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authorhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2005-10-31 16:52:11 +0000
committerhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2005-10-31 16:52:11 +0000
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New release notes:
hw.pci.do_powerstate change, FreeBSD/ia64 SMP support, a kernel config for MAC added, tnt4882(4) driver added, agp(4) now supports ATI IGP chipsets, re(4): D-Link DGE-528(T) Gigabit Ethernet card support, aac(4): Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID controller support, ata(4): ITE IT8211F, PDC40718, and PDC40719 support, hptmv(4) update: amd64 and PAE support, gpt(8) GPT partition label support, kenv(1) and sysctl(8) -q flag added, libedit updated, rpcgen(1) now generate ANSI C code instead of K&R style, and OpenSSH 4.0p1->4.2p1. Update release notes: Fix an entry about ifconfig_<ifn> NOAUTO keyword.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml60
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml60
2 files changed, 114 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 ff4c02c..ed83bd0 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -127,6 +127,23 @@
has been added. This allows to export &man.uma.9; allocator
statistics via a binary structure stream.</para>
+ <para>The sysctl variable <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname>
+ has been changed from a boolean to a range.
+ <literal>0</literal> means no power management,
+ <literal>1</literal> means conservative power management which
+ any device class that has caused problems is added to the watch list,
+ <literal>2</literal> means aggressive power management where
+ any device class that is not fundamental to the system is added to the list,
+ and <literal>3</literal> means power them all down unconditionally.
+ The default is <literal>1</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para arch="ia64">The <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel now enables
+ SMP support by default.</para>
+
+ <para>Sample kernel configuration files
+ <filename>src/sys/<replaceable>arch</replaceable>/conf/MAC</filename>
+ for the Mandatory Access Control framework have been added.</para>
+
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
@@ -168,6 +185,9 @@
<para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been
added.</para>
+ <para>The tnt4882(4) driver which supports National Instruments
+ PCI-GPIB card has been added.</para>
+
<para arch="i386">A new loader tunable
<varname>hw.apic.enable_extint</varname> has been added.
This tunable can be used not to mask the ExtINT pin on the first
@@ -178,6 +198,8 @@
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
+ <para>The &man.agp.4; driver now supports ATI IGP chipsets.</para>
+
<para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports
wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice,
and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion.</para>
@@ -207,6 +229,9 @@
<para>The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.re.4; driver now supports D-Link DGE-528(T)
+ Gigabit Ethernet card.</para>
+
<para>The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
@@ -274,11 +299,18 @@
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <para>The &man.aac.4; driver now supports the Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID
+ controller in some Hewlett-Packard machines.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a workaround
for some controllers whose DMA does not work properly
in 48bit mode. For the suspicious controllers
the PIO mode will be used for access to over 137GB areas.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the ITE IT8211F IDE controller,
+ and Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise
+ Fasttrak TX4300.</para>
+
<para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
and mainly for performance testing.
@@ -289,6 +321,9 @@
<para>The <literal>GEOM_LABEL</literal> class now supports
Ext2FS and ReiserFS.</para>
+ <para>The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated and now supports
+ amd64 as well as PAE.</para>
+
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support
various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member
state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization
@@ -342,6 +377,8 @@
flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the
file that the link points to.</para>
+ <para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports
a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing
potentially sensitive keying material to standard output.
@@ -356,6 +393,12 @@
argument still is supported for backward compatibility, but now
it is deprecated and its use is discouraged.</para>
+ <para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
+ flag to suppress warnings.</para>
+
+ <para>The <application>libedit</application> library has been
+ updated from the NetBSD source tree as of August 2005.</para>
+
<para>The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added.
