diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
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--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
Kernel Changes
- A new API called cpuset has been added
+ A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added
for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and
assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added
to allow manipulation of processor sets.
@@ -149,14 +149,14 @@
facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured
to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or
a textdump. The new capture command controls
- this feature.
+ this feature. &merged;
The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting
facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a
set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from
within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8;
utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual
- page.
+ page. &merged;
The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel
dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via
@@ -175,6 +175,15 @@
will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked
binaries.
+ The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel
+ features via the kern.features sysctl tree.
+ The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient
+ interface for user applications to test the presence of
+ features.
+
+ [&arch.amd64;] The &os; kernel now has support for large
+ memory page mappings (superpages).
+
Boot Loader Changes
@@ -212,6 +221,19 @@
Network Interface Support
+ The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers
+ with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue
+ to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new
+ client/desktop adapters. A new igb driver
+ will support new server adapters.
+
+ The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide
+ support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network
+ adapters.
+
+ The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been
+ updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.
+
The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its
performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It
should also work on all architectures.
@@ -225,8 +247,8 @@
architectures.
[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.wpi.4; driver has
- been added to support the Intel 3945 Wireless LAN
- Controller.
+ been updated to include a number of stability fixes.
+ &merged;
@@ -234,6 +256,13 @@
Network Protocols
+ 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 net.bpf.zerocopy_enable sysctl
+ variable to 1.
+
A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding
bytes were used, has been fixed.
@@ -283,6 +312,17 @@
of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os;
&man.find.1;.
+ &man.kgdb.1; now supports a new add-kld
+ command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel
+ modules.
+
+ The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display
+ detailed information about processes.
+
+ The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports
+ a flag to suppress warnings; it now also
+ accepts multiple paths on its command line. &merged;
+
The &man.split.1; utility now supports a
flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.
@@ -290,6 +330,9 @@
flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style
compression/decompression.
+ &man.top.1; now supports a flag to
+ provide per-CPU usage statistics.
+
&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS
number for each hop with the new switch; a
new option allows selecting a particular
@@ -322,6 +365,9 @@
CVS has been updated from 1.11.17
to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
+ hostapd has been
+ updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.
+
IPFilter has been updated from
4.1.23 to 4.1.28.
@@ -339,7 +385,10 @@
The timezone database has been updated from
the tzdata2007h release to
- the tzdata2008a release. &merged;
+ the tzdata2008b release. &merged;
+
+ WPA Supplicant has been
+ updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.
@@ -353,7 +402,10 @@
Release Engineering and Integration
-
+ The supported version of
+ the GNOME desktop environment
+ (x11/gnome2) has been
+ updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22. &merged;