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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 a973a43f3d71..48d03dd94285 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ displays the list of all created cdev's, consisting of devfs node name and struct cdev address.</para> + <para revision="214326">The &os; <filename>GENERIC</filename> + kernel is now compiled with <option>KDB</option> and + <option>KDB_TRACE</option> options. From 8.2-RELEASE the + kernel supports displaying a stack trace on panic by using + &man.stack.9; facility with no debugger backend like + &man.ddb.8;. Note that this does not change the default + behaviors of the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel on + panic.</para> + <para revision="213554,213556,213560">The following &man.sysctl.8; variables are also now loader tunables: <varname>vm.kmem_size</varname>, @@ -197,13 +206,21 @@ &man.sysctl.8; variables <varname>vm.kmem_map_size</varname> for the current kmem map size and <varname>vm.kmem_map_free</varname> for largest contiguous - free range in kmem map have been added.</para> + free range in kmem map, <varname>vfs.ncsizefactor</varname> + for size factor for namecache, and + <varname>vfs.ncnegfactor</varname> for ratio of negative + namecache entries have been added.</para> <para revision="212427">The &os; &man.memguard.9; framework has been improved to make it able to detect use-after-free of allocated memories over a longer time. For more details, see &man.memguard.9; manual page.</para> + <para revision="214254">The &os; &man.crypto.4; framework + (opencrypto) now supports XTS-AES (XEX-TCB-CTS, or XEX-based + Tweaked Code Book mode with CipherText Stealing), which is + defined in IEEE Std. 1619-2007.</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -251,6 +268,10 @@ the &man.alc.4; driver has been reduced from 50ms to 1ms. The 50ms timer resulted in a poor UDP performance.</para> + <para revision="214297,214298,214301">The &man.axe.4; driver + has been improved for stability and better performance on + the TX packet rate.</para> + <para revision="211379">The &man.bce.4; driver now supports flow control.</para> @@ -353,6 +374,10 @@ <para>Note that the default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para> + <para revision="214407">The man.rl.4; driver has been + improved on interrupt handling. It now has better TX + performance under high RX load.</para> + <para revision="212468,213612,213628">The &man.sis.4; driver now works on all supported platforms. Some stability and performance issues have also been fixed.</para> @@ -510,6 +535,34 @@ SATA controllers in the &man.ata.4; has been improved.</para> + <para revision="214330">The &man.gconcat.8; GEOM class now + supports kernel crash dump. The dumping is performed to the + component where a dump partition begins.</para> + + <para revision="214405">A bug in the &man.geli.8; GEOM class + on little endian platforms has been fixed. The metadata + version has been updated to <literal>4</literal> due to + this.</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; GEOM class now + supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>kern.geom.eli.overwrites</varname>. This specifies + the number of times on-disk keys should be overwritten when + destroying them. The default value is + <literal>5</literal>.</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; GEOM class has been + improved for preventing the same encryption key from being + used in 2^20 blocks (sectors).</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; GEOM class now uses + XTS-AES mode by default.</para> + + <para revision="214405">A &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>kern.geom.eli.debug</varname> now allows a value + <literal>-1</literal>. This means turn off any log messages + of the &man.geli.8; GEOM class.</para> + <para revision="210376">The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports larger I/O sizes which the device and &man.CAM.4; subsystem can support. This was limited to 64KB, and the number of @@ -621,6 +674,30 @@ <option>-f</option> flag which forces a full dump of all the segments except for the malformed ones.</para> + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports + <command>resize</command> subcommand to resize encrypted file + systems prior to growing it</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports + <command>suspend</command> and <command>resume</command> + subcommands. The <command>suspend</command> subcommand makes + &man.geli.8; devices wait for all in-flight I/O requests, + suspend new I/O requests, remove all &man.geli.8; sensitive + data from the kernel memory (like encryption keys) and will + wait for either <command>geli resume</command> or + <command>geli detach</command> commmand. For more + information, see &man.geli.8; manual page.</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now checks the + metadata provider size strictly. If the check fails, the + provider is not attached. A new option <option>-f</option> + can override this behavior.</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports + <option>-J <replaceable>newpassfile</replaceable></option> and + <option>-j <replaceable>passfile</replaceable></option> + options for loading passphrease from a file.</para> + <para revision="211938">The <function>gethost*()</function>, <function>getnet*()</function>, and <function>getproto*()</function> functions now set the errno @@ -668,6 +745,10 @@ &man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm) compression format.</para> + <para revision="214442">A bug in the &man.lpr.1; utility which + prevents it from working with some files on a ZFS file system + has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="213978">The <option>-p</option> option in the &man.mount.8; utility now displays <literal>rw</literal> mount option correctly as in the &man.fstab.5; format.</para> @@ -764,6 +845,12 @@ <literal>^C</literal> in insert mode when reading an ex command.</para> + <para revision="214345">The &man.watchdogd.8; program now set + <literal>MADV_PROTECT</literal> memory flag onto themselves to + protect from being terminated by the &os; kernel when + available memory becomes short. This kind of process + termination happens in a swap-intensive workload.</para> + <para revision="209870">The <command>set sharenfs</command> command in the &man.zfs.8; utility now supports <option>sec</option> option.</para> @@ -793,7 +880,11 @@ <para>The <application>awk</application> has been updated from the 23 October 2007 release to the 26 November 2009 release.</para> +--> + <para revision="214287">The &man.ee.1; program has been updated + to version 1.5.2.</para> +<!-- <para><application>ISC BIND</application> has been updated to version 9.6.2-P2.</para> |