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| -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 |
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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 78c76fa..42c18bc 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket to a remote host.</para> + <para>Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel + option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel). + It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in + functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para> + <para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> @@ -513,6 +518,14 @@ <para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been added.</para> + <para>&os; now has preliminary support for the Sun Microsystems + UltraSPARC-T1 archicture. &os;/sun4v has been demonstrated + to run on the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers. + More information can be found on the + <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sun4v.html">sun4v + Project</ulink> + page.</para> + <para>The tnt4882(4) driver, which supports the National Instruments PCI-GPIB card, has been added.</para> @@ -888,10 +901,17 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> userland implementation of <quote>The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)</quote> found in RFC 3682.</para> + <para>The kernel &man.ppp.4; driver now supports IPv6.</para> + <para>Stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4. This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable <varname>net.inet6.ip6.stealth</varname>.</para> + <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> + <para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option now works for UDP.</para> @@ -903,6 +923,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> <varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.rttthresh</varname> specifies the threshold in milliseconds below which this feature will disengage. It defaults to 10ms. &merged;</para> + + <para>The &os; network stack now has support for TCP + Segmentation Offload (TSO). TSO reduces the overhead of + sending bulk TCP data by allowing a network interface to + convert a large data transfer into multiple TCP segments to be + sent on the network. This functionality can be enabled or + disabled on a per-interface basis with + the <literal>tso</literal> and <literal>-tso</literal> flags + to &man.ifconfig.8;. Network interfaces and drivers + supporting TSO currently include &man.em.4; and + &man.mxge.4;.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -1675,7 +1707,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> NetBSD as of 31 August 2006. &merged;</para> <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from - 4.2p1 to 4.4p1. &merged;</para> + 4.2p1 to 4.5p1. &merged;</para> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from 0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.</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 78c76fa..42c18bc 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket to a remote host.</para> + <para>Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel + option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel). + It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in + functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para> + <para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> @@ -513,6 +518,14 @@ <para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been added.</para> + <para>&os; now has preliminary support for the Sun Microsystems + UltraSPARC-T1 archicture. &os;/sun4v has been demonstrated + to run on the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers. + More information can be found on the + <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sun4v.html">sun4v + Project</ulink> + page.</para> + <para>The tnt4882(4) driver, which supports the National Instruments PCI-GPIB card, has been added.</para> @@ -888,10 +901,17 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> userland implementation of <quote>The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)</quote> found in RFC 3682.</para> + <para>The kernel &man.ppp.4; driver now supports IPv6.</para> + <para>Stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4. This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable <varname>net.inet6.ip6.stealth</varname>.</para> + <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> + <para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option now works for UDP.</para> @@ -903,6 +923,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> <varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.rttthresh</varname> specifies the threshold in milliseconds below which this feature will disengage. It defaults to 10ms. &merged;</para> + + <para>The &os; network stack now has support for TCP + Segmentation Offload (TSO). TSO reduces the overhead of + sending bulk TCP data by allowing a network interface to + convert a large data transfer into multiple TCP segments to be + sent on the network. This functionality can be enabled or + disabled on a per-interface basis with + the <literal>tso</literal> and <literal>-tso</literal> flags + to &man.ifconfig.8;. Network interfaces and drivers + supporting TSO currently include &man.em.4; and + &man.mxge.4;.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -1675,7 +1707,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> NetBSD as of 31 August 2006. &merged;</para> <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from - 4.2p1 to 4.4p1. &merged;</para> + 4.2p1 to 4.5p1. &merged;</para> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from 0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.</para> |
