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hwpmc(4) and associated library/userland utilities,
	ipw(4), iwi(4), ral(4), and ural(4) wireless LAN drivers,
	ipfw(4) and dummynet(4) now supports IPv6,
	net.link.tap.user_open sysctl for tap(4),
	LOCAL_CREDS and LOCAL_CONNWAIT options for unix(4),
	twa(4) driver update,
	machine-specific optimized functions for AMD64.
	getserv{ent,byname,byport} MPSAFE,
	mixer(8) -S option,
	C99 functions: roundl(), lroundl(), llroundl(), truncl(), and floorl(),
	syslogd(8) -S option,
	rc.d/bsnmpd startup script, and
	manual pages of ataraid(4), sched_4bsd(4), and sched_ule(4) added.
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in the &man.acpi.4; driver. These can individually be disabled by setting device
hints such as <varname>hint.<replaceable>ichss</replaceable>.0.disabled="1"</varname>.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hwpmc.4;, hardware performance
monitoring counter driver has been added.
This driver virtualizes the hardware performance monitoring
facilities in modern CPUs and provides support for using
these facilities from user level processes. For more details,
see manual pages of &man.hwpmc.4;, associated libraries,
and associated userland utilities.</para>
<para arch="i386">Support for the OLDCARD subsystem has
been removed. The NEWCARD system is now used for all PCCARD
device support.</para>
@ -421,6 +429,12 @@
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ipw.4; (for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100),
&man.iwi.4; (for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG),
&man.ral.4; (for Ralink Technology RT2500),
and &man.ural.4; (for Ralink Technology RT2500USB)
drivers have been added.</para>
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &man.ndis.4; device driver wrapper now
@ -490,6 +504,9 @@
when the <literal>gid</literal>, <literal>jail</literal>,
and/or <literal>uid</literal> rule options are used. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.4; and &man.dummynet.4; system now
support IPv6.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket,
as well as the TCP data length.</para>
@ -523,6 +540,10 @@
<para>The &man.sppp.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
<para>The new sysctl <varname>net.link.tap.user_open</varname>
has been implemented. This allows unprivileged access to
&man.tap.4; device nodes based on the file system permission.</para>
<para>A bug in TCP that sometimes caused RST packets to
be ignored if the receive window was zero bytes has been
fixed. &merged;</para>
@ -574,6 +595,16 @@
<varname>debug.mpsafenet</varname> sysctl variable may be set
to <literal>1</literal>).</para>
<para>The Unix domain socket now supports
<literal>LOCAL_CREDS</literal> and
<literal>LOCAL_CONNWAIT</literal>.
The <literal>LOCAL_CREDS</literal> option provides
a mechanism for the receiver to receive the credentials
of the process as a &man.recvmsg.2; control message.
The <literal>LOCAL_CONNWAIT</literal>
option causes the &man.connect.2; function to block
until &man.accept.2; has been called on the listening socket.
