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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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<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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<year>2008</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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<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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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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<para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
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installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
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<quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
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release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
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information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
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documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
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&release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new">
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<title>What's New</title>
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<para>This section describes
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the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
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since &release.prev;.
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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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2001-07-26 16:31:22 +00:00
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<sect2 id="kernel">
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<title>Kernel Changes</title>
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New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
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<para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added
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for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and
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assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added
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to allow manipulation of processor sets.</para>
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<para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture
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facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured
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to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or
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a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls
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this feature.</para>
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<para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting
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facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a
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set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from
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within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8;
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utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual
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page.</para>
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<para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel
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dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via
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mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a
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simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief
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kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but
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are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely
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synchronized source code. More information can be found in the
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&man.textdump.4; manual page.</para>
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New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
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<para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While
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the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful
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in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the
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KSE library was never developed to its full potential.
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New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
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Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading
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will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked
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binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of
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&a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para>
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New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
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New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
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<para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel
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features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree.
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The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient
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interface for user applications to test the presence of
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features.</para>
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<para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large
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New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
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memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para>
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<para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE
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scheduler is now the default process scheduler
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in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para>
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<sect3 id="boot">
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
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<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot
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loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
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mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB
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devices.</para>
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<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has
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been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A
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new <command>boot</command> command has been added to
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&man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the
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required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot
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partition if required.</para>
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<sect3 id="proc">
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<title>Hardware Support</title>
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<para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040
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PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para>
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New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
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<para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para>
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<para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon
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New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
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Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been
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imported from OpenBSD.</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.
2005-10-02 16:14:41 +00:00
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2004-09-18 06:38:08 +00:00
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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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2008-11-24 01:26:22 +00:00
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<para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support
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for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
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|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
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<para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers
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with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue
|
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to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new
|
2008-11-19 20:35:37 +00:00
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client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
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will support new server adapters.</para>
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2008-05-31 13:27:16 +00:00
