From ab2f660d60be6126592d0b670baee15f0cb9646e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:55:44 +0000 Subject: Add entries of Release Notes for 8.0R temporarily. Reviewed by: thompsa, linimon, and brd. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 2760 ++++++++++++++++---- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/release.dsl | 11 - release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl | 49 +- release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent | 31 +- 4 files changed, 2375 insertions(+), 476 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 68db4f4..76a6f29 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ %release; - - - - - ]>
@@ -57,7 +52,7 @@ Introduction This document contains the release notes for &os; - &release.current;. It + &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;. @@ -66,7 +61,7 @@ The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development - branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary + branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at . @@ -87,7 +82,7 @@ This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be found at or any of its mirrors. More + url="&release.url;"> or any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the Obtaining @@ -100,455 +95,2340 @@ All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with late-breaking information discovered late in the - release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains + release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site. - - What's New - - This section describes - the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; - since &release.prev;. - In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; - branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. - - - Typical release note items - document recent security advisories issued after - &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 - practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single - change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses - primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major - architectural improvements. - - - Security Advisories - - - - - - - Kernel Changes - - A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added - for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and - assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added - to allow manipulation of processor sets. - - The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture - facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured - to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or - a textdump. The new capture command controls - this feature. - - The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting - facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a - set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from - within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8; - utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual - page. - - The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel - dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via - mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a - simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief - kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but - are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely - synchronized source code. More information can be found in the - &man.textdump.4; manual page. - - Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While - the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful - in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the - KSE library was never developed to its full potential. - Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading - will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked - binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of - &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support. - - The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel - features via the kern.features sysctl tree. - The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient - interface for user applications to test the presence of - features. - - The &os; kernel now has support for large - memory page mappings (superpages). - - The ULE - scheduler is now the default process scheduler - in GENERIC kernels. - - - Boot Loader Changes - - The BTX kernel used by the boot - loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real - mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB - devices. - - A new gptboot boot loader has - been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A - new boot command has been added to - &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the - required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot - partition if required. - - - - - Hardware Support - - The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 - PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. - - The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout. - - The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon - Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been - imported from OpenBSD. - - - Multimedia Support - - - - - - - Network Interface Support - - The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support - for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers. - - The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers - with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue - to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new - client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver - will support new server adapters. - - The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support - for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit - Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers. - - The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide - support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network - adapters. - - The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been - updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29. - - The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its - performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It - should also work on all architectures. - - The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a - number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) - support. - - The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a - number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all - architectures. - - The &man.wpi.4; driver has - been updated to include a number of stability fixes. - - - - - - Network Protocols - - The &man.bpf.4; packet filter and capture facility now - supports a zero-copy mode of operation, in which buffers are - loaned from a user process to the kernel. This feature can - be enabled by setting - the net.bpf.zerocopy_enable sysctl - variable to 1. - - ISDN4BSD(I4B), netatm, and all - related subsystems have been removed due to lack of - multi-processor support. - - A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding - bytes were used, has been fixed. - - - - - Disks and Storage - - The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than - 2TB in size. - - The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for - disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests - have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down - until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now - supports a spindown command to configure - this feature. - - The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 - from Highpoint. - - - - - File Systems - - A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has - been fixed. - - A new kernel-mode NFS lock manager has been added, - improving performance and behavior of NFS locking. A new - &man.clear.locks.8; command has been added to clear locks held - on behalf of an NFS client. - - - - - - Userland Changes - - The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports - a option to set the mode of a new user's - home directory. - - BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, - based on libarchive, have replaced the GNU - Binutils versions of these utilities. - - &man.chflags.1; now supports a flag for - verbose output and a flag to ignore errors - with the same semantics as (for example) - &man.chmod.1;. - - For compatiblity with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now - supports a flag, which is equivalent to - specifying the flags. - - BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on - libarchive, has replaced the GNU cpio. - Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as - gcpio. - - The &man.env.1; program now supports - which will completely unset the given variable - name by removing it from the environment, - instead of just setting it to a null value. - - The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added. + + What's New + + This section describes the most user-visible new or changed + features in &os; since &release.prev;, and changes shown in + Release Notes for the previous releases are marked as + [7.1R] and [7.2R]. + + Typical release note items document recent security + advisories issued after &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 practices. Clearly + the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; + between releases; this document focuses primarily on security + advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural + improvements. + + + Security Advisories + + Problems described in the following security advisories have + been fixed. For more information, consult the individual + advisories available from + . + + + + + + + + + Advisory + Date + Topic + + + + + + SA-08:05.openssh + 17 April 2008 + OpenSSH X11-forwarding privilege escalation + + + + SA-08:06.bind + 13 July 2008 + DNS cache poisoning + + + + SA-08:07.amd64 + 3 September 2008 + amd64 swapgs local privilege escalation + + + + SA-08:08.nmount + 3 September 2008 + &man.nmount.2; local arbitrary code execution + + + + SA-08:09.icmp6 + 3 September 2008 + Remote kernel panics on IPv6 connections + + + + SA-08:10.nd6 + 1 October 2008 + IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability + + + + SA-08:11.arc4random + 24 November 2008 + &man.arc4random.9; predictable sequence vulnerability + + + + SA-08:12.ftpd + 23 December 2008 + Cross-site request forgery in &man.ftpd.8; + + + + SA-08:13.protosw + 23 December 2008 + netgraph / bluetooth privilege escalation + + + + SA-09:01.lukemftpd + 07 January 2009 + Cross-site request forgery in + &man.lukemftpd.8; + + + + SA-09:02.openssl + 07 January 2009 + OpenSSL incorrectly checks for malformed + signatures + + + + SA-09:03.ntpd + 13 January 2009 + ntpd cryptographic signature + bypass + + + + SA-09:04.bind + 13 January 2009 + BIND DNSSEC incorrect checks for + malformed signatures + + + + SA-09:05.telnetd + 16 February 2009 + telnetd code execution + vulnerability + + + + SA-09:06.ktimer + 23 March 2009 + Local privilege escalation + + + + SA-09:07.libc + 04 April 2009 + Information leak in &man.db.3; + + + + SA-09:08.openssl + 22 April 2009 + Remotely