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<title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Project</corpauthor>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2000</year>
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<year>2001</year>
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<year>2002</year>
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<year>2003</year>
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<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
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</copyright>
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<abstract>
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<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
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of
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<![ %include.historic; [
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the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.prev;.
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]]>
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<![ %no.include.historic; [
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recent changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch;
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development branch.
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]]>
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This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
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the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
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kernel and userland.
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Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
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</abstract>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
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&release.current; on the &arch.print; hardware platform. It
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describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
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It also provides some notes on upgrading
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from previous versions of &os;.</para>
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<![ %release.type.snapshot [
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<para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
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apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
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branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. Some
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pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
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can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
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]]>
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<![ %release.type.release [
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<para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
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&release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink
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url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More
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information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
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distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
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FreeBSD</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">FreeBSD
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Handbook</ulink>.</para>
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]]>
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<para>Users who are new to the &release.branch; series of &os;
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&release.type;s should also read the <quote>Early Adopters Guide
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to &os; &release.current;</quote>. This document can generally be
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found in the same location as the release notes (either as a part of a
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&os; distribution or on the &os; Web site). It contains important
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information regarding the advantages and disadvantages of using
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&os; &release.current;, as opposed to releases based on the &os;
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4-STABLE development branch.</para>
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<para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
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installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
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<quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
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release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
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information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
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documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
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&release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new">
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<title>What's New</title>
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<para>This section describes
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<![ %include.historic; [
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the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
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since &release.prev;.
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In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch;
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branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features.
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]]>
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<![ %no.include.historic; [
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many of the user-visible new or changed features in &os;
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since &release.prev;. It includes items that are unique to the
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&release.branch; branch, as well as some features that may have been
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recently merged to
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other branches (after &os; &release.prev.historic;). The latter
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items are marked as &merged;.
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]]>
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</para>
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<para>Typical release note items
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document recent security advisories issued after
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&release.prev.historic;,
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new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
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major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also
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list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
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practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single
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change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses
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primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major
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architectural improvements.</para>
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<sect2 id="security">
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<title>Security Advisories</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="kernel">
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<title>Kernel Changes</title>
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<para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented.
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For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and
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&man.watchdogd.8;.</para>
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<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
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<sect3 id="proc">
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<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
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<para arch="i386">PCI interrupts are always routed on i386 UP
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machines, which may improve the usability of some PCI devices
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(particularly on laptops).</para>
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<para arch="i386">An integer overflow that could cause kernel
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panics on PAE machines of certain large memory sizes has been
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corrected.</para>
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<para arch="i386">A bug that even when no AT keyboard is connected,
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&man.atkbd.4; registers an AT keyboard during console initialization
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has been fixed. <command>kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1</command>
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is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected.
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&merged;</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added
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to support SafeNet 1141, 1741-based crypto accelerators.
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&merged;
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<note>
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<para>The public key support is not implemented.</para>
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</note></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="boot">
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="net-if">
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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<para>The new &man.ath.4; and &man.ath.hal.4; drivers provide
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support for 802.11a/b/g devices based on the AR5210, AR5211,
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and AR5212 chips.</para>
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<para>&man.bge.4; now supports Broadcom 5705 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that prevented it from
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working correctly at 10 Mbps has been fixed.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added.
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This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP,
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which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the
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system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack
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for each of these interfaces.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.hatm.4; driver has been added
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to support Fore/Marconi HE155 and HE622 ATM cards.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.patm.4; driver has been added to
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support IDT77252 based ATM interfaces.</para>
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<para>The suspend/resume support for the &man.wi.4; driver
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now works correctly when the device is configured down.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>The 802.11 support layer has been rewritten to allow for
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future growth and new features.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="net-proto">
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<title>Network Protocols</title>
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<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support comma-separated address lists
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(like <literal>1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8/30, 9.10.11.12/22</literal>),
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and allows spaces after commas to make lists of addresses more readable.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support C++-style comment.
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The comment is stored together with the rule and appears using
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&man.ipfw.8; <literal>show</literal> command.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.8; now allows to modify &man.ipfw.4; rules in set 31,
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which was read-only and used for the default rules.
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They can be deleted by <command>ipfw delete set 31</command>
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command but are not deleted
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by <command>ipfw flush</command> command.
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So this implements a flexible form of <quote>persistent
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rules</quote>. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
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a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
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being done.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="disks">
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<title>Disks and Storage</title>
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<para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte
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commands to USB and Firewire devices. The quirks for these
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devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been
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disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options
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DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration.</para>
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<para>Various &man.geom.4; modules can now be loaded as kernel
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modules, namely:
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<filename>geom_apple</filename>,
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<filename>geom_bde</filename>,
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<filename>geom_bsd</filename>,
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<filename>geom_gpt</filename>,
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<filename>geom_mbr</filename>,
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<filename>geom_pc98</filename>,
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<filename>geom_sunlabel</filename>,
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<filename>geom_vol_ffs</filename>.
