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| author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-12-06 18:04:52 +0000 |
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| committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-12-06 18:04:52 +0000 |
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Reorganize the release notes to better support multiple architectures.
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@
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index b158b53..0000000 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1992 +0,0 @@ -<articleinfo> - <title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title> - - <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor> - - <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate> - - <copyright> - <year>2000</year> - <year>2001</year> - <year>2002</year> - <year>2003</year> - <year>2004</year> - <year>2005</year> - <year>2006</year> - <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> - </copyright> - - <legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> - &tm-attrib.freebsd; - &tm-attrib.ibm; - &tm-attrib.ieee; - &tm-attrib.intel; - &tm-attrib.sparc; - &tm-attrib.general; - </legalnotice> - - <abstract> - <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary - of the changes made to the &os; base system on the - &release.branch; development line. - This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since - the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; - kernel and userland. - Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para> - </abstract> -</articleinfo> - -<sect1 id="intro"> - <title>Introduction</title> - - <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; - &release.current; on the &arch.print; hardware platform. It - describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. - It also provides some notes on upgrading - from previous versions of &os;.</para> - -<![ %release.type.current [ - - <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes - apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development - branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary - &release.type; distributions along this branch - can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para> - -]]> - -<![ %release.type.snapshot [ - - <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes - apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development - branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. - Information regarding - pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch - can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para> - -]]> - -<![ %release.type.release [ - - <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a - &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink - url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More - information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; - distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink - url="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining - &os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink - url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; - Handbook</ulink>.</para> - -]]> - - <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before - installing &os;. The errata document is updated with - <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the - release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains - information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to - documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; - &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> - -</sect1> - -<sect1 id="new"> - <title>What's New</title> - - <para>This section describes - the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; - since &release.prev;. - In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; - branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. - </para> - - <para>Typical release note items - document recent security advisories issued after - &release.prev;, - new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, - major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also - list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering - practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single - change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses - primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major - architectural improvements.</para> - - <sect2 id="security"> - <title>Security Advisories</title> - - <para>A temporary file vulnerability in &man.texindex.1;, which - could allow a local attacker to overwrite files in the context - of a user running the &man.texindex.1; utility, has been fixed. - For more details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A temporary file vulnerability in the &man.ee.1; text - editor, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files in - the context of a user running &man.ee.1;, has been fixed. For - more details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>Several vulnerabilities in the &man.cpio.1; utility have - been corrected. For more - details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>An error in &man.ipfw.4; IP fragment handling, which could - cause a crash, has been fixed. For more - details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A potential buffer overflow in the IEEE 802.11 scanning code - has been corrected. For more - details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:05.80211.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:05.80211</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>Two instances in which portions of kernel memory could be - disclosed to users have been fixed. For more details see - security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:06.kmem.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:06.kmem</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A logic bug in the IP fragment handling in &man.pf.4;, which - could cause a crash under certain circumstances, has been fixed. - For more details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A logic bug in the NFS server code, which could cause a crash when - the server received a message with a zero-length payload, has been fixed. - For more details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:10.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:10.nfs</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A programming error in the &man.fast.ipsec.4; implementation - results in the sequence number associated with a Security - Association not being updated, allowing packets to unconditionally - pass sequence number verification checks, has been fixed. - For more details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:11.ipsec.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:11.ipsec</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A logic bug that could cause &man.opiepasswd.1; to allow an unprivileged - user to configure OPIE authentication for the root user under certain - circumstances, has been fixed. - For more details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:12.opie.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:12.opie</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>An asynchronous signal handling vulnerability in &man.sendmail.8;, - which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the - privileges of the user running sendmail, typically root, has been fixed. - For more details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="i386,amd64">An information disclosure issue found in the - &os; kernel running on 7th- and 8th-generation AMD processors - has been fixed. For more details see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug in &man.ypserv.8;, which effectively disabled the - <filename>/var/yp/securenets</filename> access control mechanism, - has been corrected. More details are available in security - advisory - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:15.ypserv.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:15.ypserv</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug in the smbfs file system, which could allow an - attacker to escape out of &man.chroot.2 environments on an smbfs - mounted filesystem, has been fixed. For more details, see - security advisory - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A potential denial of service problem in &man.sendmail.8; - caused by excessive recursion which leads to stack - exhaustion when attempting delivery of a malformed - MIME message, has been fixed. For more details, - see security advisory <ulink - url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A potential buffer overflow condition in &man.sppp.4; has - been corrected. For more details, see security advisory - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:18.ppp.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:18.ppp</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>An OpenSSL bug related to validation of PKCS#1 v1.5 - signatures has been fixed. For more details, see security - advisory - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:19.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:19.openssl</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A potential denial of service attack against &man.named.8; - has been fixed. For more details, see security advisory - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>Several programming errors have been fixed in &man.gzip.1;. - They could have the effect of causing a crash or an infinite - loop when decompressing files. More information can be found in - security advisory - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:21.gzip.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:21.gzip</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in OpenSSH. More - details can be found in security advisory - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:22.openssh.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:22.openssh</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>Multiple errors in the OpenSSL &man.crypto.3; library have - been fixed. Potential effects are varied, and are documented in - more detail in security advisory - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug that could permit corrupt archives to cause an - infinite loop in &man.libarchive.3; and &man.tar.1; has been - fixed. More details are available in - <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="kernel"> - <title>Kernel Changes</title> - - <para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for the HPET time counter.