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&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes
$FreeBSD$
The FreeBSD Project
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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a
summary of the changes made to the &os; base system since
&release.prev;. Both changes for kernel and userland are
listed, as well as applicable security advisories for the base
system that were issued since the last release. Some brief
remarks on upgrading are also presented.
Introduction
This document contains the release notes for &os;
&release.current; on the &arch.print; hardware platform. It
describes new features of &os; that have been added (or changed)
since &release.prev;. It also provides some notes on upgrading
from previous versions of &os;.
The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. Some
pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
can be found at .
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This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
&release.type; distribution. It can be found at or any of its mirrors. More
information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
distributions of &os; can be found in the Obtaining
FreeBSD
appendix in the FreeBSD
Handbook.
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What's New
This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
features in &os; since &release.prev;. Typical release note items
document new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
major bugfixes, or contributed software upgrades. Security
advisories for the base system that were issued after
&release.prev; are also listed.
Security Advisories
-
+ A potential denial of service in
+ BIND has been fixed. For more
+ information, see security advisory
+ FreeBSD-SA-03:19.
Kernel Changes
Platform-Specific Hardware Support
Boot Loader Changes
Network Interface Support
Network Protocols
Disks and Storage
The &man.amr.4; driver now has system crashdump support.
File Systems
PCCARD Support
Multimedia Support
Userland Changes
The default mode for the lost+found
directory of &man.fsck.8; is now 0700 instead
of 01777.
The libalias library,
&man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol,
which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call
Managers. Note that currently having the Call Manager behind
the NAT gateway is not supported.
Contributed Software
- sendmail has been updated to
+ BIND has been updated from 8.3.4
+ to 8.3.7.
+
+ sendmail has been updated
+ from version 8.12.9
+ to
version 8.12.10.
Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure
Release Engineering and Integration
Upgrading from previous releases of &os;
If you're upgrading from a previous release of &os;, you
generally will have three options:
Using the binary upgrade option of &man.sysinstall.8;.
This option is perhaps the quickest, although it presumes
that your installation of &os; uses no special compilation
options.
Performing a complete reinstall of &os;. Technically,
this is not an upgrading method, and in any case is usually less
convenient than a binary upgrade, in that it requires you to
manually backup and restore the contents of
/etc. However, it may be useful in
cases where you want (or need) to change the partitioning of
your disks.
From source code in /usr/src. This
route is more flexible, but requires more disk space, time,
and technical expertise. More information can be found
in the Using
make world
section of the FreeBSD
Handbook. Upgrading from very old
versions of &os; may be problematic; in cases like this, it
is usually more effective to perform a binary upgrade or a
complete reinstall.
Please read the INSTALL.TXT file for more
information, preferably before beginning an
upgrade. If you are upgrading from source, please be sure to read
/usr/src/UPDATING as well.
Finally, if you want to use one of various means to track the
-STABLE or -CURRENT branches of &os;, please be sure to consult
the -CURRENT
vs. -STABLE
section of the FreeBSD
Handbook.
Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
backing up all data and configuration
files.