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authorHiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2013-06-01 15:02:15 +0000
committerHiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2013-06-01 15:02:15 +0000
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@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN">
%release;
+<!ENTITY % man-refs SYSTEM "man-refs.ent">
+%man-refs;
]>
<article>
@@ -251,16 +253,84 @@
<para revision="232757">A bug which could cause a kernel thread
to have a wrong CPU affinity configuration has been fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="233584">A bug in VIMAGE &man.jail.8; which could
+ make the network subsystem run on an wrong vnet context has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233765,234094">A bug that changes to a mapped
+ file with the &man.mmap.2; system call were not flushed
+ properly under certain circumstances has been fixed. If a
+ process has an NFS-backed file and adds changes to it,
+ normally the changes are written into the backing store
+ automatically. However, the NFS client recognized the
+ modified parts are written successfully even when the write
+ operation was failed for some reason such as permission
+ denied.</para>
+
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="233377,234563" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">A bug in
+ &os; boot block has been fixed. A pathname of the third
+ stage loader (or kernel) in the &man.boot.config.5;
+ configuration file could not be recognized.</para>
+
+ <para revision="232963">A bug in &man.loader.8; which could
+ prevents a UFS1 filesystem on big endian platforms from
+ booting.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234694">The <application>gptboot</application>
+ boot block now reads the backup GPT header from the last LBA
+ only when the primary GPT header and tables are invalid.
+ This mitigates interoperability issues with some
+ &man.geom.4; providers like <literal>MIRROR</literal> which
+ use the last LBA for the metadata.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234680">A bug in the
+ <application>zfsboot</application> boot block which could
+ prevent <option>-q</option> option from working has been
+ fixed.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="233799" arch="amd64">A workaround for Erratum
+ 721 for AMD Processor Family 10h and 12h has been
+ implemented. Under a highly specific and detailed set of
+ internal timing conditions, the processor may incorrectly
+ update the stack pointer after a long series of push and/or
+ near-call instructions, or a long series of pop and/or
+ near-return instructions.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233795" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The
+ &man.atkbdc.4; driver now supports a keyboard controller
+ which has PnP ID <literal>PNP0320</literal>. This can be
+ found on machines which have Japanese PS/2 keyboard with
+ 106/109 keys.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233369">A bug in &man.cpufreq.4; which could
+ prevent CPU frequency tuning from working properly has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233825">A bug in &man.hwpmc.4; driver which
+ could cause a deadlock in &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234151" arch="amd64">The &man.pci.4; driver
+ now supports mapping between MSI (Message Signaled Interrupt)
+ and HyperTransport interrupt messages on HyperTransport to PCI
+ bus briges. This change improves handling of MSIs on AMD
+ CPUs.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233065" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.uart.4;
+ driver now supports Intel AMT Serial Port for Remote
+ Keyboard and Text (KT) Redirection (Serial Over LAN) on
+ Intel 4 Series Chipset family.</para>
+
+ <para revision="232871">The &man.usb.4; driver now handles
+ suspend events synchronously. This fixed problems of
+ suspend and resume.</para>
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -271,18 +341,115 @@
<sect4 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
+ <para revision="234127">Link state change handling in the
+ &man.ale.4; network driver has been improved.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234241">The &man.ale.4; network driver now
+ supports flow control.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233496">A bug in the &man.bge.4; network
+ driver which could cause watchdog timeout on BCM5704
+ controller connected behind AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233499">A bug in
+ <varname>if_ierrors</varname> counter in the &man.bge.4;
+ driver running on BCM5700, 5701, 5702, 5703, or 5704
+ controller has been fixed. It reported only the number of
+ discarded packets.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233744" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">&man.cas.4;,
+ &man.gem.4;, and &man.hme.4; drivers have been added to
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233502">The &man.fxp.4; network driver has
+ been improved. It does not cause unnecessary media change
+ in controller reconfiguration such as promiscuos mode
+ change which leads to an extra link
+ reestablishment.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233839">The &man.iwn.4; driver now supports
+ Intel Centrino 6150 wireless N and WiMAX chipsets.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233490">A bug in the &man.re.4; and
+ &man.rl.4; network drivers which could cause a problem on
+ RTL8139 family has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233493">A bug in the &man.re.4; network
+ driver which could cause intermittent link up/down on
+ RTL8169 controller has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233490">WoL (Wake-on-LAN) support
+ in the &man.rl.4; driver is now disabled by
+ default.</para>
+
<para revision="232594">The &man.run.4; driver now supports
Logitec LAN-W300NU2.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233461">The &man.run.4; network driver now
+ load the firmware upon initialization, not attachment.
