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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-02-17 05:05:43 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-02-17 05:05:43 +0000 |
commit | a03600270b805ef377d61ed61290efc1e5f692e3 (patch) | |
tree | 3ae1e90abbd97e5995a45c536a365d761d3ae6ce /release | |
parent | d2b4a8b4985d81b91a5eb17a024136589efcc9c3 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-a03600270b805ef377d61ed61290efc1e5f692e3.zip FreeBSD-src-a03600270b805ef377d61ed61290efc1e5f692e3.tar.gz |
New release notes: TCP RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) support, libarchive(3),
killall(1) -e, sdpd(8), awk 20040207, GNU readline patches 001-005,
GNU tar renaming, OpenPAM Eelgrass.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 34 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 34 |
2 files changed, 68 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 510b75a..90f3290 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -254,6 +254,14 @@ dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of resource exhaustion attacks.</para> + <para>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only) + support for RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature, + enabled with the <literal>TCP_SIGNATURE</literal> and + <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel options, is a TCP option + for authenticating TCP sessions. &man.setkey.8; now includes + support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations. + &merged;</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -307,6 +315,10 @@ print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting the rule body.</para> + <para>A <filename>libarchive</filename> library for manipulation + of compressed and uncompressed archive files has been + added. More details can be found in &man.libarchive.3;.</para> + <para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the &man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a @@ -338,11 +350,18 @@ </note> <para> + <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to + make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than + real, user ids.</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> + <para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon + has been added.</para> + </sect2> <sect2 id="contrib"> @@ -351,6 +370,10 @@ <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para> + <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been + updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004 + release.</para> + <para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application> 1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using @@ -358,6 +381,17 @@ <username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via &man.syslog.3;.</para> + <para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated + with official patches 001 through 005.</para> + + <para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the + base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with + <filename>tar</filename> being a link to + <filename>gtar</filename>.</para> + + <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the + Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</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 510b75a..90f3290 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -254,6 +254,14 @@ dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of resource exhaustion attacks.</para> + <para>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only) + support for RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature, + enabled with the <literal>TCP_SIGNATURE</literal> and + <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel options, is a TCP option + for authenticating TCP sessions. &man.setkey.8; now includes + support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations. + &merged;</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -307,6 +315,10 @@ print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting the rule body.</para> + <para>A <filename>libarchive</filename> library for manipulation + of compressed and uncompressed archive files has been + added. More details can be found in &man.libarchive.3;.</para> + <para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the &man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a @@ -338,11 +350,18 @@ </note> <para> + <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to + make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than + real, user ids.</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> + <para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon + has been added.</para> + </sect2> <sect2 id="contrib"> @@ -351,6 +370,10 @@ <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para> + <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been + updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004 + release.</para> + <para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application> 1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using @@ -358,6 +381,17 @@ <username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via &man.syslog.3;.</para> + <para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated + with official patches 001 through 005.</para> + + <para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the + base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with + <filename>tar</filename> being a link to + <filename>gtar</filename>.</para> + + <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the + Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para> + <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from 3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para> |