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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2004-03-15 00:07:19 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2004-03-15 00:07:19 +0000
commit9d041491dbf939d9f932fa679907d2e94b3d70f6 (patch)
treecf733a3dd0a994af1643f01f78570b318861f807 /release
parent67b7ca7cb820e98b66c4cf067d07d1a93e72094d (diff)
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New release notes: acpi_toshiba(4), acpi_video(4), ubser(4),
FreeBSD/i386 can be compiled with icc, ng_atmllc(4), logins(1), GNU grep 2.4.2.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml24
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 2ca7b9b..6a16c3f 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -160,6 +160,14 @@
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
+ to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
+ certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
+ control display switching and backlight brightness using the
+ ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
+
<para>&man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
directories.</para>
@@ -170,6 +178,9 @@
<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
+ BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
+
<para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. For the average user,
interactivity is reported to be better in many cases. This
@@ -210,6 +221,10 @@
</note>
</para>
+ <para arch="i386">It is now possible to compile the &os;/i386
+ kernel with the Intel C/C++ Compiler (as in the <filename
+ role="package">lang/icc</filename> port).</para>
+
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<sect3 id="proc">
@@ -277,6 +292,9 @@
For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
+ RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; NetGraph node type, which supports
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging has been added. &merged;</para>
@@ -457,6 +475,9 @@
</note>
<para>
+ <para>The &man.logins.1; utility has been added to display
+ information about user and system accounts.</para>
+
<para>&man.mountd.8; now supports the <option>-p</option> option,
which allows users to specify a known port for use
in firewall rulesets.</para>
@@ -537,6 +558,9 @@
conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been
updated from version 20030324 to version 20040118.</para>
+ <para><application>GNU grep</application> has been updated from
+ 2.4d to 2.4.2.</para>
+
<para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated
with official patches 001 through 005.</para>
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 2ca7b9b..6a16c3f 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -160,6 +160,14 @@
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
+ to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
+ certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
+ control display switching and backlight brightness using the
+ ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
+
<para>&man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
directories.</para>
@@ -170,6 +178,9 @@
<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
+ BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
+
<para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. For the average user,
interactivity is reported to be better in many cases. This
@@ -210,6 +221,10 @@
</note>
</para>
+ <para arch="i386">It is now possible to compile the &os;/i386
+ kernel with the Intel C/C++ Compiler (as in the <filename
+ role="package">lang/icc</filename> port).</para>
+
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<sect3 id="proc">
@@ -277,6 +292,9 @@
For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
+ RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; NetGraph node type, which supports
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging has been added. &merged;</para>
@@ -457,6 +475,9 @@
</note>
<para>
+ <para>The &man.logins.1; utility has been added to display
+ information about user and system accounts.</para>
+
<para>&man.mountd.8; now supports the <option>-p</option> option,
which allows users to specify a known port for use
in firewall rulesets.</para>
@@ -537,6 +558,9 @@
conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been
updated from version 20030324 to version 20040118.</para>
+ <para><application>GNU grep</application> has been updated from
+ 2.4d to 2.4.2.</para>
+
<para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated
with official patches 001 through 005.</para>
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