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Diffstat (limited to 'release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 02f2eef..846bf2e 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -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 --------------------------- |