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914 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce A. Mah
af785a075f New release notes: sab(4) removal, non-AT keyboard controller i386
system support, sk(4) MPSAFE.
2006-04-27 20:33:09 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6ff7518a85 Fix assorted grammar and punctuation nits. These are a subset of
some fixes that will (very shortly) be committed to RELENG_6_1.

Approved by:	re (hrs)
2006-04-25 15:21:26 +00:00
Xin LI
b9fcadb97c Note FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu.asc 2006-04-23 20:19:03 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
80f4bf51a8 - Mark MFC'd items.
- Add some missing items:
	snd_ich(4) and snd_es137x(4) MPSAFE,
	bge(4) polling mode support,
	lge(4) MPSAFE,
	glabel NTFS support,
	/var/audit and audit group added,
	snapinfo(8) added, and
	groff 1.19.2 imported.
2006-04-22 23:02:29 +00:00
Xin LI
b4d7b9794b Mention the minidump feature. 2006-04-21 16:22:01 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
37b499c989 Some grammar/language improvements, more to come. Also note some
merged items.
2006-04-18 19:35:48 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
a50a0535ce bce(4) added and a typo fixed. 2006-04-10 20:30:35 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
52f4680611 Fix a typo: s/&man.rfcomm.pppd.8;/&man.rfcomm.sppd.1;/. 2006-04-02 18:26:48 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
7d5bf96f77 New release notes:
hwpmc(4) and pmcstat(8) profiling support for dynamically-loaded
	objects, and pmcstat(8) network logging support added[1].

Fix incorrect entries:
	gmirror/graid3 uses parallel I/O request for synchronization now.
	The parallel I/O request itself has been already supported[2].

Spotted by:	jkoshy[1] and pjd[2]
2006-04-02 14:53:28 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
d2af7d9ce0 Fix typos and the following incorrect entries:
kbdmux(4) GENERIC support currently in amd64 and i386 only[1],
	uart(4) GENERIC support currently not in pc98[1],
	speaker(4) on amd64 entry needs arch="amd64"[2],
	hptmv(4) update entry needs arch="amd64,i386"[2], and
	OpenSSH 4.3p1 import has not been merged yet[2].

