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<title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Project</corpauthor>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2000</year>
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<year>2001</year>
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<year>2002</year>
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<year>2003</year>
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<year>2004</year>
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<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
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</copyright>
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<abstract>
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<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
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of
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<![ %include.historic; [
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the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.prev;.
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]]>
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<![ %no.include.historic; [
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recent changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch;
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development branch.
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This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
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the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
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kernel and userland.
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Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
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</abstract>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
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&release.current; on the &arch.print; hardware platform. It
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describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
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It also provides some notes on upgrading
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from previous versions of &os;.</para>
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<![ %release.type.snapshot [
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<para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
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apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
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branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. Some
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pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
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can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
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<![ %release.type.release [
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<para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
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&release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink
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url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More
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information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
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distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
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FreeBSD</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">FreeBSD
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Handbook</ulink>.</para>
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<para>Users who are new to the &release.branch; series of &os;
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&release.type;s should also read the <quote>Early Adopters Guide
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to &os; &release.current;</quote>. This document can generally be
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found in the same location as the release notes (either as a part of a
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&os; distribution or on the &os; Web site). It contains important
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information regarding the advantages and disadvantages of using
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&os; &release.current;, as opposed to releases based on the &os;
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4-STABLE development branch.</para>
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<para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
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installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
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<quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
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release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
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information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
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documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
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&release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new">
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<title>What's New</title>
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<para>This section describes
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<![ %include.historic; [
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the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
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since &release.prev;.
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In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch;
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branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features.
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<![ %no.include.historic; [
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many of the user-visible new or changed features in &os;
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since &release.prev;. It includes items that are unique to the
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&release.branch; branch, as well as some features that may have been
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recently merged to
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other branches (after &os; &release.prev.historic;). The latter
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items are marked as &merged;.
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</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 &man.mksnap.ffs.8; has been fixed; it caused the creation of a
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filesystem snapshot to reset the flags on the filesystem to
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their default values. The possible consequences depended on local
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usage, but could include disabling extended access control lists
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or enabling the use of setuid executables stored on an untrusted
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filesystem. This bug also affected the &man.dump.8;
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<option>-L</option> option, which uses &man.mksnap.ffs.8;. Note
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that &man.mksnap.ffs.8; is normally only available to the
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superuser and members of the <groupname>operator</groupname>
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group. For more information, see security advisory <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:01.mksnap_ffs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:01</ulink>.</para>
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<para>A bug with the System V Shared Memory interface
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(specifically the &man.shmat.2; system call) has been fixed.
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This bug can cause a shared memory segment to reference
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unallocated kernel memory. In turn, this can permit a local
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attacker to gain unauthorized access to parts of kernel memory,
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possibly resulting in disclosure of sensitive information,
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bypass of access control mechanisms, or privilege escalation.
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More details can be found in security advisory <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:02</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>A programming error in the &man.jail.attach.2; system call
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has been fixed. This error could allow a process with superuser
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privileges inside a &man.jail.8; environment to change its root
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directory to that of a different jail, and thus gain full read
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and write access to files and directories within the target
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jail. More information can be found in security advisory <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:03.jail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:03</ulink>.</para>
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<para>A potential low-bandwidth denial-of-service attack against
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the &os; TCP stack has been prevented by limiting the number of
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out-of-sequence TCP segments that can be held at one time. More
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details can be found in security advisory <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:04</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>A bug in <application>OpenSSL</application>'s SSL/TLS
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ChangeCipherSpec message processing could result in
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a null pointer dereference, has been fixed.
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This could allow a remote attacker to crash an
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<application>OpenSSL</application>-using
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application and cause a denial-of-service on the system.
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More details can be found in security advisory <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:05.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:05</ulink>.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>A programming error in the handling of some IPv6
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socket options within the &man.setsockopt.2; system call
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has been fixed. This allows a local attacker to cause a
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system panic, and may allow to gain unauthorized access to
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parts of kernel memory, possibly resulting in disclosure
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of sensitive information, bypass of access control
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mechanisms, or privilege escalation.
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More details can be found in security advisory <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:06.ipv6.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:06</ulink>.</para>
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<para>Two programming errors in <application>CVS</application>
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have been fixed. They allow a server to overwrite arbitrary
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files on the client, and a client to read arbitrary files
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on the server when accessing remote CVS repositories.
