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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-07-03 15:34:00 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-07-03 15:34:00 +0000
commit95fb0fdd492bc1c720ace9d1545dc8bb5262605f (patch)
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parentf39b667635a5f0845773554abd4252c1a998f538 (diff)
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New release notes: uark(4), nxge(4), KAME IPsec removal and
FAST_IPSEC promotion, wicontrol(8) gone, PF 4.1. Modified release notes: netstat(1) IPsec stats (modified for KAME IPsec removal). MFC noted: less v406. Approved by: re (implicitly)
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml30
1 files changed, 26 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 470595a..2b3ed81 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -654,6 +654,10 @@
When both &man.sio.4; and &man.uart.4; can handle a given serial port,
&man.sio.4; will claim it.</para>
+ <para>The &man.uark.4; driver, which supports the Arkmicro
+ Technologies ARK3116-based USB serial adapter, has been
+ added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.uart.4; driver now supports LOM (Lights Out Management)
and RSC (Remote System Control) devices as consoles.</para>
@@ -864,6 +868,9 @@
<para>The &man.nve.4; driver has been updated to version 1.0-0310
(23-Nov-2005). It also now has &man.altq.4; support. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.nxge.4; driver, which supports the Neterion
+ Xframe 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.re.4; driver now supports the D-Link DGE-528(T)
@@ -1045,6 +1052,16 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
IPv6 support, it should be used instead. Please note that some rules might need
to be adjusted.</para>
+ <para>The KAME IPsec implementation has been removed. In its
+ place, <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> is now the only IPsec
+ implementation supported by the &os; kernel. The
+ <literal>IPSEC</literal> kernel configuration option, which
+ formerly enabled KAME IPsec, now enables
+ <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal>. <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal>
+ now supports both IPv4 and IPv6, uses fine-grained kernel
+ locking, and supports hardware cryptographic
+ acceleration.</para>
+
<para>Support for tunneling IPX over IP has been removed.</para>
<para>The &man.lagg.4; driver, ported from OpenBSD and NetBSD,
@@ -1789,9 +1806,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
which prints all interface statistics in human readable form. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports
- printing &man.ipsec.4; protocol statistics if the
- kernel was compiled with <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal>
- rather than the KAME IPSEC stack.
+ printing &man.ipsec.4; protocol statistics.
Note that the output of <command>netstat -s -p ipsec</command>
differs depending on which stack is compiled into
the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para>
@@ -2001,6 +2016,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The vnconfig(8) utility, which was long ago replaced by
&man.mdconfig.8;, has been removed.</para>
+ <para>The wicontrol(8) utility has been removed. Configuration
+ functions for &man.wi.4; interfaces should be performed using
+ &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+
<para>The &man.xargs.1; utility now supports a <option>-r</option>
flag which makes the command execution when the standard input
does not contain any non-whitespace-characters. &merged;</para>
@@ -2185,7 +2204,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
4.1.8 to 4.1.23.</para>
<para><application>less</application> has been updated from v381
- to v406.</para>
+ to v406. &merged;</para>
<para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated from
0.9.1 to 0.9.4. &merged;</para>
@@ -2208,6 +2227,9 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.
&merged;</para>
+ <para><application>PF</application> has been updated from OpenBSD
+ version 3.7 to OpenBSD version 4.1.</para>
+
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
8.13.4 to 8.14.1. &merged;</para>
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