New release notes: SCHED_ULE default, cdboot buggy BIOS workaround,
dc(4) sparc64/OFW fix, sk(4) multicast fix, IPsec bugfix, ata(4) bugfixes, GEOM fix, NFSv4 panic fix, NSS large groups fix, CVS security fix. Most (but not all) of these are 5.2-RELEASE errata items.
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<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
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breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
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<para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
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<sect3 id="proc">
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<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
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<option>-b</option> option.</para>
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<para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a
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BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
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CDROM drives.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="net-if">
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
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Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
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OpenFirmware.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
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driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
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has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
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FreeBSD. For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
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&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
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<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
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handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="net-proto">
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<title>Network Protocols</title>
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<para>Some bugs in the IPsec implementation from the KAME
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Project have been fixed. These bugs were related to freeing
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memory objects before all references to them were removed, and
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could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing
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the Security Policy Database (SPD).</para>
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<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
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3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
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congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
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<sect3 id="disks">
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<title>Disks and Storage</title>
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<para></para>
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<para>A number of bugs in the &man.ata.4; driver have been
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fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should
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work better, and some problems with timeouts should be
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resolved.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="fs">
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<title>File Systems</title>
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<para></para>
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<para>A bug in GEOM that could result in I/O hangs in some rare
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cases has been fixed.</para>
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<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
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when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
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server.</para>
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</sect3>
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print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting
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the rule body.</para>
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<para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes
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problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename
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role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
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membership lists.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="contrib">
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<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
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from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
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<para>Two security fixes for <application>CVS</application> (one
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related to pserver operation and the other dealing with
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malformed module requests) have been backported from later
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versions.</para>
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<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
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3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
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breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
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<para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
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<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
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<sect3 id="proc">
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@ -149,6 +152,10 @@
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<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
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<option>-b</option> option.</para>
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<para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a
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BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
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CDROM drives.</para>
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<!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
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</sect3>
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@ -156,6 +163,10 @@
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<sect3 id="net-if">
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<title>Network Interface Support</title>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
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Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
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OpenFirmware.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
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driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
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has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
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@ -168,11 +179,20 @@
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FreeBSD. For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
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&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
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<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
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handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="net-proto">
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<title>Network Protocols</title>
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<para>Some bugs in the IPsec implementation from the KAME
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Project have been fixed. These bugs were related to freeing
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memory objects before all references to them were removed, and
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could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing
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the Security Policy Database (SPD).</para>
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<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
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3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
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congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
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@ -193,14 +213,22 @@
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<sect3 id="disks">
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<title>Disks and Storage</title>
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<para></para>
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<para>A number of bugs in the &man.ata.4; driver have been
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fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should
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work better, and some problems with timeouts should be
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resolved.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="fs">
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<title>File Systems</title>
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<para></para>
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<para>A bug in GEOM that could result in I/O hangs in some rare
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cases has been fixed.</para>
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<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
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when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
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server.</para>
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</sect3>
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@ -225,6 +253,11 @@
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print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting
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the rule body.</para>
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<para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes
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problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename
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role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
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membership lists.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="contrib">
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@ -233,6 +266,11 @@
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<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
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from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
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<para>Two security fixes for <application>CVS</application> (one
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related to pserver operation and the other dealing with
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malformed module requests) have been backported from later
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versions.</para>
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<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
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3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>
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