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author | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-07 11:53:22 +0000 |
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committer | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-07 11:53:22 +0000 |
commit | 28bd0f9879126d87750c7af081de42c1ca4dc977 (patch) | |
tree | 4bba2879056ca200add7dced59226e61fcd5202c /release | |
parent | 6914e743a6b615ca398d9c7e6a61da36cb4fbd72 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-28bd0f9879126d87750c7af081de42c1ca4dc977.zip FreeBSD-src-28bd0f9879126d87750c7af081de42c1ca4dc977.tar.gz |
New release notes:
- PIM option now included in MROUTING
- MSI support + MFC
- TCP_DROP_SYNFIN compiled in by default
- FICL updated to 3.03
- icee driver added
- net.link.tap.up_on_open sysctl added
- ZFS support added
Updated release notes:
- ncurses 5.6-20061217 MFC noted
- mpsave_vfs=1 on powerpc
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 34 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index bf0797d..b4525be 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -350,6 +350,9 @@ It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para> + <para>Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) has been added to + the &man.pci.4; driver. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.priv.9; kernel interface has been added. Its purpose is checking the availability of privilege for threads and credentials. Unlike the existing &man.suser.9; interface, &man.priv.9; exposes a @@ -532,6 +535,8 @@ page. &merged;</para> + <para>icee(4), a generic I2C EEPROM driver, has been added.</para> + <para>A bug which prevented the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module from unloading has been fixed.</para> @@ -564,7 +569,7 @@ <para>The &man.nfsmb.4; driver, which supports the NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus 2.0 controller, has been added. &merged;</para> - <para>[&arch.ia64;] The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname> + <para>[&arch.ia64;, &arch.powerpc;] The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname> is set to <literal>1</literal> by default.</para> <para>The &man.sab.4; driver has been removed (it has been @@ -957,7 +962,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> <para>The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE.</para> - <para>A new &man.ng.deflate.4; NetGraph node type has been + <para>A new &man.ng.deflate.4; Netgraph node type has been added. It implements Deflate PPP compression. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.ng.ether.4; Netgraph node no longer overwrites @@ -966,7 +971,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> <para>The &man.ng.iface.4; Netgraph node now supports &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para> - <para>A new &man.ng.pred1.4; NetGraph node type has been added + <para>A new &man.ng.pred1.4; Netgraph node type has been added to implement Predictor-1 PPP compression. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.ng.tag.4; Netgraph node has been added to @@ -1030,6 +1035,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable <varname>net.inet6.ip6.stealth</varname>.</para> + <para>The <literal>PIM</literal> kernel option has been removed. + The corresponding code is now included in the + <literal>MROUTING</literal> kernel option.</para> + <para>Support has been added for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). SCTP implements a reliable, message-oriented transport protocol, and is defined in RFC 3268. It is enabled @@ -1038,6 +1047,11 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> <para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option now works for UDP.</para> + <para>The <literal>TCP_DROP_SYNFIN</literal> kernel option is now + included in the kernel by default. The + <varname>net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin</varname> sysctl variable still + defaults to <literal>0</literal>.</para> + <para>The TCP bandwidth-delay product limiting feature has been disabled when the RTT is below a certain threshold. This optimization does not make sense on a LAN, as it has @@ -1066,6 +1080,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> and <varname>net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_*</varname> sysctl variables.</para> + <para>The <varname>net.link.tap.up_on_open</varname> sysctl variable + has been added to the &man.tap.4; driver. If enabled, new tap + devices will marked <literal>up</literal> upon creation.</para> + <para>Support for &man.kqueue.2; operations has been added to the &man.tun.4; driver. &merged;</para> @@ -1257,6 +1275,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> layer of unions. More information can be found in the &man.mount.unionfs.8; manual page. &merged;</para> + <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;]Support for Sun's ZFS has been + added. More information about this file system can be found + on the <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/"> + OpenSolaris ZFS page</a>.</para> + </sect3> </sect2> @@ -1871,6 +1894,9 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517. &merged;</para> + <para>The Forth Inspired Command Language (<application>FICL</application>) + used in the boot loader has been updated to 3.03.</para> + <para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.12 to 4.17.</para> @@ -1913,7 +1939,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from 5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217. ncurses now also has wide - character support.</para> + character support. &merged;</para> <para><application>hostapd</application> has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8. |