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<abstract>
<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
of the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.branch; is created.
of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
&release.branch; development line.
This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
kernel and userland.
@ -136,7 +137,7 @@
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
<para>A information disclosure vulnerability in the
<para>An information disclosure vulnerability in the
&man.sendfile.2; system call, which could permit it to transmit
random parts of kernel memory, has been fixed. More details are
in security advisory
@ -168,12 +169,12 @@
allowed unprivileged local users can send commands to the
hardware supported by the &man.iir.4; driver, has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</ulink>.
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
<para>A bug in the validation of &man.i386.get.ldt.2; system call
input arguments, which may allow kernel memory may be disclosed
to the user process, has been fixed. For more information, see
input arguments, which may allow kernel memory to be disclosed
to a user process, has been fixed. For more information, see
security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
@ -247,6 +248,8 @@
<informaltable frame="none">
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colwidth="1*">
<colspec colwidth="3*">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Value</entry>
@ -257,22 +260,22 @@
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>0</entry>
<entry>show all mount-points without any restrictions</entry>
<entry>Show all mount-points without any restrictions.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1</entry>
<entry>show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the
mount-point's path (if jail's chroot directory is
<entry>Show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the
mount-point's path (for example, if the jail's chroot directory is
<filename>/jails/foo</filename> and
mount-point is
<filename>/jails/foo/usr/home</filename>
only <filename>/usr/home</filename> will be shown)</entry>
<filename>/jails/foo/usr/home</filename>,
only <filename>/usr/home</filename> will be shown).</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>2</entry>
<entry>show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</entry>
<entry>Show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
@ -390,7 +393,7 @@
<para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command
now supports the prompt parameter.</para>
<para>The <command>autoboot</command> will now prevent the user
<para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command will now prevent the user
from interrupting the boot process at all if the
<varname>autoboot_delay</varname> variable is set to
<literal>-1</literal>. &merged;</para>
@ -416,10 +419,8 @@
<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> sysctls to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver for IBM laptops
has been added.</para>
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver has been
improved to support hotkeys and reading fan status and thermal
has been added. It provides support for the various
hotkeys and reading fan status and thermal
sensors.</para>
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.fujitsu.4; driver for handling
@ -431,10 +432,11 @@
<para>The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.atkbd.4;, and &man.psm.4;
drivers have been rewritten in more bus-independent way,
and now support EBus found on sparc64 platform.</para>
and now support the EBus found on the sparc64 platform.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The following device drivers have been
added and enabled by default:
added and enabled by default in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel:
&man.atkbdc.4;,
&man.atkbd.4;,
creator(4),
@ -446,7 +448,7 @@
&man.ums.4;,
and &man.usb.4;.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been added; it supports
some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus
&ultrasparc; models. &merged;</para>
@ -572,7 +574,7 @@
between this feature and promiscuous mode. &merged;</para>
<para>Ethernet flow control is now disabled by default in the
&man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems with a system panics
&man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems on a subnet when a system panics
or is left in the kernel debugger. &merged;</para>
<para>The gx(4) driver has been removed because
@ -679,8 +681,9 @@
support IPv6.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket,
as well as the TCP data length.</para>
of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket. It is also
possible to specify rules that match TCP packets with specific
payload sizes.</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports
the full packet destination manipulation when the kernel option
@ -692,7 +695,7 @@
Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to
make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; now supports IPv4 only rules.</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; system now supports IPv4 only rules.</para>
<para>&man.ipnat.8; now allows redirect rules to
work for non-TCP/UDP packets. &merged;</para>
@ -704,7 +707,7 @@
<para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library can now be built
as a kernel module.</para>
<para>The link state change notifications of network interface
<para>The link state change notifications of network interfaces
are sent to <filename>/dev/devctl</filename> now.</para>
<para>A new &man.ng.ipfw.4; NetGraph node provides
@ -946,18 +949,19 @@
&man.getservbyport.3; functions are now thread-safe. &merged;</para>
<para>For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
(also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname>
(also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname> member
of <varname>struct netent</varname> and the first argument
of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an uint32_t.
