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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2004-01-25 06:23:10 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2004-01-25 06:23:10 +0000
commitdf006f07133cbdb3b26ae0e5a7245dc6c3acdab1 (patch)
treef7af8d5aab64afb1238286a55cd132da571b7cc2 /release
parentb6ff09ea29b19ad1d374b4285d5c5ba3e02473d2 (diff)
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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.sgml42
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml42
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>
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