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&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes
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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 .
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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 .
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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
&os;
appendix to the &os;
Handbook.
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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.