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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 2a1c8d1..205de8e 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -169,11 +169,6 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau - synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as "ct" - in its previous life outside FreeBSD source tree. Note: only driver name - has changed. Network interface still has "ct" name.</para> - <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para> @@ -182,6 +177,16 @@ control display switching and backlight brightness using the ACPI Video Extensions.</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx-Tau + synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as + <quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside &os; source tree. &merged; + + <note> + <para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still + has <quote>ct</quote> name.</para> + </note> + </para> + <para>&man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on directories.</para> @@ -254,6 +259,10 @@ <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title> + <para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now + supports a hardware random number generator (RNG) + in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para> + <para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed, including the asc driver for GI1904-based hand scanners, @@ -325,13 +334,24 @@ <para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; NetGraph node type, which supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>A bug, which prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver + from working has been fixed. &merged;</para> + + <para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support + in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para> + <para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. + &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601 chipset.</para> + <para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.</para> + <para>The hardware TX checksum support of the &man.xl.4; driver has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down the transmission rate. &merged;</para> @@ -390,6 +410,9 @@ work better, and some problems with timeouts should be resolved.</para> + <para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code + in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para> + <para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para> @@ -397,6 +420,9 @@ which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly, has been fixed.</para> + <para arch="i386">The twa driver, which supports + 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para> </sect3> @@ -446,6 +472,23 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para>&man.bsdlabel.8; now supports a <option>-f</option> option + to work on files instead of disk partitions.</para> + + <para>The <command>bthidcontrol</command> and the + <command>bthidd</command> which support Bluetooth + HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para> + + <para>The <command>doscmd</command> utility has been + removed from the &os; base system, and has been available + in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para> + + <para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and + &man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para> + + <para>The &man.find.1; now supports a option + <option>-acl</option> to locate files with &man.acl.3;</para> + <para>&man.indent.1; now supports a <option>-ldi</option> option to control indentation of local variables. A number of other tunings were made to this utility.</para> @@ -516,6 +559,11 @@ </note> <para> + <para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently + supported system locales has been added. This is primarily + for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename> + port.</para> + <para>The &man.logins.1; utility has been added to display information about user and system accounts.</para> @@ -523,6 +571,9 @@ which allows users to specify a known port for use in firewall rulesets.</para> + <para>&man.netstat.1; now displays the multicast group + memberships present in the system.</para> + <para>&man.newfs.8; and &man.mdmfs.8; now support a <option>-l</option> flag to enable them to set the MAC multilabel flag on new filesystems without requiring the use of @@ -541,6 +592,22 @@ role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large membership lists.</para> + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1;, which come from NetBSD + have been added. They also support a <option>-M</option> option + to extract values associated with the name list from the + specified core instead of the default <filename>/dev/kmem</filename>, + and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from + the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para> + + <para>&man.ps.1; has been improved in the POSIX/SUSv3 compatibility. + The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs, + <option>-t</option> for a list of terminal names, + <option>-A</option> which is equivalent with <option>-ax</option>, + <option>-G</option> for a list of group IDs, + <option>-X</option> which is the opposite of <option>-x</option>, + and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;. + &merged;</para> + <para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para> @@ -604,8 +671,8 @@ It saves the current settings of all audio mixers present in the system on shutdown and restores the settings on boot.</para> - <para>The <filename>pf</filename> script for &man.pf.4; - has been added.</para> + <para>The <filename>pf</filename> and <filename>pflog</filename> + scripts for &man.pf.4; has been added.</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -645,6 +712,12 @@ <filename>tar</filename> being a link to <filename>gtar</filename>.</para> + <para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been + updated from 0.6 to 0.6.1. + + <para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated from + version 0.7.1 to version 0.8.3.</para> + <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para> @@ -660,6 +733,9 @@ </para> + <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from + 0.9.7c to 0.9.7d. &merged;</para> + <para><application>pf</application>, OpenBSD's packet filter as of OpenBSD 3.4, has been imported into &os; source tree and is now installed by default. A new user <username>proxy</username>, and two new @@ -695,6 +771,8 @@ <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from version 8.12.10 to version 8.12.11. &merged;</para> + <para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from + version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="ports"> 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 2a1c8d1..205de8e 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -169,11 +169,6 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau - synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as "ct" - in its previous life outside FreeBSD source tree. Note: only driver name - has changed. Network interface still has "ct" name.