From 3f8e400953f75898c3d5f27a328f171d6948565f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 23:35:26 +0000 Subject: New release notes: Removed hard-coded limit on IPv4 multicast group memberships, linsysfs(5), cached(8), nsswitch.conf now statically loaded. Modified release notes: Note that XFS support is RO, libarchive(3) extended attributes, don't use entity for usbd(8) removal note. New manpages noted: mca(8), sysctl(9). --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 30292aa..c022d8d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ Packets are Ethernet frames with an EtherIP header prepended. &merged; + A hard-coded limit on the number of IPv4 multicast group + memberships (formerly 20) has been removed. + The path MTU discovery for multicast packets in the &os; &man.ip6.4; stack has been disabled by default because notifying path MTU by a lot of routers in multicast @@ -873,10 +876,16 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" File Systems + The &man.linsysfs.5; pseudo-filesystem driver has been + added. It provides a subset of the + Linux sys filesystem, and is required for + the correct operation of some Linux binaries (such as the LSI + MegaRAID SAS utility). + A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE. - Initial support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been + Initial (read-only) support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been added. @@ -924,6 +933,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.bsnmpd.1; utility now supports the Host Resources MIB described in RFC 2790. &merged; + &man.cached.8; has been added. It is a daemon that caches + the results of nsswitch lookups (such as those to the password, + group, and services databases) for improved performance. + The &man.cmp.1; utility now supports an flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the file that the link points to. &merged; @@ -1040,7 +1053,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" and be able to patch memory on a live system. The &man.libarchive.3; library now supports - POSIX.1e-style Extended Attribute. + POSIX.1e-style Extended Attributes. The libc library now includes initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version @@ -1127,6 +1140,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" differs depending on which stack is compiled into the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged; + The /etc/nsswitch.conf file is now + installed statically instead of being generated on every + reboot. + The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;, &man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices. @@ -1201,7 +1218,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.truss.1; utility now supports &os;/ppc. - The &man.usbd.8; utility has been removed. + The usbd(8) utility has been removed. The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration file now support functionality which is equivalent to it. @@ -1520,7 +1537,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by the addition of the following manual pages: &man.acpi.sony.4;, &man.ext2fs.5;, - &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;. + &man.mca.8;, + &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;, + &man.sysctl.9;. The manual pages for NTP have been updated to 4.2.0, to match the version of 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 30292aa..c022d8d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ Packets are Ethernet frames with an EtherIP header prepended. &merged; + A hard-coded limit on the number of IPv4 multicast group + memberships (formerly 20) has been removed. + The path MTU discovery for multicast packets in the &os; &man.ip6.4; stack has been disabled by default because notifying path MTU by a lot of routers in multicast @@ -873,10 +876,16 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" File Systems + The &man.linsysfs.5; pseudo-filesystem driver has been + added. It provides a subset of the + Linux sys filesystem, and is required for + the correct operation of some Linux binaries (such as the LSI + MegaRAID SAS utility). + A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE. - Initial support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been + Initial (read-only) support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been added. @@ -924,6 +933,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.bsnmpd.1; utility now supports the Host Resources MIB described in RFC 2790. &merged; + &man.cached.8; has been added. It is a daemon that caches + the results of nsswitch lookups (such as those to the password, + group, and services databases) for improved performance. + The &man.cmp.1; utility now supports an flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the file that the link points to. &merged; @@ -1040,7 +1053,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" and be able to patch memory on a live system. The &man.libarchive.3; library now supports - POSIX.1e-style Extended Attribute. + POSIX.1e-style Extended Attributes. The libc library now includes initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version @@ -1127,6 +1140,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" differs depending on which stack is compiled into the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged; + The /etc/nsswitch.conf file is now + installed statically instead of being generated on every + reboot. + The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;, &man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices. @@ -1201,7 +1218,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.truss.1; utility now supports &os;/ppc. - The &man.usbd.8; utility has been removed. + The usbd(8) utility has been removed. The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration file now support functionality which is equivalent to it. @@ -1520,7 +1537,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by the addition of the following manual pages: &man.acpi.sony.4;, &man.ext2fs.5;, - &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;. + &man.mca.8;, + &man.snd.mss.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;, + &man.sysctl.9;. The manual pages for NTP have been updated to 4.2.0, to match the version of -- cgit v1.1