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| author | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-23 19:07:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-23 19:07:50 +0000 |
| commit | 9edccef8c5ef0760cc973b5d19f39b8d4996d7af (patch) | |
| tree | a67438c51ff009c819d5a038c985362629a048a1 /release | |
| parent | a21b8e291a0c2262bffcf555dae8ab2030f57085 (diff) | |
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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 270e17b0ec72..14c481b7ee61 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate> <copyright> - <year>2010</year> + <year>2011</year> <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> </copyright> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ advisories available from <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/"></ulink>.</para> - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> + <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1"> <tgroup cols="3"> <colspec colwidth="1*"> <colspec colwidth="1*"> @@ -132,64 +132,24 @@ <tbody> <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl.asc" - >SA-09:15.ssl</ulink></entry> - <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry> - <entry><para>SSL protocol flaw</para></entry> + <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc" + >SA-10:08.bzip2</ulink></entry> + <entry>20 September 2010</entry> + <entry><para>Integer overflow in bzip2 decompression</para></entry> </row> +<!-- XXX: not for 8.2 <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld.asc" - >SA-09:16.rtld</ulink></entry> - <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry> - <entry><para>Improper environment sanitization in &man.rtld.1;</para></entry> + <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:09.pseudofs.asc" + >SA-10:09.pseudofs</ulink></entry> + <entry>10 October 2010</entry> + <entry><para>Spurious mutex unlock</para></entry> </row> +--> <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc" - >SA-09:17.freebsd-update</ulink></entry> - <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry> - <entry><para>Inappropriate directory permissions in &man.freebsd-update.8;</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:01.bind.asc" - >SA-10:01.bind</ulink></entry> - <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry> - <entry><para>BIND &man.named.8; cache poisoning with DNSSEC validation</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:02.ntpd.asc" - >SA-10:02.ntpd</ulink></entry> - <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry> - <entry><para>ntpd mode 7 denial of service</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:03.zfs.asc" - >SA-10:03.zfs</ulink></entry> - <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry> - <entry><para>ZFS ZIL playback with insecure permissions</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:04.jail.asc" - >SA-10:04.jail</ulink></entry> - <entry>27 May 2010</entry> - <entry><para>Insufficient environment sanitization in &man.jail.8;</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:05.opie.asc" - >SA-10:05.opie</ulink></entry> - <entry>27 May 2010</entry> - <entry><para>OPIE off-by-one stack overflow</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:06.nfsclient.asc" - >SA-10:06.nfsclient</ulink></entry> - <entry>27 May 2010</entry> - <entry><para>Unvalidated input in nfsclient</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf.asc" - >SA-10:07.mbuf</ulink></entry> - <entry>13 July 2010</entry> - <entry><para>Lost mbuf flag resulting in data corruption</para></entry> + <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:10.openssl.asc" + >SA-10:10.openssl</ulink></entry> + <entry>29 November 2010</entry> + <entry><para>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> @@ -199,1266 +159,1026 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger has been improved:</para> + <para arch="ia64" revision="209326">The maximum number of pages + used for DMA bounce buffer pool has been increased from 256 to + 1024.</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <command>show - ifnets</command> and <command>show ifnet <replaceable>struct - ifnet *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of - <quote>ifnet *</quote> of each virtual network stack and - fields of specified <varname>fip</varname>, - respectively.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <command>show all - lltables</command>, <command>show lltable - <replaceable>struct lltable *</replaceable></command>, and - <command>show llentry <replaceable>struct llentry - *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of - <quote>lltable *</quote> of each virtual network stack, - fields of specified structures respectively.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The <command>show mount</command> command now prints - active string mount options.</para> - </listitem> + <para arch="powerpc" revision="209765">The default value of + <varname>kern.hz</varname> has been increased from 100 to + 1000.</para> - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <command>show - vnetrcrs</command> command to dump the whole log of - distinctive <varname>curvnet</varname> recursion - events.</para> - </listitem> + <para arch="powerpc" revision="209767">The SMP kernel now works on + MPC7400-based Apple desktop machines such as + PowerMac3,3.</para> - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <command>show - vnet_sysinit</command> and <command>show - vnet_unsysinit</command> commands to print - ordered call lists.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para arch="powerpc" revision="211593">&os;/powerpc now supports + DMA bounce buffer which is required on systems with larger RAM + than 4GB.</para> - <para>A new kernel thread called <quote>deadlock - resolver</quote> has been added. This can be used to detect - possible deadlock by using information of thread state and - heuristic analysis. This is not enabled by default. To - enable this, an option <option>option DEADLKRES</option> in - kernel configuration file and recompilation of the - kernel.</para> + <para arch="mips" revision="215938">&os;/mips support has been + improved. It now supports SMP on a SWARM with a dual-core + Sibyte processor.</para> - <para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256 - of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para> + <para arch="mips">&os;/mips now supports Netlogic Microsystems' + XLR and XLS multi-core processor families.</para> - <para>Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead have been added - to &man.fcntl.2; system call:</para> + <para arch="sparc64" revision="215598">&os;/sparc64 now supports + reservation-based physical memory allocation which provides + better performance.</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><varname>F_READAHEAD</varname> specifies the amount - for sequential access. The amount is specified in bytes and is - rounded up to nearest block size.</para> - </listitem> + <para arch="amd64" revision="214620">&os;/amd64 now always sets + the KVA space as equal to or larger than physical memory size. + The default size was calculated based on one-third of the + physical memory size by a code derived from one for i386. It + has been changed because constraints for memory space are not + severe on amd64 and this change would help to prevent a + <quote>kmem_map too small</quote> panic which often occurs + when using ZFS.</para> - <listitem> - <para><varname>F_RDAHEAD</varname> is a Darwin compatible - version that use 128KB as the sequential access - size.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214621">CPU topology detection + for Intel CPUs has been improved.</para> - <para>Note that the read-ahead amount is also limited by - sysctl variable <varname>vfs.read_max</varname>, which may - need to be raised in order to better utilize this - feature.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215513">ACPI suspend/resume + functionality support has been improved.</para> - <para>The &man.lindev.4; driver has been added. This is for - supporting various Linux-specific pseudo devices such as - <filename>/dev/full</filename>. Note that this is not - included in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215513">&os; kernel now + supports <function>kern_fpu_enter()</function> and + <function>kern_fpu_leave()</function> KPIs which allow the + kernel subsystems to use XMM register files used in Intel SSE + (Streaming SIMD Extensions).</para> - <para>A POSIX function pselect(3) has been reimplemented as a - system call &man.pselect.2; to eliminate race - condition.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64" revision="215006">The &man.acpi.4; + driver now uses ACPI Reset Register capability by default only + when a flag in the FADT which indicates it is available. This + behavior was controlled by a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>hw.acpi.handle_reboot</varname> and the default value + was always set to <literal>0</literal>.</para> - <para>A kernel option <option>option - INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE</option> has been added to - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64" revision="215521">The &man.acpi.4; + driver now supports new loader tunables + <varname>hw.acpi.install_interface</varname> and + <varname>hw.acpi.remove_interface</varname>. For more + details, see &man.acpi.4; manual page.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler that the - timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the - wakeup has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="209788">The &man.alq.9; support has been + improved. The <function>alq_writen()</function> and + <function>alq_getn()</function> KPIs have been extended to + support variable length messages, which is enabled at ALQ + creation time depending on the arguments passed to + <function>alq_open()</function>. Also, the + <literal>ALQ_NOACTIVATE</literal> and + <literal>ALQ_ORDERED</literal> flags have been added to allow + ALQ consumers to have more control over I/O scheduling and + resource acquisition respectively. These extensions are fully + backward compatible.</para> - <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has - been fixed.</para> + <para revision="209783">The &man.alq.9; support is now provided + as a kernel module <filename>alq.ko</filename>.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented - process usage (<literal>%CPU</literal>) from working correctly - has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="209692">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now + supports an optional delay in <command>reset</command> and + <command>reboot</command> commands. This allows an + administrator to break the system into debugger and trigger + automatic textdump when an unattended panic occurs.</para> - <para>New SDT (Statically Defined Tracing) probes such as ones - for <literal>opencrypto</literal> and <literal>vnet</literal> - have been added to &os; &man.dtrace.1; subsystem.</para> + <para revision="212230">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now + supports a <command>show cdev</command> command. This + displays the list of all created cdev's, consisting of devfs + node name and struct cdev address.</para> - <para arch="powerpc">&os; now supports SMP in PowerPC G5 - systems. Note that SMP support on &os;/&arch.powerpc; is - disabled by default in <filename>GENERIC</filename> - kernel.</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 arch="sparc64">&os; now supports UltraSPARC IV, IV+, and - SPARC64 V CPUs.</para> + <para revision="213554,213556,213560">The following + &man.sysctl.8; variables are also now loader tunables: + <varname>vm.kmem_size</varname>, + <varname>vm.kmem_size_max</varname>, and + <varname>vm.kmem_size_min</varname>, + <varname>debug.kdb.stop_cpus</varname>, + <varname>debug.trace_on_panic</varname>, and + <varname>kern.sync_on_panic</varname>. Also, new + &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, <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>The &man.syscons.4; driver has been improved. The history - buffer can be fully saved/restored in the VESA mode switching - via a loader tunable - <varname>hint.sc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.vesa_mode</varname>.</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>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that - <varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed. This - affects applications like &man.mail.1;.