Add some more verbage with respect to jemalloc and resource limits [2].
Submitted by: delphij [1]
Collaboration with: jasone [2]
Approved by: re (implicit)
- tmpfs on i386,amd64
- gem(4) altq support
- AUDIT and SCTP in GENERIC
- FireWire MPSAFE
- netstat SCTP support
- dhclient RFC 3442 support (1)
Modified release notes:
- MFC markers: mxge(4) and netcat
- touch -A entry grammar fix (2)
- More manpage references used
Submitted by: Andrey V. Elsukov (1)
ceri (2)
Approved by: re (blanket)
/etc/rc.d/sendmail whether or not to run newaliases if the database
is missing or the aliases text file is newer than aliases.db.
In my opinion, the aliases file should never be automatically rebuilt.
The current text form could represent a work in progress. Therefore,
in FreeBSD 7.0, this new option will default to "NO". When this rc.d
change is MFC'ed, it will need to remain "YES" to maintain backward
compatibility.
PR: conf/86252
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 3 days
- GCC SSP enabled by default
- X11BASE change
- touch -A
- fwip(4) and dcons(4) in GENERIC
- FireWire/dcons support in the i386/amd64 loader
Modified release notes:
- MFCs noted: newly supported ftpd RFCs, lagg(4), mpt(4) changes,
snd_atiixp(4) suspend/resume
- sa(8) entry moved to the correct place
- xorg 7.2 update
went away around the time of 5.0, when doing binary upgrades from
within sysinstall (at least from 4.X) was deemed hazardous due to the
huge differences between these two major versions.
It's much less risky now, and it's also high time that we mentioned
freebsd-update(8) too.
release documentation from *.TXT files to the RELNOTESng *.sgml
files. I'm pretty sure that, five years later, nobody is wondering
where the original *.TXT files went to in our source tree, so
remove this file to declutter the source tree a bit.
that can be used for resizing NTFS partitions (to make room for
FreeBSD).
Based on some text that was...
Submitted by: Hal Burch, Szakacsits Szabolcs
PR: 65477
MFC after: 3 days
- edsc(4) added
- pmcstat(4) -c and -t flags, defaults changed
- rpcbind -h and -6 flags
Modified release notes:
- Moved pmcstat information from kernel to userland section
- MSI-X supported as well, remove ref to pci(4) manpage, which is
different from the kernel's PCI code
- rpc.lockd/rpc.statd entry moved to the right place
- IPLware 3.33 support for pc98
- CAM MPSAFE
- ahc(4) and ahd(4) MPSAFE
- pseudofs(9) and consumers MPSAFE
- OpenBSM 1.0 alpha 14
- lastcomm -X flag
- ftpd(8) RFC2389 and RFC2640 support
Modified release notes:
- ncurses was updated from version 5.2-20020615
While here, moved the lagg(4) and XFS entries to the correct places.
the following ports tree changes:
- libtool13 removed.
- pkgconfig moved to pkg-config.
- Default dependency for USE_GHOSTSCRIPT changed from
ghostscript-gnu to ghostscript-gpl.
- Also added missing docproj dependencies.
Reported by: Dmitriy Kirhlarov
Submitted by: sem, ru
MFC after: 3 days
- priv(9) KPI added
- ipw/iwi firmware in the base system
Updated release notes:
- OpenSSL updated to 0.9.8e
- GNOME updated to 2.8.0
- acpi_dock(4) and acpi_hpet MFC
- msk(4) MFC
now contained entirely in a single DocBook article, which has
information pertinent to all architectures. This will improve
the maintainability of the hardware notes going forward by
reducing complexity of the build process, improving the visibiilty
of the architecture-specific text, and removing the need to generate
an extra version of the document for every architecture.
Remove all of the MD hardware notes stuff; all relevant content
has been folded into hardware/article.sgml.
No objections from: freebsd-doc@
manner consistent with the new MI-style hardware notes document.
man2hwnotes.pl now defaults to generating entities for the MI-style
hardware notes (i.e. hardware/article.sgml). A new -c
option causes it to generate entities for the older MD-style
hardware notes (i.e. hardware/common/dev.sgml).