</para> - - <para>The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports setting the fan control - mode to manual or automatic, and adjusting the fan speed if the - fan control mode is manual. To enable manual control of the fan speed, - the sysctl variable <varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname> - needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with - extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might - overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para> - - <para>The &man.apm.4; suspend/resume support has been improved.</para> - - <para>Security event auditing is now supported in the &os; kernel, - and is enabled by the <literal>AUDIT</literal> kernel - configuration option. More information can be found in the - &man.audit.4; manual page.</para> - - <para>The <literal>options COMPAT_43</literal> kernel - configuration option has been deemed unnecessary and has been - removed from <filename>GENERIC</filename> and related kernel - configurations. This change may result in a small performance - increase for some workloads.</para> - - <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show lock</literal> - command. If the argument has a valid lock class, - this displays various information about the lock and calls a - new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific - information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or - xlock'ed sx lock). &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show sleepq</literal> - command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks - for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel.</para> - - <para><filename>DEFAULTS</filename> kernel configuration files - for each platform have been added. These files contain - directives that are implicitly included in all kernel - configurations, and generally include basic, mandatory - functionality for each platform. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that a simple - <literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> sequence does not return - descriptor <literal>0</literal> in some cases, has been fixed.</para> - - <para>The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This - subsystem provides a mechanism - to load binary data into the kernel via a specially crafted module. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.gdb.1; remote debugging interface now supports - copying console messages to a remote debugger instance. - To enable this, set <literal>debug.gdbcons="1"</literal> - in <filename>loader.conf</filename>, enter <literal>boot -d; - gdb; step</literal> from the loader prompt, - then attach &man.gdb.1; from a remote machine. - The sysctl variable <varname>debug.gdbcons</varname> can be - used to turn on/off this functionality.</para> - - <para>&man.hwpmc.4; and &man.pmcstat.8; now support profiling - of dynamically loaded kernel modules and - shared objects loaded with &man.dlopen.3;. - &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket - to a remote host.</para> - - <para>Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel - option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel). - It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in - functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para> - - <para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE. - &merged;</para> - - <para>&os; now supports concurrent &man.read.2;/&man.readv.2; - access to a file.</para> - - <para>The experimental CORE process scheduler has been added, - enabled with the <literal>options SCHED_CORE</literal> kernel - configuration option. It is forked from the &man.sched.ule.4; - scheduler, but - with a different algorithm for detecting an interactive process. - More information can be found in the &man.sched.core.4; manual - page.</para> - - <para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been - added. For each child process whose status has been changed, - a <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> instance is queued. If the signal is still pending, - and the process changed status several times, the signal information - is updated to reflect the latest process status. - There is a loader tunable <varname>kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild</varname> - which can control the behavior, setting it to zero disables the - <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> queuing feature.</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386">Instead of including all of physical - memory in a kernel crash dump, the kernel now defaults to dumping only pages that are - actively mapped into kernel virtual memory. A new - <varname>debug.minidump</varname> sysctl variable - can be used to turn off this behavior when set to zero. &merged;</para> - - <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.malloc_stats</varname> - has been added. This allows exporting of kernel malloc - statistics via a binary structure stream.</para> - - <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.forcesigexit</varname> - has been added. This forces a process - to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or - ignored by the current process. It is enabled by default.</para> - - <para arch="alpha">Support for Linux emulation on the Alpha - platform has been removed, due to the lack of a - <filename>linux_base</filename> port that both supports the - Alpha architecture and is in good working condition.</para> - - <para>The pcvt(4) driver, an alternative to &man.syscons.4;, - has been removed, as it had fallen out of sync with the rest - of the kernel.</para> - - <para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for the kernel &man.malloc.9; - facility has been implemented. This detects both buffer underflows and - overflows at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;, - and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where - it was freed. For more details, see the &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para> - - <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal</varname> - which makes all network interfaces be created with the label - <literal>biba/equal(equal-equal)</literal>, has been added. - This is useful where programs such as &man.dhclient.8; and &man.ppp.8;. - which initialize network interfaces do not have any labeling support. - This variable is set as <literal>0</literal> (disabled) by default. - &merged;</para> - - <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>vm.zone_stats</varname> - has been added. This allows to export &man.uma.9; allocator - statistics via a binary structure stream.</para> - - <para>The sysctl variable <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> - has been changed from a boolean to a range. - <literal>0</literal> means no power management, - <literal>1</literal> means conservative power management which - any device class that has caused problems is added to the watch list, - <literal>2</literal> means aggressive power management where - any device class that is not fundamental to the system is added to the list, - and <literal>3</literal> means power them all down unconditionally. - The default is <literal>1</literal>.</para> - - <para arch="ia64">The <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel now enables - SMP support by default.</para> - - <para>Sample kernel configuration files - <filename>src/sys/<replaceable>arch</replaceable>/conf/MAC</filename> - for the Mandatory Access Control framework have been added.</para> - - <para><varname>POSIX_TIMERS</varname> support has been updated to 200112L.</para> - - <para>An experimental support for POSIX message queue has been - implemented.</para> - - <para>&os; now runs on the Xbox, whose architecture is nearly identical - to the i386. For details of the latest development, see - <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/xbox.html"></ulink>. - &merged; </para> - - <sect3 id="boot"> - <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - - <para>A new option <option>-S</option>, - which allows setting the <filename>boot2</filename> - serial console speed in the <filename>/boot.config</filename> - file or on the <prompt>boot:</prompt> prompt line, - has been added.</para> - - <para arch="i386,amd64">A new loader tunable - <varname>comconsole_speed</varname> to change - the serial console speed has been added. - If the previous stage boot loader requested a serial console, - then the default speed is determined from the current serial port - speed. Otherwise it is set to 9600 or the value of - the <literal>BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED</literal> kernel option. - &merged;</para> - - <!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword--> - - <para arch="pc98">A bootable CDROM loader has been implemented - for the pc98 platform. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="i386">A bug in the i386 boot loader, which could - cause filesystem corruption if - a <filename>nextboot.conf</filename> file was used and landed - after cylinder 1023, has been fixed. &merged;</para> - - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="proc"> - <title>Hardware Support</title> - - <para>The &man.amdsmb.4; driver has been added. It provides - support for the AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 controller. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.cardbus.4;, &man.pccard.4;, - &man.pccbb.4;, and &man.exca.4; drivers are now buildable - as kernel modules.</para> - - <para>An &man.acpi.dock.4; driver has been added to provide - support for controlling laptop docking station functions via - ACPI.</para> - - <para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports - passive cooling. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports overriding - the <literal>_PSV</literal>, <literal>_HOT</literal>, and - <literal>_CRT</literal> temperature values.</para> - -<!-- The following note should remain MI (i.e. don't set arch="alpha") -- - -- because the alpha docs will be disappearing at some point before -- - -- 7.0-RELEASE. --> - <para>Support for the alpha architecture has been removed. Alpha - support will remain on the RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 codelines.</para> - - <para>The &man.cardbus.4; driver now supports - <filename>/dev/cardbus<replaceable>%d</replaceable>.cis</filename>.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.ce.4; driver, - which supports Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 adapters, has been added. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The <literal>est</literal> &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports - frequency control for the VIA C7-M family of processors.