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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-06-22 15:51:49 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-06-22 15:51:49 +0000
commitd18d36b59c1f068e282e952b117b5060e032928b (patch)
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parentb6786eca7fe50d1816313a02ea0f1d5c08d856e3 (diff)
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New/updated release notes: inetd(8) can manage AF_UNIX sockets, resolver(3)
with EDNS0 support, col(1) -p, mdmfs(8), bzip2 1.0.1, Heimdal 0.3f. MFCs noted: orm(4), nge(4), lge(4), packet fragmentation limits (plus minor update), df(1) -l, pkg_version(1) -s.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml44
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml44
2 files changed, 68 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 9b4b2e8..a21818a 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
<para>An &man.orm.4; device has been added to claim the option
ROMs in the ISA memory I/O space, to prevent other drivers from
- mistakenly assigned address that conflict with these ROMs.</para>
+ mistakenly assigned address that conflict with these ROMs. &merged;</para>
<para>The out-of-swap process termination code now begins killing
processes earlier to avoid deadlocks; it now also takes into
@@ -320,13 +320,14 @@
and DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including the
D-Link DGE-500T, SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX), Asante
FriendlyNet GigaNIC 1000TA and 1000TPC and Addtron
- AEG320T.</para>
+ AEG320T. This driver supports transmit and receive checksum
+ offloading. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.lge.4; driver has been added to support the Level
1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet controller chip. This
device is used on some fiber optic GigE cards from SMC, D-Link
and Addtron. Jumbograms and TCP/IP checksum offload on receive
- are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering is not.</para>
+ are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering is not. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.xl.4; driver now supports reception of VLAN
tagged frames (on the <quote>Cyclone</quote> or newer
@@ -599,6 +600,9 @@
&man.mount.8; so that <literal>msdos</literal> filesystem
entries in &man.fstab.5; will work without changes.</para>
+ <para>pseudofs, a pseudo-filesystem framework, has been added.
+ &man.linprocfs.5; has been modified to use pseudofs.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -824,10 +828,11 @@
<para>Initial sequence numbers in TCP are more thoroughly
randomized (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:39). &merged;</para>
- <para>The new <varname>net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets</varname> sysctl
- variable limits the amount of memory that can be consumed by IPv4
- packet fragments, which defends against some denial of service
- attacks.</para>
+ <para>The new <varname>net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets</varname>
+ and <varname>net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets</varname> sysctl
+ variables limit the amount of memory that can be consumed by IPv4
+ and IPv6 packet fragments, which defends against some denial of service
+ attacks. &merged;</para>
<para>A vulnerability in the &man.fts.3; routines (used by
applications for recursively traversing a filesystem) could
@@ -1464,7 +1469,7 @@
of bugs compared to its prior behavior.</para>
<para>&man.df.1; now takes a <option>-l</option> option to only
- display information about locally-mounted filesystems.</para>
+ display information about locally-mounted filesystems. &merged;</para>
<para>The syntax of &man.inetd.8;'s support for &man.faithd.8; is
now compatable with that of other BSDs. &merged;</para>
@@ -1472,10 +1477,25 @@
<para>The <literal>ident</literal> protocol support in &man.inetd.8; has
been cleaned up and updated.</para>
+ <para>&man.inetd.8; now has the ability to manage UNIX-domain
+ sockets.</para>
+
<para>&man.du.1; now takes a <option>-I</option> command-line flag
to ignore/skip files and subdirectories matching a specified
shell-glob mask.</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>
+
+ <para>&man.col.1; now takes a <option>-p</option> to force unknown
+ control sequences to be passed through unchanged.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper
+ around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and
+ &man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the
+ deprecated &man.mount.mfs.8;.</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
@@ -1489,6 +1509,10 @@
<para><application>Binutils</application> have been upgraded to
2.11.0. &merged;</para>
+ <para><application>bzip2</application> 1.0.1 has been imported; this
+ brings the &man.bzip2.1; program and the <filename>libbz2</filename>
+ library to the base system.</para>
+
<para><application>cvs</application> has been updated to
1.11. &merged;</para>
@@ -1526,7 +1550,7 @@
limitations of its predecessor. &merged;</para>
<para><application>Heimdal</application> has been updated to
- 0.3e. &merged;</para>
+ 0.3f.</para>
