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VIA C3 Nehemiah's hardware RNG support,
	nge(4) VLAN support bugfix,
	rl(4) polling support bugfix,
	ste(4) and vr(4) polling support,
	twa driver,
	bsdlabel(8) -f option,
	bthidcontrol and bthidd for Bluetooth HID,
	doscmd removed,
	fdcontrol(8), fdformat(1), and fdread(1) now work on FreeBSD/pc98,
	find(1) -acl option,
	UTF-8 versions of the supported system locales,
	netstat(1) now displays the multicast group memberships,
	pgrep(1) and pkill(1),
	ps(1) supports more POSIX/SUSv3 compatible options,
	Heimdal Kerberos 0.6 -> 0.6.1,
	libpcap 0.7.1 -> 0.8.3,
	OpenSSL 0.9.7c -> 0.9.7d, and
	tcpdump 3.7.1 -> 3.8.3.

Update release note:
	Sort ctau(4) entry in the alphabetical order.
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<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as "ct"
in its previous life outside FreeBSD source tree. Note: only driver name
has changed. Network interface still has "ct" name.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para>
@ -182,6 +177,16 @@
control display switching and backlight brightness using the
ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx-Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside &os; source tree. &merged;
<note>
<para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
has <quote>ct</quote> name.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>&man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
directories.</para>
@ -254,6 +259,10 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
<para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
<para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
including
the asc driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
@ -325,13 +334,24 @@
<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; NetGraph node type, which supports
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>A bug, which prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
chipset.</para>
<para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.</para>
<para>The hardware TX checksum support of the &man.xl.4; driver
has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
@ -390,6 +410,9 @@
work better, and some problems with timeouts should be
resolved.</para>
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
@ -397,6 +420,9 @@
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
has been fixed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The twa driver, which supports
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
@ -446,6 +472,23 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para>&man.bsdlabel.8; now supports a <option>-f</option> option
to work on files instead of disk partitions.</para>
<para>The <command>bthidcontrol</command> and the
<command>bthidd</command> which support Bluetooth
HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para>
<para>The <command>doscmd</command> utility has been
removed from the &os; base system, and has been available
in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para>
<para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and
&man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para>
<para>The &man.find.1; now supports a option
<option>-acl</option> to locate files with &man.acl.3;</para>
<para>&man.indent.1; now supports a <option>-ldi</option> option
to control indentation of local variables. A number of other
tunings were made to this utility.</para>
@ -516,6 +559,11 @@
</note>
<para>
<para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently
supported system locales has been added. This is primarily
for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename>
port.</para>
<para>The &man.logins.1; utility has been added to display
information about user and system accounts.</para>
@ -523,6 +571,9 @@
which allows users to specify a known port for use
in firewall rulesets.</para>
<para>&man.netstat.1; now displays the multicast group
memberships present in the system.</para>
<para>&man.newfs.8; and &man.mdmfs.8; now support a
<option>-l</option> flag to enable them to set the MAC
multilabel flag on new filesystems without requiring the use of
@ -541,6 +592,22 @@
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
membership lists.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1;, which come from NetBSD
have been added. They also support a <option>-M</option> option
to extract values associated with the name list from the
specified core instead of the default <filename>/dev/kmem</filename>,
and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from
the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para>
<para>&man.ps.1; has been improved in the POSIX/SUSv3 compatibility.
The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs,
<option>-t</option> for a list of terminal names,
<option>-A</option> which is equivalent with <option>-ax</option>,
<option>-G</option> for a list of group IDs,
<option>-X</option> which is the opposite of <option>-x</option>,
and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;.
&merged;</para>
<para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which
accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para>
@ -604,8 +671,8 @@
It saves the current settings of all audio mixers present
in the system on shutdown and restores the settings on boot.</para>
<para>The <filename>pf</filename> script for &man.pf.4;
has been added.</para>
<para>The <filename>pf</filename> and <filename>pflog</filename>
scripts for &man.pf.4; has been added.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@ -645,6 +712,12 @@
<filename>tar</filename> being a link to
<filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
<para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been
updated from 0.6 to 0.6.1.