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</para>
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<para>A <literal>GEOM_FOX</literal> module has been added to
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detect and select between multiple redundant paths to the same
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device.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.matcd.4; driver, which supports the
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Matsushita CR-562 and CR-563 CD drives, has returned.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="fs">
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<title>File Systems</title>
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<para>Some off-by-one errors in the smbfs that prevented it from
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working correctly with 15-character NetBIOS names have been fixed.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="mm">
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<title>Multimedia Support</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="userland">
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<title>Userland Changes</title>
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<para>&man.arp.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option
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to limit the scope of the current operation to the ARP entries
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on a particular interface. This option applies to the display
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operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous
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network interfaces.</para>
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<para>&man.chroot.8; now allows the optional setting of a user,
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primary group, or group list to use inside the chroot
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environment via the <option>-u</option>, <option>-g</option>,
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and <option>-G</option> options respectively. &merged;</para>
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<para>The dev_db utility is unnecessary due to the mandatory
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presence of devfs, and has been removed.</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.8; <literal>list</literal> and <literal>show</literal>
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command now support ranges of rule numbers.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag
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to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>The <filename>libcipher</filename> DES cryptography library
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has been removed. All of its functionality is provided by the
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<filename>libcrypto</filename> library, and all base systems
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programs that used <filename>libcipher</filename> have been
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converted to use <filename>libcrypto</filename> instead.</para>
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<para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
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threading library is now built by default.</para>
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<para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is
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now POSIX-compliant.</para>
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<para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem
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ID for each file system in addition to the normal information
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when a <option>-v</option> flag is specified,
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and &man.umount.8; utility now accepts the filesystem ID
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as well as the usual device and path names.
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This allows to unambiguously specify which file system is
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to be unmounted even when two or more file systems share
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the same device and mount point names.</para>
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<para>The &man.mount.nwfs.8;, &man.mount.portalfs.8;, and
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&man.mount.smbfs.8; utilities have been moved from
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<filename>/sbin</filename> to <filename>/usr/sbin</filename>.</para>
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<para>The &man.pam.guest.8; PAM module has been added to allow
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guest logins. It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</para>
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<para>&man.ps.1; and &man.top.1; now support a <option>-H</option> flag to display all
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kernel-visible threads in each process.</para>
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<para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs
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has been fixed.</para>
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<para>A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename>
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and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a
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statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in
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<filename>/rescue</filename>. This functionality is similar to
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the <filename>/stand</filename> directory installed by
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&man.sysinstall.8;, but it <filename>/rescue</filename> includes
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more functionality and is updated by as part of
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buildworld/installworld operations. More details can be found in
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&man.rescue.8;.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="contrib">
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<title>Contributed Software</title>
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<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
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from the 20030228 snapshot to the 20030619 snapshot.</para>
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<para><application>BIND</application> has been updated from 8.3.4
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to 8.3.6.</para>
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<para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.2.2 to
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3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot).</para>
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<para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from
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1.6beta2 to a 30 June 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</para>
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<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
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<quote>Dianthus</quote> release to the
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<quote>Dogwood</quote> release.</para>
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<para><application>texinfo</application> has been updated from 4.5
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to 4.6. &merged;</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="ports">
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<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
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<para>If <makevar>GNU_CONFIGURE</makevar> is defined,
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all instances of <filename>config.guess</filename> and
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<filename>config.sub</filename> found
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under <filename><makevar>WRKDIR</makevar></filename>
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are replaced with the master versions from
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<filename><makevar>PORTSDIR</makevar>/Template</filename>.
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This allows old ports (which contain old versions
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of these scripts) to build on newer architectures like ia64 and amd64.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="releng">
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<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
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<para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application> has
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been updated from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2. &merged;</para>
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<para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application> has
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been updated from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3. &merged;</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="doc">
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<title>Documentation</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="upgrade">
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<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
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<para>Users with existing &os; systems are
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<emphasis>highly</emphasis> encouraged to read the <quote>Early
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Adopter's Guide to &os; &release.current;</quote>. This document generally has
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the filename <filename>EARLY.TXT</filename> on the distribution
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media, or any other place that the release notes can be found. It
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offers some notes on upgrading, but more importantly, also
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discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to &os;
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5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> versus running &os;
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4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para>
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<important>
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<para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
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backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
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files.</para>
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</important>
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</sect1>
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