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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 80def7d..72e78d1 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after - &release.prev.historic;, + &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected. &merged;</para> - <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx Sigmal + <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx-Sigma serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this update, the cxconfig userland configuration utility has been replaced by a newer &man.sconfig.8; utility.</para> @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ <para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be - accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A + accessed over FireWire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A &man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4; devices.</para> @@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets. &merged;</para> - <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;, + <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4; PCI Universal Communications driver now supports - to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> + connecting parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators. @@ -251,6 +251,13 @@ (e.g. Ultra 30) can now run <application>XFree86</application>.</para> + <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various + classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) + devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but + supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary + to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as + ia64 and sparc64.</para> + <para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented. For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and &man.watchdogd.8;.</para> @@ -291,6 +298,10 @@ Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or unexplained crashes.</para> + <para arch="i386">Logical CPUs (with HyperThreading) are + now enabled according to BIOS settings (previously, they were + disabled by default and had to be enabled explicitly).</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -324,7 +335,7 @@ <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added. This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP, - which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the + which attaches to all NetGraph ATM interface in the system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack for each of these interfaces.</para> @@ -341,13 +352,6 @@ <para>&man.sk.4; now supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various - classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) - devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but - supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary - to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as - ia64 and sparc64.</para> - <para>A new &man.utopia.4; driver supports 25MBit/sec, 155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration, status and statistics reporting for the most commonly use @@ -364,7 +368,7 @@ future growth and new features.</para> <para>The &man.xe.4; driver now supports CE2, CEM28, - and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several + and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagrams. Also several bugs in the driver have been fixed.</para> <para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt @@ -394,6 +398,10 @@ to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to specific network interfaces.</para> + <para>Enabling the <literal>options IPFILTER</literal> feature + also requires enabling <literal>options + PFIL_HOOKS</literal>.</para> + <para>A bug in &man.ipfw.4; limit rule processing that could cause various panics has been fixed. &merged;</para> @@ -448,7 +456,7 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>A netgraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and + <para>A NetGraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and &man.ng.l2cap.4; kernel modules, which could cause access to a data structure that was already freed, has been fixed.</para> @@ -510,7 +518,7 @@ &man.geom.4; providers.</para> <para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte - commands to USB and Firewire devices. The quirks for these + commands to USB and FireWire devices. The quirks for these devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration. &merged;</para> @@ -601,6 +609,12 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para arch="i386">The last bits of the i386-only, a.out compiler + toolchain have been removed.</para> + + <para>&man.acpiconf.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option + to print battery information.</para> + <para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been added.</para> @@ -610,6 +624,10 @@ operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous network interfaces. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.asf.8; utility, which helps load + the symbol files from KLDs into a &man.gdb.1; debugging + environment, has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.atmconfig.8; program has been added for configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM functionality.</para> @@ -635,6 +653,15 @@ directory of &man.fsck.8; is now <literal>0700</literal> instead of <literal>01777</literal>. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.fsck.ffs.8; and &man.newfs.8; now create a + <filename>.snap</filename> directory in the root directory of + each filesystem, with group <groupname>operator</groupname>. + &man.fsck.ffs.8;, &man.mksnap.ffs.8;, and &man.dump.8; will + write their filesystem snapshots to this directory. This change + avoids locking access to the root directory of a filesystem + during snapshot creation and also helps + non-<username>root</username> users create snapshots.</para> + <para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para> @@ -654,6 +681,13 @@ to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> option to + display only the trace events corresponding to a specific + process.</para> + + <para>&man.last.1; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to + limit the number of lines in its output report.</para> + <para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library, &man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol, which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call @@ -676,6 +710,11 @@ <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1 threading library is now built by default.</para> + <para><filename>libwrap</filename> and &man.tcpdchk.8; are now + configured to support the extended + <application>tcp_wrappers</application> syntax by + default.</para> + <para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all available codesets.</para> @@ -725,11 +764,18 @@ <para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs has been fixed.</para> + <para>&man.repquota.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to + display users and groups numerically.</para> + <para>&man.rtld.1; now includes <quote>libmap</quote> functionality by default; the <varname>WITH_LIBMAP</varname> compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More information can be found in &man.libmap.conf.5;.</para> + <para>&man.savecore.8; now supports a <option>-C</option> flag + that merely indicates the existence or absence of a coredump + file.</para> + <para>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary now that all kernels use ELF format and there is no a.out format toolchain.</para> @@ -747,6 +793,10 @@ <para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6 traffic. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.uname.1; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to + return the kernel identification. This name is also available + via the <varname>kern.ident</varname> sysctl variable.</para> + <para arch="i386,alpha,amd64,sparc64,pc98">A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename> and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in @@ -758,7 +808,7 @@ &man.rescue.8;. </para> - <para>Executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and + <para>Many executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now built using dynamic, rather than static linking. This feature brings support for loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in @@ -801,15 +851,6 @@ </note> </para> - <para>The <application>GCC</application> <option>-pthread</option> - option, which formerly controlled linking of the threading - library, has been removed. This flag is confusing in the - presence of multiple threading libraries (specifically - <filename>libc_r</filename>, <filename>libkse</filename>, and - <filename>libthr</filename>). Ports should use the - <varname>PTHREAD_LIBS</varname> variable to select the correct - threading library.</para> - <para><application>GNU Readline</application> has been updated from 4.2 to 4.3.</para> @@ -887,7 +928,14 @@ <sect2 id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> - <para></para> + <para>To reduce duplication of information (and subsequent + difficulty in maintaining consistency), many instances of + specific devices supported in the Hardware Notes have been moved + to system manual pages. This project is ongoing as of this + release.</para> + + <para>A Turkish (tr_TR.ISO8859-9) translation project has been + started.