</para> + <para revision="214756"><literal>PT_LWPINFO</literal> request to + obtain information about the kernel thread that caused the + traced process to stop in the &man.ptrace.2; process tracing + and debugging facility has been improved. It now reports + system call entry and leave events, as well as availability of + <varname>siginfo_t</varname> accompanying the reported + signal.</para> - <para arch="amd64,i386">An x86 real mode emulator based on - OpenBSD's x86emu implementation has been added to improve real - mode BIOS call support on both &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64;. - The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.dpms.4;, vesa(4), &man.vga.4; driver - now use this emulator and work on the both platforms.</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> - <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; virtualization container can work - with &man.sctp.4; now. Note that the VIMAGE is not enabled by - default in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + <para arch="amd64" revision="215788">Xen HVM support in + &os;/amd64 kernel has been improved. For more details, see + &man.xen.4; manual page.</para> - <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; now supports - <varname>ip4.saddrsel</varname>, - <varname>ip4.nosaddrsel</varname>, - <varname>ip6.saddrsel</varname>, and - <varname>ip6.nosaddrsel</varname> to control whether to use - source address selection or the primary jail address for - unbound outgoing connections. The default value is to use - source address selection.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214784">The qpi(4) pseudo bus + driver has been added. This supports extra PCI buses on Intel + QPI chipsets where various hardware such as memory controllers + for each socket is connected.</para> <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - <para arch="pc98">The <filename>boot2</filename> bootcode has - been reimplemented based on the &arch.i386 counterpart. It - now supports ELF binary, UFS2 file system, and larger number - of slices.</para> + <para revision="213994">&os; now fully supports GPT (GUID + Partition Table). Checksums of primary header and primary + partition table are verified properly now.</para> - <para arch="ia64">The EFI <filename>loader</filename> program - now supports a command-line option <option>-dev - <replaceable>currdev</replaceable></option> to specify the - default value of <varname>currdev</varname>. This option - can be set by the EFI boot manager.</para> + <para arch="powerpc" revision="215919,215920">Memory + management issues that prevented &os; OpenFirmware loader + and netbooting from working have been fixed.</para> - <para arch="powerpc">The &man.loader.8; program now supports - U-Boot storage.</para> - - <para arch="i386">The algorithm the &man.loader.8; uses has - been improved to choose a memory range for its heap when - using a range above 1MB. This fixes a symptom that the - loader fails to load a kernel.</para> - - <para>A kernel environment variable - <varname>vfs.root.mountfrom</varname> now supports - multiple elements for root file system in a space-separated - list. Each list element will be tried in order and the - first available one will be mounted.</para> - - <para>The <filename>zfsloader</filename> has been added. This - is a separate &man.zfs.8; enabled loader. Note that a ZFS - bootcode (<filename>zfsboot</filename> or - <filename>gptzfsboot</filename>) need to be installed - to use this new loader.</para> - - <para>The <filename>zfsboot</filename> and - <filename>gptzfsboot</filename> bootcode now fully support - 64-bit LBAs for disk addresses. This allows booting from - large volumes.</para> + <para revision="212717">The &man.pxeboot.8; now uses NFS + version 3 instead of version 2 by default.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Hardware Support</title> - <para arch="powerpc">The <filename>adb</filename> driver now - supports for interpreting taps on ADB touchpads as a button - click.</para> - - <para>The amdsbwd(4) driver for AMD SB600/SB7xx watchdog - timer has been added.</para> - - <para arch="powerpc">The <filename>apt</filename> driver for - the Apple Touchpad present on MacBook has been added to - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> - - <para arch="sparc64">The epic(4) driver for the front panel - LEDs in Sun Fire V215/V245 has been added.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215633">The &man.aesni.4; + driver has been added. This supports AES accelerator on + Intel CPUs and accelerates AES operations for + &man.crypto.4;.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.ipmi.4; driver that caused incorrect - watchdog timer setting has been fixed.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="210476">The &man.aibs.4; + driver has been added. This supports the hardware sensors + in ASUS motherboards and replaces the &man.acpi.aiboost.4; + driver.</para> - <para arch="sparc64">The &man.pci.4; driver now supports a - JBus to PCIe bridge (called as <quote>Fire</quote>) found in - the Sun Fire V215/V245 and Sun Ultra 25/45 machines.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="211914">The &man.coretemp.4; + driver now supports Xeon 5500/5600 series.</para> - <para arch="powerpc">The &man.smu.4; driver now provides - thermal management and monitoring features. This allows fan - control and thermal monitoring on SMU-based Apple G5 - machines, as well as an &man.led.4; interface to control the - sleep LED.</para> + <para arch="powerpc" revision="215694">&os;/powerpc now + supports the I2C bus in Apple System Management Unit.</para> - <para>The &man.tnt4882.4; driver for IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus now - supports National Instruments TNT5004 chip.</para> + <para arch="powerpc" revision="215695">A device driver that + supports CPU temperature sensors on PowerMac 11,2 has been + added.</para> - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver now supports NetMos NM9865 - family of Serial/Parallel ports.</para> + <para revision="215482">The &man.ehci.4;, &man.ohci.4;, and + &man.uhci.4; driver now support LOW speed BULK transfer + mode.</para> - <para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel - from eGalax has been added. This driver is supported by - <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="209952">The &man.ichwd.4; + driver now supports Intel NM10 Express chipset watchdog + timer.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.uftdi.4; driver that can allow to send - a zero length packet has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="215036">The &man.tpm.4; driver, which supports + Trusted Platform Module has been added.</para> - <para>The &man.usb.4; subsystem now reports &man.devd.8; - <literal>notify</literal> events with the device properties - instead of <literal>attach</literal> events. The following is an - example entry of &man.devd.conf.5; to match a &man.umass.4; - device with a SCSI subclass and BBB protocol:</para> - - <programlisting>notify 100 { - match "system" "USB"; - match "subsystem" "INTERFACE"; - match "type" "ATTACH"; - match "intclass" "0x08"; - match "intsubclass" "0x06"; - match "intprotocol" "0x50"; - action "/path/to/command -flag"; -};</programlisting> + <para revision="215944">The xhci(4) driver, which supports + Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) and USB 3.0, has + been added.</para> <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> - <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver now supports LCD - brightness control notify handler.</para> - - <para>The &man.acpi.sony.4; helper driver now supports - default display brightness, wired LAN power, and bass - gain.</para> + <para>The &os; Linux emulation subsystem now supports the + <application>video4linux</application> API. This requires + native <application>video4linux</application> hardware + drivers such as the ones provided by <filename + role="ports">multimedia/pwcbsd</filename> and <filename + role="ports">multimedia/webcamd</filename>.</para> - <para>The &man.agp.4; driver has been improved. It includes - a fix for aperture size calculation issue which prevents - some graphics cards from working.</para> + <para revision="215483">MIDI input buffer size in the + &man.uaudio.4; driver has been changed. This fixes a + problem where the input appears several seconds + late.</para> - <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver now allows AD1981HD codecs - to use playback mixer.</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver now supports multichannel - (4.0 and 7.1) playback support. The 5.1 mode support is - disabled now due to unidentified synchronization problem. - Devices which supports the 7.1 mode can handle the 5.1 - operation via software upmix done by &man.sound.4;. Note - that stereo stream is no longer duplicated to all - ports.</para> + <para revision="215484">An issue in the &man.uaudio.4; + driver that prevented some USB audio devices from working + has been fixed.</para> </sect4> <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para>The &man.ath.4; driver now supports Atheros - AR9285-based devices.</para> + <para revision="212021">The &man.alc.4; driver now supports + Atheros AR8151/AR8152 PCIe Gigabit/Fast Ethernet + controllers.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.ath.4; driver which causes a problem - of AR5416-based chipsets including AR9285 has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="215003">A bug in the &man.alc.4; driver was + fixed that could lead to a system freeze when the system + was booted without a cable plugged in. This symptom was + found in AR8132 on EEE PC.</para> - <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports BCM5761, BCM5784, and - BCM57780-based devices.</para> + <para revision="212011">The TX interrupt moderation timer in + the &man.alc.4; driver has been reduced from 50ms to 1ms. + The 50ms timer resulted in a poor UDP performance.</para> - <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports TSO (TCP - Segmentation Offloading) on BCM5755 or newer - controllers.</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="214997">The &man.bge.4; driver now supports + BCM5718 x2 PCI Express dual-port gigabit Ethernet + controller family. This family is the successor to the + BCM5714/BCM5715 family and supports IPv4/IPv6 checksum + offloading, TSO, VLAN hardware tagging, jumbo frames, + MSI/MSIX, IOV, RSS and TSS. The current version of the + driver supports all hardware features except IOV and + RSS/TSS.</para> - <para>A long-standing bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which - was related to ASF heartbeat sending has been + <para revision="211367">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which + prevented TSO in BCM57780 from working has been fixed.</para> - <para>A long-standing stability issue of the &man.bce.4; and - &man.bge.4; driver due to a hardware bug in its DMA - handling when the system has more than 4GB memory has been - fixed. This applies to BCM5714, BCM5715, and BCM5708 - controllers.</para> + <para revision="214700">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that + could wrongly disable the TX checksum offloading feature + as well when one tries to disable only the RX checksum + offloading has been fixed.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that incorrectly - enabled TSO on BCM5754/BCM5754M controllers has been - fixed.</para> + <para revision="214714">Some improvements for reliability of + the &man.bge.4; driver with BCM5906 controller has been + made.</para> + + <para revision="214698">The &man.bge.4; driver now supports + hardware MAC statistics in controller's internal memory + for BCM5705 or newer Broadcom controllers. These counters + can be accessed via &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats.*</varname> + and provide useful information to diagnose driver + issues.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.if.bridge.4; driver has been fixed. - The MTU was set based on the firstly-added member even if - the addition failed.