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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-02-10 19:55:18 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-02-10 19:55:18 +0000
commitb8744e6f289f7aae54434fc7fa73603e63885f79 (patch)
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New release notes: SA-07:02.bind (+MFC), auto-sizing TCP socket buffers,
gzip from NetBSD. Updated release notes: BIND 9.3.4 (+MFC), GNU Readline 5.1, ncurses 5.6-20061217.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 415460b..624f2e2 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -271,6 +271,11 @@
fixed. More information is available in
<ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail</ulink>. &merged;</para>
+ <para>Two remote denials of service in BIND (one involving DNSSEC and
+ one involving recursive DNS queries) have been fixed. For more
+ information, see security advisory
+ <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind</ulink>. &merged;</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="kernel">
@@ -977,6 +982,14 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
supporting TSO currently include &man.em.4; and
&man.mxge.4;.</para>
+ <para>&os; now supports auto-sizing of TCP socket buffers. This
+ allows the socket buffer sizes to adapt dynamically to network
+ conditions, rather than being set statically. The behavior of
+ this feature can be controlled using
+ the <varname>net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_*</varname>
+ and <varname>net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_*</varname> sysctl
+ variables.</para>
+
<para>Support for &man.kqueue.2; operations has been added to
the &man.tun.4; driver. &merged;</para>
@@ -1733,7 +1746,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
has been updated to 20051021.</para>
<para><application>BIND</application> has been updated from 9.3.1
- to 9.3.3. &merged;</para>
+ to 9.3.4. &merged;</para>
<para><application>BSNMPD</application> has been updated from
1.11 to 1.12.</para>
@@ -1745,6 +1758,9 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.12
to 4.17.</para>
+ <para>The GNU version of <application>gzip</application> has been
+ replaced with a version of gzip imported from NetBSD.</para>
+
<para><application>netcat</application> has been updated from the
version in a 4 February 2005 OpenBSD snapshot to the version
included in OpenBSD 3.9. &merged;</para>
@@ -1753,7 +1769,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
to 3.4.6. &merged;</para>
<para><application>GNU Readline library</application> has been
- updated from 5.0 to 5.1.</para>
+ updated from 5.0 to 5.2 patch 1.</para>
<para><application>GNU Troff</application>
has been updated from version 1.19 to version 1.19.2.
@@ -1778,6 +1794,9 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.</para>
+ <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from
+ 5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217.</para>
+
<para><application>hostapd</application>
has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.
&merged;</para>
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