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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 f99a3b9..2ab38e7 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -493,6 +493,8 @@ <para>The &man.dc.4; driver now supports NICs based on the Xircom 3201 and Conexant LANfinity RS7112 chips.</para> + <para>The &man.dc.4; driver now has support for VLANs.</para> + <para>The &man.de.4; driver now performs round-robin arbitration between the transmit and receive units of the 21143, instead of giving priority to the receive unit. This gives a 10–15% @@ -1940,6 +1942,16 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral manner. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.man.1; is no longer installed SUID + <username>man</username>, in order to reduce vulnerabilities + associated with generating <quote>catpages</quote> (preformatted + manual pages cached for repeated viewing). As a result, + &man.man.1; can no longer create system catpages on a regular + user's behalf. It is still able to do so if the user has write + permissions to the directory holding catpages (e.g. a user's own + manpages) or if the running user is + <username>root</username>.</para> + <para>The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and &man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the @@ -2017,6 +2029,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para><application>PAM</application> support has been added for account management and sessions.</para> + <para><application>PAM</application> configuration is now + specified by files in <filename>/etc/pam.d/</filename>, rather + than a single <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> file. + <filename>/etc/pam.d/README</filename> has more details.</para> + <para>&man.passwd.1; and &man.pw.8; now select the password hash algorithm at run time. See the <literal>passwd_format</literal> attribute in <filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>. &merged;</para> |