hwpmc(4) and associated library/userland utilities,
ipw(4), iwi(4), ral(4), and ural(4) wireless LAN drivers,
ipfw(4) and dummynet(4) now supports IPv6,
net.link.tap.user_open sysctl for tap(4),
LOCAL_CREDS and LOCAL_CONNWAIT options for unix(4),
twa(4) driver update,
machine-specific optimized functions for AMD64.
getserv{ent,byname,byport} MPSAFE,
mixer(8) -S option,
C99 functions: roundl(), lroundl(), llroundl(), truncl(), and floorl(),
syslogd(8) -S option,
rc.d/bsnmpd startup script, and
manual pages of ataraid(4), sched_4bsd(4), and sched_ule(4) added.
debug.mpsafevm=1 by default on sparc64,
ixgb(4) MPSAFE,
core dump of natd(8) w/ -reverse fixed,
libarchive zip support improved, and
rexecd(8) root login problem fixed.
pictured here. We might want to show a real CDROM layout here.
Also clarify that whatever's in the floppies/ directory is primarily
useful to users who actually need to boot from floppy to start an
installation.
disk names.
"Approximately three...floppies" is kind of weird to me, so substitute
"several" here instead. We already mention that a floppy disk set
requires three disks elsewhere, so we're not really losing any
content.
pgrep(1) and pkill(1) -S, -F, -i, -j, and -o option, and
ps(1) -o jid.
Update release notes:
Use &man.acpi.fujitsu.4; entity, and
s/Rockridge/RockRidge/.
For both KDE and GNOME notes, fix upgrading instructions and point
users to the Web pages for these respective projects. [1]
Discussed with: marcus [1]
release documentation snapshots, force URLS_ABSOLUTE. This
allows us to relocate HTML renderings anywhere without worrying
about breaking relative links to pages on the Web site. This can
happen when we use &base; as part of a URL.
I wonder if we should do this for all release documentation builds,
but I'm not quite sure what all the cases are.
MFCs noted: tcpdrop(8).
Updated release notes: Mention ath_rate_sample rate control module,
libthr stack size update, Xorg 6.8.2.
Fixed a minor grammo in introduction, also adjust wording in pointers
to snapshots.
snapshots, instead point them at a Web page on the main FreeBSD
site that gives more information on the monthly (RE-created) snapshots
plus pointers to the jp.freebsd.org and se.freebsd.org snapshots.
jail(8) security.jail.chflags_allowed sysctl,
zs driver removed,
ng_ipfw(4) added,
ips(4) crash dump support,
getaddrinfo(3) DNS query order changed,
powerd(8) added, and
RFC derived manual pages replaced.
Update release notes:
acpi_throttle and acpi_perf merged into acpi and
can be disabled via device hints, and
some rewording due to zs driver removal in the entry which
explains uart(4) has been enabled by default on FreeBSD/sparc64.
and example script which can translate some repeated device
entities. With -o <file> option it can be used to update
translated list of entities (skip translated ones).
Obtained from: The FreeBSD Russian Documentation Project
ddb(4) "show alllocks" command,
fix reading config files with a line without a newline character,
TCP RST handling improved and net.inet.tcp.insecure_rst sysctl,
lpd(8) data file check, and
syslogd(8) ":" and "%" characters in hostname.
MFC:
ipfw with debug.mpsafenet=1.
Beastie boot menu disabled,
acpi(4) turns ACPI and PCI devices off or to a lower
power state in suspend,
acpi_ibm driver added,
ed(4) ALTQ support,
ipfw(4) ucred-based rules can be used with debug.mpsafenet=1,
TCP-MD5 implementation in KAME IPv4 IPsec,
ftpd(8) 212 and 213 status code support,
gvinum checkparity/rebuildparity/setstate subcommand support,
periodic(8) security report now includes blocked packet
counts by pf(4),
ppp(8) NAS-IP-Address/NAS-Identifier options,
pppd(8) incorrect CBCP response fix, and
rescue(8) now includes BSD tar.
Update release notes:
rc.conf(5) network interface renaming support (MFC), and
markup fix in the entry of systat(1) IPv6 support.
pc98).
(While here, remove mention of 80386 custom kernels since support for the
80386 has been removed from CURRENT.)
Feedback from: bde, des, imp, jhb
"Userland Changes" section. I'm pretty sure this is all my
fault...only a native English^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAmerican speaker could mess
it up this badly.
