Index: stable/4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml =================================================================== --- stable/4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 131296) +++ stable/4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 131297) @@ -1,278 +1,282 @@ &os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes $FreeBSD$ The FreeBSD Project 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 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 . ]]> 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. ]]> 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 Kernel Changes A bug in &man.mmap.2; that pages marked as PROT_NONE may become readable under certain circumstances, has been fixed. Platform-Specific Hardware Support Boot Loader Changes Network Interface Support The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub has been added. The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. The per-interface &man.polling.4; support has been implemented. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4; (&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;, &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;) now also support this capability and it can be controlled via &man.ifconfig.8;. Network Protocols The random ephemeral port allocation, which come from OpenBSD has been implemented. This is enabled by default and can be disabled using the net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized sysctl. + + &man.ipfw.4; now supports lookup tables. This feature is + useful for handling large sparse address sets. + Disks and Storage File Systems PCCARD Support Multimedia Support Userland Changes The &man.cron.8 daemon now accepts two new options, and , to enable time jitter for jobs to run as unpriviliged users and the superuser, respectively. Time jitter means that &man.cron.8 will sleep for a small random period of time in the specified range before executing a job. This feature is intended to smooth load peaks appearing when a lot of jobs are scheduled for a particular moment. A bug in &man.rarpd.8; that prevents it from working properly when a interface has more than one IP address has been fixed. Contributed Software 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.