10, 2003.
 
 * Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.3
 
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    This is enabled by passing -fakestat to afsd, but might not be stable
    on all platforms.
 
+* Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.2.9
+
+** The kaserver now defaults to not allowing interrealm authentication,
+   due to security vulnerabilities in the krb4 protocol.  The new
+   "-crossrealm" flag to the kaserver is provided to reenable interrealm
+   authentication if desired.
+
+** RedHat Linux 9.0 is now supported.
+
+** Solaris 9 12/02 is now supported.  Solaris 7 and 8 x86 should now
+   work again.
+
 * Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.2.8
 
 ** Mountpoint directory information is now only faked for cross-cell