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author | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-04-19 12:03:52 +0000 |
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committer | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-04-19 12:03:52 +0000 |
commit | 999a402d600cdf44fc7abfa1450cb3332212ffae (patch) | |
tree | b266c732602b92d306a4ff76247b61535f34a076 /release/doc | |
parent | bbad4f5164f3a5ff875e8b62d81835d4124b7236 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-999a402d600cdf44fc7abfa1450cb3332212ffae.zip FreeBSD-src-999a402d600cdf44fc7abfa1450cb3332212ffae.tar.gz |
New release notes:
hwpmc(4) and associated library/userland utilities,
ipw(4), iwi(4), ral(4), and ural(4) wireless LAN drivers,
ipfw(4) and dummynet(4) now supports IPv6,
net.link.tap.user_open sysctl for tap(4),
LOCAL_CREDS and LOCAL_CONNWAIT options for unix(4),
twa(4) driver update,
machine-specific optimized functions for AMD64.
getserv{ent,byname,byport} MPSAFE,
mixer(8) -S option,
C99 functions: roundl(), lroundl(), llroundl(), truncl(), and floorl(),
syslogd(8) -S option,
rc.d/bsnmpd startup script, and
manual pages of ataraid(4), sched_4bsd(4), and sched_ule(4) added.
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 71 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 71 |
2 files changed, 142 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 cdad33a..1c1ef3e 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -323,6 +323,14 @@ in the &man.acpi.4; driver. These can individually be disabled by setting device hints such as <varname>hint.<replaceable>ichss</replaceable>.0.disabled="1"</varname>.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hwpmc.4;, hardware performance + monitoring counter driver has been added. + This driver virtualizes the hardware performance monitoring + facilities in modern CPUs and provides support for using + these facilities from user level processes. For more details, + see manual pages of &man.hwpmc.4;, associated libraries, + and associated userland utilities.</para> + <para arch="i386">Support for the OLDCARD subsystem has been removed. The NEWCARD system is now used for all PCCARD device support.</para> @@ -421,6 +429,12 @@ <para>The &man.hme.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ipw.4; (for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100), + &man.iwi.4; (for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG), + &man.ral.4; (for Ralink Technology RT2500), + and &man.ural.4; (for Ralink Technology RT2500USB) + drivers have been added.</para> + <para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> <para arch="amd64">The &man.ndis.4; device driver wrapper now @@ -490,6 +504,9 @@ when the <literal>gid</literal>, <literal>jail</literal>, and/or <literal>uid</literal> rule options are used. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ipfw.4; and &man.dummynet.4; system now + support IPv6.</para> + <para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket, as well as the TCP data length.</para> @@ -523,6 +540,10 @@ <para>The &man.sppp.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> + <para>The new sysctl <varname>net.link.tap.user_open</varname> + has been implemented. This allows unprivileged access to + &man.tap.4; device nodes based on the file system permission.</para> + <para>A bug in TCP that sometimes caused RST packets to be ignored if the receive window was zero bytes has been fixed. &merged;</para> @@ -574,6 +595,16 @@ <varname>debug.mpsafenet</varname> sysctl variable may be set to <literal>1</literal>).</para> + <para>The Unix domain socket now supports + <literal>LOCAL_CREDS</literal> and + <literal>LOCAL_CONNWAIT</literal>. + The <literal>LOCAL_CREDS</literal> option provides + a mechanism for the receiver to receive the credentials + of the process as a &man.recvmsg.2; control message. + The <literal>LOCAL_CONNWAIT</literal> + option causes the &man.connect.2; function to block + until &man.accept.2; has been called on the listening socket. + For more details, see &man.unix.4; manual page.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -608,6 +639,10 @@ <para>The old vinum(4) subsystem has been removed in favor of the new &man.geom.4;-based version.</para> + <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to + the 9.2 release (for &os; 5.2.1) distributed from + the 3ware website.</para> + <para arch="pc98">The &man.wd.4; driver has been removed. The &man.ata.4; driver has been found to work well enough on the pc98 platform that there is no need for the older &man.wd.4; @@ -656,6 +691,11 @@ <command>eject</command>) to take place after fixating a disk.</para> + <para arch="amd64">The machine-specific optimized version of + &man.bcmp.3;, &man.bcopy.3;, &man.bzero.3;, &man.memcmp.3;, + &man.memcpy.3;, &man.memmove.3;, &man.memset.3;, &man.strcat.3; + and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented.</para> + <para>The &man.ftpd.8; program now uses the <literal>212</literal> and <literal>213</literal> status codes for directory and file status correctly (<literal>211</literal> was used in @@ -685,6 +725,9 @@ <literal>AF_INET6</literal> records before <literal>AF_INET</literal> records. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.getservent.3;, &man.getservbyname.3;, and + &man.getservbyport.3; functions are now MPSAFE.</para> + <para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports <command>checkparity</command>, <command>rebuildparity</command>, and @@ -705,6 +748,10 @@ <para>The on-disk format of <literal>LC_CTYPE</literal> files has been changed to be machine-independent.</para> + <para>The &man.mixer.8; utility now supports <option>-S</option> + option. This is the same as the <option>-s</option> option + but does not output mixing field separators.</para> + <para>A bug in the <filename>libalias</filename> library which causes a core dump when the <option>-reverse</option> option is specified in &man.natd.8; has been fixed.</para> @@ -886,6 +933,11 @@ specified. This behavior is required by Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3).</para> + <para>The following ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard functions + have been implemented: <function>roundl()</function>, + <function>lroundl()</function>, <function>llroundl()</function>, + <function>truncl()</function>, and <function>floorl()</function>.</para> + <para>An &man.rpmatch.3; library function has been added to check a string for being an affirmative or negative response in the current locale.</para> @@ -913,6 +965,14 @@ run out of buffer space due to a local denial-of-service attack. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.syslogd.8; now supports <option>-S</option> option + which allows to change the pathname of the privileged + socket. This is useful when you do not want the daemon + to receive any messages from the local sockets + (<filename>/var/run/log</filename> and + <filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> are used by default). + &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.syslogd.8; utility now allows <literal>:</literal> and <literal>%</literal> characters in the hostname specifications. @@ -957,6 +1017,9 @@ <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> + <para>The <filename>rc.d/bsnmpd</filename> startup script + for &man.bsnmpd.1; has been added.</para> + <para>&man.rc.conf.5; now supports changes of network interface names at boot time. &merged; For example:</para> @@ -1132,6 +1195,14 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> <sect2 id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> + <para>The &man.sched.4bsd.4; and &man.sched.ule.4; manual pages + have been added. These explain the kernel options SCHED_4BSD + and SCHED_ULE and some sysctls applicable.</para> + + <para>The &man.ataraid.4; manual page + have been added. This explain the &man.ata.4; software + RAID driver.</para> + <para>Manual pages in the base system have received a number of cleanups, both for content and presentation. Cross-references are more correct and consistent, standard section headings are 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 cdad33a..1c1ef3e 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -323,6 +323,14 @@ in the &man.acpi.4; driver. These can individually be disabled by setting device hints such as <varname>hint.<replaceable>ichss</replaceable>.0.disabled="1"</varname>.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hwpmc.4;, hardware performance + monitoring counter driver has been added. + This driver virtualizes the hardware performance monitoring + facilities in modern CPUs and provides support for using + these facilities from user level processes. For more details, + see manual pages of &man.hwpmc.4;, associated libraries, + and associated userland utilities.</para> + <para arch="i386">Support for the OLDCARD subsystem has been removed. The NEWCARD system is now used for all PCCARD device support.</para> @@ -421,6 +429,12 @@ <para>The &man.hme.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ipw.4; (for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100), + &man.iwi.4; (for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG), + &man.ral.4; (for Ralink Technology RT2500), + and &man.ural.4; (for Ralink Technology RT2500USB) + drivers have been added.</para> + <para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> <para arch="amd64">The &man.ndis.4; device driver wrapper now @@ -490,6 +504,9 @@ when the <literal>gid</literal>, <literal>jail</literal>, and/or <literal>uid</literal> rule options are used. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ipfw.4; and &man.dummynet.4; system now + support IPv6.</para> + <para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket, as well as the TCP data length.</para> @@ -523,6 +540,10 @@ <para>The &man.sppp.