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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 2590b26..4a7fb84 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -116,191 +116,21 @@ <sect2 id="security"> <title>Security Advisories</title> - <para>A single-byte buffer overflow in &man.realpath.3; was - fixed. Although the fix was committed prior to &os; - &release.prev; (and thus &release.prev; was not affected), - it was not noted in the release documentation. See security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:08</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug that could allow the kernel to attempt delivery of - invalid signals has been fixed. The bug could have led to a - kernel panic or, under some circumstances, unauthorized - modification of kernel memory. For more information, see - security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:09.signal.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:09</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug in the iBCS2 emulation module, which could result in - disclosing the contents of kernel memory, has been fixed. This - module is not enabled in &os; by default. For more information, - see security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:10.ibcs2.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:10</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A buffer management bug in - <application>OpenSSH</application>, which could potentially - cause a crash, has been fixed. More information can be found in - security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:12</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A buffer overflow in <application>sendmail</application> has - been fixed. More information can be found in security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:13.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:13</ulink>. - &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug that could allow the kernel to cause resource starvation - which eventually results in a system panic in the ARP cache code - has been fixed. More information can be found in security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:14.arp.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:14</ulink>. - &merged;</para> - - <para>Several errors in the <application>OpenSSH</application> PAM - challenge/response authentication subsystem have been fixed. The impacts - of these bugs vary; details can be found in security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:15.openssh.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:15</ulink>. - &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5;, which could result in - disclosing the contents of kernel memory, has been fixed. - More information can be found in security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:17</ulink>. - &merged;</para> - - <para>Four separate security flaws in <application>OpenSSL</application>, - which could allow a remote attacker to crash an - <application>OpenSSL</application>-using application or - to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application, - have been fixed. - More information can be found in security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:18</ulink>. &merged;</para> - - <para>A potential denial of service in - <application>BIND</application> has been fixed. For more - information, see security advisory - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:19.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:19</ulink>. &merged;</para> + <para></para> </sect2> <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para arch="i386,ia64,amd64">The &man.acpi.4; driver's CPU - component now supports idle states C1-C3 for both single and SMP - systems, providing power/heat savings when the processor is - idle, according to ACPI 2.0. Additionally, the throttling - support has been updated to ACPI 2.0.</para> - - <para arch="i386">A bug that caused - &man.atkbd.4; to register an AT keyboard during console initialization, - even when no AT keyboard was connected, - has been fixed. <command>kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1</command> - is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected. - &merged;</para> - - <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx-Sigma - serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this - update, the cxconfig userland configuration utility has been - replaced by a newer &man.sconfig.8; utility.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98">The DRM kernel modules have been updated from - DRI CVS as of 12 November 2003. Among other changes, this - change includes a newly-ported SiS 300/305/540/630/730 - driver and mostly-complete SMPng locking.</para> - - <para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has - been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be - accessed over FireWire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A - &man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4; - devices.</para> - - <para>A multi-byte character set conversion method is now supported - by the <literal>LIBICONV</literal> kernel option.