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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 412f27958887..5252825b1811 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para revision="219559,219561" arch="amd64,i386">The &os; + <para revision="219107" arch="amd64,i386">The &os; &man.dtrace.1; framework now supports <literal>systrace</literal> for system calls of <literal>linux32</literal> and <literal>freebsd32</literal> on @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ system call tracing provided by the <filename>systrace</filename> module.</para> - <para revision="216758,216615">The &man.hhook.9; (Helper Hook) + <para revision="222406">The &man.hhook.9; (Helper Hook) and &man.khelp.9; (Kernel Helpers) KPIs have been implemented. These are a kind of superset of &man.pfil.9; framework for more general use in the kernel. The &man.hhook.9; KPI @@ -231,95 +231,89 @@ structured way to dynamically extend the kernel at runtime in an ABI preserving manner.</para> - <para revision="224516" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">A &man.loader.8; + <para revision="230282" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">A &man.loader.8; tunable <varname>hw.memtest.tests</varname> has been added. This controls whether to perform memory testing at boot time or not. The default value is <literal>1</literal> (perform a memory test).</para> - <para revision="219999">The &man.open.2; and &man.fhopen.2; + <para revision="220241">The &man.open.2; and &man.fhopen.2; system calls now support the <literal>O_CLOEXEC</literal> flag, which allows setting the <literal>FD_CLOEXEC</literal> flag for the newly created file descriptor. This is standardized in IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (POSIX, Single UNIX Specification Version 4).</para> - <para revision="220791">The &man.posix.fallocate.2; system call has + <para revision="227573">The &man.posix.fallocate.2; system call has been implemented. This is a function in POSIX to ensure that a part of the storage for regular file data is allocated on the file system storage media.</para> - <sect3 id="boot"> - <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - - <para></para> - </sect3> + <para revision="229725">The &man.posix.fadvise.2; system call + has been implemented. This is a function in POSIX similar to + &man.madvise.2; except that it operates on a file descriptor + instead of a memory region.</para> <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Hardware Support</title> - <para revision="215649">The &os; &man.usb.4; subsystem now + <para revision="221174">The &os; &man.usb.4; subsystem now supports USB packet filter. This allows to capture packets which go through each USB host controller. The implementation is almost based on &man.bpf.4; code. The userland program &man.usbdump.8; has been added.</para> - <sect4 id="mm"> - <title>Multimedia Support</title> - - <para></para> - </sect4> - <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para revision="220009">The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been + <para revision="220340">The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to version 7.11.0.</para> - <para revision="218794">A &man.cxgbe.4; driver for Chelsio + <para revision="219633">A &man.cxgbe.4; driver for Chelsio T4 (Terminator 4) based 10Gb/1Gb adapters has been added.</para> - <para revision="218832" arch="i386">The &man.dc.4; driver + <para revision="220072" arch="i386">The &man.dc.4; driver now works correctly in kernels with the <option>PAE</option> option.</para> - <para revision="219753">The &man.em.4; driver has been + <para revision="230848">The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version 7.3.2.</para> - <para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been + <para revision="230848">The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version 2.3.1.</para> - <para revision="218530">The &man.igb.4; driver now supports + <para revision="230848">The &man.igb.4; driver now supports Intel I350 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers.</para> - <para>The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been + <para revision="230924">The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version 2.4.5.</para> - <para revision="220892">Firmware images in the &man.iwn.4; + <para revision="223255">Firmware images in the &man.iwn.4; driver for 1000, 5000, 6000, and 6500 series cards have been updated.</para> - <para revision="216860">A bug in the &man.msk.4; driver has been - fixed. It could prevent RX checksum offloading from - working.</para> + <para revision="223394">The &man.msk.4; driver now supports + RX checksum offloading for Yukon EC, Yukon Ultra, Yukon FE + and Yukon Ultra2. The checksum offloading for Yukon XL + was still disabled due to known silicon bug.</para> - <para revision="217794">A bug in the &man.nfe.4; driver which + <para revision="218872">A bug in the &man.nfe.4; driver which could prevent reinitialization after changing the MTU has been fixed.</para> - <para revision="216828">A rdcphy(4) driver for RDC Semiconductor + <para revision="218294">A rdcphy(4) driver for RDC Semiconductor R6040 10/100 PHY has been added.