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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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2001-10-04 23:06:37 +00:00
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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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<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
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</copyright>
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2001-10-25 21:06:37 +00:00
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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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</abstract>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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2002-02-18 21:22:08 +00:00
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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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<![ %release.type.release [
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2002-02-18 21:22:08 +00:00
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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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2003-01-12 18:23:15 +00:00
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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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In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch;
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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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2003-08-04 15:26:40 +00:00
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<para>A single-byte buffer overflow in &man.realpath.3; was
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fixed. Although the fix was committed prior to &os;
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&release.prev; (and thus &release.prev; was not affected),
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it was not noted in the release documentation. See security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:08</ulink>. &merged;</para>
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2003-08-11 15:53:55 +00:00
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<para>A bug that could allow the kernel to attempt delivery of
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invalid signals has been fixed. The bug could have led to a
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kernel panic or, under some circumstances, unauthorized
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modification of kernel memory. For more information, see
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security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:09.signal.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:09</ulink>. &merged;</para>
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<para>A bug in the iBCS2 emulation module, which could result in
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disclosing the contents of kernel memory, has been fixed. This
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module is not enabled in &os; by default. For more information,
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see security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:10.ibcs2.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:10</ulink>. &merged;</para>
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<para>A buffer management bug in
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<application>OpenSSH</application>, which could potentially
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cause a crash, has been fixed. More information can be found in
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security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:12</ulink>. &merged;</para>
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2003-09-20 00:01:29 +00:00
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<para>A buffer overflow in <application>sendmail</application> has
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been fixed. More information can be found in security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:13.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:13</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>A bug that could allow the kernel to cause resource starvation
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which eventually results in a system panic in the ARP cache code
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has been fixed. More information can be found in security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:14.arp.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:14</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>Several errors in the <application>OpenSSH</application> PAM
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challenge/response authentication subsystem have been fixed. The impacts
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of these bugs vary; details can be found in security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:15.openssh.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:15</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5;, which could result in
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disclosing the contents of kernel memory, has been fixed.
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More information can be found in security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:17</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>Four separate security flaws in <application>OpenSSL</application>,
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which could allow a remote attacker to crash an
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<application>OpenSSL</application>-using application or
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to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application,
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have been fixed.
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More information can be found in security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:18</ulink>. &merged;</para>
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<para>A potential denial of service in
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<application>BIND</application> has been fixed. For more
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information, see security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:19.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:19</ulink>. &merged;</para>
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</sect2>
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<title>Kernel Changes</title>
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2003-11-21 01:23:20 +00:00
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<para arch="i386,ia64,amd64">The &man.acpi.4; driver's CPU
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component now supports idle states C1-C3 for both single and SMP
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systems, providing power/heat savings when the processor is
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idle, according to ACPI 2.0. Additionally, the throttling
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support has been updated to ACPI 2.0.</para>
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2003-10-19 18:32:48 +00:00
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<para arch="i386">A bug that caused
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&man.atkbd.4; to register an AT keyboard during console initialization,
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even when no AT keyboard was connected,
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has been fixed. <command>kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1</command>
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is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected.
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&merged;</para>
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2003-12-04 19:20:28 +00:00
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<para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx Sigmal
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serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this
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update, the cxconfig userland configuration utility has been
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replaced by a newer &man.sconfig.8; utility.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The DRM kernel modules have been updated from
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DRI CVS as of 12 November 2003. Among other changes, this
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change includes a newly-ported SiS 300/305/540/630/730
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driver and mostly-complete SMPng locking.</para>
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<para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has
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been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be
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accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A
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&man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4;
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devices.</para>
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<para>A multi-byte character set conversion method is now supported
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by the <literal>LIBICONV</literal> kernel option.</para>
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<para arch="sparc64">A new OFW PCI framework, conditional on the
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<literal>OFW_NEWPCI</literal> kernel configuration option, has
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been added. This addition improves the handling of PCI busses.
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One user-visible change is that the enumeration of devices is
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closer to &solaris; (as a result of this change, the numbering
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of devices may change if more than one unit of a device type is
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present). The <literal>OFW_NEWPCI</literal> kernel
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configuration is enabled by default in the
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.hifn.4; driver now supports
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symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets.
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&merged;</para>
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<para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;,
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PCI Universal Communications driver now supports
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to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added
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to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators.
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&merged;
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<warning>
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<para>This driver should be considered experimental and
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and should be used with some caution.</para>
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</warning>
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<note>
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<para>The public key support is not implemented.</para>
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</note></para>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.syscons.4; driver now has support
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for &os;/sparc64. Installation on the system console should now
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be supported, and systems with Creator3D graphics cards
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(e.g. Ultra 30) can now run
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<application>XFree86</application>.</para>
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<para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented.