exploitable crash in + OpenSSL + + + + SA-09:09.pipe + 10 June 2009 + Local information disclosure via direct pipe writes + + + + SA-09:10.ipv6 + 10 June 2009 + Missing permission check on SIOCSIFINFO_IN6 ioctl + + + + SA-09:11.ntpd + 10 June 2009 + ntpd stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability + + + + SA-09:12.bind + 29 July 2009 + BIND &man.named.8; dynamic update message remote DoS + + + SA-09:14.devfs + 2 Oct 2009 + Devfs / VFS NULL pointer race condition + + + + + + + + Kernel Changes + + The &os; GENERIC kernel now + includes Trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control) support. + No MAC policy module is loaded by default. + + A loader + tunable hw.clflush_disable has been added + to avoid panic (trap 9) + at map_invalidate_cache_range() even if + Intel CPU is used. This tunable can be set + to -1 (default), 0 and + 1. The -1 is same as + the current behavior, which automatically + disables CLFLUSH on Intel CPUs without + CPUID_SS (this should occurr on Xen + only). You can specify 1 when this panic + happens on non-Intel CPUs (such as AMD's). Because disabling + CLFLUSH can reduce performance, you can try + with setting 0 on Intel CPUs + without SS to + use CLFLUSH feature. + + The &os; newbus subsystem is now MPSAFE. + + The &man.jail.8; subsystem has been updated. Changes include: + + + + A new virtualization container + named vimage has been implemented. This is + not enabled by default. To enable this, add the following + kernel options to your kernel configuration file and + rebuild the kernel: + + options VIMAGE + + Note that options SCTP in the + GENERIC kernel is not compatible with + options VIMAGE. This limitation will + be fixed in the next release. + + The vimage is a jail with a virtualized instance of + the &os; network stack. It can be created by using + &man.jail.8; command like this: + + &prompt.root; jail -c vnet name=vnet1 host.hostname=vnet1.example.net path=/ persist + + The vimage has own loopback interface and a separated + network stack including the L3 routing tables. Network + interfaces on the system can be moved by using + &man.ifconfig.8; option between the + different vimage jails and outside of them. + + Furthermore, the &man.epair.4; pseudo-interface driver + has been added to help communication between vimage jails. + It emulates a pair of back-to-back connected Ethernet + interfaces. For example, the following commands create an + interface pair of &man.epair.4;: + + &prompt.root; ifconfig epair0 create +epair0a +&prompt.root; ifconfig epair0a +epair0a: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 + ether 02:c0:64:00:07:0a +&prompt.root; ifconfig epair0b +epair0b: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 + ether 02:c0:64:00:08:0b + + The &man.epair.4; pseudo-interfaces and any physical + interfaces on the system can be moved between vimage jails + by using &man.ifconfig.8; option as + described above. Even after half of an &man.epair.4; pair + is moved, the back-to-back connection still valid and can + be used for inter-jail communication. + + Note that vimage is still considered as an + experimental feature. + + + + A jail can now have arbitrary named parameters similar + to environmental variables and the fixed jail parameters + in the previous releases have been replaced with them. + The jail name can now be used for identifying the jail in + &man.jexec.8; and &man.killall.1;. + + + + Multiple IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses per jail are now + supported. It is even possible to have jails without + an IP address at all, which basically gives one a chrooted + environment with restricted process view and no + networking. + + + + SCTP (&man.sctp.4;) with IPv6 in jails has been + implemented. + + + + Specific CPU binding by using &man.cpuset.1; has been + implemented. Note that the current implementation allows + the superuser inside of the jail to change the CPU + bindings specified. + + + + A &man.jail.8; can start with a specific route + FIB now. + + + + The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now supports a + show jails subcommand. + + + + Compatibility support which permits 32-bit jail + binaries to be used on 64-bit systems to manage jails has + been added. + + + + Note that both version numbers of + jail and prison in + the &man.jail.8; have been updated for the new + features. + + + + The &man.ksyms.4;, kernel symbol table + interface driver has been added. It creates a character + device /dev/ksyms and provides + read-only access to a snapshot of the kernel symbol + table. + + The &os; Linux emulation + layer has been updated to version 2.6.16 and the default Linux + infrastructure port is + emulators/linux_base-f10 (Fedora + 10). + + The &os; virtual memory + subsystem now supports fully transparent use of + superpages for application memory; + application memory pages are dynamically promoted to or + demoted from superpages without any modification to + application code. This change offers the benefit of large + page sizes such as improved virtual memory efficiency and + reduced TLB (translation lookaside buffer) misses without + downsides like application changes and virtual memory + inflexibility. This can be enabled by setting a loader tunable + vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled to + 1 and is enabled by default on + &arch.amd64;. + + The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now supports a + show mount subcommand. + + The &os; DTrace subsystem now supports a probe for + process execution. + + The &os; kernel virtual address + space has been increased to 6GB. This allows subsystems to use + larger virtual memory space than before. For example, the + &man.zfs.8; adaptive replacement cache (ARC) requires large + kernel memory space to cache file system data, so it benefits + from the increased address space. Note that the ceiling on + the kernel map size is now 60% of the size of physical memory + rather than an absolute quantity. + + The &man.kld.4; now supports installing 32-bit + system calls to the &os; syscall translation layer from kernel + modules. + + The &man.ktr.4; now supports a new KTR tracepoint in the + KTR_CALLOUT class to note when a callout + routine finishes executing. + + Types of variables used to track the amount of allocated + System V shared memory have been changed from + int to size_t. This + makes it possible to use more than 2 GB of memory for shared + memory segments on 64-bit architectures. Please note the new + BUGS section in &man.shmctl.2; and + /usr/src/UPDATING for limitations of this + temporary solution. + + The &man.sysctl.3; leaf nodes have a flag to tag + themselves as MPSAFE now. + + The &os; 32-bit system call translation layer now + supports installing 32-bit system calls for + VFS_AIO. + + The &man.clock.gettime.2; and the related system calls now + support a clock ID CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, + as defined in POSIX. + + The &man.cpuset.2; system call has been added. This is an + API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and + assignment. + + The DTrace, a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework and + &man.dtrace.1; userland utility have been imported from + OpenSolaris. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to + permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to + concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the + operating system and user programs. + + The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture + facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured + to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or + a textdump. The new capture command controls + this feature. + + The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting + facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a + set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from + within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8; + utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual + page. + + The &man.ddb.4; ex command now supports + an mode which interprets and prints the + value at the requested address as a symbol. For example, + ex /S aio_swake + prints the name of the function currently registered in + via aio_swake hook. + + The &man.ddb.4; show conifhk command has + been added. This lists hooks currently waiting for completion + in run_interrupt_driven_config_hooks(). + + The &man.fcntl.2; system call now supports + F_DUP2FD command. This is equivalent to + &man.dup.2;, and compatible with the Sun Solaris and the IBM + AIX. + + The &os;'s &man.linux.4; ABI support now implements + sched_setaffinity() and + sched_getaffinity() using real CPU affinity + setting primitives. + + The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added. This is a + process inspection utility which provides some of the missing + functionality from &man.procfs.5; and new functionality for monitoring + and debugging specific processes. + + The client side functionality of &man.rpc.lockd.8; has been + implemented in the &os; kernel. This implementation provides the + correct semantics for &man.flock.2; style locks which are used + by the &man.lockf.1; command line tool and the &man.pidfile.3; + library. It also implements recovery from server restarts and + ensures that dirty cache blocks are written to the server before + obtaining locks (allowing multiple clients to use file locking + to safely share data). Also, a new kernel option + options NFSLOCKD has been added and enabled + by default. If the kernel support is enabled, &man.rpc.lockd.8; + automatically detects and uses the functionality. + + The &os; kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel + dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via + mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a + simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief + kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but + are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely + synchronized source code. More information can be found in the + &man.textdump.4; manual page. + + The &man.wait4.2; system call now supports + flag to keep the process whose status + is returned in a waitable state and + which is equivalent to . + + The &os; kernel now has + initial support of binding interrupts to CPUs. + + The &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler is now the default + process scheduler in GENERIC + kernels. + + The sysctl + variables kern.features.compat_freebsd[456] + have been added. These are corresponding to the kernel options + COMPAT_FREEBSD[456]. + + + Boot Loader Changes + + The boot0 boot + loader now preserves volume ID at offset + 0x1b8 used in other operating systems + + The &man.boot0cfg.8; utility now supports a + new option to set the volume ID. + + The &man.boot.8; now supports 4-byte volume ID that + certain versions of &windows; put into the MBR and invoking + PXE by pressing the F6 key on some supported BIOSes. + + The &man.boot.8; BTX loader has been + improved. This fixes several boot issues on recent machines + reported for 7.1-RELEASE and before. + + The &man.loader.8; is now able to obtain