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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 657175e..e11c850 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -180,6 +180,11 @@ re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as the PC/Xem.<para> + <para>The <literal>O_DIRECT</literal> flag has been added to + &man.open.2; and &man.fcntl.2;. Specifying this flag for open + files will attempt to minimize the cache effects of reading and + writing.</para> + <sect3> <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title> @@ -360,6 +365,9 @@ <para>The <literal>TCP_COMPAT_42</literal> kernel option has been removed.</para> + <para>TCP now has RFC 1323 extensions enabled by default in + &man.rc.conf.5;. &merged;</para> + <para>A new sysctl <literal>net.inet.ip.check_interface</literal>, which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the @@ -373,6 +381,9 @@ <para>&man.ipfw.8; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN bits in TCP segments. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.ipfw.8; now has a <option>-d</option> flag to prevent + the display of dynamic firewall rules.</para> + <para>&man.bridge.4; and &man.dummynet.4; have received some enhancements and bug fixes.</para> @@ -525,8 +536,8 @@ <para>The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS has been changed to improve its speed on large filesystems.</para> - <para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added.</para> - + <para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been + added. &merged;</para> </sect3> <sect3> @@ -859,6 +870,12 @@ behavior, bad assumptions about current directory permissions, and potential buffer overflows, have been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &os; <filename>Makefile</filename> infrastructure now + supports the <varname>WARNS</varname> directive from NetBSD. This + directive controls the addition of compiler warning flags to + <varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral + manner.</para> + <para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para> @@ -984,7 +1001,9 @@ checking on all the filesystems that can do background checking. Unlike the foreground checking, the background checking is started asynchronously so that other system activity can proceed even on - the filesystems that are being checked.</para> + the filesystems that are being checked. Boot-time enabling of + this feature is controlled by the + <varname>background_fsck</varname> option in &man.rc.conf.5;.</para> <para>Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system, &man.lpr.1;, &man.lpd.8;, &man.syslogd.8;, and @@ -1185,6 +1204,9 @@ <para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-m</option> option to set the TTL of outgoing packets. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-A</option> option to + beep when packets are lost.</para> + <para>A version of Transport Independent RPC (<application>TI-RPC</application>) has been imported.</para> @@ -1223,6 +1245,11 @@ specification when loading a font, and has some better error-handling.</para> + <para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> to + take a snapshot of a &man.syscons.4; video buffer. These + snapshots can be manipulated by some of the + <filename>scr2*</filename> utilities in the Ports Collection.</para> + <para>devinfo, a simple tool to print the device tree and resource usage by devices, has been added.</para> @@ -1264,6 +1291,13 @@ <para>&man.telnet.1; now does autologin and encryption by default; a new <option>-y</option> option turns off encryption.</para> + <para>&man.telnet.1; now supports a <option>-u</option> flag to + allow connections to UNIX-domain (<literal>AF_UNIX</literal>) + sockets.</para> + + <para>The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed + from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly between + stripes.</para> <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> @@ -1429,7 +1463,7 @@ <title>OpenSSL</title> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been upgraded to - 0.9.6. &merged;</para> + 0.9.6a.</para> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> now has support for machine-dependent ASM optimizations, activated by the new diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 657175e..e11c850 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -180,6 +180,11 @@ re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as the PC/Xem.<para> + <para>The <literal>O_DIRECT</literal> flag has been added to + &man.open.2; and &man.fcntl.2;. Specifying this flag for open + files will attempt to minimize the cache effects of reading and + writing.</para> + <sect3> <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title> @@ -360,6 +365,9 @@ <para>The <literal>TCP_COMPAT_42</literal> kernel option has been removed.</para> + <para>TCP now has RFC 1323 extensions enabled by default in + &man.rc.conf.5;. &merged;</para> + <para>A new sysctl <literal>net.inet.ip.check_interface</literal>, which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the @@ -373,6 +381,9 @@ <para>&man.ipfw.8; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN bits in TCP segments. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.ipfw.8; now has a <option>-d</option> flag to prevent + the display of dynamic firewall rules.</para> + <para>&man.bridge.4; and &man.dummynet.4; have received some enhancements and bug fixes.</para> @@ -525,8 +536,8 @@ <para>The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS has been changed to improve its speed on large filesystems.</para> - <para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added.</para> - + <para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been + added. &merged;</para> </sect3> <sect3> @@ -859,6 +870,12 @@ behavior, bad assumptions about current directory permissions, and potential buffer overflows, have been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &os; <filename>Makefile</filename> infrastructure now + supports the <varname>WARNS</varname> directive from NetBSD. This + directive controls the addition of compiler warning flags to + <varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral + manner.