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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-14 05:38:47 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-14 05:38:47 +0000
commit20dc3b9634c42cde79a8ed4023b305ac1a547da1 (patch)
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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.sgml38
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml38
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>
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