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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-06-19 14:13:46 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-06-19 14:13:46 +0000
commit381c77ec16204743c9cc937439c68c0cb21ff922 (patch)
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New release notes:
- tmpfs on i386,amd64 - gem(4) altq support - AUDIT and SCTP in GENERIC - FireWire MPSAFE - netstat SCTP support - dhclient RFC 3442 support (1) Modified release notes: - MFC markers: mxge(4) and netcat - touch -A entry grammar fix (2) - More manpage references used Submitted by: Andrey V. Elsukov (1) ceri (2) Approved by: re (blanket)
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml31
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 576fcbc..1a813fb 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -305,8 +305,9 @@
<para>Security event auditing is now supported in the &os; kernel,
and is enabled by the <literal>AUDIT</literal> kernel
- configuration option. More information can be found in the
- &man.audit.4; manual page.</para>
+ configuration option. The option is enabled in the
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. More information can be found
+ in the &man.audit.4; manual page.</para>
<para>Support for the Camellia block cipher has been added to the
&os; kernel. It can now be specified as a cipher in IPsec. More
@@ -587,6 +588,8 @@
page.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.firewire.4; code is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
<para>icee(4), a generic I2C EEPROM driver, has been added.</para>
<para>A bug which prevented the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module
@@ -793,6 +796,8 @@
<para>The IP over FireWire (&man.fwip.4;) driver is now enabled in
the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+ <para>The &man.gem.4; driver now supports &man.altq.4;.</para>
+
<para>The firmware images needed by the &man.ipw.4; driver are now
part of the &os; base system. For the loaded firmware to work the
license at <filename>/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE</filename>
@@ -846,7 +851,7 @@
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.mxge.4; driver,
which supports Myricom Myri10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet
adapters, has been added. For more details, see
- &man.mxge.4;.</para>
+ &man.mxge.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.nfe.4; driver, an open-source driver for nForce
Ethernet devices, has been added, originally from
@@ -1135,7 +1140,9 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>Support has been added for the Stream Control Transmission
Protocol (SCTP). SCTP implements a reliable, message-oriented
transport protocol, and is defined in RFC 3268. It is enabled
- in &os; with the <literal>SCTP</literal> kernel option.</para>
+ in &os; with the <literal>SCTP</literal> kernel option and is
+ part of the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. More
+ information can be found in the &man.sctp.4; manual page.</para>
<para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option
now works for UDP.</para>
@@ -1316,6 +1323,12 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+ <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Experimental support for the
+ TMPFS file system has been added. TMPFS is an efficient
+ memory file system originally developed for the NetBSD project
+ during the Google Summer of Code. More information can be
+ found in the &man.tmpfs.5; manual page.</para>
+
<para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the 3.70.03.007
release on the 3ware Web site. It now supports AMCC's 3ware
9650 series of SATA controllers. &merged;</para>
@@ -1492,6 +1505,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
in the C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode
only. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now supports the Classless Static
+ Route option as described in RFC 3442.</para>
+
<para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in
DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration
file. &merged;</para>
@@ -1765,6 +1781,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
differs depending on which stack is compiled into
the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports printing
+ &man.sctp.4; protocol statistics.</para>
+
<para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file is now
installed statically instead of being generated on every
reboot.</para>
@@ -1931,7 +1950,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
flag to display the &man.jail.8; ID for each process. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.touch.1; utility now supports a <option>-A</option>
- flag that allows the access and modification times of a file be
+ flag that allows the access and modification times of a file to be
adjusted by a specified value. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.traceroute.8; program now supports
@@ -2135,7 +2154,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para><application>netcat</application> has been updated from the
version in a 4 February 2005 OpenBSD snapshot to the version
- included in OpenBSD 4.1.</para>
+ included in OpenBSD 4.1. &merged;</para>
<para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.4.4
to 4.2.0.</para>
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