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New release notes: 802.11 stack megacommit, IPX-over-IP gone,

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SSM, pam_nologin(8) change, GNU Diffutils 2.8.7.
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@ -910,6 +910,11 @@
interfaces. More information can be found in
&man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para>The 802.11 protocol stack has been significantly reworked.
Among the new features are support for background scanning
and roaming between APs, as well as support that will be
required by 802.11n-capable devices.</para>
<para>The 802.11 protocol stack now has support for 900 MHz
cards, as well as quarter- and half-channel support
for 802.11a. &merged;</para>
@ -1035,6 +1040,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
IPv6 support, it should be used instead. Please note that some rules might need
to be adjusted.</para>
<para>Support for tunneling IPX over IP has been removed.</para>
<para>The &man.lagg.4; driver, ported from OpenBSD and NetBSD,
has been added to support a variety of protocols and algorithms
for link aggregation, failover, and fault tolerance. &merged;</para>
@ -1121,6 +1128,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
The corresponding code is now included in the
<literal>MROUTING</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para>Support has been added for the RFC 3678 Source-Specific
Multicast (SSM) socket API. More details can be found in
the &man.sourcefilter.3; manual page.</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
@ -1742,6 +1753,18 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The objformat(1) utility and getobjformat(3) library (the
last remnants of a.out object file support) have been removed.</para>
<para>The &man.pam.nologin.8; module no longer provides a
an authentication function; instead it now provides an account
management function. Third-party files in
<filename>/usr/local/etc/pam.d</filename> may
need manual editing; specifically, lines in these files of
the form:
<screen>auth required pam_nologin.so no_warn</screen></para>
<para>These lines need to have the word <literal>auth</literal>
replaced with the word <literal>account</literal>.</para>
<para>The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports
display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;,
&man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices.
@ -2074,6 +2097,9 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para><application>BZIP2</application> has been updated from
1.0.3 to 1.0.4.</para>
<para>GNU <application>Diffutils</application> has been updated
to 2.8.7.</para>
<para><application>DRM</application> has
been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517.
&merged;</para>