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apm(4) suspend/resume support improvement,
	read(2) vn lock now protected by FOFFSET_LOCKED flag,
	cardbus(4), pccard(4), pccbb(4), and exca(4) buildable as KLDs,
	midi(4) driver added again,
	ath(4) and related drivers included in GENERIC by default,
	wi(4) builable as KLD,
	wlan_*(4) crypto drivers included in GENERIC by default,
	ipfw(4) tag/untag keyword support,
	the default retransmit timer for NFS over TCP changed to 60s,
	the default value of vfs.nfs.iodmin changed to 0,
	numeric arguments for find(1) -user/-group now work as expected,
	hccontrol(8) HCI node autodetection,
	id(1) prints euid with gid,
	kdump(1) can print syscall flags in symbol names,
	"mount -u -o rw" on read-only mount now works as expected,
	sed(1) incorrect calculation of pattern space length fixed,
	time(1) SIGINFO support added,
	rc.d/mdconfig added,
	DRM updated to a snapshot as of 20060517,
	/media directory for removable media mount points added,
	pc98 release CDROMs now boolable, and
	kernel subsystem API doc generating framework with doxygen added.

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extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might
overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para>
<para>The &man.apm.4; suspend/resume support has been improved.</para>
<para>The <literal>options COMPAT_43</literal> kernel
configuration option has been deemed unnecessary and has been
removed from <filename>GENERIC</filename> and related kernel
@ -263,9 +265,13 @@
<para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE.
&merged;</para>
<para>&os; now supports concurrent &man.read.2;/&man.readv.2;
access to a file.</para>
<para>The experimental CORE process scheduler has been added,
enabled with the <literal>options SCHED_CORE</literal> kernel
configuration option. It is forked from the ULE scheduler, but
configuration option. It is forked from the &man.sched.ule.4;
scheduler, but
with a different algorithm for detecting an interactive process.
More information can be found in the &man.sched.core.4; manual
page.</para>
@ -381,6 +387,10 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para>The &man.cardbus.4;, &man.pccard.4;,
&man.pccbb.4;, and &man.exca.4; drivers are now buildable
as kernel modules.</para>
<para>A &man.acpi.dock.4; driver has been added to provide
support for controlling laptop docking station functions via
ACPI.</para>
@ -480,6 +490,10 @@
<para>The &man.agp.4; driver now supports ATI IGP chipsets.
&merged;</para>
<para>The new midi(4) driver which is based on NetBSD's one
has been added. This supports &man.snd.cmi.4; and
&man.snd.emu10k1.4; drivers.</para>
<para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports
wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice,
and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion. &merged;</para>
@ -519,7 +533,11 @@
<para>The &man.ath.4; driver has been updated to
version 0.9.16.16. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom
<para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and
<literal>ath_rate_sample</literal> drivers have been
included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom
NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers,
has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged;</para>
@ -616,6 +634,13 @@
&man.acpi.video.4;, and &man.agp.4; can attach to
it thus allowing multiple drivers for the same device.</para>
<para>The &man.wi.4; driver is now buildable as
a kernel module.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.wlan.wep.4;,
&man.wlan.ccmp.4;, and &man.wlan.tkip.4; drivers
have been included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename>
kernel by default.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
@ -690,6 +715,16 @@ table 1 add x.x.x.x 1000
table 1 add x.x.x.y 4000
pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.ipfw.4; packet filter now supports
<literal>tag</literal> and <literal>untag</literal> rule keywords.
When a packet matches a rule with the <literal>tag</literal>
keyword, the numeric tag for the given number in the range
from 0 to 65535 will be attached to the packet.
The tag acts as an internal marker (it is not sent out over
the wire) that can be used to identify these packets later on,
for example, by using <literal>tagged</literal>
rule option. For more details, see &man.ipfw.8;.</para>
<para>The ip6fw(8) packet filter has been removed. Since &man.ipfw.4; has gained
IPv6 support, it should be used instead. Please note that some rules might need
to be adjusted.</para>
@ -703,6 +738,15 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
when the server sent a FIN. This problem had occurred
with Solaris NFS servers. &merged;</para>
<para>The default retransmit timer for NFS over TCP is now 60 seconds.
