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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index a3e278472a1a4..867525aa16673 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> + <para arch="i386,amd64">&os; always uses the local APIC timer + even on uni-processor systems now.</para> + <para arch="i386,amd64,ia64">The default <varname>HZ</varname> parameter (which controls various kernel timers) has been increased from <literal>100</literal> to <literal>1000</literal> @@ -300,6 +303,13 @@ rebuilt to stay synchronized with data structure changes in the kernel.</para> + <para>A new tunable <varname>vm.blacklist</varname> has been added. + This can hold a space or comma separated list of physical addresses. + The pages containing these physical addresses will + not be added to the free list and thus will effectively + be ignored by the &os; VM system. The physical addresses + of any ignored pages are listed in the message buffer as well.</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -590,6 +600,8 @@ Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ipfw.8; now supports IPv4 only rules.</para> + <para>&man.ipnat.8; now allows redirect rules to work for non-TCP/UDP packets. &merged;</para> @@ -786,7 +798,9 @@ <para arch="amd64">Machine-specific optimized versions of &man.bcmp.3;, &man.bcopy.3;, &man.bzero.3;, &man.memcmp.3;, &man.memcpy.3;, &man.memmove.3;, &man.memset.3;, &man.strcat.3; - and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented.</para> + and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented. Several mathematics + functions such as &man.ceill.3; and &man.sqrtf.3; are also + replaced with the optimized versions.</para> <para>The &man.chflags.1; utility now supports the <option>-h</option> flag, which supports changing flags on @@ -833,6 +847,18 @@ <para>The &man.getservent.3;, &man.getservbyname.3;, and &man.getservbyport.3; functions are now thread-safe. &merged;</para> + <para>For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 + (also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname> + of <varname>struct netent</varname> and the first argument + of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an uint32_t. + Due to these changes the ABI on 64-bit platforms becomes + incompatible with previous releases of &os; and + the major version number of libpcap has been bumped. + If you upgrade &os; for 64-bit platforms, note that all of + the userland programs which use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;, + &man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3; and/or + <application>libpcap</application> have to be recompiled.</para> + <para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports <command>checkparity</command>, <command>rebuildparity</command>, and @@ -1184,6 +1210,9 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> <para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.10 to 4.12.</para> + <para><application>GNU GCC</application> has been updated from + from 3.4.2-prerelease as of 28 July, 2004 to 3.4.4.</para> + <para>A number of bug fixes and performance enhancements have been added to <application>GNU grep</application> in the form of patches from Fedora's grep-2.5.1-48 source RPM.</para> 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 a3e278472a1a4..867525aa16673 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> + <para arch="i386,amd64">&os; always uses the local APIC timer + even on uni-processor systems now.</para> + <para arch="i386,amd64,ia64">The default <varname>HZ</varname> parameter (which controls various kernel timers) has been increased from <literal>100</literal> to <literal>1000</literal> @@ -300,6 +303,13 @@ rebuilt to stay synchronized with data structure changes in the kernel.</para> + <para>A new tunable <varname>vm.blacklist</varname> has been added. + This can hold a space or comma separated list of physical addresses. + The pages containing these physical addresses will + not be added to the free list and thus will effectively + be ignored by the &os; VM system. The physical addresses + of any ignored pages are listed in the message buffer as well.</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -590,6 +600,8 @@ Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ipfw.8; now supports IPv4 only rules.</para> + <para>&man.ipnat.8; now allows redirect rules to work for non-TCP/UDP packets. &merged;</para> @@ -786,7 +798,9 @@ <para arch="amd64">Machine-specific optimized versions of &man.bcmp.3;, &man.bcopy.3;, &man.bzero.3;, &man.memcmp.3;, &man.memcpy.3;, &man.memmove.3;, &man.memset.3;, &man.strcat.3; - and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented.</para> + and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented. Several mathematics + functions such as &man.ceill.3; and &man.sqrtf.3; are also + replaced with the optimized versions.</para> <para>The &man.chflags.1; utility now supports the <option>-h</option> flag, which supports changing flags on @@ -833,6 +847,18 @@ <para>The &man.getservent.3;, &man.getservbyname.3;, and &man.getservbyport.3; functions are now thread-safe. &merged;</para> + <para>For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 + (also known as POSIX 2001), the <varname>n_net</varname> + of <varname>struct netent</varname> and the first argument + of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an uint32_t. + Due to these changes the ABI on 64-bit platforms becomes + incompatible with previous releases of &os; and + the major version number of libpcap has been bumped. + If you upgrade &os; for 64-bit platforms, note that all of + the userland programs which use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;, + &man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3; and/or + <application>libpcap</application> have to be recompiled.</para> + <para>The gvinum(8) utility now supports <command>checkparity</command>, <command>rebuildparity</command>, and @@ -1184,6 +1210,9 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"</programlisting> <para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.10 to 4.12.</para> + <para><application>GNU GCC</application> has been updated from + from 3.4.2-prerelease as of 28 July, 2004 to 3.4.4.</para> + <para>A number of bug fixes and performance enhancements have been added to <application>GNU grep</application> in the form of patches from Fedora's grep-2.5.1-48 source RPM.</para> |