DHCP options + from network boot via &man.kenv.2; variables. + + A bug in the &man.loader.8; has been fixed. Now the + following line works as expected: + + loader_conf_files="foo bar ${variable}" + + The BTX kernel used by the boot + loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real + mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB + devices. + + A new gptboot boot loader has + been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A + new boot command has been added to + &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the + required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot + partition if required. + + + + Hardware Support + + The &os; now includes experimental support + for &arch.mips; platform. + + The &man.acpi.4; subsystem now supports the System + Resource Affinity Table (SRAT) used to describe affinity + relationships between CPUs and memory, ACPI 3.0 fields in + the MADT including X2APIC entries and UIDs for local SAPICs, and + ACPI 3.0 flags in the FADT. + + The &man.cpufreq.4; framework now + supports PowerPC G5, along with a skeleton SMU driver in order to slew + CPU voltage during frequency changes. + + The sec(4) driver has been added to provide + support for the integrated security engine found in + Freescale system-on-chip devices. + + The &os; TTY layer has been replaced with a + new one which has better support for SMP and robust resource + handling. A tty now has own mutex and it is expected to + improve scalability when compared to the old implementation + based on the Giant lock. + + The &man.uart.4; driver is now the + default driver for serial port devices in favor of the + &man.sio.4; driver. Note that the device nodes have been + renamed from + /dev/cuadN and + /dev/ttydN to + /dev/cuauN and + /dev/ttyuN. + + + Users who are upgrading will need to change their + kernel configurations and possibly also + /boot/loader.conf and + /boot/device.hints. + + + The &os; USB subsystem has been reimplemented + to support modern devices and better SMP scalability. The + new implementation includes Giant-lock-free device drivers, + a Linux compatibility layer, &man.usbconfig.8; utility, full + support for split transaction and isochronous transaction, + and more. Device node names for USB devices are now in a + the form + of /dev/usb/bus.dev.endpoint, + and /dev/usbctl is the master device + node. Note that the &man.ugen.4; driver has nodes for each device as /dev/ugenbus.dev for backward compatibility. + + &os; now supports Ultra SPARC III + (Cheetah) processor family. + + The &man.acpi.4; subsystem now supports a &man.sysctl.8; + variable debug.batt.batt_sleep_ms. On + some laptops with smart batteries, enabling battery + monitoring software causes keystrokes from &man.atkbd.4; to + be lost. This sysctl variable adds a delay in millisecond + to the status checking code as a workaround. + + The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver now supports Asus A8Sr + notebooks. + + Support for the AltiVec, a floating point + and integer SIMD instruction set has been added. + + The &man.cpuctl.4; driver, which provides a special + device /dev/cpuctl as an interface to + the system CPU has been added. The &man.cpuctl.4; + functionality includes the ability to retrieve CPUID + information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR), + and perform CPU firmware updates. + + The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports an + hw.est.msr_info loader tunable. When + this is set to 1, it attempts to build a + simple list containing just the high and low frequencies if + it cannot obtain a frequency list from either ACPI or the + static tables. This is disabled by default. + + CPU frequency change notifiers are now + disabled when the TSC is P-state invariant. Also, a new + loader tunable + kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc has been + added to force this behavior by setting it to + non-zero. + + The &man.atkbd.4; driver now disables the interrupt + handler which is called from the keyboard callback function + when polled mode is enabled. This fixes the problem of + duplicated/missing characters at the mountroot prompt on + multi CPU systems while &man.kbdmux.4; is enabled. + + In the &man.pci.4; subsystem INTx is now disabled when + MSI/MSIX is enabled. This change fixes interrupt storm + related issues. + + The schizo(4) driver for Schizo + Fireplane/Safari to PCI 2.1 and Tomatillo JBus to PCI 2.2 + bridges has been added. + + The &man.u3g.4; driver for USB based 3G cards and + dongles including Vodafone Mobile Connect Card 3G, Qualcomm + CDMA MSM, Huawei E220, Novatel U740, Sierra MC875U, and more + has been added. This provides support for the multiple + USB-to-serial interfaces exposed by many 3G USB/PC Card + modems, and the device is accessed through the &man.ucom.4; + driver which makes it behave like a &man.tty.4;. + + The &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler now supports + the loader tunable + machdep.hyperthreading_enabled just like + &man.sched.4bsd.4;. Note that it cannot be modified at + run-time. + + The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 + PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. + + The &man.kbdmux.4; driver now + supports &arch.sparc64;. The &man.sunkbd.4; driver now + supports &man.atkbd.4; emulation like &man.ukbd.4;. + + The nvram(4) driver is now + MPSAFE. + + An option of the &man.puc.4; + driver, PUC_FASTINTR, is no longer + supported. + + The &man.psm.4; driver now attempts detection of Synaptics + touchpad before IntelliMouse. Some touchpads will pretend to + be IntelliMouse causing the IntelliMouse probe to work and the + Synaptics detection never to be done. + + The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon + Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been + imported from OpenBSD. + + + Multimedia Support + + The &os; audio subsystem has been improved. + The changes include volume per channel, high quality + fixed-point band-limited SINC sampling rate converter, + bit-perfect mode, transparent/adaptive virtual channel, + and exclusive stream. For more details, see the + &man.snd.4; manual page. + + The &man.agp.4; driver now supports Intel G4X series + graphics chipsets. + + The Direct Rendering Manager + (DRM), a kernel module that + gives direct hardware access to DRI clients, has been + updated. Support for AMD/ATI r500, r600, r700, and IGP + based chips, XGI V3XE/V5/V8, and Intel i915 chipsets has + been improved. + + A new loader tunable hw.drm.msi has + been added to control if DRM uses MSI or not. This is set + to 1 (enabled) by default. + + The snd_au88x0(4) driver for Aureal Vortex + 1/2/Advantage PCI has been removed because it has been + broken for a long time. + + The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been updated. These + changes include support for multiple codecs per HDA bus, + multiple functional groups per codec, multiple audio + devices per functional group, digital (SPDIF/HDMI) audio + input/output, suspend/resume, and part of multichannel + audio. + + Note that due to added HDMI audio and + logical audio devices support, the updated driver often + provides several PCM devices. This means that in some + cases the system default audio device no longer + corresponds to the users's habitual audio connectors. In + such cases the default device can be specified in audio + applications' setup or defined globally via + hw.snd.default_unit sysctl variable, as + described in the &man.sound.4; manual page. + + The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the + Intel G33 and G45. + + The dpms(4) driver has + been added to use the VESA BIOS for DPMS during suspend and + resume. + + The DRM kernel driver now + supports i915 GME devices. + + + + Network Interface Support + + The &man.bwi.4; driver has been added to + provide support for Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless + network interfaces. + + The &man.cas.4; driver has + been added to provide support for Sun Cassini/Cassini+ and + National Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn Gigabit Ethernet + devices. + + The &man.cxgbtool.8; now supports an + interactive mode for scripting of repeatedly performed + tasks. + + The &man.fxp.4; driver has been improved. Changes include: + + + + The multicast filter re-programming + is now more robust. + + + + The checksum offload feature can be controlled by + &man.ifconfig.8; now. + + + + Rx checksum offload support for 82559 or later + controllers has been added. + + + + TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) support for 82550 + and 82551 controllers has been added. + + + + WoL (Wake on LAN) support for 82550, 82551, 82558, + and 82559-based controllers has been added. Note that + ICH based controllers are treated as 82559, and 82557, + earlier revisions of 82558, and 82559ER have no WoL + capability. + + + + VLAN hardware tag insertion/stripping support and + Tx/Rx checksum offload for VLAN frames support has + been added. Note that the VLAN hardware assistance is + available only on 82550 or 82551-based + controllers. + + + + The &man.miibus.4; driver now supports + the Marvell 88E3016. + + The &man.msk.4; driver now supports Yukon + FE+ A0 including 88E8040, 88E8040T, 88E8048 and + 88E8070. + + The &man.mwl.4; driver has been added to + provide support for Marvell 88W8363 IEEE 802.11n wireless + network devices. + + The &man.mxge.4; driver now supports some newer + revisions and 10GBASE-LRM and 10GBASE-Twinax media + types. The firmware version has been updated to 1.4.43. + + The &man.nge.4; driver has been improved and + now works on all platforms. + + The &man.uath.4; driver for USB wireless LAN + adapter based on Atheros AR5005UG and AR5005UX chipsets + has been added. The &man.uathload.8; utility, a firmware + loader for the Atheros USB wireless driver has also been + added. + + The &man.urtw.4; driver has been added to + provide support for Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g + wireless network devices. + + The &man.xl.4; driver now supports TX + checksum offload. + + The &man.ae.4; driver now supports WoL + (Wake on LAN). + + The &man.ale.4; driver is now + included in the GENERIC + kernel. + + The &man.ath.hal.4;, Atheros Hardware Access Layer, + has been updated to the open source version. + + The &man.axe.4; driver has been improved in + performance by eliminating extra context switches and now + supports the Apple USB Ethernet adapter. + + The &man.bce.4; driver's firmware has been updated to + the latest version (4.6.X). + + The ciphy(4) driver now supports Vitesse VSC8211 + PHY. + + The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to firmware + revision 4.7 and now supports hardware MAC + statistics. + + A bug in the &man.igb.4; driver, which prevented the + loader tunable hw.igb.ave_latency from + working, has been fixed. + + The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to + version 1.7.4. + + The &man.jme.4; driver now supports newer JMicron + JMC250/JMC260 revisions. + + The &man.msk.4; driver has been improved. An issue + which made it hang up in a certain condition has been + fixed. Hardware MAC statistics support has been added + and users can get the information via sysctl variables + named + dev.msk.N.stats. + + The &man.nfe.4; driver now supports hardware MAC + statistics. + + The &man.re.4; driver has been improved. It now + detects the link status. A new loader tunable + hw.re.prefer_iomap has been added, to + disable memory register mapping. This tunable is + 0 for all controllers except RTL8169SC + family. + + The &man.rl.4; driver has been improved. It now + detects the link status and a bug which prevented it from + working on systems with more than 4GB memory has been + fixed. + + A bug in &man.sis.4; on VLAN tagged frame handling has + been fixed. + + The &man.txp.4; driver now works on all supported + architectures. Support has been added for &man.altq.4;, + WoL, checksum offload when VLAN enabled, and link state + change handling has been improved, and new sysctl + variables + dev.txp.N.stats + for MAC statistics have been added. New sysctl variables + dev.txp.N.process_limit + has been added, to control how many received frames should + be served in Rx handler (set to 64 by default and valid + ranges are 16 to 128 in unit of frames). The firmware has + been updated to the latest version. + + The &man.ae.4; driver has been added to provide + support for the Attansic/Atheros L2 FastEthernet + controllers. + + The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to + provide support for PCIe adapters based on JMicron JMC250 + gigabit Ethernet and JMC260 fast Ethernet controllers. + + The &man.age.4; driver has been added to + provide support for Attansic/Atheros L1 gigabit Ethernet + controller. + + The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to + provide support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network + adapters. + + The bm(4) driver has been added to + provide support for Apple Big Mac (BMAC) Ethernet controller, + found on various Apple G3 models. + + The et(4) driver has been added to + provide support for Agere ET1310 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet + controller. + + The &man.glxsb.4; driver has been added + to provide support for the Security Block in AMD Geode LX + processors. + + The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support + for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers. + This driver is not enabled in GENERIC + kernels for this release. + + The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers + with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue + to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new + client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver + will support new server adapters. + + The &man.hme.4; driver has been improved. + + A bug in some of the &man.miibus.4; supported drivers that + IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation was performed in a wrong order, + has been fixed. Now it chooses the correct technologies + supported by IEEE 802.3 in the order described in Annex + 28B.3. + + A workaround has been added for a bug in TCP/UDP + hardware checksum offload of the &man.msk.4; driver for + short frames. Note that for frames that requires hardware + VLAN tag insertion, the checksum offload workaround does not + work due to changes of checksum offset in mbuf after the + VLAN tag. So disabling hardware checksum offload for the + VLAN interface is needed in such cases. + + The &man.ndis.4; NDIS miniport driver wrapper has been + improved. + + The &man.sf.4; driver has been improved and now supports + checksum offloading. + + The &man.stge.4; driver now supports WOL (Wake on + LAN). + + The &man.vr.4; driver has been improved. + + The &man.wpi.4; driver has + been updated to include a number of stability fixes. + + + + + Network Protocols + + The &os; netisr framework has been + reimplemented for parallel threading support. This is a + kernel network dispatch interface which allows device + drivers (and other packet sources) to direct packets to + protocols for directly dispatched or deferred processing. + The new implementation supports up to one netisr thread per + CPU, and several benchmarks on SMP machines show substantial + performance improvement over the previous version. + + A bug in the &man.gif.4; that EtherIP packets + sent by combination of &man.if.bridge.4; and &man.gif.4; + have a reversed version field has been fixed. If you need + to communicate with older &os; releases via EtherIP, use new + flags accept_rev_ethip_ver + and send_rev_ethip_ver to control + handling the reversed version field. These can be set by + &man.ifconfig.8 utility to &man.gif.4; interfaces. The + EtherIP implementation found on &os; 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0, + 7.1, and 7.2 had an interoperability issue because it sent + the incorrect EtherIP packets and discarded the correct + ones. For more details, see &man.gif.4; manual page. + + The IGMPv3 and SSM (Source-Specific Multicast) + including IPv6 SSM and MLDv2 have been added. Although the + old KAME MLDv2 hooks have been replaced with the new + implementation, the related kernel programming interfaces have been + preserved. + + The multicast routing code has been improved + and the IPv4 and IPv6 support has been split. + + The &os; now supports the upcoming Wireless + Mesh standard, IEEE 802.11s. The current implementation is + based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft version. + + The wireless network support layer (net80211) + now uses pseudo-interfaces named as + wlanN instead + of a device driver name like em0 + directly. The + wlanN + interface is created by &man.ifconfig.8; as an instance of + the parent interface and used for actual communication + similar to &man.vlan.4, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN network interface. + Note that multiple instances (to realize multiple BSSes with + a single AP device, for example) can be created if the + parent interface supports it. For more details, see + &man.ifconfig.8; manual page. + + The net80211 layer now supports TDMA for long + distance point-to-point links using &man.ath.4; + devices. + + An infrastructure for caching flows as a means + of accelerating L2 and L3 lookups has been added. This is + called flow table and enabled by default on + &arch.amd64 and &arch.i386; platforms. This also provides + stateful load balancing when used + with RADIX_MPATH + + The &os; L2 address translation table has been + reimplemented to reduce lock contention on parallel + processing and simplify the routing logic. The new + implementation has L2 address translation tables for both + ARP (for IPv4) and NDP (for IPv6) which are separated from + the L3 routing tables, and supports flow table caches for both + the routing table and the L2 information. One of the + user-visible changes is that a concept of cloned route (a + route generated by an entry + with RTF_CLONING flag) is deprecated. + This means routing flags RTF_CLONING, + RTF_WASCLONE, + and RTF_LLINFO are obsolete. + + The &man.ipsec.4; subsystem now supports + NAT-Traversal (RFC 3948). This is disabled by default. To + enable this add the following kernel option and rebuild the + kernel: + + device crypto +options IPSEC +options IPSEC_NAT_T + + IPv4 source address selection for unbound sockets has + been implemented as follows: + + + + If we found a route, use the address corresponding + to the outgoing interface. + + + + Otherwise we assume the foreign address is reachable + on a directly connected network and try to find a + corresponding interface to take the source address + from. + + + + As a last resort use the default jail address. + + + + This also changes the semantics of selecting the IP for + processes within a &man.jail.8; as it now uses the same + logic as outside the &man.jail.8;. + + The TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) for IPv6 has + been implemented in the same way it has been implemented for + IPv4. + + The &man.ng.netflow.4; Netgraph node now includes + support for generating egress netflow instead or in addition + to ingress. An NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG + control message has been added to control the new + functionality. + + The &man.tap.4; Ethernet tunnel software network + interface now supports a new TAPGIFNAME + character device ioctl. This is a convenient shortcut to + obtain the network interface name using a file descriptor to + a character device. + + The &man.tap.4; now supports + SIOCSIFMTU ioctl to set a higher MTU than + 1500 (ETHERMTU). This allows &man.tap.4; devices to be + added to the same bridge (which requires all interface + members to have the same MTU) with an interface configured + for jumbo frames. + + The domains list for handling the list of supported + domains in the &man.unix.4; (UNIX domain protocol family) + subsystem is now MPSAFE. + + The &man.arp.8; utility now + supports reject + and blackhole keywords. In the entry + marked as reject, traffic to the host will + be discarded and the sender will be notified the host is + unreachable. In the entry marked as blackhole, + traffic is discarded but the sender is not notified. + + The &man.bpf.4; now supports an + ioctl BIOCSETFNR. This is just like + BIOCSETF, but it does not drop all the + packets buffered on the descriptor and reset the + statistics. + + The &man.if.bridge.4; interface can limit the + number of source MACs that can be behind a bridge interface + via ifmaxaddr parameter of + &man.ifconfig.8;. + + A bug in the &man.carp.4; interface configuration which + leads to a system panic has been fixed. + + The &man.dummynet.4; subsystem now supports + fast mode operation which allows certain + packets to bypass the dummynet scheduler. This can achieve + lower latency and lower overhead when the packet flow is under + the pipe bandwidth, and eliminate recursion in the subsystem. + The new sysctl variable + net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_fast has been + added to enable this feature. + + The &man.enc.4; interface now supports sysctl + variables to control whether the firewalls or &man.bpf.4; + will see inner and outer headers or just inner or outer + headers for incoming and outgoing IPsec packets. + + The &man.gre.4; now supports + ioctls GRESKEY + and GREGKEY which allows set or get GRE + key used for outgoing packets. + + A bug in the &man.ipsec.4; subsystem that PMTU was broken + in those cases when there was a route with a lower MTU than + the MTU of the outgoing interface, has been fixed. + + The netatm subsystem has been removed due to + lacking multiprocessor support. + + The &man.ng.nat.4; now supports redirect functionality + in libalias. For more details, see the + manual page. + + The &man.ng.pptpgre.4; now supports multiple hooks like + &man.ng.l2tp.4;, to use one pair of pptpgre and ksocket nodes for all + calls between two peers. + + The &man.resolver.3; now allows underscore in domain + names. Although this is a violation of RFC 1034 [STD 13], it is + accepted by certain name servers as well as other popular operating + systems' resolver library. + + A socket option TCP_CONGESTION for TCP + sockets has been added. This is for setting and retrieving the + congestion control algorithm. The