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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-06-30 04:55:46 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-06-30 04:55:46 +0000 |
commit | a4a984e930d5fde871f064cbd9b8cf676fe8800c (patch) | |
tree | d20164cb8828d99c9a7c6fcf22a7784d57ed816b /release | |
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Fix grammar and markup nits, do some wordsmithing.
Approved by: re (blanket relnotes)
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 63886ea..99a21b7 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ <abstract> <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary - of the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.branch; is created. + of the changes made to the &os; base system on the + &release.branch; development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and userland. @@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet</ulink>. &merged;</para> - <para>A information disclosure vulnerability in the + <para>An information disclosure vulnerability in the &man.sendfile.2; system call, which could permit it to transmit random parts of kernel memory, has been fixed. More details are in security advisory @@ -168,12 +169,12 @@ allowed unprivileged local users can send commands to the hardware supported by the &man.iir.4; driver, has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</ulink>. + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</ulink>. &merged;</para> <para>A bug in the validation of &man.i386.get.ldt.2; system call - input arguments, which may allow kernel memory may be disclosed - to the user process, has been fixed. For more information, see + input arguments, which may allow kernel memory to be disclosed + to a user process, has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt</ulink>. &merged;</para> @@ -247,6 +248,8 @@ <informaltable frame="none"> <tgroup cols="2"> + <colspec colwidth="1*"> + <colspec colwidth="3*"> <thead> <row> <entry>Value</entry> @@ -257,22 +260,22 @@ <tbody> <row> <entry>0</entry> - <entry>show all mount-points without any restrictions</entry> + <entry>Show all mount-points without any restrictions.</entry> </row> <row> <entry>1</entry> - <entry>show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the - mount-point's path (if jail's chroot directory is + <entry>Show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the + mount-point's path (for example, if the jail's chroot directory is <filename>/jails/foo</filename> and mount-point is - <filename>/jails/foo/usr/home</filename> - only <filename>/usr/home</filename> will be shown)</entry> + <filename>/jails/foo/usr/home</filename>, + only <filename>/usr/home</filename> will be shown).</entry> </row> <row> <entry>2</entry> - <entry>show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</entry> + <entry>Show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> @@ -390,7 +393,7 @@ <para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command now supports the prompt parameter.</para> - <para>The <command>autoboot</command> will now prevent the user + <para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command will now prevent the user from interrupting the boot process at all if the <varname>autoboot_delay</varname> variable is set to <literal>-1</literal>. &merged;</para> @@ -416,10 +419,8 @@ <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> sysctls to <literal>0</literal>.</para> <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver for IBM laptops - has been added.</para> - - <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver has been - improved to support hotkeys and reading fan status and thermal + has been added. It provides support for the various + hotkeys and reading fan status and thermal sensors.</para> <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.fujitsu.4; driver for handling @@ -431,10 +432,11 @@ <para>The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.atkbd.4;, and &man.psm.4; drivers have been rewritten in more bus-independent way, - and now support EBus found on sparc64 platform.</para> + and now support the EBus found on the sparc64 platform.</para> <para arch="sparc64">The following device drivers have been - added and enabled by default: + added and enabled by default in the + <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel: &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.atkbd.4;, creator(4), @@ -446,7 +448,7 @@ &man.ums.4;, and &man.usb.4;.</para> - <para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive + <para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been added; it supports some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus &ultrasparc; models. &merged;</para> @@ -572,7 +574,7 @@ between this feature and promiscuous mode. &merged;</para> <para>Ethernet flow control is now disabled by default in the - &man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems with a system panics + &man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems on a subnet when a system panics or is left in the kernel debugger. &merged;</para> <para>The gx(4) driver has been removed because @@ -679,8 +681,9 @@ support IPv6.</para> <para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging - of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket, - as well as the TCP data length.</para> + of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket. It is also + possible to specify rules that match TCP packets with specific + payload sizes.</para> <para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports the full packet destination manipulation when the kernel option @@ -692,7 +695,7 @@ Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.ipfw.8; now supports IPv4 only rules.</para> + <para>The &man.ipfw.8; system now supports IPv4 only rules.