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authorgjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2016-08-29 23:57:00 +0000
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Document r292120, Update to ELF Tool Chain r3272
Document r299142, Native PCIe Hotplug support Document r298166, libucl has been updated to version 0.8.0 Document r302288, Enable indirect segment I/O by default when running on EC2 Document r302265, Allow ZFS ARC min / max to be tuned at runtime Document r299142, The leap-seconds file has been updated to leap-seconds.3676752000 Document r302177, WITH_SYSTEM_COMPILER: Enable by default Document r304246, PCIe HotPlug: Detect bridges that are not really HotPlug capable Document r301565, Switch arm64 to use intrng by default Document r299781, Support for the Allwinner Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) Document r296064, Support for Allwinner A20 HDMI Document r299393, Default installation directory for modules is /boot/modules Document r303716, Drop SSH1 support Document r303719, Disable DSA by default Document r297633, RCTL resources for limited filesystem IO Document r300723, Mellanox implementation of iSER Document r299848, Allow reroot to NFS Document r301033, Discovery without attaching support in iscsictl Document r299371, camcontrol reprobe Document r295212, Add an additional, libucl-based configuration file parser to ctld Document r287842, Change default regulatory domain from DEBUG to FCC in ifconfig Document r301875, The SIOCSIFALIFETIME_IN6 ioctl has been removed These map to r304919, r304923, and r304929 from stable/11 from skreuzer@. Approved by: re (implicit, relnotes) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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@@ -175,8 +175,15 @@
<para revision="272350">The <literal>MK_ARM_EABI</literal>
&man.src.conf.5; option has been removed.</para>
+ <para revision="302177">The <literal>WITH_SYSTEM_COMPILER</literal>
+ &man.src.conf.5; option is enabled by default.</para>
+
<para revision="301247">The <application>ntp</application> suite
has been updated to version 4.2.8p8.</para>
+
+ <para revision="301247">The
+ <filename>/etc/ntp/leap-seconds</filename>
+ has been updated to version 3676752000.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
@@ -443,10 +450,11 @@
falling back to the PCI ID database in the &os; base
system.</para>
- <para revision="287842" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility has been
- updated to always exit with an error code if an important
- &man.ioctl.2; fails.</para>
+ <para revision="287842">By default the &man.ifconfig.8; utility
+ will set the default regulatory domain to <literal>FCC</literal>
+ on wireless interfaces. As a result, newly created wireless
+ interfaces with default settings will have less chances to
+ violate country-specific regulations.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
@@ -458,6 +466,12 @@
<para revision="296633"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
been updated to 7.2p2.</para>
+ <para revision="303716">SSHv1 support has been removed from
+ <application>OpenSSH</application>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="303719">Support for DSA is disabled by default in
+ <application>OpenSSH</application>.</para>
+
<para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has
been updated to version 1.12.3.</para>
@@ -466,9 +480,9 @@
patches that add new relocations for &arch.powerpc;
support.</para>
- <para revision="276398" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
+ <para revision="292120" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
<application>ELF Tool Chain</application> has been updated to
- upstream revision r3136.</para>
+ upstream revision r3272.</para>
<para revision="276551">The <application>texinfo</application>
utility and <literal>info</literal> pages were removed from
@@ -602,6 +616,9 @@
<para revision="292432"><application>OpenBSM</application> has been
updated to version 1.2 alpha 4.</para>
+ <para revision="298166"><application>libucl</application> has
+ been updated to version 0.8.0.</para>
+
<para revision="301169" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The NetBSD
Project's &man.libblacklist.3; library and applications
have been ported and integrated into the system. Packet
@@ -1027,6 +1044,10 @@
To retain the previous behavior, add
<literal>KERN_DEBUGDIR=""</literal> to
&man.src.conf.5;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="301565" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
+ arch="arm64">&arch.arm64; has been switched over to using
+ <literal>INTRNG</literal> by default.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
@@ -1310,6 +1331,13 @@
<sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
+ <para revision="299142">Native PCI-express HotPlug
+ support is enabled by default on &arch.amd64;, &arch.arm64; and
+ &arch.powerpc;</para>
+
+ <para revision="304246">PCI-express HotPlug support has been
+ enabled for slots with power controllers</para>
+
<para revision="268303">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been
updated to support the &apple;&nbsp;MacMini 3,1.</para>
@@ -1445,6 +1473,9 @@
<para revision="286062">The &man.xen.4; driver has been updated
to include support for <literal>blkif</literal> indirect
segment I/O.</para>
+
+ <para revision="302288">Indirect segment I/O is enabled by default
+ in the Xen blkfront driver when running on AWS EC2.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
@@ -1520,6 +1551,11 @@
interrupts on AXP209 power management integrated circuits have been
added.</para>
+ <para revision="299781" arch="arm">Support for the Allwinner
+ Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) has been added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="296064" arch="arm">Support for Allwinner A20 HDMI
+ has been added.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -1541,6 +1577,10 @@
&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
+ <para revision="295212" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Support
+ for parsing libucl-based configuration files has been added to
+ &man.ctld.8;.</para>
+
<para revision="275681" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
@@ -1571,6 +1611,9 @@
Support for managing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives
has been added.</para>
+ <para revision="299371" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
+ &man.camcontrol.8; command can manually force updating capacity
+ data after a disk gets resized using the reprobe subcommand.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
@@ -1590,6 +1633,13 @@
for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>,
<literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options
have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="300723">The Mellanox implementation of iSER (iSCSI
+ Extensions for RDMA) has been imported.</para>
+
+ <para revision="301033">The ability to discover iSCSI targets without
+ having to attach to a target has been added to the
+ &man.iscsictl.8; command.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
@@ -1613,6 +1663,14 @@
sponsor="&ix;, &spectralogic;">The zfsd daemon has been added,
which manages hotspares and replements in drive slots that publish
physical paths.</para>
+
+ <para revision="302265" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&multiplay;">The
+ minimum and maximum values for the ZFS adaptive replacement
+ cache can be modified at runtime.</para>
+
+ <para revision="297633" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Four new
+ resources have been added to &man.rctl.8; to allow
+ throttles to be set on filesystem IO.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
@@ -1676,6 +1734,9 @@
updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
<filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
+
+ <para revision="299393">The default installation directory for modules
+ has been changed to <filename>/boot/modules</filename>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
@@ -1691,6 +1752,12 @@
<para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
&os;.</para>
+ <para revision="301875">The unused <literal>SIOCSIFALIFETIME_IN6</literal>
+ ioctl has been removed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="299848" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support to
+ be able to reroot into a NFSv4 volume has been added.</para>
+
<sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
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