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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-21 23:34:41 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-21 23:34:41 +0000
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New release notes: i386 HTT (+MFC) [1], privileged port sysctls,
ata(4) has more SiS support, cd(4) update, rand(3) bugfix [2], srandom(3) better seeding [2], sysinstall(8) can install XFree86 components again. Clues provided by: jhb [1], kris [2]
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2 files changed, 72 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 791cc19..8d0ad8c 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -130,7 +130,11 @@
<sect3>
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para arch="i386">&os; now has rudimentary support for
+ HyperThreading (HTT). SMP kernels will detect and start up
+ the logical processors on HTT-capable machines. The logical
+ processors will be treated like additional physical processors
+ for the purposes of process scheduling. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
@@ -177,11 +181,30 @@
fast recovery when NewReno was enabled, has been
fixed. &merged;</para>
+ <para>It is now possible to specify the range of
+ <quote>privileged ports</quote> (TCP and UDP ports that
+ require superuser access to &man.bind.2; to). The range is
+ now specified with the
+ <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow</varname> and
+ <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname> sysctl
+ variables, defaulting to the traditional UNIX behavior. This
+ feature is intended to help network servers bind
+ to traditionally privileged ports without requiring superuser
+ access. &man.ip.4; has more details.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports all known SiS
+ chipsets. (More details can be found in the Hardware
+ Notes.)</para>
+
+ <para>A number of changes have been made to the &man.cd.4;
+ driver. The primary user-visible change is improved
+ compatability with ATAPI/USB/Firewire CDROM drives.</para>
+
<para>&man.geom.4; is now mandatory; the
<literal>NO_GEOM</literal> has been removed from the set of
kernel configuration options.</para>
@@ -353,6 +376,13 @@
administration of <application>Samba</application>
services. &merged;</para>
+ <para>A bug in &man.rand.3; that could cause a sequence to remain
+ stuck at <literal>0</literal> has been fixed. (&man.rand.3;
+ remains unsuitable for all but trivial uses.)</para>
+
+ <para>The seeding algorithm used by &man.srandom.3; has been
+ strengthened.</para>
+
<para arch="sparc64">The sunlabel utility, a program analogous to
&man.disklabel.8; that works on Sun disk labels, has been
added.</para>
@@ -440,7 +470,11 @@
<sect2>
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>&man.sysinstall.8; once again supports installing individual
+ components of <application>XFree86</application>. Supporting
+ changes (not user-visible) generalize the concept of installing
+ parts of distributions as packages.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2>
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 791cc19..8d0ad8c 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -130,7 +130,11 @@
<sect3>
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para arch="i386">&os; now has rudimentary support for
+ HyperThreading (HTT). SMP kernels will detect and start up
+ the logical processors on HTT-capable machines. The logical
+ processors will be treated like additional physical processors
+ for the purposes of process scheduling. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
@@ -177,11 +181,30 @@
fast recovery when NewReno was enabled, has been
fixed. &merged;</para>
+ <para>It is now possible to specify the range of
+ <quote>privileged ports</quote> (TCP and UDP ports that
+ require superuser access to &man.bind.2; to). The range is
+ now specified with the
+ <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow</varname> and
+ <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname> sysctl
+ variables, defaulting to the traditional UNIX behavior. This
+ feature is intended to help network servers bind
+ to traditionally privileged ports without requiring superuser
+ access. &man.ip.4; has more details.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports all known SiS
+ chipsets. (More details can be found in the Hardware
+ Notes.)</para>
+
+ <para>A number of changes have been made to the &man.cd.4;
+ driver. The primary user-visible change is improved
+ compatability with ATAPI/USB/Firewire CDROM drives.</para>
+
<para>&man.geom.4; is now mandatory; the
<literal>NO_GEOM</literal> has been removed from the set of
kernel configuration options.</para>
@@ -353,6 +376,13 @@
administration of <application>Samba</application>
services. &merged;</para>
+ <para>A bug in &man.rand.3; that could cause a sequence to remain
+ stuck at <literal>0</literal> has been fixed. (&man.rand.3;
+ remains unsuitable for all but trivial uses.)</para>
+
+ <para>The seeding algorithm used by &man.srandom.3; has been
+ strengthened.</para>
+
<para arch="sparc64">The sunlabel utility, a program analogous to
&man.disklabel.8; that works on Sun disk labels, has been
added.</para>
@@ -440,7 +470,11 @@
<sect2>
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>&man.sysinstall.8; once again supports installing individual
+ components of <application>XFree86</application>. Supporting
+ changes (not user-visible) generalize the concept of installing
+ parts of distributions as packages.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2>
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