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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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<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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<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="&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 allow a malicious local user to read parts of kernel
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memory or perform a local
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denial of service attack by causing a system panic,
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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 arch="alpha,amd64,i386">The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname>
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has been enabled by default. &merged;</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 the alpha, amd64, and i386 architectures, 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. This change only applies
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to devices which do not 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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<para>The &man.sysctl.3; MIBs beginning with <quote>debug</quote>
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now require the kernel option <literal>options SYSCTL_DEBUG</literal>.
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This option is disabled by default.</para>
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<para>The generic &man.tty.4; driver interface has been added
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and many device drivers including
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&man.cx.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}x</literal>),
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&man.cy.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}c</literal>),
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&man.digi.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}D</literal>),
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&man.rc.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}m</literal>),
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&man.rp.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}R</literal>),
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&man.sab.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}z</literal>),
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&man.si.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}A</literal>),
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&man.sio.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}d</literal>),
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sx (<literal>{tty,cua}G</literal>),
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&man.uart.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}u</literal>),
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&man.ubser.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}y</literal>),
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&man.ucom.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}U</literal>), and
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&man.ucycom.4; (<literal>{tty,cua}y</literal>)
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have been rewritten to use it. Note that <filename>/etc/remote</filename>
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and <filename>/etc/ttys</filename> have been updated as well.</para>
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<para>The &man.vkbd.4; driver has been added. This driver
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provides a software loopback mechanism that can implement
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a virtual AT keyboard similar to what the &man.pty.4; driver
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does for terminals.</para>
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<para arch="i386,amd64,ia64">The default <varname>HZ</varname>
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parameter (which controls various kernel timers) has been
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increased from <literal>100</literal> to <literal>1000</literal>
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on the i386 and ia64. It has been reduced from
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<literal>1024</literal> to <literal>1000</literal> on the amd64
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to reduce synchronization effects with other system
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clocks.</para>
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<para>The maximum length of shell commands has changed from 128
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bytes to <varname>PAGE_SIZE</varname>. By default, this value
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is either 4KB (i386, pc98, amd64, and powerpc) or 8KB (sparc64
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and ia64). As a result, compatibility modules need to be
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rebuilt to stay synchronized with data structure changes in the
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kernel.</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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<para>A loader menu option to set <varname>hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x1</varname>
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has been added. This setting allows USB keyboards to work
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if no PS/2 keyboard is attached.</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="i386,amd64">The acpi_snc driver,
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which supports the Sony Notebook Controller on various
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Sony laptops has been added.</para>
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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. &merged;
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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 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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<para>The &man.ehci.4; driver has been improved.</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.bge.4; driver now supports the &man.altq.4;
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framework.</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 gx(4) driver has been removed because
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it is no longer maintained actively and
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the &man.em.4; supports all of the supported hardware.</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. These bugs were 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; framework 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>The Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) 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 the &man.carp.4; manual page.</para>
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<para>The &man.ipfw.4; <literal>IPDIVERT</literal> option is now
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available as a kernel loadable module.
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If this module is not loaded, &man.ipfw.4; will refuse to
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install <literal>divert</literal> rules and &man.natd.8;
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will return the error message <quote>protocol not supported</quote>.</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
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of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket,
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as well as the TCP data length.</para>
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<para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports
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the full packet destination manipulation when the kernel option
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<literal>options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED</literal> is specified
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in addition to <literal>options IPFIRWALL_FORWARD</literal>.
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This kernel option disables all restrictions to ensure proper
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behavior for locally generated packets and allows redirection of
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packets destined to locally configured IP addresses.
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Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to
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make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;</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>A new &man.ng.netflow.4; NetGraph node allows a router
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running &os; to do NetFlow version 5 exports. &merged;</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. This is because
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the design is based on a weak security model that can easily
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permit denial-of-service attacks. This TCP
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extension has been considered a defective one in
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a recent Internet Draft.</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. &merged;</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
|
|
to <literal>1</literal>).</para>
|
|
|
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</sect3>
|
|
|
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<sect3 id="disks">
|
|
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
|
|
|
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<para>The &man.amr.4; driver is now safe for use on systems
|
|
using &man.pae.4;. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The SHSEC GEOM class has been added. It provides for the
|
|
sharing of a secret between multiple GEOM providers. All of
|
|
these providers must be present in order to reveal the
|
|
secret. This feature is controlled by the &man.gshsec.8;
|
|
utility. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.hptmv.4; driver, which supports the HighPoint
|
|
RocketRAID 182x series, has been added. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.matcd.4; driver has been removed. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The default SCSI boot-time probe delay in the
|
|
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel has been reduced from
|
|
fifteen seconds to five seconds.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The old vinum(4) subsystem has been removed
|
|
in favor of the new &man.geom.4;-based version.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para arch="pc98">The &man.wd.4; driver has been removed. The
|
|
&man.ata.4; driver has been found to work well enough on the
|
|
pc98 platform that there is no need for the older &man.wd.4;
|
|
driver.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Information about newly-mounted cd9660 file systems (such
|
|
as the presence of Rockridge extensions) is now only printed
|
|
if the kernel was booted in verbose mode. This change was
|
|
made to reduce the amount of (generally unnecessary) kernel
|
|
log messages. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
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</sect3>
|
|
|
|
<sect3 id="fs">
|
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<title>File Systems</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
|
|
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Recomputing the summary information for
|
|
<quote>dirty</quote> UFS and UFS2 file systems is no longer
|
|
done at mount time, but is now done by background
|
|
&man.fsck.8;. This change improves the startup speed when
|
|
mounting large file systems after a crash. The prior behavior
|
|
can be restored by setting the
|
|
<varname>vfs.ffs.compute_summary_at_mount</varname> sysctl
|
|
variable to a non-zero value. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More
|
|
details can be found in errata note
|
|
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</ulink>.
