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New release notes (changes in the first half of June 2004):

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sab(4) BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER support,
	per-class sysctl like dev.foo.0.bar support,
	kern.always_console_output,
	fwip(4) added,
	ng_rfc1490(4) Cisco style encapsulation support,
	udav(4) promiscuous mode support,
	geom_vinum added,
	ALTQ framework import,
	conscontrol(8) set/unset support,
	newsyslog(8) improvements,
	ps(1) -O emul support,
	sha1(1) and rmd160(1) added,
	talk(1) now uses "localhost",
	truss(1) early support on amd64, and
	tzdata2004a import.

MFC:
	find(1) -depth n added.

Style changes:
	s/ixgb/&man.ixgb.4;/
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This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; now supports
<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para>
<para>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree,
in order to support per-class variables in addition to
per-device variables. This means that <varname>dev.foo0.bar</varname>
is now called <varname>dev.foo.0.bar</varname>, and it is
possible to to have <varname>dev.foo.bar</varname> as well.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device
<varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables
@ -380,6 +389,10 @@
amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT.
The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including
sasc and sgsc has also been removed.</para>
<para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>
which makes outputs from the kernel go to the console despite
<varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="boot">
@ -412,6 +425,13 @@
<para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
@ -420,7 +440,7 @@
<varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
on a per-device basis.</para>
<para>The <devicename>ixgb</devicename> driver, which supports
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
Intel PRO/10GBE 10 gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
added. &merged;</para>
@ -445,6 +465,10 @@
a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub
has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
Cisco style encapsulation which is often used alongside
RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
lines has been added.</para>
@ -589,6 +613,8 @@
connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled with
the sysctl <varname>net.inet.tcp.sack.enable.</varname></para>
<para>&man.udav.4; driver now supports promiscuous mode.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -630,9 +656,9 @@
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.vinum.8; volume manager, has been updated to use
GEOM, the 5.x disk framework. A gvinum userland tool has been
added.</para>
<para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
&man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
A gvinum userland tool has been added.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
@ -677,6 +703,10 @@
number of partitions on a single disk, has been added into
<filename>GENERIC</filename> by default.</para>
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> class to support
cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;,
has been added.</para>
<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
server.</para>
@ -705,8 +735,13 @@
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to
3.4.35.</para>
<para><application>ALTQ framework</application>
has been imported from the KAME snapshot as of 20040607.
This import breaks ABI compatibility of
<varname>struct ifnet</varname>.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated
from version 3.4.31 to version 3.4.35.</para>
<para arch="ia64">An ia64 stack unwinder,
<application>Unwind Express (libuwx)</application>
@ -724,6 +759,14 @@
<command>bthidd</command> command, which support Bluetooth
HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para>
<para>&man.conscontrol.8; now supports
<literal>set</literal> and <literal>unset</literal>
commands which set/unset the virtual console.
<literal>unset</literal> makes outputs from the system, such as
the kernel &man.printf.9;, always go out to the real
main console. This is an interface to the tty ioctl
<varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</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 unprivileged users and the
@ -765,7 +808,8 @@
<para>The &man.find.1; utility now supports a new primary
<option>-depth <replaceable>n</replaceable></option>
which tests whether the depth of the current file relative
to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>.</para>
to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on GEOM classes
from the userland has been added.</para>
@ -854,6 +898,16 @@
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
directive.</para>
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows the users to set
a debugging option via the <filename>newsyslog.conf</filename>
file.</para>
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now uses a new order when processing
files to rotate. The order first rotate all files that need
to be rotated, and then send a single signal to each process
which needs to be signaled, and finally it will compress
all the files which were rotated.</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>
@ -906,6 +960,10 @@
and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;.
&merged;</para>
<para>&man.ps.1; now supports a <option>-O emul</option>
format option, which prints the name of the system call emulation
environment the process is in.</para>
<para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which
accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para>
@ -944,6 +1002,8 @@
<para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
has been added.</para>
<para>&man.sha1.1; and &man.rmd160.1; utility have been added.</para>
<para>&man.smbmsg.8;, a small utility to send/receive SMBus messages
has been added.</para>
@ -953,10 +1013,20 @@
<option>-h</option> to print the label in human readable
size/offset format.</para>
<para>&man.talk.1; now use <hostid>localhost</hostid>
as a default machine name in &man.talkd.8;
request packets, when the destination and source are local.
This makes &man.talk.1; dependent on a valid host entry
for <hostid>localhost</hostid> in <filename>/etc/hosts</filename>
or the DNS.</para>
<para>&man.tftpd.8; now supports two new options:
a <option>-w</option> option allows new files to be created,
and a <option>-U</option> option allows the umask to be set.</para>
<para arch="amd64">&man.truss.1; now includes early support
for &os;/amd64.</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>
@ -1016,8 +1086,8 @@
<para><application>Binutils</application> have been updated to
a 23 May 2004 snapshot from the FSF 2.15 branch.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated to version
1.11.17.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from
version 1.11.15 to version 1.11.17.</para>
<para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs
conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been
@ -1112,6 +1182,10 @@
<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para>
<para>The timezone database has been updated from
<filename>tzdata2003a</filename> to
<filename>tzdata2004a</filename>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">