The Makefile infrastructure supplies the -c option to man2hwnotes.pl
now unless the HWNOTES_MI Makefile variable is defined, so
compatiblity is preserved for hardware notes translations that
aren't converted to the new organization yet. As translations
convert, they should define HWNOTES_MI in their hardware/Makefile.
When all the relevant translations catch up, the compatibility goop
in share/mk/doc.relnotes.mk and share/sgml/Makefile can be removed.
Thanks go to simon@ for help with the backwards compatiblity
mechanism.
Tested with: en_US.ISO8859-1, zh_CN.GB2312
Convert MD references in the supported devices section from arch=""
attributes for conditional compilation to entities that will just
print architecture names. (The entities aren't defined yet...this
will happen in a future commit.)
Rather than rendering a different version of the release notes for
every architecture, we now produce a single release notes document
that covers all architectures.
This change makes document maintenence easier (because there is no
longer a need to support each architecture specifically in the
src/release/doc/ and www/ build infrastructures). It's also
easier to read because there is now exactly one release notes document,
and readers can see changes that affected various subsets of
architectures.
Discussed on: -doc@
them unsigned I made the possible overflows hard to detect,
and it only saved 1 bit which isn't principal, even less now
that the underlying issue with the total of virtual memory has
been fixed. (For the record, it will overflow with >=2T of
VM total, with 32-bit ints used to keep counters in pages.)
- While here, fix printing of other "struct vmtotal" members
such as t_rq, t_dw, t_pw, and t_sw as they are also signed.
Reviewed by: bde
MFC after: 3 days
- Fix overflow bugs in sysctl(8), systat(1), and vmstat(8)
when printing values of "struct vmmeter" in kilobytes as
they don't necessarily fit into 32 bits. (Fix sysctl(8)
reporting of a total virtual memory; it's in pages too.)
packages on disc2. This will also let users decide if they want to
have a CD of the docs at all - unless they're disconnected from the
net they will probably find the Web site more useful.
Reviewed by: ru
MFC after: 3 days
it possible to e.g. distribute kernels with config names larger
than eight symbols, without the clash. Previousy, LALALALA
and LALALALA-SMP would be the same tarball. (I think this
comes from the old days where tarballs were put on the MS-DOS
formatted diskettes.)
MFC after: 3 days
fsdb(8) btime.
Modified release notes: Changed Xbox note to only point to the
platforms page (there are pointers to additional information
there)...note MFC.
MFCs noted: IPFilter 4.1.13.
what's going on in cases where the "state engine" doesn't act as
expected, e.g. in the case of a list not being closed in the manual
page being parsed.
- Bump copyright year.
MFC after: 1 week
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.
Reviewed in part by: bmah
Delete two release notes related to the kern.elf*.can_exec_dyn that
seemed to cancel each other out.
Consolidate two notes related to BPF JIT.
Delete note about fixing CHECKSUM.MD5 bug; no released versions of
FreeBSD shipped with it.
to userland. Move all of the items in the Kernel contrib section to
the top-level contrib section.
All of the moved items are unchanged with respect to their actual
contents.
pass the "-empty" flag to find(1). This change has no effect other
than to get rid of a few pages of "rmdir: ...: Directory not empty"
error messages. (Note that the "-empty" flag has been supported by
find(1) since 4.3-RELEASE.)
memberships, linsysfs(5), cached(8), nsswitch.conf now statically
loaded.
Modified release notes: Note that XFS support is RO, libarchive(3)
extended attributes, don't use entity for usbd(8) removal note.
New manpages noted: mca(8), sysctl(9).
Submitted by: Rong-En Fan grafan at gmail dot com
Pointy hat to: Thunderbird, for a too-small default font size
Not ready for reading glasses yet: bmah
in HEAD's release notes, even though the issues involved were applied
(and fixed). Copy their descriptions from one of the RELENG_*
branches (RELENG_5 in this case).
SA-06:08 and SA-06:09 were not applicable to code on HEAD and thus not
mentioned.
"sweeping" ping(8), sh(1) built-in times.
I uncovered these in a sweep of items that need to be merged to
the 5.4 release notes. It's possible that all of these items
should have been in the 6.1 release notes (not confirmed).
This note is a candidate for the 6.1-RELEASE errata notes (the code
change was previously merged to RELENG_6_1 but this note is appearing
too late to be merged).
hwpmc(4) and pmcstat(8) profiling support for dynamically-loaded
objects, and pmcstat(8) network logging support added[1].
