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).