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@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@
import includes a newly-ported SiS 300/305/540/630/730
driver.</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.
@@ -368,6 +371,13 @@
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
+ <para>Multi-byte character conversion with the cd9660, msdosfs,
+ and ntfs filesystems is now supported by including the
+ <literal>CD9660_ICONV</literal>,
+ <literal>MSDOSFS_ICONV</literal>, and
+ <literal>NTFS_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>
@@ -432,6 +442,10 @@
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="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
threading library is now built by default.</para>
@@ -448,6 +462,22 @@
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; and &man.mount.ntfs.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.</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
+ 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>
@@ -556,7 +586,7 @@
<quote>Dogwood</quote> release.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from
- 0.9.7a to 0.9.7c.</para>
+ 0.9.7a to 0.9.7c. &merged;</para>
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated to
version 8.12.10.</para>
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