<para>The <application>ISC DHCP</application> client has been
updated to 2.0pl5. &merged;</para>
@@ -1793,7 +1817,7 @@
<para>&man.pkg.version.1; now takes a <option>-s</option> flag
to limit its operation to ports/packages matching a given
- string.</para>
+ string. &merged;</para>
<para>When requested to delete multiple packages,
&man.pkg.delete.1; will now attempt to remove them in dependency
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 9b4b2e8..a21818a 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
<para>An &man.orm.4; device has been added to claim the option
ROMs in the ISA memory I/O space, to prevent other drivers from
- mistakenly assigned address that conflict with these ROMs.</para>
+ mistakenly assigned address that conflict with these ROMs. &merged;</para>
<para>The out-of-swap process termination code now begins killing
processes earlier to avoid deadlocks; it now also takes into
@@ -320,13 +320,14 @@
and DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including the
D-Link DGE-500T, SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX), Asante
FriendlyNet GigaNIC 1000TA and 1000TPC and Addtron
- AEG320T.</para>
+ AEG320T. This driver supports transmit and receive checksum
+ offloading. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.lge.4; driver has been added to support the Level
1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet controller chip. This
device is used on some fiber optic GigE cards from SMC, D-Link
and Addtron. Jumbograms and TCP/IP checksum offload on receive
- are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering is not.</para>
+ are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering is not. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.xl.4; driver now supports reception of VLAN
tagged frames (on the <quote>Cyclone</quote> or newer
@@ -599,6 +600,9 @@
&man.mount.8; so that <literal>msdos</literal> filesystem
entries in &man.fstab.5; will work without changes.</para>
+ <para>pseudofs, a pseudo-filesystem framework, has been added.
+ &man.linprocfs.5; has been modified to use pseudofs.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -824,10 +828,11 @@
<para>Initial sequence numbers in TCP are more thoroughly
randomized (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:39). &merged;</para>
- <para>The new <varname>net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets</varname> sysctl
- variable limits the amount of memory that can be consumed by IPv4
- packet fragments, which defends against some denial of service
- attacks.</para>
+ <para>The new <varname>net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets</varname>
+ and <varname>net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets</varname> sysctl
+ variables limit the amount of memory that can be consumed by IPv4
+ and IPv6 packet fragments, which defends against some denial of service
+ attacks. &merged;</para>
<para>A vulnerability in the &man.fts.3; routines (used by
applications for recursively traversing a filesystem) could
@@ -1464,7 +1469,7 @@
of bugs compared to its prior behavior.</para>
<para>&man.df.1; now takes a <option>-l</option> option to only
- display information about locally-mounted filesystems.</para>
+ display information about locally-mounted filesystems. &merged;</para>
<para>The syntax of &man.inetd.8;'s support for &man.faithd.8; is
now compatable with that of other BSDs. &merged;</para>
@@ -1472,10 +1477,25 @@
<para>The <literal>ident</literal> protocol support in &man.inetd.8; has
been cleaned up and updated.</para>
+ <para>&man.inetd.8; now has the ability to manage UNIX-domain
+ sockets.</para>
+
<para>&man.du.1; now takes a <option>-I</option> command-line flag
to ignore/skip files and subdirectories matching a specified
shell-glob mask.</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>
+
+ <para>&man.col.1; now takes a <option>-p</option> to force unknown
+ control sequences to be passed through unchanged.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper
+ around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and
+ &man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the
+ deprecated &man.mount.mfs.8;.</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
@@ -1489,6 +1509,10 @@
<para><application>Binutils</application> have been upgraded to
2.11.0. &merged;</para>
+ <para><application>bzip2</application> 1.0.1 has been imported; this
+ brings the &man.bzip2.1; program and the <filename>libbz2</filename>
+ library to the base system.</para>
+
<para><application>cvs</application> has been updated to
1.11. &merged;</para>
@@ -1526,7 +1550,7 @@
limitations of its predecessor. &merged;</para>
<para><application>Heimdal</application> has been updated to
- 0.3e. &merged;</para>
+ 0.3f.</para>
<para>The <application>ISC DHCP</application> client has been
updated to 2.0pl5. &merged;</para>
@@ -1793,7 +1817,7 @@
<para>&man.pkg.version.1; now takes a <option>-s</option> flag
to limit its operation to ports/packages matching a given
- string.</para>
+ string. &merged;</para>
<para>When requested to delete multiple packages,
&man.pkg.delete.1; will now attempt to remove them in dependency
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