This change prevents the unnecessary retransmission of
non-idempotent NFS requests. The <varname>nfs_access_cache</varname>
variable in &man.rc.conf.5; has also been changed to 60.</para>
<para>The default minimum number of nfsiod kernel threads
(&man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>vfs.nfs.iodmin</varname>)
has been changed from 4 to 0.</para>
<para>The sysctl variables <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname>
and <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow</varname>
can be used with IPv6 now.</para>
@ -915,8 +959,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>The &man.linsysfs.5; pseudo-filesystem driver has been
added. It provides a subset of the
<para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.linsysfs.5;
pseudo-filesystem driver has been added.
It provides a subset of the
Linux <filename>sys</filename> filesystem, and is required for
the correct operation of some Linux binaries (such as the LSI
MegaRAID SAS utility). &merged;</para>
@ -996,6 +1041,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
and other related primaries, which can be used to create expressions
based on a file's creation time. &merged;</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.find.1; program which prevents
numeric arguments for <option>-user</option> and
<option>-group</option> from working as expected
has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ftpd.8; utility now creates a PID file
<filename>/var/run/ftpd.pid</filename> even when
no <option>-p</option> option is specified. &merged;</para>
@ -1030,6 +1080,12 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
implementation, and the Kerberos 5 GSS mechanism has
been rewritten as a plugin library for the new implementation.</para>
<para>The &man.hccontrol.8; utility now supports HCI node
autodetection.</para>
<para>The &man.id.1; utility now prints the effective user
ID after the group ID.</para>
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports
a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing
potentially sensitive keying material to standard output.
@ -1064,13 +1120,16 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.jail.8; program now supports a <option>-s</option>
option to specify a jail's securelevel. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports a <option>-H</option>
<para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-H</option>
flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding
the threadid. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-s</option>
flag to suppress the display of I/O data. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports printing
flags in a system call argument by using symbol names.</para>
<para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
flag to suppress warnings.</para>
@ -1158,7 +1217,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.mount.8; <literal>nodev</literal> option has
been removed.</para>
<para>&man.mount.8; now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;.</para>
<para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;.</para>
<para>A bug which prevents the &man.mount.8; utility from converting
a read-only mount to read-write via <command>mount -u -o rw</command>,
has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.moused.8; daemon now supports an <option>-H</option> flag
to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a
@ -1231,6 +1294,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
function has been added to
allow lookups for a specific version of a given symbol.</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.sed.1; utility which can causes
incorrect calculation of pattern space length in some cases
has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.sh.1; utility now supports <literal>times</literal>
built-in command. &merged;</para>
@ -1244,6 +1311,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para>
<para>The &man.time.1; utility now prints the time that a given
command has been running if sent a <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal.</para>
<para>The &man.traceroute.8; utility now supports
a <option>-e</option> option, which sets a fixed destination
port for probe packets. This can be useful for tracing behind
@ -1329,6 +1399,20 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The <filename>hostapd</filename> script for
&man.hostapd.8; has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The <filename>mdconfig</filename> script to
handle vnode backed &man.md.4; devices has been added.
This is a replacement of the <filename>ramdisk</filename>
script, and all of variables in <varname>ramdisk_*</varname>
have been changed to <varname>mdconfig_*</varname>.
Also, two new &man.rc.conf.5; variables
<varname>mdconfig_<replaceable>*</replaceable>_files</varname>
and
<varname>mdconfig_<replaceable>*</replaceable>_cmd</varname>
have been added. For example:</para>
<programlisting>mdconfig_md0="-t malloc -s 10m"
mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para>The <filename>netif</filename> script now supports
<varname>ipv4_addrs_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname>,
which adds one or more IPv4 address from a ranged list in
@ -1377,7 +1461,8 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
1.11 to 1.12.</para>
<para><application>DRM</application> has
been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20051202. &merged;</para>
been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517.
&merged;</para>
<para><application>netcat</application> has been updated from the
version in a 4 February 2005 OpenBSD snapshot to the version
@ -1563,6 +1648,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
has been added in <filename>src/Makefile</filename>
to show build configuration of the &os; source tree.</para>
<para>A <filename>/media</filename> directory has been
added to contain mount points for removable media
such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on.</para>
<para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which
contains settings that will apply to every build involving
the &os; source tree, has been added.
@ -1593,8 +1682,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
(<filename role="package">x11/xorg</filename>) has been updated
from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0. &merged;</para>
<para arch="pc98">CDROMs produced for the pc98 platform are now
bootable (on systems with support for this feature).</para>
<para arch="pc98">&os;/pc98 release CDROMs are now
bootable on systems with some supported SCSI adapters.