|
|
&merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
|
|
<sect3>
|
|
<title>Contributed Software</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>ACPI-CA</application> has been updated from
|
|
20040527 to 20041119. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="userland">
|
|
<title>Userland Changes</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.burncd.8; utility now allows commands (such as
|
|
<command>eject</command>) to take place after fixating a
|
|
disk.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <literal>create</literal> command of the &man.gpt.8;
|
|
utility now supports a <option>-f</option> command-line flag to
|
|
force creation of a GPT even when there is an MBR record on a
|
|
disk. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility has been restructured. It is
|
|
now more modular and flexible with respect to supporting
|
|
interface-specific functionality. The 802.11 support has been
|
|
updated to support recent changes to the 802.11 subsystem and
|
|
drivers.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Support for abbreviated forms of a number of &man.ipfw.8;
|
|
options has been deprecated. Warnings are printed to stderr
|
|
indicating the correct full form when one of these abbreviations
|
|
is detected.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The on-disk format of <literal>LC_CTYPE</literal> files has
|
|
been changed to be machine-independent.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>libarchive</filename> library (as well as the
|
|
&man.tar.1; command that uses it) now has support for reading ISO
|
|
images (with optional RockRidge extensions) and ZIP archives
|
|
(with <literal>deflate</literal> and <literal>none</literal>
|
|
compression). &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>libgpib</filename> library has been added to
|
|
give userland access to GPIB devices (using the the pcii driver)
|
|
via the
|
|
<function>ib<replaceable>foo</replaceable></function>
|
|
API.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The default stack sizes in <filename>libpthread</filename>
|
|
and <filename>libc_r</filename> have been increased. On 32-bit
|
|
platforms, the main thread receives a 2MB stack size by default,
|
|
with other threads receiving a 1MB stack size by default. On
|
|
64-bit platforms, the default stack sizes are 4MB and 2MB
|
|
respectively.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>libxpg4</filename> library has been removed
|
|
because all of its functionality was long ago merged into
|
|
<filename>libc</filename>.
|
|
All binaries linked with <filename>libxpg4</filename>
|
|
must be recompiled or use &man.libmap.conf.5;.
|
|
Note that the &os; base system has no such binaries.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A number of new functions have been implemented in the
|
|
&man.math.3; library. These include &man.ceill.3;,
|
|
&man.floorl.3;, &man.ilogbl.3;, &man.fma.3; and variants,
|
|
&man.lrint.3; and variants, and &man.lround.3; and
|
|
variants. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.mknod.8; utility is now deprecated.
|
|
Device nodes have been managed by the &man.devfs.5; device file
|
|
system since &os; 5.0.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8; utility, which
|
|
compresses file system images for use with
|
|
<literal>GEOM_UZIP</literal> &man.geom.4; module,
|
|
has been added. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.moused.8; daemon now supports <quote>virtual
|
|
scrolling</quote>, in which mouse motions made while holding
|
|
down the middle mouse button are interpreted as scrolling. This
|
|
feature is enabled with the <option>-V</option>
|
|
flag. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A separate directory has been added for &man.named.8;
|
|
dynamic zones which is owned by the <username>bind</username> user
|
|
(for creation of the zone journal file).
|
|
For more detail, see an example dynamic zone in the sample
|
|
&man.named.conf.5;. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports a <option>-m</option>
|
|
flag to generate a calendar for a specified month in the current
|
|
year. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.newfs.8; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
|
|
flag to suppress the creation of a <filename>.snap</filename>
|
|
directory on new file systems. This feature is intended for use
|
|
on memory or vnode file systems that will not require snapshot
|
|
support. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.newfs.8; utility now emits a warning when creating
|
|
a UFS or UFS2 file system that cannot support snapshots. This
|
|
situation can occur in the case of very large file systems with
|
|
small block sizes. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports
|
|
a <option>-d</option> option to specify an alternate root for log files
|
|
similar to <varname>DESTDIR</varname> in the BSD make process.