</para> - <para revision="217498,218760">The &man.re.4; driver now supports + <para revision="218901,219116">The &man.re.4; driver now supports RTL8168E/8111E-VL PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers and RTL8401E PCIe Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> - <para revision="217766">The &man.re.4; driver now supports + <para revision="218905">The &man.re.4; driver now supports TX interrupt moderation on RTL810xE PCIe Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> - <para revision="217902">The &man.re.4; driver now supports + <para revision="219110">The &man.re.4; driver now supports another mechanism for RX interrupt moderation because of performance problems. A &man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>dev.re.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.int_rx_mod</varname> @@ -335,23 +329,23 @@ this tunable has no effect on controllers without MSI/MSI-X capability.</para> - <para revision="217246,217832">The &man.re.4; driver now + <para revision="218897">The &man.re.4; driver now supports TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) on RealTek RTL8168/8111 C or later controllers. Note that this is disabled by default because broken frames can be sent under certain conditions.</para> - <para revision="217381,218289">The &man.re.4; driver now + <para revision="218899,219114">The &man.re.4; driver now supports enabling TX and/or RX checksum offloading independently from each other. Note that TX IP checksum is disabled on some RTL8168C-based network interfaces because it can generate an incorrect IP checksum when the packet contains IP options.</para> - <para revision="217911">The &man.re.4; driver now supports + <para revision="229530">The &man.re.4; driver now supports RTL8105E PCIe Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> - <para>A &man.vte.4; driver for RDC R6040 Fast + <para revision="218296">A &man.vte.4; driver for RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet controllers, which are commonly found on the Vortex86 System On a Chip, has been added.</para> </sect4> @@ -360,7 +354,7 @@ <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para revision="223666">&man.ipfw.8; now supports the + <para revision="230575">&man.ipfw.8; now supports the <command>call</command> and <command>return</command> actions. Upon the <command>call <replaceable>number</replaceable></command> action, the @@ -372,7 +366,7 @@ action and returns ruleset processing to the first rule with number greater than that saved number.</para> - <para revision="218794">&os;'s &man.ipsec.4; support now uses + <para revision="221157">&os;'s &man.ipsec.4; support now uses half of the hash size as the authenticator hash size in Hashed Message Authentication Mode (HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, and HMAC-SHA-512) as described in RFC 4868. @@ -382,13 +376,13 @@ &release.current; and later are no longer interoperable with the older &os; releases.</para> - <para revision="225682">A bug in the + <para revision="232560">A bug in the <literal>IPV6_PKTINFO</literal> option used in &man.sendmsg.2; has been fixed. The <literal>IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU</literal> state set by &man.setsockopt.2; was ignored.</para> - <para revision="216109,216114,216115,218152,218153,218155">The + <para revision="222401,222402,222403,222404,222406,222407,222408,222409,222411,222412,222413,222419,225738">The &os; TCP/IP network stack now supports the &man.mod.cc.9; pluggable congestion control framework. This allows TCP congestion control algorithms to be implemented as dynamically loadable @@ -406,7 +400,7 @@ For more detail, see the &man.mod.cc.4; and &man.mod.cc.9; manual pages.</para> - <para revision="217806">An &man.h.ertt.4; (Enhanced Round Trip + <para revision="222410">An &man.h.ertt.4; (Enhanced Round Trip Time) &man.khelp.9; module has been added. This module allows per-connection, low noise estimates of the instantaneous RTT in the TCP/IP network stack with a robust @@ -414,16 +408,16 @@ and/or TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) being in use for a connection.</para> - <para revision="218912">A new &man.tcp.4; socket option + <para revision="222401">A new &man.tcp.4; socket option <literal>TCP_CONGESTION</literal> has been added. This allows to select or query the congestion control algorithm that the TCP/IP network stack will use for connections on the socket.</para> - <para revision="225586">The &man.ng.ipfw.4; &man.netgraph.4; + <para revision="225876">The &man.ng.ipfw.4; &man.netgraph.4; node now supports IPv6.</para> - <para revision="219127">The &man.ng.one2many.4; + <para revision="219660">The &man.ng.one2many.4; &man.netgraph.4; node now supports the <literal>XMIT_FAILOVER</literal> transmit algorithm. This makes packets deliver out of the first active @@ -433,7 +427,7 @@ <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para revision="220412">The &man.ada.4; driver now supports + <para revision="220841">The &man.ada.4; driver now supports write cache control. A new &man.sysctl.8 variable <varname>kern.cam.ada.write_cache</varname> determines whether the write cache of &man.ada.4; devices is enabled or @@ -447,17 +441,17 @@ runtime, but it takes effect only after a device reset.</para> - <para revision="224905">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been + <para revision="224991">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.20.00.22.</para> - <para revision="219974">The &man.graid.8; GEOM class has been + <para revision="223177">The &man.graid.8; GEOM class has been added. This is a replacement of the &man.ataraid.4; driver supporting various BIOS-based software RAID.