</para> - - <para arch="sparc64">A new OFW PCI framework, conditional on the - <literal>OFW_NEWPCI</literal> kernel configuration option, has - been added. This addition improves the handling of PCI busses. - One user-visible change is that the enumeration of devices is - closer to &solaris; (as a result of this change, the numbering - of devices may change if more than one unit of a device type is - present). The <literal>OFW_NEWPCI</literal> kernel - configuration is enabled by default in the - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.hifn.4; driver now supports - symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets. - &merged;</para> - - <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4; - PCI Universal Communications driver now supports - connecting parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added - to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators. - &merged; - - <warning> - <para>This driver should be considered experimental and - and should be used with some caution.</para> - </warning> - - <note> - <para>The public key support is not implemented.</para> - </note></para> - - <para arch="sparc64">The &man.syscons.4; driver now has support - for &os;/sparc64. Installation on the system console should now - be supported, and systems with Creator3D graphics cards - (e.g. Ultra 30) can now run - <application>XFree86</application>.</para> - - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various - classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) - devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but - supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary - to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as - ia64 and sparc64.</para> - - <para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented. - For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and - &man.watchdogd.8;.</para> + <para></para> <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> - <para>The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible - changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width - striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O - throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number - of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads.</para> - <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title> - <para arch="i386">Large changes have been made to the i386 - machine-dependent code to improve interrupt routing and - handling, as well as SMP support. Two major user-visible - changes are that SMP kernels can run on UP systems and that - SMP functionality is now enabled by default in the - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. Also, the - <literal>options APIC_IO</literal> kernel option has been - replaced by <literal>device apic</literal>.</para> - - <para arch="pc98">Large changes have been made to the i386 - machine-dependent code to improve interrupt routing and - handling.</para> - - <para arch="i386">An integer overflow that could cause kernel - panics on PAE machines of certain large memory sizes has been - corrected.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98">Floating point emulation in the kernel has - been removed.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98">Problems with some Pentium 4 CPUs and some older - Pentium Pro and Pentium II CPUs have been worked around. - Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or - unexplained crashes.</para> - - <para arch="i386">Logical CPUs (with HyperThreading) are - now enabled according to BIOS settings (previously, they were - disabled by default and had to be enabled explicitly).</para> + <para></para> </sect3> @@ -316,284 +146,28 @@ <sect3 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para>The new &man.ath.4; and &man.ath.hal.4; drivers provide - support for 802.11a/b/g devices based on the AR5210, AR5211, - and AR5212 chips.</para> - - <para>The &man.bfe.4; driver has been added to support Broadcom - BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters.</para> - - <para>&man.bge.4; now supports Broadcom 5705 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs. - &merged;</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that prevented it from - working correctly at 10 Mbps has been fixed.</para> - - <para>The &man.em.4; driver now has support for tuning - the interrupt delays using sysctl tunables - without recompiling the driver.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added. - This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP, - which attaches to all NetGraph ATM interface in the - system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack - for each of these interfaces.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.hatm.4; driver has been added - to support Fore/Marconi HE155 and HE622 ATM cards.</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.patm.4; driver has been added to - support IDT77252 based ATM interfaces.</para> - - <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been added. It provides support - for the RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S PCI - Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet controllers.</para> - - <para>&man.sk.4; now supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit - Ethernet NICs. &merged;</para> - - <para>A new &man.utopia.4; driver supports 25MBit/sec, - 155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration, - status and statistics reporting for the most commonly use - ATM-PHY chips.</para> - - <para>The suspend/resume support for the &man.wi.4; driver - now works correctly when the device is configured down. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.wi.4; driver should once again work correctly - with Lucent 802.11b interfaces.</para> - - <para>The 802.11 support layer has been rewritten to allow for - future growth and new features.</para> - - <para>The &man.xe.4; driver now supports CE2, CEM28, - and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagrams. Also several - bugs in the driver have been fixed.