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More details can be found in security advisory <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:07.cvs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:07</ulink>. &merged;</para>
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<para>A bugfix for <application>Heimdal</application> rectifies a
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problem in which it would not perform adequate checking of
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authentication across autonomous realms. For more information,
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see security advisory <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:08.heimdal.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:08</ulink>. &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">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
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to use ACPI-controlled hardware features such as hot keys and
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LCD on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
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to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
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certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports
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video output switching.</para>
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<para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
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control display switching and backlight brightness using the
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ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx-Tau
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synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
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<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
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<note>
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<para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
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has the <quote>ct</quote> name.</para>
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</note>
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</para>
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<para>&man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
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directories.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The dgb (DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
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removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
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which supports all the hardware of the dgb driver.</para>
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<para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
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long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full ethernet
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MTU size.</para>
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<para>&man.jail.8; now supports use of raw sockets from within a jail.
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This feature is disabled by default, and controlled using the
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<varname>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</varname> sysctl.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
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breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
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<para>A bug in &man.mmap.2; that pages marked as <literal>PROT_NONE</literal>
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may become readable under certain circumstances, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
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<para>The raid(4), RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD has been removed.
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This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
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to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
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intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para>
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<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device
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<varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
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<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables
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have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
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debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
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<para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
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BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
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<para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. For the average user,
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interactivity is reported to be better in many cases. This
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means less <quote>skipping</quote> and <quote>jerking</quote> in
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interactive applications while the machine is very busy. This
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will not prevent problems due to overloaded disk subsystems, but
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it does help with overloaded CPUs. On SMP machines, ULE has
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per-CPU run queues which allow for CPU affinity, CPU binding,
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and advanced HyperThreading support, as well as providing a
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framework for more optimizations in the future. As fine-grained
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kernel locking continues, the scheduler will be able to make
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more efficient use of the available parallel resources.</para>
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<para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
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have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
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automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
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major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
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pseudodevices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
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new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
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cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
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require recompiling after this change.</para>
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<para>The kernel's file descriptor allocation code has been
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updated, and is now derived from similar code in OpenBSD.</para>
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<para arch="sparc64">On &os;/sparc64, <varname>time_t</varname>
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has been changed from a 32-bit value to a 64-bit value.
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<note>
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<para>Since this change is not backward-compatible,
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any programs which were built on an older system using
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a 32-bit <varname>time_t</varname> and
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call system routines for handling
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<varname>time_t</varname> values, will have to be recompiled.
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More detailed information and notice on upgrading from
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the source can be found in
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<filename>/usr/src/UPDATING.64BTT</filename>.</para>
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</note>
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</para>
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<para arch="i386">It is now possible to compile the &os;/i386
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kernel with the Intel C/C++ Compiler (as in the <filename
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role="package">lang/icc</filename> port).</para>
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<sect3 id="proc">
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<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
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<para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
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supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
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in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
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<para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
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including
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the asc driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
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the ctx driver for CORTEX-I Frame Grabber,
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the gp driver for National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT boards,
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the gsc driver for the Genius GS-4500 hand scanner,
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the le driver for DEC EtherWORKS II and III ethernet controllers,
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the rdp driver for RealTek RTL 8002-based pocket ethernet adapters,
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the spigot driver for the Creative Labs Video Spigot video-acquisition board,
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the stl and stli drivers for Stallion Technologies multiport serial
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controllers, and the wt driver for Archive/Wangtek cartridge tapes.
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They are currently non-functional, and would require a considerable
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amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT.
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The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including
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sasc and sgsc has also been removed.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="boot">
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<para 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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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="net-if">
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
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Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added.</para>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
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Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
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OpenFirmware.</para>
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<para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
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reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
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driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
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has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The lmc (LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
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removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
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<para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
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for using µsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
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adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
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&windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
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the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
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using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
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and CardBus network devices, and is designed principally for
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Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
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For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
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&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
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<para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
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RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
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<para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
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a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub
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has been added. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
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IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging has been added. &merged;</para>
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<para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
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from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
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been updated.
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<note>
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<para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
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has been enabled, it may cause problems on some systems.