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For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and
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&man.watchdogd.8;.</para>
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2003-08-12 00:12:52 +00:00
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<para>The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible
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changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width
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striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O
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throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number
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of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads.</para>
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect3 id="proc">
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2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
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<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
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2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
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<para arch="i386">Large changes have been made to the i386
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machine-dependent code to improve interrupt routing and
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handling, as well as SMP support. Two major user-visible
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changes are that SMP kernels can run on UP systems and that
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SMP functionality is now enabled by default in the
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. Also, the
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<literal>options APIC_IO</literal> kernel option has been
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replaced by <literal>device apic</literal>.</para>
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2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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2003-11-08 01:17:08 +00:00
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<para arch="pc98">Large changes have been made to the i386
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machine-dependent code to improve interrupt routing and
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handling.</para>
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2003-06-20 23:13:23 +00:00
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<para arch="i386">An integer overflow that could cause kernel
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panics on PAE machines of certain large memory sizes has been
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corrected.</para>
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2003-08-23 05:42:03 +00:00
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<para arch="i386,pc98">Floating point emulation in the kernel has
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2003-08-22 22:08:47 +00:00
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been removed.</para>
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2003-11-08 01:17:08 +00:00
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<para arch="i386,pc98">Problems with some Pentium 4 CPUs and some older
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2003-10-31 16:58:43 +00:00
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Pentium Pro and Pentium II CPUs have been worked around.
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Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or
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unexplained crashes.</para>
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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</sect3>
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2001-10-12 17:29:22 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect3 id="boot">
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2003-04-25 14:42:53 +00:00
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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2002-02-18 21:09:27 +00:00
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2003-06-07 17:38:18 +00:00
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<para></para>
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2003-04-25 14:37:56 +00:00
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2001-10-12 17:29:22 +00:00
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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</sect3>
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2001-05-10 23:38:32 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect3 id="net-if">
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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2002-05-10 01:02:13 +00:00
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2003-06-26 21:01:08 +00:00
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<para>The new &man.ath.4; and &man.ath.hal.4; drivers provide
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support for 802.11a/b/g devices based on the AR5210, AR5211,
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and AR5212 chips.</para>
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2003-09-11 16:00:51 +00:00
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<para>The &man.bfe.4; driver has been added to support Broadcom
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BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters.</para>
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2003-07-25 14:08:32 +00:00
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<para>&man.bge.4; now supports Broadcom 5705 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
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&merged;</para>
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2003-06-20 23:13:23 +00:00
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<para>A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that prevented it from
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working correctly at 10 Mbps has been fixed.</para>
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New release notes: /dev/tty fix, fstat(2) bugfix, kqueue(2)
bugfix, xl(4) bugfix, ipfw(4) skipto/log fix, non-blocking RPC fix,
mly(4) fix, smbfs bugfixes, adduser(8) passwords with special
characters, sem_open(3) multiple open fix.
All of these items are bugfixes listed in errata/article.sgml
rev. 1.27. It seemed to me that if they were important enough to
list in the errata, they were important enough for the release notes.
2003-02-23 01:57:54 +00:00
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2003-08-02 09:00:50 +00:00
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<para>The &man.em.4; driver now has support for tuning
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the interrupt delays using sysctl tunables
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without recompiling the driver.</para>
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2003-07-27 14:08:54 +00:00
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<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added.
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2003-07-21 20:31:13 +00:00
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This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP,
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which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the
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system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack
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for each of these interfaces.</para>
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2003-07-27 14:08:54 +00:00
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<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.hatm.4; driver has been added
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2003-07-15 15:39:52 +00:00
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to support Fore/Marconi HE155 and HE622 ATM cards.</para>
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2003-07-27 14:08:54 +00:00
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<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.patm.4; driver has been added to
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2003-07-15 15:39:52 +00:00
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support IDT77252 based ATM interfaces.</para>
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2003-09-11 16:00:51 +00:00
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<para>The &man.re.4; driver has been added. It provides support
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for the RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S PCI
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Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet controllers.</para>
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2003-08-08 15:59:34 +00:00
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2003-10-10 18:36:52 +00:00
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<para>&man.sk.4; now supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit
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2003-10-15 12:27:52 +00:00
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Ethernet NICs. &merged;</para>
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2003-10-10 18:36:52 +00:00
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2003-09-14 18:20:24 +00:00
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<para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various
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classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter)
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devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but
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supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary
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to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as
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ia64 and sparc64.</para>
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2003-12-04 19:20:28 +00:00
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<para>A new &man.utopia.4; driver supports 25MBit/sec,
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155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration,
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status and statistics reporting for the most commonly use
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ATM-PHY chips.</para>
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2003-07-29 07:28:43 +00:00
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<para>The suspend/resume support for the &man.wi.4; driver
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now works correctly when the device is configured down.