</para> - - <para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt - handlers marked as MPSAFE, meaning they can run without - the Giant lock. Among the drivers so converted are: - &man.ath.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.ep.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.sn.4;, - &man.wi.4;, and &man.sis.4;.</para> + <para></para> </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para>The <literal>ip_flow</literal> feature in the IPv4 protocol - implementation has been replaced by the - <literal>ip_fastforward</literal> feature. - <literal>ip_fastforward</literal> attempts to speed up simple - cases of packet forwarding, processing a forwarded packet to - an outgoing interface without queues or netisrs. If it cannot - handle a particular packet, it passes that packet to the normal - <literal>ip_input</literal> routines for processing. This - feature can be enabled by setting the - <varname>net.inet.ip.fastforwarding</varname> sysctl variable - to <literal>1</literal>. - - <para>The <literal>IP_ONESBCAST</literal> option has been added - to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to - specific network interfaces.</para> - - <para>Enabling the <literal>options IPFILTER</literal> feature - also requires enabling <literal>options - PFIL_HOOKS</literal>.</para> - - <para>A bug in &man.ipfw.4; limit rule processing that could - cause various panics has been fixed. - &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support comma-separated address lists - (such as <literal>1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8/30, 9.10.11.12/22</literal>), - and allow spaces after commas to make lists of addresses more readable. - &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support C++-style comments. - Each comment is stored together with its rule and appears using - the &man.ipfw.8; <literal>show</literal> command. - &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.ipfw.8; can now modify &man.ipfw.4; rules in set 31, - which was read-only and used for the default rules. - They can be deleted by <command>ipfw delete set 31</command> - command but are not deleted - by the <command>ipfw flush</command> command. - This implements a flexible form of <quote>persistent - rules</quote>. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;. - &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added. - It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one - to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware.</para> - - <para>Kernel support has been added for Protocol Independent - Multicast routing (&man.pim.4;). &merged;</para> - - <para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have - an <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is - being done.</para> - - <para>The &os; Bluetooth protocol stack has been updated:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><application>libsdp</application> has been re-implemented - under a BSD style license. This is because the Linux BlueZ code is - distributed under the GPL.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The &man.hccontrol.8; utility now supports four new commands: - Read/Write_Page_Scan_Mode and Read/Write_Page_Scan_Period_Mode.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The &man.hcsecd.8; daemon now stores link keys on a disk. - It is no longer required to pair devices every time.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>A NetGraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and - &man.ng.l2cap.4; kernel modules, which could cause - access to a data structure that was already freed, - has been fixed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The &man.ng.ubt.4; module, which cannot be build on - &os; &release.prev;, has been fixed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>&man.rfcomm.sppd.1; and &man.rfcomm.pppd.8; now support - to query the RFCOMM channel via SDP from the server. Specifying - the RFCOMM channel manually, this behavior can be disabled and - these utilities will not use SDP query.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The &man.sdpcontrol.8; utility, which is analogous to the sdptool utility in - the Linux BlueZ SDP package, has been added.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>A number of fixes and updates to the IPv6 and IPSec code - have been imported from the KAME Project.</para> - - <para>Support for the IPv6 Advanced Sockets API now conforms to - RFC 3542 (also known as RFC 2292bis), rather than RFC 2292. - Applications using this API have been updated - accordingly.</para> - - <para>Support for the source address selection part of RFC 3484 - has been added. The &man.ip6addrctl.8; utility can be used to - configure the address selection policy.</para> - - <para>The <literal>tcp_hostcache</literal> feature has been - added to the TCP implementation. It caches measured - parameters of past TCP sessions to provide better initial - start values for following connections from or to the same - source or destination. Similar information that used to be - stored in the routing table has been removed.</para> + <para></para> </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para>The &man.amr.4; driver now has system crashdump support. &merged;</para> - - <para>A major rework of the &man.ata.4; driver has been - committed. One of the more notable changes is that the - &man.ata.4; driver is now out from under the Giant kernel - lock. Note that ATA software RAID systems must now include - <literal>device ataraid</literal> in their kernel - configuration files, as it is no longer automatically implied - by <literal>device atadisk</literal>.