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Feterita, OpenSSH 3.9p1, sendmail 8.13.3. These were all culled from CVS import log messages.
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<articleinfo>
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<title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
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<corpauthor>The &os; 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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<year>2004</year>
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<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; 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 the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.branch; is created.
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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.current [
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<para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
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apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
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branch since &release.branch; is created. Some pre-built, binary
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&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.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="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
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&os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
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url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
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Handbook</ulink>.</para>
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]]>
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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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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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</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 arch="i386">Support for 80386 processors (the
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<literal>I386_CPU</literal> kernel configuration option) has
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been removed. Users running this class of CPU should use &os;
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5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> or earlier.</para>
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<para>The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname> has been
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has been enabled by default.</para>
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<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
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<sect3 id="boot">
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<para arch="i386">A serial console-capable version of
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<filename>boot0</filename> has been added. It can be written
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to a disk using &man.boot0cfg.8; and specifying
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<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
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<option>-b</option> option.</para>
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<para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a
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BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
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CDROM drives.</para>
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<!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="proc">
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<title>Hardware Support</title>
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<sect4 id="mm">
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<title>Multimedia Support</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect4>
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<sect4 id="net-if">
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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<para>The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling
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and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para>
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</sect4>
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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>Ongoing work is reducing the use of the Giant lock by the
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network protocol stack and improving the locking
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strategies.</para>
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<para>A bug in TCP that sometimes caused RST packets to
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be ignored if the receive window was zero bytes has been
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fixed. &merged;</para>
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<para>Several bugs in the TCP SACK implementation have been
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fixed. &merged;</para>
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<para>RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed.</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></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>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
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&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Contributed Software</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>The <literal>create</literal> command of the &man.gpt.8;
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utility now supports a <option>-f</option> command-line flag to
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force creation of a GPT even when there is an MBR record on a
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disk. &merged;</para>
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<para>The <literal>NO_NIS</literal> compile-time knob for userland
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has been added. As its name implies, enabling this
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<filename>Makefile</filename> variable will cause NIS support to
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be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS
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utilities to not be built. &merged;</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL
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utility to compress file system images for use with
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<literal>GEOM_UZIP</literal> &man.geom.4; module,
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has been added.</para>
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<para>The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports a <option>-m</option>
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flag to generate a calendar for a specified month in the current
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year. &merged;</para>
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<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
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<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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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 timezone database has been updated from the
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<application>tzdata2004e</application> release to the
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<application>tzdata2004g</application> release. &merged;</para>
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<para>A snapshot of <application>netcat</application> from OpenBSD
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as of 4 February 2005 has been added. &merged;</para>
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<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
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Eelgrass release to the Feterita release.</para>
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<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from 3.8p1
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to 3.9p1.</para>
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<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
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version 8.13.1 to version 8.13.3.</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></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></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></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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