Fix incorrect entries:
gmirror/graid3 uses parallel I/O request for synchronization now.
The parallel I/O request itself has been already supported[2].
Spotted by: jkoshy[1] and pjd[2]
kbdmux(4) GENERIC support currently in amd64 and i386 only[1],
uart(4) GENERIC support currently not in pc98[1],
speaker(4) on amd64 entry needs arch="amd64"[2],
hptmv(4) update entry needs arch="amd64,i386"[2], and
OpenSSH 4.3p1 import has not been merged yet[2].
Spotted by: nyan[1] and delphij[2]
file descriptor handling bug fixed,
support for copying console messages to remote gdb(1),
kbdmux(4) now in GENERIC by default,
scc(4) for generic serial devices added,
net.inet.ip.portrange.reserved[high|low] for IPv6,
ata(4) USB mass storage class support,
gmirror kernel crash dump support,
gmirror and graid3 parallel I/O request support,
mfi(4) for LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family added,
getfacl(1) -q option added,
gvinum(8) resetconfig sub-command support,
libarchive(3) tp format support removed,
libarchive(3) POSIX.1e EA support added,
libc symbol map added,
libm symbol map added,
ls(1) -U option added,
mdconfig(8) XML device listing support,
mdconfig(8) -u option now supports comma-separated multiple devices,
BIND9 DNS resolver library imported,
strtonum(3) from OpenBSD,
rc.d/ike removed,
GNU Readline library updated to 5.1,
OpenSSH updated to 4.3p1,
hostapd updated to 0.4.8,
WPA supplicant updated to 0.4.8,
zlib updated to 1.2.3,
pkg_add(1) -F option added,
portsnap(1) HTTP_PROXY_AUTH handling bug fixed,
"make showconfig" in src/Makefile added, and
/etc/src.conf added.
acpi(4) HPET time counter support,
acpi_ibm(4) fan control support,
ddb(4) show lock,
ddb(4) show sleepq,
firmware(9) added,
random(4) MPSAFE,
new sysctl kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild,
brandinfo BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN flag,
new sysctl kern.forcesigexit,
RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's malloc(9),
security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal for mac_biba,
POSIX_TIMERS support updated to 200112L,
initial support for POSIX message queue,
Xbox support,
DEFAULTS kernel configuration files for each arch,
cardbus(4) /dev/cardbus%d.cis device node added,
ce(4) for Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 added,
ipmi(4), OpenIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface)
driver added,
kbdmux(4) integrated into syscons(4) and kbd,
uart(4) now in GENERIC kernel,
uart(4) LOM and RSC support,
snd_atiixp(4) added and suspend/resume support,
snd_solo(4) MPSAFE,
speaker(4) amd64 support,
uaudio(4) 24/32 bit audio support,
ath(4) updated to version 0.9.16.16,
bge(4) Jumbo frame support, big-endian arch support, MPSAFE,
em(4) updated to version 3.2.18, big-endian arch support,
performance improvement, suspend/resume support,
iwi(4) big-endian arch support,
le(4) for AMD Am7900 LANCE added,
myri10ge(4) for Myricom Myri10GE adapter added,
nve(4) updated to version 1.0-0310,
ti(4) big-endian arch support,
ufoma(4) for FOMA 3G mobile phone in Japan added,
vgapci(4) stub driver added,
arp(8) retransmission algorithm revised,
new sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_permanent_modify,
support for -i <if> with -d -a,
an experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler added,
if_bridge(4) span ports support added,
if_bridge(4) RFC 3378 EtherIP support,
ipfw(4) now supports action argument substitution from table lookup,
ng_bpf(4) BPF Just-In-Time compiler support,
bug related to NFS over TCP reconnection fixed,
IPV6_V6ONLY now works for UDP,
amr(4) performance improvement, ioctl support for MegaRaid Tools,
ata(4) DMA for kernel dump and dumping to ataraid(4) devices,
ataraid(4) now supports JMicron ATA RAID metadata,
gmirror and graid3 disconnect_on_failure sysctls added,
