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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-02-14 05:38:47 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-02-14 05:38:47 +0000 |
commit | 20dc3b9634c42cde79a8ed4023b305ac1a547da1 (patch) | |
tree | 89fb846cca903d7c1fccb3f4f7e5b3ab44f82461 /release | |
parent | 220a77277b01c5c509f8dc52285aba1b13b3051e (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-20dc3b9634c42cde79a8ed4023b305ac1a547da1.zip FreeBSD-src-20dc3b9634c42cde79a8ed4023b305ac1a547da1.tar.gz |
New release notes: I386_CPU removed, sf(4) supports device polling and
altq(4) (+MFC), ongoing locking work in the network stack, TCP RST
bugfix (+MFC), SACK bugfixes (+MFC), RFC 1644 T/TCP support removed,
gpt(8) create -f (+MFC), NO_NIS (+MFC), ncal(1) -m (+MFC).
These items mostly come from commit logs for November 2004.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 38 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 38 |
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 e564051..282ad16 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> + <para arch="i386">Support for 80386 processors (the + <literal>I386_CPU</literal> kernel configuration option) has + been removed. Users running this class of CPU should use &os; + 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> or earlier.</para> + <para>The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname> has been has been enabled by default.</para> @@ -141,14 +146,28 @@ <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para></para> + <para>The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling + and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para> + </sect4> </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para></para> + <para>Ongoing work is reducing the use of the Giant lock by the + network protocol stack and improving the locking + strategies.</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> + + <para>Several bugs in the TCP SACK implementation have been + fixed. &merged;</para> + + <para>RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -174,11 +193,26 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para>The <literal>create</literal> command of the &man.gpt.8; + utility now supports a <option>-f</option> command-line flag to + force creation of a GPT even when there is an MBR record on a + disk. &merged;</para> + + <para>The <literal>NO_NIS</literal> compile-time knob for userland + has been added. As its name implies, enabling this + <filename>Makefile</filename> variable will cause NIS support to + be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS + utilities to not be built. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL utility to compress file system images for use with <literal>GEOM_UZIP</literal> &man.geom.4; module, has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports a <option>-m</option> + flag to generate a calendar for a specified month in the current + year. &merged;</para> + <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 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 e564051..282ad16 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> + <para arch="i386">Support for 80386 processors (the + <literal>I386_CPU</literal> kernel configuration option) has + been removed. Users running this class of CPU should use &os; + 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> or earlier.</para> + <para>The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname> has been has been enabled by default.</para> @@ -141,14 +146,28 @@ <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para></para> + <para>The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling + and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para> + </sect4> </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para></para> + <para>Ongoing work is reducing the use of the Giant lock by the + network protocol stack and improving the locking + strategies.</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> + + <para>Several bugs in the TCP SACK implementation have been + fixed. &merged;</para> + + <para>RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -174,11 +193,26 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para>The <literal>create</literal> command of the &man.gpt.8; + utility now supports a <option>-f</option> command-line flag to + force creation of a GPT even when there is an MBR record on a + disk. &merged;</para> + + <para>The <literal>NO_NIS</literal> compile-time knob for userland + has been added. As its name implies, enabling this + <filename>Makefile</filename> variable will cause NIS support to + be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS + utilities to not be built. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL utility to compress file system images for use with <literal>GEOM_UZIP</literal> &man.geom.4; module, has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports a <option>-m</option> + flag to generate a calendar for a specified month in the current + year. &merged;</para> + <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> |