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> + <para>The new sysctl <varname>net.link.tap.user_open</varname> + has been implemented. This allows unprivileged access to + &man.tap.4; device nodes based on the file system permission.</para> + <para>A bug in TCP that sometimes caused RST packets to be ignored if the receive window was zero bytes has been fixed. &merged;</para> @@ -574,6 +595,16 @@ <varname>debug.mpsafenet</varname> sysctl variable may be set to <literal>1</literal>).</para> + <para>The Unix domain socket now supports + <literal>LOCAL_CREDS</literal> and + <literal>LOCAL_CONNWAIT</literal>. + The <literal>LOCAL_CREDS</literal> option provides + a mechanism for the receiver to receive the credentials + of the process as a &man.recvmsg.2; control message. + The <literal>LOCAL_CONNWAIT</literal> + option causes the &man.connect.2; function to block + until &man.accept.2; has been called on the listening socket. + For more details, see &man.unix.4; manual page.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -608,6 +639,10 @@ <para>The old vinum(4) subsystem has been removed in favor of the new &man.geom.4;-based version.</para> + <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to + the 9.2 release (for &os; 5.2.1) distributed from + the 3ware website.</para> + <para arch="pc98">The &man.wd.4; driver has been removed. The &man.ata.4; driver has been found to work well enough on the pc98 platform that there is no need for the older &man.wd.4; @@ -656,6 +691,11 @@ <command>eject</command>) to take place after fixating a disk.</para> + <para arch="amd64">The machine-specific optimized version of + &man.bcmp.3;, &man.bcopy.3;, &man.bzero.3;, &man.memcmp.3;, + &man.memcpy.3;, &man.memmove.3;, &man.memset.3;, &man.strcat.3; + and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented.</para> + <para>The &man.ftpd.8; program now uses the <literal>212</literal> and <literal>213</literal> status codes for directory and file status correctly (<literal>211</literal> was used in @@ -685,6 +725,9 @@ <literal>AF_INET6</literal> records before <literal>AF_INET</literal> records. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.getservent.3;, &man.getservbyname.3;, and + &man.getservbyport.3; functions are now MPSAFE.</para> + <para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports <command>checkparity</command>, <command>rebuildparity</command>, and @@ -705,6 +748,10 @@ <para>The on-disk format of <literal>LC_CTYPE</literal> files has been changed to be machine-independent.</para> + <para>The &man.mixer.8; utility now supports <option>-S</option> + option. This is the same as the <option>-s</option> option + but does not output mixing field separators.</para> + <para>A bug in the <filename>libalias</filename> library which causes a core dump when the <option>-reverse</option> option is specified in &man.natd.8; has been fixed.</para> @@ -886,6 +933,11 @@ specified. This behavior is required by Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3).</para> + <para>The following ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard functions + have been implemented: <function>roundl()</function>, + <function>lroundl()</function>, <function>llroundl()</function>, + <function>truncl()</function>, and <function>floorl()</function>.</para> + <para>An &man.rpmatch.3; library function has been added to check a string for being an affirmative or negative response in the current locale.</para> @@ -913,6 +965,14 @@ run out of buffer space due to a local denial-of-service attack. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.syslogd.8; now supports <option>-S</option> option + which allows to change the pathname of the privileged + socket. This is useful when you do not want the daemon + to receive any messages from the local sockets + (<filename>/var/run/log</filename> and + <filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> are used by default). + &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.syslogd.8; utility now allows <literal>:</literal> and <literal>%</literal> characters in the hostname specifications. @@ -957,6 +1017,9 @@ <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> + <para>The <filename>rc.d/bsnmpd</filename> startup script + for &man.bsnmpd.1; has been added.</para> + <para>&man.rc.conf.5; now supports changes of network interface names at boot time. &merged; For example:</para> @@ -1132,6 +1195,14 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> <sect2 id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> + <para>The &man.sched.4bsd.4; and &man.sched.ule.4; manual pages + have been added. These explain the kernel options SCHED_4BSD + and SCHED_ULE and some sysctls applicable.</para> + + <para>The &man.ataraid.4; manual page + have been added. This explain the &man.ata.4; software + RAID driver.</para> + <para>Manual pages in the base system have received a number of cleanups, both for content and presentation. Cross-references are more correct and consistent, standard section headings are |