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settings, options IPFILTER requires options PFIL_HOOKS, last bits of
a.out compiler toolchain are gone, acpiconf(8) -i, asf(8), .snap
directory for snapshots, kdump(1) -p, last(1) -n, libwrap/tcpdchk(8)
support extended tcp_wrappers syntax, repquota(8) -n, savecore(8) -C,
uname(1) -i, hardware notes device trimmage, Turkish translation for
docs.

Modified release notes:  Spell "Cronyx-Sigma" correctly in cx(4)
item, spell "FireWire" consistently, fix grammer in puc(4) item, move
uart(4) note from NIC to generic kernel section, spell "NetGraph"
consistently, fix typo in xe(4) note, dynamic linking note more
precise,

Deleted release notes:  -pthread removed (this was reverted).

Other:  Correct a reference to recent security advisories.

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@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
<para>Typical release note items
document recent security advisories issued after
&release.prev.historic;,
&release.prev;,
new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also
list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected.
&merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx Sigmal
<para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx-Sigma
serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this
update, the cxconfig userland configuration utility has been
replaced by a newer &man.sconfig.8; utility.</para>
@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
<para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has
been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be
accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A
accessed over FireWire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A
&man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4;
devices.</para>
@ -228,9 +228,9 @@
symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets.
&merged;</para>
<para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;,
<para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;
PCI Universal Communications driver now supports
to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para>
connecting parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added
to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators.
@ -251,6 +251,13 @@
(e.g. Ultra 30) can now run
<application>XFree86</application>.</para>
<para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various
classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter)
devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but
supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary
to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as
ia64 and sparc64.</para>
<para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented.
For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and
&man.watchdogd.8;.</para>
@ -291,6 +298,10 @@
Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or
unexplained crashes.</para>
<para arch="i386">Logical CPUs (with HyperThreading) are
now enabled according to BIOS settings (previously, they were
disabled by default and had to be enabled explicitly).</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="boot">
@ -324,7 +335,7 @@
<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added.
This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP,
which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the
which attaches to all NetGraph ATM interface in the
system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack
for each of these interfaces.</para>
@ -341,13 +352,6 @@
<para>&man.sk.4; now supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit
Ethernet NICs. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various
classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter)
devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but
supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary
to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as
ia64 and sparc64.</para>
<para>A new &man.utopia.4; driver supports 25MBit/sec,
155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration,
status and statistics reporting for the most commonly use
@ -364,7 +368,7 @@
future growth and new features.</para>
<para>The &man.xe.4; driver now supports CE2, CEM28,
and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several
and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagrams. Also several
bugs in the driver have been fixed.</para>
<para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt
@ -394,6 +398,10 @@
to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to
specific network interfaces.</para>
<para>Enabling the <literal>options IPFILTER</literal> feature
also requires enabling <literal>options
PFIL_HOOKS</literal>.</para>
<para>A bug in &man.ipfw.4; limit rule processing that could
cause various panics has been fixed.
&merged;</para>
@ -448,7 +456,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A netgraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and
<para>A NetGraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and
&man.ng.l2cap.4; kernel modules, which could cause
access to a data structure that was already freed,
has been fixed.</para>
@ -510,7 +518,7 @@
&man.geom.4; providers.</para>
<para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte
commands to USB and Firewire devices. The quirks for these