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This can be disabled by setting the tunable
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<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to 0.</para>
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</note>
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</para>
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<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
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in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
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<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
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handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
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<para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
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support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
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chipset.</para>
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<para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
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<para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
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has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
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the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
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<para>The per-interface &man.polling.4; support has been
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implemented. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
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(&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
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&man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
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now also support this capability and it can be controlled
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via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="net-proto">
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<title>Network Protocols</title>
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<para>The <literal>DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> kernel option,
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which is for the CAM SCSI disk driver (&man.cam.4;)
|
|
has been removed. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.gre.4; tunnel driver now supports WCCP version
|
|
2.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support the <literal>versrcreach</literal>
|
|
option to verify that a valid route to the source address
|
|
of a packet exists in the routing table.
|
|
This option is very useful for routers with a complete view of
|
|
the Internet (BGP) in the routing table to reject packets with
|
|
spoofed or unroutable source addresses. For example,
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>deny ip from any to any not versrcreach</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
is equivalent to the following in Cisco IOS syntax:
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>ip verify unicast source reachable-via any</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Some bugs in the IPsec implementation from the KAME
|
|
Project have been fixed. These bugs were related to freeing
|
|
memory objects before all references to them were removed, and
|
|
could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing
|
|
the Security Policy Database (SPD).</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <literal>PFIL_HOOKS</literal> option is now enabled by
|
|
default in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. The most
|
|
notable effect of this change is to make
|
|
<application>IPFilter</application> work correctly when loaded
|
|
as a kernel module.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
|
|
3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
|
|
congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
|
|
limiting. More information can be found in &man.tcp.4;.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&os;'s TCP implementation now includes support for a
|
|
minimum MSS (settable via the
|
|
<varname>net.inet.tcp.minmss</varname> sysctl variable) and a
|
|
rate limit on connections that send many small TCP segments
|
|
within a short period of time (via the
|
|
<varname>net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload</varname> sysctl
|
|
variable). Connections exceeding this limit may be reset and
|
|
dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
|
|
resource exhaustion attacks.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only)
|
|
support for RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature,
|
|
enabled with the <literal>TCP_SIGNATURE</literal> and
|
|
<literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel options, is a TCP option
|
|
for authenticating TCP sessions. &man.setkey.8; now includes
|
|
support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations.
|
|
&merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The TCP connection reset handling has been improved to
|
|
make several reset attacks as difficult as possible while
|
|
maintaining compatibility with the widest range of TCP stacks.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The implementation of RFC 1948 has been improved.
|
|
The time offset component of an ISN now includes random positive
|
|
increments between clock ticks so that ISNs will always
|
|
be increasing, no matter how quickly the port is recycled.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The random ephemeral port allocation, which come from OpenBSD
|
|
has been implemented. This is enabled by default and can be disabled
|
|
using the <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized</varname>
|
|
sysctl. &merged;</para>
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
|
|
<sect3 id="disks">
|
|
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports cardbus ATA/SATA
|
|
controllers.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A number of bugs in the &man.ata.4; driver have been
|
|
fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should
|
|
work better, and some problems with timeouts should be
|
|
resolved.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise command
|
|
sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers
|
|
(PDC203** PDC206**).
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>This also adds preliminary support for the
|
|
Promise SX4/SX4000 as a <quote>normal</quote> Promise ATA
|
|
controller; ATA RAID's are supported though
|
|
but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
|
|
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
|
|
Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
|
|
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
|
|
has been fixed.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
|
|
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
|
|
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
|
|
<sect3 id="fs">
|
|
<title>File Systems</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
|
|
for large (> 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
|
|
it will refuse to create large files on filesystems that have
|
|
not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
|
|
do not have the
|
|
<literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
|
|
in the superblock.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A bug in GEOM that could result in I/O hangs in some rare
|
|
cases has been fixed.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A new geom_concat class has been added to concatenate
|
|
multiple disks to appear as a single larger disk. The
|
|
&man.gconcat.8; utility is used for configurating concatenated
|
|
disks.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
|
|
when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
|
|
server.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
|
|
which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
|
|
required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
|
|
default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
|
|
significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
|
|
if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
|
|
option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
|
|
<sect3 id="mm">
|
|
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The meteor (video capture) driver has been removed due to
|
|
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="userland">
|
|
<title>Userland Changes</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.bsdlabel.8; now supports a <option>-f</option> option
|
|
to work on files instead of disk partitions.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <command>bthidcontrol</command> command and the
|
|
<command>bthidd</command> command, which support Bluetooth
|
|
HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.cron.8 daemon now accepts two new options,
|
|
<option>-j</option> and <option>-J</option>, to enable
|
|
time jitter for jobs to run as unpriviliged users and the
|
|
superuser, respectively. Time jitter means that &man.cron.8
|
|
will sleep for a small random period of time in the specified
|
|
range before executing a job. This feature is intended to
|
|
smooth load peaks appearing when a lot of jobs are scheduled
|
|
for a particular moment.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.df.1; now supports a <option>-c</option> to display
|
|
a grand total of statistics for file systems.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <command>doscmd</command> utility has been
|
|
removed from the &os; base system, and has been available
|
|
in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; now support
|
|
a <option>-P</option> option to specify backup methods
|
|
other than files and tapes. The argument is passed to
|
|
a normal &man.sh.1; pipeline with either
|
|
<varname>$DUMP_VOLUME</varname> or <varname>$RESTORE_VOLUME</varname>
|
|
defined in the environment, respectively.
