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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-05-08 17:05:31 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-05-08 17:05:31 +0000 |
commit | eadc068809524f2e201ff7702858517af76b4ce2 (patch) | |
tree | 2c275b9083c2ab2bc9cd0a31badc1a083e462861 /release | |
parent | 32b200e19279cc1025b1f1314101df850f20cabd (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-eadc068809524f2e201ff7702858517af76b4ce2.zip FreeBSD-src-eadc068809524f2e201ff7702858517af76b4ce2.tar.gz |
New release notes: Linuxulator for alpha removed, em(4) 5.1.5,
bridge(4) removed, dhclient(8) now sends hostname, du(1) -n,
getent(1) added.
Updated release note: GNOME 2.14.1.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 26 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 26 |
2 files changed, 48 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 c1d7bb2..e916479 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -248,6 +248,11 @@ to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or ignored by the current process and is enabled by default.</para> + <para arch="alpha">Support for Linux emulation on the Alpha + platform has been removed, due to the lack of a + <filename>linux_base</filename> port that both supports the + Alpha archiecture and is in good working condition.</para> + <para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9; facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;, @@ -467,7 +472,7 @@ architectures such as sparc64. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to - version 3.2.18 from Intel, and now supports + version 5.1.5 from Intel. Among other changes, it now supports 82571 and 82572 based adapters.</para> <para>The &man.em.4; driver now includes @@ -556,6 +561,10 @@ and a sysctl variable <varname>net.bpf.jitter.enable</varname> can be used to disable this feature.</para> + <para>The bridge(4) driver has been removed from the tree. Its + functionality has been completely replaced by + &man.if.bridge.4;.</para> + <para>The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702 now supports IPv6 over GRE.</para> @@ -892,9 +901,17 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> in C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode only.</para> + <para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in + DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration + file.</para> + <para>The &man.devd.8; utility now supports a <option>-f</option> option to specify a configuration file. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.du.1; program now supports a <option>-n</option> + flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with + the <literal>nodump</literal> flag set.</para> + <para>The &man.ftpd.8; utility now creates a PID file <filename>/var/run/ftpd.pid</filename> even when no <option>-p</option> option is specified. &merged;</para> @@ -908,6 +925,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> comment listing the file name, owner, and group. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.getent.1; utility has been imported from NetBSD. + It retrieves and displays information from an administrative + database (such as <filename>hosts</filename>) using the lookup + order specified in &man.nsswitch.conf.5;.</para> + <para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para> <para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports commands @@ -1408,7 +1430,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The supported version of the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been - updated from 2.10.2 to 2.12.3. &merged;</para> + updated from 2.10.2 to 2.14.1. &merged;</para> <para>The supported version of the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment 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 c1d7bb2..e916479 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -248,6 +248,11 @@ to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or ignored by the current process and is enabled by default.</para> + <para arch="alpha">Support for Linux emulation on the Alpha + platform has been removed, due to the lack of a + <filename>linux_base</filename> port that both supports the + Alpha archiecture and is in good working condition.</para> + <para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9; facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;, @@ -467,7 +472,7 @@ architectures such as sparc64. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to - version 3.2.18 from Intel, and now supports + version 5.1.5 from Intel. Among other changes, it now supports 82571 and 82572 based adapters.</para> <para>The &man.em.4; driver now includes @@ -556,6 +561,10 @@ and a sysctl variable <varname>net.bpf.jitter.enable</varname> can be used to disable this feature.</para> + <para>The bridge(4) driver has been removed from the tree. Its + functionality has been completely replaced by + &man.if.bridge.4;.</para> + <para>The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702 now supports IPv6 over GRE.</para> @@ -892,9 +901,17 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> in C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode only.</para> + <para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in + DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration + file.</para> + <para>The &man.devd.8; utility now supports a <option>-f</option> option to specify a configuration file. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.du.1; program now supports a <option>-n</option> + flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with + the <literal>nodump</literal> flag set.</para> + <para>The &man.ftpd.8; utility now creates a PID file <filename>/var/run/ftpd.pid</filename> even when no <option>-p</option> option is specified. &merged;</para> @@ -908,6 +925,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> comment listing the file name, owner, and group. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.getent.1; utility has been imported from NetBSD. + It retrieves and displays information from an administrative + database (such as <filename>hosts</filename>) using the lookup + order specified in &man.nsswitch.conf.5;.</para> + <para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para> <para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports commands @@ -1408,7 +1430,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The supported version of the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been - updated from 2.10.2 to 2.12.3. &merged;</para> + updated from 2.10.2 to 2.14.1. &merged;</para> <para>The supported version of the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment |