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@@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ supported for backwards compatibility. [MERGED]
The ahc(4) driver has been updated. Among various improvements are
improved compatibility with chips in "RAID Port" mode and systems with
-AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance
-improvements. [MERGED]
+AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance improvements.
+Some bugs were also fixed, including a rare hang on Ultra2/U160
+controllers. [MERGED]
ACPI support has been merged in from the FreeBSD-ACPI project.
@@ -311,6 +312,13 @@ Acrobat 4 on EV4 and EV5.
The fxp(4) driver now requires a "device miibus" entry in the kernel
configuration file.
+A new NFS hash function (based on the Fowler/Noll/Vo hash algorithm)
+has been implemented to improve NFS performance by increasing the
+efficiency of the nfsnode hash tables. [MERGED]
+
+The syscons(4) driver now supports keyboard-controlled pasting, by
+default bound to Shift-Insert.
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -419,6 +427,10 @@ A bug in rwhod(8), which caused it to crash if send certain malformed
packets, has been corrected (see security advisory
FreeBSD-SA-01:29). [MERGED]
+To prevent some forms of DOS attacks, glob(3) allows specification of
+a limit on the number of pathname matches it will return. ftpd(8) now
+uses this feature. [MERGED]
+
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
@@ -900,6 +912,8 @@ ftpd(8) now supports a -r flag for read-only mode and a -E flag to
disable EPSV. It also has some fixes to reduce information leakage
and the ability to specify compile-time port ranges. [MERGED]
+ping(8) now supports a -m option to set the TTL of outgoing packets.
+
2. Supported Configurations
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