</para> + <para revision="213109">UDP checksum offloading in the + &man.bge.4; driver has been disabled by default. This is + because Broadcom controllers have a bug which can generate + UDP datagrams with checksum value <literal>0</literal> + when TX UDP checksum offloading is enabled. The checksum + offloading can be enabled by using the following loader + tunable:</para> - <para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports - <varname>SIOCSIFMTU</varname> ioctl. For example, - <command>ifconfig bridge0 mtu 1280</command> can change - the MTU of <literal>bridge0</literal> to - <literal>1280</literal>. Changing the MTU is allowed only - when all members have the same MTU value.</para> + <programlisting>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.forced_udpcsum</programlisting> - <para>The &man.bwn.4; driver for Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets - has been added.</para> + <para revision="213593">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that + could lead to poor performance on a system with more than + 4 GB RAM has been fixed. The cause was that all of + Broadcom controllers except the BCM5755 and later have a + bug in 4 GB-boundary DMA processing and used the bounce + buffer in an inefficient way.</para> - <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to T3 - firmware 7.8.0.</para> + <para revision="212275">The &man.bwi.4; driver, which supports + Broadcom BCM430* and BCM431* family Wireless Ethernet + controllers, has been added. This is not compiled into + the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because there are + some problems. The kernel module + <filename>if_bwi.ko</filename> is available and can be + loaded without recompiling the kernel to enable this + driver.</para> - <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports hardware - filtering based on inspection of L2/L3/L4 headers. - Filtering based on source IP address, destination IP - address, source port number, destination port number, - 802.1q VLAN frame tag, UDP, TCP, and MAC address is - possible. The configuration can be done by the - cxgbtool(8) utility. Note that cxgbtool(8) is in - <filename>src/usr.sbin/cxgbtool</filename> but not - compiled by default.</para> + <para revision="212274">A bug in the &man.bwn.4; driver that + prevented WPA authentication from working has been + fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version - 7.0.5.</para> + <para revision="215499">A bug in the &man.cdce.4; driver has + been fixed.</para> - <para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum - offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para> + <para revision="211848">The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports + the following new &man.sysctl.8; variables: + <varname>hw.cxgb.nfilters</varname> sets the maximum + number of entries in the hardware filter table, + <varname>dev.cxgbc.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.pkt_timestamp</varname> + provides packet timestamp instead of connection hash, and + <varname>dev.cxgbc.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.core_clock</varname> + provides the core clock frequency in kHz.</para> - <para>The &man.fxp.4; driver now exports the hardware MAC - statistics via sysctl variables.</para> + <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version + 7.1.9.</para> - <para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version - 1.9.5.</para> + <para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version + 2.0.7.</para> - <para>The &man.iwn.4; driver has been updated. This - includes various improvements and bugfixes regarding RF - switch, bgscan support, suspend/resume support, locking - issue, and more. The line <literal>device iwnfw</literal> - in the kernel configuration file will include all firmware - images.</para> + <para revision="209309">The &man.em.4; and &man.igb.4; drivers + now provide statistics counters as &man.sysctl.8; MIB + objects.</para> - <para>The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version - 2.2.0.</para> + <para revision="211241">The &man.em.4; and &man.igb.4; drivers + now support the &man.led.4; interface via + <filename>/dev/led/em<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> + and + <filename>/dev/led/igb<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> + for identification LED control. The following command + line makes the LED blink on <literal>em0</literal>:</para> - <para>The &man.msk.4; driver has been improved:</para> + <screen>&prompt.root; echo f2 > /dev/led/em0</screen> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>It now supports Marvell Yukon 88E8042, 88E8057, - 88E8059 (Yukon Optima) devices and DGE-560SX (Yukon - XL).</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="212150">The &man.epair.4; virtual Ethernet + interface driver now supports explicit UP/DOWN linkstate. + This fixes an issue when it is used with the &man.carp.4; + protocol.</para> - <listitem> - <para>A rudimentary interrupt moderation with - programmable countdown timer register has been - implemented. The default parameter of the holdoff - time is 100us and this can be changed via sysctl - variable - <varname>dev.mskc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_holdoff</varname>. - Note that the interrupt moderation is shared resource - on a dual-port controllers and it is impossible to use - separate interrupt moderation values for each - port.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="214717">The &man.fxp.4; driver now supports + TSO over VLAN on i82550 and i82551 controllers.</para> - <listitem> - <para>A stability issue has been fixed. A heavy RX - traffic while rebooting is in progress could prevent - the system from working.</para> - </itemizedlist> + <para revision="210673">The &man.iwn.4; driver now supports + Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6000 series. The firmware has + been updated to version 9.221.4.1.</para> - <para>The &man.mxge.4; driver has been updated to firmware - version 1.4.50 from Myricom.</para> + <para revision="212386">The &man.ixgbe.4; + driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para> - <para>The &man.re.4; driver no longer performs an - unnecessary interface up/down during getting IP address - via DHCP.</para> + <para revision="209308,215970,217593">The &man.ixgbe.4; + driver has been updated to version 2.3.8. It now supports + 82599, better interrupt handling, hardware assist to LRO, + VM SRIOV interface, and so on.</para> - <para>The &man.re.4; driver now uses <literal>2048</literal> - as PCIe Maximum Read Request Size. This improves bulk - transfer performance.</para> + <para + revision="211379,215881,215890,2105894,216002,216023,216029,216031,216033">The + &man.miibus.4; has been rewritten for the generic IEEE + 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support. The + &man.alc.4;, &man.bge.4;, &man.bce.4;, &man.cas.4;, + &man.fxp.4;, &man.gem.4;, &man.jme.4;, &man.msk.4;, + &man.nfe.4;, &man.re.4;, &man.stge.4;, and &man.xl.4; + drivers along with atphy(4), bmtphy(4), brgphy(4), + e1000phy(4), gentbi(4), inphy(4), ip1000phy(4), jmphy(4), + nsgphy(4), nsphyter(4), and &man.rgephy.4; have been + updated to support flow control via this facility.</para> - <para>The &man.run.4; driver for Ralink - RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB 802.11agn devices has been - added.</para> + <para revision="212386">The &man.mwlfw.4; + driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para> - <para>The sge(4) driver for Silicon Integrated Systems - SiS190/191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet has been added. This - supports TSO and TSO over VLAN.</para> + <para revision="216054">A bug in the &man.mxge.4; driver + that prevented TSO from working has been fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.ste.4; driver has been improved:</para> + <para revision="215456">The &man.nfe.4; driver now supports + WoL (Wake on LAN).</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>The DMA handling has been improved.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="215218">The &man.re.4; driver now supports + 64-bit DMA addressing for RTL810xE/RTL8168/RTL8111 PCIe + controllers.</para> - <listitem> - <para>Wake-On-LAN is now supported.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="215405">The &man.re.4; driver now supports + hardware interrupt moderation of TX completion interrupts + on RTL8169/RTL8168 controllers.</para> - <listitem> - <para>Unnecessary reinitialization of the - interfaces has been eliminated.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="211377">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports WoL + (Wake on LAN) on RTL8139B or newer controllers.</para> - <listitem> - <para>RX interrupt moderation with single shot timer has - been implemented. The default parameter of the - moderation time is 150us and this can be changed via - sysctl variable - <varname>dev.ste.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_rx_mod</varname>. - Setting it 0 effectively disables the RX interrupt - moderation feature.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para revision="215222">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports + reading hardware statistics counters by setting a + &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>dev.rl.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname> + to <literal>1</literal>.</para> - <para>The tsec(4) driver now supports &man.altq.4;.</para> + <para revision="212039">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports a + device hint to change a way of register access. Although + some newer RTL8139 controllers support memory-mapped + register access, it is difficult to detect the support + automatically. For this reason the driver uses I/O + mapping by default and provides the following device hint. + If it is set to <literal>0</literal>, the driver uses + memory mapping for register access.</para> - <para>The &man.u3g.4; driver has been improved and now works - with ZTE MF636, Option Gi0322, Globetrotter GE40x, and - Novatel MC950D.</para> + <programlisting>hint.rl.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.prefer_iomap="0"</programlisting> - <para>The &man.uhso.4; driver for Option HSDPA USB devices - has been added. A new &man.uhsoctl.1; userland utility - can be used to initiate and close the WAN - connection.</para> + <para>Note that the default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para> - <para>The &man.vge.4; driver has been improved:</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> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>The DMA handling has been improved.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="215216">A bug in the &man.sk.4; driver has + been fixed. It did not program the station address for + Yukon controllers and overriding the station address with + &man.ifconfig.8; was not possible.</para> - <listitem> - <para>Wake-On-LAN is now supported.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="211359">The &man.sk.4; driver now disables TX + checksum offloading by default. This is because some + revisions of the Yukon controller generate corrupted frames. + The checksum offloading can be enabled manually by using + <option>txcsum</option> option in the &man.ifconfig.8; + utility.</para> - <listitem> - <para>Unnecessary reinitialization of the - interfaces has been eliminated.</para> - </listitem> + <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> - <listitem> - <para>Hardware MAC statistics are now supported via sysctl variables - <varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.stats</varname>.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="213637">The &man.sis.4; driver now supports + WoL (Wake on LAN) on NS DP8315 controller.</para> - <listitem> - <para>Interrupt moderation with single shot timer and - scheme supported by VT61xx controllers have been - implemented. The default parameters are tuned to - generate interrupt less than 8k per second, and these - parameters can be changed via sysctl variables - <varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_holdoff</varname>, - <varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.rx_coal_pkt</varname>, - and - <varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.tx_coal_pkt</varname>. - Note that an up/down cycle is needed to make a - parameter change take effect.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para revision="213626">A tunable + <varname>dev.sis.