New release notes: TCP RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) support, libarchive(3),

killall(1) -e, sdpd(8), awk 20040207, GNU readline patches 001-005,
GNU tar renaming, OpenPAM Eelgrass.
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Bruce A. Mah 2004-02-17 05:05:43 +00:00
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dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
resource exhaustion attacks.</para>
<para>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only)
support for RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature,
enabled with the <literal>TCP_SIGNATURE</literal> and
<literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel options, is a TCP option
for authenticating TCP sessions. &man.setkey.8; now includes
support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations.
&merged;</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
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print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting
the rule body.</para>
<para>A <filename>libarchive</filename> library for manipulation
of compressed and uncompressed archive files has been
added. More details can be found in &man.libarchive.3;.</para>
<para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the
correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the
&man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a
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</note>
<para>
<para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to
make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than
real, user ids.</para>
<para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes
problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
membership lists.</para>
<para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
has been added.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
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<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
release.</para>
<para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application>
1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain
malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using
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<username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via
&man.syslog.3;.</para>
<para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated
with official patches 001 through 005.</para>
<para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the
base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with
<filename>tar</filename> being a link to
<filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>

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dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
resource exhaustion attacks.</para>
<para>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only)
support for RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature,
enabled with the <literal>TCP_SIGNATURE</literal> and
<literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel options, is a TCP option
for authenticating TCP sessions. &man.setkey.8; now includes
support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations.
&merged;</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -307,6 +315,10 @@
print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting
the rule body.</para>
<para>A <filename>libarchive</filename> library for manipulation
of compressed and uncompressed archive files has been
added. More details can be found in &man.libarchive.3;.</para>
<para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the
correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the
&man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a
@ -338,11 +350,18 @@
</note>
<para>
<para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to
make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than
real, user ids.</para>
<para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes
problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
membership lists.</para>
<para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
has been added.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
@ -351,6 +370,10 @@
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
release.</para>
<para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application>
1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain
malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using
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<username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via
&man.syslog.3;.</para>
<para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated
with official patches 001 through 005.</para>
<para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the
base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with
<filename>tar</filename> being a link to
<filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>