New release notes: GEOM_MULTIPATH, unionfs reimplementation (+MFC),
addr2ascii()/ascii2addr() removal, dump(8)/restore(8) extended attributes, objformat(1) gone, vnconfig(8) gone, ncurses wide character support.
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@ -1079,6 +1079,11 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
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are deprecated and have been removed.
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&merged;</para>
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<para>A new GEOM_MULTIPATH class has been added to support
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multiple access paths to disk devices. The &man.gmultipath.8;
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utility has been added to control the behavior of disk devices
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using this feature.</para>
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<para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
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It creates a very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
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and is mainly useful for performance testing.
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@ -1167,12 +1172,28 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
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<para>Initial (read-only) support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been
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added.</para>
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<para>The unionfs file system has been re-implemented. This
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version solves many crashing and locking issues compared to
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the previous implementation. It also adds
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new <quote>transparent</quote> and <quote>masquerade</quote>
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modes for automatically creating files in the upper file system
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layer of unions. More information can be found in the
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&man.mount.unionfs.8; manual page. &merged;</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="userland">
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<title>Userland Changes</title>
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<para>The addr2ascii() and ascii2addr() library calls, originally
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introduced by the INRIA IPv6 implementation, have been removed
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from <filename>libc</filename>. They have no consumers in the
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&os; base system. In a related change, support
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for <literal>AF_LINK</literal> addresses has been added to
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&man.getnameinfo.3;.</para>
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<para>Padding of <varname>ai_addrlen</varname>
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in <varname>struct addrinfo</varname> has been removed,
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which was originally for the ABI compatibility.
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@ -1242,6 +1263,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
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flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with
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the <literal>nodump</literal> flag set. &merged;</para>
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<para>The &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; programs now attempt to
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save and restore extended attribute information on files.</para>
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<para>The &man.fsdb.8; utility now supports changing the birth
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time of files on UFS2 file systems using the new
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<literal>btime</literal> command. &merged;</para>
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@ -1486,6 +1510,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
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installed statically instead of being generated on every
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reboot.</para>
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<para>The objformat(1) utility and getobjformat(3) library (the
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last remnants of a.out object file support) have been removed.</para>
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<para>The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports
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display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;,
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&man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices.
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@ -1618,6 +1645,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
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The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration
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file now support functionality which is equivalent to it.</para>
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<para>The vnconfig(8) utility, which was long ago replaced by
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&man.mdconfig.8;, has been removed.</para>
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<para>The &man.xargs.1; utility now supports a <option>-r</option>
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flag which makes the command execution when the standard input
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does not contain any non-whitespace-characters. &merged;</para>
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0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.</para>
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<para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from
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5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217.</para>
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5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217. ncurses now also has wide
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character support.</para>
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<para><application>hostapd</application>
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has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.
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