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.manual_pad</varname> + for the &man.sis.4; driver has been added. This controls + whether padding with 0x00 for short frames is done by CPU, + rather than the controller. The reason why this tunable + has been added is that NS DP83815/DP83816 pads them with + 0xff though RFC 1042 specifies it should be 0x00. The + tunable is disabled by default, which means padding with + 0xff is used because padding with 0x00 by software needs + extra CPU cycles. Setting a non-zero value enables the + software padding.</para> - <para>The &man.urtw.4; driver has been improved and now - supports RTL8187B-based devices.</para> + <para revision="211357">The &man.ste.4; driver now supports a + device hint to change a way of register access. Although + it uses memory-mapped register access by default, some old + IC Plus Corp (formerly Sundace) controllers are found + unstable. The following device hint makes the driver use + I/O mapping for register access:</para> - <para>The &os; Xen netfront driver has been improved in - stability and performance.</para> + <programlisting>hint.ste.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.prefer_iomap="1"</programlisting> + + <para revision="213120">The &man.xl.4; driver now supports + WoL (Wake on LAN). Note that not all controllers support + this functionality and some need an additional remote + wakeup cable.</para> </sect4> </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para>&os; flowtable now supports IPv6. This is for per-CPU - caching flows as a means of accelerating L3 and L2 lookups - as well as providing stateful load balancing when ECMP - (Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing) is enabled by <option>option - RADIX_MPATH</option>.</para> - - <para>A new capability flag <literal>LINKSTATE</literal> has - been added to <varname>struct - ifnet.if_capabilities</varname>. This indicates if the - interface can check the link state or not. The - &man.ifconfig.8; utility now shows this flag if - supported.</para> - - <para>A new event handler <varname>iflladdr_event</varname> - has been added. This signals that the L2 address on an - interface has changed, and lets stacked interfaces such as - &man.vlan.4; detect that their lower interface has changed - and adjust things in order to keep working. This fixes an - issue of &man.lagg.4; and &man.vlan.4; configuration.</para> + <para revision="212738,216348">A bug in the &man.ipfw.4; + packet filter subsystem has been fixed. The &man.sysctl.8; + variable <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass</varname> did not + work for <literal>netgraph</literal> action and in-kernel + NAT.</para> - <para>IPcomp (IP Payload Compression Protocol defined in RFC - 2393) protocol is now enabled by default. Note that this - requires <option>option IPSEC</option> in the kernel - configuration file and <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel - does not include it. This functionality can be disabled by - using a sysctl variable - <varname>net.inet.ipcomp.ipcomp_enable</varname>.</para> + <para revision="215342">A new loader tunable + <varname>net.link.ifqmaxlen</varname> has been added. It + specifies the default value of send interface queue length. + The default value for this parameter is + <varname>50</varname>.</para> - <para>The &man.ipfw.4; subsystem including &man.dummynet.4; - has been updated to <quote>ipfw3</quote> and various bugs - have been fixed:</para> + <para revision="212742">A <literal>ngtee</literal> action in + the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter subsystem has been changed. + It no longer accepts a packet.</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>The major enhancement is a completely restructured - version of &man.dummynet.4;, with support for different - packet scheduling algorithms (loadable at runtime), - faster queue/pipe lookup, and a much cleaner internal - architecture and kernel/userland ABI which simplifies - future extensions.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="214108">A possible panic in the &man.ipfw.4; + pseudo interface for logging has been fixed.</para> - <listitem> - <para>All of O(N) sequences in the firewall rule - evaluation removed from the kernel critical sections. - The worst case is now O(log N).</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="209691">IPsec flow distribution has been + improved for more parallel processing.</para> - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <literal>ipfw0</literal> pseudo - interface for logging similar to &man.pflog.4;. A sysctl - <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=0</varname> enables logging - to <literal>ipfw0</literal>, and - <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1</varname> sends logging to - &man.syslog.3; as before.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="209277">A bug in &os; IPv4 stack that a proxy + ARP entry cannot be added over &man.netgraph.4; interfaces + has been fixed.</para> - <listitem> - <para>The <literal>me</literal> keyword in the &man.ipfw.4; - rule now matches any IPv6 addresses configured on an - interface as well as IPv4 ones.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>A bug that <command>keep-alive</command> rule did - not work for IPv6 packets has been fixed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The <literal>lookup</literal> match option has been added.</para> - - <programlisting>lookup {dst-ip|src-ip|dst-port|src-port|uid|jail} <replaceable>N</replaceable></programlisting> + <para revision="211435">A bug in &os; IPv6 stack that prevented + an <option>-I</option> in the &man.ping6.8; utility from + working with + <varname>net.inet6.ip6.use_defaultzone=1</varname> has been + fixed.</para> - <para>This searches the specified field in table - <replaceable>N</replaceable> and sets - <literal>tablearg</literal> accordingly. With - <literal>dst-ip</literal> or <literal>src-ip</literal> - the option replicates two existing options. When used - with other arguments, the option can be useful to - quickly dispatch traffic based on other fields.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="214111">The &man.lagg.4; interface now + supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>net.link.lagg.failover_rx_all</varname>. This + controls whether to accept input packets on any link in a + failover lagg.</para> - <listitem> - <para>A bug in the &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>ip.fw.one_pass</varname> handling has been - fixed. A packet which comes from a pipe without being - delayed incorrectly ignored this variable.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para revision="215869">The &man.ng.eiface.4; &man.netgraph.4; + node now supports VLAN-compatible MTU and an MTU size which + is larger than 1500.</para> - <para>A memory alignment issue in the &man.ng.ksocket.4; and - &man.ng.ppp.4;, Netgraph node drivers have been fixed. This - fixes kernel panics due to the misalignment.</para> + <para revision="212320">The &man.ng.ether.4; &man.netgraph.4; + node now supports interface transfer between multiple virtual + network stacks by &man.ifconfig.8; <command>vnet</command> + command. A &man.ng.ether.4; node associated with an network + interface is now destroyed and recreated when the network + interface is moved to another vnet.</para> - <para>The &man.ng.bridge.4; and &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node - drivers now supports a flag <literal>persistent</literal>. - It disables automatic node shutdown when the last hook gets - disconnected. The new control messages - <literal>NGM_BRIDGE_SET_PERSISTENT</literal> and - <literal>NGM_HUB_SET_PERSISTENT</literal> have been added - for the flag.</para> + <para revision="209843">A new &man.netgraph.4; node + &man.ng.patch.4; has been added. This performs data + modification of packets passing through. Modifications are + restricted to a subset of C language operations on unsigned + integers of 8, 16, 32 or 64-bit size.</para> - <para>The &man.pf.4; subsystem now supports - <literal>sloppy</literal> keyword to enable a TCP state - machine for tracking TCP connections with no sequence number - check. This feature is in the latest version of - <application>pf</application>.</para> + <para revision="212905">An ICMP unreachable problem in the + &man.pf.4; packet filter subsystem when TSO support is + enabled has been fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.pfil.9; framework for packet filtering in &os; - kernel now supports separate packet filtering instances like - &man.ipfw.4; for each VIMAGE jail.</para> + <para revision="211538">A TCP bandwidth delay product window + limiting algorithm by a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable</varname> is now + disabled by default. It has been found that this algorithm + is inefficient on a fast network with smaller RTT than 10ms. + It had been enabled by default since 5.2-RELEASE, and then + had been disabled only if the RTT was lesser than 10ms since + 7.0-RELEASE. Pluggable TCP congestion control algorithm + modules are planned to be added for the future + releases.</para> - <para>A bug that proxy ARP entries cannot be added over - point-to-point link types has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="211602">A bug in &os; TCP Path MTU discovery + which could lead to a wrong calculation for an MTU smaller + than 256 octets has been fixed. Note that this bug did not + affect MTUs equal to or larger than 256 octets.</para> - <para>The &man.tap.4; pseudo interface now reports the link - state properly by updating <varname>if_link_state</varname> - variable in the kernel.</para> + <para revision="214865,214866">The &os; TCP reassembly + implementation has been improved. A long-standing + accounting bug affecting SMP systems has been fixed and the + <varname>net.inet.tcp.reass.maxqlen</varname> &man.sysctl.8; + variable has been retired in favor of a per-connection + dynamic limit based on the receive socket buffer size. &os; + receivers now handle packet loss (particularly losses caused + by queue overflows) significantly better than before which + improves connection throughput.</para> - <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface has been added to - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + <para revision="211870">The TCP initial window increase in RFC + 3390 which can be controlled by a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>net.inet.tcp.rfc3390</varname> now reduces the + congestion window to the restart window if a TCP connection + has been idle for one retransmit timeout or more. For more + details, see RFC 5681 Section 4.1.</para> - <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface now supports TSO (TCP - Segmentation Offloading). The capability flag is named as - <varname>IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO</varname> and it is separated from - <varname>IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING</varname>. The &man.age.4;, - &man.alc.4;, &man.ale.4;, &man.bce.4;, &man.bge.4;, - &man.cxgb.4;, &man.jme.4;, &man.re.4;, and &man.mxge.4; - driver support this feature.</para> + <para revision="214859">The &man.siftr.4;, Statistical + Information For TCP Research (SIFTR) kernel module has been + added. This is a facility that logs a range of statistics + on active TCP connections to a log file. It provides the + ability to make highly granular measurements of TCP + connection state, aimed at system administrators, developers + and researchers.</para> - <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN - now ignore renaming of the parent's interface name. The - configured VLAN interfaces continue to work with the new - name while previously the configurations were removed as the - renaming happens.</para> + <para revision="212319">&os; virtual network stack (vnet) now + supports IPv4 multicast routing.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para>The &man.ada.4; driver now supports - <varname>BIO_DELETE</varname>. For SSDs this uses - <literal>TRIM</literal> feature of <literal>DATA SET - MANAGEMENT</literal> command, as defined by ACS-2 - specification working draft. For Compact Flash use - <literal>CFA ERASE</literal> command, same as &man.ad.4; - does. This change realizes restoring write speed of SSDs - which supports <literal>TRIM</literal> command by doing - <command>newfs -E - <replaceable>/dev/ada1</replaceable></command>, for - example.