Index: stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml =================================================================== --- stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 157147) +++ stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 157148) @@ -1,280 +1,304 @@ &os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 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;, 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 A temporary file vulnerability in &man.texindex.1;, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files in the context of a user running the &man.texindex.1; utility, has been fixed. For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex. A temporary file vulnerability in the &man.ee.1; text editor, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files in the context of a user running &man.ee.1;, has been fixed. For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee. Several vulnerabilities in the &man.cpio.1; utility have been corrected. For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio. An error in &man.ipfw.4; IP fragment handling, which could cause a crash, has been fixed. For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw. A potential buffer overflow in the IEEE 802.11 scanning code has been corrected. For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:05.80211. Two instances in which portions of kernel memory could be disclosed to users have been fixed. For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:06.kmem. A logic bug in the IP fragment handling in &man.pf.4;, which could cause a crash under certain circumstances, has been fixed. For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf. + A logic bug in the NFS server code, which could cause a crash when + the server received a message with a zero-length payload, has been fixed. + For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:10.nfs. + + A programming error in the &man.fast.ipsec.4; implementation + results in the sequence number associated with a Security + Association not being updated, allowing packets to unconditionally + pass sequence number verification checks, has been fixed. + For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:11.ipsec. + + A logic bug that could cause &man.opiepasswd.1; to allow an unprivileged + user to configure OPIE authentication for the root user under certain + circumstances, has been fixed. + For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:12.opie. + + An asynchronous signal handling vulnerability in &man.sendmail.8;, + which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the + privileges of the user running sendmail, typically root, has been fixed. + For more details see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail. + Kernel Changes Boot Loader Changes Hardware Support The &man.ce.4; driver has been added to support Cronyx Tau32-PCI adapters. Multimedia Support Network Interface Support Network Protocols Disks and Storage File Systems Contributed Software BIND has been updated from 9.3.1 to 9.3.2. The timezone database has been updated from the tzdata2005l release to the tzdata2005r release. Userland Changes Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure Release Engineering and Integration The supported version of the GNOME desktop environment (x11/gnome2) has been updated from 2.10.2 to 2.12.3. The supported version of the KDE desktop environment (x11/kde2) has been updated from 3.4.2 to 3.5.1. The supported version of the Perl interpreter (lang/perl5.8) has been updated from 5.8.7 to 5.8.8. The supported version of the &xorg; windowing system (x11/xorg) has been updated from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0. Documentation Upgrading from previous releases of &os; Source upgrades to &os; &release.current; are only supported from &os; 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems wanting to upgrade &release.current; will need to update to &os; 5.3 or newer first, then to &os; &release.current;. Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files.