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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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<year>2005</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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<![ %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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<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>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which allows
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a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's
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memory to be overwritten, has been fixed.
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For more information, see security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5;
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which could cause a malicious local user could perform a local
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denial of service attack by causing a system panic, or the user
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could read parts of kernel memory, has been fixed.
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For more information, see security advisory
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs</ulink>.
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&merged;</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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<para>&man.memguard.9;, a kernel memory allocator designed to help detect
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<quote>tamper-after-free</quote> scenarios, has been added.
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This must be explicitly enabled via <literal>options
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DEBUG_MEMGUARD</literal>, plus small kernel modifications. It
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is generally intended for use by kernel developers.</para>
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<para>A number of bugs have been fixed in the ULE
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scheduler. &merged;</para>
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<para>Fine-grained locking to allow much of the VFS stack to run
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without the Giant lock has been added. This is enabled by default
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on alpha, amd64, and i386 architecture, and can be disabled
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by setting the loader tunable (and sysctl variable)
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<varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname> to
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<literal>0</literal>.</para>
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<para arch="i386">A bug in Inter-Processor Interrupt (IPI)
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handling, which could cause SMP systems to crash under heavy
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load, has been fixed. More details are contained in errata note
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>System V IPC objects (message queues, semaphores, and shared
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memory) now have support for Mandatory Access Control policies,
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notably &man.mac.biba.4;, &man.mac.mls.4;, &man.mac.stub.4;, and
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&man.mac.test.4;.</para>
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<para arch="i386">Memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges has
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been limited to the top 32MB of RAM. Many older, legacy bridges
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only allow allocation from this range and this only applies
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to devices which don't have their memory assigned by the BIOS.
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This change fixes the <quote>bad Vcc</quote> error of CardBus
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bridges (&man.pccbb.4;). &merged;</para>
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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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<para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command
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now supports the prompt parameter.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="proc">
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<title>Hardware Support</title>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive
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some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus
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&ultrasparc; models. &merged;</para>
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<para>A framework for flexible processor speed control has been
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added. It provides methods for various drivers to control CPU
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power utilization by adjusting the processor speed. More
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details can be found in the &man.cpufreq.4; manual page.
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Currently supported drivers include acpi_perf (ACPI CPU
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performance states), ichss (Intel SpeedStep for ICH), and
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acpi_throttle (ACPI CPU throttling).</para>
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<para arch="i386">Support for the OLDCARD subsystem has
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been removed. The NEWCARD system is now used for all PCCARD
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device support.</para>
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<para>The pcii driver has been added to support GPIB-PCIIA IEEE-488
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cards.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.pbio.4; driver,
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which supports direct access to
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the Intel 8255A programmable peripheral interface (PPI)
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chip running in mode 0 (simple I/O) has been added.</para>
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<para>The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for
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Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of
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slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra
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buttons and dials. These features can be tuned with the
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<varname>hw.psm.synaptics.<replaceable>*</replaceable></varname>
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hierarchy of sysctl variables.</para>
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<para arch="sparc64">The rtc driver has been added to support
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the MC146818-compatible clock found on some &ultrasparc; II
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and III models. &merged;</para>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.uart.4; driver is now enabled in
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the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel, and is now the
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default driver for serial ports. The ofw_console,
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&man.sab.4;, and zs drivers are now disabled in the
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.uplcom.4; driver now supports handling of the
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<literal>CTS</literal> signal.</para>
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<sect4 id="mm">
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<title>Multimedia Support</title>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.snd.audiocs.4; driver has been
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added to support the Crystal Semiconductor CS4231 audio
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controller found on &ultrasparc;
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workstations. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.uaudio.4; driver now has some added
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functionality, including volume control on more inputs and
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recording capability on some devices.</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.ath.4; driver has been updated to split the
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transmit rate control algorithm into a separate module.
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Either <literal>device ath_rate_onoe</literal> or
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<literal>device ath_rate_amrr</literal> must be included in
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the kernel configuration when using the &man.ath.4;
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driver.</para>
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<para>The &man.cp.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.ctau.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.cx.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.dc.4; driver now supports the &man.altq.4; framework.</para>
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<para>In the &man.em.4; driver, hardware support for VLAN
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tagging is now disabled by default due to some interactions
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between this feature and promiscuous mode. &merged;</para>
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<para>Ethernet flow control is now disabled by default in the
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&man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems with a system panics
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or is left in the kernel debugger. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.hme.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
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<para arch="amd64">The &man.ndis.4; device driver wrapper now
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supports &windows;/x86-64 binaries on amd64
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systems. &merged;</para>
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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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<para>Several programming errors in the &man.sk.4; driver have
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been corrected. This bug was particular to SMP systems, and
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could cause panics, page faults, aborted SSH connections, or
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corrupted file transfers. More details can be found in
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errata note
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.sk.4; driver now has support for &man.altq.4;.
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This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based
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interfaces. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.vge.4; driver now has support for device polling
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(&man.polling.4;).</para>
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<para>Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; has been
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greatly overhauled. In addition to architectural changes,
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it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x,
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WME/WMM, AP-side power-saving, and plugin frameworks for
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cryptography modules, authenticators, and access control.
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Note in particular that WEP now requires the
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<filename>wlan_wep</filename> module to be loaded (or
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compiled) into the kernel.</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>The MTU feedback in IPv6 has been disabled when the sender writes
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data that must be fragmented. &merged;</para>
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<para>CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) has
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been implemented. CARP comes from OpenBSD and allows
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multiple hosts to share an IP address, providing
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high availability and load balancing.
