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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-01-25 06:23:10 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-01-25 06:23:10 +0000 |
commit | df006f07133cbdb3b26ae0e5a7245dc6c3acdab1 (patch) | |
tree | f7af8d5aab64afb1238286a55cd132da571b7cc2 /release | |
parent | b6ff09ea29b19ad1d374b4285d5c5ba3e02473d2 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-df006f07133cbdb3b26ae0e5a7245dc6c3acdab1.zip FreeBSD-src-df006f07133cbdb3b26ae0e5a7245dc6c3acdab1.tar.gz |
New release notes: SCHED_ULE default, cdboot buggy BIOS workaround,
dc(4) sparc64/OFW fix, sk(4) multicast fix, IPsec bugfix, ata(4)
bugfixes, GEOM fix, NFSv4 panic fix, NSS large groups fix, CVS
security fix.
Most (but not all) of these are 5.2-RELEASE errata items.
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, 80 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 393b5b2..ac14c9e 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ <para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para> + <para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the + <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> <sect3 id="proc"> @@ -149,6 +152,10 @@ <filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the <option>-b</option> option.</para> + <para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a + BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB + CDROM drives.</para> + <!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword--> </sect3> @@ -156,6 +163,10 @@ <sect3 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> + <para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64 + Davicom cards that store their MAC address in + OpenFirmware.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter) driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para> @@ -168,11 +179,20 @@ FreeBSD. For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and &man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para> + <para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode + handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> + <para>Some bugs in the IPsec implementation from the KAME + Project have been fixed. These bugs were related to freeing + memory objects before all references to them were removed, and + could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing + the Security Policy Database (SPD).</para> + <para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC 3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product @@ -193,14 +213,22 @@ <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para></para> + <para>A number of bugs in the &man.ata.4; driver have been + fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should + work better, and some problems with timeouts should be + resolved.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para></para> + <para>A bug in GEOM that could result in I/O hangs in some rare + cases has been fixed.</para> + + <para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred + when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only + server.</para> </sect3> @@ -225,6 +253,11 @@ print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting the rule body.</para> + <para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes + problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename + role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large + membership lists.</para> + </sect2> <sect2 id="contrib"> @@ -233,6 +266,11 @@ <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para> + <para>Two security fixes for <application>CVS</application> (one + related to pserver operation and the other dealing with + malformed module requests) have been backported from later + versions.</para> + <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from 3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para> 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 393b5b2..ac14c9e 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ <para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para> + <para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the + <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> <sect3 id="proc"> @@ -149,6 +152,10 @@ <filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the <option>-b</option> option.</para> + <para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a + BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB + CDROM drives.</para> + <!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword--> </sect3> @@ -156,6 +163,10 @@ <sect3 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> + <para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64 + Davicom cards that store their MAC address in + OpenFirmware.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The hea (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter) driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para> @@ -168,11 +179,20 @@ FreeBSD. For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and &man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para> + <para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode + handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> + <para>Some bugs in the IPsec implementation from the KAME + Project have been fixed. These bugs were related to freeing + memory objects before all references to them were removed, and + could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing + the Security Policy Database (SPD).</para> + <para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC 3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product @@ -193,14 +213,22 @@ <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para></para> + <para>A number of bugs in the &man.ata.4; driver have been + fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should + work better, and some problems with timeouts should be + resolved.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para></para> + <para>A bug in GEOM that could result in I/O hangs in some rare + cases has been fixed.</para> + + <para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred + when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only + server.</para> </sect3> @@ -225,6 +253,11 @@ print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting the rule body.</para> + <para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes + problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename + role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large + membership lists.</para> + </sect2> <sect2 id="contrib"> @@ -233,6 +266,11 @@ <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para> + <para>Two security fixes for <application>CVS</application> (one + related to pserver operation and the other dealing with + malformed module requests) have been backported from later + versions.</para> + <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from 3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para> |