|
|
For more information, see &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and
|
|
&man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.find.1; now supports a option
|
|
<option>-acl</option> to locate files with &man.acl.3;.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.indent.1; now supports a <option>-ldi</option> option
|
|
to control indentation of local variables. A number of other
|
|
tunings were made to this utility.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.ifconfig.8; now supports renaming of network interfaces
|
|
at run-time using the <option>name</option> parameter.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.ifconfig.8; now prints the &man.polling.4; status
|
|
on the interface. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.ip6fw.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to
|
|
stop it from making any changes to the rules in the kernel</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.ipcs.1; now supports a <option>-u</option> option to
|
|
display information about IPC mechanisms owned by the specified
|
|
user.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports a <option>-b</option> flag to
|
|
print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting
|
|
the rule body.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to
|
|
make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than
|
|
real, user IDs. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.libalias.3; now has support (and a new API) for
|
|
multiple aliasing instances in a single process. The existing
|
|
API has been reimplemented in terms of the new one to preserve
|
|
compatibility.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A <filename>libarchive</filename> library for manipulation
|
|
of compressed and uncompressed archive files has been
|
|
added. More details can be found in &man.libarchive.3;.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the
|
|
correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the
|
|
&man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a
|
|
single &os; partition covering the entire disk. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses
|
|
<varname>d_addr_t</varname> for disk addresses.
|
|
This allows &man.sysinstall.8; to properly handle disks
|
|
and filesystems more than 1 TB.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para arch="i386,pc98,amd64,ia64">The library formerly known as
|
|
<filename>libkse</filename> has been renamed
|
|
<filename>libpthread</filename> and is now the default threading
|
|
library on the i386, amd64, and ia64 platforms.
|
|
<application>GCC</application>'s <option>-pthread</option>
|
|
option has been changed to use <filename>libpthread</filename>
|
|
rather than <filename>libc_r</filename>.
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>Users with older binaries (for example, ports compiled
|
|
before this change was made) should use &man.libmap.conf.5;
|
|
to map <filename>libc_r</filename> and/or
|
|
<filename>libkse</filename> to
|
|
<filename>libpthread</filename>.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>Users with NVIDIA-supplied drivers and libraries may
|
|
need to use a &man.libmap.conf.5; that maps
|
|
<filename>libpthread</filename> references to the older
|
|
<filename>libc_r</filename> since these drivers and
|
|
utilities do not work with
|
|
<filename>libpthread</filename>.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
|
|
directive.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently
|
|
supported system locales has been added. This is primarily
|
|
for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename>
|
|
port.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>An Israel Hebrew locale <literal>he_IL.UTF-8</literal>
|
|
has been added.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.logins.1; utility has been added to display
|
|
information about user and system accounts.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.mountd.8; now supports the <option>-p</option> option,
|
|
which allows users to specify a known port for use
|
|
in firewall rulesets.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.netstat.1; now displays the multicast group
|
|
memberships present in the system.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.newfs.8; and &man.mdmfs.8; now support a
|
|
<option>-l</option> flag to enable them to set the MAC
|
|
multilabel flag on new filesystems without requiring the use of
|
|
&man.tunefs.8;.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.nologin.8; now reports login attempts via
|
|
&man.syslogd.8;.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.nologin.8; has been moved from <filename>/sbin/nologin</filename>
|
|
to <filename>/usr/sbin/nologin</filename>, and
|
|
<filename>/sbin/nologin</filename> remains as a symbolic link
|
|
for backward compatibility.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes
|
|
problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename
|
|
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
|
|
membership lists.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands, which come from NetBSD,
|
|
have been added. They also support a <option>-M</option> option
|
|
to extract values associated with the name list from the
|
|
specified core instead of the default <filename>/dev/kmem</filename>,
|
|
and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from
|
|
the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.ps.1; compatibility with POSIX/SUSv3 has been improved.