Due to these changes the ABI on 64-bit platforms becomes
of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an <literal>uint32_t</literal>.
Due to these changes, the ABI on 64-bit platforms is
incompatible with previous releases of &os; and
the major version number of libpcap has been bumped.
If you upgrade &os; for 64-bit platforms, note that all of
the userland programs which use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;,
&man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3; and/or
<application>libpcap</application> have to be recompiled.</para>
the major version number of the <filename>libpcap</filename>
shared library has been bumped.
On 64-bit platforms being upgraded from older &os; versions, all
userland programs that use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;,
&man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3;, and/or
<filename>libpcap</filename> have to be recompiled.</para>
<para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports
<para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports the
<command>checkparity</command>,
<command>rebuildparity</command>, and
<command>setstate</command>
@ -1099,22 +1103,22 @@
<para>The &man.periodic.8; security output now supports the display of
information about blocked packet counts from &man.pf.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; now supports an <option>-S</option> option
which allows to match system processes (kernel threads).</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; command now supports a <option>-S</option> option
which allows matching system processes (kernel threads).</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an
<option>-F</option> option which allows to use file where PID is stored
for matching.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a
<option>-F</option> option, which matches a process whose PID is
stored in a file.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a
<option>-i</option> option to ignore case in the process match.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an
<option>-j</option> option which allows to match processes
based on its &man.jail.2; ID.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a
<option>-j</option> option that matches processes
based on their &man.jail.2; ID.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an
<option>-o</option> option which allows to match oldest
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a
<option>-o</option> option which matches only the oldest
(least recently started) of the matching processes.</para>
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program for managing power consumption has been
@ -1137,11 +1141,11 @@
which violates the Microsoft PPP Callback Control Protocol
section 3.2. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ps.1; now supports a <literal>jid</literal>
keyword in the <option>-o</option> option. It displays
<para>The &man.ps.1; utility now supports a <literal>jid</literal>
keyword in the <option>-o</option> option. It displays the
&man.jail.2; ID of each process.</para>
<para>The &man.pstat.8; now supports a <option>-h</option> option
<para>The &man.pstat.8; program now supports a <option>-h</option> option
to print swap sizes with SI prefixes such as K, M, and G,
which are used to form binary multiples.</para>
@ -1158,7 +1162,7 @@
<para>The &man.rexecd.8; utility has been removed.
There are no rexec clients in the &os; tree, and the client
function &man.rexec.3; is present only in
<application>libcompat</application>.</para>
<filename>libcompat</filename>.</para>
<para>The &man.rm.1; utility now supports an <option>-I</option>
option that asks for confirmation (once) if recursively
@ -1239,7 +1243,7 @@
connection, has been added. It was obtained from
OpenBSD. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.what.1; now support a <option>-q</option> flag, which
<para>&man.what.1; now supports a <option>-q</option> flag, which
causes it to print matching text, but not format it.</para>
<para>&man.whois.1; now supports
@ -1344,7 +1348,8 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
to 1.0.3.</para>
<para><application>OpenBSD dhclient</application> as of OpenBSD 3.7
has been imported.</para>
has been imported. It replaces the ISC DHCP client used in
prior versions of &os;.</para>
<para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.10
to 4.12.</para>
@ -1417,7 +1422,7 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4. It now supports
<literal>OSTYPE(freebsd6)</literal>.</para>
<para><application>TCPDUMP</application> has been updated from
<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
v3.8.3 to v3.9.1 (alpha 096).</para>
<para><application>tcsh</application> has been updated from
@ -1504,7 +1509,7 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
<para>The supported version of the
<application>GNOME</application> desktop environment has been
updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10. More information about
updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10.1. More information about
running <application>GNOME</application> on &os; can be found on
the <ulink url="&url.base;/gnome/">FreeBSD GNOME Project</ulink>
Web page. &merged;

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<abstract>
<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
of the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.branch; is created.
of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
&release.branch; development line.
