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FreeBSD 2.1.6 is now available in:
+ ++ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.6-RELEASE ++ +
And shortly from its various mirror sites, a list of which may be +obtained from: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mirrors.html
+ +This release will also be available on CDROM from Walnut Creek CDROM, hopefully +shipping within the next 4-6 weeks.
+ +Those puzzled by the near-simultaneous release of 2.1.6 and 2.2 need +also look no further than http://www.freebsd.org/branch.html for the +reasons behind this release schedule. CDROM subscription customers +should also see this page for information on Walnut Creek CDROM's +plans for these releases.
+ +If you are a commercial user of FreeBSD who would like to take +advantage of recent bug fixes without making the jump to our more +ambitious 2.2 release (or delay that jump until 2.2 has had more time +to mature), or if you're simply looking for the lowest-impact upgrade +from 2.1.5, then 2.1.6-RELEASE is for you.
+ +&footer; + + diff --git a/data/releases/2.1.6R/notes.sgml b/data/releases/2.1.6R/notes.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..276f0549b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/releases/2.1.6R/notes.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,548 @@ + + + + %includes; +]> + + + +&header; + +
+ RELEASE NOTES
+ FreeBSD Release 2.1.6 RELEASE
+
+0. What is this release?
+------------------------
+FreeBSD 2.1.6R is the follow-on release to 2.1.5R and focuses primarily
+on fixing bugs, closing security holes and making the system easier to
+install than 2.1.5.
+
+For more information on our bleeding-edge development, please see
+http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current.html.
+
+
+1. What's New since 2.1.0-RELEASE?
+----------------------------------
+Quite a few things have changed since the last major release
+of FreeBSD. To make it easier to identify specific changes,
+we've broken them into several major categories:
+
+
+Device Drivers:
+---------------
+Support for the Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI adapter.
+
+Support for Specialix SI and XIO serial cards.
+
+Support for the Stallion EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 and
+EasyConnection 8/64, as well as the older Onboard and Brumby serial
+cards.
+
+Support for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI ethernet card.
+
+Support for the 3COM 3C590 and 3C595 ethernet cards.
+
+Real PCI Buslogic support (new driver and probing order).
+
+Support for the ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570i high-speed serial card.
+
+Better support for the Matrox Meteor frame grabber card.
+
+Support for the Connectix Quickcam.
+
+Kernel features:
+----------------
+Various VM system enhancements and more than a few bugs fixed.
+
+A concatenated disk driver for simple types of RAID applications.
+See the man page for ccd(4) for more information.
+
+Real PCI bus probing (before ISA) and support for various PCI bridges.
+
+The Linux emulation is now good enough to run the Linux version of
+Netscape, with JAVA support (as well as a number of other Linux
+utilities).
+
+Userland code updates:
+----------------------
+
+XFree86 upgraded to new 3.2 release, with support for many new graphics
+cards.
+
+The system installation tool has been revamped with slightly different
+menu behavior and a number of bugs have been fixed. It's hoped that
+this installation will be more intuitive for new users than previous
+ones (feedback welcomed, of course) as well as more useful in the
+post-install scenario (I know, I keep saying this :-).
+
+Many improvements to the NIS code.
+
+The ncftp program is no longer part of the default system - it has been
+replaced by a library (/usr/src/lib/libftpio) and a more powerful program
+which uses it called ``fetch'' (/usr/src/usr.bin/fetch). You may find
+ncftp as part of the ports collection (in /usr/ports/net/ncftp) if you
+still wish to use it, though fetch is slightly more capable in that
+it can fetch from both FTP and HTTP servers (ftp://... or http://... URLs).
+See the man page for more details.
+
+
+2. Technical overview
+---------------------
+
+FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4 BSD Lite based release
+for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (or compatible) based PC's. It is based
+primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some
+enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation.
+
+Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 over a year ago, the performance,
+feature set and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. The
+largest change is a revamped VM system with a merged VM/file buffer
+cache that not only increases performance but reduces FreeBSD's memory
+footprint, making a 5MB configuration a more acceptable minimum.
+Other enhancements include full NIS client and server support,
+transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI
+subsystem, early ISDN support, support for FDDI and Fast Ethernet
+(100Mbit) adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and
+narrow) and 3940 SCSI adaptors along with many hundreds of bug fixes.