|
|
The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs,
|
|
<option>-t</option> for a list of terminal names,
|
|
<option>-A</option> which is equivalent to <option>-ax</option>,
|
|
<option>-G</option> for a list of group IDs,
|
|
<option>-X</option> which is the opposite of <option>-x</option>,
|
|
and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;.
|
|
&merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which
|
|
accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A bug in &man.rarpd.8; that prevents it from working properly
|
|
when a interface has more than one IP address has been fixed.
|
|
&merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The configuration files used by the &man.resolver.3; now
|
|
support the <literal>timeout:</literal> and
|
|
<literal>attempts:</literal> keywords.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.resolver.3; and associated interfaces are now much
|
|
more reentrant and thread-safe. Multiple DNS lookups can now be
|
|
run at the same time, showing major improvements in the
|
|
performance of some multi-threaded applications. Some
|
|
multi-threaded programs need to be recompiled; examples from the
|
|
Ports Collection are <filename
|
|
role="package">www/mozilla</filename> and variants, <filename
|
|
role="package">mail/evolution</filename>, <filename
|
|
role="package">devel/gnomevfs</filename>, and <filename
|
|
role="package">devel/gnomevfs2</filename>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.rmdir.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag,
|
|
which makes it verbose.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>&man.savecore.8; now works correctly for dump files larger
|
|
than 2GB.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>A bug in &man.script.1; has been fixed so that it now works
|
|
correctly if its stdin is closed. This fix prevents a
|
|
potentially dangerous interaction with the <filename
|
|
role="package">sysutils/portupgrade</filename> package; if it was
|
|
run non-interactively, it could remove all out-of-date
|
|
ports without reinstalling them.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
|
|
has been added.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Many userland utilities in the base system (mostly GNU
|
|
contributed utilities) now use the system version of
|
|
&man.getopt.long.3;, rather than the GNU version.</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
|
|
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>diskless</filename> script has been
|
|
split out into <filename>hostname</filename>,
|
|
<filename>resolve</filename>, <filename>tmp</filename>, and
|
|
<filename>var</filename> scripts.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>gbde_swap</filename> script, which supports
|
|
gbde-enabled swap devices has been added.
|
|
When the <varname>gbde_swap_enable</varname> variable is specified
|
|
in &man.rc.conf.5;, a swap device named
|
|
<filename>/dev/<replaceable>foo.bde</replaceable></filename>
|
|
in &man.fstab.5;
|
|
is automatically attached at boot time with the device
|
|
<filename>/dev/<replaceable>foo</replaceable></filename>
|
|
and a random key, which
|
|
generated by computing the MD5 checksum of 512 bytes read
|
|
from <filename>/dev/random</filename>.
|
|
Note that this prevents recovery of kernel dumps.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>mixer</filename> script has been added.
|
|
It saves the current settings of all audio mixers present
|
|
in the system on shutdown and restores the settings on boot.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>pf</filename> and <filename>pflog</filename>
|
|
scripts for &man.pf.4; has been added.</para>
|
|
</sect3>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="contrib">
|
|
<title>Contributed Software</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
|
|
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040402 snapshot.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
|
|
updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
|
|
release.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from
|
|
version 1.11.10 to version 1.11.15.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs
|
|
conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been
|
|
updated from version 20030324 to version 20040118.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>GNU grep</application> has been updated from
|
|
2.4d to 2.4.2.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>less</application> has been updated from
|
|
version 371 to version 381.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated
|
|
with official patches 001 through 005.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <application>GNU regex</application> library has been
|
|
updated to the version included with <application>GNU
|
|
grep</application> 2.4.2.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the
|
|
base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with
|
|
<filename>tar</filename> being a link to
|
|
<filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been
|
|
updated from 0.6 to 0.6.1.
|
|
|
|
<para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated from
|
|
version 0.7.1 to version 0.8.3.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>lukemftp</application>
|
|
has been updated from a snapshot as of
|
|
November 3, 2003 to one as of April 26, 2004.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
|
|
Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
|
|
3.6.1p1 to 3.8.1p1.
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>The configuration defaults for &man.sshd.8; have been
|
|
changed. SSH protocol version 1 is no longer enabled by
|
|
default. In addition, password authentication over SSH is
|
|
disabled by default if PAM is enabled.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
|
|
0.9.7c to 0.9.7d. &merged;</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><application>pf</application>, OpenBSD's packet filter as of
|
|
OpenBSD 3.4, has been imported into &os; source tree and is now installed
|
|
by default. A new user <username>proxy</username>, and two new
|
|
groups <username>authpf</username> and <username>proxy</username>,
|
|
which <application>pf</application> needs, are added as well.