</para> <para>&man.ipnat.8; now allows redirect rules to work for non-TCP/UDP packets. &merged;</para> @@ -704,7 +707,7 @@ <para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library can now be built as a kernel module.</para> - <para>The link state change notifications of network interface + <para>The link state change notifications of network interfaces are sent to <filename>/dev/devctl</filename> now.</para> <para>A new &man.ng.ipfw.4; NetGraph node provides @@ -946,18 +949,19 @@ &man.getservbyport.3; functions are now thread-safe. &merged;</para> <para>For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 - (also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname> + (also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname> member of <varname>struct netent</varname> and the first argument - of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an uint32_t. - Due to these changes the ABI on 64-bit platforms becomes + of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an <literal>uint32_t</literal>. + Due to these changes, the ABI on 64-bit platforms is incompatible with previous releases of &os; and - the major version number of libpcap has been bumped. - If you upgrade &os; for 64-bit platforms, note that all of - the userland programs which use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;, - &man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3; and/or - <application>libpcap</application> have to be recompiled.</para> - - <para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports + the major version number of the <filename>libpcap</filename> + shared library has been bumped. + On 64-bit platforms being upgraded from older &os; versions, all + userland programs that use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;, + &man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3;, and/or + <filename>libpcap</filename> have to be recompiled.</para> + + <para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports the <command>checkparity</command>, <command>rebuildparity</command>, and <command>setstate</command> @@ -1099,22 +1103,22 @@ <para>The &man.periodic.8; security output now supports the display of information about blocked packet counts from &man.pf.4;. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; now supports an <option>-S</option> option - which allows to match system processes (kernel threads).</para> + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; command now supports a <option>-S</option> option + which allows matching system processes (kernel threads).</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an - <option>-F</option> option which allows to use file where PID is stored - for matching.</para> + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a + <option>-F</option> option, which matches a process whose PID is + stored in a file.</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a <option>-i</option> option to ignore case in the process match.</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an - <option>-j</option> option which allows to match processes - based on its &man.jail.2; ID.</para> + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a + <option>-j</option> option that matches processes + based on their &man.jail.2; ID.</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an - <option>-o</option> option which allows to match oldest + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a + <option>-o</option> option which matches only the oldest (least recently started) of the matching processes.</para> <para>The &man.powerd.8; program for managing power consumption has been @@ -1137,11 +1141,11 @@ which violates the Microsoft PPP Callback Control Protocol section 3.2. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.ps.1; now supports a <literal>jid</literal> - keyword in the <option>-o</option> option. It displays + <para>The &man.ps.1; utility now supports a <literal>jid</literal> + keyword in the <option>-o</option> option. It displays the &man.jail.2; ID of each process.</para> - <para>The &man.pstat.8; now supports a <option>-h</option> option + <para>The &man.pstat.8; program now supports a <option>-h</option> option to print swap sizes with SI prefixes such as K, M, and G, which are used to form binary multiples.</para> @@ -1158,7 +1162,7 @@ <para>The &man.rexecd.8; utility has been removed. There are no rexec clients in the &os; tree, and the client function &man.rexec.3; is present only in - <application>libcompat</application>.</para> + <filename>libcompat</filename>.</para> <para>The &man.rm.1; utility now supports an <option>-I</option> option that asks for confirmation (once) if recursively @@ -1239,7 +1243,7 @@ connection, has been added. It was obtained from OpenBSD. &merged;</para> - <para>&man.what.1; now support a <option>-q</option> flag, which + <para>&man.what.1; now supports a <option>-q</option> flag, which causes it to print matching text, but not format it.</para> <para>&man.whois.1; now supports @@ -1344,7 +1348,8 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> to 1.0.3.</para> <para><application>OpenBSD dhclient</application> as of OpenBSD 3.7 - has been imported.</para> + has been imported. It replaces the ISC DHCP client used in + prior versions of &os;.</para> <para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.10 to 4.12.</para> @@ -1417,7 +1422,7 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4. It now supports <literal>OSTYPE(freebsd6)</literal>.</para> - <para><application>TCPDUMP</application> has been updated from + <para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from v3.8.3 to v3.9.1 (alpha 096).