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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-25 04:03:01 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-25 04:03:01 +0000
commita852281c6309fd6ce7f5d414d4c357dd5c575680 (patch)
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parent960bcab6dcd53f84a17098b9f8ec58d53490d247 (diff)
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New release notes: se driver, ofw driver, ispppcontrol(8) removed,
fold(1) -b/-s, killall(1) -z, lpd(8) -s, patch(1) -i, pr(1) -f/-b, renice(1) -n, tftp(1)/tftpd(8) IPv6 support. Updated release notes: FICL 3.02, IPFilter 3.4.26.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml46
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml46
2 files changed, 78 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 093f7f5..5dba37e 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -261,6 +261,10 @@
<para arch="sparc64">Support has been added for SBus-based
devices.</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">The se driver, which supports the Siemens
+ SAB82532 serial chip found on many newer Sparc Ultra machines,
+ has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.snp.4; device is no longer static and can now be
compiled as a module. &merged;</para>
@@ -1098,6 +1102,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
All three drivers can be built and loaded as
modules. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="powerpc">The ofw driver, a basic OpenFirmware disk
+ driver, has been added.</para>
+
<para>Some problems in &man.sa.4; error handling have been
fixed, including the <quote>tape drive spinning indefinitely
upon &man.mt.1; <option>stat</option></quote> problem.</para>
@@ -1337,7 +1344,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The Forth Inspired Command Language
(<application>FICL</application>) used in the boot loader has
- been updated to 2.05.</para>
+ been updated to 3.02.</para>
<para>Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
(ACPI), a multi-vendor standard for configuration and power
@@ -1351,7 +1358,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<title>IPFilter</title>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to
- 3.4.25.</para>
+ 3.4.26.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> now supports
IPv6. &merged;</para>
@@ -1362,11 +1369,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<title>isdn4bsd</title>
<para><application>isdn4bsd</application> has been updated to
- version 1.0.1. As a result of this update, users of the
- &man.i4bisppp.4; (kernel PPP over ISDN) driver
- <emphasis>must</emphasis> now use &man.ispppcontrol.8;
- instead of &man.spppcontrol.8; to configure and control these
- network interfaces. &merged;</para>
+ version 1.0.1. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ifpi.4; driver for supporting the AVM
Fritz!Card PCI version 2 controller has been added. &merged;</para>
@@ -1963,6 +1966,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.fmtcheck.3;, a function for checking consistency of
format string arguments, has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.fold.1; now supports a <option>-b</option> flag to
+ break at byte positions and a <option>-s</option> to break at
+ word boundaries.</para>
+
<para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature
provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different
types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para>
@@ -2119,6 +2126,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
use the <option>-q</option> (quiet) flag when reading from a
file. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ispppcontrol.8; has been deleted, and its functionality
+ has been folded into &man.spppcontrol.8;. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.kenv.1;, a command to dump the kernel environment, has
been added. &merged;</para>
@@ -2138,6 +2148,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
processes that they started, the same as the Perl version
did. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.killall.1; no longer tries to kill zombie processes
+ unless the <option>-z</option> flag is specified.</para>
+
<para>The &man.kldconfig.8; utility has been added to make it
easier to manipulate the kernel module search
path. &merged;</para>
@@ -2250,6 +2263,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
files, which allows printing of PostScript files generated by
<application>MacOS</application> 10.1. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.lpd.8; now recognizes the <option>-s</option> flag as
+ the preferred synonym for <option>-p</option> (these flags
+ cause &man.lpd.8; not to open a socket for network print
+ jobs). &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.lpr.1;, &man.lpq.1;, and &man.lpd.8; have received a
few minor enhancements. &merged;</para>
@@ -2420,6 +2438,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
attribute in
<filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.patch.1; now accepts a <option>-i</option> command-line
+ flag to read a patch from a file, rather than standard
+ input. &merged</para>
+
<para>&man.pax.1; has received a number of enhancements, including
&man.cpio.1; functionality, &man.tar.1; compatibility
enhancements, <option>-z</option> and <option>-Z</option> flags
@@ -2459,6 +2481,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
no longer world-executable). Users of &man.pppd.8; may need to
change their group settings. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.pr.1; now supports the <option>-f</option> and
+ <option>-p</option> flags to pause output going to a
+ terminal. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The <option>-W</option> option to &man.ps.1; (to extract
information from a specified swap device) has been useless for
some time; it has been removed. &merged;</para>
@@ -2489,6 +2515,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
still available from &os; Ports Collection as
<filename role="package">net/44bsd-rdist</filename>.</para>
+ <para>The &man.renice.8; command implements a <option>-n</option>
+ option, which specifies an increment to be applied to the
+ priority of a process.</para>
+
<para>The &man.resolver.3; in &os; now implements EDNS0 support,
which will be necessary when working with IPv6 transport-ready
resolvers/DNS servers. &merged;</para>
@@ -2688,6 +2718,8 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
allow connections to UNIX-domain (<literal>AF_UNIX</literal>)
sockets. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.tftp.1; and &man.tftpd.8; now support IPv6.</para>
+
<para>&man.tftpd.8; now takes the <option>-c</option> and
<option>-C</option> options, which allow the server to
&man.chroot.2; based on the IP address of the connecting client.