</para> - - <para>The &man.ahci.4; driver now supports SATA part of - Marvell 88SE912x controllers.</para> - - <para>The &man.ahci.4; driver now supports FIS-based (Frame - Information Structure) switching of port multiplier on - supported controllers.</para> - - <para>The &man.ahd.4; driver now supports three separated - error counters for correctable, uncorrectable, and fatal, in - &man.sysctl.8; MIB.</para> - - <para>A new kernel option <option>option ATA_CAM</option> has - been added. This turns &man.ata.4; controller drivers into - &man.cam.4; interface modules. When enabled, this option - deprecates all &man.ata.4; peripheral drivers and interfaces - such as <filename>ad</filename> and - <filename>acd</filename>, and allows &man.cam.4; drivers - <filename>ada</filename>, and <filename>cd</filename> and - interfaces to be natively used instead. Note that this is - not enabled by default in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> - kernel.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.ata.4; driver which can lead to - interrupt storms and command timeouts has been fixed.</para> - - <para>USB mass storage device support in the &man.ata.4; - driver has been removed. Note that this was not used in - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel and the &man.umass.4; - driver supports such devices for a long time.</para> - - <para>&os; &man.cam.3; SCSI framework has been improved:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>SATA and PATA support has been improved and it now - recognizes more detail device capabilities. For example, - the &man.ahci.4; and &man.siis.4; driver now reports maximum - tag number to the framework to optimize the NCQ - handling.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>A loader tunable - <varname>kern.cam.boot_delay</varname> has been added. - This controls the delay time before &man.cam.3; probes - the attached devices.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>SCSI error recovery for devices on buses without - automatic sense reporting has been improved. Typical - devices are on ATAPI and USB. For example, this allows - &man.cam.3; to wait, while CD drive loads disk, instead - of immediately return error status.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports - Power-Up In Stand-by (PUIS). The PUIS is a configuration of - SATA or PATA drives to prevent them from automatic spin-up - when power is applied. A typical application is staggered - spin-up.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="211458">The &man.ahci.4; driver now disables NCQ + and PMP support on VIA VT8251 because they are unreliable + under load.</para> - <listitem> - <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports - negotiating and enabling additional SATA features such as - device initiated power management, Automatic Partial to - Slumber mode transition, and DMA auto-activation.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para revision="211718">The &man.ahci.4; driver now uses 15 + seconds for device reset timeout instead of 10 seconds + because some devices need 10 - 12 seconds to spin up.</para> - <para>A livelock issue of the &man.ciss.4; driver under a high - load has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="215825">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver + has been updated to version 1.20.00.19.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.fdc.4; driver which prevents the - kernel module from unloading has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="215173">The &man.ada.4; driver now supports a + new &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>kern.cam.ada.spindown_shutdown</varname> which + controls whether or not to spin-down disks when shutting + down if the device supports the functionality. The default + value is <literal>1</literal>.</para> - <para>The &man.glabel.8; now supports the following sysctl - variables for each label type to enable the labeling itself:</para> + <para revision="210164">The &man.ata.4; driver + now supports limiting initial ATA mode for devices via + device hints + <varname>hint.<replaceable>devname</replaceable>.<replaceable>unit</replaceable>.dev<replaceable>N</replaceable + >.mode</varname> or + <varname>hint.<replaceable>devname</replaceable>.<replaceable>unit</replaceable>.mode</varname>. + The valid values are the same as ones supported in the + &man.atacontrol.8; and &man.camcontrol.8;.</para> - <programlisting>kern.geom.label.ext2fs.enable -kern.geom.label.iso9660.enable -kern.geom.label.msdosfs.enable -kern.geom.label.ntfs.enable -kern.geom.label.reiserfs.enable -kern.geom.label.ufs.enable -kern.geom.label.ufsid.enable -kern.geom.label.gptid.enable -kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisting> + <para revision="210204">The &man.ata.4; driver now disables + cable status check on both controller and device side + when the loader tunable + <varname>hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin</varname> is + <literal>0</literal>. The check on controller side was + performed regardless of this loader tunable.</para> - <para>Note that all of them are also loader tunables. They - are enabled (set as <literal>1</literal>) by default.</para> + <para revision="215777">The &man.ata.4; driver now reports + SATA power management capabilities to &man.CAM.4; layer when + <option>ATA_CAM</option> is enabled. This allows a device + to initiate transitions if controller configured to accept + it. This makes + <varname>hint.ata.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.pm_level=1</varname> + mode work.</para> - <para>&man.geom.8; providers including complex ones such as - &man.gconcat.8;, &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8, - &man.gstripe.8;, and some hardware RAID device drivers like - &man.twa.4; now inform its optimal access block size to the - upper layer.</para> + <para revision="214671">The &man.ata.4; driver has been + improved on hotplugging and connection speed reporting + support for some Intel SATA controllers including ICH5 and + ICH8+ operating in legacy mode.</para> - <para>The &man.gmirror.8; utility now supports - <command>configure <option>-p</option> - <replaceable>priority</replaceable></command> command to - change the providers priority.</para> + <para revision="213291">An issue of device detection of + Serverworks K2 SATA controllers in the &man.ata.4; has been fixed.</para> - <para>The balancing mode algorithm <literal>load</literal> - used in the &man.gmirror.8; utility has been changed and it - is now the default one instead of - <literal>split</literal>:</para> + <para revision="214667">A bug in the &man.ata.4; driver that + prevented some Silicon Image chipsets from working on big + endian systems has been fixed.</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Instead of measuring last request execution time for - each drive and choosing one with smallest time, use - averaged number of requests, running on each drive. This - information is more accurate and timely. It allows to - distribute load between drives in more even and - predictable way.</para> - </listitem> + <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> - <listitem> - <para>For each drive track offset of the last submitted - request. If new request offset matches previous one or - close for some drive, prefer that drive. It allows to - significantly speedup simultaneous sequential reads.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para revision="214405">A bug in the &man.geli.8; GEOM class + on little endian platforms has been fixed. The metadata + version for newly created providers has been updated to + <literal>4</literal> due to this. Providers with the older + versions are fully interoperable with 8.2-RELEASE and later + by being treated as ones with the native byte order flag + automatically.</para> - <para>The &man.gmultipath.8; utility now supports - <command>destroy</command>, <command>rotate</command>, - <command>getactive</command> commands.</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>A bug in the &man.graid3.8; which causes a panic when a - large request arrives has been fixed. This happens when - <varname>MAXPHYS</varname> is set as larger than 128k.</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>The default block size of &man.gstripe.8; has been - increased from 4k to 64k.</para> + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; GEOM class now uses + XTS-AES mode by default.</para> - <para>The <literal>GEOM_SCHED</literal> module has been added. - This supports scheduling disk I/O requests in a device - independent manner. A supported algorithm is an - anticipatory scheduler <literal>gsched_rr</literal> which - gives very nice performance improvements in presence of - competing random access patterns. See also &man.gsched.8; - manual page for more details.</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>The HAST (Highly Available STorage) framework has been - added:</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 + scatter/gather segments was limited to 33 on platforms with + 4K pages.</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>This is a framework to allow transparently storing - data on two physically separated machines connected over - the TCP/IP network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary - (Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means - that only one of the cluster nodes can be active at any - given time. Only Primary node is able to handle I/O - requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is - limited to two cluster nodes in total.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>This operates on block level; it provides disk-like - devices in <filename>/dev/hast/</filename> directory for - use by file systems and/or applications. Working on - block level makes it transparent for file systems and - applications. There in no difference between using - HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc. All - of them are just regular &man.geom.8; providers in - &os;.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The userland part consists of &man.hastd.8;, - &man.hastctl.8;, and &man.hast.conf.5;. More details - can be found at <ulink - url="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST"></ulink>.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>The &man.isp.4; driver has been improved in - stability.</para> - - <para>The &man.mvs.4; CAM ATA driver for Marvell - 88SX50XX/88SX60XX/88SX70XX/SoC SATA controllers has been - added. This driver supports same hardware as the - &man.ata.4; driver does, but provides many additional - features, such as NCQ and PMP.</para> - - <para>The &man.siis.4; driver now enables MSI by default on - SiI3124-based devices. This can be disabled by using a - <varname>hint.siis.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.msi</varname> - loader tunable.</para> - - <para>The Max Read Request Size in the &man.siis.4; driver for - PCIe chips has been increased from 512 to 1024 bytes for - better performance.</para> - - <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the latest - version from LSI.</para> + <para revision="209404">The &man.twa.4; + driver has been updated. The version number is + 3.80.06.003.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para>The &man.msdosfs.5; subsystem is now MP-safe and a race - condition when a force unmount happens has been - fixed.</para> - - <para>&os; NFS subsystem now supports a timeout for the - negative name cache entries in the client. This avoids a - bogus negative name cache entry from persisting forever when - another client creates an entry with the same name within - the same NFS server time of day clock tick. The mount - option <option>negnametimeo</option> can be used to override - the default timeout interval (60 seconds) on a - per-mount-point basis. a Setting - <option>negnametimeo</option> to <literal>0</literal> - disables negative name caching for the mount point.</para> - - <para>A race condition in &os; NFS subsystem that occurs when - &man.nfsiod.8; threads are being created has been fixed. - This also fixes an interoperability issue found in - combination of a &os; NFS client and a Linux NFS - server.</para> - - <para>The inode number handling in &man.ffs.7; file system is - now unsigned. Previously some large inode numbers can be - treated as negative, and this issue shows up at file systems - with the size of more than 16Tb in 16k block case. The - &man.newfs.8; utility never create a file system with more - than 2^32 inodes by cutting back on the number of inodes per - cylinder group if necessary to stay under the limit.