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<title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Project</corpauthor>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2000</year>
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<year>2001</year>
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<year>2002</year>
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<year>2003</year>
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<year>2004</year>
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<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
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</copyright>
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<abstract>
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<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
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of
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the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.prev;.
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<![ %no.include.historic; [
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recent changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch;
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development branch.
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This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
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the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
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kernel and userland.
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Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
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&release.current; on the &arch.print; hardware platform. It
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describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
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It also provides some notes on upgrading
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from previous versions of &os;.</para>
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<para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
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apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
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branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. Some
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pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
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can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
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<para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
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&release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink
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url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More
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information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
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distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
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FreeBSD</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">FreeBSD
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Handbook</ulink>.</para>
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<para>Users who are new to the &release.branch; series of &os;
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&release.type;s should also read the <quote>Early Adopters Guide
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to &os; &release.current;</quote>. This document can generally be
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found in the same location as the release notes (either as a part of a
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&os; distribution or on the &os; Web site). It contains important
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information regarding the advantages and disadvantages of using
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&os; &release.current;, as opposed to releases based on the &os;
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4-STABLE development branch.</para>
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<para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
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installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
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<quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
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release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
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information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
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documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
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&release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new">
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<title>What's New</title>
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<para>This section describes
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the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
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since &release.prev;.
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branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features.
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<![ %no.include.historic; [
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many of the user-visible new or changed features in &os;
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since &release.prev;. It includes items that are unique to the
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&release.branch; branch, as well as some features that may have been
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recently merged to
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other branches (after &os; &release.prev.historic;). The latter
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items are marked as &merged;.
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</para>
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<para>Typical release note items
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document recent security advisories issued after
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&release.prev.historic;,
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new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
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major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also
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list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
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practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single
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change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses
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primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major
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architectural improvements.</para>
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<sect2 id="security">
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<title>Security Advisories</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="kernel">
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<title>Kernel Changes</title>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The dgb (DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
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removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
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which supports all the hardware of the dgb driver.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
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breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
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<para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
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<sect3 id="proc">
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<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
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2003-12-07 22:12:05 +00:00
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<para></para>
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New release notes: Logical CPUs for HTT now enabled using BIOS
settings, options IPFILTER requires options PFIL_HOOKS, last bits of
a.out compiler toolchain are gone, acpiconf(8) -i, asf(8), .snap
directory for snapshots, kdump(1) -p, last(1) -n, libwrap/tcpdchk(8)
support extended tcp_wrappers syntax, repquota(8) -n, savecore(8) -C,
uname(1) -i, hardware notes device trimmage, Turkish translation for
docs.
Modified release notes: Spell "Cronyx-Sigma" correctly in cx(4)
item, spell "FireWire" consistently, fix grammer in puc(4) item, move
uart(4) note from NIC to generic kernel section, spell "NetGraph"
consistently, fix typo in xe(4) note, dynamic linking note more
precise,
Deleted release notes: -pthread removed (this was reverted).
Other: Correct a reference to recent security advisories.