|
|
This only affects log file paths, not configuration file (<option>-f</option>)
|
|
or archive directory (<option>-a</option>) paths.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports a
|
|
<option>-N</option> that causes it not to rotate any files.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <literal>NO_NIS</literal> compile-time knob for userland
|
|
has been added. As its name implies, enabling this
|
|
<filename>Makefile</filename> variable will cause NIS support to
|
|
be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS
|
|
utilities to not be built. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>For years, &os; has used <filename>Makefile</filename>
|
|
variables of the form
|
|
<varname>NO<replaceable>FOO</replaceable></varname> and
|
|
<varname>NO_<replaceable>FOO</replaceable></varname>. For
|
|
consistency, those variables using the former naming convention
|
|
have been converted to the
|
|
<varname>NO_<replaceable>FOO</replaceable></varname> form. The
|
|
file <filename>/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk</filename> has a
|
|
complete list of these variables; it also implements some
|
|
temporary backward compatibility for the old names.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ppp.8; program now implements an
|
|
<option>echo</option> parameter, which allows LCP ECHOs to be
|
|
enabled independently of LQR reports. Older versions of
|
|
&man.ppp.8; would revert to LCP ECHO mode on negotiation
|
|
failure. It is now necessary to specify <command>enable
|
|
echo</command> to get this behavior. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.rm.1; utility now supports an <option>-I</option>
|
|
option that asks for confirmation (once) if recursively
|
|
removing directories or if more than 3 files are listed in the
|
|
command line. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.rm.1; utility now suppresses diagnostic messages
|
|
when it attempts to remove a non-existent directory
|
|
with the <option>-r</option> and <option>-f</option> options
|
|
specified. This behavior is required by
|
|
Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3).</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>An &man.rpmatch.3; library function has been added to check
|
|
a string for being an affirmative or negative response in the
|
|
current locale.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.rtld.1; dynamic linker now supports specifying
|
|
library replacements via the <varname>LD_LIBMAP</varname>
|
|
environment variable. This variable will override the entries
|
|
in &man.libmap.conf.5;. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The rune(3) non-standard multibyte and wide character support
|
|
interface has been removed.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.strftime.3; function now supports some GNU extensions
|
|
such as <literal>-</literal> (no padding),
|
|
<literal>_</literal> (use space as padding),
|
|
and <literal>0</literal> (zero padding). &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.syslog.3; function is now thread-safe. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.syslogd.8; utility now opens an additional domain
|
|
socket (<filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> by default),
|
|
with <literal>0600</literal> permissions to be used
|
|
by privileged programs. This prevents privileged
|
|
programs from locking when the domain sockets
|
|
run out of buffer space due to a
|
|
local denial-of-service attack. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.systat.1; <option>-netstat</option> display is now
|
|
IPv6-aware. &merged;<para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <option>-f</option> option of &man.tail.1; utility
|
|
now supports more than one file at a time. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.telnet.1; and &man.telnetd.8; programs now support
|
|
the <option>-S</option> option for specifying a numeric TOS
|
|
byte.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Prepending a <literal>+</literal> character to port numbers
|
|
passed to &man.telnet.1; program will now disable option
|
|
negotiation and allow the transfer of characters with the high
|
|
bit set. This feature is intended to support the fairly common
|
|
use of &man.telnet.1; as a protocol tester.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.tcpdrop.8; command, which closes a selected TCP
|
|
connection, has been added. It was obtained from
|
|
OpenBSD.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.whois.1; now supports
|
|
a <option>-k</option> flag
|
|
for querying <hostid role="fqdn">whois.krnic.net</hostid>
|
|
(the National Internet Development Agency of Korea),
|
|
which holds details of IP address allocations within
|
|
Korea. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <option>-I</option> option of the &man.xargs.1; command
|
|
has been changed to confirm IEEE Std 1003.1-2004.
|
|
The standard requires that the constructed
|
|
arguments cannot grow larger than 255 bytes.</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
|
|
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.rc.conf.5; now supports changes of network interface names
|
|
at boot time. For example:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>ifconfig_fxp0_name="net0"
|
|
ifconfig_net0="inet 10.0.0.1/16"</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>rc.d/moused</filename> script now
|
|
starts/stops/checks a specific device when
|
|
the device name is given as the second argument to the script:</para>
|
|
|
|
<screen>&prompt.root; /etc/rc.d/moused start ums0</screen>
|
|
|
|
<para>To use different &man.rc.conf.5; knobs with different
|
|
mice, use the device name as part of the knob.