+
+We've taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to
+heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and
+easily understood installation process. Your feedback on this
+(constantly evolving) process is especially welcome!
+
+In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a new ported
+software collection with over 470 commonly sought-after programs. The
+list of ports ranges from http (WWW) servers, to games, languages,
+editors and almost everything in between. The entire ports collection
+requires only 10MB of storage, all ports being expressed as "deltas"
+to their original sources. This makes it much easier for us to update
+ports and greatly reduces the disk space demands made by the ports
+collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the directory of
+the program you wish to install, type make and let the system do the
+rest. The full original distribution for each port you build is
+retrieved dynamically off of CDROM or a local ftp site, so you need
+only enough disk space to build the ports you want. (Almost) every
+port is also provided as a pre-compiled "package" which can be
+installed with a simple command (pkg_add). See also the new Packages
+option in the Configuration menu for an especially convenient interface
+to the package collection.
+
+
+A number of additional documents which you may find helpful in the
+process of installing and using FreeBSD may now also be found in the
+/usr/share/doc directory. You may view the manuals with any HTML
+capable browser by saying:
+
+ To read the handbook:
+ <browser> file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html
+
+ To read the FAQ:
+ <browser> file:/usr/share/doc/FAQ/freebsd-faq.html
+
+You can also visit the master (and most frequently updated) copies at
+http://www.freebsd.org.
+
+The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its
+being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package
+to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that
+contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages
+provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the
+U.S.) exportable distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also
+exists at ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD.
+
+If password security for FreeBSD is all you need and you have no
+requirement for copying encrypted passwords from different hosts
+(Suns, DEC machines, etc) into FreeBSD password entries, then
+FreeBSD's MD5 based security may be all you require! We feel that our
+default security model is more than a match for DES, and without any
+messy export issues to deal with. If you're outside (or even inside)
+the U.S., give it a try! This snapshot also includes support for
+mixed password files - either DES or MD5 passwords will be accepted,
+making it easier to transition from one scheme to the other.
+
+
+3. Supported Configurations
+---------------------------
+
+FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
+based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
+386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
+configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
+also provided.
+
+What follows is a list of all disk controllers and ethernet cards
+currently known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may also
+work, but we have simply not received any confirmation of this.
+
+
+3.1. Disk Controllers
+---------------------
+
+WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
+WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
+IDE
+ATA
+
+Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
+Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
+Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
+Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
+controllers.
+Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes
+Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
+the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
+
+** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
+ on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
+ system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
+ CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
+ without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
+ indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
+ or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
+ Check your system/board documentation for more details.
+
+[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"]
+Buslogic 545S & 545c
+Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
+Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
+Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
+Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
+
+NCR 53C810 and 53C825 PCI SCSI controller.
+NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
+
+DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
+
+UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
+
+Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
+
+Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
+
+WD7000 SCSI controller.
+
+With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
+SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
+DAT) and CD ROM drives.
+
+The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
+(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
+ SoundBlaster SCSI)
+(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models)
+(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
+ interface (562/563 models)
+(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
+(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA
+ quality!).
+
+
+3.2. Ethernet cards
+-------------------
+
+Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
+SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
+WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
+based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
+
+DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
+DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
+DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???)
+DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
+Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
+
+Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
+Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
+
+Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
+Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
+
+Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
+
+3Com 3C501 cards
+
+3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
+
+3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
+
+3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
+
+3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590 & 3C595 (PCI) Etherlink III
+
+Toshiba ethernet cards
+
+PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
+supported.
+
+Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
+still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any
+takers?
+
+
+3.3. Misc
+---------
+
+AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
+
+ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
+ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
+
+Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
+Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
+Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
+Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
+
+Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
+
+STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
+
+SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
+
+Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
+and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
+
+FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
+
+
+
+4. Obtaining FreeBSD
+--------------------
+
+You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
+
+4.1. FTP/Mail
+
+You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
+`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
+
+For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
+MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
+networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
+Contact admin@freebsd.org for more details if you'd like to become an
+official mirror site.
+
+If you do not have access to the internet and electronic mail is your
+only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
+`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
+to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
+Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
+megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
+LAST resort!
+
+
+4.2. CDROM
+
+FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE & 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
+
+ Walnut Creek CDROM
+ 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
+ Concord CA 94520
+ 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
+
+Or via the internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
+Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp as:
+ ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
+
+Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
+With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they
+are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is
+shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without
+further obligation.
