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New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,

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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.
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synchronized source code. More information can be found in the
&man.textdump.4; manual page.</para>
<para>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.</para>
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
@ -187,7 +195,12 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para></para>
<para>The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040
PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon
Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been
imported from OpenBSD.</para>
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@ -199,6 +212,18 @@
<sect4 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para>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.</para>
<para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL)
support.</para>
<para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all
architectures.</para>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.wpi.4; driver has
been added to support the Intel 3945 Wireless LAN
Controller.</para>
@ -209,21 +234,31 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para></para>
<para>A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding
bytes were used, has been fixed.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
<para></para>
<para>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 <command>spindown</command> command to configure
this feature.</para>
<para>The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2
from Highpoint.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para></para>
<para>A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has
been fixed.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@ -235,6 +270,26 @@
based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU
Binutils versions of these utilities.</para>
<para>&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for
verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors
with the same semantics as (for example)
&man.chmod.1;. &merged;</para>
<para>For compatiblity with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now
supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to
specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para>
<para>&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;.</para>
<para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para>
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option>
flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style
compression/decompression.</para>
<para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS
number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a
new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular
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<para><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May
2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release. &merged;</para>
<para><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4
to 1.0.5.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from 1.11.17
to 1.11.22.</para>
to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated from
4.1.23 to 4.1.28.</para>