name used is to allow + compatibility with Linux. + + The &man.rwlock.9; has been used throughout + the inpcbinfo and inpcb + infrastructure, and protocols that depend on that + infrastructure, including UDP, TCP, and IP raw sockets to + reduce the lock contentions. + + The &os; now supports multiple routing tables. To + enable this, the following steps are needed: + + + + Add the following kernel configuration option and + rebuild the kernel. The 2 is the number + of FIB (Forward Information Base, synonym for a routing + table here). The maximum value is 16. + + options ROUTETABLES=2 + + The procedure for rebuilding the &os; kernel is + described in the &os; + Handbook. + + This number can be modified on boot time. To do so, add + the following to /boot/loader.conf and + reboot the system: + + net.fibs=6 + + + + Set a loader tunable net.my_fibnum if + needed. This means the default number of routing tables. + If not specified, 0 will be used. + + + + Set a loader tunable + net.add_addr_allfibs if needed. This + enables to add routes to all FIBs for new interfaces by + default. When this is set to 0, it will + only allocate routes on interface changes for the FIB of the + caller when adding a new set of addresses to an interface. + Note that this tunable is set to 1 by + default. + + + + To select one of the FIBs, the new &man.setfib.1; utility + can be used. This set an associated FIB with the process. For + example: + + &prompt.root; setfib -3 ping target.example.com + + The FIB #3 will be used for the &man.ping.8; command. + + The FIB which the packet will be associated with will be + determined in the following rules: + + + + All packets which have a FIB associated with them will + use the FIB. If not, FIB #0 will be used. + + + + A packet received on an interface for forwarding uses + FIB #0. + + + + A TCP listen socket associated with an FIB will generate + accept sockets which are associated with the same FIB. + + + + A packet generated in response to other packet uses the + FIB associated with the packet being responded to. + + + + A packet generated on tunnel interfaces such as + &man.gif.4; and &man.tun.4; will be encapsulated using the + FIB of the process which set up the tunnel. + + + + Routing messages will be associated with the process's + FIB. + + + + Also, the &man.ipfw.8; now supports an action rule + setfib. The following action: + + setfib fibnum + + will make the matched packet use the FIB specified in + fibnum. The rule processing + continues at the next rule. + + + + Disks and Storage + + The &os; CAM SCSI subsystem (&man.cam.4;) now + includes experimental support for ATA/SATA/AHCI-compliant + devices. This is disabled by default. To enable this, + adding the following kernel options to your kernel + configuration file and rebuild the kernel: + + device ahci +device siis + + The current implementation supports + AHCI-compliant controllers and SiliconImage + SiI3124/SiI3132/SiI3531 controllers. The device node of an + ATA drive is ada and an ATAPI + drive is cd. + + The &os; iSCSI initiator implementation has + been improved and supports IPv6. + + A userland utility &man.mfiutil.8; for the + &man.mfi.4; devices has been added. This includes basic + features to monitor controller, array, and drive status, + change basic attributes, create/delete arrays and spares, + and flush the controller firmware. Note that this is a + small utility, not a replacement of MegaCLI in the Ports + Collection which is supported officially and provides more + functionality. + + A userland utility &man.mptutil.8; for the + &man.mpi.4; devices has been added. This includes basic + features to monitor controller, array, and drive status, + change basic attributes, and create/delete arrays and + spares. + + The &man.siis.4; driver has been added to + provide support for SiliconImage SiI3124/3132/3531 SATA2 + controllers. It supports Serial ATA and ATAPI devices, port + multipliers (including FIS-based switching), hardware + command queues (31 commands per port) and Native Command + Queuing. + + The &man.ata.4; driver now supports Marvell PATA M88SX6121. + + The &man.ata.4; driver now recognizes nForce MCP67 and + MCP73 SATA controllers as AHCI. + + The &man.ataraid.4; driver now includes preliminary support + for DDF metadata found on Adaptec HostRAID controllers. + Note that spares and rebuilds are not supported yet. + + The &man.cam.4; SCSI subsystem now supports a new sysctl + variable kern.cam.cd.retry_count. This + controls the number of retries for the CD media. When + trying to read scratched or damaged CDs and DVDs, the + default mechanism is sub-optimal, and programs like + ddrescue do much better if you + turn off the retries entirely since their algorithms do it + by themselves. This value is set to 4 + (for a total of 5 attempts) by default. Setting it to + 0 turns off all retry attempts. + + A bug in the &man.ciss.4; driver which caused low + max device openings count and led to poor + performance has been fixed. + + The &man.glabel.8; GEOM class now supports a new + UFS-based label called ufsid that can be + used to reference UFS-carrying devices by the unique file + system ID. This file system ID is automatically generated + and detected when the &man.glabel.8; GEOM class is enabled. An + example of this new label is: + /dev/ufsid/48e69c8b5c8e1b43. The + benefit of using GEOM labels in general is to avoid problems + of device renaming when shifting drives or + controllers. + + The &man.gjournal.8; GEOM class now supports the root + file system. Previously, an unclean shutdown would make it + impossible to mount the root file system at boot. + + The &man.gpart.8; utility has been updated. The APM + scheme now supports Tivo Series 1 partitions (read only), a + new EBR scheme to support Extended Boot Records has been + added, the BSD scheme now support bootcode, and bugs in the + PC98 and VTOC8 schemes have been fixed. + + An issue in &man.gvinum.8; with access permissions + to underlying disks used by a gvinum plex has been fixed. + If the plex is a raid5 plex and is being written to, parity data might + have to be read from the underlying disks, requiring them to be opened for + reading as well as writing. + + The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated to version + 1.16 from HighPoint. + + The &man.mmc.4; and &man.mmcsd.4; drivers now support MMC + and SDHC cards, high speed timing, wide bus, and multiblock + transfers. + + The &man.mpt.4; driver is now in the + GENERIC kernel. + + The &man.sdhci.4; driver has been added. This supports + PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 according to the SD + Host Controller Specification. + + The &man.sdhci.4; driver now supports kernel dumping and + a sysctl variable hw.sdhci.debug for debug + level. + + The &man.twa.4; driver now supports 64-bit DMA. + + The &man.mmc.4; &man.mmcsd.4;, and &man.sdhci.4; driver + are now included as kernel modules. + + The &man.aac.4; driver now supports 64-bit array support + for RAIDs larger than 2TB and simultaneous opens of the device + for issuing commands to the controller. + + The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a loader variable + hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin. This can be + used to disable the 80pin cable check on broken systems such + as certain laptops and Soekris boards. The default value is + 1. + + A data corruption problem of the &man.ata.4; driver on + ServerWorks HT1000 chipsets has been fixed. + + The &man.ciss.4; driver now supports a loader tunable + hw.ciss.nop_message_heartbeat for + NOP-message polling in ciss_periodic(). + This can be used as a workaround for + ADAPTER HEARTBEAT FAILED issue. + The default value is 0 (disabled). + + The geom_part GEOM class can be built + as a kernel module. + + The geom_linux_lvm GEOM class can be + built as a kernel module. + + The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 + from Highpoint. + + A buffer overflow in the &man.iir.4; driver has been + fixed. This likely fixes a great number of weird problems + that have been reported with this driver. + + The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports mpt_user + personality. + + The &man.rr232x.4; driver has been superseded by + &man.hptrr.4; driver. + + The &man.twa.4; driver has been improved with regard to + stability on machines with a plenty of memory and high CPU + load. + + + + File Systems + + dangerously dedicated mode for + the UFS file system is no longer supported. + + + Such disks will need to be reformatted to work with + this release. + + + The &man.gvinum.8; now supports commands + found in the old vinum implementation including + attach, detach, + start, stop, + concat, mirror, + stripe, and + raid5. + + The &man.gvinum.8; now + supports grow command to make it easier + for users to extend plexes without having to understand all + of the implementation internals. + + The &os; NFS subsystem now + supports RPCSEC_GSS authentication on + both the client and server. This replaces the RPC + implementation of the NFS client and server with the newer + RPC implementation originally developed to support the NFS + Lock Manager. It supports both the new RPC implementation + and the older legacy implementation inherited from the + original NFS codebase and the default is to use the new one. + To use RPCSEC_GSS on either client or + server, you must build a kernel which includes + the KGSSAPI option and the &man.crypto.4; + device. For more details, see &man.gssd.8; manual + page. + + The &os; NFS subsystem now includes a new, + experimental implementation with support for NFSv2, NFSv3, and + NFSv4. This is not enabled by default. To enable this, add + the following kernel options to your kernel configuration + file and rebuild the kernel: + + options NFSCL # for NFS client +options NFSD # for NFS server + + The fstype for &man.mount.8; program is + newnfs, and &man.mount.newnfs.8; program + has also been added. The old, unmaintained NFSv4 client + based on an implementation from the University of Michigan was + removed from the &os; source tree. + + The &os; NFS subsystem now uses TCP as the + default transport. + + The shared vnode locking for pathname lookups + in the &man.VFS.9; subsystem has been improved. This is + enabled by default. Setting a sysctl variable + vfs.lookup_shared to 0 + disables it. Note that the + LOOKUP_SHARED kernel option equivalent to + the sysctl variable has been removed. + + The ZFS file system + has been updated to version 13. The changes include ZFS + operations by a regular user, L2ARC, ZFS Intent Log on + separated disks (slog), sparse volumes, and so on. + + The semantics of &man.acl.3; extended access control + lists has been changed as follows: + + + + The inode modification time (mtime) is not updated + when extended attributes are added, modified, or removed. + + + + The inode access time (atime) is not updated + when extended attributes are queried. + + + + The &os; NFS file system now supports a sysctl variable + vfs.nfs.prime_access_cache to determine + whether or not nfs_getattr() will use + an ACCESS RPC to prime the access cache instead of a simple + GETATTR RPC. This is because on many NFS servers an