</para> - - <para>The UFS file system (&man.ffs.7;) now supports NFSv4 - ACL.</para> - - <para>&os; &man.VFS.9; subsystem now supports a new sysctl - variable <varname>vfs.vlru_allow_cache_src</varname>. This - allow <filename>vnlru</filename> kernel thread to reclaim - of the directory vnodes that are source of the namecache - records. This is not enabled by default because for - typical workload it would make namecache unusable, but - large nested directory tree easily puts any process that - accesses file system into one second wait for - <filename>vnlru</filename> kernel thread.</para> - - <para>The ZFS file system has been improved:</para> + <para revision="214050">The &man.linprocfs.5; Linux process + file system now supports + <filename>proc/$$/environment</filename>.</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>It now supports NFSv4 ACL.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="212716">The &os; NFS client now supports a + kernel environment variable + <varname>boot.nfsroot.nfshandlelen</varname>. This lets the + diskless root file system on boot to use NFS version 3 and + the specified file handle length. If this variable is not + set, NFS version 2 is used.</para> - <listitem> - <para>The L2ARC code has been improved in stability and - performance.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="212668">The ZFS on-disk format has been updated + to version 15.</para> - <listitem> - <para>The zpool version has been updated to - version 14. It is now possible to use zpools created on - OpenSolaris 2009.06.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="212671">The ZFS metaslab code has been updated. + This provides a noticeable improvement on write speed, + especially on pools with less than 30% of free space. The + related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6826241, 6869229, 6918420, + and 6917066.</para> - <listitem> - <para>A sysctl variable - <varname>vfs.zfs.txg.write_limit_override</varname> has - been added. This can be used for tuning of ZFS write - throttling.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="214013">The ZFS now supports offlining of log + devices. The related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6599442, + 6726045, and 6803605.</para> - <listitem> - <para>ZFS prefetch statistics has been added as a sysctl - variable - <varname>kstat.zfs.misc.zfetchstats</varname>.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="212672">Performance improvements for the ZFS + have been imported from OpenSolaris. They include caching of + ACL permission checks, faster handling of &man.stat.2;, + mitigation of mutex lock contention. The related + OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6802734, 6844861, 6848431, 6775100, + 6827779, 6857433, 6860318, 6865875, 6867395, 6868276, and + 6870564.</para> - <listitem> - <para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>zpool export</command> - command now supports <option>-F</option> flag. - When exporting with this flag, <filename>zpool.cache</filename> - remains untouched.</para> - </listitem> + <para revision="210541">The default value of + <varname>vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending</varname> has been + decreased from 35 to 10 (OpenSolaris Bug ID is 6891731) to + improve latency.</para> - <listitem> - <para>A data corruption issue of <command>zfs - send/receive</command> between two different platforms - has been fixed. Symbolic links could be broken in the - previous releases.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>A possible deadlock of <command>zfs - receive</command> has been fixed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Possible panics of <command>zfs destroy</command> - and <command>zfs rollback</command> have been - fixed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>A occasional failure of <command>zfs - rename</command> due to a busy state has been - fixed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Bugs that <command>zfs snapshot - -r</command> fails when the file system is busy, and - <command>zfs receive</command> can fail with an E2BIG - error, have been fixed.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para>Various bugs in the ZFS subsystem have been fixed. The + related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are: 6328632, 6396518, 6501037, + 6504953, 6542860, 6551866, 6572357, 6572376, 6582163, + 6586537, 6595194, 6596237, 6604992, 6621164, 6623978, + 6633095, 6635482, 6664765, 6674216, 6696242, 6696858, + 6702206, 6710376, 6713916, 6717022, 6722540, 6722991, + 6737463, 6739487, 6739553, 6740164, 6745863, 6747596, + 6747698, 6748436, 6755435, 6757430, 6758107, 6759986, + 6759999, 6761100, 6761406, 6764124, 6765294, 6767129, + 6769612, 6770866, 6774713, 6774886, 6775697, 6776104, + 6776548, 6780491, 6784104, 6784108, 6785914, 6788152, + 6788830, 6789318, 6790064, 6790345, 6790687, 6791064, + 6791066, 6791071, 6791101, 6792134, 6792139, 6792884, + 6793430, 6794136, 6794570, 6794830, 6797109, 6797118, + 6798384, 6798878, 6799895, 6800184, 6800942, 6801507, + 6801810, 6803343, 6803822, 6804954, 6807339, 6807765, + 6809340, 6809683, 6809691, 6810367, 6815592, 6815893, + 6816124, 6818183, 6821169, 6821170, 6822816, 6824006, + 6824062, 6824968, 6826466, 6826468, 6826469, 6826470, + 6826471, 6826472, 6827260, 6830237, 6830541, 6833162, + 6833711, 6833999, 6834217, 6836714, 6836768, 6838062, + 6838344, 6841321, 6843014, 6843069, 6843235, 6844069, + 6844900, 6847229, 6848242, 6856634, 6857012, 6861983, + 6862984, 6863610, 6870564, 6880764, 6882227, 6892298, + 6898245, 6906110, 6906946, 6939941, 6950219, 6951024, and + 6953403.</para> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> - <para>A bug in &man.bsnmpd.1; program which leads to high CPU - consumption on a loaded system has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="209267">The &man.arp.8; utility has been improved. + It now runs faster even when a single interface has a number + of aliases.</para> - <para>A bug in &man.bzip2.1; utility which prevented it from - working with multi-session bzip2 files has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="214729">A bug in the &man.b64decode.1; that + prevented an <option>-r</option> option from handling arbitrary + breaks in a base64 encoded string has been fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.camcontrol.8; utility now supports a - <option>-v</option> flag in the subcommand - <command>identify</command>. It displays whole of identify - data block.</para> + <para revision="211723">The &man.calendar.1; utility now supports + repeating events which span multiple years, lunar events, and + solar events.</para> - <para>The &man.camcontrol.8; utility now supports - <option>-d</option> and <option>-f</option> flags in the - subcommand <command>cmd</command>. They specify DMA protocol - or FPDMA (NCQ) protocol to be used for ATA command, - respectively.</para> + <para revision="210915">The &man.dhclient.8; utility now reports a + reason for exiting and the 10-second period in which the + &man.dhclient.8; ignores routing messages has been changed to + start just after <filename>dhclient-script</filename> starts + instead of just after it finished. This change fixes a + symptom that &man.dhclient.8; silently exits under a certain + condition.</para> - <para>The &man.chgrp.1; and &man.chown.8; now support a - <option>-x</option> flag to make it not traverse across - multiple mount points for the recursive operation.</para> + <para revision="214983">Userland support for the &man.dtrace.1; + subsystem has been added. This allows inspection of userland + software itself and its correlation with the kernel, thus + allowing a much better picture of what exactly is going on + behind the scenes. The &man.dtruss.1; utility has been added + and <filename>libproc</filename> has been updated to support + the facility.</para> - <para>The &man.cp.1; now supports a <option>-x</option> flag to - make it not traverse across multiple mount points for the - recursive operation.</para> + <para revision="209362">The &man.du.1; utility now supports a + <option>-t <replaceable>threshold</replaceable></option> + option to display entries that exceeds the value of + <replaceable>threshold</replaceable>. If the value is + negative, it displays entries with a value less than the + absolute value of <replaceable>threshold</replaceable>.</para> - <para>The &man.cp.1;, &man.find.1;, &man.getfacl.1;, &man.mv.1;, - and &man.setfacl.1; utilities now support NFSv4 ACL.</para> + <para revision="215667">The &man.fdisk.8; utility now supports + partitions which are provided by &man.gjournal.8; or + &man.geli.8; GEOM classes.</para> - <para>The &man.diskinfo.8; now supports reporting disk stripe - size and offset. This helps users to make file systems - optimally aligned and tuned for better performance.</para> + <para revision="210567">The &man.gcore.1; utility now supports an + <option>-f</option> flag which forces a full dump of all the + segments except for the malformed ones.</para> - <para>A bug in &man.ee.1; utility which can crash the - program has been fixed.</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>A bug in &man.factor.6; utility which leads to performance - degradation has been fixed.</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> command. For more + information, see &man.geli.8; manual page.</para> - <para>The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports HTTP digest - authentication.</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>A bug in &man.fetch.1; utility which incorrectly evaluates - a variable <varname>NO_PROXY</varname> has been fixed.</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 passphrase from a file.</para> - <para>A bug in &man.find.1; utility has been fixed. An option - <option>-newerXB</option> was interpreted as the same as - <option>-newerXm</option>.</para> + <para revision="211938">The <function>gethost*()</function>, + <function>getnet*()</function>, and + <function>getproto*()</function> functions now set the errno + to <literal>ERANGE</literal> and the NSS backend terminates + with <literal>NS_RETURN</literal> when the result buffer size + is too small.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.fnmatch.3; function has been fixed. The - flag <varname>FNM_PERIOD</varname> did not work correctly when - <literal>*</literal> characters were included in the string - and <varname>FNM_PATHNAME</varname> was specified.</para> + <para revision="209497">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports + <command>resize</command> command to resize partitions for all + schemes but EBR.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility which causes the - last cylinder group of a UFS1 file system is always reported - as broken even after it is fixed.</para> + <para revision="215941">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports + <command>backup</command> and <command>restore</command> + subcommands to backup partition tables and restore + them.</para> - <para>The &man.gcore.1; utility now recognizes threads in the - process and handles dumps on a thread scope.</para> + <para revision="213661">The &man.gpart.8; utility now handles + given geom/provider names with and without + <filename>/dev/</filename> prefix.</para> - <para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports manipulation of - NDP flags handled by &man.ndp.8;.</para> + <para revision="213684">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports + an <option>-F</option> option for <command>force</command> + subcommand. This option force destroying of the partition + table even if it is not empty.</para> - <para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports a - <command>description - <replaceable>value</replaceable></command> command to add a - description <replaceable>value</replaceable> to the specified - interface.</para> + <para revision="213684">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports a + <command>recover</command> subcommand for GPT partition + tables. A corrupted GPT is now marked when the following + three types of corruption:</para> - <para>The &man.indent.1; utility now supports a - <option>-ta</option> flag to treat all - <literal>_t</literal>-suffixed identifiers as types.