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  <title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title>

  <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Project</corpauthor>

  <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>

  <copyright>
    <year>2000</year>
    <year>2001</year>
    <year>2002</year>
    <year>2003</year>
    <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
  </copyright>

  <abstract>
    <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
      of
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      the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.prev;.
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      recent changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch;
      development branch.
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      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>

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  <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>

]]>

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  <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="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
    FreeBSD</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
    url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">FreeBSD
    Handbook</ulink>.</para>

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  <para>Users who are new to the &release.branch; series of &os;
    &release.type;s should also read the <quote>Early Adopters Guide
    to &os; &release.current;</quote>.  This document can generally be
    found in the same location as the release notes (either as a part of a
    &os; distribution or on the &os; Web site).  It contains important
    information regarding the advantages and disadvantages of using
    &os; &release.current;, as opposed to releases based on the &os;
    4-STABLE development branch.</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
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      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.
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      many of the user-visible new or changed features in &os;
      since &release.prev;.  It includes items that are unique to the
      &release.branch; branch, as well as some features that may have been
      recently merged to
      other branches (after &os; &release.prev.historic;).  The latter
      items are marked as &merged;.
]]>
  </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>A single-byte buffer overflow in &man.realpath.3; was
      fixed.  Although the fix was committed prior to &os;
      &release.prev; (and thus &release.prev; was not affected),
      it was not noted in the release documentation.  See security advisory 
      <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:08</ulink>. &merged;</para>

    <para>A bug that could allow the kernel to attempt delivery of
      invalid signals has been fixed.  The bug could have led to a
      kernel panic or, under some circumstances, unauthorized
      modification of kernel memory.  For more information, see
      security advisory
      <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:09.signal.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:09</ulink>. &merged;</para>

    <para>A bug in the iBCS2 emulation module, which could result in
      disclosing the contents of kernel memory, has been fixed.  This
      module is not enabled in &os; by default.  For more information,
      see security advisory
      <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:10.ibcs2.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:10</ulink>. &merged;</para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="kernel">
    <title>Kernel Changes</title>

    <para arch="i386">A bug that even when no AT keyboard is connected,
      &man.atkbd.4; registers an AT keyboard during console initialization
      has been fixed.  <command>kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1</command>
      is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected.
      &merged;</para>

    <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;, 
      PCI Universal Communications driver now supports
      to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para>

    <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added
      to support SafeNet 1141, 1741-based crypto accelerators.
      &merged;

      <note>
        <para>The public key support is not implemented.</para>
      </note></para>

    <para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented.
      For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and
      &man.watchdogd.8;.</para>

    <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->

    <para>The swap pager has been revamped.  Among user-visible
      changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width
      striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O
      throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number
      of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads.</para>

    <sect3 id="proc">
      <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>

      <para arch="i386">PCI interrupts are always routed on i386 UP
	machines, which may improve the usability of some PCI devices
	(particularly on laptops).</para>

      <para arch="i386">An integer overflow that could cause kernel
        panics on PAE machines of certain large memory sizes has been
        corrected.</para>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="boot">
      <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>

      <para></para>

      <!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="net-if">
      <title>Network Interface Support</title>

      <para>The new &man.ath.4; and &man.ath.hal.4; drivers provide
	support for 802.11a/b/g devices based on the AR5210, AR5211,
	and AR5212 chips.</para>

      <para>&man.bge.4; now supports Broadcom 5705 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
        &merged;</para>

      <para>A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that prevented it from
	working correctly at 10 Mbps has been fixed.</para>

      <para>The &man.em.4; driver now has support for tuning
        the interrupt delays using sysctl tunables
        without recompiling the driver.</para>

      <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added.
        This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP, 
        which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the
        system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack
        for each of these interfaces.</para>

      <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.hatm.4; driver has been added
        to support Fore/Marconi HE155 and HE622 ATM cards.</para>

      <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.patm.4; driver has been added to
        support IDT77252 based ATM interfaces.</para>

      <para>The &man.rl.4; driver now has support for the RealTek
	8139C+ Fast Ethernet chipset and the RealTek 8169 Gigabit
	Ethernet chip.</para>

      <para>The suspend/resume support for the &man.wi.4; driver
        now works correctly when the device is configured down.
        &merged;</para>

      <para>The 802.11 support layer has been rewritten to allow for
	future growth and new features.</para>
    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="net-proto">
      <title>Network Protocols</title>

      <para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support comma-separated address lists
        (such as <literal>1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8/30, 9.10.11.12/22</literal>),
        and allow spaces after commas to make lists of addresses more readable.
        &merged;</para>

      <para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support C++-style comments.
        Each comment is stored together with its rule and appears using
        the &man.ipfw.8; <literal>show</literal> command.
        &merged;</para>

      <para>&man.ipfw.8; can now modify &man.ipfw.4; rules in set 31,
        which was read-only and used for the default rules.
        They can be deleted by <command>ipfw delete set 31</command>
        command but are not deleted
        by the <command>ipfw flush</command> command.
        This implements a flexible form of <quote>persistent
          rules</quote>.  More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;.
        &merged;</para>

      <para>The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added.
	It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one
	to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware.</para>

      <para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
	a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
	being done.</para>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="disks">
      <title>Disks and Storage</title>

      <para>&man.ccd.4; can now operate on raw disks and other
	&man.geom.4; providers.</para>

      <para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte
	commands to USB and Firewire devices.  The quirks for these
	devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been
	disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options
	DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration.</para>

      <para>Various &man.geom.4; modules can now be loaded as kernel
	modules, namely:
	<filename>geom_apple</filename>,
	<filename>geom_bde</filename>,
	<filename>geom_bsd</filename>,
	<filename>geom_gpt</filename>,
	<filename>geom_mbr</filename>,
	<filename>geom_pc98</filename>,
	<filename>geom_sunlabel</filename>,
	<filename>geom_vol_ffs</filename>.
	</para>