|
|
For example, if the mouse device is <filename>/dev/ums0</filename>
|
|
the following lines can be used:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>moused_ums0_enable=yes
|
|
moused_ums0_flags="-z 4"
|
|
moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.rc.conf.5; now supports the <varname>tmpmfs_flags</varname>
|
|
and <varname>varmfs_flags</varname> variables.
|
|
These can be used to pass extra options to the &man.mdmfs.8; utility,
|
|
to customize the finer details of the &man.md.4; file system creation,
|
|
such as to turn on/off softupdates, to specify a default owner
|
|
for the file system, and so on. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="contrib">
|
|
<title>Contributed Software</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.10
|
|
to 4.12.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>GNU readline</application> has been updated from
|
|
version 4.3 to version 5.0.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>Heimdal</application> has been updated from
|
|
0.6.1 to 0.6.3. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from a
|
|
26 April 2004 snapshot from OpenBSD's sources to a snapshot as
|
|
of 19 February 2005.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A snapshot of <application>netcat</application> from OpenBSD
|
|
as of 4 February 2005 has been added. More information can be
|
|
found in the &man.nc.1; manual page. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
|
|
Eelgrass release to the Feterita release.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from 3.8p1
|
|
to 3.9p1.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
|
|
0.9.7d to 0.9.7e. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
|
|
version 8.13.1 to version 8.13.3. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The timezone database has been updated from the
|
|
<application>tzdata2004e</application> release to the
|
|
<application>tzdata2004g</application> release. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="ports">
|
|
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.pkg.version.1; utility now supports a
|
|
<option>-q</option> flag to suppress the output of the port
|
|
version comparison characters <literal><</literal>,
|
|
<literal>=</literal>, and <literal>></literal>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The
|
|
<filename>ports/INDEX<replaceable>*</replaceable></filename>
|
|
files, which kept an index of all of the entries in the ports
|
|
collection, have been removed from the CVS repository. &merged;
|
|
These files were generated only infrequently, and therefore were
|
|
usually out-of-date and inaccurate. Users requiring an index
|
|
file (such as for use by programs such as &man.portupgrade.1;)
|
|
have two alternatives for obtaining a copy:</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Build an index file based on the current ports tree by
|
|
running <command>make index</command> from the top of the
|
|
<filename>ports/</filename> tree.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Fetch an index file over the network by running
|
|
<command>make fetchindex</command> from the top of the
|
|
<filename>ports/</filename> tree. This index file will
|
|
(typically) be accurate to within a day.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="releng">
|
|
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>In prior &os; releases, the <filename>disc1</filename>
|
|
CD-ROM (or ISO image) was a bootable installation disk
|
|
containing the base system, ports tree, and common packages.
|
|
The <filename>disc2</filename> CD-ROM (or ISO image) was a
|
|
bootable <quote>fix it</quote> disk with a live filesystem, to
|
|
be used for making emergency repairs. This layout has now
|
|
changed. For all architectures except ia64, the
|
|
<filename>disc1</filename> image now contains the base system
|
|
distribution files, ports tree, and the live filesystem, making
|
|
it suitable for both an initial installation and repair
|
|
purposes. (On the ia64, the live filesystem is on a separate
|
|
disk due to its size.) Packages appear on separate
|
|
disks. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The supported version of the
|
|
<application>GNOME</application> desktop environment has been
|
|
updated from 2.6.2 to 2.8.3. &merged;
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>Users of older versions of the
|
|
<application>GNOME</application> desktop
|
|
(<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>)
|
|
must take particular care in upgrading. Simply upgrading it
|
|
from the &os; Ports Collection with &man.portupgrade.1;
|
|
(<filename role="package">sysutils/portupgrade</filename>)
|
|
will cause serious problems.
|
|
<application>GNOME</application> desktop users should read
|
|
the instructions carefully at
|
|
<ulink url="&url.base;/gnome/docs/faq28.html"></ulink>
|
|
and use the
|
|
<ulink url="&url.base;/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh"><filename>gnome_upgrade.sh</filename></ulink>
|
|
script to properly upgrade to
|
|
<application>GNOME</application> 2.8.3.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>For casual users of the various
|
|
<application>GNOME</application> libraries,
|
|
&man.portupgrade.1; should be sufficient.</para> </note>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The supported version of the <application>KDE</application>
|
|
desktop environment has been updated from 3.3.0 to
|
|
3.3.2. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The supported version of <application>Xorg</application> has
|
|
been updated from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="doc">
|
|
<title>Documentation</title>
|
|
|
|
<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
|
|
now used throughout, and markup has been cleaned up.</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="upgrade">
|
|
<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Source upgrades to &os; &release.current; are only supported
|
|
from &os; 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems wanting to
|
|
upgrade &release.current; will need to update to &os; 5.3 or newer
|
|
first, then to &os; &release.current;.</para>
|
|
|
|
<important>
|
|
<para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
|
|
backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
|
|
files.</para>
|
|
</important>
|
|
</sect1>
|