+ This fixes an issue when the root filesystem is not
+ available at the time of the device detection.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234029">The &man.run.4; driver has been
+ updated to firmware verion 0.236.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233487">The &man.sf.4; network driver has
+ been improved. A system load fluctuation under high network
+ load has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="232875">The &man.u3g.4; driver now supports
+ Qualcomm Vertex Wireless 110L modem, Qualcomm 3G modem, and
+ Qualcomm Vertex VW110L modem.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
+ <para revision="233085">The default number of the bridge
+ forwarding cache entries of the &man.if.bridge.4; pseudo
+ network interface driver has been increased from
+ <literal>100</literal> to <literal>2000</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para>The <literal>table</literal> argument
+ in the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter rule syntax now supports
+ IP address, interface name, port number, and jail ID. The
+ following syntax is valid:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>skipto tablearg ip from any to any via table(42) in</programlisting>
+
+ <para revision="234637">A new &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.tables_max</varname> has been added
+ to specify the maximum number of tables. The default value
+ is <literal>128</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233112">A bug in &os; IPv6 stack has been
+ fixed. It could cause a &man.vlan.4; pseudo network
+ interface to get the EUI64 part in an autoconfigured IPv6
+ address from an unrelated Ethernet interface on the
+ system.</para>
+
<para revision="232552">&os; IPv6 stack now supports multiple
FIBs. One can use &man.setfib.1; to select a different
routing table for IPv6.</para>
+ <para revision="233605">A bug which could cause a system panic
+ in multicast routing in kernel with <option>VIMAGE</option>
+ kernel option has been fixed. This option is disabled in
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234682">A bug in the &man.ng.patch.4;
+ &man.netgraph.4; node which could cause a system panic has
+ been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233245,233246">&os; SCTP stack now supports
+ &man.ng.iface.4; and &man.stf.4; interface.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234805">&os; SCTP stack now supports
+ <varname>net.inet.udp.checksum</varname> &man.sysctl.8;
+ variable for SCTP over UDP over IPv4 encapsulation.</para>
+
<para revision="232819"><literal>SO_PROTOCOL</literal> and
<literal>SO_PROTOTYPE</literal> socket option have been
added. These are socket level options to get the protocol
@@ -294,18 +461,63 @@
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <para revision="233714">A new &man.sysctl.8;
+ <varname>kern.features.ata_cam</varname> has been added.
+ This shows whether <literal>ATA_CAM</literal> kernel option
+ is enabled or not. This option is disabled in
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+
+ <para revision="232942">The &man.cam.4; driver now uses
+ <literal>READ CAPACITY(16)</literal> SCSI command to get
+ device information by default when possible. This enables
+ to detect whether Logical Block Provisioning (also known as
+ <literal>TRIM</literal> or <literal>UNMAP</literal>) in
+ SBC-3 (SCSI Block Commands-3) Specification is supported on
+ the device.</para>
+
<para revision="232554">The &man.isci.4; driver now supports
Intel C600 Serial Attached SCSI controllers with chip IDs from
<literal>0x1d6c</literal> to <literal>0x1d6f</literal>.</para>
+ <para revision="233789">A bug in the &man.isci.4; driver which
+ could not correctly handle <literal>READ
+ CAPACITY(16)</literal> SCSI command for an SATA device has
+ been fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="232563">A bug which could make the &man.mpt.4;
driver attach LSI MegaRAID cards which should be handled by
the &man.mfi.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234407">The <literal>PART_LDM</literal>
+ &man.geom.4; class has been added. This partition scheme has
+ support for Logical Disk Manager, which is also known as
+ dynamic volumes in Microsoft Windows NT. Note that JBOD,
+ RAID0, and RAID5 volumes are not supported yet.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234512">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem is not an
+ experimental implementation anymore.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233791">A bug in the &man.xen.4;
+ <application>blkfront</application> driver has been fixed.