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&merged;</para>
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2003-12-04 19:20:28 +00:00
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<para>The &man.wi.4; driver should once again work correctly
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with Lucent 802.11b interfaces.</para>
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2003-06-26 21:22:00 +00:00
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<para>The 802.11 support layer has been rewritten to allow for
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2003-06-26 21:01:08 +00:00
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future growth and new features.</para>
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2003-10-15 10:04:07 +00:00
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2003-11-20 19:39:53 +00:00
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<para>The &man.xe.4; driver now supports CE2, CEM28,
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2003-10-17 16:47:42 +00:00
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and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several
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2003-11-20 19:39:53 +00:00
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bugs in the driver have been fixed.</para>
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2003-10-31 16:58:43 +00:00
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<para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt
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handlers marked as MPSAFE, meaning they can run without
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the Giant lock. Among the drivers so converted are:
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&man.ath.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.ep.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.sn.4;,
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&man.wi.4;, and &man.sis.4;.</para>
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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</sect3>
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2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect3 id="net-proto">
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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<title>Network Protocols</title>
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2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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2003-12-05 21:34:31 +00:00
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<para>The <literal>ip_flow</literal> feature in the IPv4 protocol
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implementation has been replaced by the
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<literal>ip_fastforward</literal> feature.
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<literal>ip_fastforward</literal> attempts to speed up simple
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cases of packet forwarding, processing a forwarded packet to
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an outgoing interface without queues or netisrs. If it cannot
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handle a particular packet, it passes that packet to the normal
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<literal>ip_input</literal> routines for processing. This
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feature can be enabled by setting the
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<varname>net.inet.ip.fastforwarding</varname> sysctl variable
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to <literal>1</literal>.
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2003-10-19 12:58:57 +00:00
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<para>The <literal>IP_ONESBCAST</literal> option has been added
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2003-08-21 17:52:08 +00:00
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to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to
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specific network interfaces.</para>
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2003-10-18 18:18:17 +00:00
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<para>A bug in &man.ipfw.4; limit rule processing that could
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2003-10-19 12:58:57 +00:00
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cause various panics has been fixed.
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&merged;</para>
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2003-10-18 18:18:17 +00:00
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2003-07-17 17:21:56 +00:00
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<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support comma-separated address lists
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2003-07-29 21:20:44 +00:00
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(such as <literal>1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8/30, 9.10.11.12/22</literal>),
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and allow spaces after commas to make lists of addresses more readable.
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2003-07-17 17:21:56 +00:00
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&merged;</para>
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2003-07-29 21:20:44 +00:00
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<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support C++-style comments.
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Each comment is stored together with its rule and appears using
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the &man.ipfw.8; <literal>show</literal> command.
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2003-07-17 17:21:56 +00:00
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&merged;</para>
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2003-07-12 07:41:39 +00:00
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2003-07-29 21:20:44 +00:00
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<para>&man.ipfw.8; can now modify &man.ipfw.4; rules in set 31,
|
2003-07-16 10:37:12 +00:00
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which was read-only and used for the default rules.
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They can be deleted by <command>ipfw delete set 31</command>
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command but are not deleted
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2003-07-29 21:20:44 +00:00
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by the <command>ipfw flush</command> command.
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This implements a flexible form of <quote>persistent
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2003-07-17 17:21:56 +00:00
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rules</quote>. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;.
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&merged;</para>
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2003-07-16 10:37:12 +00:00
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2003-08-12 00:12:52 +00:00
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<para>The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added.
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It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one
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to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware.</para>
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2003-09-06 18:15:11 +00:00
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<para>Kernel support has been added for Protocol Independent
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2003-10-17 16:47:42 +00:00
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Multicast routing (&man.pim.4;). &merged;</para>
|
2003-09-06 18:15:11 +00:00
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2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
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<para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
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2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
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an <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
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2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
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being done.</para>
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2003-03-07 00:41:42 +00:00
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2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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<para>The &os; Bluetooth protocol stack has been updated:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><application>libsdp</application> has been re-implemented
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2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
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under a BSD style license. This is because the Linux BlueZ code is
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distributed under the GPL.</para>
|
2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
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<para>The &man.hccontrol.8; utility now supports four new commands:
|
2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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Read/Write_Page_Scan_Mode and Read/Write_Page_Scan_Period_Mode.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
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<para>The &man.hcsecd.8; daemon now stores link keys on a disk.
