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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-23 01:22:59 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-23 01:22:59 +0000
commit24319452282892227bc6fae62414a06a150c740c (patch)
treeb1089210e1420f73e721fefe8bab5e26d85825c5 /release
parent2e0fd322e8d7677efb5c90a8a30aa06f7ba633a6 (diff)
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New release notes: Thread supports under Linux emulation on alpha,
an(4)/ancontrol(8) WEP, ng_one2many(4), softupdates bugfixes/ enhancements, OpenSSH agent/X forwarding bug fixed, ssh(1) no longer SUID root, OpenSSL->0.9.6, binutils->2.10.1, lastlogin(1), newfs(1) write combining (+MFC), config(8) buffer overflows fixed, pcm(4) drivers compiled into GENERIC by default. Other MFCs: Write combining for crash dumps. Delete a duplicated note on mergemaster(8).
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT31
-rw-r--r--release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT31
2 files changed, 52 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
index 479ff55..2658118 100644
--- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ has been largely reworked.
Write combining for crashdumps has been implemented. This feature
is useful when write caching is disabled on both SCSI and IDE disks,
-where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete.
+where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete. [MERGED]
The bktr(4) driver has been updated to 2.15. New tuner types have
been added, and improvememts to the KLD module and to memory
@@ -177,8 +177,15 @@ Note that change affects only random-access writeable devices, not
sequential-only writeable devices such as CD-R drives, which are
supported by cdrecord.
-mergemaster(8) has gained some new features, has been cleaned up
-somewhat, and is now more cross-platform friendly.
+Support for threads under Linux emulation has been added.
+
+The an(4) driver for Cisco Aironet cards now supports Wired Equivalent
+Privacy (WEP) encryption, settable via ancontrol(8).
+
+A new netgraph node type ng_one2many(4) for multiplexing and
+demultiplexing packets over multiple links has been added. [MERGED]
+
+Softupdates for FFS have received some bugfixes and enhancements.
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
@@ -222,6 +229,11 @@ FreeBSD-SA-00:69). [MERGED]
The "nat deny_incoming" command in ppp(8) now works correctly (see
security advisory FreeBSD-SA-00:70). [MERGED]
+A bug in OpenSSH in which a server was unable to disable ssh-agent or
+X11 forwarding was fixed. [MERGED]
+
+The ssh(1) binary is no longer SUID root by default.
+
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
@@ -234,8 +246,7 @@ mtree(8) now includes support for a file listing pathnames to be excluded
when creating and verifying prototypes. This makes it easier to use
mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. [MERGED]
-OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.5a, which includes numerous bugfixes
-and enhancements. [MERGED]
+OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.6.
The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. [MERGED]
@@ -342,7 +353,7 @@ sshd is now enabled by default on new installs. [MERGED]
perl has been updated to version 5.6.0.
-Binutils have been upgraded to 2.10.0. [MERGED]
+Binutils have been upgraded to 2.10.1.
libreadline has been upgraded to 4.1. [MERGED]
@@ -422,6 +433,14 @@ Use of the CSMG_* macros no longer require inclusion of <sys/param.h>.
IP Filter is now supported by the rc.conf(5) boot-time configuration
and initialization. [MERGED]
+The lastlogin(1) utility, which prints the last login time of each
+user, has been imported from NetBSD.
+
+newfs(1) now implements write combining, which can make creation of
+new filesystems up to seven times faster. [MERGED]
+
+A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. [MERGED]
+
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
index 3c718c6..33aedd3 100644
--- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ functional.
Write combining for crashdumps has been implemented. This feature
is useful when write caching is disabled on both SCSI and IDE disks,
-where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete.
+where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete. [MERGED]
The bktr(4) driver has been updated to 2.15. New tuner types have
been added, and improvememts to the KLD module and to memory
@@ -233,6 +233,12 @@ Note that change affects only random-access writeable devices, not
sequential-only writeable devices such as CD-R drives, which are
supported by cdrecord.
+The an(4) driver for Cisco Aironet cards now supports Wired Equivalent
+Privacy (WEP) encryption, settable via ancontrol(8).
+
+The pcm(4) audio driver is now compiled into the GENERIC kernel by
+default.
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -275,6 +281,11 @@ FreeBSD-SA-00:69). [MERGED]
The "nat deny_incoming" command in ppp(8) now works correctly (see
security advisory FreeBSD-SA-00:70). [MERGED]
+A bug in OpenSSH in which a server was unable to disable ssh-agent or
+X11 forwarding was fixed. [MERGED]
+
+The ssh(1) binary is no longer SUID root by default.
+
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
@@ -287,8 +298,7 @@ mtree(8) now includes support for a file listing pathnames to be excluded
when creating and verifying prototypes. This makes it easier to use
mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. [MERGED]
-OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.5a, which includes numerous bugfixes
-and enhancements. [MERGED]
+OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.6.
The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. [MERGED]
@@ -414,7 +424,7 @@ sshd is now enabled by default on new installs. [MERGED]
perl has been updated to version 5.6.0.
-Binutils have been upgraded to 2.10.0. [MERGED]
+Binutils have been upgraded to 2.10.1.
libreadline has been upgraded to 4.1. [MERGED]
@@ -494,6 +504,19 @@ Use of the CSMG_* macros no longer require inclusion of <sys/param.h>.
IP Filter is now supported by the rc.conf(5) boot-time configuration
and initialization. [MERGED]
+The lastlogin(1) utility, which prints the last login time of each
+user, has been imported from NetBSD.
+
+A new netgraph node type ng_one2many(4) for multiplexing and
+demultiplexing packets over multiple links has been added. [MERGED]
+
+Softupdates for FFS have received some bugfixes and enhancements.
+
+newfs(1) now implements write combining, which can make creation of
+new filesystems up to seven times faster. [MERGED]
+
+A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. [MERGED]
+
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
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