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authorhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2008-05-31 13:27:16 +0000
committerhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2008-05-31 13:27:16 +0000
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New release notes:
syscons(4) Colemak keyboard layout support, jme(4) for JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers, ISDN4BSD and netatm removal, libarchive-based cpio added and GNU cpio renamed as gcpio, jexec(8) -j option added, ping6(8) return value is now the same as ping(8), tar(1) --numeric-owner, -S, and -s options added, and pkg_create(1) -n option added.
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@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@
<para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040
PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para>
+ <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para>
+
<para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon
Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been
imported from OpenBSD.</para>
@@ -228,6 +230,10 @@
client/desktop adapters. A new igb driver
will support new server adapters.</para>
+ <para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support
+ for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit
+ Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
+
<para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide
support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network
adapters.</para>
@@ -263,6 +269,10 @@
the <varname>net.bpf.zerocopy_enable</varname> sysctl
variable to <literal>1</literal>.</para>
+ <para>ISDN4BSD(I4B), <filename>netatm</filename>, and all
+ related subsystems have been removed due to lack of
+ multi-processor support.</para>
+
<para role="merged">A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding
bytes were used, has been fixed.</para>
@@ -320,6 +330,11 @@
supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to
specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para>
+ <para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on
+ <filename>libarchive</filename>, has replaced the GNU cpio.
+ Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as
+ <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para>
+
<para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u
<replaceable>name</replaceable></option>
which will completely unset the given variable
@@ -332,6 +347,10 @@
of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os;
&man.find.1;.</para>
+ <para>&man.jexec.8; now supports <option>-h
+ <replaceable>hostname</replaceable></option> option to specify the
+ jail where the command will be executed.</para>
+
<para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command>
command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel
modules.</para>
@@ -343,6 +362,11 @@
<para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to
disable the use of TCP options.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal>
+ when the packet transmission was successful but no responses
+ were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;).
+ It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para>
+
<para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display
detailed information about processes.</para>
@@ -357,6 +381,17 @@
flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style
compression/decompression.</para>
+ <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a
+ <option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names
+ on create and extract.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an
+ <option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option>
+ flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular
+ expression.</para>
+
<para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to
return the process group ID for the session leader for the
controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
@@ -427,6 +462,13 @@
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; utility now supports
+ <option>-n</option>. When this option is specified and a
+ package tarball exists, it will not be overwritten. This is
+ useful when multiple packages are saved with several consecutive
+ runs of &man.pkg.create.1; with the <option>-Rb</option>
+ options.</para>
+
<para>The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically
signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful
for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however
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