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&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes$FreeBSD$The FreeBSD Project20002001200220032004The FreeBSD Documentation ProjectThe 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.IntroductionThis 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 NewThis 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 AdvisoriesKernel ChangesA bug in &man.mmap.2; that pages marked as PROT_NONE
may become readable under certain circumstances, has been fixed.Platform-Specific Hardware SupportBoot Loader ChangesNetwork Interface SupportThe &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 ProtocolsThe 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 StorageFile SystemsPCCARD SupportMultimedia SupportUserland ChangesThe &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 SoftwarePorts/Packages Collection InfrastructureRelease Engineering and IntegrationUpgrading 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.