</para> - - <para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3, - Eden, and C7 - processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. - More information can be found in the &man.padlock.4; manual - page. - &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug which prevented the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module - from unloading has been fixed.</para> - - <para arch="i386,amd64">Dual-core processors (such as the Intel - Core Duo) now have both cores available for use by - default in SMP-enabled kernels. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="i386,amd64">&man.ipmi.4;, an OpenIPMI compatible driver, - has been added. - OpenIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is an open - standard designed to enable remote monitoring and control of server, - networking and telecommunication platforms. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.kbdmux.4; driver has been integrated into &man.syscons.4; and - the <devicename>kbd</devicename> device driver. - By default &man.syscons.4; will look for the &man.kbdmux.4; - keyboard first, and then, if not found, look for any keyboard. - Switching to &man.kbdmux.4; can be done at boot time by loading - the <literal>kbdmux</literal> kernel module via &man.loader.8;, - or at runtime via &man.kldload.8; and releasing the active - keyboard. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.kbdmux.4; driver is now included in the - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default. - Also, the <quote>Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard</quote> - menu item in the boot loader menu has been removed - since this fixes USB keyboard probing problems. - &merged;</para> - - <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> - is set to <literal>1</literal> by default.</para> - - <para>The &man.sab.4; driver has been removed (it has been - superceded by the &man.scc.4; driver).</para> - - <para>The &man.scc.4; driver has been added. - This provides generic support for serial communications - controllers and delegates the control over each channel - and mode to a subordinate driver such as &man.uart.4;.</para> - - <para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been - added.</para> - - <para>&os; now has preliminary support for the Sun Microsystems - UltraSPARC-T1 archicture. &os;/sun4v has been demonstrated - to run on the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers. - More information can be found on the - <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sun4v.html">sun4v - Project</ulink> - page.</para> - - <para>The tnt4882(4) driver, which supports the National Instruments - PCI-GPIB card, has been added.</para> - - <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386,ia64,sparc64">The &man.uart.4; driver has been included in the - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default. - When both &man.sio.4; and &man.uart.4; can handle a given serial port, - &man.sio.4; will claim it.</para> - - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver now supports LOM (Lights Out Management) - and RSC (Remote System Control) devices as consoles.</para> - - <para arch="i386">A new loader tunable - <varname>hw.apic.enable_extint</varname> has been added. - This tunable can be used to disable masking of the ExtINT pin on the first - I/O APIC. At least one chipset for the Intel Pentium III seems - to need this, even though all of the pins in the 8259As are masked. - The default is still to mask the ExtINT pin.</para> - - <para arch="i386">Support has been improved for - so-called <quote>legacy-free</quote> hardware, in particular, - i386 systems without AT-style keyboard controllers such as the - Macbook Pro. &merged;</para> - - <sect4 id="mm"> - <title>Multimedia Support</title> - - <para>The &man.agp.4; driver now supports ATI AGP chipsets. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The new midi(4) driver which is based on NetBSD's one - has been added. This supports &man.snd.cmi.4; and - &man.snd.emu10k1.4; drivers.</para> - - <para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports - wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice, - and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.als4000.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.atiixp.4; driver has been added. - This supports ATI IXP 200/300/400 series audio controllers. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.atiixp.4; driver now supports - suspend and resume features.</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.cmi.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.emu10kx.4; driver has been added. It - supports Creative SoundBlaster Live! and Audigy series sound - cards with optional pseudo-multichannel playback.</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.envy24.4; driver has been added to support - the Envy24 series of audio chips.</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.es137x.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.ich.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.solo.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.via8233.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.via82c686.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="amd64">The &man.speaker.4; driver now supports &os;/amd64. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.uaudio.4; driver now supports 24/32 bit audio - formats and conversion.</para> - </sect4> - - <sect4 id="net-if"> - <title>Network Interface Support</title> - - <para>The &man.ath.4; driver has been updated to - HAL version 0.9.17.2. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and - <literal>ath_rate_sample</literal> drivers have been - included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by - default. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom - NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers, - has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug which prevents the &man.bfe.4; driver from working - on a system with over 1GB RAM has been fixed. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.bge.4; driver's Jumbo frame support is now MPSAFE.</para> - - <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports big-endian - architectures such as sparc64.</para> - - <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4; mode. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.cm.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> - - <para>The &man.dc.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.de.4; driver has been converted to the &man.bus.dma.9; - API and is now MPSAFE.</para> - - <para>The &man.ed.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> - - <para>The &man.el.4; driver has been removed due to lack of use.</para> - - <para>The &man.em.4; driver now supports big-endian - architectures such as sparc64. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to - version 6.2.9 from Intel. Among other changes, it now supports - 80003, 82571, 82571EB and 82572 based adapters, as well as - onboard-NICs on ICH8-based motherboards. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.em.4; driver now includes - initial support for suspend and resume features.</para> - - <para>The performance of the &man.em.4; driver has been improved - by using a fast interrupt handler and taskqueue - instead of ithread handler. This change can be disabled - by defining <literal>NO_EM_FASTINTR</literal> kernel option - for debugging purpose.</para> - - <para>The &man.iwi.4; driver now supports big-endian - architectures such as sparc64.</para> - - <para>A number of improvements and bugfixes have been made to the - functionality of the &man.iwi.4; driver. This driver now - requires the firmware image in the - <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware-kmod</filename> - port/package; prior versions of this driver used the - <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware</filename> - port/package. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.le.4; driver, which supports AMD Am7900 LANCE - and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs, - has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also supports these - NICs, this driver has several advantages over it such as - MPSAFE, ALTQ, VLAN_MTU, ifmedia, and 32-bit DMA for PCI - variants. This driver is based on NetBSD's implementation. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.lge.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The lnc(4) driver has been removed. The &man.le.4; and - &man.pcn.4; drivers support all devices that were supported - by lnc(4).</para> - - <para>The &man.my.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.my.4; driver now supports &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.mxge.4; driver, - which supports Myricom Myri10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet - adapters, has been added. For more details, see - &man.mxge.4;.</para> - - <para>The &man.nfe.4; driver, an open-source driver for nForce - Ethernet devices, has been added, originally from - OpenBSD.</para> - - <para>The &man.nve.4; driver has been updated to version 1.0-0310 - (23-Nov-2005). It also now has &man.altq.4; support. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.re.4; driver now supports the D-Link DGE-528(T) - Gigabit Ethernet card.</para> - - <para>The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.sk.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ste.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.stge.4; driver has been added. It supports the - Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet controller and was - ported from NetBSD. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ti.4; driver now supports big-endian - architectures such as sparc64.</para> - - <para>The &man.ufoma.4; driver for - FOMA (third generation mobile phone system by NTT DoCoMo, Inc. - in Japan) has been added. - This should support other third generation mobile phones - since the driver is based on USB Implementation Guideline - from MCPC (Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium) in Japan.</para> - - <para>The vgapci(4) driver has been added. This is a stub - device driver for VGA PCI devices and serves as a bus - so that other drivers such as drm(4), - &man.acpi.video.4;, and &man.agp.4; can attach to - it thus allowing multiple drivers for the same device.</para> - - <para>The &man.wi.4; driver is now buildable as - a kernel module.</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.wlan.wep.4;, - &man.wlan.ccmp.4;, and &man.wlan.tkip.4; drivers - have been included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> - kernel by default.