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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-03-09 23:49:48 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-03-09 23:49:48 +0000
commit63455b53dd88ad0c0505cab20c57f87341732deb (patch)
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New release notes: 802.11 support for 900 MHz cards and quarter /
half channel support (+MFC), ng_deflate(4) (+MFC), ng_pred1(4) (+MFC), wpa_passphrase(8) (+MFC). Updated release notes: ath(4) and HAL 0.9.20.3 (+MFC). Other MFCs noted: if_bridge(4) RSTP.
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index b969e49..b28ac76 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para>The &man.ath.4; driver has been updated to
- HAL version 0.9.17.2. &merged;</para>
+ HAL version 0.9.20.3. &merged;</para>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.pc98;, &arch.sparc64;]
The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and
@@ -777,6 +777,10 @@
interfaces. More information can be found in
&man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+ <para>The 802.11 protocol stack now has support for 900 MHz
+ cards, as well as quarter- and half-channel support
+ for 802.11a. &merged;</para>
+
</sect4>
</sect3>
@@ -831,7 +835,7 @@
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports RSTP, the Rapid
- Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w).</para>
+ Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w). &merged;</para>
<para>A hard-coded limit on the number of IPv4 multicast group
memberships (formerly 20) has been removed.</para>
@@ -887,12 +891,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE.</para>
+ <para>A new &man.ng.deflate.4; NetGraph node type has been
+ added. It implements Deflate PPP compression. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.ng.ether.4; Netgraph node no longer overwrites
the MAC address of outgoing frames by default. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.iface.4; Netgraph node now supports &man.altq.4;.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>A new &man.ng.pred1.4; NetGraph node type has been added
+ to implement Predictor-1 PPP compression. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.ng.tag.4; Netgraph node has been added to
support the manipulation of mbuf tags attached to data in the
kernel. &merged;</para>
@@ -1668,6 +1678,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
implemented. This function is popular in Microsoft and GNU
systems.</para>
+ <para>The &man.wpa.passphrase.8; utility has been added. It
+ generates a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII
+ passphrase. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The compiler toolchain is now capable of generating
executables for systems using the ARM processor. &merged;</para>
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