From 0b095013909bea6c502e280e9a8a35cd297ceea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:11:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: CMI8338/8738, CS4281 sound driver, ISO-9660 Unicode, ida crashdumps, login exports PAM environment variables, wall -g, make.conf CPUTYPE, CVS_RSH default now ssh. Updated release notes: ahc(4) updates, ICMP and TCP RSTs, random(4), MFCs noted: rc.syscons. --- release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index aa5fb5b285b1..f19ae3e430de 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -144,14 +144,18 @@ Technologies VT82C686A sound card/chipsets, and has received some other updates. [MERGED] A driver for the ESS Maestro-3/Allegro has been added, however due to the amount of GPL firmware included, it will only be built as a module. Separate drivers for the SoundBlaster -8 and Soundblaster 16 now replace an older, unified driver. [MERGED] -A driver for the CMedia CMI8338/CMI8738 sound chips has been added. +8 and Soundblaster 16 now replace an older, unified driver. +A driver for the CMedia CMI8338/CMI8738 sound chips has been added. +A driver for the CS4281 sound chip has been added. [MERGED] Replace the PQ_*CACHE options with a single PQ_CACHESIZE option to be set to the cache size in kilobytes. The old options are still supported for backwards compatibility. [MERGED] -The ahc(4) driver has been updated. [MERGED] +The ahc(4) driver has been updated. Among various improvements are +improved compatability with chips in "RAID Port" mode and systems with +AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance +improvements. [MERGED] ACPI support has been merged in from the FreeBSD-ACPI project. @@ -186,6 +190,10 @@ Note that change affects only random-access writeable devices, not sequential-only writeable devices such as CD-R drives, which are supported by cdrecord. [MERGED] +The ISO-9660 filesystem now has a hook that supports a loadable +character conversion routine. The sysutils/cd9660_unicode port +contains a set of common conversions. [MERGED] + Support for threads under Linux emulation has been added. The an(4) driver for Cisco Aironet cards now supports Wired Equivalent @@ -217,8 +225,9 @@ due to packets sent to open and unopen ports are now limited by separate counters. Each rate limiting queue now has its own description. -ICMP UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB messages can now RST TCP connections, as -controlled by the net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst sysctl. +ICMP UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB messages can now RST TCP connections in the +SYN_SENT state if the correct sequence numbers are sent back, as +controlled by the net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst sysctl. [MERGED] TCP has received some bug fixes for its delayed ACK behavior. [MERGED] @@ -274,6 +283,14 @@ interfaces with dynamically-changing IP addresses. [MERGED] The isp(4) driver has been updated. [MERGED] +The ida disk driver now has crashdump support. [MERGED] + +The random(4) device has been rewritten to use the Yarrow algorithm. +It harvests entropy from a variety of interrupt sources, including the +console devices, Ethernet and point-to-point network interfaces, and +mass-storage devices. Entropy from the random(4) device is now +periodically saved to files in /var/db/entropy. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -389,8 +406,7 @@ mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. [MERGED] OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.6. [MERGED] OpenSSL now has support for machine-dependent ASM optimizations, -activated by the new MACHINE_CPU Makefile variable. make(1) will -attempt to set reasonable defaults for this variable. +activated by the new MACHINE_CPU Makefile variable. The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. [MERGED] @@ -696,7 +712,7 @@ default), which can be used to log /dev/console output. [MERGED] rpcgen now uses /usr/bin/cpp (as on NetBSD), not /usr/libexec/cpp. Boot-time syscons configuration was moved to a machine-independent -rc.syscons. +rc.syscons. [MERGED] burncd(8) now supports a -m option for multisession mode (the default behavior now is to close disks as single-session). A -l option to @@ -709,9 +725,6 @@ including syslog records and /dev/console output. [MERGED] In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, the ConnectionsPerPeriod parameter has been deprecated in favor of MaxStartups. [MERGED] -Entropy from the random(4) device is now periodically saved to files -in /var/db/entropy. - cdcontrol(1) now uses the CDROM environment variable to pick a default device. [MERGED] @@ -798,6 +811,19 @@ megabytes, or gigabytes, in addition to sectors. The pseudo-random number generator implemented by rand(3) has been improved to provide less biased results. +login(1) now exports environment variables set by PAM +modules. [MERGED] + +wall(1) now supports a -g flag to write a message to all users of a +given group. + +The new CPUTYPE make.conf variable controls the compilation of +processor-specific optimizations in various pieces of code such as +OpenSSL. + +The default value for the CVS_RSH variable (used by cvs(1)) is now +ssh, rather than rsh. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index 5f7116ef8715..2544afc78962 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -167,8 +167,9 @@ Technologies VT82C686A sound card/chipsets, and has received some other updates. [MERGED] A driver for the ESS Maestro-3/Allegro has been added, however due to the amount of GPL firmware included, it will only be built as a module. Separate drivers for the SoundBlaster -8 and Soundblaster 16 now replace an older, unified driver. [MERGED] +8 and Soundblaster 16 now replace an older, unified driver. A driver for the CMedia CMI8338/CMI8738 sound chips has been added. +A driver for the CS4281 sound chip has been added. [MERGED] Replace the PQ_*CACHE options with a single PQ_CACHESIZE option to be set to the cache size in kilobytes. The old options are still @@ -179,7 +180,10 @@ for configuring SMP kernels, have been removed. NCPU is now set to a maximum of 16, and the other, aforementioned options are now dynamic. [MERGED] -The ahc(4) driver has been updated. [MERGED] +The ahc(4) driver has been updated. Among various improvements are +improved compatability with chips in "RAID Port" mode and systems with +AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance +improvements. [MERGED] ACPI support has been merged in from the FreeBSD-ACPI project. @@ -251,6 +255,10 @@ Note that change affects only random-access writeable devices, not sequential-only writeable devices such as CD-R drives, which are supported by cdrecord. [MERGED] +The ISO-9660 filesystem now has a hook that supports a loadable +character conversion routine. The sysutils/cd9660_unicode port +contains a set of common conversions. [MERGED] + The an(4) driver for Cisco Aironet cards now supports Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption, settable via ancontrol(8). [MERGED] @@ -287,8 +295,9 @@ due to packets sent to open and unopen ports are now limited by separate counters. Each rate limiting queue now has its own description. -ICMP UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB messages can now RST TCP connections, as -controlled by the net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst sysctl. +ICMP UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB messages can now RST TCP connections in the +SYN_SENT state if the correct sequence numbers are sent back, as +controlled by the net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst sysctl. [MERGED] TCP has received some bug fixes for its delayed ACK behavior. [MERGED] @@ -353,6 +362,14 @@ interfaces with dynamically-changing IP addresses. [MERGED] The isp(4) driver has been updated. [MERGED] +The ida disk driver now has crashdump support. [MERGED] + +The random(4) device has been rewritten to use the Yarrow algorithm. +It harvests entropy from a variety of interrupt sources, including the +console devices, Ethernet and point-to-point network interfaces, and +mass-storage devices. Entropy from the random(4) device is now +periodically saved to files in /var/db/entropy. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -468,8 +485,7 @@ mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. [MERGED] OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.6. [MERGED] OpenSSL now has support for machine-dependent ASM optimizations, -activated by the new MACHINE_CPU Makefile variable. make(1) will -attempt to set reasonable defaults for this variable. +activated by the new MACHINE_CPU Makefile variable. The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. [MERGED] @@ -793,7 +809,7 @@ default), which can be used to log /dev/console output. [MERGED] rpcgen now uses /usr/bin/cpp (as on NetBSD), not /usr/libexec/cpp. Boot-time syscons configuration was moved to a machine-independent -rc.syscons. +rc.syscons. [MERGED] burncd(8) now supports a -m option for multisession mode (the default behavior now is to close disks as single-session). A -l option to @@ -806,9 +822,6 @@ including syslog records and /dev/console output. [MERGED] In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, the ConnectionsPerPeriod parameter has been deprecated in favor of MaxStartups. [MERGED] -Entropy from the random(4) device is now periodically saved to files -in /var/db/entropy. - cdcontrol(1) now uses the CDROM environment variable to pick a default device. [MERGED] @@ -895,6 +908,19 @@ megabytes, or gigabytes, in addition to sectors. The pseudo-random number generator implemented by rand(3) has been improved to provide less biased results. +login(1) now exports environment variables set by PAM +modules. [MERGED] + +wall(1) now supports a -g flag to write a message to all users of a +given group. + +The new CPUTYPE make.conf variable controls the compilation of +processor-specific optimizations in various pieces of code such as +OpenSSL. + +The default value for the CVS_RSH variable (used by cvs(1)) is now +ssh, rather than rsh. + 2. Supported Configurations ---------------------------