</para> <para><application>tcsh</application> has been updated from @@ -1504,7 +1509,7 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> <para>The supported version of the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment has been - updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10. More information about + updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10.1. More information about running <application>GNOME</application> on &os; can be found on the <ulink url="&url.base;/gnome/">FreeBSD GNOME Project</ulink> Web page. &merged; 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 63886ea..99a21b7 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ <abstract> <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary - of the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.branch; is created. + of the changes made to the &os; base system on the + &release.branch; development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and userland. @@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet</ulink>. &merged;</para> - <para>A information disclosure vulnerability in the + <para>An information disclosure vulnerability in the &man.sendfile.2; system call, which could permit it to transmit random parts of kernel memory, has been fixed. More details are in security advisory @@ -168,12 +169,12 @@ allowed unprivileged local users can send commands to the hardware supported by the &man.iir.4; driver, has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</ulink>. + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</ulink>. &merged;</para> <para>A bug in the validation of &man.i386.get.ldt.2; system call - input arguments, which may allow kernel memory may be disclosed - to the user process, has been fixed. For more information, see + input arguments, which may allow kernel memory to be disclosed + to a user process, has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt</ulink>. &merged;</para> @@ -247,6 +248,8 @@ <informaltable frame="none"> <tgroup cols="2"> + <colspec colwidth="1*"> + <colspec colwidth="3*"> <thead> <row> <entry>Value</entry> @@ -257,22 +260,22 @@ <tbody> <row> <entry>0</entry> - <entry>show all mount-points without any restrictions</entry> + <entry>Show all mount-points without any restrictions.</entry> </row> <row> <entry>1</entry> - <entry>show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the - mount-point's path (if jail's chroot directory is + <entry>Show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the + mount-point's path (for example, if the jail's chroot directory is <filename>/jails/foo</filename> and mount-point is - <filename>/jails/foo/usr/home</filename> - only <filename>/usr/home</filename> will be shown)</entry> + <filename>/jails/foo/usr/home</filename>, + only <filename>/usr/home</filename> will be shown).</entry> </row> <row> <entry>2</entry> - <entry>show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</entry> + <entry>Show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> @@ -390,7 +393,7 @@ <para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command now supports the prompt parameter.</para> - <para>The <command>autoboot</command> will now prevent the user + <para>The <command>autoboot</command> loader command will now prevent the user from interrupting the boot process at all if the <varname>autoboot_delay</varname> variable is set to <literal>-1</literal>. &merged;</para> @@ -416,10 +419,8 @@ <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> sysctls to <literal>0</literal>.</para> <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver for IBM laptops - has been added.</para> - - <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver has been - improved to support hotkeys and reading fan status and thermal + has been added. It provides support for the various + hotkeys and reading fan status and thermal sensors.</para> <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.acpi.fujitsu.4; driver for handling @@ -431,10 +432,11 @@ <para>The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.atkbd.4;, and &man.psm.4; drivers have been rewritten in more bus-independent way, - and now support EBus found on sparc64 platform.</para> + and now support the EBus found on the sparc64 platform.</para> <para arch="sparc64">The following device drivers have been - added and enabled by default: + added and enabled by default in the + <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel: &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.atkbd.4;, creator(4), @@ -446,7 +448,7 @@ &man.ums.4;, and &man.usb.4;.</para> - <para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive + <para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been added; it supports some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus &ultrasparc; models. &merged;</para> @@ -572,7 +574,7 @@ between this feature and promiscuous mode. &merged;</para> <para>Ethernet flow control is now disabled by default in the - &man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems with a system panics + &man.fxp.4; driver, to prevent problems on a subnet when a system panics or is left in the kernel debugger. &merged;</para> <para>The gx(4) driver has been removed because @@ -679,8 +681,9 @@ support IPv6.</para> <para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging - of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket, - as well as the TCP data length.</para> + of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket. It is also + possible to specify rules that match TCP packets with specific + payload sizes.</para> <para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports the full packet destination manipulation when the kernel option @@ -692,7 +695,7 @@ Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.ipfw.8; now supports IPv4 only rules.</para> + <para>The &man.ipfw.8; system now supports IPv4 only rules.</para> <para>&man.ipnat.8; now allows redirect rules to work for non-TCP/UDP packets. &merged;</para> @@ -704,7 +707,7 @@ <para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library can now be built as a kernel module.</para> - <para>The link state change notifications of network interface + <para>The link state change notifications of network interfaces are sent to <filename>/dev/devctl</filename> now.