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<para arch="i386">A serial console-capable version of
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<filename>boot0</filename> has been added. It can be written
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to a disk using &man.boot0cfg.8; and specifying
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<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
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<option>-b</option> option.</para>
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BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
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CDROM drives.</para>
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
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Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
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OpenFirmware.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
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driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
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has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The lmc (LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
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removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
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<para arch="i386">A wrapper system has been added to allow
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binary Windows NDIS miniport network drivers to be used with
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FreeBSD. For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
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&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
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<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
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handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
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</sect3>
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<title>Network Protocols</title>
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<para>Some bugs in the IPsec implementation from the KAME
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Project have been fixed. These bugs were related to freeing
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memory objects before all references to them were removed, and
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could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing
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the Security Policy Database (SPD).</para>
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<para>The <literal>PFIL_HOOKS</literal> option is now enabled by
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default in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. The most
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notable effect of this change is to make
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<application>IPFilter</application> work correctly when loaded
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as a kernel module.</para>
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<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
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3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
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congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
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limiting. More information can be found in &man.tcp.4;.</para>
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minimum MSS (settable via the
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<varname>net.inet.tcp.minmss</varname> sysctl variable) and a
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rate limit on connections that send many small TCP segments
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within a short period of time (via the
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variable). Connections exceeding this limit may be reset and
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dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
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resource exhaustion attacks.</para>
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<title>Disks and Storage</title>
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<para>A number of bugs in the &man.ata.4; driver have been
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fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should
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work better, and some problems with timeouts should be
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resolved.</para>
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<title>File Systems</title>
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<para>A bug in GEOM that could result in I/O hangs in some rare
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cases has been fixed.</para>
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<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
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when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
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server.</para>
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<title>Multimedia Support</title>
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<para>The meteor (video capture) driver has been removed due to
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breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
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<title>Userland Changes</title>
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<para>The configuration files used by the &man.resolver.5; now
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support the <literal>timeout:</literal> and
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<literal>attempts:</literal> keywords.</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports a <option>-b</option> flag to
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print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting
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the rule body.</para>
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<para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes
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problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename
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role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
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membership lists.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="contrib">
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<title>Contributed Software</title>
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2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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2003-12-12 21:58:13 +00:00
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<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
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from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
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2003-09-06 18:15:11 +00:00
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2004-01-25 06:23:10 +00:00
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<para>Two security fixes for <application>CVS</application> (one
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related to pserver operation and the other dealing with
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malformed module requests) have been backported from later
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versions.</para>
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2004-01-10 18:10:20 +00:00
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<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
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3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>
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</sect2>
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2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:18:52 +00:00
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<sect2 id="ports">
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<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
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2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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2003-12-07 22:12:05 +00:00
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<para></para>
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2003-04-12 16:38:33 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:18:52 +00:00
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</sect2>
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2002-04-24 20:38:25 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect2 id="releng">
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2002-04-24 20:38:25 +00:00
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<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
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2003-12-07 22:12:05 +00:00
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<para></para>
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2003-12-04 19:20:28 +00:00
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2002-04-24 20:38:25 +00:00
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</sect2>
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New release notes: MCA support on ia64, rp(4) update (+MFC), tx(4)
multicast filtering, ahd driver, calendar(1) -W/-F, nice(1) -n,
pam_echo(8), pam_exec(8), pselect(3), wc(1) -m, USD/PSD documents
restored.
2002-06-22 21:52:42 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect2 id="doc">
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New release notes: MCA support on ia64, rp(4) update (+MFC), tx(4)
multicast filtering, ahd driver, calendar(1) -W/-F, nice(1) -n,
pam_echo(8), pam_exec(8), pselect(3), wc(1) -m, USD/PSD documents
restored.
2002-06-22 21:52:42 +00:00
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<title>Documentation</title>
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2003-12-07 22:12:05 +00:00
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<para></para>
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2003-04-19 17:57:14 +00:00
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New release notes: MCA support on ia64, rp(4) update (+MFC), tx(4)
multicast filtering, ahd driver, calendar(1) -W/-F, nice(1) -n,
pam_echo(8), pam_exec(8), pselect(3), wc(1) -m, USD/PSD documents
restored.
2002-06-22 21:52:42 +00:00
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</sect2>
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2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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</sect1>
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2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
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2003-01-12 18:23:15 +00:00
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<sect1 id="upgrade">
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2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
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<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
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2002-10-26 17:13:01 +00:00
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<para>Users with existing &os; systems are
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<emphasis>highly</emphasis> encouraged to read the <quote>Early
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2003-05-03 22:18:24 +00:00
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Adopter's Guide to &os; &release.current;</quote>. This document generally has
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2002-10-26 17:13:01 +00:00
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the filename <filename>EARLY.TXT</filename> on the distribution
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media, or any other place that the release notes can be found. It
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offers some notes on upgrading, but more importantly, also
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discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to &os;
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5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> versus running &os;
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4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para>
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2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
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2001-10-05 22:03:35 +00:00
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<important>
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<para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
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2002-02-18 21:22:08 +00:00
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backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
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files.</para>
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2001-10-05 22:03:35 +00:00
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</important>
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2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
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</sect1>
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