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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-07-24 03:58:53 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-07-24 03:58:53 +0000 |
commit | b3ec1c62c69e89cb662e63edde8a2af60f907572 (patch) | |
tree | 72cde5f0c8767766382a4bd6dc301a9a66cce436 /release | |
parent | 7c19b31514015151f46cbe8a618041bffde19304 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-b3ec1c62c69e89cb662e63edde8a2af60f907572.zip FreeBSD-src-b3ec1c62c69e89cb662e63edde8a2af60f907572.tar.gz |
New release notes: iwi(4) update (+MFC), jexec(8) -u/-U (+MFC),
extensible printf(3) (+MFC), tail(1) -q (+MFC)
Updated release notes: ath(4) HAL 0.9.17.2 (+MFC).
MFCs noted: ath(4) et al. in GENERIC, resolver update, /media.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 42 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 42 |
2 files changed, 74 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 3723e99..969b6f5 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -533,11 +533,12 @@ <title>Network Interface Support</title> <para>The &man.ath.4; driver has been updated to - version 0.9.16.16. &merged;</para> + HAL version 0.9.17.2. &merged;</para> - <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and + <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and <literal>ath_rate_sample</literal> drivers have been - included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para> + included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by + default. &merged;</para> <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers, @@ -584,6 +585,14 @@ <para>The &man.iwi.4; driver now supports big-endian architectures such as sparc64.</para> + <para>A number of improvements and bugfixes have been made to the + functionality of the &man.iwi.4; driver. This driver now + requires the firmware image in the + <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware-kmod</filename> + port/package; prior versions of this driver used the + <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware</filename> + port/package. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.le.4; driver, which supports AMD Am7900 LANCE and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs, has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also supports these @@ -1128,6 +1137,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The &man.jail.8; program now supports a <option>-s</option> option to specify a jail's securelevel. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility now supports <option>-u</option> + and <option>-U</option> flags to specify username credentials + under which a command should be executed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-H</option> flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding the threadid. &merged;</para> @@ -1283,8 +1296,23 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a <option>-P</option> option, which specifies a pidfile to use.</para> + <para>An extensible implementation of &man.printf.3;, compatible + with GLIBC, has been added to <filename>libc</filename>. It is + only used if the environment variable + <varname>USE_XPRINTF</varname> is defined, one of the extension + functions is called, or the global variable + <varname>__use_xprintf</varname> is set to a value greater than + <literal>0</literal>. Five extensions are currently supported: + <literal>%H</literal> (hex dump), + <literal>%T</literal> (<varname>time_t</varname> and + time-related structures), + <literal>%M</literal> (errno message), + <literal>%Q</literal> (double-quoted, escaped string), + <literal>%V</literal> (&man.strvis.3;-format string), + &merged;</para> + <para>The DNS resolver library in &os;'s <application>libc</application> - has been updated to BIND9's one.</para> + has been updated to BIND9's one. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; program now supports service names in addition to <option>-c</option> option with channel number. @@ -1319,6 +1347,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para> + <para>The &man.tail.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> + flag to suppress header lines when multiple files are + specified. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.time.1; utility now prints the time that a given command has been running if sent a <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal.</para> @@ -1660,7 +1692,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> <para>A <filename>/media</filename> directory has been added to contain mount points for removable media - such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on.</para> + such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on. &merged;</para> <para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which contains settings that will apply to every build involving 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 3723e99..969b6f5 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -533,11 +533,12 @@ <title>Network Interface Support</title> <para>The &man.ath.4; driver has been updated to - version 0.9.16.16. &merged;</para> + HAL version 0.9.17.2. &merged;</para> - <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and + <para arch="amd64,i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.ath.4;, &man.ath.hal.4;, and <literal>ath_rate_sample</literal> drivers have been - included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para> + included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by + default. &merged;</para> <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers, @@ -584,6 +585,14 @@ <para>The &man.iwi.4; driver now supports big-endian architectures such as sparc64.</para> + <para>A number of improvements and bugfixes have been made to the + functionality of the &man.iwi.4; driver. This driver now + requires the firmware image in the + <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware-kmod</filename> + port/package; prior versions of this driver used the + <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware</filename> + port/package. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.le.4; driver, which supports AMD Am7900 LANCE and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs, has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also supports these @@ -1128,6 +1137,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The &man.jail.8; program now supports a <option>-s</option> option to specify a jail's securelevel. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility now supports <option>-u</option> + and <option>-U</option> flags to specify username credentials + under which a command should be executed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-H</option> flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding the threadid. &merged;</para> @@ -1283,8 +1296,23 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a <option>-P</option> option, which specifies a pidfile to use.</para> + <para>An extensible implementation of &man.printf.3;, compatible + with GLIBC, has been added to <filename>libc</filename>. It is + only used if the environment variable + <varname>USE_XPRINTF</varname> is defined, one of the extension + functions is called, or the global variable + <varname>__use_xprintf</varname> is set to a value greater than + <literal>0</literal>. Five extensions are currently supported: + <literal>%H</literal> (hex dump), + <literal>%T</literal> (<varname>time_t</varname> and + time-related structures), + <literal>%M</literal> (errno message), + <literal>%Q</literal> (double-quoted, escaped string), + <literal>%V</literal> (&man.strvis.3;-format string), + &merged;</para> + <para>The DNS resolver library in &os;'s <application>libc</application> - has been updated to BIND9's one.</para> + has been updated to BIND9's one. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; program now supports service names in addition to <option>-c</option> option with channel number. @@ -1319,6 +1347,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para> + <para>The &man.tail.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> + flag to suppress header lines when multiple files are + specified. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.time.1; utility now prints the time that a given command has been running if sent a <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal.</para> @@ -1660,7 +1692,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> <para>A <filename>/media</filename> directory has been added to contain mount points for removable media - such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on.</para> + such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on. &merged;</para> <para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which contains settings that will apply to every build involving |