Spotted by:	nyan[1] and delphij[2]
2006-04-02 14:25:12 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
3221c33333 Update release notes (round 2, until Mar 2006):
file descriptor handling bug fixed,
	support for copying console messages to remote gdb(1),
	kbdmux(4) now in GENERIC by default,
	scc(4) for generic serial devices added,
	net.inet.ip.portrange.reserved[high|low] for IPv6,
	ata(4) USB mass storage class support,
	gmirror kernel crash dump support,
	gmirror and graid3 parallel I/O request support,
	mfi(4) for LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family added,
	getfacl(1) -q option added,
	gvinum(8) resetconfig sub-command support,
	libarchive(3) tp format support removed,
	libarchive(3) POSIX.1e EA support added,
	libc symbol map added,
	libm symbol map added,
	ls(1) -U option added,
	mdconfig(8) XML device listing support,
	mdconfig(8) -u option now supports comma-separated multiple devices,
	BIND9 DNS resolver library imported,
	strtonum(3) from OpenBSD,
	rc.d/ike removed,
	GNU Readline library updated to 5.1,
	OpenSSH updated to 4.3p1,
	hostapd updated to 0.4.8,
	WPA supplicant updated to 0.4.8,
	zlib updated to 1.2.3,
	pkg_add(1) -F option added,
	portsnap(1) HTTP_PROXY_AUTH handling bug fixed,
	"make showconfig" in src/Makefile added, and
	/etc/src.conf added.
2006-04-02 07:56:48 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
b664d549da Massive update of the -HEAD release notes (round 1, until Feb 2006):
acpi(4) HPET time counter support,
	acpi_ibm(4) fan control support,
	ddb(4) show lock,
	ddb(4) show sleepq,
	firmware(9) added,
	random(4) MPSAFE,
	new sysctl kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild,
	brandinfo BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN flag,
	new sysctl kern.forcesigexit,
	RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's malloc(9),
	security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal for mac_biba,
	POSIX_TIMERS support updated to 200112L,
	initial support for POSIX message queue,
	Xbox support,
	DEFAULTS kernel configuration files for each arch,
	cardbus(4) /dev/cardbus%d.cis device node added,
	ce(4) for Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 added,
	ipmi(4), OpenIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface)
		driver added,
	kbdmux(4) integrated into syscons(4) and kbd,
	uart(4) now in GENERIC kernel,
	uart(4) LOM and RSC support,
	snd_atiixp(4) added and suspend/resume support,
	snd_solo(4) MPSAFE,
	speaker(4) amd64 support,
	uaudio(4) 24/32 bit audio support,
	ath(4) updated to version 0.9.16.16,
	bge(4) Jumbo frame support, big-endian arch support, MPSAFE,
	em(4) updated to version 3.2.18, big-endian arch support,
		performance improvement, suspend/resume support,
	iwi(4) big-endian arch support,
	le(4) for AMD Am7900 LANCE added,
	myri10ge(4) for Myricom Myri10GE adapter added,
	nve(4) updated to version 1.0-0310,
	ti(4) big-endian arch support,
	ufoma(4) for FOMA 3G mobile phone in Japan added,
	vgapci(4) stub driver added,
	arp(8) retransmission algorithm revised,
		new sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_permanent_modify,
		support for -i <if> with -d -a,
	an experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler added,
	if_bridge(4) span ports support added,
	if_bridge(4) RFC 3378 EtherIP support,
	ipfw(4) now supports action argument substitution from table lookup,
	ng_bpf(4) BPF Just-In-Time compiler support,
	bug related to NFS over TCP reconnection fixed,
	IPV6_V6ONLY now works for UDP,
	amr(4) performance improvement, ioctl support for MegaRaid Tools,
	ata(4) DMA for kernel dump and dumping to ataraid(4) devices,
	ataraid(4) now supports JMicron ATA RAID metadata,
	gmirror and graid3 disconnect_on_failure sysctls added,
	g_md.ko renamed to geom_md.ko,
	mpt(4) SAS HBA and 64-bit PCI support,
	twa(4) updated to 9.3.0.1,
	geli(8) now allows loading keyfiles before root file system is mounted,
	initial support for SGI's XFS added,
	ACPI-CA updated to 20051021,
	DRM updated to 20051202,
	TrustedBSD OpenBSM version 1.0 alpha 5 imported,
	bsnmpd(1) Host Resources MIB in RFC 2790 support,
	config(8) "nocpu" directive added,
	config(8) now reads DEFAULT if any before the specified config file,
	csh(1) NLS catalog support,
	csup(1), CVSup-compatible client written in C imported,
	devd(8) -f option,
	ftpd(8) change related to PID file creation,
	gbde(8) -k and -K option,
	gpt(8) GPT partition label setting support,
	gvinum(8) now supports to move a subdisk between drives,
	GSS-API version 2 (RFC2743 and RFC2744) implemented,
	jail(8) -J option,
	kdump(1) -H and -s option,
	kgdb(1) -w option,
	libarchive(3) tp format support,
	ln(1) -F option,
	locate(1) -I option,
	mdmfs(8) -P and -E option,
	mergemaster(8) -A option,
	mount(8) "nodev" option removed,
	netstat(1) IPsec protocol stats support,
	periodic(8) daily gmirror, graid3, gstripe, gconcat support,
	pkill(1) -I option,
	rfcomm_pppd(8) -c servicename support,
	rtld(1) ELF symbol versioning support,
	sh(1) "times" built-in command support,
	truss(1) -s option,
	truss(1) now works on FreeBSD/ppc,
	usbd(8) removed in favor of devd(8),
	xargs(1) -r option,
	rc.d/auditd added,
	rc.d/bluetooth, rc.d/hcsecd, rc.d/sdpd added,
	rc.d/ftpd added,
	rc.d/hostapd added,
	rc.d/netif ipv4_addrs_<ifn> support,
	rc.d/rcconf.sh removed and early_late_divider variable added,
	rc.initdiskless now uses tar(1) instead of pax(1),
	rc.d/pccard removed,
	rc.d/ppp-user added (renamed from ppp),
	removable_interfaces variable removed,
	bsnmpd updated from 1.11 to 1.12,
	pkg_add(1) -P option,
	pkg_add(1) and pkg_create(1) -K option,
	pkg_create(1) -x, -E, and -G options,
	local_startup directory now evaluated by rcorder(8) with
		scripts in the base system,
	suffix of startup scripts removed,
	variables "ldconfig_local_dirs" and "ldconfig_local32_dirs" added,
	@cwd in pkg-plist now allows no directory argument, and
	CHECKSUM.MD5's checksum in CHECKSUM.MD5 problem fixed.
2006-04-01 20:55:21 +00:00
Gregory Neil Shapiro
b41709e925 Spaces to tab 2006-03-29 07:50:58 +00:00
Gregory Neil Shapiro
2a1437c073 Add sendmail 8.13.4 -> 8.13.6 release note entry. 2006-03-29 07:48:45 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1642e14581 Remove OpenSSH and sendmail update notes; these updates were already
present in 6.0-RELEASE and shouldn't be noted here.
2006-02-26 21:48:50 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
b966c71acb Update version numbers in &release.*;. 2006-02-23 06:15:56 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5835ccaf93 New release notes: GNOME 2.12.3, KDE 3.5.1, Perl 5.8.8, X.org 6.9.0.
MFCs noted:  OpenSSH 4.2p1, sendmail 8.13.4.
2006-02-21 07:39:11 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d5b12d2678 Add semicolons on the end of some "&merged;" entity usages.
Fortunately this was fairly harmless.

