From 176a983717cfb73c0082baca7dccafd0b96253d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 16:28:45 +0000 Subject: New release notes: ata(4) flushing on shutdown, mergemaster(8) -P, old rc scripts gone, texinfo 4.5. Updated release notes: OpenPAM Dianthus. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index b95d5ea38d1ad..bf505193fae2b 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -388,6 +388,10 @@ The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise SATA150 TX2 and TX4 Serial ATA/150 controllers. + The &man.ata.4; driver now flushes devices on shutdown. + This change may result in failure messages being printed on + the console for devices that do not support flushing. + The CAM layer now has support for devices with more than 232 blocks. (Assuming 512-byte blocks, this means support for devices larger than 2TB.) @@ -599,6 +603,9 @@ The MAKEDEV script is now unnecessary, due to the mandatory presence of &man.devfs.5;, and has been removed. + &man.mergemaster.8; now supports a + option to preserve the contents of files being replaced. + &man.mixer.8; can now implement relative volume adjustments. @@ -748,6 +755,38 @@ Note that libthr is not (at this time) built by default. + The historic BSD boot scripts in /etc + have been removed, in favor of the rc.d + system imported from NetBSD + (sometimes referred to as RCng). All + functionality of the historic system has been preserved. In + particular, files such as /etc/rc.conf + continue to be the recommended means of configuring the system + startup. The rc.d system has been the + default since &os; 5.0-RELEASE, so this change should be largely + transparent for the vast majority of users. Users who have + customized their historic-style startup scripts should be aware + that the following files have been removed from + /etc: + + rc.atm, + rc.devfs, + rc.diskless1, + rc.diskless2, + rc.i386, + rc.isdn, + rc.network, + rc.network6, + rc.pccard, + rc.sendmail, + rc.serial, + rc.syscons, + rc.sysctl. + + &man.mergemaster.8;, when run, will offer to move these files + out of the way for convenience. More details can be found in + &man.rc.subr.8;. + @@ -810,8 +849,9 @@ by default) has been updated to a snapshot from 22 January 2003. - OpenPAM has been updated to the - Daffodil release. + OpenPAM has been updated from the + Citronella release to the + Dianthus release. OpenSSH has been updated to 3.6.1p1. @@ -830,6 +870,9 @@ option to specify the data link type to use while capturing packets. + texinfo has been updated from 4.2 + to 4.5. + The timezone database has been updated from tzdata2002d to tzdata2003a. &merged; 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 b95d5ea38d1ad..bf505193fae2b 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -388,6 +388,10 @@ The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise SATA150 TX2 and TX4 Serial ATA/150 controllers. + The &man.ata.4; driver now flushes devices on shutdown. + This change may result in failure messages being printed on + the console for devices that do not support flushing. + The CAM layer now has support for devices with more than 232 blocks. (Assuming 512-byte blocks, this means support for devices larger than 2TB.) @@ -599,6 +603,9 @@ The MAKEDEV script is now unnecessary, due to the mandatory presence of &man.devfs.5;, and has been removed. + &man.mergemaster.8; now supports a + option to preserve the contents of files being replaced. + &man.mixer.8; can now implement relative volume adjustments. @@ -748,6 +755,38 @@ Note that libthr is not (at this time) built by default. + The historic BSD boot scripts in /etc + have been removed, in favor of the rc.d + system imported from NetBSD + (sometimes referred to as RCng). All + functionality of the historic system has been preserved. In + particular, files such as /etc/rc.conf + continue to be the recommended means of configuring the system + startup. The rc.d system has been the + default since &os; 5.0-RELEASE, so this change should be largely + transparent for the vast majority of users. Users who have + customized their historic-style startup scripts should be aware + that the following files have been removed from + /etc: + + rc.atm, + rc.devfs, + rc.diskless1, + rc.diskless2, + rc.i386, + rc.isdn, + rc.network, + rc.network6, + rc.pccard, + rc.sendmail, + rc.serial, + rc.syscons, + rc.sysctl. + + &man.mergemaster.8;, when run, will offer to move these files + out of the way for convenience. More details can be found in + &man.rc.subr.8;. + @@ -810,8 +849,9 @@ by default) has been updated to a snapshot from 22 January 2003. - OpenPAM has been updated to the - Daffodil release. + OpenPAM has been updated from the + Citronella release to the + Dianthus release. OpenSSH has been updated to 3.6.1p1. @@ -830,6 +870,9 @@ option to specify the data link type to use while capturing packets. + texinfo has been updated from 4.2 + to 4.5. + The timezone database has been updated from tzdata2002d to tzdata2003a. &merged; -- cgit v1.3