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| 33 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml 170920 2007-06-18 12:03:02Z yar $</pubdate> | 33 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml 170951 2007-06-19 14:13:46Z brueffer $</pubdate> |
| 34 35 <copyright> 36 <year>2000</year> 37 <year>2001</year> 38 <year>2002</year> 39 <year>2003</year> 40 <year>2004</year> 41 <year>2005</year> --- 258 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 300 needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with 301 extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might 302 overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para> 303 304 <para>The &man.apm.4; suspend/resume support has been improved.</para> 305 306 <para>Security event auditing is now supported in the &os; kernel, 307 and is enabled by the <literal>AUDIT</literal> kernel | 34 35 <copyright> 36 <year>2000</year> 37 <year>2001</year> 38 <year>2002</year> 39 <year>2003</year> 40 <year>2004</year> 41 <year>2005</year> --- 258 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 300 needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with 301 extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might 302 overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para> 303 304 <para>The &man.apm.4; suspend/resume support has been improved.</para> 305 306 <para>Security event auditing is now supported in the &os; kernel, 307 and is enabled by the <literal>AUDIT</literal> kernel |
| 308 configuration option. More information can be found in the 309 &man.audit.4; manual page.</para> | 308 configuration option. The option is enabled in the 309 <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. More information can be found 310 in the &man.audit.4; manual page.</para> |
| 310 311 <para>Support for the Camellia block cipher has been added to the 312 &os; kernel. It can now be specified as a cipher in IPsec. More 313 information on Camellia can be found in RFC 4132.</para> 314 315 <para>The <literal>options COMPAT_43</literal> kernel 316 configuration option has been deemed unnecessary and has been 317 removed from <filename>GENERIC</filename> and related kernel --- 264 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 582 583 <para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3, 584 Eden, and C7 585 processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. 586 More information can be found in the &man.padlock.4; manual 587 page. 588 &merged;</para> 589 | 311 312 <para>Support for the Camellia block cipher has been added to the 313 &os; kernel. It can now be specified as a cipher in IPsec. More 314 information on Camellia can be found in RFC 4132.</para> 315 316 <para>The <literal>options COMPAT_43</literal> kernel 317 configuration option has been deemed unnecessary and has been 318 removed from <filename>GENERIC</filename> and related kernel --- 264 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 583 584 <para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3, 585 Eden, and C7 586 processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. 587 More information can be found in the &man.padlock.4; manual 588 page. 589 &merged;</para> 590 |
| 591 <para>The &man.firewire.4; code is now MPSAFE.</para> 592 |
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| 590 <para>icee(4), a generic I2C EEPROM driver, has been added.</para> 591 592 <para>A bug which prevented the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module 593 from unloading has been fixed.</para> 594 595 <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Dual-core processors (such as the Intel 596 Core Duo) now have both cores available for use by 597 default in SMP-enabled kernels. &merged;</para> --- 190 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 788 by using a fast interrupt handler and taskqueue 789 instead of ithread handler. This change can be disabled 790 by defining <literal>NO_EM_FASTINTR</literal> kernel option 791 for debugging purpose.</para> 792 793 <para>The IP over FireWire (&man.fwip.4;) driver is now enabled in 794 the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> 795 | 593 <para>icee(4), a generic I2C EEPROM driver, has been added.</para> 594 595 <para>A bug which prevented the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module 596 from unloading has been fixed.</para> 597 598 <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Dual-core processors (such as the Intel 599 Core Duo) now have both cores available for use by 600 default in SMP-enabled kernels. &merged;</para> --- 190 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 791 by using a fast interrupt handler and taskqueue 792 instead of ithread handler. This change can be disabled 793 by defining <literal>NO_EM_FASTINTR</literal> kernel option 794 for debugging purpose.</para> 795 796 <para>The IP over FireWire (&man.fwip.4;) driver is now enabled in 797 the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> 798 |
| 799 <para>The &man.gem.4; driver now supports &man.altq.4;.</para> 800 |
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| 796 <para>The firmware images needed by the &man.ipw.4; driver are now 797 part of the &os; base system. For the loaded firmware to work the 798 license at <filename>/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE</filename> 799 must be agreed to and <literal>legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1</literal> 800 has to be added to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>. 801 Prior versions of the driver used the firmware image in the 802 <filename role="package">net/ipw-firmware-kmod</filename> 803 port/package or the --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 841 842 <para>The &man.my.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> 843 844 <para>The &man.my.4; driver now supports &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para> 845 846 <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.mxge.4; driver, 847 which supports Myricom Myri10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet 848 adapters, has been added. For more details, see | 801 <para>The firmware images needed by the &man.ipw.4; driver are now 802 part of the &os; base system. For the loaded firmware to work the 803 license at <filename>/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE</filename> 804 must be agreed to and <literal>legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1</literal> 805 has to be added to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>. 