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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-04-07 11:53:22 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-04-07 11:53:22 +0000
commit28bd0f9879126d87750c7af081de42c1ca4dc977 (patch)
tree4bba2879056ca200add7dced59226e61fcd5202c
parent6914e743a6b615ca398d9c7e6a61da36cb4fbd72 (diff)
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New release notes:
- PIM option now included in MROUTING - MSI support + MFC - TCP_DROP_SYNFIN compiled in by default - FICL updated to 3.03 - icee driver added - net.link.tap.up_on_open sysctl added - ZFS support added Updated release notes: - ncurses 5.6-20061217 MFC noted - mpsave_vfs=1 on powerpc
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml34
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index bf0797d..b4525be 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -350,6 +350,9 @@
It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in
functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para>
+ <para>Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) has been added to
+ the &man.pci.4; driver. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.priv.9; kernel interface has been added. Its purpose
is checking the availability of privilege for threads and credentials.
Unlike the existing &man.suser.9; interface, &man.priv.9; exposes a
@@ -532,6 +535,8 @@
page.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>icee(4), a generic I2C EEPROM driver, has been added.</para>
+
<para>A bug which prevented the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module
from unloading has been fixed.</para>
@@ -564,7 +569,7 @@
<para>The &man.nfsmb.4; driver, which supports the NVIDIA nForce
2/3/4 SMBus 2.0 controller, has been added. &merged;</para>
- <para>[&arch.ia64;] The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname>
+ <para>[&arch.ia64;, &arch.powerpc;] The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname>
is set to <literal>1</literal> by default.</para>
<para>The &man.sab.4; driver has been removed (it has been
@@ -957,7 +962,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE.</para>
- <para>A new &man.ng.deflate.4; NetGraph node type has been
+ <para>A new &man.ng.deflate.4; Netgraph node type has been
added. It implements Deflate PPP compression. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.ether.4; Netgraph node no longer overwrites
@@ -966,7 +971,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.ng.iface.4; Netgraph node now supports &man.altq.4;.
&merged;</para>
- <para>A new &man.ng.pred1.4; NetGraph node type has been added
+ <para>A new &man.ng.pred1.4; Netgraph node type has been added
to implement Predictor-1 PPP compression. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.tag.4; Netgraph node has been added to
@@ -1030,6 +1035,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable
<varname>net.inet6.ip6.stealth</varname>.</para>
+ <para>The <literal>PIM</literal> kernel option has been removed.
+ The corresponding code is now included in the
+ <literal>MROUTING</literal> kernel option.</para>
+
<para>Support has been added for the Stream Control Transmission
Protocol (SCTP). SCTP implements a reliable, message-oriented
transport protocol, and is defined in RFC 3268. It is enabled
@@ -1038,6 +1047,11 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option
now works for UDP.</para>
+ <para>The <literal>TCP_DROP_SYNFIN</literal> kernel option is now
+ included in the kernel by default. The
+ <varname>net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin</varname> sysctl variable still
+ defaults to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+
<para>The TCP bandwidth-delay product limiting feature has
been disabled when the RTT is below a certain threshold.
This optimization does not make sense on a LAN, as it has
@@ -1066,6 +1080,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
and <varname>net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_*</varname> sysctl
variables.</para>
+ <para>The <varname>net.link.tap.up_on_open</varname> sysctl variable
+ has been added to the &man.tap.4; driver. If enabled, new tap
+ devices will marked <literal>up</literal> upon creation.</para>
+
<para>Support for &man.kqueue.2; operations has been added to
the &man.tun.4; driver. &merged;</para>
@@ -1257,6 +1275,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
layer of unions. More information can be found in the
&man.mount.unionfs.8; manual page. &merged;</para>
+ <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;]Support for Sun's ZFS has been
+ added. More information about this file system can be found
+ on the <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/">
+ OpenSolaris ZFS page</a>.</para>
+
</sect3>
</sect2>
@@ -1871,6 +1894,9 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>The Forth Inspired Command Language (<application>FICL</application>)
+ used in the boot loader has been updated to 3.03.</para>
+
<para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.12
to 4.17.</para>
@@ -1913,7 +1939,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from
5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217. ncurses now also has wide
- character support.</para>
+ character support. &merged;</para>
<para><application>hostapd</application>
has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.
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