|
2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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It is no longer required to pair devices every time.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
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<para>A netgraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and
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2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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&man.ng.l2cap.4; kernel modules, which could cause
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2003-11-20 19:39:53 +00:00
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access to a data structure that was already freed,
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2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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has been fixed.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
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<para>The &man.ng.ubt.4; module, which cannot be build on
|
2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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&os; &release.prev;, has been fixed.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
|
2003-10-17 16:47:42 +00:00
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<para>&man.rfcomm.sppd.1; and &man.rfcomm.pppd.8; now support
|
2003-11-20 19:39:53 +00:00
|
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to query the RFCOMM channel via SDP from the server. Specifying
|
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the RFCOMM channel manually, this behavior can be disabled and
|
2003-10-17 16:47:42 +00:00
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these utilities will not use SDP query.</para>
|
2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
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<para>The &man.sdpcontrol.8; utility, which is analogous to the sdptool utility in
|
2003-10-16 17:16:24 +00:00
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the Linux BlueZ SDP package, has been added.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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2003-10-31 16:58:43 +00:00
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2003-11-15 02:19:46 +00:00
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<para>A number of fixes and updates to the IPv6 and IPSec code
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have been imported from the KAME Project.</para>
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2003-10-31 16:58:43 +00:00
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<para>Support for the IPv6 Advanced Sockets API now conforms to
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RFC 3542 (also known as RFC 2292bis), rather than RFC 2292.
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Applications using this API have been updated
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accordingly.</para>
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2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
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<para>Support for the source address selection part of RFC 3484
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has been added. The &man.ip6addrctl.8; utility can be used to
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configure the address selection policy.</para>
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2003-12-01 00:17:33 +00:00
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<para>The <literal>tcp_hostcache</literal> feature has been
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added to the TCP implementation. It caches measured
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parameters of past TCP sessions to provide better initial
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start values for following connections from or to the same
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source or destination. Similar information that used to be
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stored in the routing table has been removed.</para>
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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</sect3>
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2001-12-19 05:30:35 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect3 id="disks">
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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<title>Disks and Storage</title>
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2001-11-26 06:00:28 +00:00
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2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
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<para>The &man.amr.4; driver now has system crashdump support. &merged;</para>
|
2003-10-11 05:40:05 +00:00
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2003-09-14 18:20:24 +00:00
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<para>A major rework of the &man.ata.4; driver has been
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committed. One of the more notable changes is that the
|
2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
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&man.ata.4; driver is now out from under the Giant kernel
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2003-09-14 18:20:24 +00:00
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lock. Note that ATA software RAID systems must now include
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<literal>device ataraid</literal> in their kernel
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configuration files, as it is no longer automatically implied
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by <literal>device atadisk</literal>.</para>
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2003-08-08 15:59:34 +00:00
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<para>&man.ccd.4; can now operate on raw disks and other
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&man.geom.4; providers.</para>
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2003-07-29 15:48:06 +00:00
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<para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte
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commands to USB and Firewire devices. The quirks for these
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devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been
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disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options
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2003-08-12 00:51:28 +00:00
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DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration. &merged;</para>
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2003-07-29 15:48:06 +00:00
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2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
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<para>Various &man.geom.4; modules can now be loaded as kernel
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modules, namely:
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<filename>geom_apple</filename>,
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<filename>geom_bde</filename>,
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<filename>geom_bsd</filename>,
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<filename>geom_gpt</filename>,
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<filename>geom_mbr</filename>,
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<filename>geom_pc98</filename>,
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<filename>geom_sunlabel</filename>,
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<filename>geom_vol_ffs</filename>.
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</para>
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2003-02-18 02:51:53 +00:00
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2003-06-20 23:13:23 +00:00
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<para>A <literal>GEOM_FOX</literal> module has been added to
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detect and select between multiple redundant paths to the same
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device.</para>
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2003-06-17 20:01:49 +00:00
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<para arch="i386">The &man.matcd.4; driver, which supports the
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Matsushita CR-562 and CR-563 CD drives, has returned.</para>
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2003-08-12 00:51:28 +00:00
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<para>The &man.twe.4; driver now supports the 3ware generic
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API. &merged;</para>
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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</sect3>
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2002-07-30 04:32:14 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect3 id="fs">
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2003-04-25 14:42:53 +00:00
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<title>File Systems</title>
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2002-07-30 04:32:14 +00:00
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2003-10-03 16:28:26 +00:00
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<para>Multi-byte character conversion with the cd9660, msdosfs,
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2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
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ntfs, and udf filesystems is now supported by including the
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2003-10-03 16:28:26 +00:00
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<literal>CD9660_ICONV</literal>,
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2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
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<literal>MSDOSFS_ICONV</literal>,
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<literal>NTFS_ICONV</literal>, and
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<literal>UDF_ICONV</literal> kernel options,
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2003-10-03 16:28:26 +00:00
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respectively.</para>
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2003-07-29 07:28:43 +00:00
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<para>Some off-by-one errors in the smbfs that prevented it from
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working correctly with 15-character NetBIOS names have been fixed.</para>
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New release notes: /dev/tty fix, fstat(2) bugfix, kqueue(2)
bugfix, xl(4) bugfix, ipfw(4) skipto/log fix, non-blocking RPC fix,
mly(4) fix, smbfs bugfixes, adduser(8) passwords with special
characters, sem_open(3) multiple open fix.