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<para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support
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for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit
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|
Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
|
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|
|
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
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<para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide
|
|
|
|
support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network
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|
adapters.</para>
|
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<para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been
|
|
|
|
updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para>
|
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|
|
|
New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
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|
<para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its
|
|
|
|
performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It
|
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|
|
should also work on all architectures.</para>
|
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<para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
|
|
|
|
number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL)
|
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|
|
support.</para>
|
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<para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
|
|
|
|
number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all
|
|
|
|
architectures.</para>
|
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|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
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<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has
|
|
|
|
been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para>
|
2005-08-30 22:25:22 +00:00
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2004-09-18 06:38:08 +00:00
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</sect4>
|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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</sect3>
|
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">
|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
|
|
|
<title>Network Protocols</title>
|
2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
|
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|
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.bpf.4; packet filter and capture facility now
|
|
|
|
supports a zero-copy mode of operation, in which buffers are
|
|
|
|
loaned from a user process to the kernel. This feature can
|
|
|
|
be enabled by setting
|
|
|
|
the <varname>net.bpf.zerocopy_enable</varname> sysctl
|
|
|
|
variable to <literal>1</literal>.</para>
|
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|
|
2008-05-31 13:27:16 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>ISDN4BSD(I4B), <filename>netatm</filename>, and all
|
|
|
|
related subsystems have been removed due to lack of
|
|
|
|
multi-processor support.</para>
|
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|
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
<para role="merged">A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding
|
|
|
|
bytes were used, has been fixed.</para>
|
2006-11-13 01:44:20 +00:00
|
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|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
|
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</sect3>
|
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">
|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
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|
|
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
|
2001-11-26 06:00:28 +00:00
|
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|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
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|
<para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than
|
|
|
|
2TB in size.</para>
|
2008-04-05 18:11:39 +00:00
|
|
|
|
New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
|
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|
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for
|
|
|
|
disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests
|
|
|
|
have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down
|
|
|
|
until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now
|
|
|
|
supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure
|
|
|
|
this feature.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
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|
<para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2
|
|
|
|
from Highpoint.</para>
|
2007-10-19 16:02:17 +00:00
|
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|
|
2004-09-18 06:38:08 +00:00
|
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
<sect3 id="fs">
|
|
|
|
<title>File Systems</title>
|
|
|
|
|
New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has
|
|
|
|
been fixed.</para>
|
2007-10-19 16:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2008-04-05 18:11:39 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>A new kernel-mode NFS lock manager has been added,
|
|
|
|
improving performance and behavior of NFS locking. A new
|
|
|
|
&man.clear.locks.8; command has been added to clear locks held
|
|
|
|
on behalf of an NFS client.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
|
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
|
|
</sect2>
|
2001-06-14 17:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2003-01-19 23:17:03 +00:00
|
|
|
<sect2 id="userland">
|
|
|
|
<title>Userland Changes</title>
|
2001-10-13 00:33:40 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
<para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports
|
2008-04-05 18:11:39 +00:00
|
|
|
a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
home directory.</para>
|
2008-04-05 18:11:39 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2008-03-15 07:06:12 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;,
|
|
|
|
based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU
|
|
|
|
Binutils versions of these utilities.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
<para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for
|
New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
|
|
|
verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors
|
|
|
|
with the same semantics as (for example)
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
&man.chmod.1;.</para>
|
New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>For compatiblity with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now
|
|
|
|
supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to
|
|
|
|
specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-05-31 13:27:16 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on
|
|
|
|
<filename>libarchive</filename>, has replaced the GNU cpio.
|
|
|
|
Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as
|
|
|
|
<filename>gcpio</filename>.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-04-20 18:03:21 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u
|
|
|
|
<replaceable>name</replaceable></option>
|
|
|
|
which will completely unset the given variable
|
|
|
|
<replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment,
|
|
|
|
instead of just setting it to a null value.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-04-20 18:17:33 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number
|
|
|
|
of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os;
|
|
|
|
&man.find.1;.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-05-31 13:27:16 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.jexec.8; now supports <option>-h
|
|
|
|
<replaceable>hostname</replaceable></option> option to specify the
|
|
|
|
jail where the command will be executed.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command>
|
|
|
|
command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel
|
|
|
|
modules.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-04-05 18:11:39 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option>
|
|
|
|
option to specify a date format string to be used with the long
|
|
|
|
format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to
|
|
|
|
disable the use of TCP options.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-05-31 13:27:16 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal>
|
|
|
|
when the packet transmission was successful but no responses
|
|
|
|
were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;).
|
|
|
|
It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display
|
|
|
|
detailed information about processes.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
<para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
|
|
|
a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para>
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
|
|
|
|
New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
|
|
|
|
flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option>
|
|
|
|
flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style
|
|
|
|
compression/decompression.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-05-31 13:27:16 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a
|
|
|
|
<option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names
|
|
|
|
on create and extract.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an
|
|
|
|
<option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option>
|
|
|
|
flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular
|
|
|
|
expression.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-04-20 18:17:33 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to
|
|
|
|
return the process group ID for the session leader for the
|
|
|
|
controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
|
|
|
|
(POSIX).</para>
|
|
|
|
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to
|
|
|
|
provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
2008-03-15 07:06:12 +00:00
|
|
|
<para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS
|
|
|
|
number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a
|
|
|
|
new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular
|
|
|
|
WHOIS server.</para>
|
|
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<para>&man.traceroute6.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> flag