g_md.ko renamed to geom_md.ko,
mpt(4) SAS HBA and 64-bit PCI support,
twa(4) updated to 9.3.0.1,
geli(8) now allows loading keyfiles before root file system is mounted,
initial support for SGI's XFS added,
ACPI-CA updated to 20051021,
DRM updated to 20051202,
TrustedBSD OpenBSM version 1.0 alpha 5 imported,
bsnmpd(1) Host Resources MIB in RFC 2790 support,
config(8) "nocpu" directive added,
config(8) now reads DEFAULT if any before the specified config file,
csh(1) NLS catalog support,
csup(1), CVSup-compatible client written in C imported,
devd(8) -f option,
ftpd(8) change related to PID file creation,
gbde(8) -k and -K option,
gpt(8) GPT partition label setting support,
gvinum(8) now supports to move a subdisk between drives,
GSS-API version 2 (RFC2743 and RFC2744) implemented,
jail(8) -J option,
kdump(1) -H and -s option,
kgdb(1) -w option,
libarchive(3) tp format support,
ln(1) -F option,
locate(1) -I option,
mdmfs(8) -P and -E option,
mergemaster(8) -A option,
mount(8) "nodev" option removed,
netstat(1) IPsec protocol stats support,
periodic(8) daily gmirror, graid3, gstripe, gconcat support,
pkill(1) -I option,
rfcomm_pppd(8) -c servicename support,
rtld(1) ELF symbol versioning support,
sh(1) "times" built-in command support,
truss(1) -s option,
truss(1) now works on FreeBSD/ppc,
usbd(8) removed in favor of devd(8),
xargs(1) -r option,
rc.d/auditd added,
rc.d/bluetooth, rc.d/hcsecd, rc.d/sdpd added,
rc.d/ftpd added,
rc.d/hostapd added,
rc.d/netif ipv4_addrs_<ifn> support,
rc.d/rcconf.sh removed and early_late_divider variable added,
rc.initdiskless now uses tar(1) instead of pax(1),
rc.d/pccard removed,
rc.d/ppp-user added (renamed from ppp),
removable_interfaces variable removed,
bsnmpd updated from 1.11 to 1.12,
pkg_add(1) -P option,
pkg_add(1) and pkg_create(1) -K option,
pkg_create(1) -x, -E, and -G options,
local_startup directory now evaluated by rcorder(8) with
scripts in the base system,
suffix of startup scripts removed,
variables "ldconfig_local_dirs" and "ldconfig_local32_dirs" added,
@cwd in pkg-plist now allows no directory argument, and
CHECKSUM.MD5's checksum in CHECKSUM.MD5 problem fixed.
we might get surprises later, like /dev/null having error in the 4th line
reported by make(1). :-)
Tested by: Dmitriy Kirhlarov (who attempted to make release in a jail)
- <netipx> headers [1]
- IPX library (libipx)
- IPX support in ifconfig(8)
- IPXrouted(8)
- new MK_NCP option
New MK_NCP build option controls:
- <netncp> and <fs/nwfs> headers
- NCP library (libncp)
- ncplist(1) and ncplogin(1)
- mount_nwfs(8)
- ncp and nwfs kernel modules
User knobs: WITHOUT_IPX, WITHOUT_IPX_SUPPORT, WITHOUT_NCP.
[1] <netsmb/netbios.h> unconditionally uses <netipx> headers
so they are still installed. This needs to be dealt with.
at runtime and to support distributing additional kernels:
o remove kernel from the base tarball
o add new kernel tarballs
o build + package both SMP and GENERIC kernels when an <arch>/conf/SMP
config file is present
o add sysinstall support for multiple kernels
o update sysinstall to probe for the number of cpus on a system
and auto-select smp/up kernel accordingly
o add a post-kernels install hook to fixup /boot/kernel
o add -ldevinfo to boot crunch for sysinstall's cpu probing logic
Notes:
1. On HEAD this code is not currently used because GENERIC kernels
include SMP. This work is mainly intended for RELENG_6 where the
GENERIC kernel is UP. If HEAD changes to match then just enable
WITH_SMP in sysinstall/Makefile.
2. The cpu probing support is done with acpi and MPTable; this means
some systems will require work for auto-detection to work.
3. The handling of /boot/kernel may need to be revisited; for now
we rename one kernel at the last moment (SMP if installed, otherwise
GENERIC). There are other, possibly better, approaches.
Lots of help from ru, emaste, scottl, and jhb.