Rusty SGML:	bmah
2006-02-20 23:06:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1e02285171 Pick some low-hanging release notes fruit from cvs imports.
New release notes:  BIND 9.3.2 (+MFC), IPFilter 4.1.10, tzdata2005r (+MFC).

Deleted release notes:  libpcap and tcpdump updates (these updates
were actually a part of 6.0-RELEASE and therefore aren't "new"
anymore).
2006-02-09 17:30:13 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
2ca173bc23 Add some new release notes for 2006 security advisories:
SA-06:{01,02,03,04,05,06,07}.

(SA-06:08 does not appear to apply to CURRENT.)

Bump copyright date while here.
2006-02-05 20:54:53 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
2f07755517 New release notes:
hw.pci.do_powerstate change,
	FreeBSD/ia64 SMP support,
	a kernel config for MAC added,
	tnt4882(4) driver added,
	agp(4) now supports ATI IGP chipsets,
	re(4): D-Link DGE-528(T) Gigabit Ethernet card support,
	aac(4): Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID controller support,
	ata(4): ITE IT8211F, PDC40718, and PDC40719 support,
	hptmv(4) update: amd64 and PAE support,
	gpt(8) GPT partition label support,
	kenv(1) and sysctl(8) -q flag added,
	libedit updated,
	rpcgen(1) now generate ANSI C code instead of K&R style, and
	OpenSSH 4.0p1->4.2p1.

Update release notes:
	Fix an entry about ifconfig_<ifn> NOAUTO keyword.
2005-10-31 16:52:11 +00:00
Joel Dahl
20e7938c05 The snd_via8233(4) support on amd64 isn't something new. Remove it.
Reviewed by:	hrs
2005-10-14 18:12:18 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
786d82a129 New release notes:
ifconfig(8) -tunnel parameter,
	interface argument to ifconfig(8) -vlandev deprecated.

The changes already are in RELENG_6, too.

MFC after:	3 days
2005-10-14 09:57:08 +00:00
Joel Dahl
d528ad8566 New release notes: snd_mss(4) manual page added. 2005-10-12 12:24:37 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
27c11e26b3 New release notes:
/boot.config -S option,
	comconsole_speed loader tunable,
	debug.mpsafevfs=1 on ia64 by default,
	snd_via8233(4) supported on amd64,
	IPv6 pMTU discovery for multicast packets disabled by default,
	new sysctl: net.inet6.ip6.mcast_pmtu,
		net.inet.icmp.reply_from_interface, and
		net.inet.icmp.quotelen,
	IP_MINTTL socket option,
	ata(4) DMA workaround,
	cmp(1) -h option,
	new functions: pidfile(3), and
		memmem(3),
	netstat(1) -h option,
	pkill(1) -F and -L option,
	powerd(8) -P option,
	removable_interfaces rc.conf variable removed,
	ifconfig_<ifn>, and
	sysinstall(8) default partition size calculation changed.
2005-10-03 17:24:20 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
1db55c2528 New release notes:
gre(4) IPv6 over GRE support,
	ipfw IPv6 support,
	new sysctl net.inet6.ip6.stealth added,
	g_label now supports Ext2FS and ReiserFS,
	bsdiff(1) and bspatch(1) added,
	ping(8) "sweeping ping" support,
	wcsdup() function added,
	rc.d/gbde_swap renamed to rc.d/encswap,
	rc.d/geli and rc.d/geli2 added, and
	portsnap(8) imported.
2005-10-02 21:02:37 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
14f9b2291d 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
Christian Brueffer
5f9c8a6a9e Note acpi_sony(4) manpage addition. 2005-09-14 05:50:09 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
093f85195e Reword nic driver MPSAFEness entries to be in line with earlier release notes. 2005-09-05 17:16:50 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
78f14f2cee Document the following:
- VIA PadLock support + merge
- dc, my, pcn, sf MPSAFE + merge
- de, ed, ste MPSAFE
- de converted to busdma(9)
- el removed
- geli(8) committed + merge
- libmemstat(9) merge

MFC after:	3 days
2005-08-30 22:25:22 +00:00
Gregory Neil Shapiro
8e1e510074 I must have missed the release note for the sendmail 8.13.4 import. 2005-08-28 04:43:48 +00:00
Joel Dahl
99030e6c12 New release notes: snd_t4dwave(4) manual page added.
Approved by:	brueffer (mentor)
2005-08-18 19:05:46 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
67b1f4d459 New release notes:
New sysctls: kern.malloc_stats and vm.zone_stats,
	mpt(4) improvements,
	ifconfig(8) -k flag,
	libmemstat(3) added,
	libpcap updated to v0.9.1, and
	tcpdump updated to v3.9.1.
2005-07-15 16:38:52 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
e4d7fb6831 Trim the old relnotes items. 2005-07-15 15:15:20 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
aad53ebf00 MFC:
$jail_<name>_flags for rc.d/jail, and
	pkg_version(1) -I flag.