&merged;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="doc">
@ -1612,6 +1702,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
have been updated to 4.2.0, to match the version of
code actually included in &os;. &merged;</para>
<para>Initial support for kernel subsystem API documentation generating
framework using <filename role="package">devel/doxygen</filename>
has been added into <filename>src/sys/doc/subsys</filename>.
To generate the API document, type <command>make doxygen</command>
in <filename>src/</filename> directory.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>

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extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might
overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para>
<para>The &man.apm.4; suspend/resume support has been improved.</para>
<para>The <literal>options COMPAT_43</literal> kernel
configuration option has been deemed unnecessary and has been
removed from <filename>GENERIC</filename> and related kernel
@ -263,9 +265,13 @@
<para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE.
&merged;</para>
<para>&os; now supports concurrent &man.read.2;/&man.readv.2;
access to a file.</para>
<para>The experimental CORE process scheduler has been added,
enabled with the <literal>options SCHED_CORE</literal> kernel
configuration option. It is forked from the ULE scheduler, but
configuration option. It is forked from the &man.sched.ule.4;
scheduler, but
with a different algorithm for detecting an interactive process.
More information can be found in the &man.sched.core.4; manual
page.</para>
@ -381,6 +387,10 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para>The &man.cardbus.4;, &man.pccard.4;,
&man.pccbb.4;, and &man.exca.4; drivers are now buildable
as kernel modules.</para>
<para>A &man.acpi.dock.4; driver has been added to provide
support for controlling laptop docking station functions via
ACPI.</para>
@ -480,6 +490,10 @@
<para>The &man.agp.4; driver now supports ATI IGP chipsets.
&merged;</para>
<para>The new midi(4) driver which is based on NetBSD's one
has been added. This supports &man.snd.cmi.4; and
&man.snd.emu10k1.4; drivers.</para>
<para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports
wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice,
and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion. &merged;</para>
@ -519,7 +533,11 @@
<para>The &man.ath.4; driver has been updated to
version 0.9.16.16. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom
<para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and
<literal>ath_rate_sample</literal> drivers have been
included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom
NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers,
has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged;</para>
@ -616,6 +634,13 @@
&man.acpi.video.4;, and &man.agp.4; can attach to
it thus allowing multiple drivers for the same device.</para>
<para>The &man.wi.4; driver is now buildable as
a kernel module.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.wlan.wep.4;,
&man.wlan.ccmp.4;, and &man.wlan.tkip.4; drivers
have been included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename>
kernel by default.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
@ -690,6 +715,16 @@ table 1 add x.x.x.x 1000
table 1 add x.x.x.y 4000
pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.ipfw.4; packet filter now supports
<literal>tag</literal> and <literal>untag</literal> rule keywords.
When a packet matches a rule with the <literal>tag</literal>
keyword, the numeric tag for the given number in the range
from 0 to 65535 will be attached to the packet.
The tag acts as an internal marker (it is not sent out over
the wire) that can be used to identify these packets later on,
for example, by using <literal>tagged</literal>
rule option. For more details, see &man.ipfw.8;.</para>
<para>The ip6fw(8) packet filter has been removed. Since &man.ipfw.4; has gained
IPv6 support, it should be used instead. Please note that some rules might need
to be adjusted.</para>
@ -703,6 +738,15 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
when the server sent a FIN. This problem had occurred
with Solaris NFS servers. &merged;</para>
<para>The default retransmit timer for NFS over TCP is now 60 seconds.
This change prevents the unnecessary retransmission of
non-idempotent NFS requests. The <varname>nfs_access_cache</varname>
variable in &man.rc.conf.5; has also been changed to 60.</para>
<para>The default minimum number of nfsiod kernel threads
(&man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>vfs.nfs.iodmin</varname>)
has been changed from 4 to 0.</para>
<para>The sysctl variables <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname>
and <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow</varname>
can be used with IPv6 now.</para>
@ -915,8 +959,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>The &man.linsysfs.5; pseudo-filesystem driver has been
added. It provides a subset of the
<para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.linsysfs.5;
pseudo-filesystem driver has been added.
