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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2006-07-24 03:58:53 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2006-07-24 03:58:53 +0000
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New release notes: iwi(4) update (+MFC), jexec(8) -u/-U (+MFC),
extensible printf(3) (+MFC), tail(1) -q (+MFC) Updated release notes: ath(4) HAL 0.9.17.2 (+MFC). MFCs noted: ath(4) et al. in GENERIC, resolver update, /media.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml42
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml42
2 files changed, 74 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 3723e99..969b6f5 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -533,11 +533,12 @@
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para>The &man.ath.4; driver has been updated to
- version 0.9.16.16. &merged;</para>
+ HAL version 0.9.17.2. &merged;</para>
- <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and
+ <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and
<literal>ath_rate_sample</literal> drivers have been
- included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para>
+ included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by
+ default. &merged;</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom
NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers,
@@ -584,6 +585,14 @@
<para>The &man.iwi.4; driver now supports big-endian
architectures such as sparc64.</para>
+ <para>A number of improvements and bugfixes have been made to the
+ functionality of the &man.iwi.4; driver. This driver now
+ requires the firmware image in the
+ <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware-kmod</filename>
+ port/package; prior versions of this driver used the
+ <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware</filename>
+ port/package. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.le.4; driver, which supports AMD Am7900 LANCE
and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs,
has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also supports these
@@ -1128,6 +1137,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.jail.8; program now supports a <option>-s</option>
option to specify a jail's securelevel. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility now supports <option>-u</option>
+ and <option>-U</option> flags to specify username credentials
+ under which a command should be executed. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-H</option>
flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding
the threadid. &merged;</para>
@@ -1283,8 +1296,23 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a
<option>-P</option> option, which specifies a pidfile to use.</para>
+ <para>An extensible implementation of &man.printf.3;, compatible
+ with GLIBC, has been added to <filename>libc</filename>. It is
+ only used if the environment variable
+ <varname>USE_XPRINTF</varname> is defined, one of the extension
+ functions is called, or the global variable
+ <varname>__use_xprintf</varname> is set to a value greater than
+ <literal>0</literal>. Five extensions are currently supported:
+ <literal>%H</literal> (hex dump),
+ <literal>%T</literal> (<varname>time_t</varname> and
+ time-related structures),
+ <literal>%M</literal> (errno message),
+ <literal>%Q</literal> (double-quoted, escaped string),
+ <literal>%V</literal> (&man.strvis.3;-format string),
+ &merged;</para>
+
<para>The DNS resolver library in &os;'s <application>libc</application>
- has been updated to BIND9's one.</para>
+ has been updated to BIND9's one. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; program now supports service names
in addition to <option>-c</option> option with channel number.
@@ -1319,6 +1347,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para>
+ <para>The &man.tail.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
+ flag to suppress header lines when multiple files are
+ specified. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.time.1; utility now prints the time that a given
command has been running if sent a <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal.</para>
@@ -1660,7 +1692,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para>A <filename>/media</filename> directory has been
added to contain mount points for removable media
- such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on.</para>
+ such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on. &merged;</para>
<para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which
contains settings that will apply to every build involving
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 3723e99..969b6f5 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -533,11 +533,12 @@
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para>The &man.ath.4; driver has been updated to
- version 0.9.16.16. &merged;</para>
+ HAL version 0.9.17.2. &merged;</para>
- <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and
+ <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and
<literal>ath_rate_sample</literal> drivers have been
- included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para>
+ included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by
+ default. &merged;</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom
NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers,
@@ -584,6 +585,14 @@
<para>The &man.iwi.4; driver now supports big-endian
architectures such as sparc64.</para>
+ <para>A number of improvements and bugfixes have been made to the
+ functionality of the &man.iwi.4; driver. This driver now
+ requires the firmware image in the
+ <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware-kmod</filename>
+ port/package; prior versions of this driver used the
+ <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware</filename>
+ port/package. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.le.4; driver, which supports AMD Am7900 LANCE
and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs,
has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also supports these
@@ -1128,6 +1137,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.jail.8; program now supports a <option>-s</option>
option to specify a jail's securelevel. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility now supports <option>-u</option>
+ and <option>-U</option> flags to specify username credentials
+ under which a command should be executed. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-H</option>
flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding
the threadid. &merged;</para>
@@ -1283,8 +1296,23 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a
<option>-P</option> option, which specifies a pidfile to use.</para>
+ <para>An extensible implementation of &man.printf.3;, compatible
+ with GLIBC, has been added to <filename>libc</filename>. It is
+ only used if the environment variable
+ <varname>USE_XPRINTF</varname> is defined, one of the extension
+ functions is called, or the global variable
+ <varname>__use_xprintf</varname> is set to a value greater than
+ <literal>0</literal>. Five extensions are currently supported:
+ <literal>%H</literal> (hex dump),
+ <literal>%T</literal> (<varname>time_t</varname> and
+ time-related structures),
+ <literal>%M</literal> (errno message),
+ <literal>%Q</literal> (double-quoted, escaped string),
+ <literal>%V</literal> (&man.strvis.3;-format string),
+ &merged;</para>
+
<para>The DNS resolver library in &os;'s <application>libc</application>
- has been updated to BIND9's one.</para>
+ has been updated to BIND9's one. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; program now supports service names
in addition to <option>-c</option> option with channel number.
@@ -1319,6 +1347,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para>
+ <para>The &man.tail.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
+ flag to suppress header lines when multiple files are
+ specified. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.time.1; utility now prints the time that a given
command has been running if sent a <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal.</para>
@@ -1660,7 +1692,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para>A <filename>/media</filename> directory has been
added to contain mount points for removable media
- such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on.</para>
+ such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on. &merged;</para>
<para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which
contains settings that will apply to every build involving
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