ACCESS + RPC is much more expensive to service than a GETATTR RPC for + files in an NFSv3 mount. The sysctl variable is enabled by + default to maintain the previous behavior. + + The &os; UDF file system now supports a fifo. + + The &man.fdescfs.5; is now MPSAFE. + + The &man.gpart.8; now supports BSD disklabels (option + GEOM_PART_BSD) and + VTOC8 disklabels (option + GEOM_PART_VTOC8). + + The &man.gvinum.8; now accepts volume + parameter when creating a plex. + + A pathname lookup bug of a UNIX domain socket in the + unionfs(7) has been fixed. + + + + + Userland Changes + + The GCC stack protection (also known as + ProPolice) has been enabled in the &os; base system. + + A BSD-licensed &man.ar.1; utility has been added + in favor of one in GNU binutils and + it is now the default utility for building the &os; base + system. + + The &man.awk.1; utility now supports 64 files. + The upper limit was 20 in prior releases. + + The &man.bsnmpd.1; program now supports OIDs + for ZFS. + + The &man.camcontrol.8; program now supports a + new modularized ATA kernel module and various ATA + commands. + + The &man.cat.1; and &man.cp.1; now use a larger + buffer if the number of pages of the physical memory on the + system is grater than 32k. This reduces the number of context + switches. + + A new BSD-licensed &man.cpio.1; utility has been + added in favor of GNU cpio and it + is now the default utility in the &os; base system. + + A script for the &man.crashinfo.8; utility for + simple analysis of crash dump has been added. It generates a + text file containing the output of several commands run against + the core dump such as &man.kgdb.1; (stack trace), &man.ps.1;, + &man.netstat.1;, + &man.vmstat.8;, + &man.iostat.8;, + &man.dmesg.8;, + and + &man.fstat.1;. + + The &man.df.1; utility's + flag now supports displaying inode counts in a human-readable + format when a flag is specified. + + The &man.df.1; utility now supports + a flag to display file system type in each + entry. + + A bug in the &man.dhclient.8; that can create a + malformed /etc/resolv.conf has been + fixed. + + The &man.dhclient.8; now uses an + flag when invoking &man.route.8; command. + This eliminates a long delay in the case that it gets a lease + but DNS service is not working. + + The &man.dhclient.8; utility now + uses 68 (bootpc) as the source port for + unicast DHCPREQUEST packets instead of + allowing the protocol stack to pick a random source port. + This fixes the behavior where &man.dhclient.8; would never + transition from RENEWING + to BOUND without going + through REBINDING in some networks which + has a tight policy on DHCP spoofing. + + The &man.env.1; utility now supports a + option + that completely unsets the given name instead of setting it to + a null value. + + The &man.find.1; utility now supports a number + of primaries found in GNU find + including , + , + , , + , , + , , + , , + , , + , and . + + The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a + flag to free up excess unused inodes. + Decreasing the number of preallocated inodes reduces the + running time of future runs of fsck and frees up space that + can allocated to files. This flag is ignored when running in + preen mode. + + The &man.freebsd-update.8; now supports backing + up the old kernel when installing a new kernel. The backup + kernel will be written + to /boot/kernel.old if the directory does + not exist or the directory was created by freebsd-update in a + previous backup. Otherwise the &man.freebsd-update.8; will + generate a new directory name for use by the backup. This is + enabled by default. + + The &man.gpt.8; program has been removed in + favor of &man.gpart.8;. + + The &man.gzip.1; utility now supports + uncompressing files which are created + by pack found in some commercial + UNIX-like systems. + + The &man.i2c.8; utility for diagnostics of I2C has + been added. + + The &man.ifconfig.8; now + supports and + option to allow moving interfaces between jails with + vimage. + + A BSD-licensed libdwarf + library has been added for DTrace clients. + + The libmsun library now supports + acosl(), + asinl(), + atanl(), + atan2l(), + cargl(), + csqrtl(), + fmodl(), + hypotl(), + and + remquol() + functions. + + The libproc + library has been added for DTrace clients. + + The &man.mtest.8; utility now supports IPv6. + + The &man.mount.8; program now supports + an option + to allow an alternative program to be used for mounting a file + system. This is useful for non-&man.nmount.2; based file + systems such as FUSE. + + The &man.nfscbd.8;, &man.nfsuserd.8;, + &man.nfsdumpstate.8;, and &man.nfsrevoke.8; utilities for the + new NFSv4 subsystem has been added. + + The &man.pmcannotate.8; utility has been added. + This prints out sources of a tool (in C or assembly) with + inlined profiling informations retrieved by a prior + &man.pmcstat.8; analysis. + + The &man.route.8; utility now + supports show, + weights, and sticky + commands. For more details, see the &man.route.8; manual + page. + + The &man.rtld.1; now supports a new + environment variable LD_ELF_HINTS_PATH for + overriding the rtld hints file. This environment variable + would be ignored if the process uses setuid and/or setgid. + This feature gives a convenient way to use a custom set of + shared library that is not in the default location. + + The &man.rtld.1; now supports the dynamic + string token substitution in the rpath and soneeded pathes. The + $ORIGIN, + $OSNAME, + $OSREL + and $PLATFORM + tokens are supported. Enabling + the substitution requires DF_ORIGIN + flag in DT_FLAGS or + DF_1_ORIGIN if + DF_FLAGS_1, that may be set + with origin GNU + ld flag. This translation is unconditionally + disabled for setuid/setgid processes. + The $ORIGIN translation relies on + the AT_EXECPATH auxinfo supplied by the + &os; kernel. + + It is no longer possible to create UFS + filesystems in dangerously dedicated mode using + &man.sysinstall.8; since this mode is no longer supported. + + &man.sysinstall.8; menus have been simplified + to reduce confusion and duplication with other parts of the + system. The Xorg window system + should be installed just like any other package. + Configuration of Linux and + OSF/1 emulation should be done via + kernel rebuilds. Support for installation from tape media was + removed as it was believed to be broken. Obsolete code to + support OLDCARD was also + removed. + + &man.sysinstall.8; now understands how to use + unsliced USB drives as installation source media via + /dev/daXa + + &man.sysinstall.8; now recognizes the new + /dev/adaX disk + devices, if compiled into the kernel. + + &man.sysinstall.8; now uses the + freebsd-doc-* + packages for localized documents. + + &man.sysinstall.8; now ejects the CDROM after + installation if it was used as source media. + + The &man.traceroute.8; and &man.traceroute6.8; + now support an + flag to display AS number corresponding to + the lookup IP address on each hop. It will query the number to + WHOIS server specified in option. If + no is + specified, whois.radb.net will be used as the + default value. + + The &man.tzsetup.8; now supports + an flag to skip the question about + adjusting the clock to UTC. + + The &man.wake.8; utility, a tool to send Wake on + LAN frames to hosts on a local Ethernet network has been + added. + + The &man.ypserv.8; program now + supports shadow.byname + and shadow.byuid maps. + + A bug in the &man.atacontrol.8; utility, which prevents it + from working when /usr is not mounted or + invoked from /rescue, has been + fixed. + + The &man.btpand.8; daemon from NetBSD has been added. + This daemon provides support for Bluetooth Network Access + Point (NAP), Group Ad-hoc Network (GN) and Personal Area + Network User (PANU) profiles. + + The &man.cpucontrol.8; utility has been added to + control &man.cpuctl.4; pseudo-device. + + The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports multibyte + characters. + + The &man.newfs.8; utility now supports + operations on a regular file. + + The &man.config.8; utility now supports + multiple makeoption lines. + + The &man.csup.1; utility now supports CVSMode to fetch a + complete CVS repository. Note that the rsync transfer mode is + currently disabled. + + The &man.dirname.1; utility now accepts multiple arguments + in the same way that &man.basename.1; does. + + The &man.du.1; utility now supports an + flag. When specified, the &man.du.1; utility counts a file + with multiple hard links as multiple different files. + + The &man.du.1; utility now supports an flag + to display the apparent size instead of the disk usage. This can be + helpful when operating on compressed volumes or sparse files. + + The &man.du.1; utility now supports a option to + calculate block counts in blocks of + blocksize bytes. This is different + from the or options or + setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an estimate of + how much space the examined file hierarchy would require on a + file system with the given + blocksize. Unless in + mode, blocksize + is rounded up to the next multiple of 512. + + The &man.dumpfs.8; utility now supports an + flag, which causes it to list all free + fragments in the file system by fragment (block) number. This + new mode does the necessary arithmetic to generate absolute + fragment numbers rather than the cg-relative numbers printed + in the default mode. + + If is passed once, contiguous fragment + ranges are collapsed into an X-Y format as free block lists + are currently printed in regular dumpfs output. If specified + twice, all block numbers are printed individually, allowing + both compact and more script-friendly representation. + + The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an + flag which supports the If-Modified-Since + HTTP 1.1 request. If specified it will cause the file to be + downloaded only if it is more recent than the mtime of the + local file. Also, libfetch now + accepts the mtime in the url structure and a flag to indicate + when this behavior is desired. + + The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a + flag for check clean + mode. This checks if the file system was dismounted cleanly + first and then skip file system checks if true. Otherwise it + does full checks. + + The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a + flag for damaged recovery mode, which will + enable certain aggressive operations that can make + &man.fsck.8; to survive with file systems that has very + serious data damage. This is a useful last resort when on + disk data damage is very serious and causes &man.fsck.8; to + crash. + + The &man.getaddrinfo.3; function now supports SCTP. + + A bug was fixed in the &man.ipfw.8; utility which displays + extra messages for a NAT rule even when a + flag is specified. + + The &man.ln.1; utility now supports a + flag to check if the source file actually exists. When the + flag is specified and the file does not exist, &man.ln.1; will + issue a warning message. + + The &man.ln.1; utility now allows creating hard + links to symbolic links because the POSIX.1-2008 requires this + behavior for and + flag. + + The &man.lpr.1; utility now support + an flag to send an email after the job is + completed and a option to set the job + title. + + The &man.make.1; utility now supports a + flag to print the input graph only, + without executing any commands. The output is the same as + . When combined with , only the built-in rules of make are + displayed. + + The &man.make.1; utility now supports a + flag to cause file banners not to be + generated in addition to the same effect of a + flag when a option is + specified. + + The &man.make.1; utility now supports the + .MAKE.JOB.PREFIX variable. If + and are specified, its + output for each target is prefixed with a token --- + target --- the first part + of which can be controlled via the variable. + + The &man.make.1; utility now supports + .MAKE.PID and .MAKE.PPID + variable. These are set to process ID of the &man.make.1; + process and its parent process respectively. + + The &man.makefs.8; utility to create a file system image + from a directory tree has been added. + + The &man.mergemaster.8; utility now supports an + option to automatically install files that + differ only in their version control ID strings. + + The &man.mount.8; utility now supports an + option to force it to use the specified program to mount the + file system instead of calling &man.nmount.2; directly. This + is useful when you want to use third party programs such as + FUSE, for example. + + The &man.netstat.1; utility now reports &man.unix.4; + sockets' listen queue statistics when an + flag is specified. + + A bug in the &man.netstat.1; utility has been fixed. It + crashed with the following options in the previous + versions: + + &prompt.user; netstat -m -N foo + + A bug in the &man.netstat.1; utility has been fixed. The + option now works in the icmp6 section as + expected. + + The &man.pciconf.8; utility now supports a + flag, which lists any base address + registers (BAR) that are assigned resources for each + device. + + The &man.powerd.8; program has been improved. Changes + include reasonable CPU load estimation on SMP systems and a + new mode named as hiadaptive for AC-powered + systems. The hiadaptive mode raises the + CPU frequency twice as fast as adaptive, it + drops the CPU frequency 4 times slower, prefers twice lower + CPU load and has an additional delay before leaving the + highest frequency after the period of maximum load. + + The &man.revoke.1; utility has been added. This + is a wrapper of &man.revoke.2; syscall. + + The &man.stat.1; utility now displays an octal + representation of suid, sgid and sticky bits when the + flag is specified. + + The &man.strndup.3; function has been added. + + The &man.tftpd.8; program now supports + a option. This is almost the same as + a option but will generate unique named + based on the submitted filename, a &man.strftime.3; format + string, and a two digit sequence number. The time format + string can be set by an option. + + The &man.wc.1; utility now supports an + flag to output the number of characters in the longest input + line. + + A bug in the &man.rpc.yppasswdd.8; program, which causes + it to leave a zombie process when a password or default shell + is changed, has been fixed. + + The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports + a option to set the mode of a new user's + home directory. + + The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now supports + a spindown command to set or report timeout + after which the device will be spun down. + + The &man.chflags.1; now supports a flag for + verbose output, a flag to ignore errors, + and to allow setting flags on symbolic links + with the same semantics as (for example) &man.chmod.1;. + + The &man.cp.1; now supports a flag, which is + equivalent to flags. + + A bug in the &man.cp.1; utility which prevents POSIX.1e ACL (see + also &man.acl.3;) from copying properly has been fixed. + + The &man.cron.8; utility now supports flag which + overrides the default mail recipient for cron mails unless explicitly + provided by MAILTO= line in crontab + file. + + The &man.dhclient.8; now supports more options described in + &man.dhcp-options.5;. + + The &man.dhclient.8; now + supports is_default_interface() function + which determines if this interface is one with the default + route. + + A bug in the &man.dhclient.8; that prevents removal of the + default route from working has been fixed. + + The &man.environ.7;, environment array of strings now + supports unsetting a variable by setting the first character to + NULL. This is required by third-party software such as + Dovecot + and Postfix. + + The &man.fdisk.8; now supports a flag to + not display any warnings. + + The &man.fetch.1; program and libfetch + library now supports a NO_PROXY environment + variable. This specifies comma- or whitespace-separated list of + host names for which proxies should not be used. If a single + asterisk is specified, the use of proxies is disabled. + + The &man.ffsll.3; and &man.flsll.3; functions have been added. + These functions are the same as &man.ffs.3; and &man.fls.3; except that + they accept long long as the arguments. + + The &man.fortune.6; program now supports + FORTUNE_PATH environment variable to specify + search path of the fortune files. + + A bug in the &man.fortune.6; program that prevents + option with multiple files from working has + been fixed. + + The &man.freebsd-update.conf.5; now supports + IDSIgnorePaths statement. + + The &man.fwcontrol.8; utility now supports option which specifies + node as the root node on the next bus + reset. + + The &man.gcc.1; now + accepts option properly; it was hardcoded + as . + + The &man.ifconfig.8; command now supports + display of WPS IE (Wireless Provisioning Services Information + Element). + + The &man.kgdb.1; command now supports + an add-kld kld + command to locate a &man.kld.4; and load its symbols. + + The &man.kgdb.1; command now has a shared library backend for kernel + files that treats &man.kld.4; as shared libraries and + auto-loading symbols for &man.kld.4; on startup. + + The &man.kgdb.1; now supports a tid command + and other kernel module related commands even for a remote + target. + + The &man.kvm.getcptime.3; function to obtain the global CPU + time statistics from the kernel has been added. + + The libalias library now supports + PORT and + EPRT + FTP commands in lowercase. + + The &man.man.1; now includes a limited support of + &man.bzip2.1;-compressed manual pages. + + The &man.mdconfig.8; command now supports a + (verbose) flag to + command. It shows size and backing store of all &man.md.4; + devices at one time. + + The &man.memrchr.3; function has been added. This behaves + like &man.memchr.3; except that it locates the last occurrence + of the specified character in the string. + + The incorrect output grammar of &man.morse.6; program has + been fixed. + + The &man.mountd.8; utility now supports option which + specifies IP addresses to bind to for TCP and UDP requests. + This option may be specified multiple times. If no + option is specified, + INADDR_ANY will be used. Note that when + specifying IP addresses with this option, it will + automatically add 127.0.0.1 and if IPv6 is + enabled, ::1 to the list. + + The &man.moused.8; utility now supports + flag which changes the speed of scrolling and changes + option behavior to only affect the scroll + threshold. + + The &man.mv.1; command now support POSIX + specification when moving a directory to an existing directory + across devices. + + The &man.periodic.8; now supports + daily_status_mail_rejects_shorten + configuration variable in &man.periodic.conf.5;. This allows + the rejected mail reports to tally the rejects per blacklist + without providing details about individual sender hosts. The + default configuration keeps the reports in their original + form. + + The &man.ping6.8; now uses exit status of + 0 and 2 in the same manner + as &man.ping.8;. + + The &man.ping6.8; now supports an flag, + which makes &man.ping6.8; exit successfully after receiving one + reply packet. + + The &man.ping6.8; now supports + and flags, which are equivalent to + &man.ping.8;'s and + flags, respectively. + + The minimum allowed interval of &man.ping6.8; has been + decreased to 0.000001 from 0.01. + + The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports + a flag to suppress warnings and + accepts multiple paths on its command line. + + The &man.rfcomm.pppd.8; now supports a + flag to register DUN (Dial-Up Networking) service in addition to + the LAN (LAN Access Using PPP) service. + + The &man.sdpd.8; now supports a NAP, + GN, and PANU + profiles. + + The &man.setkey.8; utility now accepts + esp as a protocol name + for the spdadd command. + + A bug in &man.telnetd.8; that caused it to + attempt authentication even when + option is specified has been fixed. + + The &man.top.1; and &man.vmstat.8; commands now + support flag which displays per-CPU + statistics. + + The &man.uuid.enc.le.3;, &man.uuid.dec.le.3;, + &man.uuid.enc.be.3;, and &man.uuid.dec.be.3; functions have been + added. These functions encode/decode a binary representation of + a UUID. - The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1 - If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now - supports - which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content - is newer than filename. + The &man.watch.8; utility now supports more than 10 + &man.snp.4; devices at a time. - &man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number - of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; - &man.find.1;. + The &man.ypserv.8; daemon now supports a + option to specify the port number on which + it should listen. - &man.jexec.8; now supports option to specify the - jail where the command will be executed. + + <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts - &man.kgdb.1; now supports a new add-kld - command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel - modules. + The &man.rc.conf.5; now supports + dummynet_enable variable which allow + &man.dummynet.4; kernel module to be loaded when + firewall_enable is YES. - The &man.ls.1; program now supports a - option to specify a date format string to be used with the long - format () output. + The ntpd &man.rc.8; script + can work with no configuration file + /etc/ntp.conf now. - &man.nc.1; now supports a switch to - disable the use of TCP options. + The ppp &man.rc.8; + script now supports multiple instances. For more details, + see the description of ppp_profile + variable in &man.rc.conf.5;. - The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns 2 - when the packet transmission was successful but no responses - were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;). - It returned a non-zero value before this change. + The sysctl &man.rc.8; script now + supports loading /etc/sysctl.conf.local in + addition to /etc/sysctl.conf. + + The &man.rc.conf.5; now supports configuration of + interfaces and attached networks for firewall rule set by + rc.firewall when + firewall_type is simple or + client. See + firewall_client_net, + firewall_simple_iif, + firewall_simple_inet, + firewall_simple_oif, and + firewall_simple_onet. + + - The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display - detailed information about