For more details, see &man.unix.4; manual page.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -608,6 +639,10 @@
<para>The old vinum(4) subsystem has been removed
in favor of the new &man.geom.4;-based version.</para>
<para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to
the 9.2 release (for &os; 5.2.1) distributed from
the 3ware website.</para>
<para arch="pc98">The &man.wd.4; driver has been removed. The
&man.ata.4; driver has been found to work well enough on the
pc98 platform that there is no need for the older &man.wd.4;
@ -656,6 +691,11 @@
<command>eject</command>) to take place after fixating a
disk.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The machine-specific optimized version of
&man.bcmp.3;, &man.bcopy.3;, &man.bzero.3;, &man.memcmp.3;,
&man.memcpy.3;, &man.memmove.3;, &man.memset.3;, &man.strcat.3;
and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented.</para>
<para>The &man.ftpd.8; program now uses the <literal>212</literal>
and <literal>213</literal> status codes for directory
and file status correctly (<literal>211</literal> was used in
@ -685,6 +725,9 @@
<literal>AF_INET6</literal> records before
<literal>AF_INET</literal> records. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.getservent.3;, &man.getservbyname.3;, and
&man.getservbyport.3; functions are now MPSAFE.</para>
<para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports
<command>checkparity</command>,
<command>rebuildparity</command>, and
@ -705,6 +748,10 @@
<para>The on-disk format of <literal>LC_CTYPE</literal> files has
been changed to be machine-independent.</para>
<para>The &man.mixer.8; utility now supports <option>-S</option>
option. This is the same as the <option>-s</option> option
but does not output mixing field separators.</para>
<para>A bug in the <filename>libalias</filename> library
which causes a core dump when the <option>-reverse</option>
option is specified in &man.natd.8; has been fixed.</para>
@ -886,6 +933,11 @@
specified. This behavior is required by
Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3).</para>
<para>The following ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard functions
have been implemented: <function>roundl()</function>,
<function>lroundl()</function>, <function>llroundl()</function>,
<function>truncl()</function>, and <function>floorl()</function>.</para>
<para>An &man.rpmatch.3; library function has been added to check
a string for being an affirmative or negative response in the
current locale.</para>
@ -913,6 +965,14 @@
run out of buffer space due to a
local denial-of-service attack. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.syslogd.8; now supports <option>-S</option> option
which allows to change the pathname of the privileged
socket. This is useful when you do not want the daemon
to receive any messages from the local sockets
(<filename>/var/run/log</filename> and
<filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> are used by default).
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.syslogd.8; utility now allows
<literal>:</literal> and <literal>%</literal>
characters in the hostname specifications.
@ -957,6 +1017,9 @@
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
<para>The <filename>rc.d/bsnmpd</filename> startup script
for &man.bsnmpd.1; has been added.</para>
<para>&man.rc.conf.5; now supports changes of network interface names
at boot time. &merged; For example:</para>
@ -1132,6 +1195,14 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
<sect2 id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para>The &man.sched.4bsd.4; and &man.sched.ule.4; manual pages
have been added. These explain the kernel options SCHED_4BSD
and SCHED_ULE and some sysctls applicable.</para>
<para>The &man.ataraid.4; manual page
have been added. This explain the &man.ata.4; software
RAID driver.</para>
<para>Manual pages in the base system have received a number of
cleanups, both for content and presentation. Cross-references
are more correct and consistent, standard section headings are

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in the &man.acpi.4; driver. These can individually be disabled by setting device
hints such as <varname>hint.<replaceable>ichss</replaceable>.0.disabled="1"</varname>.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hwpmc.4;, hardware performance
monitoring counter driver has been added.
This driver virtualizes the hardware performance monitoring
facilities in modern CPUs and provides support for using
these facilities from user level processes. For more details,
see manual pages of &man.hwpmc.4;, associated libraries,
and associated userland utilities.</para>
<para arch="i386">Support for the OLDCARD subsystem has
been removed. The NEWCARD system is now used for all PCCARD
device support.</para>
@ -421,6 +429,12 @@
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ipw.4; (for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100),
&man.iwi.4; (for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG),
&man.ral.4; (for Ralink Technology RT2500),
and &man.ural.4; (for Ralink Technology RT2500USB)
drivers have been added.</para>
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &man.ndis.4; device driver wrapper now
@ -490,6 +504,9 @@
when the <literal>gid</literal>, <literal>jail</literal>,
and/or <literal>uid</literal> rule options are used. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.4; and &man.dummynet.4; system now
support IPv6.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket,
as well as the TCP data length.</para>
@ -523,6 +540,10 @@
<para>The &man.sppp.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
<para>The new sysctl <varname>net.link.tap.user_open</varname>
has been implemented. This allows unprivileged access to
&man.tap.4; device nodes based on the file system permission.</para>
<para>A bug in TCP that sometimes caused RST packets to
be ignored if the receive window was zero bytes has been
fixed. &merged;</para>
@ -574,6 +595,16 @@
<varname>debug.mpsafenet</varname> sysctl variable may be set
to <literal>1</literal>).</para>
<para>The Unix domain socket now supports
<literal>LOCAL_CREDS</literal> and
<literal>LOCAL_CONNWAIT</literal>.
