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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-07 17:46:28 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-07 17:46:28 +0000
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MFP4: First release notes for 5.1-CURRENT.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml50
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml50
2 files changed, 74 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 8b7bf3d..0c7bf7f 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -128,9 +128,12 @@
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<sect3 id="proc">
- <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
+ <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
+
+ <para arch="i386">PCI interrupts are always routed on i386 UP
+ machines, which may improve the usability of some PCI devices
+ (particularly on laptops).</para>
- <para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="boot">
@@ -152,14 +155,26 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
+ a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
+ being done.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>Various &man.geom.4; modules can now be loaded as kernel
+ modules, namely:
+ <filename>geom_apple</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_bde</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_bsd</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_gpt</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_mbr</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_pc98</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_sunlabel</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_vol_ffs</filename>.
+ </para>
</sect3>
@@ -170,13 +185,6 @@
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="pccard">
- <title>PCCARD Support</title>
-
- <para></para>
-
- </sect3>
-
<sect3 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -189,14 +197,30 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>&man.chroot.8; now allows the optional setting of a user,
+ primary group, or group list to use inside the chroot
+ environment via the <option>-u</option>, <option>-g</option>,
+ and <option>-G</option> options respectively.</para>
+
+ <para>The <filename>libcipher</filename> DES cryptography library
+ has been removed. All of its functionality is provided by the
+ <filename>libcrypto</filename> library, and all base systems
+ programs that used <filename>libcipher</filename> have been
+ converted to use <filename>libcrypto</filename> instead.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
+ threading library is now built by default.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.pam.guest.8; PAM module has been added to allow
+ guest logins. It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to the
+ <quote>Digitalis</quote> release.</para>
</sect2>
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 8b7bf3d..0c7bf7f 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -128,9 +128,12 @@
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<sect3 id="proc">
- <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
+ <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
+
+ <para arch="i386">PCI interrupts are always routed on i386 UP
+ machines, which may improve the usability of some PCI devices
+ (particularly on laptops).</para>
- <para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="boot">
@@ -152,14 +155,26 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
+ a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
+ being done.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>Various &man.geom.4; modules can now be loaded as kernel
+ modules, namely:
+ <filename>geom_apple</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_bde</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_bsd</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_gpt</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_mbr</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_pc98</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_sunlabel</filename>,
+ <filename>geom_vol_ffs</filename>.
+ </para>
</sect3>
@@ -170,13 +185,6 @@
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="pccard">
- <title>PCCARD Support</title>
-
- <para></para>
-
- </sect3>
-
<sect3 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -189,14 +197,30 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>&man.chroot.8; now allows the optional setting of a user,
+ primary group, or group list to use inside the chroot
+ environment via the <option>-u</option>, <option>-g</option>,
+ and <option>-G</option> options respectively.</para>
+
+ <para>The <filename>libcipher</filename> DES cryptography library
+ has been removed. All of its functionality is provided by the
+ <filename>libcrypto</filename> library, and all base systems
+ programs that used <filename>libcipher</filename> have been
+ converted to use <filename>libcrypto</filename> instead.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
+ threading library is now built by default.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.pam.guest.8; PAM module has been added to allow
+ guest logins. It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to the
+ <quote>Digitalis</quote> release.</para>
</sect2>
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