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author | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-30 10:24:52 +0000 |
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committer | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-30 10:24:52 +0000 |
commit | c46113b286b7de8f527349ab611985dc4574098a (patch) | |
tree | 82adba5e58ac4e8d839d5fd296f0dd3117212e73 /release | |
parent | a600480444d909df896802b82d3379bb55b371d7 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-c46113b286b7de8f527349ab611985dc4574098a.zip FreeBSD-src-c46113b286b7de8f527349ab611985dc4574098a.tar.gz |
New release notes (changes in the first half of June 2004):
sab(4) BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER support,
per-class sysctl like dev.foo.0.bar support,
kern.always_console_output,
fwip(4) added,
ng_rfc1490(4) Cisco style encapsulation support,
udav(4) promiscuous mode support,
geom_vinum added,
ALTQ framework import,
conscontrol(8) set/unset support,
newsyslog(8) improvements,
ps(1) -O emul support,
sha1(1) and rmd160(1) added,
talk(1) now uses "localhost",
truss(1) early support on amd64, and
tzdata2004a import.
MFC:
find(1) -depth n added.
Style changes:
s/ixgb/&man.ixgb.4;/
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 92 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 92 |
2 files changed, 166 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 80ee7e1..0cff787 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -300,9 +300,18 @@ This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para> + <para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; now supports + <literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+ intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para> + <para>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree, + in order to support per-class variables in addition to + per-device variables. This means that <varname>dev.foo0.bar</varname> + is now called <varname>dev.foo.0.bar</varname>, and it is + possible to to have <varname>dev.foo.bar</varname> as well.</para> + <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and <varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables @@ -380,6 +389,10 @@ amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT. The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including sasc and sgsc has also been removed.</para> + + <para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname> + which makes outputs from the kernel go to the console despite + <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -412,6 +425,13 @@ <para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added. + Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and + MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported. + This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146 + standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace + the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter) driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para> @@ -420,7 +440,7 @@ <varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set on a per-device basis.</para> - <para>The <devicename>ixgb</devicename> driver, which supports + <para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports Intel PRO/10GBE 10 gigabit Ethernet cards, has been added. &merged;</para> @@ -445,6 +465,10 @@ a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports + Cisco style encapsulation which is often used alongside + RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para> + <para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4 interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous lines has been added.</para> @@ -589,6 +613,8 @@ connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled with the sysctl <varname>net.inet.tcp.sack.enable.</varname></para> + <para>&man.udav.4; driver now supports promiscuous mode.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -630,9 +656,9 @@ <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.vinum.8; volume manager, has been updated to use - GEOM, the 5.x disk framework. A gvinum userland tool has been - added.</para> + <para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use + &man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework. + A gvinum userland tool has been added.</para> <para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra @@ -677,6 +703,10 @@ number of partitions on a single disk, has been added into <filename>GENERIC</filename> by default.</para> + <para>A new <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> class to support + cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;, + has been added.</para> + <para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only server.</para> @@ -705,8 +735,13 @@ <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to - 3.4.35.</para> + <para><application>ALTQ framework</application> + has been imported from the KAME snapshot as of 20040607. + This import breaks ABI compatibility of + <varname>struct ifnet</varname>.</para> + + <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated + from version 3.4.31 to version 3.4.35.</para> <para arch="ia64">An ia64 stack unwinder, <application>Unwind Express (libuwx)</application> @@ -724,6 +759,14 @@ <command>bthidd</command> command, which support Bluetooth HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para> + <para>&man.conscontrol.8; now supports + <literal>set</literal> and <literal>unset</literal> + commands which set/unset the virtual console. + <literal>unset</literal> makes outputs from the system, such as + the kernel &man.printf.9;, always go out to the real + main console. This is an interface to the tty ioctl + <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para> + <para>The &man.cron.8 daemon now accepts two new options, <option>-j</option> and <option>-J</option>, to enable time jitter for jobs to run as unprivileged users and the @@ -765,7 +808,8 @@ <para>The &man.find.1; utility now supports a new primary <option>-depth <replaceable>n</replaceable></option> which tests whether the depth of the current file relative - to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>.</para> + to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>. + &merged;</para> <para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on GEOM classes from the userland has been added.</para> @@ -854,6 +898,16 @@ <para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal> directive.</para> + <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows the users to set + a debugging option via the <filename>newsyslog.conf</filename> + file.</para> + + <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now uses a new order when processing + files to rotate. The order first rotate all files that need + to be rotated, and then send a single signal to each process + which needs to be signaled, and finally it will compress + all the files which were rotated.</para> + <para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently supported system locales has been added. This is primarily for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename> @@ -906,6 +960,10 @@ and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.ps.1; now supports a <option>-O emul</option> + format option, which prints the name of the system call emulation + environment the process is in.</para> + <para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para> @@ -944,6 +1002,8 @@ <para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon has been added.</para> + <para>&man.sha1.1; and &man.rmd160.1; utility have been added.</para> + <para>&man.smbmsg.8;, a small utility to send/receive SMBus messages has been added.</para> @@ -953,10 +1013,20 @@ <option>-h</option> to print the label in human readable size/offset format.</para> + <para>&man.talk.1; now use <hostid>localhost</hostid> + as a default machine name in &man.talkd.8; + request packets, when the destination and source are local. + This makes &man.talk.1; dependent on a valid host entry + for <hostid>localhost</hostid> in <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> + or the DNS.</para> + <para>&man.tftpd.8; now supports two new options: a <option>-w</option> option allows new files to be created, and a <option>-U</option> option allows the umask to be set.</para> + <para arch="amd64">&man.truss.1; now includes early support + for &os;/amd64.</para> + <para>Many userland utilities in the base system (mostly GNU contributed utilities) now use the system version of &man.getopt.long.3;, rather than the GNU version.