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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-04-05 18:11:39 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-04-05 18:11:39 +0000 |
commit | bcf7984652af778a74311520173661bcd19d3326 (patch) | |
tree | 95a96de00571269d88b106799997133986cb043b /release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes | |
parent | 5279835925231be63b6bf1dd7219f7b529a5b5e2 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-bcf7984652af778a74311520173661bcd19d3326.zip FreeBSD-src-bcf7984652af778a74311520173661bcd19d3326.tar.gz |
New release notes: ULE default (+MFC), aac(4) >2TB volume support
(+MFC), kernel-mode NLM, adduser(8) -M (+MFC), ls(1) -D, nc(1) -O,
pkg_sign/pkg_check gone.
MFCs noted: textdump(4), cmx(4), uslcom(4),
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 35 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 5204ce8..873779d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely synchronized source code. More information can be found in the - &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para> + &man.textdump.4; manual page. &merged;</para> <para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful @@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ <para>[&arch.amd64;] The &os; kernel now has support for large memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para> + <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.powerpc;] The ULE + scheduler is now the default process scheduler + in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels. &merged;</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -205,11 +209,11 @@ <title>Hardware Support</title> <para>The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 - PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para> + PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been - imported from OpenBSD.</para> + imported from OpenBSD. &merged;</para> <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> @@ -271,6 +275,9 @@ <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> + <para>The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than + 2TB in size. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down @@ -289,12 +296,21 @@ <para>A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has been fixed.</para> + <para>A new kernel-mode NFS lock manager has been added, + improving performance and behavior of NFS locking. A new + &man.clear.locks.8; command has been added to clear locks held + on behalf of an NFS client.</para> + </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para>The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports + a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's + home directory. &merged;</para> + <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU Binutils versions of these utilities.</para> @@ -316,6 +332,13 @@ command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel modules.</para> + <para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option> + option to specify a date format string to be used with the long + format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para> + + <para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to + disable the use of TCP options.</para> + <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display detailed information about processes.</para> @@ -395,7 +418,11 @@ <sect2 id="ports"> <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - <para></para> + <para>The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically + signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful + for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however + &man.bzip2.1; compression has been the norm for some time + now.</para> </sect2> |