The <literal>LOCAL_CREDS</literal> option provides
a mechanism for the receiver to receive the credentials
of the process as a &man.recvmsg.2; control message.
The <literal>LOCAL_CONNWAIT</literal>
option causes the &man.connect.2; function to block
until &man.accept.2; has been called on the listening socket.
For more details, see &man.unix.4; manual page.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -608,6 +639,10 @@
<para>The old vinum(4) subsystem has been removed
in favor of the new &man.geom.4;-based version.</para>
<para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to
the 9.2 release (for &os; 5.2.1) distributed from
the 3ware website.</para>
<para arch="pc98">The &man.wd.4; driver has been removed. The
&man.ata.4; driver has been found to work well enough on the
pc98 platform that there is no need for the older &man.wd.4;
@ -656,6 +691,11 @@
<command>eject</command>) to take place after fixating a
disk.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The machine-specific optimized version of
&man.bcmp.3;, &man.bcopy.3;, &man.bzero.3;, &man.memcmp.3;,
&man.memcpy.3;, &man.memmove.3;, &man.memset.3;, &man.strcat.3;
and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented.</para>
<para>The &man.ftpd.8; program now uses the <literal>212</literal>
and <literal>213</literal> status codes for directory
and file status correctly (<literal>211</literal> was used in
@ -685,6 +725,9 @@
<literal>AF_INET6</literal> records before
<literal>AF_INET</literal> records. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.getservent.3;, &man.getservbyname.3;, and
&man.getservbyport.3; functions are now MPSAFE.</para>
<para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports
<command>checkparity</command>,
<command>rebuildparity</command>, and
@ -705,6 +748,10 @@
<para>The on-disk format of <literal>LC_CTYPE</literal> files has
been changed to be machine-independent.</para>
<para>The &man.mixer.8; utility now supports <option>-S</option>
option. This is the same as the <option>-s</option> option
but does not output mixing field separators.</para>
<para>A bug in the <filename>libalias</filename> library
which causes a core dump when the <option>-reverse</option>
option is specified in &man.natd.8; has been fixed.</para>
@ -886,6 +933,11 @@
specified. This behavior is required by
Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3).</para>
<para>The following ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard functions
have been implemented: <function>roundl()</function>,
<function>lroundl()</function>, <function>llroundl()</function>,
<function>truncl()</function>, and <function>floorl()</function>.</para>
<para>An &man.rpmatch.3; library function has been added to check
a string for being an affirmative or negative response in the
current locale.</para>
@ -913,6 +965,14 @@
run out of buffer space due to a
local denial-of-service attack. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.syslogd.8; now supports <option>-S</option> option
which allows to change the pathname of the privileged
socket. This is useful when you do not want the daemon
to receive any messages from the local sockets
(<filename>/var/run/log</filename> and
<filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> are used by default).
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.syslogd.8; utility now allows
<literal>:</literal> and <literal>%</literal>
characters in the hostname specifications.
@ -957,6 +1017,9 @@
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
<para>The <filename>rc.d/bsnmpd</filename> startup script
for &man.bsnmpd.1; has been added.</para>
<para>&man.rc.conf.5; now supports changes of network interface names
at boot time. &merged; For example:</para>
@ -1132,6 +1195,14 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
<sect2 id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para>The &man.sched.4bsd.4; and &man.sched.ule.4; manual pages
have been added. These explain the kernel options SCHED_4BSD
and SCHED_ULE and some sysctls applicable.</para>
<para>The &man.ataraid.4; manual page
have been added. This explain the &man.ata.4; software
RAID driver.</para>
<para>Manual pages in the base system have received a number of
cleanups, both for content and presentation. Cross-references
are more correct and consistent, standard section headings are