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| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 25 |
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 21efac3..46e99ca 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> + <para>The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible + changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width + striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O + throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number + of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads.</para> + <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title> @@ -248,6 +254,10 @@ rules</quote>. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added. + It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one + to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware.</para> + <para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is being done.</para> @@ -351,7 +361,8 @@ threading library is now built by default.</para> <para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is - now POSIX-compliant.</para> + now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all + available codesets.</para> <para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem ID for each file system in addition to the normal information @@ -404,7 +415,17 @@ to 8.3.6.</para> <para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.2.2 to - 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot).</para> + 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot). + + <note> + <para>Previous versions of <application>GCC</application> + generated incorrect code when + <literal>-march=pentium4</literal> optimization was + enabled. This problem is believed to have been fixed with + this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of + <literal>CPUTYPE=p4</literal> has been removed.</para> + </note> + </para> <para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from 1.6beta2 to a 30 June 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</para> 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 21efac3..46e99ca 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> + <para>The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible + changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width + striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O + throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number + of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads.</para> + <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title> @@ -248,6 +254,10 @@ rules</quote>. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added. + It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one + to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware.</para> + <para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is being done.</para> @@ -351,7 +361,8 @@ threading library is now built by default.</para> <para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is - now POSIX-compliant.</para> + now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all + available codesets.</para> <para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem ID for each file system in addition to the normal information @@ -404,7 +415,17 @@ to 8.3.6.</para> <para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.2.2 to - 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot).</para> + 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot). + + <note> + <para>Previous versions of <application>GCC</application> + generated incorrect code when + <literal>-march=pentium4</literal> optimization was + enabled. This problem is believed to have been fixed with + this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of + <literal>CPUTYPE=p4</literal> has been removed.</para> + </note> + </para> <para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from 1.6beta2 to a 30 June 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</para> |