This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications
in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an
@@ -395,6 +438,12 @@
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a
<option>-P</option> option which allows to specify pidfile.</para>
+ <para>The &man.rpcgen.1; utility now generates headers and stub files
+ which can be used with ANSI C compilers by default.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
+ flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para>
+
<para>The shared library version number of all libraries have
been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries
include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc,
@@ -426,9 +475,11 @@
<para>The <varname>removable_interfaces</varname> variable
has been removed.</para>
- <para>A new variable <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname>
- has been added. This allows
- <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename>
+ <para>A new keyword <literal>NOAUTO</literal> in
+ <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname>
+ has been added. This prevents configuration of an interface
+ at boot time or via <filename>/etc/pccard_ether</filename>,
+ and allows <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename>
to be used to start and stop an interface
on a purely manual basis.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -440,6 +491,9 @@
<para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated
to v0.9.1 (release).</para>
+ <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
+ version 4.0p1 to version 4.2p1.</para>
+
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4.</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 ff4c02c..ed83bd0 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -127,6 +127,23 @@
has been added. This allows to export &man.uma.9; allocator
statistics via a binary structure stream.</para>
+ <para>The sysctl variable <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname>
+ has been changed from a boolean to a range.
+ <literal>0</literal> means no power management,
+ <literal>1</literal> means conservative power management which
+ any device class that has caused problems is added to the watch list,
+ <literal>2</literal> means aggressive power management where
+ any device class that is not fundamental to the system is added to the list,
+ and <literal>3</literal> means power them all down unconditionally.
+ The default is <literal>1</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para arch="ia64">The <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel now enables
+ SMP support by default.</para>
+
+ <para>Sample kernel configuration files
+ <filename>src/sys/<replaceable>arch</replaceable>/conf/MAC</filename>
+ for the Mandatory Access Control framework have been added.</para>
+
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
@@ -168,6 +185,9 @@
<para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been
added.</para>
+ <para>The tnt4882(4) driver which supports National Instruments
+ PCI-GPIB card has been added.</para>
+
<para arch="i386">A new loader tunable
<varname>hw.apic.enable_extint</varname> has been added.
This tunable can be used not to mask the ExtINT pin on the first
@@ -178,6 +198,8 @@
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
+ <para>The &man.agp.4; driver now supports ATI IGP chipsets.</para>
+
<para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports
wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice,
and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion.</para>
@@ -207,6 +229,9 @@
<para>The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.re.4; driver now supports D-Link DGE-528(T)
+ Gigabit Ethernet card.</para>
+
<para>The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
@@ -274,11 +299,18 @@
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <para>The &man.aac.4; driver now supports the Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID
+ controller in some Hewlett-Packard machines.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a workaround
for some controllers whose DMA does not work properly
in 48bit mode. For the suspicious controllers
the PIO mode will be used for access to over 137GB areas.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the ITE IT8211F IDE controller,
+ and Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise
+ Fasttrak TX4300.</para>
+
<para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
and mainly for performance testing.
@@ -289,6 +321,9 @@
<para>The <literal>GEOM_LABEL</literal> class now supports
Ext2FS and ReiserFS.</para>
+ <para>The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated and now supports
+ amd64 as well as PAE.</para>
+
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support
various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member
state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization
@@ -342,6 +377,8 @@
flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the
file that the link points to.</para>
+ <para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports
a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing
potentially sensitive keying material to standard output.
@@ -356,6 +393,12 @@
argument still is supported for backward compatibility, but now
it is deprecated and its use is discouraged.</para>
+ <para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
+ flag to suppress warnings.</para>
+
+ <para>The <application>libedit</application> library has been
+ updated from the NetBSD source tree as of August 2005.</para>
+
<para>The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added.
This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications
in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an
@@ -395,6 +438,12 @@
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a
<option>-P</option> option which allows to specify pidfile.</para>
+ <para>The &man.rpcgen.1; utility now generates headers and stub files
+ which can be used with ANSI C compilers by default.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
+ flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para>
+
<para>The shared library version number of all libraries have
been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries
include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc,
@@ -426,9 +475,11 @@
<para>The <varname>removable_interfaces</varname> variable
has been removed.</para>
- <para>A new variable <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname>
- has been added. This allows
- <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename>
+ <para>A new keyword <literal>NOAUTO</literal> in
+ <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname>
+ has been added. This prevents configuration of an interface
+ at boot time or via <filename>/etc/pccard_ether</filename>,
+ and allows <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename>
to be used to start and stop an interface
on a purely manual basis.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -440,6 +491,9 @@
<para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated
to v0.9.1 (release).</para>
+ <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
+ version 4.0p1 to version 4.2p1.</para>
+
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4.</para>
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