All of these items are bugfixes listed in errata/article.sgml
rev. 1.27. It seemed to me that if they were important enough to
list in the errata, they were important enough for the release notes.
2003-02-23 01:57:54 +00:00
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2003-11-15 02:19:46 +00:00
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<para>The sizes of some members of the <literal>statfs</literal>
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structure have changed from 32 bits to 64 bits in order to
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better support multi-terabyte filesystems.
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Users performing source upgrades across this change
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must ensure that their kernel and userland bits are in
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sync, by following the documented source upgrade
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procedures.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>A backward compatibility version of the &man.statfs.2;
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system call exists but only if the
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<literal>COMPAT_FREEBSD4</literal> kernel option is
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defined. Including this option in the kernel is strongly
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|
encouraged.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Programs that use the &man.statfs.2; will need to be
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recompiled. Among the known examples are the
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<filename role="package">devel/gnomevfs2</filename>,
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<filename role="package">mail/postfix</filename>, and
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|
|
<filename role="package">security/cfg</filename>
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|
|
ports.</para>
|
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
|
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|
2003-12-04 19:20:28 +00:00
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<para>Support for NFSv4 has been added with the import of the
|
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|
|
University of Michigan's Citi NFSv4 client implementation.
|
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|
More information can be found in the &man.mount.nfs4.8; and
|
|
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|
&man.idmapd.8; manual pages.</para>
|
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|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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</sect3>
|
2002-07-30 04:32:14 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:13:26 +00:00
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<sect3 id="mm">
|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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<title>Multimedia Support</title>
|
2002-08-23 17:09:27 +00:00
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2003-06-07 17:38:18 +00:00
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<para></para>
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|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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</sect3>
|
2001-06-14 17:02:14 +00:00
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|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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|
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</sect2>
|
2001-06-14 17:02:14 +00:00
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2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
|
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|
<sect2 id="userland">
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<title>Userland Changes</title>
|
2001-10-13 00:33:40 +00:00
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|
2003-08-08 15:59:34 +00:00
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|
<para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been
|
|
|
|
|
added.</para>
|
|
|
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|
|
2003-07-18 14:29:35 +00:00
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|
|
<para>&man.arp.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option
|
|
|
|
|
to limit the scope of the current operation to the ARP entries
|
|
|
|
|
on a particular interface. This option applies to the display
|
|
|
|
|
operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous
|
2003-08-01 13:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
network interfaces. &merged;</para>
|
2003-07-18 14:29:35 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-08-22 22:08:47 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.atmconfig.8; program has been added for
|
|
|
|
|
configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM
|
|
|
|
|
functionality.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.chroot.8; now allows the optional setting of a user,
|
|
|
|
|
primary group, or group list to use inside the chroot
|
|
|
|
|
environment via the <option>-u</option>, <option>-g</option>,
|
2003-07-07 22:44:38 +00:00
|
|
|
and <option>-G</option> options respectively. &merged;</para>
|
2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-12-01 00:17:33 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>compat4x.i386</filename> libraries have bee
|
|
|
|
|
updated to correspond to those available in &os;
|
|
|
|
|
4.9-RELEASE.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-10-20 15:17:44 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The dev_mkdb utility is unnecessary due to the mandatory
|
2003-06-20 23:13:23 +00:00
|
|
|
presence of devfs, and has been removed.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-08-01 21:43:20 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.dhclient.8; now polls the state of network interfaces
|
|
|
|
|
and only sends DHCP requests on interfaces that are up. The
|
|
|
|
|
polling interval can be controlled with the <option>-i</option>
|
|
|
|
|
option.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The default mode for the <filename>lost+found</filename>
|
|
|
|
|
directory of &man.fsck.8; is now <literal>0700</literal> instead
|
|
|
|
|
of <literal>01777</literal>. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-08-21 17:52:08 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand
|
|
|
|
|
UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-08-08 15:59:34 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.iasl.8; utility, a compiler/decompiler for ACPI
|
|
|
|
|
Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine language (AML), has been
|
|
|
|
|
added.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-10-31 16:58:43 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.ifconfig.8; now supports a <option>staticarp</option>
|
|
|
|
|
option for an interface, which disables the sending of ARP
|
|
|
|
|
requests for that interface.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>list</literal> and <literal>show</literal>
|
|
|
|
|
commands now support ranges of rule numbers.