</para> - <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para> @@ -182,6 +177,16 @@ control display switching and backlight brightness using the ACPI Video Extensions.</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx-Tau + synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as + <quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside &os; source tree. &merged; + + <note> + <para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still + has <quote>ct</quote> name.</para> + </note> + </para> + <para>&man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on directories.</para> @@ -254,6 +259,10 @@ <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title> + <para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now + supports a hardware random number generator (RNG) + in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para> + <para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed, including the asc driver for GI1904-based hand scanners, @@ -325,13 +334,24 @@ <para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; NetGraph node type, which supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>A bug, which prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver + from working has been fixed. &merged;</para> + + <para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support + in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para> + <para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. + &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601 chipset.</para> + <para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.</para> + <para>The hardware TX checksum support of the &man.xl.4; driver has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down the transmission rate. &merged;</para> @@ -390,6 +410,9 @@ work better, and some problems with timeouts should be resolved.</para> + <para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code + in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para> + <para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para> @@ -397,6 +420,9 @@ which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly, has been fixed.</para> + <para arch="i386">The twa driver, which supports + 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para> </sect3> @@ -446,6 +472,23 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para>&man.bsdlabel.8; now supports a <option>-f</option> option + to work on files instead of disk partitions.</para> + + <para>The <command>bthidcontrol</command> and the + <command>bthidd</command> which support Bluetooth + HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para> + + <para>The <command>doscmd</command> utility has been + removed from the &os; base system, and has been available + in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para> + + <para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and + &man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para> + + <para>The &man.find.1; now supports a option + <option>-acl</option> to locate files with &man.acl.3;</para> + <para>&man.indent.1; now supports a <option>-ldi</option> option to control indentation of local variables. A number of other tunings were made to this utility.</para> @@ -516,6 +559,11 @@ </note> <para> + <para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently + supported system locales has been added. This is primarily + for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename> + port.</para> + <para>The &man.logins.1; utility has been added to display information about user and system accounts.</para> @@ -523,6 +571,9 @@ which allows users to specify a known port for use in firewall rulesets.</para> + <para>&man.netstat.1; now displays the multicast group + memberships present in the system.</para> + <para>&man.newfs.8; and &man.mdmfs.8; now support a <option>-l</option> flag to enable them to set the MAC multilabel flag on new filesystems without requiring the use of @@ -541,6 +592,22 @@ role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large membership lists.</para> + <para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1;, which come from NetBSD + have been added. They also support a <option>-M</option> option + to extract values associated with the name list from the + specified core instead of the default <filename>/dev/kmem</filename>, + and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from + the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para> + + <para>&man.ps.1; has been improved in the POSIX/SUSv3 compatibility. + The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs, + <option>-t</option> for a list of terminal names, + <option>-A</option> which is equivalent with <option>-ax</option>, + <option>-G</option> for a list of group IDs, + <option>-X</option> which is the opposite of <option>-x</option>, + and some minor improvements. For more information, see &man.ps.1;. + &merged;</para> + <para>&man.pw.8; now supports a <option>-H</option> option, which accepts an encrypted password on a file descriptor. &merged;</para> @@ -604,8 +671,8 @@ It saves the current settings of all audio mixers present in the system on shutdown and restores the settings on boot.</para> - <para>The <filename>pf</filename> script for &man.pf.4; - has been added.</para> + <para>The <filename>pf</filename> and <filename>pflog</filename> + scripts for &man.pf.4; has been added.</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -645,6 +712,12 @@ <filename>tar</filename> being a link to <filename>gtar</filename>.</para> + <para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been + updated from 0.6 to 0.6.1. + + <para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated from + version 0.7.1 to version 0.8.3.</para> + <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para> @@ -660,6 +733,9 @@ </para> + <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from + 0.9.7c to 0.9.7d. &merged;</para> + <para><application>pf</application>, OpenBSD's packet filter as of OpenBSD 3.4, has been imported into &os; source tree and is now installed by default. A new user <username>proxy</username>, and two new @@ -695,6 +771,8 @@ <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from version 8.12.10 to version 8.12.11. &merged;</para> + <para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from + version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="ports"> |
