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Pointy hat to: Thunderbird, for a too-small default font size
Not ready for reading glasses yet: bmah
in HEAD's release notes, even though the issues involved were applied
(and fixed). Copy their descriptions from one of the RELENG_*
branches (RELENG_5 in this case).
SA-06:08 and SA-06:09 were not applicable to code on HEAD and thus not
mentioned.
"sweeping" ping(8), sh(1) built-in times.
I uncovered these in a sweep of items that need to be merged to
the 5.4 release notes. It's possible that all of these items
should have been in the 6.1 release notes (not confirmed).
This note is a candidate for the 6.1-RELEASE errata notes (the code
change was previously merged to RELENG_6_1 but this note is appearing
too late to be merged).
hwpmc(4) and pmcstat(8) profiling support for dynamically-loaded
objects, and pmcstat(8) network logging support added[1].
Fix incorrect entries:
gmirror/graid3 uses parallel I/O request for synchronization now.
The parallel I/O request itself has been already supported[2].
Spotted by: jkoshy[1] and pjd[2]
kbdmux(4) GENERIC support currently in amd64 and i386 only[1],
uart(4) GENERIC support currently not in pc98[1],
speaker(4) on amd64 entry needs arch="amd64"[2],
hptmv(4) update entry needs arch="amd64,i386"[2], and
OpenSSH 4.3p1 import has not been merged yet[2].
Spotted by: nyan[1] and delphij[2]
file descriptor handling bug fixed,
support for copying console messages to remote gdb(1),
kbdmux(4) now in GENERIC by default,
scc(4) for generic serial devices added,
net.inet.ip.portrange.reserved[high|low] for IPv6,
ata(4) USB mass storage class support,
gmirror kernel crash dump support,
gmirror and graid3 parallel I/O request support,
mfi(4) for LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family added,
getfacl(1) -q option added,
gvinum(8) resetconfig sub-command support,
libarchive(3) tp format support removed,
libarchive(3) POSIX.1e EA support added,
libc symbol map added,
libm symbol map added,
ls(1) -U option added,
mdconfig(8) XML device listing support,
mdconfig(8) -u option now supports comma-separated multiple devices,
BIND9 DNS resolver library imported,
strtonum(3) from OpenBSD,
rc.d/ike removed,
GNU Readline library updated to 5.1,
OpenSSH updated to 4.3p1,
hostapd updated to 0.4.8,
WPA supplicant updated to 0.4.8,
zlib updated to 1.2.3,
pkg_add(1) -F option added,
portsnap(1) HTTP_PROXY_AUTH handling bug fixed,
"make showconfig" in src/Makefile added, and
/etc/src.conf added.
acpi(4) HPET time counter support,
acpi_ibm(4) fan control support,
ddb(4) show lock,
ddb(4) show sleepq,
firmware(9) added,
random(4) MPSAFE,
new sysctl kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild,
brandinfo BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN flag,
new sysctl kern.forcesigexit,
RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's malloc(9),
security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal for mac_biba,
POSIX_TIMERS support updated to 200112L,
initial support for POSIX message queue,
Xbox support,
DEFAULTS kernel configuration files for each arch,
cardbus(4) /dev/cardbus%d.cis device node added,
ce(4) for Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 added,
ipmi(4), OpenIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface)
driver added,
kbdmux(4) integrated into syscons(4) and kbd,
uart(4) now in GENERIC kernel,
uart(4) LOM and RSC support,
snd_atiixp(4) added and suspend/resume support,
snd_solo(4) MPSAFE,
speaker(4) amd64 support,
uaudio(4) 24/32 bit audio support,
