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New release notes: ULE default (+MFC), aac(4) >2TB volume support

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(+MFC), kernel-mode NLM, adduser(8) -M (+MFC), ls(1) -D, nc(1) -O,
pkg_sign/pkg_check gone.

MFCs noted:  textdump(4), cmx(4), uslcom(4),
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kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but
are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely
synchronized source code. More information can be found in the
&man.textdump.4; manual page.</para>
&man.textdump.4; manual page. &merged;</para>
<para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While
the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful
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<para>[&arch.amd64;] The &os; kernel now has support for large
memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.powerpc;] The ULE
scheduler is now the default process scheduler
in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels. &merged;</para>
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para>The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040
PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para>
PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon
Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been
imported from OpenBSD.</para>
imported from OpenBSD. &merged;</para>
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
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<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
<para>The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than
2TB in size. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for
disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests
have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down
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<para>A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has
been fixed.</para>
<para>A new kernel-mode NFS lock manager has been added,
improving performance and behavior of NFS locking. A new
&man.clear.locks.8; command has been added to clear locks held
on behalf of an NFS client.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para>The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports
a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's
home directory. &merged;</para>
<para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;,
based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU
Binutils versions of these utilities.</para>
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command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel
modules.</para>
<para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option>
option to specify a date format string to be used with the long
format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para>
<para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to
disable the use of TCP options.</para>
<para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display
detailed information about processes.</para>
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<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
<para></para>
<para>The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically
signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful
for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however
&man.bzip2.1; compression has been the norm for some time
now.</para>
</sect2>