</para> </sect2> 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 80def7d..72e78d1 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after - &release.prev.historic;, + &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected. &merged;</para> - <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx Sigmal + <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx-Sigma serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this update, the cxconfig userland configuration utility has been replaced by a newer &man.sconfig.8; utility.</para> @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ <para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be - accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A + accessed over FireWire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A &man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4; devices.</para> @@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets. &merged;</para> - <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;, + <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4; PCI Universal Communications driver now supports - to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> + connecting parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators. @@ -251,6 +251,13 @@ (e.g. Ultra 30) can now run <application>XFree86</application>.</para> + <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various + classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) + devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but + supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary + to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as + ia64 and sparc64.</para> + <para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented. For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and &man.watchdogd.8;.</para> @@ -291,6 +298,10 @@ Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or unexplained crashes.</para> + <para arch="i386">Logical CPUs (with HyperThreading) are + now enabled according to BIOS settings (previously, they were + disabled by default and had to be enabled explicitly).</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -324,7 +335,7 @@ <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added. This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP, - which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the + which attaches to all NetGraph ATM interface in the system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack for each of these interfaces.</para> @@ -341,13 +352,6 @@ <para>&man.sk.4; now supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various - classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) - devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but - supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary - to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as - ia64 and sparc64.</para> - <para>A new &man.utopia.4; driver supports 25MBit/sec, 155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration, status and statistics reporting for the most commonly use @@ -364,7 +368,7 @@ future growth and new features.</para> <para>The &man.xe.4; driver now supports CE2, CEM28, - and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several + and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagrams. Also several bugs in the driver have been fixed.</para> <para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt @@ -394,6 +398,10 @@ to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to specific network interfaces.</para> + <para>Enabling the <literal>options IPFILTER</literal> feature + also requires enabling <literal>options + PFIL_HOOKS</literal>.</para> + <para>A bug in &man.ipfw.4; limit rule processing that could cause various panics has been fixed. &merged;</para> @@ -448,7 +456,7 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>A netgraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and + <para>A NetGraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and &man.ng.l2cap.4; kernel modules, which could cause access to a data structure that was already freed, has been fixed.</para> @@ -510,7 +518,7 @@ &man.geom.4; providers.</para> <para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte - commands to USB and Firewire devices. The quirks for these + commands to USB and FireWire devices. The quirks for these devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration. &merged;</para> @@ -601,6 +609,12 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para arch="i386">The last bits of the i386-only, a.out compiler + toolchain have been removed.</para> + + <para>&man.acpiconf.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option + to print battery information.</para> + <para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been added.</para> @@ -610,6 +624,10 @@ operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous network interfaces. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.asf.8; utility, which helps load + the symbol files from KLDs into a &man.gdb.1; debugging + environment, has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.atmconfig.8; program has been added for configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM functionality.</para> @@ -635,6 +653,15 @@ directory of &man.fsck.8; is now <literal>0700</literal> instead of <literal>01777</literal>. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.fsck.ffs.8; and &man.newfs.8; now create a + <filename>.snap</filename> directory in the root directory of + each filesystem, with group <groupname>operator</groupname>. + &man.fsck.ffs.8;, &man.mksnap.ffs.8;, and &man.dump.8; will + write their filesystem snapshots to this directory. This change + avoids locking access to the root directory of a filesystem + during snapshot creation and also helps + non-<username>root</username> users create snapshots.</para> + <para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para> @@ -654,6 +681,13 @@ to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> option to + display only the trace events corresponding to a specific + process.</para> + + <para>&man.last.1; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to + limit the number of lines in its output report.</para> + <para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library, &man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol, which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call @@ -676,6 +710,11 @@ <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1 threading library is now built by default.</para> + <para><filename>libwrap</filename> and &man.tcpdchk.8; are now + configured to support the extended + <application>tcp_wrappers</application> syntax by + default.</para> + <para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all available codesets.</para> @@ -725,11 +764,18 @@ <para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs has been fixed.</para> + <para>&man.repquota.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to + display users and groups numerically.</para> + <para>&man.rtld.1; now includes <quote>libmap</quote> functionality by default; the <varname>WITH_LIBMAP</varname> compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More information can be found in &man.libmap.conf.5;.</para> + <para>&man.savecore.8; now supports a <option>-C</option> flag + that merely indicates the existence or absence of a coredump + file.</para> + <para>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary now that all kernels use ELF format and there is no a.out format toolchain.</para> @@ -747,6 +793,10 @@ <para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6 traffic. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.uname.1; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to + return the kernel identification. This name is also available + via the <varname>kern.ident</varname> sysctl variable.</para> + <para arch="i386,alpha,amd64,sparc64,pc98">A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename> and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in @@ -758,7 +808,7 @@ &man.rescue.8;. </para> - <para>Executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and + <para>Many executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now built using dynamic, rather than static linking. This feature brings support for loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in @@ -801,15 +851,6 @@ </note> </para> - <para>The <application>GCC</application> <option>-pthread</option> - option, which formerly controlled linking of the threading - library, has been removed. This flag is confusing in the - presence of multiple threading libraries (specifically - <filename>libc_r</filename>, <filename>libkse</filename>, and - <filename>libthr</filename>). Ports should use the - <varname>PTHREAD_LIBS</varname> variable to select the correct - threading library.</para> - <para><application>GNU Readline</application> has been updated from 4.2 to 4.3.</para> @@ -887,7 +928,14 @@ <sect2 id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> - <para></para> + <para>To reduce duplication of information (and subsequent + difficulty in maintaining consistency), many instances of + specific devices supported in the Hardware Notes have been moved + to system manual pages. This project is ongoing as of this + release.</para> + + <para>A Turkish (tr_TR.ISO8859-9) translation project has been + started.</para> </sect2> |
