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Updated release notes:  OpenSSH 4.5p1.
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&man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket
to a remote host.</para>
<para>Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel
option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel).
It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in
functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para>
<para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE.
&merged;</para>
@ -513,6 +518,14 @@
<para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been
added.</para>
<para>&os; now has preliminary support for the Sun Microsystems
UltraSPARC-T1 archicture. &os;/sun4v has been demonstrated
to run on the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers.
More information can be found on the
<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sun4v.html">sun4v
Project</ulink>
page.</para>
<para>The tnt4882(4) driver, which supports the National Instruments
PCI-GPIB card, has been added.</para>
@ -888,10 +901,17 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
userland implementation of <quote>The Generalized TTL
Security Mechanism (GTSM)</quote> found in RFC 3682.</para>
<para>The kernel &man.ppp.4; driver now supports IPv6.</para>
<para>Stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4.
This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable
<varname>net.inet6.ip6.stealth</varname>.</para>
<para>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
in &os; with the <literal>SCTP</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option
now works for UDP.</para>
@ -903,6 +923,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.rttthresh</varname> specifies
the threshold in milliseconds below which this feature
will disengage. It defaults to 10ms. &merged;</para>
<para>The &os; network stack now has support for TCP
Segmentation Offload (TSO). TSO reduces the overhead of
sending bulk TCP data by allowing a network interface to
convert a large data transfer into multiple TCP segments to be
sent on the network. This functionality can be enabled or
disabled on a per-interface basis with
the <literal>tso</literal> and <literal>-tso</literal> flags
to &man.ifconfig.8;. Network interfaces and drivers
supporting TSO currently include &man.em.4; and
&man.mxge.4;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -1675,7 +1707,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
NetBSD as of 31 August 2006. &merged;</para>
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
4.2p1 to 4.4p1. &merged;</para>
4.2p1 to 4.5p1. &merged;</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.</para>

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&man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket
to a remote host.</para>
<para>Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel
option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel).
It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in
functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para>
<para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE.
&merged;</para>
@ -513,6 +518,14 @@
<para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been
added.</para>
<para>&os; now has preliminary support for the Sun Microsystems
UltraSPARC-T1 archicture. &os;/sun4v has been demonstrated
to run on the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers.
More information can be found on the
<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sun4v.html">sun4v
Project</ulink>
page.</para>
<para>The tnt4882(4) driver, which supports the National Instruments
PCI-GPIB card, has been added.</para>
@ -888,10 +901,17 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
userland implementation of <quote>The Generalized TTL
Security Mechanism (GTSM)</quote> found in RFC 3682.</para>
<para>The kernel &man.ppp.4; driver now supports IPv6.</para>
<para>Stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4.
This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable
<varname>net.inet6.ip6.stealth</varname>.</para>
<para>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
in &os; with the <literal>SCTP</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option
now works for UDP.</para>
@ -903,6 +923,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.rttthresh</varname> specifies
the threshold in milliseconds below which this feature
will disengage. It defaults to 10ms. &merged;</para>
<para>The &os; network stack now has support for TCP
Segmentation Offload (TSO). TSO reduces the overhead of
sending bulk TCP data by allowing a network interface to
convert a large data transfer into multiple TCP segments to be
sent on the network. This functionality can be enabled or
disabled on a per-interface basis with
the <literal>tso</literal> and <literal>-tso</literal> flags
to &man.ifconfig.8;. Network interfaces and drivers
supporting TSO currently include &man.em.4; and
&man.mxge.4;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -1675,7 +1707,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
NetBSD as of 31 August 2006. &merged;</para>
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
4.2p1 to 4.4p1. &merged;</para>
4.2p1 to 4.5p1. &merged;</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.</para>