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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 08000f6e..face1a3 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -132,7 +132,17 @@ breakage and lack of maintainership.</para> <para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. For the average user, + interactivity is reported to be better in many cases. This + means less <quote>skipping</quote> and <quote>jerking</quote> in + interactive applications while the machine is very busy. This + will not prevent problems due to overloaded disk subsystems, but + it does help with overloaded CPUs. On SMP machines, ULE has + per-CPU run queues which allow for CPU affinity, CPU binding, + and advanced HyperThreading support, as well as providing a + framework for more optimizations in the future. As fine-grained + kernel locking continues, the scheduler will be able to make + more efficient use of the available parallel resources.</para> <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> @@ -236,6 +246,14 @@ when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only server.</para> + <para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing, + which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is + required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their + default configuration. As signing each message imposes a + significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled + if the server requires it; this may eventually become an + option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="mm"> @@ -275,7 +293,9 @@ <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> + versions. One side effect of this update is that running + pserver as <username>root</username> (a configuration that was + already unsupported and insecure) no longer works.</para> <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from 3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para> |