</para> + <para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para> @@ -984,7 +1001,9 @@ checking on all the filesystems that can do background checking. Unlike the foreground checking, the background checking is started asynchronously so that other system activity can proceed even on - the filesystems that are being checked.</para> + the filesystems that are being checked. Boot-time enabling of + this feature is controlled by the + <varname>background_fsck</varname> option in &man.rc.conf.5;.</para> <para>Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system, &man.lpr.1;, &man.lpd.8;, &man.syslogd.8;, and @@ -1185,6 +1204,9 @@ <para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-m</option> option to set the TTL of outgoing packets. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-A</option> option to + beep when packets are lost.</para> + <para>A version of Transport Independent RPC (<application>TI-RPC</application>) has been imported.</para> @@ -1223,6 +1245,11 @@ specification when loading a font, and has some better error-handling.</para> + <para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> to + take a snapshot of a &man.syscons.4; video buffer. These + snapshots can be manipulated by some of the + <filename>scr2*</filename> utilities in the Ports Collection.</para> + <para>devinfo, a simple tool to print the device tree and resource usage by devices, has been added.</para> @@ -1264,6 +1291,13 @@ <para>&man.telnet.1; now does autologin and encryption by default; a new <option>-y</option> option turns off encryption.</para> + <para>&man.telnet.1; now supports a <option>-u</option> flag to + allow connections to UNIX-domain (<literal>AF_UNIX</literal>) + sockets.</para> + + <para>The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed + from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly between + stripes.</para> <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> @@ -1429,7 +1463,7 @@ <title>OpenSSL</title> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been upgraded to - 0.9.6. &merged;</para> + 0.9.6a.</para> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> now has support for machine-dependent ASM optimizations, activated by the new diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 657175e..e11c850 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -180,6 +180,11 @@ re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as the PC/Xem.<para> + <para>The <literal>O_DIRECT</literal> flag has been added to + &man.open.2; and &man.fcntl.2;. Specifying this flag for open + files will attempt to minimize the cache effects of reading and + writing.</para> + <sect3> <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title> @@ -360,6 +365,9 @@ <para>The <literal>TCP_COMPAT_42</literal> kernel option has been removed.</para> + <para>TCP now has RFC 1323 extensions enabled by default in + &man.rc.conf.5;. &merged;</para> + <para>A new sysctl <literal>net.inet.ip.check_interface</literal>, which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the @@ -373,6 +381,9 @@ <para>&man.ipfw.8; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN bits in TCP segments. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.ipfw.8; now has a <option>-d</option> flag to prevent + the display of dynamic firewall rules.</para> + <para>&man.bridge.4; and &man.dummynet.4; have received some enhancements and bug fixes.</para> @@ -525,8 +536,8 @@ <para>The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS has been changed to improve its speed on large filesystems.</para> - <para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added.</para> - + <para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been + added. &merged;</para> </sect3> <sect3> @@ -859,6 +870,12 @@ behavior, bad assumptions about current directory permissions, and potential buffer overflows, have been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &os; <filename>Makefile</filename> infrastructure now + supports the <varname>WARNS</varname> directive from NetBSD. This + directive controls the addition of compiler warning flags to + <varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral + manner.</para> + <para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para> @@ -984,7 +1001,9 @@ checking on all the filesystems that can do background checking. Unlike the foreground checking, the background checking is started asynchronously so that other system activity can proceed even on - the filesystems that are being checked.</para> + the filesystems that are being checked. Boot-time enabling of + this feature is controlled by the + <varname>background_fsck</varname> option in &man.rc.conf.5;.</para> <para>Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system, &man.lpr.1;, &man.lpd.8;, &man.syslogd.8;, and @@ -1185,6 +1204,9 @@ <para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-m</option> option to set the TTL of outgoing packets. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-A</option> option to + beep when packets are lost.</para> + <para>A version of Transport Independent RPC (<application>TI-RPC</application>) has been imported.</para> @@ -1223,6 +1245,11 @@ specification when loading a font, and has some better error-handling.</para> + <para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> to + take a snapshot of a &man.syscons.4; video buffer. These + snapshots can be manipulated by some of the + <filename>scr2*</filename> utilities in the Ports Collection.</para> + <para>devinfo, a simple tool to print the device tree and resource usage by devices, has been added.</para> @@ -1264,6 +1291,13 @@ <para>&man.telnet.1; now does autologin and encryption by default; a new <option>-y</option> option turns off encryption.</para> + <para>&man.telnet.1; now supports a <option>-u</option> flag to + allow connections to UNIX-domain (<literal>AF_UNIX</literal>) + sockets.</para> + + <para>The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed + from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly between + stripes.</para> <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> @@ -1429,7 +1463,7 @@ <title>OpenSSL</title> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been upgraded to - 0.9.6. &merged;</para> + 0.9.6a.</para> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> now has support for machine-dependent ASM optimizations, activated by the new |