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| 1<articleinfo> 2 <title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 3 4 <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Project</corpauthor> 5 | 1<articleinfo> 2 <title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 3 4 <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Project</corpauthor> 5 |
| 6 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml 125825 2004-02-14 22:02:50Z gshapiro $</pubdate> | 6 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml 125925 2004-02-17 05:05:43Z bmah $</pubdate> |
| 7 8 <copyright> 9 <year>2000</year> 10 <year>2001</year> 11 <year>2002</year> 12 <year>2003</year> 13 <year>2004</year> 14 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> --- 234 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 249 <varname>net.inet.tcp.minmss</varname> sysctl variable) and a 250 rate limit on connections that send many small TCP segments 251 within a short period of time (via the 252 <varname>net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload</varname> sysctl 253 variable). Connections exceeding this limit may be reset and 254 dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of 255 resource exhaustion attacks.</para> 256 | 7 8 <copyright> 9 <year>2000</year> 10 <year>2001</year> 11 <year>2002</year> 12 <year>2003</year> 13 <year>2004</year> 14 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> --- 234 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 249 <varname>net.inet.tcp.minmss</varname> sysctl variable) and a 250 rate limit on connections that send many small TCP segments 251 within a short period of time (via the 252 <varname>net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload</varname> sysctl 253 variable). Connections exceeding this limit may be reset and 254 dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of 255 resource exhaustion attacks.</para> 256 |
| 257 <para>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only) 258 support for RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature, 259 enabled with the <literal>TCP_SIGNATURE</literal> and 260 <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel options, is a TCP option 261 for authenticating TCP sessions. &man.setkey.8; now includes 262 support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations. 263 &merged;</para> 264 |
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| 257 </sect3> 258 259 <sect3 id="disks"> 260 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 261 262 <para>A number of bugs in the &man.ata.4; driver have been 263 fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should 264 work better, and some problems with timeouts should be --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 302 <para>The configuration files used by the &man.resolver.5; now 303 support the <literal>timeout:</literal> and 304 <literal>attempts:</literal> keywords.</para> 305 306 <para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports a <option>-b</option> flag to 307 print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting 308 the rule body.</para> 309 | 265 </sect3> 266 267 <sect3 id="disks"> 268 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 269 270 <para>A number of bugs in the &man.ata.4; driver have been 271 fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should 272 work better, and some problems with timeouts should be --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 310 <para>The configuration files used by the &man.resolver.5; now 311 support the <literal>timeout:</literal> and 312 <literal>attempts:</literal> keywords.</para> 313 314 <para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports a <option>-b</option> flag to 315 print only the action and comment for each rule, thus omitting 316 the rule body.</para> 317 |
| 318 <para>A <filename>libarchive</filename> library for manipulation 319 of compressed and uncompressed archive files has been 320 added. More details can be found in &man.libarchive.3;.</para> 321 |
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| 310 <para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the 311 correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the 312 &man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a 313 single &os; partition covering the entire disk.</para> 314 315 <para arch="i386,pc98,amd64,ia64">The library formerly known as 316 <filename>libkse</filename> has been renamed 317 <filename>libpthread</filename> and is now the default threading --- 15 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 333 need to use a &man.libmap.conf.5; that maps 334 <filename>libpthread</filename> references to the older 335 <filename>libc_r</filename> since these drivers and 336 utilities do not work with 337 <filename>libpthread</filename>.</para> 338 </note> 339 <para> 340 | 322 <para arch="pc98"><filename>libdisk</filename> now uses the 323 correct PC98 disk partition value for &os;. This permits the 324 &man.sysinstall.8; disk partition editor to correctly create a 325 single &os; partition covering the entire disk.</para> 326 327 <para arch="i386,pc98,amd64,ia64">The library formerly known as 328 <filename>libkse</filename> has been renamed 329 <filename>libpthread</filename> and is now the default threading --- 15 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 345 need to use a &man.libmap.conf.5; that maps 346 <filename>libpthread</filename> references to the older 347 <filename>libc_r</filename> since these drivers and 348 utilities do not work with 349 <filename>libpthread</filename>.</para> 350 </note> 351 <para> 352 |
| 353 <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to 354 make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than 355 real, user ids.</para> 356 |
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| 341 <para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes 342 problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename 343 role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large 344 membership lists.</para> 345 | 357 <para>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes 358 problems when using third-party NSS modules (such as <filename 359 role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large 360 membership lists.</para> 361 |
| 362 <para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon 363 has been added.</para> 364 |
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| 346 </sect2> 347 348 <sect2 id="contrib"> 349 <title>Contributed Software</title> 350 351 <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated 352 from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para> 353 | 365 </sect2> 366 367 <sect2 id="contrib"> 368 <title>Contributed Software</title> 369 370 <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated 371 from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para> 372 |
| 373 <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been 374 updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004 375 release.</para> 376 |
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| 354 <para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application> 355 1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain 356 malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using 357 <command>cvs pserver</command> mode, attempts to authenticate as 358 <username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via 359 &man.syslog.3;.</para> 360 | 377 <para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application> 378 1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain 379 malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using 380 <command>cvs pserver</command> mode, attempts to authenticate as 381 <username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via 382 &man.syslog.3;.</para> 383 |
| 384 <para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated 385 with official patches 001 through 005.</para> 386 387 <para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the 388 base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with 389 <filename>tar</filename> being a link to 390 <filename>gtar</filename>.</para> 391 392 <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the 393 Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para> 394 |
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| 361 <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from 362 3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para> 363 364 <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from 365 version 8.12.10 to version 8.12.11.</para> 366 367 </sect2> 368 --- 54 unchanged lines hidden --- | 395 <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from 396 3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para> 397 398 <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from 399 version 8.12.10 to version 8.12.11.</para> 400 401 </sect2> 402 --- 54 unchanged lines hidden --- |