No content changes.
vkbd(4) added,
acpi_snc added,
gx(4) removed,
old vinum(4) removed,
libxpg4 removed,
a separate directory for named(8) dynamic zones added,
rm(1) SUSv3 conformance,
strftime(3) GNU extensions added, and
rc.conf(5) variables: tmpmfs_flags and varmfs_flags.
Update release notes:
Fix a typo (s/machine-indepedent/machine-independent/).
increased for libpthread and libc_r, new math functions (+MFC),
rtld(1) LD_LIBMAP (+MFC), telnet(1) +port number.
MFCs noted: gshsec(8), fsck(8) -n (also fixed a mistake...mentioned
the wrong program before), mkuzip(8), Heimdal 0.6.3, OpenSSL 0.9.7e
Also mentioned that upgrades to -CURRENT are only possible from 5.3 or
newer.
12 MB to run). These technically reflect 5.3-RELEASE figures,
but are probably closer to reality than the older numbers (8MB / 7MB).
While here, s/megs/MB/ to consistify our terminology.
PR: docs/77304
Submitted by: Ramiro Aceves
MFCs noted: TCP random ephemeral port rate limiting, syslogd(8)
logpriv (with a few grammar fixes), tail -f,
Other changes: Minor grammar fixes to rc.conf interface renaming and
rc.d/moused notes.
options SYSCTL_DEBUG,
loader menu option to set hint.atkbd.0.flags=1,
device snd_audiocs for CS4231 audio controller,
bge(4) altq(4) support,
hptmv(4) added,
rm(1) -I option,
interface name change in rc.conf, and
rc.d/moused multiple device support.
device driver cleanup to use the generic tty(4) interface,
ipdivert kernel loadable module,
rune(3) multibyte/wide chatacter support removed,
xargs -I option POSIX conformance,
GNU readline 4.3->5.0, and
pkg_version(1) -q option.
New release notes: EN-05:01.nfs (+MFC), EN-05:02.sk (+MFC),
EN-05:03.ipi (+MFC).
To be consistent with other documentation, the release documentation
will henceforth include the one-word keyword (e.g. "fetch", "procfs"
above) in the names of advisories and errata.
support, hme(4) MPSAFE (+MFC), random port number allocation fix,
IPX/SPX locking, gshsec(8), dump(8) -n, some ipfw(8) abbreviated
options deprecated, libarchive ISO and ZIP support, rpmatch(3),
telnet(1)/telnetd(8) -S, manpage cleanup.
MFCs noted: cd9660 less chatty,
Modified release notes: Fix typo (s/icss/ichss/) [1], add missing
"driver" in a couple of notes.
Submitted by: njl [1]
binaries, sk(4) ALTQ and jumbo frames on Yukons, cd9660 less chatty,
burncd(8) fixate eject works, mknod(8) deprecated, NOFOO -> NO_FOO,
ppp(8) echo, tcpdrop(8), whois(1) -k.
Modified release note: In netcat note, provide cross-reference to
nc(1) manpage.
Just another random walk through the commit messages...
modules, wlan(4) overhaul with particular mention of the wlan_wep
module, amr(4) PAE-safe (+MFC), matcd(4) removed, wd(4) removed for
pc98, ifconfig(8) reorg and update.
Culled from random skimming of HEAD commit messages.
Somewhat belatedly bump copyright date while here.
altq(4) (+MFC), ongoing locking work in the network stack, TCP RST
bugfix (+MFC), SACK bugfixes (+MFC), RFC 1644 T/TCP support removed,
gpt(8) create -f (+MFC), NO_NIS (+MFC), ncal(1) -m (+MFC).
These items mostly come from commit logs for November 2004.
This translation is based on RELENG_5 so it should be tagged as
RELENG_5 when appropriate (This set of files DOES build under
6-CURRENT because a last-minute hack added to readme/article.sgml,
however, the contents is for RELENG_5).
This includes:
The Migration Guide
Errata
Hardware Notes (only i386 and amd64 at this time)
Installation Guide [2]
Readme [1]
Release Notes
Submitted by: delphij, gavin (local repository committer) [1],
zhangluo (additional local contributor; part of
i386 related contents) [2]
Approved by: murray (mentor)
SA-04:15, and BIND update (8.3.1->9.3.0).
Update release notes:
update a list of network interfaces which support polling(4), and
fix a typo (s/lukemftp/lukemftpd/).
- Add "Hardware Support" section and move device driver-related
items there.