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This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; now supports
<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para>
<para>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree,
in order to support per-class variables in addition to
per-device variables. This means that <varname>dev.foo0.bar</varname>
is now called <varname>dev.foo.0.bar</varname>, and it is
possible to to have <varname>dev.foo.bar</varname> as well.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device
<varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables
@ -380,6 +389,10 @@
amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT.
The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including
sasc and sgsc has also been removed.</para>
<para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>
which makes outputs from the kernel go to the console despite
<varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="boot">
@ -412,6 +425,13 @@
<para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
@ -420,7 +440,7 @@
<varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
on a per-device basis.</para>
<para>The <devicename>ixgb</devicename> driver, which supports
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
Intel PRO/10GBE 10 gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
added. &merged;</para>
@ -445,6 +465,10 @@
a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub
has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
Cisco style encapsulation which is often used alongside
RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
lines has been added.</para>
@ -589,6 +613,8 @@
connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled with
the sysctl <varname>net.inet.tcp.sack.enable.</varname></para>
<para>&man.udav.4; driver now supports promiscuous mode.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -630,9 +656,9 @@
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.vinum.8; volume manager, has been updated to use
GEOM, the 5.x disk framework. A gvinum userland tool has been
added.</para>
<para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
&man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
A gvinum userland tool has been added.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
@ -677,6 +703,10 @@
number of partitions on a single disk, has been added into
<filename>GENERIC</filename> by default.</para>
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> class to support
cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;,
has been added.</para>
<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
server.</para>
@ -705,8 +735,13 @@
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to
3.4.35.</para>
<para><application>ALTQ framework</application>
has been imported from the KAME snapshot as of 20040607.
This import breaks ABI compatibility of
<varname>struct ifnet</varname>.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated
from version 3.4.31 to version 3.4.35.</para>
<para arch="ia64">An ia64 stack unwinder,
<application>Unwind Express (libuwx)</application>
@ -724,6 +759,14 @@
<command>bthidd</command> command, which support Bluetooth
HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para>
<para>&man.conscontrol.8; now supports
<literal>set</literal> and <literal>unset</literal>
commands which set/unset the virtual console.
<literal>unset</literal> makes outputs from the system, such as
the kernel &man.printf.9;, always go out to the real
main console. This is an interface to the tty ioctl
<varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</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 unprivileged users and the
@ -765,7 +808,8 @@
<para>The &man.find.1; utility now supports a new primary
<option>-depth <replaceable>n</replaceable></option>
which tests whether the depth of the current file relative
to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>.</para>
to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on GEOM classes
from the userland has been added.</para>
@ -854,6 +898,16 @@
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
directive.</para>
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows the users to set
a debugging option via the <filename>newsyslog.conf</filename>
file.</para>
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now uses a new order when processing
files to rotate. The order first rotate all files that need
to be rotated, and then send a single signal to each process
which needs to be signaled, and finally it will compress
all the files which were rotated.</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>
@ -906,6 +960,10 @@
and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;.
&merged;</para>
<para>&man.ps.1; now supports a <option>-O emul</option>
format option, which prints the name of the system call emulation
environment the process is in.</para>
<para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which
accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para>
@ -944,6 +1002,8 @@
<para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
has been added.</para>
<para>&man.sha1.1; and &man.rmd160.1; utility have been added.</para>
<para>&man.smbmsg.8;, a small utility to send/receive SMBus messages
has been added.</para>
@ -953,10 +1013,20 @@
<option>-h</option> to print the label in human readable
size/offset format.</para>
<para>&man.talk.1; now use <hostid>localhost</hostid>
as a default machine name in &man.talkd.8;
request packets, when the destination and source are local.
This makes &man.talk.1; dependent on a valid host entry
for <hostid>localhost</hostid> in <filename>/etc/hosts</filename>
or the DNS.</para>
<para>&man.tftpd.8; now supports two new options:
a <option>-w</option> option allows new files to be created,
and a <option>-U</option> option allows the umask to be set.</para>
<para arch="amd64">&man.truss.1; now includes early support
for &os;/amd64.</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>
@ -1016,8 +1086,8 @@
<para><application>Binutils</application> have been updated to
a 23 May 2004 snapshot from the FSF 2.15 branch.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated to version
1.11.17.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from
version 1.11.15 to version 1.11.17.</para>
<para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs
conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been
@ -1112,6 +1182,10 @@
<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para>
<para>The timezone database has been updated from
<filename>tzdata2003a</filename> to
<filename>tzdata2004a</filename>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">