This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
kernel and userland.
@ -136,7 +137,7 @@
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
<para>A information disclosure vulnerability in the
<para>An information disclosure vulnerability in the
&man.sendfile.2; system call, which could permit it to transmit
random parts of kernel memory, has been fixed. More details are
in security advisory
@ -168,12 +169,12 @@
allowed unprivileged local users can send commands to the
hardware supported by the &man.iir.4; driver, has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</ulink>.
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
<para>A bug in the validation of &man.i386.get.ldt.2; system call
input arguments, which may allow kernel memory may be disclosed
to the user process, has been fixed. For more information, see
input arguments, which may allow kernel memory to be disclosed
to a user process, has been fixed. For more information, see
security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
@ -247,6 +248,8 @@
<informaltable frame="none">
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colwidth="1*">
<colspec colwidth="3*">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Value</entry>
@ -257,22 +260,22 @@
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>0</entry>
<entry>show all mount-points without any restrictions</entry>
<entry>Show all mount-points without any restrictions.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1</entry>
<entry>show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the
mount-point's path (if jail's chroot directory is
<entry>Show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the
mount-point's path (for example, if the jail's chroot directory is
<filename>/jails/foo</filename> and
mount-point is
<filename>/jails/foo/usr/home</filename>
only <filename>/usr/home</filename> will be shown)</entry>
<filename>/jails/foo/usr/home</filename>,
only <filename>/usr/home</filename> will be shown).</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>2</entry>
<entry>show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</entry>
<entry>Show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
@ -390,7 +393,7 @@
<para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command
now supports the prompt parameter.</para>
<para>The <command>autoboot</command> will now prevent the user
<para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command will now prevent the user
from interrupting the boot process at all if the
<varname>autoboot_delay</varname> variable is set to
<literal>-1</literal>. &merged;</para>
@ -416,10 +419,8 @@
<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> sysctls to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver for IBM laptops
has been added.</para>
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver has been
improved to support hotkeys and reading fan status and thermal
has been added. It provides support for the various
hotkeys and reading fan status and thermal
sensors.</para>
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.fujitsu.4; driver for handling
@ -431,10 +432,11 @@
<para>The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.atkbd.4;, and &man.psm.4;
drivers have been rewritten in more bus-independent way,
and now support EBus found on sparc64 platform.</para>
and now support the EBus found on the sparc64 platform.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The following device drivers have been
added and enabled by default:
added and enabled by default in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel:
&man.atkbdc.4;,
&man.atkbd.4;,
creator(4),
@ -446,7 +448,7 @@
&man.ums.4;,
and &man.usb.4;.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been added; it supports
some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus
&ultrasparc; models. &merged;</para>
@ -572,7 +574,7 @@
between this feature and promiscuous mode. &merged;</para>
<para>Ethernet flow control is now disabled by default in the
&man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems with a system panics
&man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems on a subnet when a system panics
or is left in the kernel debugger. &merged;</para>
<para>The gx(4) driver has been removed because
@ -679,8 +681,9 @@
support IPv6.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket,
as well as the TCP data length.</para>
of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket. It is also
possible to specify rules that match TCP packets with specific
payload sizes.</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports
the full packet destination manipulation when the kernel option
@ -692,7 +695,7 @@
Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to
make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; now supports IPv4 only rules.</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; system now supports IPv4 only rules.</para>
<para>&man.ipnat.8; now allows redirect rules to
work for non-TCP/UDP packets. &merged;</para>
@ -704,7 +707,7 @@
<para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library can now be built
as a kernel module.</para>
<para>The link state change notifications of network interface
<para>The link state change notifications of network interfaces
are sent to <filename>/dev/devctl</filename> now.</para>
<para>A new &man.ng.ipfw.4; NetGraph node provides
@ -946,18 +949,19 @@
&man.getservbyport.3; functions are now thread-safe. &merged;</para>
<para>For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
(also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname>
(also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname> member
of <varname>struct netent</varname> and the first argument
of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an uint32_t.
