Update release notes.

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<sect2 xml:id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
<para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added
for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and
assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added
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<sect4 xml:id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para/>
<para>Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design
has been added. New devices should support higher bandwidth,
increased sampling frequency and wider dynamic range.</para>
</sect4>
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<sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para>The &man.bpf.4; packet filter and capture facility now
supports a zero-copy mode of operation, in which buffers are
loaned from a user process to the kernel. This feature can
be enabled by setting
the <varname>net.bpf.zerocopy_enable</varname> sysctl
variable to <literal>1</literal>.</para>
<para>&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses
more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as
quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant
address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with
ifconfig, better locking and using modern kernel
interfaces to allocate multicast memberships.</para>
<para>ISDN4BSD(I4B), <filename>netatm</filename>, and all
related subsystems have been removed due to lack of
multi-processor support.</para>
<para>The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking
and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in
significant improvements in performance.</para>
<para role="merged">A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding
bytes were used, has been fixed.</para>
<para>Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been
introduced.</para>
<para role="merged">The IEEE 802.11s element identifiers have
been updated to reflect the final version of the amendment. This
update breaks compatibility with older mesh setups but is necessary
as the previous IDs are used by another amendment leading to
unexpected results when trying to associate with an accesspoint
using the affected IDs.</para>
<para>Support for setting/matching differentiated services
codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to
&man.ipfw.8;.</para>
</sect3>
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<sect3 xml:id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has
been fixed.</para>
<para>A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been
added</para>
<para>A new kernel-mode NFS lock manager has been added,
improving performance and behavior of NFS locking. A new
&man.clear.locks.8; command has been added to clear locks held
on behalf of an NFS client.</para>
<para>UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while
mounted read-write. This is especially useful for virtual
machines, allowing the addition of more harddrive space without
interruption of service.</para>
<para role="merged">The <application>ZFS</application> file system
has been upgraded to version 28. Changes include Data
Deduplication, Triple parity RAIDZ, and zfs diff.</para>
<para>A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the
base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file
systems</para>
<para>Support for the high performance LZ4 compression algorithm
has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually faster and can achieve a
higher compression ratio than LZJB, the default compression
algorithm</para>
<para>Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</para>
<para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to
the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any
write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O
as well as space usage because if the old block is referenced
by a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though
both contain the same data.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland">
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<para role="merged"><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 a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the
base system, but is still available from ports</para>
<para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.23
to 5.03.</para>