processes. + + Contributed Software + + ISC BIND has been updated to + version 9.6.1rc1. - The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports - a flag to suppress warnings; it now also - accepts multiple paths on its command line. + The ACPI-CA has been + updated to 20090521. - The &man.split.1; utility now supports a - flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks. + The ee (easy editor) has + been updated to 1.5.0. This version is now licensed under a + 2-clause BSD license, instead of the Artistic license. - The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a - flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style - compression/decompression. + The hostapd has been updated to + version 0.6.8 + radius ACL support. + + The less has been updated to + version v436. + + The libarchive library has + been updated to version 2.7.0. + + The libexpat library has + been updated from version 1.95.5 to version 2.0.1. + + The ncurses library has been updated + to version 5.7-20081102. + + OpenBSM 1.1 from + Trusted BSD Project has been merged. + + TCPDUMP has been + updated to 4.0.0. + + The timezone database has been updated + to the tzdata2009f release. + + wpa_supplicant has been updated to + version 0.6.8 + + The ZFS file system + has been updated from version 6 to version 13. + + The am-utils has been updated from + version 6.0.10p1 to version 6.1.5. + + The awk has been updated from 1 May + 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release. + + The bzip2 has been updated from + version 1.0.4 to version 1.0.5. + + The CVS has been updated to + version 1.11.22.1. + + NTP has been updated to version + 4.2.4p5. + + OpenPAM has been updated from the + Figwort release to the Hydrangea release. + + OpenSSH has been updated from + version 4.5p1 to version 5.1p1. + + The &man.resolver.3; library has been updated to + one of ISC BIND 9.4.3. + + sendmail has been updated from + version 8.14.2 to version 8.14.3. + + + + Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure + + A bug in the &man.pkg.create.1; utility, which + prevented the flag from working has been + fixed. + + The &os; Ports Collection now supports multiple + &man.make.1; jobs in some supported ports. This is + automatically enabled when a port is marked as + MAKE_JOBS_SAFE and improves CPU utilization + at the build stage by passing an option + to the top + level Makefile from the vendor. The + number X is set to the number of + CPUs by default, and can be set by users via a &man.make.1; + variable MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER. For more + details, see ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. + + + + Release Engineering and Integration + + The supported version of + the GNOME desktop environment + (x11/gnome2) has been + updated to 2.26.3. - The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a - flag to ignore user/group names - on create and extract. + The supported version of + the KDE desktop environment + (x11/kde4) has been + updated to 4.3.1. + + - The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an - flag to sparsify files on extraction. - - The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a - flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular - expression. - - The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to - return the process group ID for the session leader for the - controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 - (POSIX). - - &man.top.1; now supports a flag to - provide per-CPU usage statistics. - - &man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures. - - - &man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS - number for each hop with the new switch; a - new option allows selecting a particular - WHOIS server. - - &man.traceroute6.8; now supports a flag - to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than - the usual UDP probe packets. - - - <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts - - - - - - - - Contributed Software - - AMD has been updated from 6.0.10 - to 6.1.5. - - awk has been updated from 1 May - 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release. - - bzip2 has been updated from 1.0.4 - to 1.0.5. - - CVS has been updated from 1.11.17 - to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008. - - FILE has been updated from 4.23 - to 5.03. - - hostapd has been - updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10. - - IPFilter has been updated from - 4.1.23 to 4.1.28. - - less has been updated from - v408 to v429. - - ncurses has been updated from - 5.6-20061217 to 5.6-20080503. - - OpenSSH has been updated - from 4.5p1 to 5.1p1. - - OpenPAM has been updated from the - Figwort release to the Hydrangea release. - - sendmail has been updated from - 8.14.1 to 8.14.3. - - The timezone database has been updated from - the tzdata2008h release to - the tzdata2009j release. - - The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8 and &man.zic.8 - have been updated from the tzcode2004a - release to the tzcode2009h release. - If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8, - then please run &man.tzsetup.8 to install a new /etc/localtime. - - - WPA Supplicant has been - updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10. - - - - - Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure - - The &man.pkg.create.1; utility now supports - . When this option is specified and a - package tarball exists, it will not be overwritten. This is - useful when multiple packages are saved with several consecutive - runs of &man.pkg.create.1; with the - options. - - The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically - signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful - for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however - &man.bzip2.1; compression has been the norm for some time - now. - - - - - Release Engineering and Integration - - The supported version of - the GNOME desktop environment - (x11/gnome2) has been - updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22. - - - - - Documentation - - - - - - - - Upgrading from previous releases of &os; - - Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, - binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the - various security branches) are supported using the - &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will - update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or - SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release. - The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being - upgraded have Internet connectivity. - - An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the - Upgrade option from the main &man.sysinstall.8; - menu on CDROM distribution media. This type of binary upgrade - may be useful on non-&arch.i386;, non-&arch.amd64; machines - or on systems with no Internet connectivity. - - Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; - base system from source code) from previous versions are - supported, according to the instructions in - /usr/src/UPDATING. - - - Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after - backing up all data and configuration - files. - - + + Upgrading from previous releases of &os; + + Upgrades between RELEASE versions (and + snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using + the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade + procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as + unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an + official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility + requires that the host being upgraded has Internet + connectivity. + + An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the + Upgrade option from the main + &man.sysinstall.8; menu on CDROM distribution media. This type + of binary upgrade may be useful on non-&arch.i386;, + non-&arch.amd64; machines or on systems with no Internet + connectivity. + + Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; + base system from source code) from previous versions are + supported, according to the instructions in + /usr/src/UPDATING. + + + Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after + backing up all data and configuration + files. + +
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/release.dsl b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/release.dsl index 7b1c975..0dee565 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/release.dsl +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/release.dsl @@ -38,17 +38,6 @@ (make element gi: "p" attributes: (list (list "align" "center")) (make element gi: "small" - (literal "All users of FreeBSD ") - (literal (entity-text "release.branch")) - (literal " should subscribe to the ") - (literal "<") - (create-link (list (list "HREF" "mailto:current@FreeBSD.org")) - (literal "current@FreeBSD.org")) - (literal "> mailing list."))) - - (make element gi: "p" - attributes: (list (list "align" "center")) - (make element gi: "small" (literal "For questions about this documentation, e-mail <") (create-link (list (list "HREF" "mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org")) (literal "doc@FreeBSD.org")) diff --git a/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl b/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl index dd6ac3e..4a19a83 100644 --- a/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl +++ b/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl @@ -121,7 +121,14 @@ ((or (equal? arch #f) (equal? arch "") (equal? arch "all")) - (process-children-trim)) + (make sequence + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "7.1")) + (literal " [7.1R]") + (empty-sosofo)) + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "7.2")) + (literal " [7.2R]") + (empty-sosofo)) + (process-children-trim)) (else (make sequence (literal "[") @@ -135,6 +142,12 @@ (loop (car rest) (cdr rest))) (empty-sosofo)))) (literal "] ") + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "7.1")) + (literal " [7.1R] ") + (empty-sosofo)) + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "7.2")) + (literal " [7.2R] ") + (empty-sosofo)) (process-children-trim)))) (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "merged")) (literal " [" merged-string "]") @@ -158,7 +171,14 @@ ((or (equal? arch #f) (equal? arch "") (equal? arch "all")) - (process-children-trim)) + (make sequence + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "7.1")) + (literal " [7.1R] ") + (empty-sosofo)) + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "7.2")) + (literal " [7.2R] ") + (empty-sosofo)) + (process-children-trim))) (else (make sequence (literal "[") @@ -172,10 +192,16 @@ (loop (car rest) (cdr rest))) (empty-sosofo)))) (literal "] ") + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "7.1")) + (literal " [7.1R]") + (empty-sosofo)) + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "7.2")) + (literal " [7.2R]") + (empty-sosofo)) (process-children-trim)))) (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "merged")) (literal " [" merged-string "]") - (empty-sosofo))))))) + (empty-sosofo)))))))) ]]> - + - - - - + - + - + - - + + - + - - - + + - + @@ -54,11 +48,8 @@ - + - - - -- cgit v1.1