</para> @@ -1016,8 +1086,8 @@ <para><application>Binutils</application> have been updated to a 23 May 2004 snapshot from the FSF 2.15 branch.</para> - <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated to version - 1.11.17.</para> + <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from + version 1.11.15 to version 1.11.17.</para> <para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been @@ -1112,6 +1182,10 @@ <para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para> + + <para>The timezone database has been updated from + <filename>tzdata2003a</filename> to + <filename>tzdata2004a</filename>.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="ports"> 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 80ee7e1..0cff787 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -300,9 +300,18 @@ This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para> + <para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; now supports + <literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+ intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para> + <para>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree, + in order to support per-class variables in addition to + per-device variables. This means that <varname>dev.foo0.bar</varname> + is now called <varname>dev.foo.0.bar</varname>, and it is + possible to to have <varname>dev.foo.bar</varname> as well.</para> + <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and <varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables @@ -380,6 +389,10 @@ amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT. The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including sasc and sgsc has also been removed.</para> + + <para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname> + which makes outputs from the kernel go to the console despite + <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -412,6 +425,13 @@ <para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added. + Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and + MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported. + This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146 + standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace + the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter) driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para> @@ -420,7 +440,7 @@ <varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set on a per-device basis.</para> - <para>The <devicename>ixgb</devicename> driver, which supports + <para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports Intel PRO/10GBE 10 gigabit Ethernet cards, has been added. &merged;</para> @@ -445,6 +465,10 @@ a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports + Cisco style encapsulation which is often used alongside + RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para> + <para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4 interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous lines has been added.</para> @@ -589,6 +613,8 @@ connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled with the sysctl <varname>net.inet.tcp.sack.enable.</varname></para> + <para>&man.udav.4; driver now supports promiscuous mode.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -630,9 +656,9 @@ <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.vinum.8; volume manager, has been updated to use - GEOM, the 5.x disk framework. A gvinum userland tool has been - added.</para> + <para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use + &man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework. + A gvinum userland tool has been added.</para> <para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra @@ -677,6 +703,10 @@ number of partitions on a single disk, has been added into <filename>GENERIC</filename> by default.</para> + <para>A new <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> class to support + cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;, + has been added.</para> + <para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only server.</para> @@ -705,8 +735,13 @@ <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to - 3.4.35.</para> + <para><application>ALTQ framework</application> + has been imported from the KAME snapshot as of 20040607. + This import breaks ABI compatibility of + <varname>struct ifnet</varname>.</para> + + <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated + from version 3.4.31 to version 3.4.35.</para> <para arch="ia64">An ia64 stack unwinder, <application>Unwind Express (libuwx)</application> @@ -724,6 +759,14 @@ <command>bthidd</command> command, which support Bluetooth HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para> + <para>&man.conscontrol.8; now supports + <literal>set</literal> and <literal>unset</literal> + commands which set/unset the virtual console. + <literal>unset</literal> makes outputs from the system, such as + the kernel &man.printf.9;, always go out to the real + main console. This is an interface to the tty ioctl + <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para> + <para>The &man.cron.8 daemon now accepts two new options, <option>-j</option> and <option>-J</option>, to enable time jitter for jobs to run as unprivileged users and the @@ -765,7 +808,8 @@ <para>The &man.find.1; utility now supports a new primary <option>-depth <replaceable>n</replaceable></option> which tests whether the depth of the current file relative - to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>.</para> + to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>. + &merged;</para> <para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on GEOM classes from the userland has been added.</para> @@ -854,6 +898,16 @@ <para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal> directive.</para> + <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows the users to set + a debugging option via the <filename>newsyslog.conf</filename> + file.</para> + + <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now uses a new order when processing + files to rotate. The order first rotate all files that need + to be rotated, and then send a single signal to each process + which needs to be signaled, and finally it will compress + all the files which were rotated.</para> + <para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently supported system locales has been added. This is primarily for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename> @@ -906,6 +960,10 @@ and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.ps.1; now supports a <option>-O emul</option> + format option, which prints the name of the system call emulation + environment the process is in.</para> + <para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para> @@ -944,6 +1002,8 @@ <para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon has been added.</para> + <para>&man.sha1.1; and &man.rmd160.1; utility have been added.</para> + <para>&man.smbmsg.8;, a small utility to send/receive SMBus messages has been added.</para> @@ -953,10 +1013,20 @@ <option>-h</option> to print the label in human readable size/offset format.</para> + <para>&man.talk.1; now use <hostid>localhost</hostid> + as a default machine name in &man.talkd.8; + request packets, when the destination and source are local. + This makes &man.talk.1; dependent on a valid host entry + for <hostid>localhost</hostid> in <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> + or the DNS.</para> + <para>&man.tftpd.8; now supports two new options: a <option>-w</option> option allows new files to be created, and a <option>-U</option> option allows the umask to be set.</para> + <para arch="amd64">&man.truss.1; now includes early support + for &os;/amd64.</para> + <para>Many userland utilities in the base system (mostly GNU contributed utilities) now use the system version of &man.getopt.long.3;, rather than the GNU version.</para> @@ -1016,8 +1086,8 @@ <para><application>Binutils</application> have been updated to a 23 May 2004 snapshot from the FSF 2.15 branch.</para> - <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated to version - 1.11.17.</para> + <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from + version 1.11.15 to version 1.11.17.</para> <para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been @@ -1112,6 +1182,10 @@ <para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para> + + <para>The timezone database has been updated from + <filename>tzdata2003a</filename> to + <filename>tzdata2004a</filename>.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="ports"> |