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authorDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-27 21:18:19 +0000
committerDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-27 21:18:19 +0000
commitaac7434a6332499671e8a220c38c91d264c7f6fb (patch)
tree5b3efe339b1d2fdff9f553c13083b3045daa30a7
parentcd052235cdceac7251132ed04b4a2461310ae2b5 (diff)
Notes
-rw-r--r--release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT15
-rw-r--r--release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT17
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
index f56ae8ba8446..2b60e04f59aa 100644
--- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ Support has been added for forwarding IP datagrams without inspecting or
decreasing the TTL in order to make gateways and firewalls less visible
and therefore less exposed to attacks. [MERGED]
+The old `sd' (SCSI Disk) backwards compatibility support has been removed.
+Any usage of "/dev/sd*" in ``/etc/fstab'' must be replace by "/dev/da*".
+In addition, any useage of "/dev/*sd*" in scripts need to be changed.
+Even if you have old `sd' device entries in /dev, they will no longer work.
+
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -125,18 +131,15 @@ additional flexibility in creating secure process execution environments.
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
-The base C/C++ compiler has been upgraded from GCC 2.7.2 to EGCS 1.1.2.
-This gives users full ISO C++ support.
+The base C/C++ compiler has been upgraded from GCC 2.7.2 to GCC 2.95.2.
+This gives users full ISO C++ support, and preliminary C9x support.
The timezone database has been updated to catch all of the recent changes
in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central and South America.
The timezone data files now contain a magic number allowing for easy
identification.
-The f77 emulation via f2c has been updated to a current version.
-
-The Internet Software Consortium's DHCP client has been added to the
-base system.
+The f77 emulation via f2c has been replaced by a native F77 compiler.
Groff/troff/eqn has been updated to version 1.11.
diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
index 006bcbf83689..a9630e239440 100644
--- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ Support has been added for forwarding IP datagrams without inspecting or
decreasing the TTL in order to make gateways and firewalls less visible
and therefore less exposed to attacks. [MERGED]
+The old `sd' (SCSI Disk) backwards compatibility support has been removed.
+Any usage of "/dev/sd*" in ``/etc/fstab'' must be replace by "/dev/da*".
+In addition, any useage of "/dev/*sd*" in scripts need to be changed.
+Even if you have old `sd' device entries in /dev, they will no longer work.
+
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -127,19 +133,16 @@ additional flexibility in creating secure process execution environments.
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
-The base C/C++ compiler has been upgraded from GCC 2.7.2 to EGCS 1.1.2.
-This gives users full ISO C++ support.
+The base C/C++ compiler has been upgraded from GCC 2.7.2 to GCC 2.95.2.
+This gives users full ISO C++ support, and preliminary C9x support.
+
+The f77 emulation via f2c has been replaced by a native F77 compiler.
The timezone database has been updated to catch all of the recent changes
in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central and South America.
The timezone data files now contain a magic number allowing for easy
identification.
-The f77 emulation via f2c has been updated to a current version.
-
-The Internet Software Consortium's DHCP client has been added to the
-base system.
-
Groff/troff/eqn has been updated to version 1.11.
Gdb has been updated to version 4.18 and is now part of the standard