ath(4) updated to version 0.9.16.16,
bge(4) Jumbo frame support, big-endian arch support, MPSAFE,
em(4) updated to version 3.2.18, big-endian arch support,
performance improvement, suspend/resume support,
iwi(4) big-endian arch support,
le(4) for AMD Am7900 LANCE added,
myri10ge(4) for Myricom Myri10GE adapter added,
nve(4) updated to version 1.0-0310,
ti(4) big-endian arch support,
ufoma(4) for FOMA 3G mobile phone in Japan added,
vgapci(4) stub driver added,
arp(8) retransmission algorithm revised,
new sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_permanent_modify,
support for -i <if> with -d -a,
an experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler added,
if_bridge(4) span ports support added,
if_bridge(4) RFC 3378 EtherIP support,
ipfw(4) now supports action argument substitution from table lookup,
ng_bpf(4) BPF Just-In-Time compiler support,
bug related to NFS over TCP reconnection fixed,
IPV6_V6ONLY now works for UDP,
amr(4) performance improvement, ioctl support for MegaRaid Tools,
ata(4) DMA for kernel dump and dumping to ataraid(4) devices,
ataraid(4) now supports JMicron ATA RAID metadata,
gmirror and graid3 disconnect_on_failure sysctls added,
g_md.ko renamed to geom_md.ko,
mpt(4) SAS HBA and 64-bit PCI support,
twa(4) updated to 9.3.0.1,
geli(8) now allows loading keyfiles before root file system is mounted,
initial support for SGI's XFS added,
ACPI-CA updated to 20051021,
DRM updated to 20051202,
TrustedBSD OpenBSM version 1.0 alpha 5 imported,
bsnmpd(1) Host Resources MIB in RFC 2790 support,
config(8) "nocpu" directive added,
config(8) now reads DEFAULT if any before the specified config file,
csh(1) NLS catalog support,
csup(1), CVSup-compatible client written in C imported,
devd(8) -f option,
ftpd(8) change related to PID file creation,
gbde(8) -k and -K option,
gpt(8) GPT partition label setting support,
gvinum(8) now supports to move a subdisk between drives,
GSS-API version 2 (RFC2743 and RFC2744) implemented,
jail(8) -J option,
kdump(1) -H and -s option,
kgdb(1) -w option,
libarchive(3) tp format support,
ln(1) -F option,
locate(1) -I option,
mdmfs(8) -P and -E option,
mergemaster(8) -A option,
mount(8) "nodev" option removed,
netstat(1) IPsec protocol stats support,
periodic(8) daily gmirror, graid3, gstripe, gconcat support,
pkill(1) -I option,
rfcomm_pppd(8) -c servicename support,
rtld(1) ELF symbol versioning support,
sh(1) "times" built-in command support,
truss(1) -s option,
truss(1) now works on FreeBSD/ppc,
usbd(8) removed in favor of devd(8),
xargs(1) -r option,
rc.d/auditd added,
rc.d/bluetooth, rc.d/hcsecd, rc.d/sdpd added,
rc.d/ftpd added,
rc.d/hostapd added,
rc.d/netif ipv4_addrs_<ifn> support,
rc.d/rcconf.sh removed and early_late_divider variable added,
rc.initdiskless now uses tar(1) instead of pax(1),
rc.d/pccard removed,
rc.d/ppp-user added (renamed from ppp),
removable_interfaces variable removed,
bsnmpd updated from 1.11 to 1.12,
pkg_add(1) -P option,
pkg_add(1) and pkg_create(1) -K option,
pkg_create(1) -x, -E, and -G options,
local_startup directory now evaluated by rcorder(8) with
scripts in the base system,
suffix of startup scripts removed,
variables "ldconfig_local_dirs" and "ldconfig_local32_dirs" added,
@cwd in pkg-plist now allows no directory argument, and
CHECKSUM.MD5's checksum in CHECKSUM.MD5 problem fixed.
New release notes: BIND 9.3.2 (+MFC), IPFilter 4.1.10, tzdata2005r (+MFC).
Deleted release notes: libpcap and tcpdump updates (these updates
were actually a part of 6.0-RELEASE and therefore aren't "new"
anymore).