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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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Both changes for kernel and userland are listed, as well as
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applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
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release. 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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<![ %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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</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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<![ %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 later
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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 new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
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major bugfixes, or contributed software upgrades. Applicable security
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advisories issued after &release.prev.historic; are also listed.</para>
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<para>Many additional changes were made to &os; that are not listed
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here for lack of space. For example, documentation was corrected
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and improved, minor bugs were fixed, insecure coding practices
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were audited and corrected, and source code was cleaned up.</para>
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<sect2 id="kernel">
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<title>Kernel Changes</title>
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<para>&man.devfs.5; is now mandatory; the
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<literal>NODEVFS</literal> option has been removed from the set of
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possible kernel configuration options.</para>
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<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
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<para>A second process scheduler, designed to be a general purpose
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scheduler with many SMP benefits, has been added to the scheduler
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framework. Exactly one scheduler must be specified in a kernel
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configuration. The original scheduler may be selected using
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<literal>options SCHED_4BSD</literal>. The newer
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(experimental) scheduler can be selected by using
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<literal>options SCHED_ULE</literal>.</para>
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<sect3>
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<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Bootloader Changes</title>
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<para arch="alpha">The alpha boot loader
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(<filename>boot1</filename>) can now be called
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<filename>boot</filename> for consistency with other
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platforms.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The two parts of the i386 boot loader
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(<filename>boot1</filename> and <filename>boot2</filename>)
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have been combined into a single <filename>boot</filename>
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file, to simplify programs that need to write or otherwise
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manipulate the boot loader.</para>
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<para arch="pc98">The PC98 bootloader now has support for
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booting from SCSI MO media. &merged;</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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<para>A new module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The
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&man.wi.4; driver now uses this facility.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Network Protocols</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Disks and Storage</title>
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<para>&man.geom.4; is now mandatory; the
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<literal>NO_GEOM</literal> has been removed from the set of
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kernel configuration options.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Filesystems</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>PCCARD Support</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Multimedia Support</title>
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<para></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="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="userland">
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<title>Userland Changes</title>
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<para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to
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&man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para>
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<para>&man.disklabel.8; is now only built for architectures where
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it is useful (i386, pc98, alpha, and ia64).</para>
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<para>The <option>-s</option> to &man.disklabel.8; has been
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removed because the i386 boot loader now resides in a single
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file.</para>
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<para>&man.dump.8; now supports caching of disk blocks with the
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<option>-C</option> option. This can improve dump performance
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at the cost of possibly missing filesystem updates that occur
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between passes.</para>
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<para>&man.dumpfs.8; now supports a <option>-m</option> flag to
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print file system parameters in the form of a &man.newfs.8;
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command.</para>
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<para>elfdump, a utility to display information about &man.elf.5;
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format executable files, has been added.</para>
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<para>&man.fetch.1; uses the <filename>.netrc</filename> support
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in &man.fetch.3; and also supports a <option>-N</option> to
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specify an alternate <filename>.netrc</filename> file.</para>
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<para>&man.fetch.3; now has support for
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<filename>.netrc</filename> files (see &man.ftp.1; for more
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details).</para>
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<para>&man.ftpd.8; now supports a <option>-P</option> option to
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specify a port on which to listen in daemon mode. The default
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data port number is now set to be one less than the control port
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number, rather than being hard-coded.</para>
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<para>&man.fwcontrol.8; now supports <option>-R</option> and
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<option>-S</option> options for receiving and sending DV
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streams. &merged;</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports <literal>enable</literal> and
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<literal>disable</literal> commands to control various aspects
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of the operation of &man.ipfw.4; (including enabling and
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disabling the firewall itself). These provide a more convenient
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and visible interface than the existing sysctl
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variables. &merged;</para>
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<para>&man.kenv.1; has been moved from
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<filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename> to
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make it available at times during system startup when only the
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root filesystem is mounted.</para>
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<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now supports a <literal>W</literal> flag
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to force previously-started compression jobs for an entry (or
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group of entries specified with the <literal>G</literal> flag)
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to finish before beginning a new one. This feature is designed
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to prevent system overloads caused by starting several
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compression jobs on big files simultaneously. &merged;</para>
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<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-D</option> flag to set
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the <quote>Don't Fragment</quote> bit on outgoing packets.</para>
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<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-z</option> flag to set
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the Type of Service bits in outgoing packets.</para>
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<para>The &man.swapoff.8; command has been added to disable paging
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and swapping on a device. A related &man.swapctl.8; command has
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been added to provide an interface to &man.swapon.8; and
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&man.swapoff.8; similar to other BSDs.
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<note>
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<para>The &man.swapoff.8; feature should be considered
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experimental.</para>
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</note>
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</para>
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<para>&man.systat.1; now includes an <option>-ifstat</option>
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display mode that displays the network traffic going through
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active intrfaces on the system.</para>
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<para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> option to
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execute multiple copies of the same utility in parallel.</para>
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<sect3>
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<title>Contributed Software</title>
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<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
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updated to a 13 December 2002 snapshot.</para>
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<para><application>BIND</application> has been updated to
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version 8.3.4. &merged;</para>
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<para>All of the <application>bzip2</application> suite of
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applications is now installed in the base system (in
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particular, <command>bzip2recover</command> is now built and
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installed. &merged;</para>
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<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated to
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1.11.5. &merged;</para>
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<para>The <application>ISC DHCP</application> client has been
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updated to 3.0.1RC11.</para>
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<para><application>libpcap</application> now has support for
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selecting among multiple data link types on an
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interface.</para>
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<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to the
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<quote>Daffodil</quote> release.</para>
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<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated to
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release 0.9.7. Among other features, this release includes
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support for AES and takes advantage of &man.crypto.4;
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devices.</para>
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<para>&man.tcpdump.1; now supports a <option>-L</option> flag to
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list the data link types available on an interface and a
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<option>-y</option> to specify the data link type to use while
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capturing packages.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
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<para></para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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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>
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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; 5.0</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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