</para> - <para revision="223958">The &man.mxge.4; driver has been + <para revision="224235">The &man.mxge.4; driver has been updated.</para> - <para revision="226115">A &man.tws.4; driver for 3ware 9750 + <para revision="226243">A &man.tws.4; driver for 3ware 9750 SATA+SAS 6Gb/s RAID controllers has been added.</para> </sect3> @@ -465,7 +459,7 @@ <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para revision="216796">The &os; Fast File System now + <para revision="218079">The &os; Fast File System now supports the <literal>TRIM</literal> command when freeing data blocks. A new flag <option>-t</option> in the &man.newfs.8; and &man.tunefs.8; utilities sets the TRIM-enable flag for a @@ -477,7 +471,7 @@ blocks to a device, especially for a SSD (Solid-State Drive) for optimization.</para> - <para revision="221233">A new flag <option>-E</option> has + <para revision="225296">A new flag <option>-E</option> has been added to the &man.newfs.8; and &man.fsck.ffs.8; utilities. This clears unallocated blocks, notifying the underlying device that they are not used and that their contents may be @@ -488,7 +482,7 @@ filesystems which have been copied from one device to another.</para> - <para revision="221436">The &os; NFS subsystem now supports a + <para revision="221759">The &os; NFS subsystem now supports a <option>nocto</option> mount option. This disables the close-to-open cache coherency check at open time. This option may improve performance for read-only mounts, but @@ -496,7 +490,7 @@ rarely. The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility now also supports this flag keyword.</para> - <para revision="225537">A &man.loader.8; tunable + <para revision="226926">A &man.loader.8; tunable <varname>vfs.typenumhash</varname> has been added. Setting this to <literal>1</literal> enables to use a hash calculation on the file system identification number @@ -507,7 +501,7 @@ this is set to <literal>0</literal> (disable) by default for backward compatibility.</para> - <para revision="219089">The &os; ZFS subsystem has been + <para revision="222741">The &os; ZFS subsystem has been updated to the SPA (Storage Pool Allocator, also known as zpool) version 28. It now supports data deduplication, triple parity RAIDZ (raidz3), snapshot holds, log device @@ -519,79 +513,79 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> - <para revision="224152,224153,224154">The &man.bsdtar.1; and + <para revision="229589">The &man.bsdtar.1; and &man.cpio.1; utilities are now based on <application>libarchive</application> version 2.8.5.</para> - <para revision="217416">The &man.cpuset.1; utility now supports + <para revision="218033">The &man.cpuset.1; utility now supports a <option>-C</option> flag to create a new cpuset and assign an existing process into that set, and an <literal>all</literal> keyword in the <option>-l <replaceable>cpu-list</replaceable></option> option to specify all CPUs in the system.</para> - <para revision="217505">A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which + <para revision="221764">A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which could prevent the <command>STAT</command> FTP command from working properly has been fixed.</para> - <para revision="219415">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports a + <para revision="219861">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports a <option>-p</option> flag to the <command>show</command> subcommand. This allows showing providers' names of partitions instead of the partitions' indexes.</para> - <para revision="218049">The &man.hastd.8; utility now drops + <para revision="220104">The &man.hastd.8; utility now drops <literal>root</literal> privileges of the worker processes to the <literal>hast</literal> user.</para> - <para revision="219351">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports a + <para revision="220104">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports a <literal>checksum</literal> keyword to specify the checksum algorithm in a <literal>resource</literal> section. As of &release.current;, <literal>none</literal>, <literal>sha256</literal>, and <literal>crc32</literal> are supported.</para> - <para revision="219354">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports a + <para revision="220104">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports a <literal>compression</literal> keyword to specify the compression algorithm in a <literal>resource</literal> section. As of &release.current;, <literal>none</literal>, <literal>hole</literal> and <literal>lzf</literal> are supported.</para> - <para revision="219818">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports a + <para revision="220104">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports a <literal>source</literal> keyword to specify the local address to bind to before connecting the remote &man.hastd.8 daemon.</para> - <para revision="220370">A &man.readline.3; API set has been + <para revision="220612">A &man.readline.3; API set has been imported into <application>libedit</application>. This is based on NetBSD's implementation and BSD licensed utilities now use it instead of GNU <application>libreadline</application>.</para> - <para revision="224762">The &man.makefs.8; utility now supports the + <para revision="224447">The &man.makefs.8; utility now supports the ISO 9660 format.