Due to these changes the ABI on 64-bit platforms becomes
of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an <literal>uint32_t</literal>.
Due to these changes, the ABI on 64-bit platforms is
incompatible with previous releases of &os; and
the major version number of libpcap has been bumped.
If you upgrade &os; for 64-bit platforms, note that all of
the userland programs which use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;,
&man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3; and/or
<application>libpcap</application> have to be recompiled.</para>
the major version number of the <filename>libpcap</filename>
shared library has been bumped.
On 64-bit platforms being upgraded from older &os; versions, all
userland programs that use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;,
&man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3;, and/or
<filename>libpcap</filename> have to be recompiled.</para>
<para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports
<para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports the
<command>checkparity</command>,
<command>rebuildparity</command>, and
<command>setstate</command>
@ -1099,22 +1103,22 @@
<para>The &man.periodic.8; security output now supports the display of
information about blocked packet counts from &man.pf.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; now supports an <option>-S</option> option
which allows to match system processes (kernel threads).</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; command now supports a <option>-S</option> option
which allows matching system processes (kernel threads).</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an
<option>-F</option> option which allows to use file where PID is stored
for matching.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a
<option>-F</option> option, which matches a process whose PID is
stored in a file.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a
<option>-i</option> option to ignore case in the process match.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an
<option>-j</option> option which allows to match processes
based on its &man.jail.2; ID.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a
<option>-j</option> option that matches processes
based on their &man.jail.2; ID.</para>
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an
<option>-o</option> option which allows to match oldest
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a
<option>-o</option> option which matches only the oldest
(least recently started) of the matching processes.</para>
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program for managing power consumption has been
@ -1137,11 +1141,11 @@
which violates the Microsoft PPP Callback Control Protocol
section 3.2. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ps.1; now supports a <literal>jid</literal>
keyword in the <option>-o</option> option. It displays
<para>The &man.ps.1; utility now supports a <literal>jid</literal>
keyword in the <option>-o</option> option. It displays the
&man.jail.2; ID of each process.</para>
<para>The &man.pstat.8; now supports a <option>-h</option> option
<para>The &man.pstat.8; program now supports a <option>-h</option> option
to print swap sizes with SI prefixes such as K, M, and G,
which are used to form binary multiples.</para>
@ -1158,7 +1162,7 @@
<para>The &man.rexecd.8; utility has been removed.
There are no rexec clients in the &os; tree, and the client
function &man.rexec.3; is present only in
<application>libcompat</application>.</para>
<filename>libcompat</filename>.</para>
<para>The &man.rm.1; utility now supports an <option>-I</option>
option that asks for confirmation (once) if recursively
@ -1239,7 +1243,7 @@
connection, has been added. It was obtained from
OpenBSD. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.what.1; now support a <option>-q</option> flag, which
<para>&man.what.1; now supports a <option>-q</option> flag, which
causes it to print matching text, but not format it.</para>
<para>&man.whois.1; now supports
@ -1344,7 +1348,8 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
to 1.0.3.</para>
<para><application>OpenBSD dhclient</application> as of OpenBSD 3.7
has been imported.</para>
has been imported. It replaces the ISC DHCP client used in
prior versions of &os;.</para>
<para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.10
to 4.12.</para>
@ -1417,7 +1422,7 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4. It now supports
<literal>OSTYPE(freebsd6)</literal>.</para>
<para><application>TCPDUMP</application> has been updated from
<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
v3.8.3 to v3.9.1 (alpha 096).</para>
<para><application>tcsh</application> has been updated from
@ -1504,7 +1509,7 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting>
<para>The supported version of the
<application>GNOME</application> desktop environment has been
updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10. More information about
updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10.1. More information about
running <application>GNOME</application> on &os; can be found on
the <ulink url="&url.base;/gnome/">FreeBSD GNOME Project</ulink>
Web page. &merged;