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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-18 00:14:21 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-18 00:14:21 +0000 |
commit | 1a6e32f034bde4bab2cd5e6e40cb8cdb3795c1d2 (patch) | |
tree | 919a187ff1364d8e7229322e126ea64ad9635e41 /release/texts | |
parent | 70b98f2d046fa1fc5c73393535e07ab85624995a (diff) | |
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New release notes: digi driver, FICL 2.05, xargs(1) -J, apmd(8) now
support battery state monitoring, ncurses 5.2-20010512.
Woefully overdue release notes: ddb(4) show pcpu, telnet(1) autologin
and encryption defaults and -y option.
Diffstat (limited to 'release/texts')
-rw-r--r-- | release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 22 |
2 files changed, 40 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 3bf672e..0409864 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -363,6 +363,11 @@ Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIC 1000TA and 1000TPC and Addtron AEG320T. The USER_LDT kernel option is now activated by default. +A new digi(4) driver has been added to support PCI Xr-based and ISA +Xem Digiboard cards. A new digictl program is (mainly) used to +re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as +the PC/Xem. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -714,7 +719,7 @@ mount(8) and mount_*(8)). The behavior of fsck(8) when dealing with various passes (a la /etc/fstab) has been modified to accomodate multiple-disk filesystems. -ncurses has been updated to ncurses-5.1-20001009. [MERGED] +ncurses has been updated to ncurses-5.2-20010512. gperf has been updated to 2.7.2. [MERGED] @@ -1114,6 +1119,19 @@ fdread(1), a program to read data from floppy disks, has been added. It is designed to provide a means of recovering at least some data from bad media, and to obviate for a complex invocation of dd(1). +xargs(1) now supports a -J replstr option that allows the user to tell +xargs to insert the data read from standard input at a specific point +in the command line arguments rather than at the end. + +apmd(8) now supports monitoring of the battery state via the +apm_battery configuration directive. + +telnet(1) now does autologin and encryption by default; a new -y +option turns off encryption. + +The Forth Inspired Command Language used in the boot loader has been +updated to 2.05. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index c28af99..1e11e34 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -444,6 +444,13 @@ Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIC 1000TA and 1000TPC and Addtron AEG320T. The USER_LDT kernel option is now activated by default. +A new ddb command "show pcpu" lists some of the per-CPU data. + +A new digi(4) driver has been added to support PCI Xr-based and ISA +Xem Digiboard cards. A new digictl program is (mainly) used to +re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as +the PC/Xem. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -814,7 +821,7 @@ mount(8) and mount_*(8)). The behavior of fsck(8) when dealing with various passes (a la /etc/fstab) has been modified to accomodate multiple-disk filesystems. -ncurses has been updated to ncurses-5.1-20001009. [MERGED] +ncurses has been updated to ncurses-5.2-20010512. gperf has been updated to 2.7.2. [MERGED] @@ -1209,6 +1216,19 @@ fdread(1), a program to read data from floppy disks, has been added. It is designed to provide a means of recovering at least some data from bad media, and to obviate for a complex invocation of dd(1). +xargs(1) now supports a -J replstr option that allows the user to tell +xargs to insert the data read from standard input at a specific point +in the command line arguments rather than at the end. + +apmd(8) now supports monitoring of the battery state via the +apm_battery configuration directive. + +telnet(1) now does autologin and encryption by default; a new -y +option turns off encryption. + +The Forth Inspired Command Language used in the boot loader has been +updated to 2.05. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- |