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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 109542 2003-01-19 23:17:03Z bmah $</pubdate> 7 8 <copyright> 9 <year>2000</year> 10 <year>2001</year> 11 <year>2002</year> 12 <year>2003</year> 13 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> 14 </copyright> 15 16 <abstract> 17 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary 18 of 19<![ %include.historic; [ 20 the changes made to the &os; base system since &release.prev;. 21]]> 22<![ %no.include.historic; [ 23 recent changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch; 24 development branch. 25]]> 26 Both changes for kernel and userland are listed, as well as 27 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 28 release. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para> 29 </abstract> 30</articleinfo> 31 32<sect1 id="intro"> 33 <title>Introduction</title> 34 35 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 36 &release.current; on the &arch.print; hardware platform. It 37 describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. 38 It also provides some notes on upgrading 39 from previous versions of &os;.</para> 40 41<![ %release.type.snapshot [ 42 43 <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes 44 apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development 45 branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. Some 46 pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch 47 can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para> 48 49]]> 50 51<![ %release.type.release [ 52 53 <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a 54 &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink 55 url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More 56 information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; 57 distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink 58 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 59 FreeBSD</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink 60 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">FreeBSD 61 Handbook</ulink>.</para> 62 63]]> 64</sect1> 65 66<sect1 id="new"> 67 <title>What's New</title> 68 69 <para>This section describes 70<![ %include.historic; [ 71 the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; 72 since &release.prev;. 73 In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; 74 branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. 75]]> 76<![ %no.include.historic; [ 77 many of the user-visible new or changed features in &os; 78 since &release.prev;. It includes items that are unique to the 79 &release.branch; branch, as well as some features that may have been 80 recently merged to 81 other branches (after &os; &release.prev.historic;). The later 82 items are marked as &merged;. 83]]> 84 </para> 85 86 <para>Typical release note items 87 document new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, 88 major bugfixes, or contributed software upgrades. Applicable security 89 advisories issued after &release.prev.historic; are also listed.</para> 90 91 <para>Many additional changes were made to &os; that are not listed 92 here for lack of space. For example, documentation was corrected 93 and improved, minor bugs were fixed, insecure coding practices 94 were audited and corrected, and source code was cleaned up.</para> 95 96 <sect2 id="kernel"> 97 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 98 99 <para></para> 100 101 <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> 102 103 <sect3> 104 <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title> 105 106 <para></para> 107 108 </sect3> 109 110 <sect3> 111 <title>Bootloader Changes</title> 112 113 <para arch="pc98">The PC98 bootloader now has support for 114 booting from SCSI MO media. &merged;</para> 115 116 <!-- Above this line, order bootloader changes by keyword--> 117 118 </sect3> 119 120 <sect3> 121 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 122 123 <para></para> 124 125 </sect3> 126 127 <sect3> 128 <title>Network Protocols</title> 129 130 <para></para> 131 </sect3> 132 133 <sect3> 134 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 135 136 <para></para> 137 </sect3> 138 139 <sect3> 140 <title>Filesystems</title> 141 142 <para></para> 143 </sect3> 144 145 <sect3> 146 <title>PCCARD Support</title> 147 148 <para></para> 149 </sect3> 150 151 <sect3> 152 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 153 154 <para></para> 155 </sect3> 156 157 <sect3> 158 <title>Contributed Software</title> 159 160 <para></para> 161 </sect3> 162 </sect2> 163 164 <sect2 id="security"> 165 <title>Security Advisories</title> 166 167 <para></para> 168 </sect2> 169 170 <sect2 id="userland"> 171 <title>Userland Changes</title> 172 173 <para>&man.dump.8; now supports caching of disk blocks with the 174 <option>-C</option> option. This can improve dump performance 175 at the cost of possibly missing filesystem updates that occur 176 between passes.</para> 177 178 <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now supports a <literal>W</literal> flag 179 to force previously-started compression jobs for an entry (or 180 group of entries specified with the <literal>G</literal> flag) 181 to finish before beginning a new one. This feature is designed 182 to prevent system overloads caused by starting several 183 compression jobs on big files simultaneously. &merged;</para> 184 185 <para>The &man.swapoff.8; command has been added to disable paging 186 and swapping on a device. A related &man.swapctl.8; command has 187 been added to provide an interface to &man.swapon.8; and 188 &man.swapoff.8; similar to other BSDs. 189 190 <note> 191 <para>The &man.swapoff.8; feature should be considered 192 experimental.</para> 193 </note> 194 </para> 195 196 <para>&man.systat.1; now includes an <option>-ifstat</option> 197 display mode that displays the network traffic going through 198 active intrfaces on the system.</para> 199 200 <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> option to 201 execute multiple copies of the same utility in parallel.</para> 202 203 <sect3> 204 <title>Contributed Software</title> 205 206 <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been 207 updated to a 13 December 2002 snapshot.</para> 208 209 <para>All of the <application>bzip2</application> suite of 210 applications is now installed in the base system (in 211 particular, <command>bzip2recover</command> is now built and 212 installed. &merged;</para> 213 214 <para>The <application>ISC DHCP</application> client has been 215 updated to 3.0.1RC11.</para> 216 217 <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to the 218 <quote>Daffodil</quote> release.</para> 219 </sect3> 220 221 <sect3> 222 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 223 224 <para></para> 225 </sect3> 226 </sect2> 227 228 <sect2> 229 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 230 231 <para></para> 232 </sect2> 233 234 <sect2> 235 <title>Documentation</title> 236 237 <para></para> 238 </sect2> 239 240</sect1> 241 242<sect1 id="upgrade"> 243 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> 244 245 <para>Users with existing &os; systems are 246 <emphasis>highly</emphasis> encouraged to read the <quote>Early 247 Adopter's Guide to &os; 5.0</quote>. This document generally has 248 the filename <filename>EARLY.TXT</filename> on the distribution 249 media, or any other place that the release notes can be found. It 250 offers some notes on upgrading, but more importantly, also 251 discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to &os; 252 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> versus running &os; 253 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para> 254 255 <important> 256 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after 257 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 258 files.</para> 259 </important> 260</sect1> 261