commands to USB and FireWire devices. The quirks for these
devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been
disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options
DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration. &merged;</para>
@ -601,6 +609,12 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para arch="i386">The last bits of the i386-only, a.out compiler
toolchain have been removed.</para>
<para>&man.acpiconf.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option
to print battery information.</para>
<para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been
added.</para>
@ -610,6 +624,10 @@
operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous
network interfaces. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.asf.8; utility, which helps load
the symbol files from KLDs into a &man.gdb.1; debugging
environment, has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.atmconfig.8; program has been added for
configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM
functionality.</para>
@ -635,6 +653,15 @@
directory of &man.fsck.8; is now <literal>0700</literal> instead
of <literal>01777</literal>. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.fsck.ffs.8; and &man.newfs.8; now create a
<filename>.snap</filename> directory in the root directory of
each filesystem, with group <groupname>operator</groupname>.
&man.fsck.ffs.8;, &man.mksnap.ffs.8;, and &man.dump.8; will
write their filesystem snapshots to this directory. This change
avoids locking access to the root directory of a filesystem
during snapshot creation and also helps
non-<username>root</username> users create snapshots.</para>
<para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand
UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para>
@ -654,6 +681,13 @@
to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything.
&merged;</para>
<para>&man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> option to
display only the trace events corresponding to a specific
process.</para>
<para>&man.last.1; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to
limit the number of lines in its output report.</para>
<para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library,
&man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol,
which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call
@ -676,6 +710,11 @@
<para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
threading library is now built by default.</para>
<para><filename>libwrap</filename> and &man.tcpdchk.8; are now
configured to support the extended
<application>tcp_wrappers</application> syntax by
default.</para>
<para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is
now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all
available codesets.</para>
@ -725,11 +764,18 @@
<para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs
has been fixed.</para>
<para>&man.repquota.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to
display users and groups numerically.</para>
<para>&man.rtld.1; now includes <quote>libmap</quote>
functionality by default; the <varname>WITH_LIBMAP</varname>
compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More
information can be found in &man.libmap.conf.5;.</para>
<para>&man.savecore.8; now supports a <option>-C</option> flag
that merely indicates the existence or absence of a coredump
file.</para>
<para>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary
now that all kernels use ELF format and there is no a.out format
toolchain.</para>
@ -747,6 +793,10 @@
<para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6
traffic. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.uname.1; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to
return the kernel identification. This name is also available
via the <varname>kern.ident</varname> sysctl variable.</para>
<para arch="i386,alpha,amd64,sparc64,pc98">A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename>
and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a
statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in
@ -758,7 +808,7 @@
&man.rescue.8;.
</para>
<para>Executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and
<para>Many executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and
<filename>/sbin</filename> are now built using dynamic, rather
than static linking. This feature brings support for
loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in
@ -801,15 +851,6 @@
</note>
</para>
<para>The <application>GCC</application> <option>-pthread</option>
option, which formerly controlled linking of the threading
library, has been removed. This flag is confusing in the
presence of multiple threading libraries (specifically
<filename>libc_r</filename>, <filename>libkse</filename>, and
<filename>libthr</filename>). Ports should use the
<varname>PTHREAD_LIBS</varname> variable to select the correct
threading library.</para>
<para><application>GNU Readline</application> has been updated
from 4.2 to 4.3.</para>
@ -887,7 +928,14 @@
<sect2 id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para></para>
<para>To reduce duplication of information (and subsequent
difficulty in maintaining consistency), many instances of
specific devices supported in the Hardware Notes have been moved
to system manual pages. This project is ongoing as of this
release.</para>
<para>A Turkish (tr_TR.ISO8859-9) translation project has been
started.</para>
</sect2>