It provides a subset of the
Linux <filename>sys</filename> filesystem, and is required for
the correct operation of some Linux binaries (such as the LSI
MegaRAID SAS utility). &merged;</para>
@ -996,6 +1041,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
and other related primaries, which can be used to create expressions
based on a file's creation time. &merged;</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.find.1; program which prevents
numeric arguments for <option>-user</option> and
<option>-group</option> from working as expected
has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ftpd.8; utility now creates a PID file
<filename>/var/run/ftpd.pid</filename> even when
no <option>-p</option> option is specified. &merged;</para>
@ -1030,6 +1080,12 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
implementation, and the Kerberos 5 GSS mechanism has
been rewritten as a plugin library for the new implementation.</para>
<para>The &man.hccontrol.8; utility now supports HCI node
autodetection.</para>
<para>The &man.id.1; utility now prints the effective user
ID after the group ID.</para>
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports
a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing
potentially sensitive keying material to standard output.
@ -1064,13 +1120,16 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.jail.8; program now supports a <option>-s</option>
option to specify a jail's securelevel. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports a <option>-H</option>
<para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-H</option>
flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding
the threadid. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-s</option>
flag to suppress the display of I/O data. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports printing
flags in a system call argument by using symbol names.</para>
<para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
flag to suppress warnings.</para>
@ -1158,7 +1217,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.mount.8; <literal>nodev</literal> option has
been removed.</para>
<para>&man.mount.8; now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;.</para>
<para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;.</para>
<para>A bug which prevents the &man.mount.8; utility from converting
a read-only mount to read-write via <command>mount -u -o rw</command>,
has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.moused.8; daemon now supports an <option>-H</option> flag
to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a
@ -1231,6 +1294,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
function has been added to
allow lookups for a specific version of a given symbol.</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.sed.1; utility which can causes
incorrect calculation of pattern space length in some cases
has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.sh.1; utility now supports <literal>times</literal>
built-in command. &merged;</para>
@ -1244,6 +1311,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para>
<para>The &man.time.1; utility now prints the time that a given
command has been running if sent a <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal.</para>
<para>The &man.traceroute.8; utility now supports
a <option>-e</option> option, which sets a fixed destination
port for probe packets. This can be useful for tracing behind
@ -1329,6 +1399,20 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The <filename>hostapd</filename> script for
&man.hostapd.8; has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The <filename>mdconfig</filename> script to
handle vnode backed &man.md.4; devices has been added.
This is a replacement of the <filename>ramdisk</filename>
script, and all of variables in <varname>ramdisk_*</varname>
have been changed to <varname>mdconfig_*</varname>.
Also, two new &man.rc.conf.5; variables
<varname>mdconfig_<replaceable>*</replaceable>_files</varname>
and
<varname>mdconfig_<replaceable>*</replaceable>_cmd</varname>
have been added. For example:</para>
<programlisting>mdconfig_md0="-t malloc -s 10m"
mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para>The <filename>netif</filename> script now supports
<varname>ipv4_addrs_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname>,
which adds one or more IPv4 address from a ranged list in
@ -1377,7 +1461,8 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
1.11 to 1.12.</para>
<para><application>DRM</application> has
been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20051202. &merged;</para>
been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517.
&merged;</para>
<para><application>netcat</application> has been updated from the
version in a 4 February 2005 OpenBSD snapshot to the version
@ -1563,6 +1648,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
has been added in <filename>src/Makefile</filename>
to show build configuration of the &os; source tree.</para>
<para>A <filename>/media</filename> directory has been
added to contain mount points for removable media
such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on.</para>
<para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which
contains settings that will apply to every build involving
the &os; source tree, has been added.
@ -1593,8 +1682,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
(<filename role="package">x11/xorg</filename>) has been updated
from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0. &merged;</para>
<para arch="pc98">CDROMs produced for the pc98 platform are now
bootable (on systems with support for this feature).</para>
<para arch="pc98">&os;/pc98 release CDROMs are now
bootable on systems with some supported SCSI adapters.
&merged;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="doc">
@ -1612,6 +1702,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
have been updated to 4.2.0, to match the version of
code actually included in &os;. &merged;</para>
<para>Initial support for kernel subsystem API documentation generating
framework using <filename role="package">devel/doxygen</filename>
has been added into <filename>src/sys/doc/subsys</filename>.
To generate the API document, type <command>make doxygen</command>
in <filename>src/</filename> directory.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>