Index: stable/5/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml =================================================================== --- stable/5/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 159530) +++ stable/5/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 159531) @@ -1,269 +1,278 @@ &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 since &release.prev;. 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 a point along the &release.branch; development branch after &release.prev;. Note that no further, formal releases on the &release.branch; branch are planned at this time. 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;. 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 bug in &man.ypserv.8;, which effectively disabled the /var/yp/securenets access control mechanism, has been corrected. More details are available in security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:15.ypserv. A bug in the smbfs file system, which could allow an attacker to escape out of &man.chroot.2 environments on an smbfs mounted filesystem, has been fixed. For more details, see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs. Kernel Changes Boot Loader Changes Hardware Support Multimedia Support Network Interface Support Network Protocols Disks and Storage File Systems Contributed Software Userland Changes <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts Contributed Software Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure Release Engineering and Integration - + The supported version of + the GNOME desktop environment + (x11/gnome2) has been + updated from 2.12.3 to 2.14.2. + + The supported version of + the KDE desktop environment + (x11/kde3) has been + updated from 3.5.1 to 3.5.3. + Documentation 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. 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 159530) +++ stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml (revision 159531) @@ -1,279 +1,288 @@ &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;. 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 bug in &man.ypserv.8;, which effectively disabled the /var/yp/securenets access control mechanism, has been corrected. More details are available in security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:15.ypserv. A bug in the smbfs file system, which could allow an attacker to escape out of &man.chroot.2 environments on an smbfs mounted filesystem, has been fixed. For more details, see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs. Kernel Changes Boot Loader Changes Hardware Support Support has been improved for so-called legacy-free hardware, in particular, i386 systems without AT-style keyboard controllers such as the Macbook Pro. Multimedia Support Network Interface Support Network Protocols Disks and Storage File Systems Userland Changes The &man.csup.1; utility has been imported. This is an implementation of a CVSup-compatible client written in the C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode only. The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration file. The &man.du.1; program now supports a flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with the nodump flag set. The &man.find.1; program now supports and other related primaries, which can be used to create expressions based on a file's creation time. The &man.getent.1; utility has been imported from NetBSD. It retrieves and displays information from an administrative database (such as hosts) using the lookup order specified in &man.nsswitch.conf.5;. The &man.iostat.8; utility now supports a flag (inspired by Solaris) to print extended disk statistics. If the new flag is also specified, no output is made for disks with no activity. The &man.jail.8; program now supports a option to specify a jail's securelevel. The &man.ls.1; utility now supports an flag to use the file creation time for sorting. <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts Contributed Software The timezone database has been updated from the tzdata2005r release to the tzdata2006g release. Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an flag to disable checking whether the same package is already installed or not. Release Engineering and Integration - + The supported version of + the GNOME desktop environment + (x11/gnome2) has been + updated from 2.12.3 to 2.14.2. + + The supported version of + the KDE desktop environment + (x11/kde3) has been + updated from 3.5.1 to 3.5.3. + Documentation The manual pages for NTP have been updated to 4.2.0, to match the version of code actually included in &os;. Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by the addition of the following manual pages: &man.sysctl.9;. 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.