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to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than
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the usual UDP probe packets.</para>
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2006-09-28 14:44:16 +00:00
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2004-03-24 18:03:55 +00:00
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<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
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<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
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2007-10-19 16:02:17 +00:00
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<para></para>
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2004-03-24 18:03:55 +00:00
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</sect3>
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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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2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
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<para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10
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to 6.1.5.</para>
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2008-02-16 15:52:39 +00:00
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2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
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<para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May
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2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para>
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2008-02-16 15:52:39 +00:00
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2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
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<para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4
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to 1.0.5.</para>
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New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
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2008-02-16 15:52:39 +00:00
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<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from 1.11.17
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New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
2008-03-23 04:12:07 +00:00
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to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008.</para>
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2008-02-16 15:52:39 +00:00
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New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
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<para><application>hostapd</application> has been
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updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para>
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2007-10-19 20:15:57 +00:00
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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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2007-03-28 08:13:23 +00:00
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2007-11-16 22:28:00 +00:00
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<para><application>less</application> has been updated from
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2007-11-26 08:58:52 +00:00
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v408 to v416.</para>
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2007-11-16 22:28:00 +00:00
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2008-01-01 23:58:18 +00:00
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<para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from
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2008-06-05 13:37:40 +00:00
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5.6-20061217 to 5.6-20080503.</para>
|
2008-02-16 15:52:39 +00:00
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2008-10-08 16:46:36 +00:00
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<para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated
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from 4.5p1 to 5.1p1.</para>
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2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
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<para role="merged"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
|
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|
Figwort release to the Hydrangea release.</para>
|
2008-01-01 23:58:18 +00:00
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2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
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<para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
|
2008-09-08 17:13:18 +00:00
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8.14.1 to 8.14.3.</para>
|
2007-11-05 00:24:05 +00:00
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2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
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<para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from
|
2008-10-15 12:02:32 +00:00
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the <application>tzdata2008b</application> release to
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the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release.</para>
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
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<para><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been
|
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|
|
updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para>
|
2008-01-01 23:58:18 +00:00
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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>
|
2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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2008-05-31 13:27:16 +00:00
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|
<para>The &man.pkg.create.1; utility now supports
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|
<option>-n</option>. When this option is specified and a
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|
|
package tarball exists, it will not be overwritten. This is
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|
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|
useful when multiple packages are saved with several consecutive
|
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|
runs of &man.pkg.create.1; with the <option>-Rb</option>
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|
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options.</para>
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2008-04-05 18:11:39 +00:00
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<para>The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically
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|
|
|
signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful
|
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|
|
for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however
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|
|
&man.bzip2.1; compression has been the norm for some time
|
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|
|
now.</para>
|
2007-10-19 16:02:17 +00:00
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2003-04-12 15:18:52 +00:00
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</sect2>
|
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">
|
2002-04-24 20:38:25 +00:00
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|
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
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|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
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|
<para role="merged">The supported version of
|
New release notes: kern.features, superpages, em(4)/igb split, malo(4),
mxge firmware 1.4.29 update, bpf(4) zerocopy, kgdb(1) add-kld, procstat(1),
realpath(1) -q (+MFC), top(1) -P, hostapd 0.5.10, WPA supplicant 0.5.10,
GNOME 2.22 (+MFC).
Modified release notes: Add cpuset(2) manpage reference, make wpi(4)
note reflect reality, tzdata2008b.
MFCs noted: ddb(4) output capture, ddb(4) scripting.
2008-03-31 04:38:58 +00:00
|
|
|
the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
|
|
|
|
(<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para>
|
2007-10-19 16:02:17 +00:00
|
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|
2002-04-24 20:38:25 +00:00
|
|
|
</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
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
<title>Documentation</title>
|
|
|
|
|
2007-10-19 16:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
<para></para>
|
|
|
|
|
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>
|
2001-04-27 21:28:02 +00:00
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</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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|
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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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|
|
2008-04-20 17:58:05 +00:00
|
|
|
<para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE,
|
2007-05-29 16:14:06 +00:00
|
|
|
binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the
|
|
|
|
various security branches) are supported using the
|
|
|
|
&man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will
|
|
|
|
update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the
|
|
|
|
<command>Upgrade</command> option from the main &man.sysinstall.8;
|
|
|
|
menu on CDROM distribution media. This type of binary upgrade
|
|
|
|
may be useful on non-&arch.i386;, non-&arch.amd64; machines
|
|
|
|
or on systems with no Internet connectivity.</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
|
|
|
|
base system from source code) from previous versions are
|
|
|
|
supported, according to the instructions in
|
|
|
|
<filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
|
2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
files.</para>
|
2001-10-05 22:03:35 +00:00
|
|
|
</important>
|
2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
|
|
|
</sect1>
|
2006-12-06 18:04:52 +00:00
|
|
|
</article>
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