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<articleinfo>
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<title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
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<corpauthor>The &os; 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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<year>2004</year>
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<year>2005</year>
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<year>2006</year>
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<year>2007</year>
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<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
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</copyright>
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2005-03-13 02:43:01 +00:00
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<legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
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&tm-attrib.freebsd;
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&tm-attrib.ibm;
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&tm-attrib.ieee;
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&tm-attrib.intel;
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&tm-attrib.sparc;
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&tm-attrib.general;
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</legalnotice>
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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 the changes made to the &os; base system on the
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&release.branch; development line.
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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;. 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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<![ %release.type.current [
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<para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
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apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
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branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary
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&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.snapshot [
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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;.
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Information regarding
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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="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
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&os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
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url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
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Handbook</ulink>.</para>
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]]>
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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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</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;,
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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></para>
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<sect3 id="boot">
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="proc">
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<title>Hardware Support</title>
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<para></para>
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<sect4 id="mm">
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<title>Multimedia Support</title>
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<para></para>
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New release notes:
acpi_thermal(4) passive cooling support,
ichsmb(4) unloading bug fixed,
smbios(4) support on amd64,
hw.apic.enable_extint added,
sound(4) improvements,
MPSAFE: the bottom half of NFS, snd_als4000(4),
snd_cmi(4), snd_via8233(4), snd_via82c686(4),
and natm(4),
GEOM_ZERO class added,
umass(4) PLAY_* commands support,
moused(8) -H flag,
shared library version bump, and
pkg_version(1) -o and -O flags.
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</sect4>
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<sect4 id="net-if">
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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<para></para>
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<sect3 id="net-proto">
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<title>Network Protocols</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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<title>Disks and Storage</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="fs">
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<title>File Systems</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="userland">
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<title>Userland Changes</title>
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<para></para>
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<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
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<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="contrib">
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<title>Contributed Software</title>
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<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated from
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4.1.23 to 4.1.28.</para>
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<para><application>less</application> has been updated from
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v408 to v416.</para>
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<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
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8.14.1 to 8.14.2. &merged;</para>
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</sect2>
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<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
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<para></para>
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<sect2 id="releng">
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<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
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<para></para>
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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
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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.
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<title>Documentation</title>
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<para></para>
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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.
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<sect1 id="upgrade">
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<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
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<para>[&arch.i386;, &arch.amd64;] Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE,
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binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the
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various security branches) are supported using the
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&man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will
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update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or
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SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release.
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The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
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upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
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<para>An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the
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<command>Upgrade</command> option from the main &man.sysinstall.8;
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menu on CDROM distribution media. This type of binary upgrade
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may be useful on non-&arch.i386;, non-&arch.amd64; machines
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or on systems with no Internet connectivity.</para>
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<para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
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base system from source code) from previous versions are
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supported, according to the instructions in
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<filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
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<important>
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<para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
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backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
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files.</para>
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