</para> - <para revision="220496,220497"><application>libmd</application> + <para revision="231588"><application>libmd</application> and <application>libcrypt</application> now support the SHA-256 and SHA-512 algorithms.</para> - <para revision="217642">The &man.netstat.1; utility now does not + <para revision="219062">The &man.netstat.1; utility now does not expose the internal scope address representation used in the &os; kernel, which is derived from KAME IPv6 stack, in the results of <command>netstat -ani</command> and <command>netstat -nr</command>.</para> - <para revision="218127">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now + <para revision="218911">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports &man.xz.1; compression. An <literal>X</literal> flag in the optional field has been added to specify the compression.</para> - <para revision="216823">A &man.poweroff.8; utility has been added. + <para revision="224259">A &man.poweroff.8; utility has been added. This is equivalent to:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; shutdown -p now</screen> - <para revision="218397">The &man.ppp.8; utility now supports + <para revision="224285">The &man.ppp.8; utility now supports <command>iface name <replaceable>name</replaceable></command> and <command>iface description <replaceable>description</replaceable></command> commands. @@ -599,12 +593,12 @@ and <literal>description</literal> subcommands of the &man.ifconfig.8; utility.</para> - <para revision="219713">The &man.ps.1; utility now supports + <para revision="219943">The &man.ps.1; utility now supports <option>-o usertime</option> and <option>-o systime</option> options to display accumulated system and user CPU time, respectively.</para> - <para revision="222732">The &man.rtadvd.8; daemon now supports a + <para revision="231802">The &man.rtadvd.8; daemon now supports a <literal>noifprefix</literal> keyword to disable gathering on-link prefixes from interfaces when no <literal>addr</literal> keyword is specified. An entry in @@ -613,73 +607,60 @@ generates an RA message with no prefix information option.</para> - <para revision="222732,224006">The &man.rtadvd.8; daemon now + <para revision="231802">The &man.rtadvd.8; daemon now supports the RDNSS and DNSSL options described in RFC 6106, <quote>IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration</quote>. A &man.rtadvctl.8; utility to control the &man.rtadvd.8; daemon has been added.</para> - <para revision="224536">A bug in the &man.tftpd.8; daemon has + <para revision="227083">A bug in the &man.tftpd.8; daemon has been fixed. It had an interoperability issue when transferring a large file.</para> - <para revision="224171">The &man.zpool.8: utility now supports a + <para revision="229570">The &man.zpool.8: utility now supports a <command>zpool labelclear</command> command. This allows to wipe the label data from a drive that is not active in a pool.</para> - - <sect3 id="periodic-scripts"> - <title><filename>/etc/periodic</filename> Scripts</title> - - <para></para> - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> - <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> - - <para></para> - </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="contrib"> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para revision="224731">The <application>awk</application> has + <para>The <application>awk</application> has been updated to the 7 August 2011 release.</para> <para><application>ISC BIND</application> has been updated to version 9.6-ESV-R5-P1.</para> - <para revision="221793">The <literal>netcat</literal> utility + <para>The <literal>netcat</literal> utility has been updated to version 4.9.</para> - <para revision="220150"><application>GNU GCC</application> and + <para revision="221274"><application>GNU GCC</application> and <application>libstdc++</application> have been updated to rev 127959 of <literal>gcc-4_2-branch</literal> (the last GPLv2-licensed version).</para> - <para revision="222906">The <application>LESS</application> + <para revision="223454">The <application>LESS</application> program has been updated to version v444.</para> - <para revision="221484,224638">The + <para revision="228152">The <application>OpenSSH</application> utility has been updated to 5.4p1, and optimization for large bandwidth-delay product connection and <literal>none</literal> cipher support have been merged</para> - <para revision="223067"><application>sendmail</application> + <para revision="223315"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated to version 8.14.5.</para> <para revision="226977">The <application>timezone</application> database has been updated to the <application>tzdata2011n</application> release.</para> - <para revision="217698">The &man.unifdef.1; utility has been updated + <para>The &man.unifdef.1; utility has been updated to version 2.5.6.</para> - <para revision="223935">The <application>xz</application> - program has been updated from 5.0.0 to a snapshot as of 11 - July, 2011.</para> + <para revision="219219">The <application>xz</application> + program has been updated from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="ports"> @@ -690,12 +671,6 @@ (<filename role="package">x11/kde4</filename>) has been updated from 4.5.5 to 4.7.4.</para> </sect2> - - <sect2 id="releng"> - <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> - - <para></para> - </sect2> </sect1> <sect1 id="upgrade"> |