</para> - - <para>&man.ccd.4; can now operate on raw disks and other - &man.geom.4; providers.</para> - - <para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte - commands to USB and FireWire devices. The quirks for these - devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been - disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options - DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration. &merged;</para> - - <para>Various &man.geom.4; modules can now be loaded as kernel - modules, namely: - <filename>geom_apple</filename>, - <filename>geom_bde</filename>, - <filename>geom_bsd</filename>, - <filename>geom_gpt</filename>, - <filename>geom_mbr</filename>, - <filename>geom_pc98</filename>, - <filename>geom_sunlabel</filename>, - <filename>geom_vol_ffs</filename>. - </para> - - <para>A <literal>GEOM_FOX</literal> module has been added to - detect and select between multiple redundant paths to the same - device.</para> - - <para arch="i386">The &man.matcd.4; driver, which supports the - Matsushita CR-562 and CR-563 CD drives, has returned.</para> - - <para>The &man.twe.4; driver now supports the 3ware generic - API. &merged;</para> + <para></para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para>Multi-byte character conversion with the cd9660, msdosfs, - ntfs, and udf filesystems is now supported by including the - <literal>CD9660_ICONV</literal>, - <literal>MSDOSFS_ICONV</literal>, - <literal>NTFS_ICONV</literal>, and - <literal>UDF_ICONV</literal> kernel options, - respectively.</para> - - <para>Some off-by-one errors in the smbfs that prevented it from - working correctly with 15-character NetBIOS names have been fixed.</para> - - <para>The sizes of some members of the <literal>statfs</literal> - structure have changed from 32 bits to 64 bits in order to - better support multi-terabyte filesystems. - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Users performing source upgrades across this change - must ensure that their kernel and userland bits are in - sync, by following the documented source upgrade - procedures.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>A backward compatibility version of the &man.statfs.2; - system call exists but only if the - <literal>COMPAT_FREEBSD4</literal> kernel option is - defined. Including this option in the kernel is strongly - encouraged.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Programs that use the &man.statfs.2; will need to be - recompiled. Among the known examples are the - <filename role="package">devel/gnomevfs2</filename>, - <filename role="package">mail/postfix</filename>, and - <filename role="package">security/cfg</filename> - ports.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>Support for NFSv4 has been added with the import of the - University of Michigan's Citi NFSv4 client implementation. - More information can be found in the &man.mount.nfs4.8; and - &man.idmapd.8; manual pages.</para> + <para></para> </sect3> @@ -609,334 +183,35 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> - <para arch="i386">The last bits of the i386-only, a.out compiler - toolchain have been removed.</para> - - <para>&man.acpiconf.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option - to print battery information.</para> - - <para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been - added.</para> - - <para>&man.arp.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option - to limit the scope of the current operation to the ARP entries - on a particular interface. This option applies to the display - operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous - network interfaces. &merged;</para> - - <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.asf.8; utility, which helps load - the symbol files from KLDs into a &man.gdb.1; debugging - environment, has been added.</para> - - <para>The &man.atmconfig.8; program has been added for - configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM - functionality.</para> - - <para>&man.chroot.8; now allows the optional setting of a user, - primary group, or group list to use inside the chroot - environment via the <option>-u</option>, <option>-g</option>, - and <option>-G</option> options respectively. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <filename>compat4x.i386</filename> libraries have bee - updated to correspond to those available in &os; - 4.9-RELEASE.</para> - - <para>The dev_mkdb utility is unnecessary due to the mandatory - presence of devfs, and has been removed.</para> - - <para>&man.dhclient.8; now polls the state of network interfaces - and only sends DHCP requests on interfaces that are up. The - polling interval can be controlled with the <option>-i</option> - option.</para> - - <para>The default mode for the <filename>lost+found</filename> - directory of &man.fsck.8; is now <literal>0700</literal> instead - of <literal>01777</literal>. &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.fsck.ffs.8; and &man.newfs.8; now create a - <filename>.snap</filename> directory in the root directory of - each filesystem, with group <groupname>operator</groupname>. - &man.fsck.ffs.8;, &man.mksnap.ffs.8;, and &man.dump.8; will - write their filesystem snapshots to this directory. This change - avoids locking access to the root directory of a filesystem - during snapshot creation and also helps - non-<username>root</username> users create snapshots.</para> - - <para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand - UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para> - - <para>The &man.iasl.8; utility, a compiler/decompiler for ACPI - Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine language (AML), has been - added.