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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-22 02:40:50 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-22 02:40:50 +0000
commit970f9d664218764fd6c88edc006d3de00a4e0349 (patch)
tree3a2e6fa0c9c42fe906abf91bc5bf83502d344bde /release
parent8dd291ed1459aec6277fc127367279052993a3d4 (diff)
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New release notes: OpenSSH resistance to traffic analysis, make(1)
bugs fixed, fsck_ffs in background on mounted filesystems, TI-RPC, portmap(8)->rpcbind(8), IPv6 support in NFS, lockd, rc(8) dependency handling. Synch up hardware devices with etc/defaults/pccard.conf 1.98.2.19 (yes, from RELENG_4). This change needs to be propagated to RELNOTESng.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/texts/HARDWARE.TXT9
-rw-r--r--release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT24
-rw-r--r--release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT28
3 files changed, 59 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/HARDWARE.TXT b/release/texts/HARDWARE.TXT
index 8138984..8b2f3b1 100644
--- a/release/texts/HARDWARE.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/HARDWARE.TXT
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ including the following:
D-Link DE-650/660
Danpex EN-6200P2
ELECOM Laneed LD-CDL/TX
- IO DATA PCLATE,PCET/TX-R
+ IO DATA PCLA/TE, PCET/TX, PCET/TX-R
IBM Creditcard Ethernet I/II
IC-CARD Ethernet/IC-CARD+ Ethernet
Linksys EC2T/PCMPC100,EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V2)
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA and ISA standard speed
(2Mbps) and turbo speed (6Mbps) wireless network adapters and workalikes
-NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11
+3COM 3crwe737A AirConnect Wireless LAN PC Card
Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS
Compaq WL100
Corega KK Wireless LAN PCC-11, PCCA-11
@@ -957,6 +957,7 @@ Farallon Skyline 11Mbps Wireless
ICOM SL-1100
IO Data WN-B11/PCM
Melco Airconnect WLI-PCM-L11
+NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11
NEC Wireless Card CMZ-RT-WP, PC-WL/11C, PK-WL001
PLANEX GeoWave/GW-NS110
TDK LAK-CD011WL
@@ -973,6 +974,10 @@ Webgear Aviator 2.4GHz wireless adapters
Toshiba Mobile HDD MEHDD20A (Type II)
+Panasonic Flash ATA BN-040ABP3
+
+Hewlett Packard M820e (CD-writer)
+
FAX-Modem/PC-Card
Melco IGM-PCM56K/IGM-PCM56KH
Nokia Card Phone 2.0 (gsm900/dcs1800 HSCSD terminal)
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
index 9d025a9..f1f9bb1 100644
--- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -477,6 +477,11 @@ session when an X11-forwarded client was closed, was fixed.
Kerberos compatability has been added to OpenSSH. [MERGED]
+OpenSSH has been modified to be more resistant to traffic analysis by
+requiring that "non-echoed" characters are still echoed back in a null
+packet, as well as by padding passwords sent so as not to hint at
+password lengths. [MERGED]
+
Support for USB devices was added to the GENERIC kernel and to the
installation programs to support USB devices out of the box. Note that
SRM does not support USB devices at the moment, so you must still use
@@ -620,6 +625,10 @@ make(1) has gained the :C/// (regexp substitution), :L (lowercase),
and :U (uppercase) variable modifiers. These were added to reduce the
differences between the FreeBSD and OpenBSD/NetBSD make programs. [MERGED]
+Bugs in make(1), among which include broken null suffix behavior, bad
+assumptions about current directory permissions, and potential buffer
+overflows, have been fixed. [MERGED]
+
fsck wrappers have been imported; this feature provides infrastructure
for fsck(8) to work on different types of filesystems (analogous to
mount(8) and mount_*(8)).
@@ -706,6 +715,10 @@ the controlling tty), fsck_ffs will now output a line indicating the
current phase number and progress information relevant to the current
phase. [MERGED]
+fsck_ffs now supports background filesystem checks to mounted FFS
+filesystems with the -B option (softupdates must be enabled on these
+filesystems).
+
Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system,
lpr(1), lpd(8), syslogd(8), and logger(1) are now all IPv6-capable.
[MERGED]
@@ -910,6 +923,17 @@ and the ability to specify compile-time port ranges. [MERGED]
ping(8) now supports a -m option to set the TTL of outgoing packets.
+A version of Transport Independent RPC (TI-RPC) has been imported.
+
+rpcbind(8) has replaced portmap(8).
+
+NFS now works over IPv6.
+
+lockd has been imported from NetBSD.
+
+rc(8) now has an framework for handling dependencies between
+rc.conf(5) variables. [MERGED]
+
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
index 8e442e9..1c7f1a3 100644
--- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -551,6 +551,11 @@ session when an X11-forwarded client was closed, was fixed.
Kerberos compatability has been added to OpenSSH. [MERGED]
+OpenSSH has been modified to be more resistant to traffic analysis by
+requiring that "non-echoed" characters are still echoed back in a null
+packet, as well as by padding passwords sent so as not to hint at
+password lengths. [MERGED]
+
Support for USB devices was added to the GENERIC kernel and to the
installation programs to support USB devices out of the box. Note that
an AT keyboard must still be used during the initial install, but it
@@ -713,6 +718,10 @@ make(1) has gained the :C/// (regexp substitution), :L (lowercase),
and :U (uppercase) variable modifiers. These were added to reduce the
differences between the FreeBSD and OpenBSD/NetBSD make programs. [MERGED]
+Bugs in make(1), among which include broken null suffix behavior, bad
+assumptions about current directory permissions, and potential buffer
+overflows, have been fixed. [MERGED]
+
fsck wrappers have been imported; this feature provides infrastructure
for fsck(8) to work on different types of filesystems (analogous to
mount(8) and mount_*(8)).
@@ -799,6 +808,10 @@ the controlling tty), fsck_ffs will now output a line indicating the
current phase number and progress information relevant to the current
phase. [MERGED]
+fsck_ffs now supports background filesystem checks to mounted FFS
+filesystems with the -B option (softupdates must be enabled on these
+filesystems).
+
Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system,
lpr(1), lpd(8), syslogd(8), and logger(1) are now all IPv6-capable.
[MERGED]
@@ -1002,6 +1015,17 @@ and the ability to specify compile-time port ranges. [MERGED]
ping(8) now supports a -m option to set the TTL of outgoing packets.
+A version of Transport Independent RPC (TI-RPC) has been imported.
+
+rpcbind(8) has replaced portmap(8).
+
+NFS now works over IPv6.
+
+lockd has been imported from NetBSD.
+
+rc(8) now has an framework for handling dependencies between
+rc.conf(5) variables. [MERGED]
+
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
@@ -1582,6 +1606,10 @@ Winbond W6692 based PCI cards
Toshiba Mobile HDD MEHDD20A (Type II)
+Panasonic Flash ATA BN-040ABP3
+
+Hewlett Packard M820e (CD-writer)
+
FAX-Modem/PC-Card
Melco IGM-PCM56K/IGM-PCM56KH
Nokia Card Phone 2.0 (gsm900/dcs1800 HSCSD terminal)
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