</para> - - <para>The network interface groups feature has been imported - from OpenBSD. This feature allows an administrator to, for - example, apply firewall rules to an entire group of - interfaces. More information can be found in - &man.ifconfig.8;.</para> - - </sect4> - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="net-proto"> - <title>Network Protocols</title> - - <para>The &man.arp.4; retransmission algorithm has been - rewritten so that ARP requests are retransmitted without - suppression, while there is demand for such ARP entry. - Due to this change, a sysctl variable - <varname>net.link.ether.inet.host_down_time</varname> - has been removed. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.arp.4; protocol now supports a sysctl variable - <varname>net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_permanent_modify</varname> - to suppress logging of attempts to modify - permanent ARP entries. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">An experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler - has been implemented for both &man.bpf.4; and &man.ng.bpf.4;. - To enable this, the - <literal>options BPF_JITTER</literal> kernel option is needed. - The <varname>net.bpf_jitter.enable</varname> - can be used to disable this feature.</para> - - <para>Multiple copies of a packet received via different - &man.bpf.4; listeners now all have identical - timestamps. &merged;</para> - - <para>The bridge(4) driver has been removed from the tree. Its - functionality has been completely replaced by - &man.if.bridge.4;.</para> - - <para>The &man.enc.4; IPsec filtering pseudo-device has been - added. It allows firewall packages using the &man.pfil.9; - framework to examine (and filter) IPsec traffic before - outbound encryption and after inbound decryption. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation - found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702, now supports IPv6 over GRE.</para> - - <para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports - creating SPAN ports, which transmit a copy of every frame - received by the bridge. This feature can be enabled - by using &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports - RFC 3378 EtherIP. This change makes it possible to - add &man.gif.4; interfaces to bridges, which will then - send and receive IP protocol 97 packets. - Packets are Ethernet frames with an EtherIP header prepended. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports RSTP, the Rapid - Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w).</para> - - <para>A hard-coded limit on the number of IPv4 multicast group - memberships (formerly 20) has been removed.</para> - - <para>The path MTU discovery for multicast packets in the &os; - IPv6 stack has been disabled by default. - Path MTU notification from a large number of multicast routers - can be a kind of distributed Denial-of-Service attack to a router. - This feature can be re-enabled by using a new sysctl variable - <varname>net.inet6.ip6.mcast_pmtu</varname>. &merged;</para> - - <para>IPv6 link-local addresses are now enabled only - if <varname>ipv6_enable</varname> is set in &man.rc.conf.5;. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ipfw.4; IP packet filter now supports IPv6. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ipfw.4; firewall system now supports - a <literal>tablearg</literal> feature, which allows - values obtained from a table lookup to be used as part of a - rule. &merged; - This feature can be used to optimize some rulesets - or to implement policy-based routing inside a firewall. - For example, the following rules will throw different - packets to different pipes:</para> - - <programlisting>pipe 1000 config bw 1000Kbyte/s -pipe 4000 config bw 4000Kbyte/s -table 1 add x.x.x.x 1000 -table 1 add x.x.x.y 4000 -pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> - - <para>The &man.ipfw.4; packet filter now supports - <literal>tag</literal> and <literal>untag</literal> rule keywords. - When a packet matches a rule with the <literal>tag</literal> - keyword, the numeric tag for the given number in the range - from 0 to 65535 will be attached to the packet. - The tag acts as an internal marker (it is not sent out over - the wire) that can be used to identify these packets later on, - for example, by using <literal>tagged</literal> - rule option. For more details, see &man.ipfw.8;. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <literal>IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED</literal> kernel - option has been removed. This option was used to permit - &man.ipfw.4; to redirect packets with local destinations. - This behavior is now always enabled when - the <literal>IPFIREWALL_FORWARD</literal> kernel option is - enabled. &merged;</para> - - <para>The ip6fw(8) packet filter has been removed. Since &man.ipfw.4; has gained - IPv6 support, it should be used instead. Please note that some rules might need - to be adjusted.</para> - - <para>The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE.</para> - - <para>The &man.ng.ether.4; Netgraph node no longer overwrites - the MAC address of outgoing frames by default. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ng.iface.4; Netgraph node now supports &man.altq.4;. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ng.tag.4; Netgraph node has been added to - support the manipulation of mbuf tags attached to data in the - kernel. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug has been fixed in which NFS over TCP would not reconnect - when the server sent a FIN. This problem had occurred - with Solaris NFS servers. &merged;</para> - - <para>The default retransmit timer for NFS over TCP is now 60 seconds. - This change prevents the unnecessary retransmission of - non-idempotent NFS requests. The <varname>nfs_access_cache</varname> - variable in &man.rc.conf.5; has also been changed to 60.</para> - - <para>The default minimum number of nfsiod kernel threads - (&man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>vfs.nfs.iodmin</varname>) - has been changed from 4 to 0.</para> - - <para>The sysctl variables <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname> - and <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow</varname> - can be used with IPv6 now. &merged;</para> - - <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>net.inet.icmp.reply_from_interface</varname> - has been added. This allows the &man.icmp.4; - reply to non-local packets to be generated with - the IP address the packet came through in. - This is useful for routers to show in &man.traceroute.8; - the actual path a packet has taken instead of - the possibly different return path.</para> - - <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>net.inet.icmp.quotelen</varname> - has been added. This allows to change length of - the quotation of the original packet in an ICMP reply. - The minimum of 8 bytes is internally enforced. - The maximum quotation is the remaining space in the - reply mbuf. This option is added in response to the - issues raised in I-D - <filename>draft-gont-icmp-payload-00.txt</filename>.</para> - - <para>The &man.icmp.4; now always quotes the entire TCP header - when responding and allocate an mbuf cluster if needed. - This change fixes the TCP issues raised in I-D - <filename>draft-gont-icmp-payload-00.txt</filename>.</para> - - <para>A new socket option <literal>IP_MINTTL</literal> has been added. - This may be used to set the minimum acceptable - TTL a packet must have when received on a socket. - All packets with a lower TTL are silently dropped. - This works on already connected/connecting and - listening sockets for RAW, UDP, and TCP. This option - is only really useful when set to <literal>255</literal>, preventing packets - from outside the directly connected networks reaching - local listeners on sockets. Also, this option allows - userland implementation of <quote>The Generalized TTL - Security Mechanism (GTSM)</quote> found in RFC 3682.</para> - - <para>The kernel &man.ppp.4; driver now supports IPv6.</para> - - <para>Stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4. - This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable - <varname>net.inet6.ip6.stealth</varname>.</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 - in &os; with the <literal>SCTP</literal> kernel option.</para> - - <para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option - now works for UDP.</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 - trouble figuring out the maximal bandwidth due to the coarse - tick granularity. A new sysctl variable - <varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.rttthresh</varname> specifies - the threshold in milliseconds below which this feature - will disengage. It defaults to 10ms. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &os; network stack now has support for TCP - Segmentation Offload (TSO). TSO reduces the overhead of - sending bulk TCP data by allowing a network interface to - convert a large data transfer into multiple TCP segments to be - sent on the network. This functionality can be enabled or - disabled on a per-interface basis with - the <literal>tso</literal> and <literal>-tso</literal> flags - to &man.ifconfig.8;. Network interfaces and drivers - supporting TSO currently include &man.em.4; and - &man.mxge.4;.</para> - - <para>Support for &man.kqueue.2; operations has been added to - the &man.tun.4; driver. &merged;</para> - - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="disks"> - <title>Disks and Storage</title> - - <para>The &man.aac.4; driver now supports the Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID - controller in some Hewlett-Packard machines.</para> - - <para>The performance of the &man.amr.4; driver has been improved; - it also now supports full 64-bit DMA. While this feature is - enabled by default, this can be forced off by setting the - <varname>hw.amr.force_sg32</varname> loader tunable for - debugging purpose. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.amr.4; driver now supports the &man.ioctl.2; requests - necessary for the Linux LSI MegaRaid tools in &os;'s Linux emulation - environment. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a workaround - for some controllers whose DMA does not work properly - in 48bit mode. For affected controllers, - PIO mode will be used for access to areas beyond 137GB. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the ITE IT8211F IDE controller, - and the Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise - Fasttrak TX4300. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel crash dumps, - as well as crash dumping to an &man.ataraid.4; device. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports USB mass storage class - devices. To enable it, a line <literal>device atausb</literal> - in the kernel configuration file or loading the - <filename>atausb</filename> kernel module is needed. - Note that this functionality cannot coexist with the - &man.umass.4; driver. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ataraid.4; driver now supports - JMicron ATA RAID metadata. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <literal>GEOM_LABEL</literal> class now supports - Ext2FS, NTFS, and ReiserFS. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> class now supports - kernel crash dumps to the GEOM providers. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> and <literal>GEOM_RAID3</literal> - classes now support sysctl variables - <varname>kern.geom.mirror.disconnect_on_failure</varname> - and - <varname>kern.geom.graid3.disconnect_on_failure</varname> - to control whether failed components will be disconnected or not. - The default value is <literal>1</literal> to preserve the current - behavior, and if it is set to <literal>0</literal> such components - are not disconnected and the kernel will try to still use them - (only the first error will be logged). - This is helpful for the case of multiple broken components (in - different places), so actually all data is available. - The broken components will be visible in <command>gmirror list</command> - or <command>graid3 list</command> output with flag - <literal>BROKEN</literal>. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> and <literal>GEOM_RAID3</literal> - classes now use parallel I/O requests for synchronization - to improve the performance. New sysctl variables - <varname>kern.geom.mirror.sync_requests</varname> and - <varname>kern.geom.raid3.sync_requests</varname> - define how many parallel I/O requests should be used. - Also, the sysctl variables - <varname>kern.geom.mirror.reqs_per_sync</varname>, - <varname>kern.geom.mirror.syncs_per_sec</varname>, - <varname>kern.geom.raid3.reqs_per_sync</varname>, and - <varname>kern.geom.raid3.syncs_per_sec</varname> - are deprecated and have been removed. - &merged;</para> - - <para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added. - It creates a very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename> - and is mainly useful for performance testing. - On <literal>BIO_READ</literal> request it zero-fills - <varname>bio_data</varname> and on <literal>BIO_WRITE</literal> - it does nothing. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The GEOM class kernel module <filename>g_md.ko</filename> - has been renamed to <filename>geom_md.ko</filename> - for consistency.</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated and now supports - amd64 as well as PAE.</para> - - <para>The &man.mfi.4; driver, which supports - the LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family, has been added. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support - various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member - state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization - status reporting, and sysctl variables for volume - re-synchronization rate, volume member write cache status, - and volume transaction queue depth.</para> - - <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports SAS HBA (partially), - 64-bit PCI, and large data transfer.</para> - - <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the 9.3.0.1 - release on the 3ware Web site. &merged;</para> - - <para>A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been - added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration - and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for - more information. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.geli.8; disk encryption system now supports loading keyfiles before the root - file system is mounted. &merged; - For example, the following entries - can be used in <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to enable - it:</para> - - <programlisting>geli_da0_keyfile0_load="YES" -geli_da0_keyfile0_type="da0:geli_keyfile0" -geli_da0_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da0.key0" -geli_da0_keyfile1_load="YES" -geli_da0_keyfile1_type="da0:geli_keyfile1" -geli_da0_keyfile1_name="/boot/keys/da0.key1" -geli_da0_keyfile2_load="YES" -geli_da0_keyfile2_type="da0:geli_keyfile2" -geli_da0_keyfile2_name="/boot/keys/da0.key2" - -geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_load="YES" -geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_type="da1s3a:geli_keyfile0" -geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> - - <para>&man.geli.8; is now able to perform data integrity - verification (data authentication) of encrypted data stored on - disk. Note that the encryption algorithm is now specified to - the &man.geli.8; control program using the <option>-e</option> - option; the <option>-a</option> option is now used to specify - the authentication algorithm. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports - <literal>PLAY_MSF</literal>, - <literal>PLAY_TRACK</literal>, - <literal>PLAY_TRACK_REL</literal>, - <literal>PAUSE</literal>, - <literal>PLAY_12</literal> commands so that - the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle a USB CD drive.</para> - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="fs"> - <title>File Systems</title> - - <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.linsysfs.5; - pseudo-filesystem driver has been added. - It provides a subset of the - Linux <filename>sys</filename> filesystem, and is required for - the correct operation of some Linux binaries (such as the LSI - MegaRAID SAS utility). &merged;</para> - - <para>A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with - the protocol stack and callouts, the NFS client side) is now MPSAFE.</para> - - <para>Initial (read-only) support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been - added.</para> - </sect3> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="userland"> - <title>Userland Changes</title> - - <para>Padding of <varname>ai_addrlen</varname> - in <varname>struct addrinfo</varname> has been removed, - which was originally for the ABI compatibility. - For example, this change breaks the ABI compatibility of the - &man.getaddrinfo.3; function on 64-bit architectures, including - &os;/amd64, &os;/ia64, and &os;/sparc64.</para> - - <para>The &man.asf.8; utility has been revised and extended. Now - it can operate via several interfaces including &man.kvm.3;, - which supports not only live systems, but also kernel crash dumps. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.arp.8; utility now allows the <option>-i</option> - option together with the <option>-d</option> and <option>-a</option> options - to allow all entries for a given interface to be removed.</para> - - <para>The OpenBSM userland tools, including &man.audit.8;, - &man.auditd.8;, - &man.auditreduce.1;, and - &man.praudit.1;, have been added. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.bsdiff.1; and &man.bspatch.1; utilities - have been added. These are tools for constructing and - applying binary patches. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.bsnmpd.1; utility now supports the Host Resources - MIB described in RFC 2790. &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.cached.8; has been added. It is a daemon that caches - the results of nsswitch lookups (such as those to the password, - group, and services databases) for improved performance.</para> - - <para>The &man.cmp.1; utility now supports an <option>-h</option> - flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the - file that the link points to. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.config.8; utility now supports the <literal>nocpu</literal> - directive, which cancels the effect of a - previous <literal>cpu</literal> directive. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.config.8; utility now reads <filename>DEFAULTS</filename> - kernel configuration file if it exists in the current directory - before the specified configuration file. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.cp.1; utility now supports a <option>-l</option> - option, which causes it to create hardlinks to the source files - instead of copying them. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.csh.1; utility now supports NLS catalogs. - Note that this requires installing - the <filename role="package">shells/tcsh_nls</filename> port. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.csup.1; utility has been imported. - This is an implementation of a CVSup-compatible client written - in the C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode - only. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in - DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration - file. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.devd.8; utility now supports a <option>-f</option> option - to specify a configuration file. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.du.1; program now supports a <option>-n</option> - flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with - the <literal>nodump</literal> flag set. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.fsdb.8; utility now supports changing the birth - time of files on UFS2 file systems using the new - <literal>btime</literal> command. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.fsdb.8; program now supports - a <literal>findblk</literal> command, which finds the inode(s) - owning a specific disk block. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.find.1; program now supports <option>-Btime</option> - and other related primaries, which can be used to create expressions - based on a file's creation time. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.find.1; program which prevents - numeric arguments for <option>-user</option> and - <option>-group</option> from working as expected - has been fixed.</para> - - <para>The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility, a tool for managing - binary updates to the &os; base system, has been added. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ftpd.8; utility now creates a PID file - <filename>/var/run/ftpd.pid</filename> even when - no <option>-p</option> option is specified. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.gbde.8; utility now supports - <option>-k</option> and <option>-K</option> options - to specify a key file in addition to a passphrase.</para> - - <para>The &man.getfacl.1; utility now supports - a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress the per-file header - comment listing the file name, owner, and group. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.getent.1; utility has been imported from NetBSD. - It retrieves and displays information from an administrative - database (such as <filename>hosts</filename>) using the lookup - order specified in &man.nsswitch.conf.5;. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para> - - <para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports commands - to rename objects and to move a subdisk from - one drive to another. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports the - <command>resetconfig</command> sub-command.</para> - - <para>An implementation of Generic Security Service API (GSS-API) - version 2 and its C binding described in RFC2743 and RFC2744 - has been added. This is a new extensible GSS-API layer which - can support GSS-API plugins, similar the the Solaris - implementation, and the Kerberos 5 GSS mechanism has - been rewritten as a plugin library for the new implementation.</para> - - <para>The &man.hccontrol.8; utility now supports HCI node - autodetection.</para> - - <para>The &man.id.1; utility now prints the effective user - ID after the group ID.</para> - - <para>The &man.id.1; utility now supports a <option>-A</option> - flag to print process audit properties, including the audit user - id. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports - a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing - potentially sensitive keying material to standard output. - This sensitive information will not be printed by default.</para> - - <para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports a <option>-tunnel</option> - parameter, which is just an alias for <option>deletetunnel</option>, - yet is more convenient and easier to type.</para> - - <para>The <option>-vlandev</option> parameter to &man.ifconfig.8; - no longer requires a network interface as its argument. The - argument still is supported for backward compatibility, but - is now deprecated and its use is discouraged.</para> - - <para>The &man.iostat.8; utility now supports - a <option>-x</option> flag (inspired by Solaris) to print - extended disk statistics. If the new <option>-z</option> flag is - also specified, no output is made for disks with no - activity. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ipfwpcap.8; utility has been added; it captures - packets on a &man.divert.4; socket and writes them as - &man.pcap.3; (also known as &man.tcpdump.1;) format data to a - file or pipe.</para> - - <para>The &man.jail.8; utility supports a <option>-J - <replaceable>jid_file</replaceable></option> option to - write out a JidFile, similar to a PidFile, containing - the jailid, path, hostname, IP and the command used to start - the jail. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.jail.8; program now supports a <option>-s</option> - option to specify a jail's securelevel. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility now supports <option>-u</option> - and <option>-U</option> flags to specify username credentials - under which a command should be executed. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-H</option> - flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding - the threadid. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-s</option> - flag to suppress the display of I/O data. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports printing - flags in a system call argument by using symbol names.</para> - - <para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> - flag to suppress warnings.</para> - - <para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a <option>-w</option> - option to open kmem-based targets in read-write mode. - This allows one to use kgdb on <filename>/dev/mem</filename> - and be able to patch memory on a live system.</para> - - <para>The &man.libarchive.3; library now supports - POSIX.1e-style Extended Attributes.</para> - - <para>The <application>libc</application> library now includes - initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version - definitions.</para> - - <para>The <application>libedit</application> library has been - updated from the NetBSD source tree as of August 2005.</para> - - <para>The <application>libm</application> library now includes - initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version - definitions.</para> - - <para>The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added. - This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications - in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an - abstracted interface to &man.uma.9; and &man.malloc.9; - statistics, wrapped around the binary stream sysctl variables - for the allocators. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ln.1; utility now supports - an <option>-F</option> flag, which deletes existing - empty directories when creating symbolic links. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.locate.1; utility now supports - a <option>-0</option> flag to make this utility - interoperable with &man.xargs.1;'s <option>-0</option> flag. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.logger.1; utility now supports - a <option>-P</option>, which specifies the port to which syslog - messages should be sent. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ls.1; utility now supports - an <option>-I</option> flag to disable the automatic - <option>-A</option> flag for the superuser. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ls.1; utility now supports - an <option>-U</option> flag to use the file creation - time for sorting. &merged;</para> - - <para>A new &man.malloc.3; implementation has been introduced. - This implementation, sometimes referred to - as <quote>jemalloc</quote>, was designed to improve the - performance of multi-threaded programs, particularly on SMP - systems, while preserving the performance of single-threaded - programs. Due to the use of different algorithms and data - structures, jemalloc may expose some previously-unknown bugs in - userland code, although most of the &os; base system and common - ports have been tested and/or fixed.</para> - - <para>The &man.mdconfig.8; utility now supports producing - device listings formatted as XML. Currently, the - <command>list</command> and <command>query</command> - sub-commands support this feature.</para> - - <para>The &man.mdconfig.8; utility's <option>-u</option> option - now supports specifying multiple devices separated - by comma character.</para> - - <para>The &man.mdmfs.8; utility now supports a <option>-P</option> flag - to allow skipping the &man.newfs.8; process - when using a vnode-backed disk.</para> - - <para>The &man.mdmfs.8; utility now supports a <option>-E</option> flag - to allow to specify location of the &man.mdconfig.8; - utility instead of using the default one - (<filename>/sbin/mdconfig</filename>).</para> - - <para>A new function &man.memmem.3; has been implemented in - <filename>libc</filename>. This is the binary equivalent to - &man.strstr.3; and found in <filename>glibc</filename>.</para> - - <para>The &man.mergemaster.8; utility now supports - an <option>-A</option> option to explicitly specify - an architecture to pass through to the underlying makefiles. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.mount.8; <literal>nodev</literal> option has - been removed.</para> - - <para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;.</para> - - <para>A bug which prevents the &man.mount.8; utility from converting - a read-only mount to read-write via <command>mount -u -o rw</command>, - has been fixed.</para> - - <para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports a - <literal>late</literal> keyword in &man.fstab.5;, along with a - corresponding <option>-l</option> command-line option to specify - that these <quote>late</quote> file systems should be - mounted. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.moused.8; daemon now supports an <option>-H</option> flag - to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to the - <option>-V</option> flag for vertical virtual scrolling. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The mrouted(8) multicast routing daemon has been removed - from the &os; base system. It implements the DVMRP multicast - routing protocol, which has largely been replaced by PIM in many - multicast installations. The related map-mbone(8) and mrinfo(8) - utilities have also been removed. These programs are now - available in the &os; Ports Collection - as <filename role="package">net/mrouted</filename>.</para> - - <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports an - <option>-h</option> flag for interface stats mode, - which prints all interface statistics in human readable form. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports - printing &man.ipsec.4; protocol statistics if the - kernel was compiled with <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> - rather than the KAME IPSEC stack. - Note that the output of <command>netstat -s -p ipsec</command> - differs depending on which stack is compiled into - the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file is now - installed statically instead of being generated on every - reboot.</para> - - <para>The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports - display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;, - &man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices. - Note that these are disabled by default. &merged;</para> - - <para>A new function, &man.pidfile.3;, which provides reliable - pidfiles handling, has been implemented in - <filename>libutil</filename>. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ping.8; utility now supports a <quote>sweeping - ping</quote> in which &man.icmp.4; payload of - packets being sent is increased with given step. - This is useful for testing problematic channels, MTU issues - or traffic policing functions in networks. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ping.8; command now supports a <option>-W</option> - option to specify the maximum time to wait for an echo reply. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.pkill.1; utility now supports a - <option>-F</option> option which allows to - restrict matches to a process whose PID is stored in the - pidfile file. When another new option <option>-L</option> - is also specified, the pidfile file must be locked with the - &man.flock.2; syscall or created with &man.pidfile.3;.</para> - - <para>The &man.pkill.1; utility now supports a - <option>-I</option> flag which works like <option>-i</option> - of &man.rm.1;. When this flag is specified, &man.pkill.1; - will ask for confirmation before sending a signal to - each matching process.