      <para>A <literal>GEOM_FOX</literal> module has been added to
	detect and select between multiple redundant paths to the same
	device.</para>

      <para arch="i386">The &man.matcd.4; driver, which supports the
        Matsushita CR-562 and CR-563 CD drives, has returned.</para>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="fs">
      <title>File Systems</title>

      <para>Some off-by-one errors in the smbfs that prevented it from
	working correctly with 15-character NetBIOS names have been fixed.</para>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="mm">
      <title>Multimedia Support</title>

      <para></para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="userland">
    <title>Userland Changes</title>

    <para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been
      added.</para>

    <para>&man.arp.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option
      to limit the scope of the current operation to the ARP entries
      on a particular interface.  This option applies to the display
      operations only.  It should be useful on routers with numerous
      network interfaces. &merged;</para>

    <para>&man.chroot.8; now allows the optional setting of a user,
      primary group, or group list to use inside the chroot
      environment via the <option>-u</option>, <option>-g</option>,
      and <option>-G</option> options respectively. &merged;</para>

    <para>The dev_db utility is unnecessary due to the mandatory
      presence of devfs, and has been removed.</para>

    <para>&man.dhclient.8; now polls the state of network interfaces
      and only sends DHCP requests on interfaces that are up.  The
      polling interval can be controlled with the <option>-i</option>
      option.</para>

    <para>The &man.iasl.8; utility, a compiler/decompiler for ACPI
      Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine language (AML), has been
      added.</para>

    <para>&man.ipfw.8; <literal>list</literal> and <literal>show</literal>
      command now support ranges of rule numbers.
      &merged;</para>

    <para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag
      to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything.
      &merged;</para>

    <para>The <filename>libcipher</filename> DES cryptography library
      has been removed.  All of its functionality is provided by the
      <filename>libcrypto</filename> library, and all base systems
      programs that used <filename>libcipher</filename> have been
      converted to use <filename>libcrypto</filename> instead.</para>

    <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1
      threading library is now built by default.</para>

    <para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is
      now POSIX-compliant.  A new <option>-m</option> option shows all
      available codesets.</para>

    <para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem
      ID for each file system in addition to the normal information
      when a <option>-v</option> flag is specified,
      and &man.umount.8; utility now accepts the filesystem ID
      as well as the usual device and path names.
      This allows to unambiguously specify which file system is
      to be unmounted even when two or more file systems share
      the same device and mount point names.</para>

    <para>The &man.mount.nwfs.8;, &man.mount.portalfs.8;, and
      &man.mount.smbfs.8; utilities have been moved from
      <filename>/sbin</filename> to <filename>/usr/sbin</filename>.</para>

    <para>The &man.pam.guest.8; PAM module has been added to allow
      guest logins.  It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</para>

    <para>&man.ps.1; and &man.top.1; now support a <option>-H</option> flag to display all
      kernel-visible threads in each process.</para>

    <para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs
      has been fixed.</para>

    <para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6
      traffic.</para>

    <para>A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename>
      and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a
      statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in
      <filename>/rescue</filename>.  This functionality is similar to
      the <filename>/stand</filename> directory installed by
      &man.sysinstall.8;, but it <filename>/rescue</filename> includes
      more functionality and is updated by as part of
      buildworld/installworld operations.  More details can be found in
      &man.rescue.8;.
      </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contrib">
    <title>Contributed Software</title>

    <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
      from the 20030228 snapshot to the 20030619 snapshot.</para>

    <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
      updated from a 14 March 2003 snapshot to a 29 July 2003 snapshot.</para>

    <para><application>BIND</application> has been updated from 8.3.4
      to 8.3.6.</para>

    <para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.2.2 to
      3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot).

      <note>
        <para>Previous versions of <application>GCC</application>
	  generated incorrect code when
	  <literal>-march=pentium4</literal> optimization was
	  enabled.  This problem is believed to have been fixed with
	  this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of
	  <literal>CPUTYPE=p4</literal> has been removed.</para>
      </note>
      </para>

    <para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from
      1.6beta2 to a 30 June 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</para>

    <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
      <quote>Dianthus</quote> release to the
      <quote>Dogwood</quote> release.</para>

    <para><application>texinfo</application> has been updated from 4.5
      to 4.6. &merged;</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="ports">
    <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>

    <para>If <makevar>GNU_CONFIGURE</makevar> is defined,
      all instances of <filename>config.guess</filename> and
      <filename>config.sub</filename> found
      under <filename><makevar>WRKDIR</makevar></filename>
      are replaced with the master versions from
      <filename><makevar>PORTSDIR</makevar>/Template</filename>.
      This allows old ports (which contain old versions
      of these scripts) to build on newer architectures like ia64 and amd64.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="releng">
    <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>

    <para arch="alpha,amd64,ia64">Floppy disk installation images are
      no longer built for the alpha, amd64, and ia64
      architectures.</para>

    <para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application> has
      been updated from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2. &merged;</para>

    <para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application> has
      been updated from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3. &merged;</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="doc">
    <title>Documentation</title>

    <para></para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="upgrade">
  <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>

  <para>Users with existing &os; systems are
    <emphasis>highly</emphasis> encouraged to read the <quote>Early
    Adopter's Guide to &os; &release.current;</quote>.  This document generally has
    the filename <filename>EARLY.TXT</filename> on the distribution
    media, or any other place that the release notes can be found.  It
    offers some notes on upgrading, but more importantly, also
    discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to &os;
    5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> versus running &os;
    4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para>

  <important>
    <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
      backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
      files.</para>
  </important>
</sect1>