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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-29 17:11:58 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-29 17:11:58 +0000 |
commit | 84b9a94fb61f990fbc8edbc30c5345755409d05f (patch) | |
tree | bf2acc37178d7fe3c48a4f0977ce903216513555 /release | |
parent | 67b8adb447739a2b95a73e0ed877fe63dd9a66f4 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-84b9a94fb61f990fbc8edbc30c5345755409d05f.zip FreeBSD-src-84b9a94fb61f990fbc8edbc30c5345755409d05f.tar.gz |
New release notes: New CAM error recovery code, PAM support for
account management and session, tail(1) support for large files.
Updates: vn(4) removed, file(1) update to 3.34.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 17 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index d72429b..703d272 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ kernfs(5) is obsolete and has been retired. md(4), the memory disk device, has had the functionality of vn(4) incorporated into it. md(4) devices can now be configured by -mdconfig(8). +mdconfig(8). vn(4) has been removed. The ray(4) driver, which supports the Webgear Aviator wireless network cards, has been committed. The operation of ray(4) interfaces can be @@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ introduced, allowing more fine-grained control of discretionary access control on files and directories. This support was integrated from the TrustedBSD Project. +The CAM error recovery code has been updated. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -700,7 +702,7 @@ A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. [MERGED] pwd(1) can now double as realpath(1), a program to resolve pathnames to their underlying physical paths. [MERGED] -file(1) has been contribify-ed, and imported as version 3.33. [MERGED] +file(1) has been contribify-ed, and updated to version 3.34. stty(1) now has support for an "erase2" control character, so that both "delete" and "backspace" can be used to erase characters. [MERGED] @@ -890,6 +892,8 @@ improved to provide less biased results. login(1) now exports environment variables set by PAM modules. [MERGED] +PAM support has been added for account management and sessions. + wall(1) now supports a -g flag to write a message to all users of a given group. @@ -922,6 +926,8 @@ The ISC DHCP client has been updated to 2.0pl5. [MERGED] split(1) now has the ability to split a file longer than 2GB. [MERGED] +tail(1) now has the ability to work on files longer than 2GB. + units(1) has received some updates and bugfixes. [MERGED] As part of an ongoing process, many manual pages were improved, both @@ -955,6 +961,13 @@ file system Access Control Lists. ee(1) editor has been updated to 1.4.2. +The default TCP port range used by libfetch for passive FTP retrievals +has changed; this affects the behavior of ftp(1), which has gained the +-U option to restore the old behavior. [MERGED] + +atacontrol(8) has been added to control various aspects of the ata(4) +driver. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index 9cc067b..e934655 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ kernfs(5) is obsolete and has been retired. md(4), the memory disk device, has had the functionality of vn(4) incorporated into it. md(4) devices can now be configured by -mdconfig(8). +mdconfig(8). vn(4) has been removed. The ray(4) driver, which supports the Webgear Aviator wireless network cards, has been committed. The operation of ray(4) interfaces can be @@ -398,6 +398,8 @@ introduced, allowing more fine-grained control of discretionary access control on files and directories. This support was integrated from the TrustedBSD Project. +The CAM error recovery code has been updated. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -793,7 +795,7 @@ A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. [MERGED] pwd(1) can now double as realpath(1), a program to resolve pathnames to their underlying physical paths. [MERGED] -file(1) has been contribify-ed, and imported as version 3.33. [MERGED] +file(1) has been contribify-ed, and updated to version 3.34. stty(1) now has support for an "erase2" control character, so that both "delete" and "backspace" can be used to erase characters. [MERGED] @@ -986,6 +988,8 @@ improved to provide less biased results. login(1) now exports environment variables set by PAM modules. [MERGED] +PAM support has been added for account management and sessions. + wall(1) now supports a -g flag to write a message to all users of a given group. @@ -1014,6 +1018,8 @@ The ISC DHCP client has been updated to 2.0pl5. [MERGED] split(1) now has the ability to split a file longer than 2GB. [MERGED] +tail(1) now has the ability to work on files longer than 2GB. + units(1) has received some updates and bugfixes. [MERGED] As part of an ongoing process, many manual pages were improved, both @@ -1047,6 +1053,13 @@ file system Access Control Lists. ee(1) editor has been updated to 1.4.2. +The default TCP port range used by libfetch for passive FTP retrievals +has changed; this affects the behavior of ftp(1), which has gained the +-U option to restore the old behavior. [MERGED] + +atacontrol(8) has been added to control various aspects of the ata(4) +driver. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- |