Index: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml =================================================================== --- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml (revision 150840) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml (revision 150841) @@ -1,344 +1,384 @@ &os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 The &os; Documentation Project &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.ibm; &tm-attrib.ieee; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch; development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and userland. 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 recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;. The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at . ]]> 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;. Information regarding 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 &os; appendix to the &os; Handbook. ]]> All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with late-breaking information discovered late in the release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site. What's New This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after &release.prev.historic;, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements. Security Advisories Kernel Changes A new sysctl variable kern.malloc_stats has been added. This allows to export kernel malloc statistics via a binary structure stream. A new sysctl variable vm.zone_stats has been added. This allows to export &man.uma.9; allocator statistics via a binary structure stream. Boot Loader Changes Hardware Support The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports passive cooling. Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3 processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. &merged; A bug which prevents the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module from unloading has been fixed. The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been added. A new loader tunable hw.apic.enable_extint has been added. This tunable can be used not to mask the ExtINT pin on the first I/O APIC. At least one chipset for Intel Pentium III seems to need this even though all of the pins in the 8259A's are masked. The default is still to mask the ExtINT pin. Multimedia Support The &man.sound.4; driver now supports wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice, and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion. The &man.snd.als4000.4; driver is now MPSAFE. The &man.snd.cmi.4; driver is now MPSAFE. The &man.snd.via8233.4; driver is now MPSAFE. The &man.snd.via82c686.4; driver is now MPSAFE. Network Interface Support The &man.dc.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; The &man.de.4; driver has been converted to the &man.bus.dma.9; API and is now MPSAFE. The &man.ed.4; driver is now MPSAFE. The &man.el.4; driver has been removed. The &man.my.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; The &man.ste.4; driver is now MPSAFE. Network Protocols - The &man.natm.4; Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE. + The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation + found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702 now supports IPv6 over GRE. + + The &man.ipfw.4;, IP packet filter now supports IPv6. + The &man.ip6fw.8; is deprecated and will be removed + in the future releases. + + The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE. + + The stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4. + This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable + net.inet6.ip6.stealth. Disks and Storage A new GEOM class GEOM_ZERO has been added. It creates very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero and mainly for performance testing. On BIO_READ request it zero-fills bio_data and on BIO_WRITE it does nothing. + The GEOM_LABEL class now supports + Ext2FS and ReiserFS. + The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization status reporting, and sysctl variables for volume re-synchronization rate, volume member write cache status, and volume transaction queue depth. A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for more information. &merged; The &man.umass.4; driver now supports PLAY_MSF, PLAY_TRACK, PLAY_TRACK_REL, PAUSE, PLAY_12 commands so that the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle USB CD drive. File Systems A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE. Contributed Software Userland Changes Padding of ai_addrlen in struct addrinfo has been removed, which was originally for the ABI compatibility. For example, this change break the ABI compatibility of &man.getaddrinfo.3; function on 64-bit architecture including &os;/alpha, &os;/amd64, &os;/ia64, and &os;/sparc64. + The &man.bsdiff.1; and &man.bspatch.1; utilities + have been added. These are tools for constructing and + applying binary patches. + The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports a flag to allow printing potentially sensitive keying material to standard output. This sensitive information will not be printed by default. The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added. This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an abstracted interface to &man.uma.9; and &man.malloc.9; statistics, wrapped around the binary stream sysctl variables for the allocators. &merged; The &man.moused.8; now supports an flag to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a flag for vertical virtual scrolling. + The &man.ping.8; utility now supports a sweeping + ping in which &man.icmp.4; payload of + packets being sent is increased with given step. + This is useful for testing problematic channels, MTU issues + or traffic policing functions in networks. + The shared library version number of all libraries have been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc, libreadline, libregex, libstdc++, libkrb5, libalias, libarchive, libbegemot, libbluetooth, libbsnmp, libbz2, libc_r, libcrypt, libdevstat, libedit, libexpat, libfetch, libftpio, libgpib, libipsec, libkiconv, libmagic, libmp, libncp, libncurses, libnetgraph, libngatm, libopie, libpam, libpthread, libradius, libsdp, libsmb, libtacplus, libthr, libthread_db, libugidfw, libusbhid, libutil, libvgl, libwrap, libypclnt, libm, libcrypto, libssh, and libssl. + The wcsdup() function has been + implemented. This function is popular in Microsoft and GNU + systems. + <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts - + The gbde_swap script has + been removed in favor a new encswap + script which also supports &man.geli.8; for swap + encryption. + + The geli and geli2 + scripts has been added for &man.geli.8; device + configuration on boot. Contributed Software libpcap has been updated to v0.9.1 (release). sendmail has been updated from version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4. tcpdump has been updated to v3.9.1 (release). Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure The &man.pkg.version.1; now supports an flag to show the origin recorded on package generation instead of the package name, and an flag to list packages whose registered origin is origin only. + + The &man.portsnap.8; utility (sysutils/portsnap) + has been added into the &os; base system. This is a secure, + easy to use, fast, lightweight, and generally good way for + users to keep their ports trees up to date. Release Engineering and Integration Documentation Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by the addition of the following manual pages: &man.acpi.sony.