+ It could not attach on Citrix XenServer configurations that
+ advertise the multi-page ring extension.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
+ <para revision="233286">Bugs in &os; NFS subsystem has been
+ fixed. They could cause stale name cache entries on an NFS
+ client.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233327">&os; NFS subsystem now supports a
+ timeout parameter on positive name cache entries on the NFS
+ client side. <literal>nametimeo</literal> mount option has
+ been added to specify the timeout. The default value is
+ <literal>60</literal> seconds, and one can disable the
+ positive name caching by setting it to
+ <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+
<para revision="232665">Several bugs in &man.nullfs.5; which
could cause a system panic have been fixed.</para>
@@ -346,7 +558,70 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="233762">The &man.daemon.8; utility now supports
+ <option>-r</option> flag to restart the program if it has been
+ terminated.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233867">The &man.devfs.5; mount now supports
+ <option>ruleset=number</option> mount option and updating the
+ existing mount by using <option>-u</option> flag in the
+ &man.mount.8; utility. This new option sets the specified
+ ruleset number as the active ruleset of the new devfs mount
+ and applies all its rules at mount time. If the specified
+ ruleset doesn't exist, a new empty ruleset is created.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234045">The <application>libpmc</application>
+ library has been updated to support more PMCs (Performance
+ Monitoring Counters) in Intel Core i7 and Xeon 5500 family
+ based on Intel documentatino as of October 2011.
+ Specifically, <literal>DTLB_MISSES.PDE_MISS</literal> and
+ <literal>DTLB_MISSES.LARGE_WALK_COMPLETED</literal> have been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234555">The <application>libradius</application>
+ now supports &man.rad.bind.to.3; function.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233153">A bug in the the
+ <application>libutil</application> library has been fixed. It
+ could prevent configuration of <varname>priority</varname>
+ class capability in <filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>
+ (<literal>LOGIN_SETPRIORITY</literal> in
+ &man.setusercontext.3; function) from working when the
+ password is not set.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234741">A bug in &man.pam.unix.8; module has
+ been fixed. It could prevent <varname>passwordtime</varname>
+ login capability in &man.login.conf.5; from working.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233953">The &man.procstat.1; utility now
+ displays <varname>osreldate</varname> in binary information
+ for a process.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234534">A bug in the &man.remquo.3; functions
+ where the quotient did not always have the correct sign when
+ the remainder was 0, and another bug that the remainder and
+ quotient were both off by a bit in certain cases involving
+ subnormal remainders, have been fixed. Note that these bugs
+ affected all platforms except &arch.amd64; and
+ &arch.i386;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233067">The &man.rtld.1; dynamic linker has been
+ improved in performance of TLS (Thread Local Storage)
+ handling.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234001">The &man.sh.1; program now allows
+ underscore characters in the arithmetic expansion.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234331">The &man.unzip.1; program now supports a
+ <option>-Z</option> flag to enable
+ <application>zipinfo</application> mode.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233862"><command>zfs list -t snapshot</command>
+ command has been improved dramatically in performance.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233862"><command>zfs get</command> command now
+ supports <option>-t
+ <replaceable>datatype</replaceable></option> option.</para>
<sect3 id="rcd-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
@@ -369,14 +644,23 @@
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
+ <para revision="233915"><application>ISC BIND</application> has
+ been updated to 9.6-ESV-R6.</para>
+
<para revision="232635"><application>TENEX C shell</application>
(&man.tcsh.1;) has been updated to version 6.18.01.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233448">The <application>timezone</application>
+ database has been updated to
+ <application>tzdata2012a</application> release.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="233686">The &man.pkg.create.1; program now
+ allows a relative pathname in the <option>-p</option>
+ option.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e47aef832f9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<!ENTITY man.rad.bind.to.3 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>rad_bind_to</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
+<!ENTITY man.boot.config.5 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>boot.config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>">