|
2003-07-17 17:21:56 +00:00
|
|
|
&merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-07-18 14:50:10 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag
|
2003-07-17 17:21:56 +00:00
|
|
|
to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything.
|
|
|
|
|
&merged;</para>
|
2003-07-12 07:41:39 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-10-10 18:36:52 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library,
|
|
|
|
|
&man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol,
|
|
|
|
|
which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call
|
|
|
|
|
Managers. Note that currently having the Call Manager behind
|
2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
|
|
|
the NAT gateway is not supported. &merged;</para>
|
2003-10-10 18:36:52 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>libcipher</filename> DES cryptography library
|
|
|
|
|
has been removed. All of its functionality is provided by the
|
|
|
|
|
<filename>libcrypto</filename> library, and all base systems
|
|
|
|
|
programs that used <filename>libcipher</filename> have been
|
|
|
|
|
converted to use <filename>libcrypto</filename> instead.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-10-03 16:28:26 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>libkiconv</filename> library has been added to
|
|
|
|
|
support working with loadable character set conversion tables in
|
|
|
|
|
the kernel.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-10-31 16:58:43 +00:00
|
|
|
<para arch="ia64"><filename>libkse</filename> is now the default
|
|
|
|
|
threading library on &os;/ia64.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
|
|
|
<para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
|
|
|
|
|
threading library is now built by default.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-06-20 23:13:23 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is
|
2003-08-12 00:12:52 +00:00
|
|
|
now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all
|
|
|
|
|
available codesets.</para>
|
2003-06-20 23:13:23 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-07-18 21:09:55 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem
|
|
|
|
|
ID for each file system in addition to the normal information
|
|
|
|
|
when a <option>-v</option> flag is specified,
|
2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
|
|
|
and the &man.umount.8; utility now accepts the filesystem ID
|
2003-07-18 21:09:55 +00:00
|
|
|
as well as the usual device and path names.
|
|
|
|
|
This allows to unambiguously specify which file system is
|
|
|
|
|
to be unmounted even when two or more file systems share
|
|
|
|
|
the same device and mount point names.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-11-20 17:07:59 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.mount.cd9660.8;, &man.mount.ntfs.8;, and &man.mount.udf.8; utilities
|
2003-10-03 16:28:26 +00:00
|
|
|
now support a <option>-C</option> option to specify local
|
|
|
|
|
character sets to convert Unicode filenames. It is possible to
|
|
|
|
|
specify multi-byte character sets using this option.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.mount.msdosfs.8; utility now supports a
|
|
|
|
|
<option>-M</option> option to specify the maximum file
|
2003-10-06 04:13:23 +00:00
|
|
|
permissions for directories in the file system. &merged;</para>
|
2003-10-03 16:28:26 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.mount.msdosfs.8; utility now supports a
|
|
|
|
|
<option>-D</option> option to specify MS-DOS codepages and a
|
|
|
|
|
<option>-L</option> option to specify local character sets. They are
|
|
|
|
|
used to convert character sets of filenames. The
|
2003-11-23 09:53:13 +00:00
|
|
|
<filename>/usr/libdata/msdosfs</filename> tables have been
|
2003-10-03 16:28:26 +00:00
|
|
|
retired.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-07-03 20:45:44 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.mount.nwfs.8;, &man.mount.portalfs.8;, and
|
|
|
|
|
&man.mount.smbfs.8; utilities have been moved from
|
2003-07-04 15:23:47 +00:00
|
|
|
<filename>/sbin</filename> to <filename>/usr/sbin</filename>.</para>
|
2003-07-03 20:45:44 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-12-01 00:17:33 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.nologin.8; program has been reimplemented in C (it
|
|
|
|
|
was formerly a shell script).</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-10-09 16:20:28 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.rc.conf.5; variable <varname>ntpd_flags</varname> for
|
|
|
|
|
&man.ntpd.8; now includes <option>-f /var/db/ntpd.drift</option>
|
|
|
|
|
by default.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-06-07 17:46:28 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.pam.guest.8; PAM module has been added to allow
|
|
|
|
|
guest logins. It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</para>
|
2003-05-02 16:28:45 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-07-18 21:09:55 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.ps.1; and &man.top.1; now support a <option>-H</option> flag to display all
|
2003-06-20 23:13:23 +00:00
|
|
|
kernel-visible threads in each process.</para>
|
2003-07-03 20:45:44 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-07-12 07:41:39 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs
|
2003-07-16 12:24:22 +00:00
|
|
|
has been fixed.</para>
|
2003-07-12 07:41:39 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-09-14 18:20:24 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.rtld.1; now includes <quote>libmap</quote>
|
|
|
|
|
functionality by default; the <varname>WITH_LIBMAP</varname>
|
|
|
|
|
compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More
|
|
|
|
|
information can be found in &man.libmap.conf.5;.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary
|
|
|
|
|
now that all kernels use ELF format and there is no a.out format
|
|
|
|
|
toolchain.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.sysinstall.8; now gives the ability to select an
|
|
|
|
|
alternate MTA during installation. Currently,
|
|
|
|
|
<application>exim</application> and
|
|
|
|
|
<application>Postfix</application> are supported.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-12-01 00:17:33 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.sysinstall.8; no longer supports system <quote>security
|
|
|
|
|
profiles</quote>; this feature has been replaced by individual
|
|
|
|
|
tuning knobs to enable and disable &man.sshd.8; and set the
|
|
|
|
|
system securelevels.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003-08-01 21:43:20 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6
|
2003-08-22 22:24:12 +00:00
|
|
|
traffic. &merged;</para>
|
2003-08-01 21:43:20 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-12-01 00:17:33 +00:00
|
|
|
<para arch="i386,alpha,amd64,sparc64,pc98">A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename>
|
2003-07-03 20:45:44 +00:00
|
|
|
and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a
|
|
|
|
|
statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in
|
|
|
|
|
<filename>/rescue</filename>. This functionality is similar to
|
|
|
|
|
the <filename>/stand</filename> directory installed by
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2003-08-19 16:03:01 +00:00
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&man.sysinstall.8;, but <filename>/rescue</filename> includes
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more functionality and is updated as part of
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<literal>buildworld</literal>/<literal>installworld</literal> operations. More details can be found in
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2003-07-28 21:06:38 +00:00
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&man.rescue.8;.
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2003-07-03 20:45:44 +00:00
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</para>
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2003-11-16 20:34:46 +00:00
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<para>Executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and
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<filename>/sbin</filename> are now built using dynamic, rather
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than static linking. This feature brings support for
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2003-08-19 16:03:01 +00:00
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loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in
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those directories. It also reduces the storage requirements for
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the root filesystem due to the use of shared libraries. This
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2003-11-16 20:34:46 +00:00
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feature can be disabled in a <literal>buildworld</literal> by
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defining the Makefile variable
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2003-11-25 14:11:02 +00:00
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<varname>NO_DYNAMICROOT</varname>. Note that
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statically-linked, crunched executables are available in the
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<filename>/rescue</filename> directory for use during system
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repair and recovery operations.</para>
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2003-08-19 16:03:01 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:07:04 +00:00
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</sect2>
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2003-04-12 15:18:52 +00:00
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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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2003-07-13 23:26:20 +00:00
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<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
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from the 20030228 snapshot to the 20030619 snapshot.</para>
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2003-09-06 18:15:11 +00:00
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<para><application>amd</application> has been updated from 6.0.7
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to 6.0.9.</para>
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2003-07-30 08:36:16 +00:00
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<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
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updated from a 14 March 2003 snapshot to a 29 July 2003 snapshot.</para>
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2003-06-17 20:01:49 +00:00
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<para><application>BIND</application> has been updated from 8.3.4
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2003-12-01 00:17:33 +00:00
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to 8.3.7. &merged;</para>
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2003-06-17 20:01:49 +00:00
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2003-07-12 07:41:39 +00:00
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<para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.2.2 to
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2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
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a 3.3.3 post-release snapshot from 6 November 2003.