Approved by:	re (implicitly)
2005-07-10 03:47:00 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
79ec8905f6 Update release notes:
pc98 also supports ELF kernel crash dump now.

Pointed out by:	nyan
Approved by:	re (implicitly)
2005-07-10 03:33:00 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
9d77f80ae9 New release notes:
amd64/i386 ELF kernel crash dump,
	snd_csa(4) suspend/resume support,
	ste(4) ALTQ support,
	address family check of routing table added,
	env(1) -v, -S, and -P options added,
	libkvm crash dump support improvement:
		ELF format, >4GB on 32-bit arch, and PAE,
	$jail_<name>_flags for rc.d/jail added, and
	new manual pages: central(4), clkbrd(4), creator(4),
		ebus(4), eeprom(4), fhc(4),  machfb(4), ofw.console(4),
		openfirm(4), openprom(4), rtc(4), and sbus(4).

Update release notes:
	Use &man.ofw.console.4;.

Approved by:	re (implicitly)
2005-07-09 17:26:10 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
27a2197ea5 New release notes: SA-05:13.ipfw, SA-05:14.bzip2, SA-05:15.tcp.
Approved by:	re (blanket relnotes)
2005-06-30 18:17:09 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cbea18d9ae Fix grammar and markup nits, do some wordsmithing.
Approved by:	re (blanket relnotes)
2005-06-30 04:55:46 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
34dc3c7f63 New release notes:
OpenPAM Figwort release.

Approved by:	re (implicitly)
2005-06-19 12:38:18 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
e28e75cfd6 Update release notes:
hostapd v0.3.9,
	sendmail OSTYPE(freebsd6) support,
	WPA Supplicant v0.3.9, and
	new manual pages: bus_space(9) and pmap_page_init(9).

Approved by:	re (implicitly)
2005-06-15 16:17:28 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
8c523fead6 New release notes:
security.jail.getfsstatroot_only
	--> security.jail.enforce_statfs renamed,
	struct ifnet change,
	acpi_ibm(4) improved,
	atkbdc(4) cleanup,
	arkbdc(4), syscons(4), and so on, enabled by default on sparc64,
	hwpmc(4) MI support,
	ng_tcpmss(4) added, and
	rexecd(8) removed.

Approved by:	re (implicitly)
2005-06-12 08:55:59 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
aed219316b Document SA-05:10, SA-05:11, and SA-05:12.
Approved by:	re (implicitly)
2005-06-11 17:27:14 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
7a9f484b11 Fix section number of hostapd(8) and wpa_supplicant(8).
Noticed by:	brueffer
Pointy hat to:	hrs
2005-06-08 12:57:47 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
3b27fe88e9 New release notes:
ichsmb(4) kernel module available,
	ifconfig(8) now supports if_bridge(4),
	link state change notification sent to /dev/devctl,
	_dhcp user/group added,
	NetBSD specific rc.d scripts removed,
	OpenBSD dhclient imported,
	hostapd v0.3.7 imported,
	WPA Supplicant v0.3.8 imported, and
	pkg_create(1) -R flag added.

Update release notes:
	Move "sendmail 8.13.4 import" to the userland changes section.
2005-06-08 08:26:54 +00:00
Gregory Neil Shapiro
c7b64c7b81 Note the sendmail 8.13.4 upgrade. 2005-06-07 04:20:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
8cb62f3fd6 New release notes: if_bridge(4).
Updated release notes:  OpenSSH 4.1p1.
2005-06-05 16:16:31 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
440f877a34 Remove trailing whitespaces. 2005-06-03 18:42:47 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
852dd726ef New release notes:
FreeBSD/i386 and /amd64 always use the local APIC timer even
	on an UP system,
	vm.blacklist tunable added,
	ipfw now supports IPv4 only rule,
	struct netent and getnetbyaddr(3) POSIX conformance and
        the ABI breakage on 64-bit platforms, and
	GNU GCC 3.4.2-prerelease --> 3.4.4.

Update release notes:
	more machine-specific optimized version of math functions.
2005-06-03 18:37:16 +00:00
Hiroki Sato
0717110a5a New release notes:
syscons VESA support,
	libpcap v0.8.3 --> v0.9.1 (alpha 096), and
	TCPDUMP v3.8.3 --> v3.9.1 (alpha 096).
2005-05-30 16:51:57 +00:00