MFP4: First release notes for 5.1-CURRENT.

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<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
<para arch="i386">PCI interrupts are always routed on i386 UP
machines, which may improve the usability of some PCI devices
(particularly on laptops).</para>
<para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="boot">
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<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para></para>
<para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
being done.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
<para></para>
<para>Various &man.geom.4; modules can now be loaded as kernel
modules, namely:
<filename>geom_apple</filename>,
<filename>geom_bde</filename>,
<filename>geom_bsd</filename>,
<filename>geom_gpt</filename>,
<filename>geom_mbr</filename>,
<filename>geom_pc98</filename>,
<filename>geom_sunlabel</filename>,
<filename>geom_vol_ffs</filename>.
</para>
</sect3>
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</sect3>
<sect3 id="pccard">
<title>PCCARD Support</title>
<para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
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<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para></para>
<para>&man.chroot.8; now allows the optional setting of a user,
primary group, or group list to use inside the chroot
environment via the <option>-u</option>, <option>-g</option>,
and <option>-G</option> options respectively.</para>
<para>The <filename>libcipher</filename> DES cryptography library
has been removed. All of its functionality is provided by the
<filename>libcrypto</filename> library, and all base systems
programs that used <filename>libcipher</filename> have been
converted to use <filename>libcrypto</filename> instead.</para>
<para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
threading library is now built by default.</para>
<para>The &man.pam.guest.8; PAM module has been added to allow
guest logins. It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para></para>
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to the
<quote>Digitalis</quote> release.</para>
</sect2>

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<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
<para arch="i386">PCI interrupts are always routed on i386 UP
machines, which may improve the usability of some PCI devices
(particularly on laptops).</para>
<para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="boot">
@ -152,14 +155,26 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para></para>
<para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
being done.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
<para></para>
<para>Various &man.geom.4; modules can now be loaded as kernel
modules, namely:
<filename>geom_apple</filename>,
<filename>geom_bde</filename>,
<filename>geom_bsd</filename>,
<filename>geom_gpt</filename>,
<filename>geom_mbr</filename>,
<filename>geom_pc98</filename>,
<filename>geom_sunlabel</filename>,
<filename>geom_vol_ffs</filename>.
</para>
</sect3>
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</sect3>
<sect3 id="pccard">
<title>PCCARD Support</title>
<para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@ -189,14 +197,30 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para></para>
<para>&man.chroot.8; now allows the optional setting of a user,
primary group, or group list to use inside the chroot
environment via the <option>-u</option>, <option>-g</option>,
and <option>-G</option> options respectively.</para>
<para>The <filename>libcipher</filename> DES cryptography library
has been removed. All of its functionality is provided by the
<filename>libcrypto</filename> library, and all base systems
programs that used <filename>libcipher</filename> have been
converted to use <filename>libcrypto</filename> instead.</para>
<para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
threading library is now built by default.</para>
<para>The &man.pam.guest.8; PAM module has been added to allow
guest logins. It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para></para>
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to the
<quote>Digitalis</quote> release.</para>
</sect2>