From d18d36b59c1f068e282e952b117b5060e032928b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:51:49 +0000 Subject: New/updated release notes: inetd(8) can manage AF_UNIX sockets, resolver(3) with EDNS0 support, col(1) -p, mdmfs(8), bzip2 1.0.1, Heimdal 0.3f. MFCs noted: orm(4), nge(4), lge(4), packet fragmentation limits (plus minor update), df(1) -l, pkg_version(1) -s. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 44 +++++++++++++++++----- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 44 +++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 20 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 9b4b2e8..a21818a 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ An &man.orm.4; device has been added to claim the option ROMs in the ISA memory I/O space, to prevent other drivers from - mistakenly assigned address that conflict with these ROMs. + mistakenly assigned address that conflict with these ROMs. &merged; The out-of-swap process termination code now begins killing processes earlier to avoid deadlocks; it now also takes into @@ -320,13 +320,14 @@ and DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including the D-Link DGE-500T, SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX), Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIC 1000TA and 1000TPC and Addtron - AEG320T. + AEG320T. This driver supports transmit and receive checksum + offloading. &merged; The &man.lge.4; driver has been added to support the Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet controller chip. This device is used on some fiber optic GigE cards from SMC, D-Link and Addtron. Jumbograms and TCP/IP checksum offload on receive - are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering is not. + are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering is not. &merged; The &man.xl.4; driver now supports reception of VLAN tagged frames (on the Cyclone or newer @@ -599,6 +600,9 @@ &man.mount.8; so that msdos filesystem entries in &man.fstab.5; will work without changes. + pseudofs, a pseudo-filesystem framework, has been added. + &man.linprocfs.5; has been modified to use pseudofs. + @@ -824,10 +828,11 @@ Initial sequence numbers in TCP are more thoroughly randomized (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:39). &merged; - The new net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets sysctl - variable limits the amount of memory that can be consumed by IPv4 - packet fragments, which defends against some denial of service - attacks. + The new net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets + and net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets sysctl + variables limit the amount of memory that can be consumed by IPv4 + and IPv6 packet fragments, which defends against some denial of service + attacks. &merged; A vulnerability in the &man.fts.3; routines (used by applications for recursively traversing a filesystem) could @@ -1464,7 +1469,7 @@ of bugs compared to its prior behavior. &man.df.1; now takes a option to only - display information about locally-mounted filesystems. + display information about locally-mounted filesystems. &merged; The syntax of &man.inetd.8;'s support for &man.faithd.8; is now compatable with that of other BSDs. &merged; @@ -1472,10 +1477,25 @@ The ident protocol support in &man.inetd.8; has been cleaned up and updated. + &man.inetd.8; now has the ability to manage UNIX-domain + sockets. + &man.du.1; now takes a command-line flag to ignore/skip files and subdirectories matching a specified shell-glob mask. + The &man.resolver.3; in &os; now implements EDNS0 support, + which will be necessary when working with IPv6 transport-ready + resolvers/DNS servers. &merged; + + &man.col.1; now takes a to force unknown + control sequences to be passed through unchanged. + + The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper + around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and + &man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the + deprecated &man.mount.mfs.8;. + Contributed Software @@ -1489,6 +1509,10 @@ Binutils have been upgraded to 2.11.0. &merged; + bzip2 1.0.1 has been imported; this + brings the &man.bzip2.1; program and the libbz2 + library to the base system. + cvs has been updated to 1.11. &merged; @@ -1526,7 +1550,7 @@ limitations of its predecessor. &merged; Heimdal has been updated to - 0.3e. &merged; + 0.3f. The ISC DHCP client has been updated to 2.0pl5. &merged; @@ -1793,7 +1817,7 @@ &man.pkg.version.1; now takes a flag to limit its operation to ports/packages matching a given - string. + string. &merged; When requested to delete multiple packages, &man.pkg.delete.1; will now attempt to remove them in dependency 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 9b4b2e8..a21818a 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ An &man.orm.4; device has been added to claim the option ROMs in the ISA memory I/O space, to prevent other drivers from - mistakenly assigned address that conflict with these ROMs. + mistakenly assigned address that conflict with these ROMs. &merged; The out-of-swap process termination code now begins killing processes earlier to avoid deadlocks; it now also takes into @@ -320,13 +320,14 @@ and DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including the D-Link DGE-500T, SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX), Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIC 1000TA and 1000TPC and Addtron - AEG320T. + AEG320T. This driver supports transmit and receive checksum + offloading. &merged; The &man.lge.4; driver has been added to support the Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet controller chip. This device is used on some fiber optic GigE cards from SMC, D-Link and Addtron. Jumbograms and TCP/IP checksum offload on receive - are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering is not. + are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering is not. &merged; The &man.xl.4; driver now supports reception of VLAN tagged frames (on the Cyclone or newer @@ -599,6 +600,9 @@ &man.mount.8; so that msdos filesystem entries in &man.fstab.5; will work without changes. + pseudofs, a pseudo-filesystem framework, has been added. + &man.linprocfs.5; has been modified to use pseudofs. + @@ -824,10 +828,11 @@ Initial sequence numbers in TCP are more thoroughly randomized (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:39). &merged; - The new net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets sysctl - variable limits the amount of memory that can be consumed by IPv4 - packet fragments, which defends against some denial of service - attacks. + The new net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets + and net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets sysctl + variables limit the amount of memory that can be consumed by IPv4 + and IPv6 packet fragments, which defends against some denial of service + attacks. &merged; A vulnerability in the &man.fts.3; routines (used by applications for recursively traversing a filesystem) could @@ -1464,7 +1469,7 @@ of bugs compared to its prior behavior. &man.df.1; now takes a option to only - display information about locally-mounted filesystems. + display information about locally-mounted filesystems. &merged; The syntax of &man.inetd.8;'s support for &man.faithd.8; is now compatable with that of other BSDs. &merged; @@ -1472,10 +1477,25 @@ The ident protocol support in &man.inetd.8; has been cleaned up and updated. + &man.inetd.8; now has the ability to manage UNIX-domain + sockets. + &man.du.1; now takes a command-line flag to ignore/skip files and subdirectories matching a specified shell-glob mask. + The &man.resolver.3; in &os; now implements EDNS0 support, + which will be necessary when working with IPv6 transport-ready + resolvers/DNS servers. &merged; + + &man.col.1; now takes a to force unknown + control sequences to be passed through unchanged. + + The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper + around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and + &man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the + deprecated &man.mount.mfs.8;. + Contributed Software @@ -1489,6 +1509,10 @@ Binutils have been upgraded to 2.11.0. &merged; + bzip2 1.0.1 has been imported; this + brings the &man.bzip2.1; program and the libbz2 + library to the base system. + cvs has been updated to 1.11. &merged; @@ -1526,7 +1550,7 @@ limitations of its predecessor. &merged; Heimdal has been updated to - 0.3e. &merged; + 0.3f. The ISC DHCP client has been updated to 2.0pl5. &merged; @@ -1793,7 +1817,7 @@ &man.pkg.version.1; now takes a flag to limit its operation to ports/packages matching a given - string. + string. &merged; When requested to delete multiple packages, &man.pkg.delete.1; will now attempt to remove them in dependency -- cgit v1.1