From 28bd0f9879126d87750c7af081de42c1ca4dc977 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brueffer Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:53:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: - PIM option now included in MROUTING - MSI support + MFC - TCP_DROP_SYNFIN compiled in by default - FICL updated to 3.03 - icee driver added - net.link.tap.up_on_open sysctl added - ZFS support added Updated release notes: - ncurses 5.6-20061217 MFC noted - mpsave_vfs=1 on powerpc --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 34 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index bf0797d9a750..b4525be192cc 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -350,6 +350,9 @@ It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in functionality) for all platforms except sun4v. + Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) has been added to + the &man.pci.4; driver. &merged; + The &man.priv.9; kernel interface has been added. Its purpose is checking the availability of privilege for threads and credentials. Unlike the existing &man.suser.9; interface, &man.priv.9; exposes a @@ -532,6 +535,8 @@ page. &merged; + icee(4), a generic I2C EEPROM driver, has been added. + A bug which prevented the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module from unloading has been fixed. @@ -564,7 +569,7 @@ The &man.nfsmb.4; driver, which supports the NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus 2.0 controller, has been added. &merged; - [&arch.ia64;] The loader tunable debug.mpsafevfs + [&arch.ia64;, &arch.powerpc;] The loader tunable debug.mpsafevfs is set to 1 by default. The &man.sab.4; driver has been removed (it has been @@ -957,7 +962,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE. - A new &man.ng.deflate.4; NetGraph node type has been + A new &man.ng.deflate.4; Netgraph node type has been added. It implements Deflate PPP compression. &merged; The &man.ng.ether.4; Netgraph node no longer overwrites @@ -966,7 +971,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any The &man.ng.iface.4; Netgraph node now supports &man.altq.4;. &merged; - A new &man.ng.pred1.4; NetGraph node type has been added + A new &man.ng.pred1.4; Netgraph node type has been added to implement Predictor-1 PPP compression. &merged; The &man.ng.tag.4; Netgraph node has been added to @@ -1030,6 +1035,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.stealth. + The PIM kernel option has been removed. + The corresponding code is now included in the + MROUTING kernel option. + Support has been added for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). SCTP implements a reliable, message-oriented transport protocol, and is defined in RFC 3268. It is enabled @@ -1038,6 +1047,11 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any The IPV6_V6ONLY socket option now works for UDP. + The TCP_DROP_SYNFIN kernel option is now + included in the kernel by default. The + net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin sysctl variable still + defaults to 0. + The TCP bandwidth-delay product limiting feature has been disabled when the RTT is below a certain threshold. This optimization does not make sense on a LAN, as it has @@ -1066,6 +1080,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any and net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_* sysctl variables. + The net.link.tap.up_on_open sysctl variable + has been added to the &man.tap.4; driver. If enabled, new tap + devices will marked up upon creation. + Support for &man.kqueue.2; operations has been added to the &man.tun.4; driver. &merged; @@ -1257,6 +1275,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" layer of unions. More information can be found in the &man.mount.unionfs.8; manual page. &merged; + [&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;]Support for Sun's ZFS has been + added. More information about this file system can be found + on the + OpenSolaris ZFS page. + @@ -1871,6 +1894,9 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img" been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517. &merged; + The Forth Inspired Command Language (FICL) + used in the boot loader has been updated to 3.03. + FILE has been updated from 4.12 to 4.17. @@ -1913,7 +1939,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img" ncurses has been updated from 5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217. ncurses now also has wide - character support. + character support. &merged; hostapd has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.