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<articleinfo>
<title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
<corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2000</year>
<year>2001</year>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
<year>2004</year>
<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
</copyright>
<abstract>
<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
of the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.branch; is created.
This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
kernel and userland.
Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
</abstract>
</articleinfo>
<sect1 id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
&release.current; on the &arch.print; hardware platform. It
describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
It also provides some notes on upgrading
from previous versions of &os;.</para>
<![ %release.type.current [
<para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
branch since &release.branch; is created. Some pre-built, binary
&release.type; distributions along this branch
can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
]]>
<![ %release.type.snapshot [
<para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. Some
pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
]]>
<![ %release.type.release [
<para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
&release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink
url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More
information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
url="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
&os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
Handbook</ulink>.</para>
]]>
<para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
<quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
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.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="new">
<title>What's New</title>
<para>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.
</para>
<para>Typical release note items
document recent security advisories issued after
&release.prev.historic;,
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.</para>
<sect2 id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
<para></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para>The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname> has been
has been enabled by default.</para>
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<para arch="i386">A serial console-capable version of
<filename>boot0</filename> has been added. It can be written
to a disk using &man.boot0cfg.8; and specifying
<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
<option>-b</option> option.</para>
<para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a
BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
CDROM drives.</para>
<!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
</sect3>
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para></para>
</sect4>
<sect4 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para></para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
<para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para></para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL
utility to compress file system images for use with
<literal>GEOM_UZIP</literal> &man.geom.4; module,
has been added.</para>
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
<para></para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
<para></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
<para></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para></para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="upgrade">
<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
<para></para>
<important>
<para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
files.</para>
</important>
</sect1>
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