</para> - - <para>The &man.pkill.1; utility (also known as &man.pgrep.1;) has - been moved from <filename>/usr/bin</filename> - to <filename>/bin</filename> so that it can be used by startup - scripts. Symbolic links from its former location have been - created for backward compatibliity. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a - <option>-P</option> option, which specifies a pidfile to use.</para> - - <para>An extensible implementation of &man.printf.3;, compatible - with GLIBC, has been added to <filename>libc</filename>. It is - only used if the environment variable - <varname>USE_XPRINTF</varname> is defined, one of the extension - functions is called, or the global variable - <varname>__use_xprintf</varname> is set to a value greater than - <literal>0</literal>. Five extensions are currently supported: - <literal>%H</literal> (hex dump), - <literal>%T</literal> (<varname>time_t</varname> and - time-related structures), - <literal>%M</literal> (errno message), - <literal>%Q</literal> (double-quoted, escaped string), - <literal>%V</literal> (&man.strvis.3;-format string), - &merged;</para> - - <para>The DNS resolver library in &os;'s <application>libc</application> - has been updated to BIND9's one. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; program now supports service names - in addition to <option>-c</option> option with channel number. - The supported names are: DUN (Dial-Up Networking), FAX (Fax), - LAN (LAN Access Using PPP), and SP (Serial Port). &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.rpcgen.1; utility now generates headers and stub files - that can be used with ANSI C compilers by default.</para> - - <para>The &man.rtld.1; runtime linker now supports ELF symbol versioning - using GNU semantics. This implementation aims to be compatible - with symbol versioning support as implemented by GNU libc and - documented in <ulink url="http://people.redhat.com/~drepper/symbol-versioning"></ulink> - and LSB 3.0. Also, <function>dlvsym()</function> - function has been added to - allow lookups for a specific version of a given symbol.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.sed.1; utility which can cause - incorrect calculation of pattern space length in some cases - has been fixed.</para> - - <para>The &man.sh.1; utility now supports a <literal>times</literal> - built-in command. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.snapinfo.8; utility, which shows snapshot locations - on UFS filesystems, has been added. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.sockstat.1; utility, which shows connected and - listening network sockets, now supports a new <option>-P</option> - command-line option, which can be used to filter displayed sockets - by protocol name (as listed in &man.protocols.5;).</para> - - <para>The &man.strtonum.3; library function has been implemented - based on OpenBSD's implementation. This is an improved version of - &man.strtoll.3;. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> - flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para> - - <para>The &man.tail.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> - flag to suppress header lines when multiple files are - specified. &merged;</para> - - <para>The version of tcpslice in the &os; base system has been - removed due to obsolescence. A more up-to-date version can be - found in the Ports Collection - as <filename role="package">net/tcpslice</filename>.</para> - - <para>The &man.time.1; utility now prints the time that a given - command has been running if sent a <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal.</para> - - <para>The &man.traceroute.8; program now supports - a <option>-D</option> flag, which causes it to display the - differences between the sent and received - packets. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.traceroute.8; utility now supports - a <option>-e</option> option, which sets a fixed destination - port for probe packets. This can be useful for tracing behind - packet-filtering firewalls. &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.traceroute.8; now decodes the complete set of ICMP - unreachable messages in its output. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.truss.1; utility now supports an <option>-s</option> - flag for the same functionality as the strace utility - (<filename role="package">devel/strace</filename>).</para> - - <para arch="ppc">The &man.truss.1; utility now supports &os;/ppc.</para> - - <para>The usbd(8) utility has been removed. - The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration - file now support functionality which is equivalent to it.</para> - - <para>The &man.xargs.1; utility now supports a <option>-r</option> - flag which makes the command execution when the standard input - does not contain any non-whitespace-characters. &merged;</para> - - <para>The shared library version number of all libraries has - been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries - include: snmp_<replaceable>*</replaceable>, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc, - libreadline, libregex, libstdc++, libkrb5, libalias, libarchive, - libbegemot, libbluetooth, libbsnmp, libbz2, libc_r, libcrypt, - libdevstat, libedit, libexpat, libfetch, libftpio, libgpib, - libipsec, libkiconv, libmagic, libmp, libncp, libncurses, - libnetgraph, libngatm, libopie, libpam, libpthread, libradius, - libsdp, libsmb, libtacplus, libthr, libthread_db, libugidfw, - libusbhid, libutil, libvgl, libwrap, libypclnt, libm, libcrypto, - libssh, and libssl.</para> - - <para>The <function>wcsdup()</function> function has been - implemented. This function is popular in Microsoft and GNU - systems.</para> - - <para>The compiler toolchain is now capable of generating - executables for systems using the ARM processor. &merged;</para> - - <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> - <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> - - <para>The <filename>auditd</filename> script for - OpenBSM &man.auditd.8; has been added. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <filename>bluetooth</filename> script - has been added. This script will be called from - &man.devd.8; in response to device attachment/detachment - events and to stop/start particular device without unplugging - it by hand. The configuration parameters are in - <filename>/etc/defaults/bluetooth.device.conf</filename>, - and can be overridden by using - <filename>/etc/bluetooth/<replaceable>$device</replaceable>.conf</filename> - (where <replaceable>$device</replaceable> is <devicename>ubt0</devicename>, - <devicename>btcc0</devicename>, and so on.) - For more details, see &man.bluetooth.conf.5;. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <filename>ftpd</filename> script for - stand-alone &man.ftpd.8; has been added.</para> - - <para>The <filename>gbde_swap</filename> script has - been removed in favor a new <filename>encswap</filename> - script which also supports &man.geli.8; for swap - encryption.</para> - - <para>The <filename>geli</filename> and <filename>geli2</filename> - scripts has been added for &man.geli.8; device - configuration on boot.</para> - - <para>The <filename>ike</filename> script for - IPsec IKE daemon has been removed because no such daemon - is included in the base system.</para> - - <para>The <filename>hcsecd</filename> and - <filename>sdpd</filename> scripts have been added - for &man.hcsecd.8; and &man.sdpd.8; daemons. - These daemons can run even if no Bluetooth devices - are attached to the system, but both daemons depend on - Bluetooth socket layer and thus disabled by default. - Bluetooth sockets layer must be either loaded - as a module or compiled into kernel before the daemons can run. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The <filename>hostapd</filename> script for - &man.hostapd.8; has been added. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <filename>mdconfig</filename> script to - handle vnode backed &man.md.4; devices has been added. - This is a replacement of the <filename>ramdisk</filename> - script, and all of variables in <varname>ramdisk_*</varname> - have been changed to <varname>mdconfig_*</varname>. - Also, two new &man.rc.conf.5; variables - <varname>mdconfig_<replaceable>*</replaceable>_files</varname> - and - <varname>mdconfig_<replaceable>*</replaceable>_cmd</varname> - have been added. For example:</para> - - <programlisting>mdconfig_md0="-t malloc -s 10m" -mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> - - <para>The <filename>netif</filename> script now supports - <varname>ipv4_addrs_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname> - variables, - which add one or more IPv4 address from a ranged list in - CIDR notation. &merged; For example:</para> - - <programlisting>ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.168.0.1/24 192.168.1.1-5/28"</programlisting> - - <para>The <filename>rcconf.sh</filename> script in <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> - has been removed and a variable <varname>early_late_divider</varname>, - which designates the script to separate the early and late stages - of the boot process, has been added.</para> - - <para>The <filename>rc.initdiskless</filename> script now uses &man.tar.1; - instead of &man.pax.1; because &man.pax.1; needs a writable - temporary directory that may not be available when this script - runs.</para> - - <para>The <filename>pccard</filename> script has been removed - since OLDCARD is deprecated.</para> - - <para>The <filename>ppp-user</filename> script has been renamed to - <filename>ppp</filename>. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <varname>removable_interfaces</varname> variable - has been removed.</para> - - <para>A new keyword <literal>NOAUTO</literal> in - <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname> - has been added. This prevents configuration of an interface - at boot time or via <filename>/etc/pccard_ether</filename>, - and allows <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename> - to be used to start and stop an interface - on a purely manual basis.</para> - </sect3> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="contrib"> - <title>Contributed Software</title> - - <para><application>Intel ACPI-CA</application> - has been updated to 20051021.</para> - - <para><application>BIND</application> has been updated from 9.3.1 - to 9.3.2-P1. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>BSNMPD</application> has been updated from - 1.11 to 1.12.</para> - - <para><application>DRM</application> has - been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517. - &merged;</para> - - <para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.12 - to 4.17.