</para> - - <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now supports a <option>staticarp</option> - option for an interface, which disables the sending of ARP - requests for that interface.</para> - - <para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>list</literal> and <literal>show</literal> - commands now support ranges of rule numbers. - &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag - to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything. - &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> option to - display only the trace events corresponding to a specific - process, as well as a new <option>-E</option> flag to display - timestamps relative to the start of the dump.</para> - - <para>&man.last.1; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to - limit the number of lines in its output report.</para> - - <para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library, - &man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol, - which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call - Managers. Note that currently having the Call Manager behind - the NAT gateway is not supported. &merged;</para> - - <para>The <filename>libcipher</filename> DES cryptography library - has been removed. All of its functionality is provided by the - <filename>libcrypto</filename> library, and all base systems - programs that used <filename>libcipher</filename> have been - converted to use <filename>libcrypto</filename> instead.</para> - - <para>The <filename>libkiconv</filename> library has been added to - support working with loadable character set conversion tables in - the kernel.</para> - - <para arch="ia64"><filename>libkse</filename> is now the default - threading library on &os;/ia64.</para> - - <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1 - threading library is now built by default.</para> - - <para><filename>libwrap</filename> and &man.tcpdchk.8; are now - configured to support the extended - <application>tcp_wrappers</application> syntax by - default.</para> - - <para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is - now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all - available codesets.</para> - - <para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem - ID for each file system in addition to the normal information - when a <option>-v</option> flag is specified, - and the &man.umount.8; utility now accepts the filesystem ID - as well as the usual device and path names. - This allows to unambiguously specify which file system is - to be unmounted even when two or more file systems share - the same device and mount point names.</para> - - <para>The &man.mount.cd9660.8;, &man.mount.ntfs.8;, and &man.mount.udf.8; utilities - now support a <option>-C</option> option to specify local - character sets to convert Unicode filenames. It is possible to - specify multi-byte character sets using this option.</para> - - <para>The &man.mount.msdosfs.8; utility now supports a - <option>-M</option> option to specify the maximum file - permissions for directories in the file system. &merged;</para> - - <para>The &man.mount.msdosfs.8; utility now supports a - <option>-D</option> option to specify MS-DOS codepages and a - <option>-L</option> option to specify local character sets. They are - used to convert character sets of filenames. The - <filename>/usr/libdata/msdosfs</filename> tables have been - retired.</para> - - <para>The &man.mount.nwfs.8;, &man.mount.portalfs.8;, and - &man.mount.smbfs.8; utilities have been moved from - <filename>/sbin</filename> to <filename>/usr/sbin</filename>.</para> - - <para>The &man.nologin.8; program has been reimplemented in C (it - was formerly a shell script).</para> - - <para>The &man.rc.conf.5; variable <varname>ntpd_flags</varname> for - &man.ntpd.8; now includes <option>-f /var/db/ntpd.drift</option> - by default.</para> - - <para>The &man.pam.guest.8; PAM module has been added to allow - guest logins. It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</para> - - <para>&man.ps.1; and &man.top.1; now support a <option>-H</option> flag to display all - kernel-visible threads in each process.</para> - - <para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs - has been fixed.</para> - - <para>&man.repquota.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to - display users and groups numerically.</para> - - <para>&man.rtld.1; now includes <quote>libmap</quote> - functionality by default; the <varname>WITH_LIBMAP</varname> - compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More - information can be found in &man.libmap.conf.5;.</para> - - <para>&man.savecore.8; now supports a <option>-C</option> flag - that merely indicates the existence or absence of a coredump - file.</para> - - <para>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary - now that all kernels use ELF format and there is no a.out format - toolchain.</para> - - <para>&man.sysinstall.8; now gives the ability to select an - alternate MTA during installation. Currently, - <application>exim</application> and - <application>Postfix</application> are supported.</para> - - <para>&man.sysinstall.8; no longer supports system <quote>security - profiles</quote>; this feature has been replaced by individual - tuning knobs to enable and disable &man.sshd.8; and set the - system securelevels.