- Move "Multimedia Support" and "Network Interface Support" into
the "Hardware Support" section as sub-sections.
- Move Netgraph-related items to "Network Protocols".
For translators: many items are moved but the contents
are not changed.
PREEMPTION kernel option added,
ucycom(4) for Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families
of USB to RS232 bridges added,
debug.witness_* tunable renamed to debug.witness.*,
vge(4) for VIA VT6122 gigabit ethernet chip added, and
mkuzip(8) for GEOM_UZIP added.
Update release notes:
remove %include.historic; section for now,
4BSD is the default schedular now, and
update links to sound(4)-related manual pages.
the drivers were removed over 5 years ago.
- Note that WD7000 is supported by the wds(4) driver and move it
to the generic SCSI section, since it was converted to CAM some time ago.
- Remove section about non-CAM drivers, since there are none left in
the section.
- Autogenerate device listing for ct(4).
MFC after: 2 days
- Various markup, typo, and wording fixes.
- Use &man.*;.
- Move sound(4) related changes to the multimedia support section.
- Add net.inet.tcp.rfc3042 and net.inet.tcp.rfc3390.
- Unify items which relates to multibyte support of userland
utilities.
agp(4) AMD64 GART support,
hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range removed,
debug.kdb.stop_cpus sysctl,
COMPAT_LINUX32 kernel option on amd64,
mac_bsdextended_firstmatch_enabled sysctl,
mac_bsdextended_logging sysctl,
MP_WATCHDOG kernel option and debug.leak_schedlock sysctl,
NET_WITH_GIANT kernel option and debug.mpsafenet loader tunable,
debug.mpsafevm loader tunable,
vm_map_findspace(9) now uses an O(log n) algorithm,
new ipfw(4) rule "jail",
IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option,
PFIL_HOOKS is now always complied into the kernel,
autofs filesystem and libautofs(3) added,
GEOM_RAID3 geom class and graid3(8) added,
GEOM_UZIP geom class added,
acpidump(8) SSDT tables support,
dd(1) fillchar option,
jail(8) -l option,
OpenSSL VIA C3 PadLock ACE support imported, and
FreeBSD's default X Window System is Xorg now.
Update release notes:
ADAPTIVE_GIANT enabled on i386 by default,
hme(4) now MI,
static linker TLS support,
LIBPTHREAD_PROCESS_SCOPE,
GNU sort updated to a coreutils snapshot as of 2004/08/12,
ISC DHCP client updated to 3.0.1,
lukemftpd updated to a snapshot as of 2004/08/09, and
pf from OpenBSD 3.5-stable.
the first half of August 2004):
NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES,
ADAPTIVE_GIANT,
acpi_panasonic(4) added,
contigmalloc(9) reimplemented (vm.old_contigmalloc added),
hme(4) checksum offload support,
{mem,io}.ko added,
pcic(4) removed completely from GENERIC kernel configuration file,
psm(4) Synaptics TouchPad support,
Thread Local Storage (TLS) support,
ipfw(4) antispoof option,
GEOM_MIRROR class and gmirror(8) added,
col(1), colcrt(1), colrm(1), column(1), and fmt(1) multibyte
characters support,
df(1) bugfix,
ftpd(8) uses its euid for opening a data transfer socket,
gpt(8) -i option, remove command added,
kgdb(1) added,
LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE for libpthread,
look(1) -d bugfix,
make(1) "+" flag added,
make(1) MAKEFLAGS change,
tgmath.h C99 header added,
GNU extensions of mbsnrtowcs(3) and wcsnrtombs(3) implemented,
patch(1) replaced with a BSD-licensed version from OpenBSD,
ppp(8) "set pppoe [standard|3Com]" for ng_pppoe(4),
ul(1) multibyte characters support,
FILE 3.41 --> 4.10,
GCC 3.3.3 --> 3.4.2,
NTP 4.1.1.a --> 4.2.0,
rc.d localpkg support in the Ports Collection, and
crypto distribution now part of base.
Update release notes:
snd_*(4) reorganization, and
use the term "geom class" for consistency.
MFC:
ppp(8) "set rad_alive".
SCSI controllers. The driver was removed before FreeBSD 3.0, so it is
probably time to remove from the Hardware Notes... :-).
Historical clue by: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
MFC after: 3 days
- Clean up and improve handling of trailing punctuation characters.
- Handle the Pa macro.
- Give a warning when ignoring unimplemented mdoc commands.
MFC after: 3 days
