From 20dc3b9634c42cde79a8ed4023b305ac1a547da1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:38:47 +0000 Subject: New release notes: I386_CPU removed, sf(4) supports device polling and altq(4) (+MFC), ongoing locking work in the network stack, TCP RST bugfix (+MFC), SACK bugfixes (+MFC), RFC 1644 T/TCP support removed, gpt(8) create -f (+MFC), NO_NIS (+MFC), ncal(1) -m (+MFC). These items mostly come from commit logs for November 2004. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++-- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index e564051..282ad16 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ Kernel Changes + Support for 80386 processors (the + I386_CPU kernel configuration option) has + been removed. Users running this class of CPU should use &os; + 5.X or earlier. + The loader tunable debug.mpsafevm has been has been enabled by default. @@ -141,14 +146,28 @@ Network Interface Support - + The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling + and &man.altq.4;. &merged; + Network Protocols - + Ongoing work is reducing the use of the Giant lock by the + network protocol stack and improving the locking + strategies. + + A bug in TCP that sometimes caused RST packets to + be ignored if the receive window was zero bytes has been + fixed. &merged; + + Several bugs in the TCP SACK implementation have been + fixed. &merged; + + RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed. + @@ -174,11 +193,26 @@ Userland Changes + The create command of the &man.gpt.8; + utility now supports a command-line flag to + force creation of a GPT even when there is an MBR record on a + disk. &merged; + + The NO_NIS compile-time knob for userland + has been added. As its name implies, enabling this + Makefile variable will cause NIS support to + be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS + utilities to not be built. &merged; + The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL utility to compress file system images for use with GEOM_UZIP &man.geom.4; module, has been added. + The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports a + flag to generate a calendar for a specified month in the current + year. &merged; + <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts 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 e564051..282ad16 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ Kernel Changes + Support for 80386 processors (the + I386_CPU kernel configuration option) has + been removed. Users running this class of CPU should use &os; + 5.X or earlier. + The loader tunable debug.mpsafevm has been has been enabled by default. @@ -141,14 +146,28 @@ Network Interface Support - + The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling + and &man.altq.4;. &merged; + Network Protocols - + Ongoing work is reducing the use of the Giant lock by the + network protocol stack and improving the locking + strategies. + + A bug in TCP that sometimes caused RST packets to + be ignored if the receive window was zero bytes has been + fixed. &merged; + + Several bugs in the TCP SACK implementation have been + fixed. &merged; + + RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed. + @@ -174,11 +193,26 @@ Userland Changes + The create command of the &man.gpt.8; + utility now supports a command-line flag to + force creation of a GPT even when there is an MBR record on a + disk. &merged; + + The NO_NIS compile-time knob for userland + has been added. As its name implies, enabling this + Makefile variable will cause NIS support to + be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS + utilities to not be built. &merged; + The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL utility to compress file system images for use with GEOM_UZIP &man.geom.4; module, has been added. + The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports a + flag to generate a calendar for a specified month in the current + year. &merged; + <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts -- cgit v1.1