</para> - - <para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6 - traffic. &merged;</para> - - <para>&man.uname.1; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to - return the kernel identification. This name is also available - via the <varname>kern.ident</varname> sysctl variable.</para> - - <para arch="i386,alpha,amd64,sparc64,pc98">A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename> - and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a - statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in - <filename>/rescue</filename>. This functionality is similar to - the <filename>/stand</filename> directory installed by - &man.sysinstall.8;, but <filename>/rescue</filename> includes - more functionality and is updated as part of - <literal>buildworld</literal>/<literal>installworld</literal> operations. More details can be found in - &man.rescue.8;. - </para> - - <para>Many executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and - <filename>/sbin</filename> are now built using dynamic, rather - than static linking. This feature brings support for - loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in - those directories. It also reduces the storage requirements for - the root filesystem due to the use of shared libraries. This - feature can be disabled in a <literal>buildworld</literal> by - defining the Makefile variable - <varname>NO_DYNAMICROOT</varname>. Note that - statically-linked, crunched executables are available in the - <filename>/rescue</filename> directory for use during system - repair and recovery operations.</para> + <para></para> </sect2> <sect2 id="contrib"> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated - from the 20030228 snapshot to the 20030619 snapshot.</para> - - <para><application>amd</application> has been updated from 6.0.7 - to 6.0.9.</para> - - <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been - updated from a 14 March 2003 snapshot to a 29 July 2003 snapshot.</para> - - <para><application>BIND</application> has been updated from 8.3.4 - to 8.3.7. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.2.2 to - a 3.3.3 post-release snapshot from 6 November 2003. - - <note> - <para>Previous versions of <application>GCC</application> - generated incorrect code when - <literal>-march=pentium4</literal> optimization was - enabled. This problem is believed to have been fixed with - this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of - <literal>CPUTYPE=p4</literal> has been removed.</para> - </note> - </para> - - <para><application>GNU Readline</application> has been updated - from 4.2 to 4.3.</para> - - <para><application>GNU Sort</application> has been updated from - the version in textutils 2.0.21 to the version in textutils - 2.1.</para> + <para></para> - <para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been - updated from 0.5.1 to 0.6.</para> - - <para>The <application>ISC DHCP</application> client has been - updated from 3.0.1rc11 to 3.0.1rc12.</para> - - <para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from - 1.6beta2 to a 11 November 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</para> - - <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the - <quote>Dianthus</quote> release to the - <quote>Dogwood</quote> release.</para> - - <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from - 0.9.7a to 0.9.7c. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated - from version 8.12.9 - to - version 8.12.10. &merged;</para> - - <para><application>texinfo</application> has been updated from 4.5 - to 4.6. &merged;</para> - - <para>The timezone database has been updated - from the <filename>tzdata2003a</filename> release - to the <filename>tzdata2003d</filename> release. &merged;</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="ports"> <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - <para>If <makevar>GNU_CONFIGURE</makevar> is defined, - all instances of <filename>config.guess</filename> and - <filename>config.sub</filename> found - under <filename><makevar>WRKDIR</makevar></filename> - are replaced with the master versions from - <filename><makevar>PORTSDIR</makevar>/Template</filename>. - This allows old ports (which contain old versions - of these scripts) to build on newer architectures like ia64 and amd64.</para> + <para></para> </sect2> <sect2 id="releng"> <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> - <para arch="alpha,amd64,ia64">Floppy disk installation images are - no longer built for the alpha, amd64, and ia64 - architectures.</para> - - <para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application> has - been updated from 2.2.1 to 2.4. &merged;</para> - - <para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application> has - been updated from 3.1.2 to 3.1.4. &merged;</para> - - <para>The versions of <application>GNOME</application> and - <application>KDE</application> included on release disc 1 - (and installable from the &man.sysinstall.8; <quote>X - Desktops</quote> menu) are now <quote>Lite Edition</quote>, - packages, rather than the more full-featured meta-packages. - These packages are streamlined to provide users with the core - essentials for each desktop, while still fitting within the - space constraints of release disc 1.</para> + <para></para> </sect2> <sect2 id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> - <para>To reduce duplication of information (and subsequent - difficulty in maintaining consistency), many instances of - specific devices supported in the Hardware Notes have been moved - to system manual pages. This project is ongoing as of this - release.</para> - - <para>A Turkish (tr_TR.ISO8859-9) translation project has been - started.</para> + <para></para> </sect2> |