</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>Primary GPT header or table is corrupted.</para> + </listitem> - <para>The <filename>liblzma</filename> library for LZMA2 - lossless data compression algorithm and the userland utilities - &man.xz.1;, &man.xzdec.1;, &man.lzma.1;, and &man.lzmainfo.1;. - has been imported. When the old system is upgraded to - &release.current;, deinstalling a version found in the Ports - Collection (<filename>archivers/xz</filename>) and - recompilation of the packages which depend on it may be - required.</para> + <listitem> + <para>Secondary GPT header or table is corrupted.</para> + </listitem> - <para arch="amd64,i386">The <filename>libz</filename> library - has been improved in performance. For &os/&arch.i386;, note - that this improvement uses instructions only on i686-class CPU - and they are disabled by default. Specifying - <literal>CPUTYPE=pentium4</literal> in - <filename>/etc/make.conf</filename> enables them.</para> + <listitem> + <para>Secondary GPT header is not located at the last LBA.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> - <para>The &man.ln.1; utility now reports an error correctly when - a <option>-f</option> flag and two same file entries were - specified in the command line option. It removed the file - first and then reported a <quote>not found</quote> - error.</para> + <para>Any changes to the corrupted GPT table are not allowed + except for <command>destroy</command> and + <command>recover</command> subcommands.</para> - <para>The &man.ln.1; utility now removes trailing slash - characters when creating a link to a directory. The following - command sequence reported an error in the previous - releases:</para> + <para revision="213994">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports + <literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTME</literal>, + <literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTONCE</literal>, and + <literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTFAILED</literal> attributes in GPT. + The attribute keywords in the command line are + <literal>bootme</literal>, <literal>bootonce</literal>, and + <literal>bootfailed</literal> respectively.</para> - <screen>&prompt.user; mkdir test1 test2 -&prompt.user; ln -s ../test2/ test1</screen> + <para revision="215728">An issue in the &man.newfs.8; utility + has been fixed. A UFS1 file system created with 64KB + blocksize was incorrectly recognized as one with a broken + superblock. This is because &os; kernel checks UFS2 + superblock at 64KB offset in the partition first, and UFS1 + with 64KB blocksize has an alternative superblock at the same + location. For example, a file system created by + <command>newfs -U -O 1 -b 65536 -f 8192</command> could lead + to this symptom.</para> - <para>The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility now supports - <literal>[<replaceable>ipaddr</replaceable>]:<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal> - notation in addition to the existing one. This allows IPv6 - address in the address field, and a path including - <quote><literal>:</literal></quote> to be mounted.</para> + <para revision="213049">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports + <literal>SIGHUP</literal> for reloading the configuration + file. When <literal>SIGTERM</literal> or + <literal>SIGINT</literal> is received, the worker processes + terminate.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.netstat.1; utility that prevents - <command>netstat -f netgraph</command> from working has been - fixed.</para> + <para revision="212144">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now check an + invalid CIDR subnet notation more strictly. It wrongly + accepted <literal>10.0.0.1/10.0.0.1</literal> as + <literal>10.0.0.1/10</literal>.</para> - <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports ARP information - in statistics shown by the <option>-s</option> flag.</para> + <para revision="215237">An accuracy issue in the &man.jn.3; and + &man.jnf.3; functions in <filename>libm</filename> has been + fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports a <option>-q - <replaceable>number</replaceable></option> option to specify - the number of outputs. This is used in conjunction with - <option>-w</option> option.</para> + <para revision="209284">Incorrect behaviors in stuttering + sequences and reverse ranges in the &man.jot.1; utility have + been fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.newfs.msdos.8; utility now uses - <literal>NO_NAME</literal> as the default volume label and - <literal>BSD4.4</literal> as the OEM String.</para> + <para revision="213667">The <filename>libarchive</filename> and + &man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov + chain-Algorithm) compression format.</para> - <para>The &man.newsyslog.8; utility does not consider - non-existence of a PID file as an error now. A new flag - <option>-P</option> reverts it to the old behavior.</para> + <para revision="215229">The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a + blocksize which is up to <literal>8192</literal> (4MB) in the + <option>-b <replaceable>blocksize</replaceable></option> + option.</para> - <para>The &man.ntpd.8; program no longer tries to bind to an - IPv6 anycast address.</para> + <para revision="214442">A bug in the &man.lpr.1; utility that + prevented it from working with some files on a ZFS file system + has been fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.pam.krb5.8; PAM module now supports - <option>no_user_check</option> option. This allows to - authorize a user not known to the local system.</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> - <para>The &man.pathchk.1; utility now supports a - <option>-P</option> flag defined in POSIX-1.2008. This checks - for empty pathnames and components starting with - <quote><literal>-</literal></quote>.</para> + <para revision="213889">The &man.ncal.1; utility has been + updated. The option <option>-b</option> has been replaced + with <option>-C</option> and <option>-B + <replaceable>number</replaceable></option>. Options + <option>-3</option> to show previous, current and next month, and + <option>-A <replaceable>number</replaceable></option> to show + months after current month have been added. The option + <option>-m <replaceable>N</replaceable> + <replaceable>YYYY</replaceable></option> now prints only the + month, not the whole year.</para> - <para>A variable <varname>daily_clean_tmps_ignore</varname> - which is used in the &man.periodic.8; daily script now has - <filename>/tmp/.snap</filename>. This prevents - <filename>/tmp/.snap</filename> from being removed.</para> + <para revision="211699">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports + an <option>-S <replaceable>pidfile</replaceable></option> + option to override the default &man.syslogd.8; PID + file.</para> - <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility now supports two new flags - <option>-i</option> and <option>-j</option> to display - information about signal disposition and pending/blocked - status for signals.</para> + <para revision="215622">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now + supports a special log file name + <literal><include></literal> for processing file + inclusion. Globbing in the file name and circular dependency + detection are supported. For more details, see + &man.newsyslog.conf.5; manual page.</para> - <para>The &man.pwait.1; utility has been added. This is similar - to the Solaris utility of the same name, and waits for any - process to terminate.</para> + <para revision="213980">The &man.ntpd.8; utility is now compiled + with shared memory reference clock driver. For example, GPS + devices can be used as source of precise time via <filename + role="ports">astro/gpsd</filename> in the Ports + Collection.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.restore.8; utility which caused short - reads when a option <option>-P</option> was used has been + <para revision="212848">An off-by-one error in the &man.pax.1; + utility when ustar file name is too long has been fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.rtsold.8; <option>-a</option> flag now excludes - the interfaces which IPv6 or accepting ICMPv6 Router - Advertisement message is disabled from the auto-probed - interface list.</para> - - <para>The &man.scandir.3; and &man.alphasort.3; functions has - been updated to conform POSIX.1-2008 (IEEE Std - 1003.1-2008).</para> - - <para>The &man.sed.1; utility now supports a <option>-r</option> - flag which means exactly the same as a <option>-E</option> - flag. This is for compatibility with the GNU version.</para> - - <para>The service name database &man.services.5; (usually in - <filename>/etc/services</filename>) now also supports a - &man.db.3; style database for better lookup performance. The - following entry in <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> - enables use of the binary database file:</para> - - <programlisting>services: db</programlisting> - - <para>Note that the &man.db.3; style database can be created by - &man.services.mkdb.8; at - <filename>/var/db/service.db</filename>.</para> + <para revision="209912">The &man.pkill.1; utility now supports + an <option>-l</option> option like the &man.kill.1; utility + does.</para> - <para>The &man.sighold.2;, &man.sigignore.2;, &man.sigpause.2;, - &man.sigrelse.2;, and &man.sigset.2; functions have been - implemented for making porting software from System V-like - systems easy. Note that these are defined in POSIX.1-2008 XSI - (IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, X/Open System Interface) but now - obsolete. Since &os; already has another - <function>sigpause(3)</function> function derived from 4.2BSD, - a version of the XSI interface is implemented as - <function>xsi_sigpause()</function>.</para> + <para revision="211098">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility now supports a + file and a network socket as a top source. A new option + <option>-O <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option> + specifies to send log output to + <replaceable>filename</replaceable>, and another new option + <option>-R <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option> + specifies to receive events from + <replaceable>filename</replaceable>. For a socket, the + <replaceable>filename</replaceable> is in a form of + <replaceable>ipaddr:port</replaceable>. This allows top + monitoring over TCP on a system with no local symbols, for + example.</para> - <para>The &man.sshd.8;, &man.cron.8;, &man.inetd.8;, and - &man.syslogd.8; programs 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="210089">The &man.pom.6; utility now + supports a <option>-p</option> flag to print only the + percentage.</para> - <para>The &man.stat.1; utility now supports - <literal>%Sf</literal> output specifier to display the file - flags symbolically.</para> + <para revision="212472">The &man.powerd.8; utility now supports + an <option>-m <replaceable>freq</replaceable></option> and + <option>-M <replaceable>freq</replaceable></option> to control + the minimum and maximum frequency, respectively.</para> - <para>The &man.strsignal.3; function is now thread-safe.</para> + <para revision="213825">The &man.ruptime.1; utility now displays + hostnames longer than 12 characters.</para> - <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a - <option>-i</option> flag to ignore failures while retrieving - individual OIDs. This allows the same list of OIDs to be - passed to &man.sysctl.8; across different systems where - particular OIDs may not exist, and still get as much - information as possible from them.</para> + <para revision="215066">A behavior of the &man.sh.1; program + when an <option>-u</option> option is specified has been + changed. The special parameters <varname>$@</varname> and + <varname>$*</varname> no longer cause an error when there are + no positional parameters.</para> - <para>The &man.traceroute.8; utility now performs source address - selection correctly even in a VIMAGE &man.jail.8; - environment.