New release notes: Kernel message buffer via sysctl and dmesg(8),

new processor detection, better TCP memory usage, netstat(1) -z.

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index ba7b1b1..a42b10a 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -201,6 +201,11 @@
     <option>create</option> option should be used when another device
     instance is desired.</para>
 
+    <para>The kernel message buffer is now accessible by the
+    (machine-independent) <varname>kern.msgbuf</varname> sysctl
+    variable; &man.dmesg.8; no longer needs to be SGID
+    <groupname>kmem</groupname>.</para>
+
     <sect3>
       <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
 
@@ -253,6 +258,10 @@
 
       <para arch="alpha">SMP support for the alpha is now operational.</para>
 
+      <para arch="i386">Detection for new processors, such as the
+      FC-PGA2 Pentium III (Tualatin), Transmeta Crusoe, and Transmeta
+      Crusoe LongRun, has been added.</para>
+
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3>
@@ -407,6 +416,11 @@
       (very old) terminal servers with buggy VJ header compression
       implementations. &merged;</para>
 
+      <para>The TCP implementation no longer requires the
+      allocation of a TCP template structure for each connection; this
+      should reduce the buffer usage on large systems handling many
+      connections.</para>
+
       <para>A new sysctl <literal>net.inet.ip.check_interface</literal>,
       which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming
       packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the
@@ -1017,6 +1031,9 @@
     <para>&man.netstat.1; now keeps track of input and output packets
     on a per-address basis for each interface. &merged;</para>
 
+    <para>&man.netstat.1; now has a <option>-z</option> flag to reset
+    statistics.</para>
+
     <para>&man.sockstat.1; now has <option>-c</option> and
     <option>-l</option> flags for listing connected and listening
     sockets, respectively. &merged;</para>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index ba7b1b1..a42b10a 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -201,6 +201,11 @@
     <option>create</option> option should be used when another device
     instance is desired.</para>
 
+    <para>The kernel message buffer is now accessible by the
+    (machine-independent) <varname>kern.msgbuf</varname> sysctl
+    variable; &man.dmesg.8; no longer needs to be SGID
+    <groupname>kmem</groupname>.</para>
+
     <sect3>
       <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
 
@@ -253,6 +258,10 @@
 
       <para arch="alpha">SMP support for the alpha is now operational.</para>
 
+      <para arch="i386">Detection for new processors, such as the
+      FC-PGA2 Pentium III (Tualatin), Transmeta Crusoe, and Transmeta
+      Crusoe LongRun, has been added.</para>
+
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3>
@@ -407,6 +416,11 @@
       (very old) terminal servers with buggy VJ header compression
       implementations. &merged;</para>
 
+      <para>The TCP implementation no longer requires the
+      allocation of a TCP template structure for each connection; this
+      should reduce the buffer usage on large systems handling many
+      connections.</para>
+
       <para>A new sysctl <literal>net.inet.ip.check_interface</literal>,
       which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming
       packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the
@@ -1017,6 +1031,9 @@
     <para>&man.netstat.1; now keeps track of input and output packets
     on a per-address basis for each interface. &merged;</para>
 
+    <para>&man.netstat.1; now has a <option>-z</option> flag to reset
+    statistics.</para>
+
     <para>&man.sockstat.1; now has <option>-c</option> and
     <option>-l</option> flags for listing connected and listening
     sockets, respectively. &merged;</para>