From dd3de5620109ac5595c1d135ed0ca614623a27a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:04:31 +0000 Subject: New release notes: ahc(4) bugfixes, FNV NFS hash, syscons(4) keyboard paste, glob(3) limits, ping(8) -m. --- release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 02f2eef..846bf2e 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ supported for backwards compatibility. [MERGED] The ahc(4) driver has been updated. Among various improvements are improved compatibility with chips in "RAID Port" mode and systems with -AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance -improvements. [MERGED] +AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance improvements. +Some bugs were also fixed, including a rare hang on Ultra2/U160 +controllers. [MERGED] ACPI support has been merged in from the FreeBSD-ACPI project. @@ -311,6 +312,13 @@ Acrobat 4 on EV4 and EV5. The fxp(4) driver now requires a "device miibus" entry in the kernel configuration file. +A new NFS hash function (based on the Fowler/Noll/Vo hash algorithm) +has been implemented to improve NFS performance by increasing the +efficiency of the nfsnode hash tables. [MERGED] + +The syscons(4) driver now supports keyboard-controlled pasting, by +default bound to Shift-Insert. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -419,6 +427,10 @@ A bug in rwhod(8), which caused it to crash if send certain malformed packets, has been corrected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:29). [MERGED] +To prevent some forms of DOS attacks, glob(3) allows specification of +a limit on the number of pathname matches it will return. ftpd(8) now +uses this feature. [MERGED] + 1.3. USERLAND CHANGES --------------------- @@ -900,6 +912,8 @@ ftpd(8) now supports a -r flag for read-only mode and a -E flag to disable EPSV. It also has some fixes to reduce information leakage and the ability to specify compile-time port ranges. [MERGED] +ping(8) now supports a -m option to set the TTL of outgoing packets. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index 07ad814..d9ff4b4 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -183,8 +183,9 @@ maximum of 16, and the other, aforementioned options are now dynamic. The ahc(4) driver has been updated. Among various improvements are improved compatibility with chips in "RAID Port" mode and systems with -AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance -improvements. [MERGED] +AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance improvements. +Some bugs were also fixed, including a rare hang on Ultra2/U160 +controllers. [MERGED] ACPI support has been merged in from the FreeBSD-ACPI project. @@ -385,6 +386,13 @@ periodically saved to files in /var/db/entropy. The fxp(4) driver now requires a "device miibus" entry in the kernel configuration file. +A new NFS hash function (based on the Fowler/Noll/Vo hash algorithm) +has been implemented to improve NFS performance by increasing the +efficiency of the nfsnode hash tables. [MERGED] + +The syscons(4) driver now supports keyboard-controlled pasting, by +default bound to Shift-Insert. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -493,6 +501,10 @@ A bug in rwhod(8), which caused it to crash if send certain malformed packets, has been corrected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:29). [MERGED] +To prevent some forms of DOS attacks, glob(3) allows specification of +a limit on the number of pathname matches it will return. ftpd(8) now +uses this feature. [MERGED] + 1.3. USERLAND CHANGES --------------------- @@ -988,6 +1000,8 @@ ftpd(8) now supports a -r flag for read-only mode and a -E flag to disable EPSV. It also has some fixes to reduce information leakage and the ability to specify compile-time port ranges. [MERGED] +ping(8) now supports a -m option to set the TTL of outgoing packets. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- -- cgit v1.1