</para> - - <para><application>netcat</application> has been updated from the - version in a 4 February 2005 OpenBSD snapshot to the version - included in OpenBSD 3.9. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.4.4 - to 3.4.6. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>GNU Readline library</application> has been - updated from 5.0 to 5.1.</para> - - <para><application>GNU Troff</application> - has been updated from version 1.19 to version 1.19.2. - &merged;</para> - - <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated from - 4.1.8 to 4.1.13. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>less</application> has been updated from v381 - to v394. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated from - 0.9.1 to 0.9.4. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>lukemftpd</application> has been updated from a - snapshot from NetBSD as of 9 August 2004 to a snapshot from - NetBSD as of 31 August 2006. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from - 4.2p1 to 4.5p1. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from - 0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.</para> - - <para><application>hostapd</application> - has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8. - &merged;</para> - - <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from - 8.13.4 to 8.13.8. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from - 3.9.1 to 3.9.4. &merged;</para> - - <para>The timezone database has been updated from the - <application>tzdata2005l</application> release to the - <application>tzdata2006n</application> release. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>tip</application> has been updated to a - snapshot from OpenBSD as of 20060831.</para> - - <para>TrustedBSD <application>OpenBSM</application>, - version 1.0 alpha 12, an implementation of the documented Sun Basic - Security Module (BSM) Audit API and file format, as well as local - extensions to support the Mac OS X and &os; operating systems - has been added. This also includes command line tools for audit - trail reduction and conversion to text, as well as documentation - of the commands, file format, and APIs. - For this functionality, the <literal>AUDIT</literal> kernel option, - <filename>/var/audit</filename> directory, and - <literal>audit</literal> group have been added. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>WPA Supplicant</application> - has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8. - &merged;</para> - - <para><application>zlib</application> - has been updated from version 1.2.2 to version 1.2.3. &merged;</para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="ports"> - <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - - <para>&man.pkg.add.1; now supports an <option>-F</option> - flag to disable checking whether the same package is already - installed or not. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; program now supports an <option>-P</option> - flag, which is the same as the <option>-p</option> flag - except that the given prefix is also used recursively for the - dependency packages if any. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; and &man.pkg.create.1; utilities now support - a <option>-K</option> flag to save packages to the current directory - (or <varname>PKGDIR</varname> if defined) by default. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; program now supports an <option>-x</option> - flag to support basic regular expressions for package name, - an <option>-E</option> flag for extended regular - expressions, and a <option>-G</option> for exact matching. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.pkg.version.1; utility now supports an <option>-o</option> - flag to show the origin recorded on package generation - instead of the package name, and an <option>-O</option> flag - to list packages with a specific registered origin. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.portsnap.8; utility (<filename>sysutils/portsnap</filename>) - has been added into the &os; base system. This is a secure, - easy to use, fast, lightweight, and generally good way for - users to keep their ports trees up to date. &merged;</para> - - <para>A incorrect handling of <varname>HTTP_PROXY_AUTH</varname> - in the &man.portsnap.8; utility has been fixed. &merged;</para> - - <para>The startup scripts from the <varname>local_startup</varname> - directory now evaluated by using &man.rcorder.8; with scripts - in the base system. &merged;</para> - - <para>The suffix of startup scripts from the Ports Collection - has been removed. This means <filename>foo.sh</filename> - is renamed to <filename>foo</filename>, and now - scripts whose name is something like - <filename>foo.ORG</filename> will also be invoked. - You are recommended to reinstall packages which install - such scripts and remove extra files in the - <varname>local_startup</varname> directory. &merged;</para> - - <para>New <filename>rc.conf</filename> variables, - <varname>ldconfig_local_dirs</varname> and - <varname>ldconfig_local32_dirs</varname> have been added. - These hold lists of local &man.ldconfig.8; directories. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The <command>@cwd</command> command in - <filename>pkg-plist</filename> now allows - the case where no directory argument is given. If no - directory argument is given, it will set current - working directory to the first prefix given by the - <command>@cwd</command> command. &merged;</para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="releng"> - <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> - - <para>The default partition sizing algorithm of the - &man.sysinstall.8; utility has been changed.</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>On systems where the disk capacity is larger than (3 * RAMsize + 10GB), - the default sizes will now be as follows:</para> - - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> - <tgroup cols="2"> - <colspec colwidth="1*"> - <colspec colwidth="2*"> - <thead> - <row> - <entry>Partition</entry> - <entry>Size</entry> - </row> - </thead> - - <tbody> - <row><entry>swap</entry><entry>RAMsize * 2</entry></row> - <row><entry><filename>/</filename></entry><entry>512 MB</entry></row> - <row><entry><filename>/tmp</filename></entry><entry>512 MB</entry></row> - <row><entry><filename>/var</filename></entry><entry>1024 MB + RAMsize</entry></row> - <row><entry><filename>/usr</filename></entry><entry>the rest (8GB or more)</entry></row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>On systems where the disk capacity is larger than - (RAMsize / 8 + 2 GB), the default sizes will be - in the following ranges, with space allocated - proportionally:</para> - - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> - <tgroup cols="2"> - <colspec colwidth="1*"> - <colspec colwidth="2*"> - <thead> - <row> - <entry>Partition</entry> - <entry>Size</entry> - </row> - </thead> - - <tbody> - <row><entry>swap</entry><entry>from RAMsize / 8 to RAMsize * 2</entry></row> - <row><entry><filename>/</filename></entry><entry>from 256MB to 512MB</entry></row> - <row><entry><filename>/tmp</filename></entry><entry>from 128MB to 512MB</entry></row> - <row><entry><filename>/var</filename></entry><entry>from 128MB to 1024MB</entry></row> - <row><entry><filename>/usr</filename></entry><entry>from 1536MB to 8192MB</entry></row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>On systems with even less disk space, the existing behavior is not - changed.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>The &man.sysinstall.8; utility now displays the running &os; - version in menu titles. &merged;</para> - - <para>A new <literal>showconfig</literal> - target has been added in <filename>src/Makefile</filename> - to show the build configuration of the &os; source tree.</para> - - <para>A <filename>/media</filename> directory has been - added to contain mount points for removable media - such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which - contains settings that will apply to every build involving - the &os; source tree, has been added. - For details, see &man.build.7; and &man.src.conf.5;.</para> - - <para>The supported version of - the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment - (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been - updated from 2.10.2 to 2.16.1. As a part of this update, the - default prefix for <application>GNOME</application> (and some - related programs) has moved from - <filename>/usr/X11R6</filename> - to <filename>/usr/local</filename>. &merged;</para> - - <para>The supported version of - the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment - (<filename role="package">x11/kde3</filename>) has been - updated from 3.4.2 to 3.5.4. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="i386,amd64">The supported Linux emulation now uses the - libraries in the - <filename role="package">emulators/linux_base-fc4</filename> - package. &merged;</para> - - <para>The supported version of - the <application>Perl</application> interpreter - (<filename role="package">lang/perl5.8</filename>) has been updated - from 5.8.7 to 5.8.8. &merged;</para> - - <para>The supported version of - the <application>&xorg;</application> windowing system - (<filename role="package">x11/xorg</filename>) has been updated - from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="pc98">&os;/pc98 release CDROMs are now - bootable on systems with some supported SCSI adapters. - &merged;</para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="doc"> - <title>Documentation</title> - - <para>Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by - the addition of the following manual pages: - &man.acpi.sony.4;, &man.device.get.sysctl.9;, - &man.ext2fs.5;, - &man.mca.8;, - &man.nanobsd.8;, - &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;, - &man.sysctl.9;.</para> - - <para>The manual pages for <application>NTP</application> - have been updated to 4.2.0, to match the version of - code actually included in &os;. &merged;</para> - - <para>Initial support for kernel subsystem API documentation generating - framework using <filename role="package">devel/doxygen</filename> - has been added into <filename>src/sys/doc/subsys</filename>. - To generate the API document, type <command>make doxygen</command> - in <filename>src/</filename> directory.</para> - </sect2> -</sect1> - -<sect1 id="upgrade"> - <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> - - <para></para> - - <important> - <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after - backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration - files.</para> - </important> -</sect1> |
