From 6691d369412f7287c49420f2f5c84f1f9aa5d2f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:12:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update, re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown, hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1) primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5. Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008. --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 68 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index b6682f1f7085..623dbe910965 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -167,6 +167,14 @@ synchronized source code. More information can be found in the &man.textdump.4; manual page. + Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While + the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful + in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the + kse library was never developed to its full potential. + Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading + will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked + binaries. + Boot Loader Changes @@ -187,7 +195,12 @@ Hardware Support - + The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 + PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. + + The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon + Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been + imported from OpenBSD. Multimedia Support @@ -199,6 +212,18 @@ Network Interface Support + The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its + performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It + should also work on all architectures. + + The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a + number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) + support. + + The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a + number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all + architectures. + [&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.wpi.4; driver has been added to support the Intel 3945 Wireless LAN Controller. @@ -209,21 +234,31 @@ Network Protocols - + A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding + bytes were used, has been fixed. Disks and Storage - + The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for + disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests + have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down + until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now + supports a spindown command to configure + this feature. + + The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 + from Highpoint. File Systems - + A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has + been fixed. @@ -235,6 +270,26 @@ based on libarchive, have replaced the GNU Binutils versions of these utilities. + &man.chflags.1; now supports a flag for + verbose output and a flag to ignore errors + with the same semantics as (for example) + &man.chmod.1;. &merged; + + For compatiblity with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now + supports a flag, which is equivalent to + specifying the flags. + + &man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number + of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; + &man.find.1;. + + The &man.split.1; utility now supports a + flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks. + + The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a + flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style + compression/decompression. + &man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS number for each hop with the new switch; a new option allows selecting a particular @@ -261,8 +316,11 @@ awk has been updated from 1 May 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release. &merged; + bzip2 has been updated from 1.0.4 + to 1.0.5. + CVS has been updated from 1.11.17 - to 1.11.22. + to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008. IPFilter has been updated from 4.1.23 to 4.1.28.