</para> <para>A new &man.ng.ipfw.4; NetGraph node provides @@ -946,18 +949,19 @@ &man.getservbyport.3; functions are now thread-safe. &merged;</para> <para>For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 - (also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname> + (also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname> member of <varname>struct netent</varname> and the first argument - of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an uint32_t. - Due to these changes the ABI on 64-bit platforms becomes + of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an <literal>uint32_t</literal>. + Due to these changes, the ABI on 64-bit platforms is incompatible with previous releases of &os; and - the major version number of libpcap has been bumped. - If you upgrade &os; for 64-bit platforms, note that all of - the userland programs which use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;, - &man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3; and/or - <application>libpcap</application> have to be recompiled.</para> - - <para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports + the major version number of the <filename>libpcap</filename> + shared library has been bumped. + On 64-bit platforms being upgraded from older &os; versions, all + userland programs that use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;, + &man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3;, and/or + <filename>libpcap</filename> have to be recompiled.</para> + + <para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports the <command>checkparity</command>, <command>rebuildparity</command>, and <command>setstate</command> @@ -1099,22 +1103,22 @@ <para>The &man.periodic.8; security output now supports the display of information about blocked packet counts from &man.pf.4;. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; now supports an <option>-S</option> option - which allows to match system processes (kernel threads).</para> + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; command now supports a <option>-S</option> option + which allows matching system processes (kernel threads).</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an - <option>-F</option> option which allows to use file where PID is stored - for matching.</para> + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a + <option>-F</option> option, which matches a process whose PID is + stored in a file.</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a <option>-i</option> option to ignore case in the process match.</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an - <option>-j</option> option which allows to match processes - based on its &man.jail.2; ID.</para> + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a + <option>-j</option> option that matches processes + based on their &man.jail.2; ID.</para> - <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; now support an - <option>-o</option> option which allows to match oldest + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands now support a + <option>-o</option> option which matches only the oldest (least recently started) of the matching processes.</para> <para>The &man.powerd.8; program for managing power consumption has been @@ -1137,11 +1141,11 @@ which violates the Microsoft PPP Callback Control Protocol section 3.2. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.ps.1; now supports a <literal>jid</literal> - keyword in the <option>-o</option> option. It displays + <para>The &man.ps.1; utility now supports a <literal>jid</literal> + keyword in the <option>-o</option> option. It displays the &man.jail.2; ID of each process.</para> - <para>The &man.pstat.8; now supports a <option>-h</option> option + <para>The &man.pstat.8; program now supports a <option>-h</option> option to print swap sizes with SI prefixes such as K, M, and G, which are used to form binary multiples.</para> @@ -1158,7 +1162,7 @@ <para>The &man.rexecd.8; utility has been removed. There are no rexec clients in the &os; tree, and the client function &man.rexec.3; is present only in - <application>libcompat</application>.</para> + <filename>libcompat</filename>.</para> <para>The &man.rm.1; utility now supports an <option>-I</option> option that asks for confirmation (once) if recursively @@ -1239,7 +1243,7 @@ connection, has been added. It was obtained from OpenBSD. &merged;</para> - <para>&man.what.1; now support a <option>-q</option> flag, which + <para>&man.what.1; now supports a <option>-q</option> flag, which causes it to print matching text, but not format it.</para> <para>&man.whois.1; now supports @@ -1344,7 +1348,8 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> to 1.0.3.</para> <para><application>OpenBSD dhclient</application> as of OpenBSD 3.7 - has been imported.</para> + has been imported. It replaces the ISC DHCP client used in + prior versions of &os;.</para> <para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.10 to 4.12.</para> @@ -1417,7 +1422,7 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4. It now supports <literal>OSTYPE(freebsd6)</literal>.</para> - <para><application>TCPDUMP</application> has been updated from + <para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from v3.8.3 to v3.9.1 (alpha 096).</para> <para><application>tcsh</application> has been updated from @@ -1504,7 +1509,7 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> <para>The supported version of the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment has been - updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10. More information about + updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10.1. More information about running <application>GNOME</application> on &os; can be found on the <ulink url="&url.base;/gnome/">FreeBSD GNOME Project</ulink> Web page. &merged; |