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For more information, see &man.carp.4; manual page.</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
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of the &man.altq.4;, packets via a divert socket,
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and TCP data length.</para>
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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>The &man.sppp.4; driver now includes Frame Relay
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support. &merged;</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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<para>Random ephemeral port number allocation has led to some
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problems with port reuse at high connection rates. This
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feature is now disabled during periods of high connection
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rates; whenever new connections are created faster than
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<varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.randomcps</varname> per second,
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port number randomization is disabled for the next
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<varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.randomtime</varname>
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seconds. The default values for these two sysctl variables
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are <literal>10</literal> and <literal>45</literal>,
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respectively.</para>
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<para>Fine-grained locking has been applied to many of the data
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structures in the IPX/SPX protocol stack. While not fully
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MPSAFE at this point, it is generally safe to use IPX/SPX
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without the Giant lock (in other words, the
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<varname>debug.mpsafenet</varname> sysctl variable may be set
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to <literal>1</literal>).</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.amr.4; driver is now safe for use on systems
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using &man.pae.4;. &merged;</para>
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<para>The SHSEC GEOM class has been added. It provides for the
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sharing of a secret between multiple GEOM providers. All of
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these providers must be present in order to reveal the
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secret. This feature is controlled by the &man.gshsec.8;
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utility.</para>
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<para>The &man.matcd.4; driver has been removed.</para>
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<para>The default SCSI boot-time probe delay in the
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel has been reduced from
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fifteen seconds to five seconds.</para>
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<para arch="pc98">The &man.wd.4; driver has been removed. The
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&man.ata.4; driver has been found to work well enough on the
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pc98 platform that there is no need for the older &man.wd.4;
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driver.</para>
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<para>Information about newly-mounted cd9660 file systems (such
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as the presence of Rockridge extensions) is now only printed
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if the kernel was booted in verbose mode. This change was
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made to reduce the amount of (generally unnecessary) kernel
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log messages. &merged;</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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<para>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More
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details can be found in errata note
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Contributed Software</title>
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<para><application>ACPI-CA</application> has been updated from
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20040527 to 20041119. &merged;</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 &man.burncd.8; utility now allows commands (such as
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<command>eject</command>) to take place after fixating a
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disk.</para>
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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 &man.dump.8; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
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flag to suppress the creation of a <filename>.snap</filename>
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directory on new file systems. This feature is intended for use
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on memory or vnode file systems that will not require snapshot
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support.</para>
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<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility has been restructured. It is
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now more modular and flexible with respect to supporting
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interface-specific functionality. The 802.11 support has been
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updated to support recent changes to the 802.11 subsystem and
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drivers.</para>
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<para>Support for abbreviated forms of a number of &man.ipfw.8;
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options has been deprecated. Warnings are printed to stderr
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indicated the correct full form when one of these abbreviations
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is detected.</para>
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<para>The <filename>libarchive</filename> library (as well as the
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&man.tar.1; command that uses it) now has support for reading ISO
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images (with optional RockRidge extensions) and ZIP archives
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(with <literal>deflate</literal> and <literal>none</literal>
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compression).</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.newsyslog.8; utility now supports
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a <option>-d</option> option to specify an alternate root for log files
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similar to <varname>DESTDIR</varname> in the BSD make process.
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This only affects log file paths, not config file (<option>-f</option>)
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or archive directory (<option>-a</option>) paths.</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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<para>The <filename>libgpib</filename> library has been added to
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give userland access to GPIB devices (using the the pcii driver)
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via the
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<function>ib<replaceable>foo</replaceable></function>
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API.</para>
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<para>The &man.mknod.8; utility has been marked deprecated.
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Device nodes have been managed by the &man.devfs.5; device file
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system since &os; 5.0.</para>
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<para>For years, &os; has used <filename>Makefile</filename>
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variables of the form
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<varname>NO<replaceable>FOO</replaceable></varname> and
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<varname>NO_<replaceable>FOO</replaceable></varname>. For
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consistency, those variables using the former naming convention
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have been converted to the
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<varname>NO_<replaceable>FOO</replaceable></varname> form. The
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file <filename>/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk</filename> has a
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complete list of these variables; it also implements some
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temporary backward compatibility for the old names.</para>
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<para>The &man.ppp.8; program now implements an
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<option>echo</option> parameter, which allows LCP ECHOs to be
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enabled independently of LQR reports. Older versions of
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&man.ppp.8; would revert to LCP ECHO mode on negotiation
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failure. It is now necessary to specify <command>enable
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echo</command> to get this behavior. &merged;</para>
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<para>An &man.rpmatch.3; library function has been added to check
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a string for being an affirmative or negative response in the
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current locale.</para>
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<para>The &man.telnet.1; and &man.telnetd.8; programs now support
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the <option>-S</option> option for specifying a numeric TOS
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byte.</para>
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<para>The &man.tcpdrop.8; command, which closes a selected TCP
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connection, has been added. It was obtained from
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OpenBSD.</para>
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<para>&man.whois.1; now supports
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a <option>-k</option> flag
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for querying <hostid role="fqdn">whois.krnic.net</hostid>
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(the National Internet Development Agency of Korea)
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which hold details of IP address allocations within
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Korea. &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><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.10
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to 4.12.</para>
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<para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from a
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26 April 2004 snapshot from OpenBSD's sources to a snapshot as
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of 19 February 2005.</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. More information can be
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found in the &man.nc.1; manual page. &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. &merged;</para>
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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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</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>Manual pages in the base system have received a number of
|
|
cleanups, both for content and presentation. Cross-references
|
|
are more correct and consistent, standard section headings are
|
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now used throughout, and markup has been cleaned up.</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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