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2003-08-12 00:12:52 +00:00
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<note>
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<para>Previous versions of <application>GCC</application>
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generated incorrect code when
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<literal>-march=pentium4</literal> optimization was
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enabled. This problem is believed to have been fixed with
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this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of
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<literal>CPUTYPE=p4</literal> has been removed.</para>
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</note>
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</para>
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2003-07-12 07:41:39 +00:00
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2003-09-14 18:20:24 +00:00
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<para>The <application>GCC</application> <option>-pthread</option>
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option, which formerly controlled linking of the threading
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library, has been removed. This flag is confusing in the
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presence of multiple threading libraries (specifically
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<filename>libc_r</filename>, <filename>libkse</filename>, and
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2003-10-14 05:36:36 +00:00
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<filename>libthr</filename>). Ports should use the
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2003-09-14 18:20:24 +00:00
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<varname>PTHREAD_LIBS</varname> variable to select the correct
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threading library.</para>
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2003-09-06 18:15:11 +00:00
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<para><application>GNU Readline</application> has been updated
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from 4.2 to 4.3.</para>
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<para><application>GNU Sort</application> has been updated from
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the version in textutils 2.0.21 to the version in textutils
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2.1.</para>
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2003-10-10 08:53:00 +00:00
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<para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been
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updated from 0.5.1 to 0.6.</para>
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2003-09-06 18:15:11 +00:00
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<para>The <application>ISC DHCP</application> client has been
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updated from 3.0.1rc11 to 3.0.1rc12.</para>
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2003-06-17 20:01:49 +00:00
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<para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from
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2003-11-07 16:28:02 +00:00
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1.6beta2 to a 11 November 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</para>
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2003-06-17 20:01:49 +00:00
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<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
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<quote>Dianthus</quote> release to the
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2003-07-15 15:39:52 +00:00
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<quote>Dogwood</quote> release.</para>
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2003-05-01 15:08:10 +00:00
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2003-10-03 16:14:54 +00:00
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<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
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2003-10-03 16:28:26 +00:00
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0.9.7a to 0.9.7c. &merged;</para>
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2003-10-03 16:14:54 +00:00
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2003-12-01 00:17:33 +00:00
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<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated
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from version 8.12.9
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to
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2003-11-10 16:27:53 +00:00
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version 8.12.10. &merged;</para>
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2003-09-19 23:23:55 +00:00
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2003-06-21 00:04:11 +00:00
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<para><application>texinfo</application> has been updated from 4.5
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2003-06-26 21:01:08 +00:00
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to 4.6. &merged;</para>
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2003-06-21 00:04:11 +00:00
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2003-10-15 10:04:07 +00:00
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<para>The timezone database has been updated
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from the <filename>tzdata2003a</filename> release
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2003-11-10 16:27:53 +00:00
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to the <filename>tzdata2003d</filename> release. &merged;</para>
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2003-04-12 15:18:52 +00:00
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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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2003-07-12 07:41:39 +00:00
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<para>If <makevar>GNU_CONFIGURE</makevar> is defined,
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2003-07-16 12:24:22 +00:00
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all instances of <filename>config.guess</filename> and
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<filename>config.sub</filename> found
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2003-07-12 07:41:39 +00:00
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under <filename><makevar>WRKDIR</makevar></filename>
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are replaced with the master versions from
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<filename><makevar>PORTSDIR</makevar>/Template</filename>.
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This allows old ports (which contain old versions
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of these scripts) to build on newer architectures like ia64 and amd64.</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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2003-08-01 21:43:20 +00:00
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<para arch="alpha,amd64,ia64">Floppy disk installation images are
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no longer built for the alpha, amd64, and ia64
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architectures.</para>
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2003-07-29 15:48:06 +00:00
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<para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application> has
|
2003-09-20 00:01:29 +00:00
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been updated from 2.2.1 to 2.4. &merged;</para>
|
2003-07-29 15:48:06 +00:00
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<para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application> has
|
2003-09-20 00:01:29 +00:00
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been updated from 3.1.2 to 3.1.4. &merged;</para>
|
2003-04-12 16:38:33 +00:00
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2003-12-04 19:20:28 +00:00
|
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<para>The versions of <application>GNOME</application> and
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|
<application>KDE</application> included on release disc 1
|
|
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|
(and installable from the &man.sysinstall.8; <quote>X
|
|
|
|
|
Desktops</quote> menu) are now <quote>Lite Edition</quote>,
|
|
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|
|
packages, rather than the more full-featured meta-packages.
|
|
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|
These packages are streamlined to provide users with the core
|
|
|
|
|
essentials for each desktop, while still fitting within the
|
|
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space constraints of release disc 1.</para>
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2002-04-24 20:38:25 +00:00
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</sect2>
|
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
|
|
|
<sect2 id="doc">
|
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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|
2003-06-07 17:38:18 +00:00
|
|
|
<para></para>
|
2003-04-19 17:57:14 +00:00
|
|
|
|
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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|
|
|
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|
2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
|
|
|
</sect1>
|
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">
|
2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
|
|
|
<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
|
|
|
|
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|
2002-10-26 17:13:01 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>Users with existing &os; systems are
|
|
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|
|
<emphasis>highly</emphasis> encouraged to read the <quote>Early
|
2003-05-03 22:18:24 +00:00
|
|
|
Adopter's Guide to &os; &release.current;</quote>. This document generally has
|
2002-10-26 17:13:01 +00:00
|
|
|
the filename <filename>EARLY.TXT</filename> on the distribution
|
|
|
|
|
media, or any other place that the release notes can be found. It
|
|
|
|
|
offers some notes on upgrading, but more importantly, also
|
|
|
|
|
discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to &os;
|
|
|
|
|
5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> versus running &os;
|
|
|
|
|
4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para>
|
2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
|
|
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|
2001-10-05 22:03:35 +00:00
|
|
|
<important>
|
|
|
|
|
<para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
|
2002-02-18 21:22:08 +00:00
|
|
|
backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
|
|
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|
|
files.</para>
|
2001-10-05 22:03:35 +00:00
|
|
|
</important>
|
2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
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</sect1>
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