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>On upgrading from the source, these user accounts must be
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added in advance. The <varname>NO_PF</varname> variable
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in <filename>make.conf</filename> can be used to prevent
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<application>pf</application> from building.</para>
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</note>
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<para>Several userland utilities of OpenBSD's
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<application>pf</application> have been imported.
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<filename>libexec/ftp-proxy</filename> is an ftp proxy for
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<application>pf</application>,
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<filename>sbin/pfctl</filename> is an equivalent to
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<filename>sbin/ipf</filename>,
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<filename>sbin/pflogd</filename>
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is a daemon logging packets via <literal>if_pflog</literal>
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in pcap format, and
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<filename>usr.sbin/authpf</filename> is an authentication shell
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to modify pf rulesets.</para>
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<para><application>routed</application> has been updated from
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release 2.22 to release 2.27 from rhyolite.com. Note that for
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users relying on RIP's MD5 authentication feature,
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&man.routed.8; routed is now incompatible with previous versions
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of &os;; however it is now compatible with implementations from
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Sun, Cisco and other vendors.</para>
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<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
|
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version 8.12.10 to version 8.12.11. &merged;</para>
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<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
|
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version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="ports">
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<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
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<para>The <literal>SIZE</literal> attribute for distfiles,
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which can be used for checking file sizes before fetching,
|
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has been added and enabled by default.
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<varname>DISABLE_SIZE</varname> is a user control knob
|
|
to disable the distfile size checking. This is especially
|
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useful on old &os; versions which did not have &man.fetch.1;
|
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support for this, and for some FTP proxies which always
|
|
report incorrect or bogus sizes.</para>
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|
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<para>Two new files have been added to the ports tree to track
|
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note-worthy changes: <filename>ports/CHANGES</filename> lists
|
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major changes to the Ports Collection and its infrastructure.
|
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<filename>ports/UPDATING</filename> describes some potential
|
|
pitfalls that can be encountered when updating certain ports,
|
|
analogous to <filename>src/UPDATING</filename> for the base
|
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system.</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 arch="i386,pc98">The building process for boot floppy images
|
|
has been completely overhauled. The most significant change is
|
|
that the loader now boots a stock <filename>GENERIC</filename>
|
|
kernel split across multiple disks (two at the time of this
|
|
writing). This greatly improves installations that begin with a
|
|
boot from floppy disk, because they now use exactly the same
|
|
kernel (and thus support the same hardware) as CDROM
|
|
installations. The stripped-down <filename>MFSROOT</filename>
|
|
kernel is no longer needed, and the <filename>mfsroot</filename>
|
|
image no longer requires kernel modules. The
|
|
<filename>boot.flp</filename> and
|
|
<filename>driver.flp</filename> images are also obsolete and no
|
|
longer built.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application>
|
|
has been updated from 2.4 to 2.6.
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>If you are using the older <application>GNOME</application>
|
|
desktop itself (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>), simply upgrading it from the &os; Ports Collection
|
|
with
|
|
&man.portupgrade.1;
|
|
(<filename role="package">sysutils/portupgrade</filename>)
|
|
will cause serious problems.
|
|
If you are a <application>GNOME</application> desktop user,
|
|
please read the instructions carefully at
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html"></ulink>,
|
|
and use the <filename>gnome_upgrade.sh</filename> script to
|
|
properly upgrade to <application>GNOME</application> 2.6.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Note that if you are just a casual user of some of the
|
|
<application>GNOME</application> libraries,
|
|
&man.portupgrade.1; should be sufficient
|
|
to update your ports.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application>
|
|
has been updated from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1.</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="doc">
|
|
<title>Documentation</title>
|
|
|
|
<para></para>
|
|
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="upgrade">
|
|
<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Users with existing &os; systems are
|
|
<emphasis>highly</emphasis> encouraged to read the <quote>Early
|
|
Adopter's Guide to &os; &release.current;</quote>. This document generally has
|
|
the filename <filename>EARLY.TXT</filename> on the distribution
|
|
media, or any other place that the release notes can be found. It
|
|
offers some notes on upgrading, but more importantly, also
|
|
discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to &os;
|
|
5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> versus running &os;
|
|
4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<important>
|
|
<para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
|
|
backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
|
|
files.</para>
|
|
</important>
|
|
</sect1>
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