+
+Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
+and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
+Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
+States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
+
+Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
+unconditional return policy.
+
+
+Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
+valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
+(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
+
+The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
+internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command. Bug reports
+will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
+be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
+as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
+in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
+and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
+watch out for.
+
+If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
+submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
+
+ bugs@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
+
+ questions@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
+extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
+enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To
+contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
+mail to:
+
+ hackers@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
+amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
+are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
+may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
+
+ announce@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing
+to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
+`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
+will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
+archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
+special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
+and ask about them!
+
+
+6. Acknowledgements
+-------------------
+
+FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
+hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
+hard to bring you this release. It would be very difficult, if not
+impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but
+nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If you've
+contributed something substantive to us and your name is not mentioned
+here, please be assured that its omission is entirely accidental.
+Please contact hackers@FreeBSD.org for any desired updates to the
+lists that follow:
+
+
+The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley.
+
+Bill Jolitz, for his initial work with 386BSD.
+
+The FreeBSD Core Team
+(in alphabetical order by last name):
+
+ Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>
+ Andrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>
+ John Dyson <dyson@FreeBSD.org>
+ Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
+ Justin Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
+ David Greenman <davidg@FreeBSD.org>
+ Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
+ Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
+ Rich Murphey <rich@FreeBSD.org>
+ Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>
+ Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
+ Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
+ Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
+ Jörg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>
+
+
+The FreeBSD Development Team, excluding core team members
+(in alphabetical order by last name):
+
+ Torsten Blum <torstenb@FreeBSD.org>
+ Gary Clark II <gclarkii@FreeBSD.org>
+ Adam David <adam@FreeBSD.org>
+ Peter Dufault <dufault@FreeBSD.org>
+ Frank Durda IV <uhclem@FreeBSD.org>
+ Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>
+ Sean Eric Fagan <sef@FreeBSD.org>
+ Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org>
+ Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>
+ John Fieber <jfieber@FreeBSD.org>
+ Lars Fredriksen <lars@freeBSD.org>
+ Thomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org>
+ Thomas Graichen <graichen@FreeBSD.org>
+ Rod Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org>
+ James FitzGibbon <jfitz@FreeBSD.org>
+ John Hay <jhay@FreeBSD.org>
+ Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.org>
+ Ugen J.S. Antsilevich <ugen@FreeBSD.org>
+ Gary Jennejohn <gj@FreeBSD.org>
+ Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>
+ Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
+ L Jonas Olsson <ljo@FreeBSD.org>
+ Eric L. Hernes <erich@FreeBSD.org>
+ Scott Mace <smace@FreeBSD.org>
+ Atsushi Murai <amurai@FreeBSD.org>
+ Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
+ Alex Nash <alex@FreeBSD.org>
+ Masafumi NAKANE <max@FreeBSD.org>
+ David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
+ Andras Olah <olah@FreeBSD.org>
+ Steve Passe <smp@FreeBSD.org>
+ Sujal Patel <smpatel@FreeBSD.org>
+ Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>
+ Joshua Peck Macdonald <jmacd@FreeBSD.org>
+ John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>
+ Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>
+ Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>
+ Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>
+ James Raynard <jraynard@FreeBSD.org>
+ Geoff Rehmet <csgr@FreeBSD.org>
+ Martin Renters <martin@FreeBSD.org>
+ Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD.org>
+ Ollivier Robert <roberto@FreeBSD.org>
+ Chuck Robey <chuckr@FreeBSD.org>
+ Dima Ruban <dima@FreeBSD.org>
+ Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
+ Andreas Schulz <ats@FreeBSD.org>
+ Karl Strickland <karl@FreeBSD.org>
+ Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
+ Paul Traina <pst@FreeBSD.org>
+ Guido van Rooij <guido@FreeBSD.org>
+ Steven Wallace <swallace@FreeBSD.org>
+ Nate Williams <nate@FreeBSD.org>
+ Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org>
+
+Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
+
+ Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers
+ Kaleb S. Keithley Don Lewis
+ Terry Lambert David Dawes
+ Troy Curtis
+
+
+Special mention to:
+
+ Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
+ this release would never have been possible.
+
+ Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
+ drive.
+
+ Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for
+ testing.
+
+ Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek
+ and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking.
+
+ CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for
+ speedy package building.
+
+ Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
+
+ And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
+ world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
+
+We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
+
+ The FreeBSD Core Team
+
+
+&footer;
+
+