<para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated from
version 0.7.1 to version 0.8.3.</para>
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
@ -660,6 +733,9 @@
</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
0.9.7c to 0.9.7d. &merged;</para>
<para><application>pf</application>, OpenBSD's packet filter as of
OpenBSD 3.4, has been imported into &os; source tree and is now installed
by default. A new user <username>proxy</username>, and two new
@ -695,6 +771,8 @@
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
version 8.12.10 to version 8.12.11. &merged;</para>
<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">

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<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as "ct"
in its previous life outside FreeBSD source tree. Note: only driver name
has changed. Network interface still has "ct" name.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para>
@ -182,6 +177,16 @@
control display switching and backlight brightness using the
ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx-Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside &os; source tree. &merged;
<note>
<para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
has <quote>ct</quote> name.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>&man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
directories.</para>
@ -254,6 +259,10 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
<para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
<para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
including
the asc driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
@ -325,13 +334,24 @@
<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; NetGraph node type, which supports
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>A bug, which prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
chipset.</para>
<para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.</para>
<para>The hardware TX checksum support of the &man.xl.4; driver
has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
@ -390,6 +410,9 @@
work better, and some problems with timeouts should be
resolved.</para>
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
@ -397,6 +420,9 @@
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
has been fixed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The twa driver, which supports
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
@ -446,6 +472,23 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para>&man.bsdlabel.8; now supports a <option>-f</option> option
to work on files instead of disk partitions.</para>
<para>The <command>bthidcontrol</command> and the
<command>bthidd</command> which support Bluetooth
HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para>
<para>The <command>doscmd</command> utility has been
removed from the &os; base system, and has been available
in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para>
<para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and
&man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para>
<para>The &man.find.1; now supports a option
<option>-acl</option> to locate files with &man.acl.3;</para>
<para>&man.indent.1; now supports a <option>-ldi</option> option
to control indentation of local variables. A number of other
tunings were made to this utility.</para>
@ -516,6 +559,11 @@
</note>
<para>
<para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently
supported system locales has been added. This is primarily
for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename>
port.</para>
<para>The &man.logins.1; utility has been added to display
information about user and system accounts.</para>
@ -523,6 +571,9 @@
which allows users to specify a known port for use
in firewall rulesets.</para>
<para>&man.netstat.1; now displays the multicast group
memberships present in the system.</para>
<para>&man.newfs.8; and &man.mdmfs.8; now support a
<option>-l</option> flag to enable them to set the MAC
multilabel flag on new filesystems without requiring the use of
@ -541,6 +592,22 @@
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
membership lists.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1;, which come from NetBSD
have been added. They also support a <option>-M</option> option
to extract values associated with the name list from the
specified core instead of the default <filename>/dev/kmem</filename>,
and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from
the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para>
<para>&man.ps.1; has been improved in the POSIX/SUSv3 compatibility.
The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs,
<option>-t</option> for a list of terminal names,
<option>-A</option> which is equivalent with <option>-ax</option>,
<option>-G</option> for a list of group IDs,
<option>-X</option> which is the opposite of <option>-x</option>,
and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;.
&merged;</para>
<para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which
accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para>
@ -604,8 +671,8 @@
It saves the current settings of all audio mixers present
in the system on shutdown and restores the settings on boot.</para>
<para>The <filename>pf</filename> script for &man.pf.4;
has been added.</para>
<para>The <filename>pf</filename> and <filename>pflog</filename>
scripts for &man.pf.4; has been added.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@ -645,6 +712,12 @@
<filename>tar</filename> being a link to
<filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
<para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been
updated from 0.6 to 0.6.1.
<para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated from
version 0.7.1 to version 0.8.3.</para>
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
@ -660,6 +733,9 @@
</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
0.9.7c to 0.9.7d. &merged;</para>
<para><application>pf</application>, OpenBSD's packet filter as of
OpenBSD 3.4, has been imported into &os; source tree and is now installed
by default. A new user <username>proxy</username>, and two new
@ -695,6 +771,8 @@
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
version 8.12.10 to version 8.12.11. &merged;</para>
<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">