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diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 81871c9..188cbcc 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Due to a licensing change, softupdates have been integrated into the main portion of the kernel source tree. As a consequence, softupdates are now available with the GENERIC kernel. [MERGED] -ipfilter has been updated to 3.4.16. +ipfilter has been updated to 3.4.16. [MERGED] The tap driver, a virtual Ethernet device driver for bridged configurations, has been added. [MERGED] @@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ bridge(4) and dummynet(4) have received some enhancements and bug fixes. The API CS20 1U high server has been verified to work OK. -ipfw(8) has a new feature that allows for packet matching on -interfaces with dynamically-changing IP addressess. +ipfw(8) has a new feature ("me") that allows for packet matching on +interfaces with dynamically-changing IP addresses. [MERGED] The isp(4) driver has been updated. [MERGED] @@ -363,6 +363,12 @@ connection limits) an attack that can lead to guessing the server key (not host key) by regenerating the server key when an RSA failure is detected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:24). [MERGED] +A number of programs have had output formatting strings corrected so +as to reduce the risk of vulnerabilities. [MERGED] + +A number of programs that use temporary files now do so more +securely. [MERGED] + 1.3. USERLAND CHANGES --------------------- @@ -377,6 +383,10 @@ mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. [MERGED] OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.6. [MERGED] +OpenSSL now has support for machine-dependent ASM optimizations, +activated by the new MACHINE_CPU Makefile variable. make(1) will +attempt to set reasonable defaults for this variable. + The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. [MERGED] OpenSSH has been upgraded to 2.1.0, which provides support for the @@ -444,6 +454,9 @@ sendmail. [MERGED] The sendmail(8) configuration building tools are installed in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/. [MERGED] +sysinstall(8) now properly preserves /etc/mail during a binary +upgrade. [MERGED] + awk has been upgraded from gawk-3.0.4 to gawk-3.0.6. This fixes a number of non-critical bugs and includes a few performance tweaks. [MERGED] @@ -542,7 +555,7 @@ mount(8) and mount_*(8)). ncurses has been updated to ncurses-5.1-20001009. [MERGED] -gperf has been updated to 2.7.2. +gperf has been updated to 2.7.2. [MERGED] style.perl.7, a style guide for Perl code in the FreeBSD base system, has been added. @@ -623,7 +636,8 @@ current phase number and progress information relevant to the current phase. [MERGED] Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system, -lpd(1), lpd(8), syslogd(8), and logger(1) are now all IPv6-capable. +lpr(1), lpd(8), syslogd(8), and logger(1) are now all IPv6-capable. +[MERGED] rm(1) -v now displays the entire pathname of a file being removed. [MERGED] @@ -703,8 +717,10 @@ have been errors into actual fatal errors with an exit code. This ensures that that 'make buildkernel' doesn't quietly ignore them and build a bogus kernel without a human to read the errors. [MERGED] -pkg_create(1) and pkg_install(1) can now work with packages that have -been compressed using bzip2(1). [MERGED] +pkg_create(1) and pkg_add(1) can now work with packages that have +been compressed using bzip2(1). pkg_add(1) will use the +PACKAGEROOT environment variable to determine a mirror site for new +packages. [MERGED] pkg_info(1) can now accept a -g flag for verifying an installed package against its recorded checksums (to see if it's been modified @@ -743,6 +759,14 @@ A compat4x distribution has been added for compatibility with FreeBSD The compat3x distribution has been updated to include libraries present in FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE. [MERGED] +savecore(8) now supports a -k option to prevent clearing a crash dump +after saving it. It also attempts to avoid writing large stretches of +zeros to crash dump files to save space and time. + +When requested to delete multiple packages, pkg_delete(1) will now +attempt to remove them in dependency order rather than the order +specified on the command line. [MERGED] + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- |