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@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
<para>Typical release note items
document recent security advisories issued after
&release.prev.historic;,
&release.prev;,
new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also
list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected.
&merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx Sigmal
<para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx-Sigma
serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this
update, the cxconfig userland configuration utility has been
replaced by a newer &man.sconfig.8; utility.</para>
@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
<para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has
been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be
accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A
accessed over FireWire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A
&man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4;
devices.</para>
@ -228,9 +228,9 @@
symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets.
&merged;</para>
<para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;,
<para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;
PCI Universal Communications driver now supports
to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para>
connecting parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added
to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators.
@ -251,6 +251,13 @@
(e.g. Ultra 30) can now run
<application>XFree86</application>.</para>
<para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various
classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter)
devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but
supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary
to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as
ia64 and sparc64.</para>
<para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented.
For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and
&man.watchdogd.8;.</para>
@ -291,6 +298,10 @@
Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or
unexplained crashes.</para>
<para arch="i386">Logical CPUs (with HyperThreading) are
now enabled according to BIOS settings (previously, they were
disabled by default and had to be enabled explicitly).</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="boot">
@ -324,7 +335,7 @@
<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added.
This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP,
which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the
which attaches to all NetGraph ATM interface in the
system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack
for each of these interfaces.</para>
@ -341,13 +352,6 @@
<para>&man.sk.4; now supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit
Ethernet NICs. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various
classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter)
devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but
supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary
to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as
ia64 and sparc64.</para>
<para>A new &man.utopia.4; driver supports 25MBit/sec,
155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration,
status and statistics reporting for the most commonly use
@ -364,7 +368,7 @@
future growth and new features.</para>
<para>The &man.xe.4; driver now supports CE2, CEM28,
and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several
and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagrams. Also several
bugs in the driver have been fixed.</para>
<para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt
@ -394,6 +398,10 @@
to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to
specific network interfaces.</para>
<para>Enabling the <literal>options IPFILTER</literal> feature
also requires enabling <literal>options
PFIL_HOOKS</literal>.</para>
<para>A bug in &man.ipfw.4; limit rule processing that could
cause various panics has been fixed.
&merged;</para>
@ -448,7 +456,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A netgraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and
<para>A NetGraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and
&man.ng.l2cap.4; kernel modules, which could cause
access to a data structure that was already freed,
has been fixed.</para>
@ -510,7 +518,7 @@
&man.geom.4; providers.</para>
<para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte
commands to USB and Firewire devices. The quirks for these
commands to USB and FireWire devices. The quirks for these
devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been
disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options
DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration. &merged;</para>
@ -601,6 +609,12 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para arch="i386">The last bits of the i386-only, a.out compiler
toolchain have been removed.</para>
<para>&man.acpiconf.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option
to print battery information.</para>
<para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been
added.</para>
@ -610,6 +624,10 @@
operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous
network interfaces. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.asf.8; utility, which helps load
the symbol files from KLDs into a &man.gdb.1; debugging
environment, has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.atmconfig.8; program has been added for
configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM
functionality.</para>
@ -635,6 +653,15 @@
directory of &man.fsck.8; is now <literal>0700</literal> instead
of <literal>01777</literal>. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.fsck.ffs.8; and &man.newfs.8; now create a
<filename>.snap</filename> directory in the root directory of
each filesystem, with group <groupname>operator</groupname>.
&man.fsck.ffs.8;, &man.mksnap.ffs.8;, and &man.dump.8; will
write their filesystem snapshots to this directory. This change
avoids locking access to the root directory of a filesystem
during snapshot creation and also helps
non-<username>root</username> users create snapshots.</para>
<para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand
UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para>
@ -654,6 +681,13 @@
to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything.
&merged;</para>
<para>&man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> option to
display only the trace events corresponding to a specific
process.</para>
<para>&man.last.1; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to
limit the number of lines in its output report.</para>
<para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library,
&man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol,
which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call
@ -676,6 +710,11 @@
<para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
threading library is now built by default.</para>
<para><filename>libwrap</filename> and &man.tcpdchk.8; are now
configured to support the extended
<application>tcp_wrappers</application> syntax by
default.</para>
<para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is
now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all
available codesets.</para>
@ -725,11 +764,18 @@
<para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs
has been fixed.</para>
<para>&man.repquota.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to
display users and groups numerically.</para>
<para>&man.rtld.1; now includes <quote>libmap</quote>
functionality by default; the <varname>WITH_LIBMAP</varname>
compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More
information can be found in &man.libmap.conf.5;.</para>
<para>&man.savecore.8; now supports a <option>-C</option> flag
that merely indicates the existence or absence of a coredump
file.</para>
<para>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary
now that all kernels use ELF format and there is no a.out format
toolchain.</para>
@ -747,6 +793,10 @@
<para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6
traffic. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.uname.1; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to
return the kernel identification. This name is also available
via the <varname>kern.ident</varname> sysctl variable.</para>
<para arch="i386,alpha,amd64,sparc64,pc98">A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename>
and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a
statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in
@ -758,7 +808,7 @@
&man.rescue.8;.
</para>
<para>Executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and
<para>Many executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and
<filename>/sbin</filename> are now built using dynamic, rather
than static linking. This feature brings support for
loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in
@ -801,15 +851,6 @@
</note>
</para>
<para>The <application>GCC</application> <option>-pthread</option>
option, which formerly controlled linking of the threading
library, has been removed. This flag is confusing in the
presence of multiple threading libraries (specifically
<filename>libc_r</filename>, <filename>libkse</filename>, and
<filename>libthr</filename>). Ports should use the
<varname>PTHREAD_LIBS</varname> variable to select the correct
threading library.</para>
<para><application>GNU Readline</application> has been updated
from 4.2 to 4.3.</para>
@ -887,7 +928,14 @@
<sect2 id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para></para>
<para>To reduce duplication of information (and subsequent
difficulty in maintaining consistency), many instances of
specific devices supported in the Hardware Notes have been moved
to system manual pages. This project is ongoing as of this
release.</para>
<para>A Turkish (tr_TR.ISO8859-9) translation project has been
started.</para>
</sect2>