From 84b9a94fb61f990fbc8edbc30c5345755409d05f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:11:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: New CAM error recovery code, PAM support for account management and session, tail(1) support for large files. Updates: vn(4) removed, file(1) update to 3.34. --- release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 17 +++++++++++++++-- release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index d72429b720c7..703d272822ae 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ kernfs(5) is obsolete and has been retired. md(4), the memory disk device, has had the functionality of vn(4) incorporated into it. md(4) devices can now be configured by -mdconfig(8). +mdconfig(8). vn(4) has been removed. The ray(4) driver, which supports the Webgear Aviator wireless network cards, has been committed. The operation of ray(4) interfaces can be @@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ introduced, allowing more fine-grained control of discretionary access control on files and directories. This support was integrated from the TrustedBSD Project. +The CAM error recovery code has been updated. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -700,7 +702,7 @@ A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. [MERGED] pwd(1) can now double as realpath(1), a program to resolve pathnames to their underlying physical paths. [MERGED] -file(1) has been contribify-ed, and imported as version 3.33. [MERGED] +file(1) has been contribify-ed, and updated to version 3.34. stty(1) now has support for an "erase2" control character, so that both "delete" and "backspace" can be used to erase characters. [MERGED] @@ -890,6 +892,8 @@ improved to provide less biased results. login(1) now exports environment variables set by PAM modules. [MERGED] +PAM support has been added for account management and sessions. + wall(1) now supports a -g flag to write a message to all users of a given group. @@ -922,6 +926,8 @@ The ISC DHCP client has been updated to 2.0pl5. [MERGED] split(1) now has the ability to split a file longer than 2GB. [MERGED] +tail(1) now has the ability to work on files longer than 2GB. + units(1) has received some updates and bugfixes. [MERGED] As part of an ongoing process, many manual pages were improved, both @@ -955,6 +961,13 @@ file system Access Control Lists. ee(1) editor has been updated to 1.4.2. +The default TCP port range used by libfetch for passive FTP retrievals +has changed; this affects the behavior of ftp(1), which has gained the +-U option to restore the old behavior. [MERGED] + +atacontrol(8) has been added to control various aspects of the ata(4) +driver. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index 9cc067b38c23..e934655dee01 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ kernfs(5) is obsolete and has been retired. md(4), the memory disk device, has had the functionality of vn(4) incorporated into it. md(4) devices can now be configured by -mdconfig(8). +mdconfig(8). vn(4) has been removed. The ray(4) driver, which supports the Webgear Aviator wireless network cards, has been committed. The operation of ray(4) interfaces can be @@ -398,6 +398,8 @@ introduced, allowing more fine-grained control of discretionary access control on files and directories. This support was integrated from the TrustedBSD Project. +The CAM error recovery code has been updated. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -793,7 +795,7 @@ A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. [MERGED] pwd(1) can now double as realpath(1), a program to resolve pathnames to their underlying physical paths. [MERGED] -file(1) has been contribify-ed, and imported as version 3.33. [MERGED] +file(1) has been contribify-ed, and updated to version 3.34. stty(1) now has support for an "erase2" control character, so that both "delete" and "backspace" can be used to erase characters. [MERGED] @@ -986,6 +988,8 @@ improved to provide less biased results. login(1) now exports environment variables set by PAM modules. [MERGED] +PAM support has been added for account management and sessions. + wall(1) now supports a -g flag to write a message to all users of a given group. @@ -1014,6 +1018,8 @@ The ISC DHCP client has been updated to 2.0pl5. [MERGED] split(1) now has the ability to split a file longer than 2GB. [MERGED] +tail(1) now has the ability to work on files longer than 2GB. + units(1) has received some updates and bugfixes. [MERGED] As part of an ongoing process, many manual pages were improved, both @@ -1047,6 +1053,13 @@ file system Access Control Lists. ee(1) editor has been updated to 1.4.2. +The default TCP port range used by libfetch for passive FTP retrievals +has changed; this affects the behavior of ftp(1), which has gained the +-U option to restore the old behavior. [MERGED] + +atacontrol(8) has been added to control various aspects of the ata(4) +driver. + 2. Supported Configurations ---------------------------