806 Prior versions of the driver used the firmware image in the 807 <filename role="package">net/ipw-firmware-kmod</filename> 808 port/package or the --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 846 847 <para>The &man.my.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> 848 849 <para>The &man.my.4; driver now supports &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para> 850 851 <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.mxge.4; driver, 852 which supports Myricom Myri10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet 853 adapters, has been added. For more details, see |
| 849 &man.mxge.4;. | 854 &man.mxge.4;. &merged;</para> |
| 850 851 <para>The &man.nfe.4; driver, an open-source driver for nForce 852 Ethernet devices, has been added, originally from 853 OpenBSD.</para> 854 855 <para>[&arch.arm;] The &man.npe.4; driver, which supports the 856 Intel XScale Network Processing Engine, has been 857 added. &merged;</para> --- 272 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1130 1131 <para>Support has been added for the RFC 3678 Source-Specific 1132 Multicast (SSM) socket API. More details can be found in 1133 the &man.sourcefilter.3; manual page.</para> 1134 1135 <para>Support has been added for the Stream Control Transmission 1136 Protocol (SCTP). SCTP implements a reliable, message-oriented 1137 transport protocol, and is defined in RFC 3268. It is enabled | 855 856 <para>The &man.nfe.4; driver, an open-source driver for nForce 857 Ethernet devices, has been added, originally from 858 OpenBSD.</para> 859 860 <para>[&arch.arm;] The &man.npe.4; driver, which supports the 861 Intel XScale Network Processing Engine, has been 862 added. &merged;</para> --- 272 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1135 1136 <para>Support has been added for the RFC 3678 Source-Specific 1137 Multicast (SSM) socket API. More details can be found in 1138 the &man.sourcefilter.3; manual page.</para> 1139 1140 <para>Support has been added for the Stream Control Transmission 1141 Protocol (SCTP). SCTP implements a reliable, message-oriented 1142 transport protocol, and is defined in RFC 3268. It is enabled |
| 1138 in &os; with the <literal>SCTP</literal> kernel option.</para> | 1143 in &os; with the <literal>SCTP</literal> kernel option and is 1144 part of the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. More 1145 information can be found in the &man.sctp.4; manual page.</para> |
| 1139 1140 <para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option 1141 now works for UDP.</para> 1142 1143 <para>The <literal>TCP_DROP_SYNFIN</literal> kernel option is now 1144 included in the kernel by default. The 1145 <varname>net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin</varname> sysctl variable still 1146 defaults to <literal>0</literal>.</para> --- 164 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1311 re-synchronization rate, volume member write cache status, 1312 and volume transaction queue depth. &merged;</para> 1313 1314 <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports SAS HBA (partially), 1315 64-bit PCI, and large data transfer. &merged;</para> 1316 1317 <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> 1318 | 1146 1147 <para>The <literal>IPV6_V6ONLY</literal> socket option 1148 now works for UDP.</para> 1149 1150 <para>The <literal>TCP_DROP_SYNFIN</literal> kernel option is now 1151 included in the kernel by default. The 1152 <varname>net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin</varname> sysctl variable still 1153 defaults to <literal>0</literal>.</para> --- 164 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1318 re-synchronization rate, volume member write cache status, 1319 and volume transaction queue depth. &merged;</para> 1320 1321 <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports SAS HBA (partially), 1322 64-bit PCI, and large data transfer. &merged;</para> 1323 1324 <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> 1325 |
| 1326 <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Experimental support for the 1327 TMPFS file system has been added. TMPFS is an efficient 1328 memory file system originally developed for the NetBSD project 1329 during the Google Summer of Code. More information can be 1330 found in the &man.tmpfs.5; manual page.</para> 1331 |
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| 1319 <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the 3.70.03.007 1320 release on the 3ware Web site. It now supports AMCC's 3ware 1321 9650 series of SATA controllers. &merged;</para> 1322 1323 <para>A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been 1324 added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration 1325 and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for 1326 more information. &merged;</para> --- 160 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1487 the <filename role="package">shells/tcsh_nls</filename> port. 1488 &merged;</para> 1489 1490 <para>The &man.csup.1; utility has been imported. 1491 This is an implementation of a CVSup-compatible client written 1492 in the C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode 1493 only. &merged;</para> 1494 | 1332 <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the 3.70.03.007 1333 release on the 3ware Web site. It now supports AMCC's 3ware 1334 9650 series of SATA controllers. &merged;</para> 1335 1336 <para>A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been 1337 added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration 1338 and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for 1339 more information. &merged;</para> --- 160 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1500 the <filename role="package">shells/tcsh_nls</filename> port. 1501 &merged;</para> 1502 1503 <para>The &man.csup.1; utility has been imported. 1504 This is an implementation of a CVSup-compatible client written 1505 in the C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode 1506 only. &merged;</para> 1507 |
| 1508 <para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now supports the Classless Static 1509 Route option as described in RFC 3442.</para> 1510 |
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| 1495 <para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in 1496 DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration 1497 file. &merged;</para> 1498 1499 <para>The &man.devd.8; utility now supports a <option>-f</option> option 1500 to specify a configuration file. &merged;</para> 1501 1502 <para>The &man.du.1; program now supports a <option>-n</option> --- 257 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1760 <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports 1761 printing &man.ipsec.4; protocol statistics if the 1762 kernel was compiled with <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> 1763 rather than the KAME IPSEC stack. 1764 Note that the output of <command>netstat -s -p ipsec</command> 1765 differs depending on which stack is compiled into 1766 the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para> 1767 | 1511 <para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in 1512 DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration 1513 file. &merged;</para> 1514 1515 <para>The &man.devd.8; utility now supports a <option>-f</option> option 1516 to specify a configuration file. &merged;</para> 1517 1518 <para>The &man.du.1; program now supports a <option>-n</option> --- 257 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1776 <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports 1777 printing &man.ipsec.4; protocol statistics if the 1778 kernel was compiled with <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> 1779 rather than the KAME IPSEC stack. 1780 Note that the output of <command>netstat -s -p ipsec</command> 1781 differs depending on which stack is compiled into 1782 the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para> 1783 |
| 1784 <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports printing 1785 &man.sctp.4; protocol statistics.</para> 1786 |
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| 1768 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file is now 1769 installed statically instead of being generated on every 1770 reboot.</para> 1771 1772 <para>The objformat(1) utility and getobjformat(3) library (the 1773 last remnants of a.out object file support) have been removed.</para> 1774 1775 <para>The &man.pam.nologin.8; module no longer provides a --- 150 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1926 flag to display process titles from their argument vectors; 1927 this feature is useful for watching processes that change their 1928 titles via &man.setproctitle.3;.</para> 1929 1930 <para>The &man.top.1; program now supports a <option>-j</option> 1931 flag to display the &man.jail.8; ID for each process. &merged;</para> 1932 1933 <para>The &man.touch.1; utility now supports a <option>-A</option> | 1787 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file is now 1788 installed statically instead of being generated on every 1789 reboot.</para> 1790 1791 <para>The objformat(1) utility and getobjformat(3) library (the 1792 last remnants of a.out object file support) have been removed.</para> 1793 1794 <para>The &man.pam.nologin.8; module no longer provides a --- 150 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1945 flag to display process titles from their argument vectors; 1946 this feature is useful for watching processes that change their 1947 titles via &man.setproctitle.3;.</para> 1948 1949 <para>The &man.top.1; program now supports a <option>-j</option> 1950 flag to display the &man.jail.8; ID for each process. &merged;</para> 1951 1952 <para>The &man.touch.1; utility now supports a <option>-A</option> |
| 1934 flag that allows the access and modification times of a file be | 1953 flag that allows the access and modification times of a file to be |
| 1935 adjusted by a specified value. &merged;</para> 1936 1937 <para>The &man.traceroute.8; program now supports 1938 a <option>-D</option> flag, which causes it to display the 1939 differences between the sent and received 1940 packets. &merged;</para> 1941 1942 <para>The &man.traceroute.8; utility now supports --- 187 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2130 to 4.21.</para> 2131 2132 <para>The GNU version of <application>gzip</application> has been 2133 replaced with a modified version of gzip ported from NetBSD. 2134 &merged;</para> 2135 2136 <para><application>netcat</application> has been updated from the 2137 version in a 4 February 2005 OpenBSD snapshot to the version | 1954 adjusted by a specified value. &merged;</para> 1955 1956 <para>The &man.traceroute.8; program now supports 1957 a <option>-D</option> flag, which causes it to display the 1958 differences between the sent and received 1959 packets. &merged;</para> 1960 1961 <para>The &man.traceroute.8; utility now supports --- 187 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2149 to 4.21.</para> 2150 2151 <para>The GNU version of <application>gzip</application> has been 2152 replaced with a modified version of gzip ported from NetBSD. 2153 &merged;</para> 2154 2155 <para><application>netcat</application> has been updated from the 2156 version in a 4 February 2005 OpenBSD snapshot to the version |
| 2138 included in OpenBSD 4.1. | 2157 included in OpenBSD 4.1. &merged;</para> |
| 2139 2140 <para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.4.4 2141 to 4.2.0.</para> 2142 2143 <para><application>GNU Readline library</application> has been 2144 updated from 5.0 to 5.2 patch 2. &merged;</para> 2145 2146 <para><application>GNU Troff</application> --- 300 unchanged lines hidden --- | 2158 2159 <para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.4.4 2160 to 4.2.0.</para> 2161 2162 <para><application>GNU Readline library</application> has been 2163 updated from 5.0 to 5.2 patch 2. &merged;</para> 2164 2165 <para><application>GNU Troff</application> --- 300 unchanged lines hidden --- |