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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-05-19 23:35:26 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-05-19 23:35:26 +0000 |
commit | 3f8e400953f75898c3d5f27a328f171d6948565f (patch) | |
tree | f22e44c266d273307e67eae23aa932f45f5ca8a6 /release | |
parent | ef5a765dccf0b5a41e9096c4abb0e2bf462fd1f9 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-3f8e400953f75898c3d5f27a328f171d6948565f.zip FreeBSD-src-3f8e400953f75898c3d5f27a328f171d6948565f.tar.gz |
New release notes: Removed hard-coded limit on IPv4 multicast group
memberships, linsysfs(5), cached(8), nsswitch.conf now statically
loaded.
Modified release notes: Note that XFS support is RO, libarchive(3)
extended attributes, don't use entity for usbd(8) removal note.
New manpages noted: mca(8), sysctl(9).
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 27 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 27 |
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 30292aa..c022d8d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ Packets are Ethernet frames with an EtherIP header prepended. &merged;</para> + <para>A hard-coded limit on the number of IPv4 multicast group + memberships (formerly 20) has been removed.</para> + <para>The path MTU discovery for multicast packets in the &os; &man.ip6.4; stack has been disabled by default because notifying path MTU by a lot of routers in multicast @@ -873,10 +876,16 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> + <para>The &man.linsysfs.5; pseudo-filesystem driver has been + added. It provides a subset of the + Linux <filename>sys</filename> filesystem, and is required for + the correct operation of some Linux binaries (such as the LSI + MegaRAID SAS utility).</para> + <para>A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE.</para> - <para>Initial support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been + <para>Initial (read-only) support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been added.</para> </sect3> @@ -924,6 +933,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The &man.bsnmpd.1; utility now supports the Host Resources MIB described in RFC 2790. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.cached.8; has been added. It is a daemon that caches + the results of nsswitch lookups (such as those to the password, + group, and services databases) for improved performance.</para> + <para>The &man.cmp.1; utility now supports an <option>-h</option> flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the file that the link points to. &merged;</para> @@ -1040,7 +1053,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> and be able to patch memory on a live system.</para> <para>The &man.libarchive.3; library now supports - POSIX.1e-style Extended Attribute.</para> + POSIX.1e-style Extended Attributes.</para> <para>The <application>libc</application> library now includes initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version @@ -1127,6 +1140,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> differs depending on which stack is compiled into the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para> + <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file is now + installed statically instead of being generated on every + reboot.</para> + <para>The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;, &man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices. @@ -1201,7 +1218,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para arch="ppc">The &man.truss.1; utility now supports &os;/ppc.</para> - <para>The &man.usbd.8; utility has been removed. + <para>The usbd(8) utility has been removed. The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration file now support functionality which is equivalent to it.</para> @@ -1520,7 +1537,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by the addition of the following manual pages: &man.acpi.sony.4;, &man.ext2fs.5;, - &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;.</para> + &man.mca.8;, + &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;, + &man.sysctl.9;.</para> <para>The manual pages for <application>NTP</application> have been updated to 4.2.0, to match the version of 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 30292aa..c022d8d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ Packets are Ethernet frames with an EtherIP header prepended. &merged;</para> + <para>A hard-coded limit on the number of IPv4 multicast group + memberships (formerly 20) has been removed.</para> + <para>The path MTU discovery for multicast packets in the &os; &man.ip6.4; stack has been disabled by default because notifying path MTU by a lot of routers in multicast @@ -873,10 +876,16 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> + <para>The &man.linsysfs.5; pseudo-filesystem driver has been + added. It provides a subset of the + Linux <filename>sys</filename> filesystem, and is required for + the correct operation of some Linux binaries (such as the LSI + MegaRAID SAS utility).</para> + <para>A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE.</para> - <para>Initial support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been + <para>Initial (read-only) support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been added.</para> </sect3> @@ -924,6 +933,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The &man.bsnmpd.1; utility now supports the Host Resources MIB described in RFC 2790. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.cached.8; has been added. It is a daemon that caches + the results of nsswitch lookups (such as those to the password, + group, and services databases) for improved performance.</para> + <para>The &man.cmp.1; utility now supports an <option>-h</option> flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the file that the link points to. &merged;</para> @@ -1040,7 +1053,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> and be able to patch memory on a live system.</para> <para>The &man.libarchive.3; library now supports - POSIX.1e-style Extended Attribute.</para> + POSIX.1e-style Extended Attributes.</para> <para>The <application>libc</application> library now includes initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version @@ -1127,6 +1140,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> differs depending on which stack is compiled into the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para> + <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file is now + installed statically instead of being generated on every + reboot.</para> + <para>The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;, &man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices. @@ -1201,7 +1218,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para arch="ppc">The &man.truss.1; utility now supports &os;/ppc.</para> - <para>The &man.usbd.8; utility has been removed. + <para>The usbd(8) utility has been removed. The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration file now support functionality which is equivalent to it.</para> @@ -1520,7 +1537,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by the addition of the following manual pages: &man.acpi.sony.4;, &man.ext2fs.5;, - &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;.</para> + &man.mca.8;, + &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;, + &man.sysctl.9;.</para> <para>The manual pages for <application>NTP</application> have been updated to 4.2.0, to match the version of |