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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2004-02-17 05:05:43 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2004-02-17 05:05:43 +0000
commita03600270b805ef377d61ed61290efc1e5f692e3 (patch)
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parentd2b4a8b4985d81b91a5eb17a024136589efcc9c3 (diff)
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New release notes: TCP RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) support, libarchive(3),
killall(1) -e, sdpd(8), awk 20040207, GNU readline patches 001-005, GNU tar renaming, OpenPAM Eelgrass.
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml34
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml34
2 files changed, 68 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 510b75a..90f3290 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -254,6 +254,14 @@
dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
resource exhaustion attacks.</para>
+ <para>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only)
+ support for RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature,
+ enabled with the <literal>TCP_SIGNATURE</literal> and
+ <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel options, is a TCP option
+ for authenticating TCP sessions. &man.setkey.8; now includes
+ support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations.
+ &merged;</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@@ -307,6 +315,10 @@
print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting
the rule body.</para>
+ <para>A <filename>libarchive</filename> library for manipulation
+ of compressed and uncompressed archive files has been
+ added. More details can be found in &man.libarchive.3;.</para>
+
<para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the
correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the
&man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a
@@ -338,11 +350,18 @@
</note>
<para>
+ <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to
+ make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than
+ real, user ids.</para>
+
<para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes
problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
membership lists.</para>
+ <para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
+ has been added.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
@@ -351,6 +370,10 @@
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
+ <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
+ updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
+ release.</para>
+
<para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application>
1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain
malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using
@@ -358,6 +381,17 @@
<username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via
&man.syslog.3;.</para>
+ <para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated
+ with official patches 001 through 005.</para>
+
+ <para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the
+ base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with
+ <filename>tar</filename> being a link to
+ <filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
+ Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
+
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 510b75a..90f3290 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -254,6 +254,14 @@
dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
resource exhaustion attacks.</para>
+ <para>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only)
+ support for RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature,
+ enabled with the <literal>TCP_SIGNATURE</literal> and
+ <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel options, is a TCP option
+ for authenticating TCP sessions. &man.setkey.8; now includes
+ support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations.
+ &merged;</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@@ -307,6 +315,10 @@
print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting
the rule body.</para>
+ <para>A <filename>libarchive</filename> library for manipulation
+ of compressed and uncompressed archive files has been
+ added. More details can be found in &man.libarchive.3;.</para>
+
<para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the
correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the
&man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a
@@ -338,11 +350,18 @@
</note>
<para>
+ <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to
+ make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than
+ real, user ids.</para>
+
<para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes
problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
membership lists.</para>
+ <para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
+ has been added.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
@@ -351,6 +370,10 @@
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
+ <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
+ updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
+ release.</para>
+
<para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application>
1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain
malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using
@@ -358,6 +381,17 @@
<username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via
&man.syslog.3;.</para>
+ <para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated
+ with official patches 001 through 005.</para>
+
+ <para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the
+ base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with
+ <filename>tar</filename> being a link to
+ <filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
+ Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
+
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>
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