apm(4) suspend/resume support improvement,
read(2) vn lock now protected by FOFFSET_LOCKED flag,
cardbus(4), pccard(4), pccbb(4), and exca(4) buildable as KLDs,
midi(4) driver added again,
ath(4) and related drivers included in GENERIC by default,
wi(4) builable as KLD,
wlan_*(4) crypto drivers included in GENERIC by default,
ipfw(4) tag/untag keyword support,
the default retransmit timer for NFS over TCP changed to 60s,
the default value of vfs.nfs.iodmin changed to 0,
numeric arguments for find(1) -user/-group now work as expected,
hccontrol(8) HCI node autodetection,
id(1) prints euid with gid,
kdump(1) can print syscall flags in symbol names,
"mount -u -o rw" on read-only mount now works as expected,
sed(1) incorrect calculation of pattern space length fixed,
time(1) SIGINFO support added,
rc.d/mdconfig added,
DRM updated to a snapshot as of 20060517,
/media directory for removable media mount points added,
pc98 release CDROMs now boolable, and
kernel subsystem API doc generating framework with doxygen added.
Reviewed in part by: bmah
Delete two release notes related to the kern.elf*.can_exec_dyn that
seemed to cancel each other out.
Consolidate two notes related to BPF JIT.
Delete note about fixing CHECKSUM.MD5 bug; no released versions of
FreeBSD shipped with it.
to userland. Move all of the items in the Kernel contrib section to
the top-level contrib section.
All of the moved items are unchanged with respect to their actual
contents.
pass the "-empty" flag to find(1). This change has no effect other
than to get rid of a few pages of "rmdir: ...: Directory not empty"
error messages. (Note that the "-empty" flag has been supported by
find(1) since 4.3-RELEASE.)
memberships, linsysfs(5), cached(8), nsswitch.conf now statically
loaded.
Modified release notes: Note that XFS support is RO, libarchive(3)
extended attributes, don't use entity for usbd(8) removal note.
New manpages noted: mca(8), sysctl(9).
Submitted by: Rong-En Fan grafan at gmail dot com
Pointy hat to: Thunderbird, for a too-small default font size
Not ready for reading glasses yet: bmah
in HEAD's release notes, even though the issues involved were applied
(and fixed). Copy their descriptions from one of the RELENG_*
branches (RELENG_5 in this case).
SA-06:08 and SA-06:09 were not applicable to code on HEAD and thus not
mentioned.
"sweeping" ping(8), sh(1) built-in times.
I uncovered these in a sweep of items that need to be merged to
the 5.4 release notes. It's possible that all of these items
should have been in the 6.1 release notes (not confirmed).
This note is a candidate for the 6.1-RELEASE errata notes (the code
change was previously merged to RELENG_6_1 but this note is appearing
too late to be merged).