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 093f7f5..5dba37e 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -261,6 +261,10 @@
<para arch="sparc64">Support has been added for SBus-based
devices.</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">The se driver, which supports the Siemens
+ SAB82532 serial chip found on many newer Sparc Ultra machines,
+ has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.snp.4; device is no longer static and can now be
compiled as a module. &merged;</para>
@@ -1098,6 +1102,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
All three drivers can be built and loaded as
modules. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="powerpc">The ofw driver, a basic OpenFirmware disk
+ driver, has been added.</para>
+
<para>Some problems in &man.sa.4; error handling have been
fixed, including the <quote>tape drive spinning indefinitely
upon &man.mt.1; <option>stat</option></quote> problem.</para>
@@ -1337,7 +1344,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The Forth Inspired Command Language
(<application>FICL</application>) used in the boot loader has
- been updated to 2.05.</para>
+ been updated to 3.02.</para>
<para>Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
(ACPI), a multi-vendor standard for configuration and power
@@ -1351,7 +1358,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<title>IPFilter</title>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to
- 3.4.25.</para>
+ 3.4.26.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> now supports
IPv6. &merged;</para>
@@ -1362,11 +1369,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<title>isdn4bsd</title>
<para><application>isdn4bsd</application> has been updated to
- version 1.0.1. As a result of this update, users of the
- &man.i4bisppp.4; (kernel PPP over ISDN) driver
- <emphasis>must</emphasis> now use &man.ispppcontrol.8;
- instead of &man.spppcontrol.8; to configure and control these
- network interfaces. &merged;</para>
+ version 1.0.1. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ifpi.4; driver for supporting the AVM
Fritz!Card PCI version 2 controller has been added. &merged;</para>
@@ -1963,6 +1966,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.fmtcheck.3;, a function for checking consistency of
format string arguments, has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.fold.1; now supports a <option>-b</option> flag to
+ break at byte positions and a <option>-s</option> to break at
+ word boundaries.</para>
+
<para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature
provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different
types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para>
@@ -2119,6 +2126,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
use the <option>-q</option> (quiet) flag when reading from a
file. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ispppcontrol.8; has been deleted, and its functionality
+ has been folded into &man.spppcontrol.8;. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.kenv.1;, a command to dump the kernel environment, has
been added. &merged;</para>
@@ -2138,6 +2148,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
processes that they started, the same as the Perl version
did. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.killall.1; no longer tries to kill zombie processes
+ unless the <option>-z</option> flag is specified.</para>
+
<para>The &man.kldconfig.8; utility has been added to make it
easier to manipulate the kernel module search
path. &merged;</para>
@@ -2250,6 +2263,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
files, which allows printing of PostScript files generated by
<application>MacOS</application> 10.1. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.lpd.8; now recognizes the <option>-s</option> flag as
+ the preferred synonym for <option>-p</option> (these flags
+ cause &man.lpd.8; not to open a socket for network print
+ jobs). &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.lpr.1;, &man.lpq.1;, and &man.lpd.8; have received a
few minor enhancements. &merged;</para>
@@ -2420,6 +2438,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
attribute in
<filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.patch.1; now accepts a <option>-i</option> command-line
+ flag to read a patch from a file, rather than standard
+ input. &merged</para>
+
<para>&man.pax.1; has received a number of enhancements, including
&man.cpio.1; functionality, &man.tar.1; compatibility
enhancements, <option>-z</option> and <option>-Z</option> flags
@@ -2459,6 +2481,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
no longer world-executable). Users of &man.pppd.8; may need to
change their group settings. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.pr.1; now supports the <option>-f</option> and
+ <option>-p</option> flags to pause output going to a
+ terminal. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The <option>-W</option> option to &man.ps.1; (to extract
information from a specified swap device) has been useless for
some time; it has been removed. &merged;</para>
@@ -2489,6 +2515,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
still available from &os; Ports Collection as
<filename role="package">net/44bsd-rdist</filename>.</para>
+ <para>The &man.renice.8; command implements a <option>-n</option>
+ option, which specifies an increment to be applied to the
+ priority of a process.</para>
+
<para>The &man.resolver.3; in &os; now implements EDNS0 support,
which will be necessary when working with IPv6 transport-ready
resolvers/DNS servers. &merged;</para>
@@ -2688,6 +2718,8 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
allow connections to UNIX-domain (<literal>AF_UNIX</literal>)
sockets. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.tftp.1; and &man.tftpd.8; now support IPv6.</para>
+
<para>&man.tftpd.8; now takes the <option>-c</option> and
<option>-C</option> options, which allow the server to
&man.chroot.2; based on the IP address of the connecting client.
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