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;. Upgrading from previous releases of &os; Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files. Index: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml =================================================================== --- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 150840) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 150841) @@ -1,344 +1,384 @@ &os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 The &os; Documentation Project &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.ibm; &tm-attrib.ieee; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch; development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and userland. 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 recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;. The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at . ]]> 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;. Information regarding 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 &os; appendix to the &os; Handbook. ]]> All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with late-breaking information discovered late in the release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site. What's New This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after &release.prev.historic;, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements. Security Advisories Kernel Changes A new sysctl variable kern.malloc_stats has been added. This allows to export kernel malloc statistics via a binary structure stream. A new sysctl variable vm.zone_stats has been added. This allows to export &man.uma.9; allocator statistics via a binary structure stream. Boot Loader Changes Hardware Support The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports passive cooling. Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3 processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. &merged; A bug which prevents the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module from unloading has been fixed. The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been added. A new loader tunable hw.apic.enable_extint has been added. This tunable can be used not to mask the ExtINT pin on the first I/O APIC. At least one chipset for Intel Pentium III seems to need this even though all of the pins in the 8259A's are masked. The default is still to mask the ExtINT pin. Multimedia Support The &man.sound.4; driver now supports wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice, and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion. The &man.snd.als4000.4; driver is now MPSAFE. The &man.snd.cmi.4; driver is now MPSAFE. The &man.snd.via8233.4; driver is now MPSAFE. The &man.snd.via82c686.4; driver is now MPSAFE. Network Interface Support The &man.dc.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; The &man.de.4; driver has been converted to the &man.bus.dma.9; API and is now MPSAFE. The &man.ed.4; driver is now MPSAFE. The &man.el.4; driver has been removed. The &man.my.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; The &man.ste.4; driver is now MPSAFE. Network Protocols - The &man.natm.4; Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE. + The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation + found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702 now supports IPv6 over GRE. + + The &man.ipfw.4;, IP packet filter now supports IPv6. + The &man.ip6fw.8; is deprecated and will be removed + in the future releases. + + The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE. + + The stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4. + This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable + net.inet6.ip6.stealth. Disks and Storage A new GEOM class GEOM_ZERO has been added. It creates very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero and mainly for performance testing. On BIO_READ request it zero-fills bio_data and on BIO_WRITE it does nothing. + The GEOM_LABEL class now supports + Ext2FS and ReiserFS. + The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization status reporting, and sysctl variables for volume re-synchronization rate, volume member write cache status, and volume transaction queue depth. A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for more information. &merged; The &man.umass.4; driver now supports PLAY_MSF, PLAY_TRACK, PLAY_TRACK_REL, PAUSE, PLAY_12 commands so that the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle USB CD drive. File Systems A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE. Contributed Software Userland Changes Padding of ai_addrlen in struct addrinfo has been removed, which was originally for the ABI compatibility. For example, this change break the ABI compatibility of &man.getaddrinfo.3; function on 64-bit architecture including &os;/alpha, &os;/amd64, &os;/ia64, and &os;/sparc64. + The &man.bsdiff.1; and &man.bspatch.1; utilities + have been added. These are tools for constructing and + applying binary patches. + The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports a flag to allow printing potentially sensitive keying material to standard output. This sensitive information will not be printed by default. The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added. This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an abstracted interface to &man.uma.9; and &man.malloc.9; statistics, wrapped around the binary stream sysctl variables for the allocators. &merged; The &man.moused.8; now supports an flag to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a flag for vertical virtual scrolling. + The &man.ping.8; utility now supports a sweeping + ping in which &man.icmp.4; payload of + packets being sent is increased with given step. + This is useful for testing problematic channels, MTU issues + or traffic policing functions in networks. + The shared library version number of all libraries have been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc, libreadline, libregex, libstdc++, libkrb5, libalias, libarchive, libbegemot, libbluetooth, libbsnmp, libbz2, libc_r, libcrypt, libdevstat, libedit, libexpat, libfetch, libftpio, libgpib, libipsec, libkiconv, libmagic, libmp, libncp, libncurses, libnetgraph, libngatm, libopie, libpam, libpthread, libradius, libsdp, libsmb, libtacplus, libthr, libthread_db, libugidfw, libusbhid, libutil, libvgl, libwrap, libypclnt, libm, libcrypto, libssh, and libssl. + The wcsdup() function has been + implemented. This function is popular in Microsoft and GNU + systems. + <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts - + The gbde_swap script has + been removed in favor a new encswap + script which also supports &man.geli.8; for swap + encryption. + + The geli and geli2 + scripts has been added for &man.geli.8; device + configuration on boot. Contributed Software libpcap has been updated to v0.9.1 (release). sendmail has been updated from version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4. tcpdump has been updated to v3.9.1 (release). Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure The &man.pkg.version.1; now supports an flag to show the origin recorded on package generation instead of the package name, and an flag to list packages whose registered origin is origin only. + + The &man.portsnap.8; utility (sysutils/portsnap) + has been added into the &os; base system. This is a secure, + easy to use, fast, lightweight, and generally good way for + users to keep their ports trees up to date. Release Engineering and Integration Documentation Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by the addition of the following manual pages: &man.acpi.sony.4;, &man.snd.t4dwave.4;. Upgrading from previous releases of &os; Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files.