</para> + <para revision="210616">A bug in the &man.sh.1; program has been + fixed. A <literal>SIGINT</literal> signal is now passed + through from a child process if the shell is interactive and + the job control is enabled. For example, aborting + &man.sleep.1; command by Ctrl-C no longer display + <literal>ok</literal> in the following command line:</para> - <para>The &man.unifdef.1; utility has been updated to version - 1.188. It now supports a new <option>-B</option> flag to - compress blank lines around a deleted section to prevent blank - lines around paragraphs of code from getting doubled.</para> + <screen>&prompt.user; sleep 5; echo ok</screen> - <para>The &man.unzip.1; utility now supports the rename query - when a file with the same name as the one about to be - extracted already exists.</para> + <para revision="210732">The &man.sh.1; program now supports a + <command>bg</command> command consisting solely of + redirections. For example:</para> - <para>The &man.unzip.1; utility now supports - <option>-C</option>, <option>-c</option>, <option>-f</option>, - <option>-p</option>, and <option>-v</option> flags which are - compatible with Info-ZIP.</para> + <screen>&prompt.user; < /dev/null &</screen> - <para>The &man.usbconfig.8; utility now supports a new flag - <option>-d</option> to specify the &man.ugen.4; device, and - <command>add_quirk</command> and - <command>remove_quirk</command> commands.</para> + <para revision="211536">The &man.sleep.1; utility now supports + <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal and reports the specified + sleep time and the remaining time.</para> - <para>The &man.whois.1; utility now supports searching IPv6 - addresses just like IPv4 without specifying the ARIN server. - A <option>-d</option> flag has been removed because it is now - obsolete.</para> + <para revision="213036,213038">The &man.tftp.1; and &man.tftpd.8; + utilities have been improved for better interoperability and + they now support RFC 1350, 2347, 2348, 2349, and 3617.</para> - <para>A new errno <varname>ENOTCAPABLE</varname> has been added. - This is to be returned when a process requests an operation on - a file descriptor that is not authorized by the descriptor's - capability flags.</para> + <para revision="213899">A bug in <literal>[=]=]</literal> + equivalent class handling in the &man.tr.1; utility has been + fixed. A closing bracket immediately after + <literal>[=</literal> was incorrectly treated as + special.</para> - <para>The &man.zfs.8; command now supports a new flag - <option>receive -u</option> to specify that the received ZFS - should not be mounted automatically.</para> + <para revision="210566">The &man.uname.1; utility now supports an + <option>-o</option> flag as a synonym for the + <option>-s</option> flag for compatibility with other + systems.</para> - <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> - <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> + <para revision="211060">Bugs in &man.vi.1; utility have been + fixed. They include handling of <literal>^@</literal> and + <literal>^C</literal> in insert mode when reading an ex + command.</para> - <para>The &man.service.8; command has been added. This - provides an easy command-line interface to the - <filename>rc.d</filename> system.</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>The <filename>rc.d/ipfw</filename> script and - <filename>/etc/rc.firewall</filename> now supports IPv6 and - <filename>rc.d/ip6fw</filename> script and - <filename>/etc/rc.firewall6</filename> are obsolete. Note - that <varname>ipv6_firewall_*</varname> variables in - &man.rc.conf.5; are replaced with - <varname>firewall_client_net_ipv6</varname>, - <varname>firewall_simple_iif_ipv6</varname>, - <varname>firewall_simple_inet_ipv6</varname>, - <varname>firewall_simple_oif_ipv6</varname>, - <varname>firewall_simple_onet_ipv6</varname>.</para> + <para revision="209870">The <command>set sharenfs</command> + command in the &man.zfs.8; utility now supports + <option>sec</option> option.</para> - <para>A new <filename>rc.d</filename> script - <filename>rc.d/rtsold</filename> has been added. This handles - &man.rtsold.8; daemon.</para> + <sect3 id="periodic-scripts"> + <title><filename>/etc/periodic</filename> Scripts</title> - <para>A new <filename>rc.d</filename> script - <filename>rc.d/static_arp</filename> has been added. This allows - the administrator to statically define mappings of MAC - address to IPv4 at boot time. See also the &man.rc.conf.5; - manual page for more details.</para> + <para>A periodic script for <command>zfs scrub</command> has + been added. For more details, see &man.periodic.conf.5; + manual page.</para> - <para>The <filename>rc.d/tmp</filename> script now uses a - unique directory name prefixed with - <filename>/tmp/.diskless</filename> instead of - <filename>/tmp/.diskless</filename> itself. This fixes an - issue when <filename>/tmp/.diskless</filename> exists before - the script runs.</para> - - <para>A new <filename>rc.d</filename> script - <filename>rc.d/ubthidhci</filename> has been added. This - small script calls &man.usbconfig.8; to change a USB - Bluetooth controller from HID mode to HCI mode.</para> - - <para>The &man.rc.conf.5; now supports a - <varname>firewall_coscripts</varname> variable. This should - contain a list of commands which should be executed after - firewall starts or stops.</para> - - <para>The &man.rc.conf.5; now supports configuring - &man.vlan.4; interfaces as child devices similar to - &man.wlan.4; interfaces. &man.vlan.4; interfaces are listed - via a new - <varname>vlans_<replaceable>IF</replaceable></varname> - variable. If a VLAN interface is a number, then that number - is treated as the VLAN tag for the interface and the - interface will be named - <varname><replaceable>IF</replaceable>.<replaceable>tag</replaceable></varname>. - Otherwise, the VLAN tag must be provided via a VLAN - parameter in a - <varname>create_args_<replaceable>IF</replaceable></varname> - variable.</para> + <para>A periodic script which can be used to find installed + ports' files with mismatched checksum has been added. For more + details, see &man.periodic.conf.5;</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -1466,48 +1186,58 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisting> <title>Contributed Software</title> <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> has been updated to - 20100304.</para> + 20101013.</para> - <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> + version 9.6-ESV-R3.</para> <para><application>netcat</application> has been updated to - version 4.7.</para> - - <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from - version 5.1p1 to version 5.4p1.</para> + version 4.8.</para> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated to - version 0.9.8n.</para> + version 0.9.8q.</para> - <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated to - version 8.14.4.</para> + <para>The <application>timezone</application> database has been + updated to the <application>tzdata2010o</application> + release.</para> - <para>The timezone database has been updated to the - <application>tzdata2010j</application> release.</para> + <para>The <application>xz</application> has been updated + from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0 release</para> + </sect2> + + <sect2 id="ports"> + <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - <para><application>xz</application> has been updated - from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para> + <para revision="215738">The &man.pkg.create.1; utility now supports LZMA + (<application>xz</application>) compression. Note that the + default is still <application>bzip2</application>.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="releng"> <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> - <para>The filename of ISO images for &os; releases now has a - <filename>FreeBSD-</filename> at the beginning.</para> + <para revision="211007">The &man.sysinstall.8; utility now uses + the following numbers for default and minimum partition sizes: + 1GB for <filename>/</filename>, 4GB for + <filename>/var</filename>, and 1GB for + <filename>/tmp</filename>.</para> + + <para revision="211009">The &man.sysinstall.8; utility now + attempts to enable &man.getty.8; on a serial port when no VGA + card on the system.</para> <para>The supported version of the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been - updated to 2.28.2.</para> + updated to 2.32.1.</para> <para>The supported version of the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment (<filename role="package">x11/kde4</filename>) has been - updated to 4.4.3.</para> + updated to 4.5.5.</para> </sect2> </sect1> diff --git a/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl b/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl index 7a728ef70971..83ae97ac52eb 100644 --- a/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl +++ b/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl @@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ (normalize "footnote"))) (tgroup (have-ancestor? (normalize "tgroup"))) (arch (attribute-string (normalize "arch"))) + (rev (attribute-string (normalize "revision"))) (role (attribute-string (normalize "role"))) (arch-string (entity-text "arch")) (merged-string (entity-text "merged"))) @@ -219,28 +220,46 @@ (list (list "ALIGN" %default-quadding%)) '())) (make sequence - (cond - ;; If arch= not specified, then print unconditionally. This clause - ;; handles the majority of cases. - ((or (equal? arch #f) - (equal? arch "") - (equal? arch "all")) - (process-children)) - (else - (sosofo-append - (make sequence - (literal "[") - (let loop ((prev (car (split-string-to-list arch))) - (rest (cdr (split-string-to-list arch)))) - (make sequence - (literal prev) - (if (not (null? rest)) - (make sequence - (literal ", ") - (loop (car rest) (cdr rest))) - (empty-sosofo)))) - (literal "] ") - (process-children))))) + (sosofo-append + (if (and (not (equal? arch #f)) + (not (equal? arch "")) + (not (equal? arch "all"))) + (make sequence + (literal "[") + (let loop ((prev (car (split-string-to-list arch))) + (rest (cdr (split-string-to-list arch)))) + (make sequence + (literal prev) + (if (not (null? rest)) + (make sequence + (literal ", ") + (loop (car rest) (cdr rest))) + (empty-sosofo)))) + (literal "] ")) + (empty-sosofo)) + (process-children) + (if (and (not (equal? rev #f)) + (not (equal? rev ""))) + (make sequence + (literal "[") + (let loop ((prev (car (split-string-to-list rev))) + (rest (cdr (split-string-to-list rev)))) + (make sequence + (make element gi: "A" + attributes: (list + (list "HREF" (string-append + "http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=" + prev)) + (list "TARGET" "_top")) + (literal "r") + (literal prev)) + (if (not (null? rest)) + (make sequence + (literal ", ") + (loop (car rest) (cdr rest))) + (empty-sosofo)))) + (literal "] ")) + (empty-sosofo))) (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "merged")) (literal " [" merged-string "]") (empty-sosofo)) diff --git a/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent b/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent index 85934dcb1692..4c88b1a687de 100644 --- a/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent +++ b/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent @@ -6,18 +6,18 @@ <!-- Version of the OS we're describing. This needs to be updated with each new release. --> -<!ENTITY release.current "8.1-RELEASE"> +<!ENTITY release.current "8.2-RELEASE"> <!-- The previous version used for comparison in the "What's New" section. For -CURRENT, we might point back to the last branchpoint. --> -<!ENTITY release.prev "8.0-RELEASE"> +<!ENTITY release.prev "8.1-RELEASE"> <!-- The next version to be released, usually used for snapshots. --> -<!ENTITY release.next "8.2-RELEASE"> +<!ENTITY release.next "8.3-RELEASE"> <!-- The name of this branch. --> -<!ENTITY release.branch "8-STABLE"> +<!ENTITY release.branch "8.2-STABLE"> <!-- The URL for obtaining this version of FreeBSD. --> <!ENTITY release.url "ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/"> @@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ <!-- The manpaths for man page references --> <!ENTITY release.man.url "http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi"> <!ENTITY release.manpath.xorg "7.5"> -<!ENTITY release.manpath.netbsd "5.0.2"> +<!ENTITY release.manpath.netbsd "5.1"> <!ENTITY release.manpath.freebsd-ports "Ports"> -<!ENTITY release.manpath.freebsd "8.1-RELEASE"> +<!ENTITY release.manpath.freebsd "8.2-RELEASE"> <!-- Text constants which probably don't need to be changed.--> |