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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index be2466d..b987fed 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> %release; +<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" "sponsor.ent"> + %sponsor; +<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" "vendor.ent"> + %vendor; ]> <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> @@ -104,28 +108,63 @@ <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para revision="263754">The &man.sysctl.8; - <literal>hw.bus.devctl_disable</literal> has been - removed.</para> + <para revision="260888">The <filename>VT</filename> kernel + configuration file has been added, which enables the new + <literal>vt</literal> console driver.</para> <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to &man.uhso.4;.</para> - <para revision="260888">The <filename>VT</filename> kernel - configuration file has been added, which enables the new - <literal>vt</literal> console driver.</para> + <para revision="264601" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> + device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G + Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> + + <note> + <para>The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> driver operates on + the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host interface.</para> + </note> + + <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added, + and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed. + Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided only + the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device, returning + <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As this device is + not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version has been + added.</para> + + <para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4; + device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT + 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers.</para> + + <para revision="265555" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&lsi;">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, + providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The + &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. + To enable &man.mrsas.4; add + <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to + <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off + &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> + + <note> + <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and + the &os; version of + <application>MegaCLI</application> and + <application>StorCli</application> do not work with + &man.mrsas.4;.</para> + </note> <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> <title>Virtualization support</title> - <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has - been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para> - - <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to - &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para> - - <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to - &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para> + <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt + Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if + supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running + <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>. + Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add + <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to + <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> <para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU. This @@ -135,13 +174,14 @@ <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> - <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt - Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if - supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running - <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>. - Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add - <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to - <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> + <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to + &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para> + + <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to + &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para> + + <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has + been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para> </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> @@ -169,22 +209,26 @@ <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel; - Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 devices has been added - to the base system.</para> + <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets + BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has + been added to &man.bge.4;.</para> <para revision="260448">Support for the &intel; Centrino™ Wireless-N 135 chipset has been added.</para> - <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets - BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has - been added to &man.bge.4;.</para> + <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel; + Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 devices has been added + to the base system.</para> <para revision="261975">The deprecated nve(4) driver has been removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters are advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which has been the default driver for this hardware since &os; 7.0.</para> + + <para revision="265348" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&netgate;">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been + updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para> </sect4> </sect3> @@ -218,14 +262,15 @@ <sect2 xml:id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> - <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI devices - via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para> + <para revision="258838" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;, &google;" + sponsorurl="">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been added, + which provides access to functionality that is not available in + the <quote>capability mode</quote> sandbox.</para> - <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has - been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the - system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the - device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent - to <literal>off</literal>.</para> + <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with + &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of + &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output + <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para> <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by their @@ -234,14 +279,14 @@ to restrict the output to only listing details about a single device.</para> - <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with - &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of - &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output - <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para> + <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has + been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the + system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the + device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent + to <literal>off</literal>.</para> - <para revision="258838">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been added, - which provides access to functionality that is not available in - the <quote>capability mode</quote> sandbox.</para> + <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI devices + via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para> <para revision="261498">&man.ping.8; protects against malicious network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop @@ -250,6 +295,17 @@ <para revision="261504">&os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under bhyve.</para> + <para revision="265229">The &man.ps.1; utility has been + updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to + filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. + Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to + <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the + host system.</para> + + <para revision="265249">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated + to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the + &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> + <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> @@ -260,14 +316,15 @@ <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to version - 20140101.</para> + <para revision="258884" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">&man.lldb.1; has been updated to upstream + snapshot version r196259.</para> <para revision="259626">Timezone data files have been updated to version 2013i.</para> - <para revision="258884">&man.lldb.1; has been updated to upstream - snapshot version r196259.</para> + <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to version + 20140101.</para> <para revision="261037"><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated to version 1.0.1.f.</para> @@ -275,11 +332,8 @@ <para revision="261071">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to version 3.5.0.</para> - <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been - updated from 8.14.7 to 8.14.8.</para> - - <para revision="261320"><application>OpenSSH</application> has - been updated to 6.5p1.</para> + <para revision="261197" role="merged"><application>Sendmail</application> + has been updated from 8.14.7 to 8.14.8.</para> <para revision="261212"><application>bmake</application> has been updated to version 20140101.</para> @@ -287,6 +341,9 @@ <para revision="261283"><application>libc++</application> has been updated to version 3.4.</para> + <para revision="261320"><application>OpenSSH</application> has + been updated to 6.5p1.</para> + <para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has been updated to version 1.12.3.</para> |
