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author | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-06-01 15:02:15 +0000 |
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committer | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-06-01 15:02:15 +0000 |
commit | b9a977a824f258008798124dbdc91ab00a3904fb (patch) | |
tree | d1b8c039b8fe5408ba323e3b123261616483819b | |
parent | 07f89c430fda4cfcb9d772bd36f9faa2700caec7 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index 7aa08ddb0797..3d5c769738b5 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -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>"> |