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Diffstat (limited to 'release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT')
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diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 479ff55..2658118 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ has been largely reworked. Write combining for crashdumps has been implemented. This feature is useful when write caching is disabled on both SCSI and IDE disks, -where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete. +where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete. [MERGED] The bktr(4) driver has been updated to 2.15. New tuner types have been added, and improvememts to the KLD module and to memory @@ -177,8 +177,15 @@ Note that change affects only random-access writeable devices, not sequential-only writeable devices such as CD-R drives, which are supported by cdrecord. -mergemaster(8) has gained some new features, has been cleaned up -somewhat, and is now more cross-platform friendly. +Support for threads under Linux emulation has been added. + +The an(4) driver for Cisco Aironet cards now supports Wired Equivalent +Privacy (WEP) encryption, settable via ancontrol(8). + +A new netgraph node type ng_one2many(4) for multiplexing and +demultiplexing packets over multiple links has been added. [MERGED] + +Softupdates for FFS have received some bugfixes and enhancements. 1.2. SECURITY FIXES @@ -222,6 +229,11 @@ FreeBSD-SA-00:69). [MERGED] The "nat deny_incoming" command in ppp(8) now works correctly (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-00:70). [MERGED] +A bug in OpenSSH in which a server was unable to disable ssh-agent or +X11 forwarding was fixed. [MERGED] + +The ssh(1) binary is no longer SUID root by default. + 1.3. USERLAND CHANGES --------------------- @@ -234,8 +246,7 @@ mtree(8) now includes support for a file listing pathnames to be excluded when creating and verifying prototypes. This makes it easier to use mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. [MERGED] -OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.5a, which includes numerous bugfixes -and enhancements. [MERGED] +OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.6. The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. [MERGED] @@ -342,7 +353,7 @@ sshd is now enabled by default on new installs. [MERGED] perl has been updated to version 5.6.0. -Binutils have been upgraded to 2.10.0. [MERGED] +Binutils have been upgraded to 2.10.1. libreadline has been upgraded to 4.1. [MERGED] @@ -422,6 +433,14 @@ Use of the CSMG_* macros no longer require inclusion of <sys/param.h>. IP Filter is now supported by the rc.conf(5) boot-time configuration and initialization. [MERGED] +The lastlogin(1) utility, which prints the last login time of each +user, has been imported from NetBSD. + +newfs(1) now implements write combining, which can make creation of +new filesystems up to seven times faster. [MERGED] + +A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. [MERGED] + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- |
