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&os; &release.current; Release Notes The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 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;. 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 Kernel Changes A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added to allow manipulation of processor sets. - The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture + The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or a textdump. The new capture command controls - this feature. &merged; + this feature. - The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting + The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8; utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual - page. &merged; + page. - The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel + The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely synchronized source code. More information can be found in the - &man.textdump.4; manual page. &merged; + &man.textdump.4; manual page. Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed to its full potential. Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked binaries. The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel features via the kern.features sysctl tree. The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient interface for user applications to test the presence of features. - [&arch.amd64;] The &os; kernel now has support for large + The &os; kernel now has support for large memory page mappings (superpages). - [&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.powerpc;] The ULE + The ULE scheduler is now the default process scheduler - in GENERIC kernels. &merged; + in GENERIC kernels. Boot Loader Changes - [&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The BTX kernel used by the boot + The BTX kernel used by the boot loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB - devices. &merged; + devices. - [&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] A new gptboot boot loader has + A new gptboot boot loader has been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A new boot command has been added to &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot - partition if required. &merged; + partition if required. Hardware Support - The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 - PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. &merged; + The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 + PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. - The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon + The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been - imported from OpenBSD. &merged; + imported from OpenBSD. Multimedia Support Network Interface Support The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new client/desktop adapters. A new igb driver will support new server adapters. The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network adapters. The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29. The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It should also work on all architectures. The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) support. The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all architectures. - [&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.wpi.4; driver has - been updated to include a number of stability fixes. - &merged; + The &man.wpi.4; driver has + been updated to include a number of stability fixes. Network Protocols The &man.bpf.4; packet filter and capture facility now supports a zero-copy mode of operation, in which buffers are loaned from a user process to the kernel. This feature can be enabled by setting the net.bpf.zerocopy_enable sysctl variable to 1. - A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding - bytes were used, has been fixed. &merged; + A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding + bytes were used, has been fixed. Disks and Storage - The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than - 2TB in size. &merged; + The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than + 2TB in size. The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now supports a spindown command to configure this feature. - The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 - from Highpoint. &merged; + The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 + from Highpoint. File Systems A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has been fixed. A new kernel-mode NFS lock manager has been added, improving performance and behavior of NFS locking. A new &man.clear.locks.8; command has been added to clear locks held on behalf of an NFS client. Userland Changes - The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports + The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports a option to set the mode of a new user's - home directory. &merged; + home directory. BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, based on libarchive, have replaced the GNU Binutils versions of these utilities. - &man.chflags.1; now supports a flag for + &man.chflags.1; now supports a flag for verbose output and a flag to ignore errors with the same semantics as (for example) - &man.chmod.1;. &merged; + &man.chmod.1;. For compatiblity with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now supports a flag, which is equivalent to specifying the flags. &man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; &man.find.1;. &man.kgdb.1; now supports a new add-kld command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel modules. The &man.ls.1; program now supports a option to specify a date format string to be used with the long format () output. &man.nc.1; now supports a switch to disable the use of TCP options. The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display detailed information about processes. - The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports + The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports a flag to suppress warnings; it now also - accepts multiple paths on its command line. &merged; + accepts multiple paths on its command line. The &man.split.1; utility now supports a flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks. The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style compression/decompression. &man.top.1; now supports a flag to provide per-CPU usage statistics. &man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS number for each hop with the new switch; a new option allows selecting a particular WHOIS server. &man.traceroute6.8; now supports a flag to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than the usual UDP probe packets. <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts Contributed Software - AMD has been updated from 6.0.10 - to 6.1.5. &merged; + AMD has been updated from 6.0.10 + to 6.1.5. - awk has been updated from 1 May - 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release. &merged; + awk has been updated from 1 May + 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release. - bzip2 has been updated from 1.0.4 - to 1.0.5. &merged; + bzip2 has been updated from 1.0.4 + to 1.0.5. CVS has been updated from 1.11.17 to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008. hostapd has been updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10. IPFilter has been updated from 4.1.23 to 4.1.28. less has been updated from v408 to v416. ncurses has been updated from 5.6-20061217 to 5.6-20080209. - OpenPAM has been updated from the - Figwort release to the Hydrangea release. &merged; + OpenPAM has been updated from the + Figwort release to the Hydrangea release. - sendmail has been updated from - 8.14.1 to 8.14.2. &merged; + sendmail has been updated from + 8.14.1 to 8.14.2. - The timezone database has been updated from + The timezone database has been updated from the tzdata2007h release to - the tzdata2008b release. &merged; + the tzdata2008b release. WPA Supplicant has been updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10. Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however &man.bzip2.1; compression has been the norm for some time now. Release Engineering and Integration - The supported version of + The supported version of the GNOME desktop environment (x11/gnome2) has been - updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22. &merged; + updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22. Documentation Upgrading from previous releases of &os; - [&arch.i386;, &arch.amd64;] Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, + Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity. An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the Upgrade option from the main &man.sysinstall.8; menu on CDROM distribution media. This type of binary upgrade may be useful on non-&arch.i386;, non-&arch.amd64; machines or on systems with no Internet connectivity. Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; base system from source code) from previous versions are supported, according to the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files.
Index: head/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl =================================================================== --- head/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl (revision 178341) +++ head/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl (revision 178342) @@ -1,191 +1,184 @@ %release.ent; ]> ; Configure behavior of this stylesheet ; String manipulation functions (define (split-string-to-list STR) ;; return list of STR separated with char #\ or #\, (if (string? STR) (let loop ((i (string-delim-index STR))) (cond ((equal? (cdr i) '()) '()) (else (cons (substring STR (list-ref i 0) (- (list-ref i 1) 1)) (loop (cdr i)))))) '())) (define (string-delim-index STR) ;; return indexes of STR separated with char #\ or #\, (if (string? STR) (let ((strlen (string-length STR))) (let loop ((i 0)) (cond ((= i strlen) (cons (+ strlen 1) '())) ((= i 0) (cons i (loop (+ i 1)))) ((or (equal? (string-ref STR i) #\ ) (equal? (string-ref STR i) #\,)) (cons (+ i 1) (loop (+ i 1)))) (else (loop (+ i 1)))))) '() )) (define (string-list-match? STR STR-LIST) (let loop ((s STR-LIST)) (cond ((equal? s #f) #f) ((equal? s '()) #f) ((equal? (car s) #f) #f) ((equal? STR (car s)) #t) (else (loop (cdr s)))))) ; Deal with conditional inclusion of text via entities. (default - (let* ((arch (attribute-string (normalize "arch"))) - (role (attribute-string (normalize "role"))) + (let* ((role (attribute-string (normalize "role"))) (for-arch (entity-text "arch"))) (cond - ; If role=historic, and we're not printing historic things, then - ; don't output this element. + ;; If role=historic, and we're not printing historic things, then + ;; don't output this element. ((and (equal? role "historic") - (not %include-historic%)) + (not %include-historic%)) (empty-sosofo)) - - ; If arch= not specified, then print unconditionally. This clause - ; handles the majority of cases. - ((or (equal? arch #f) (equal? arch "")) - (next-match)) + ;; None of the above + (else (next-match))))) - ; arch= specified, see if it's equal to "all". If so, then - ; print unconditionally. Note that this clause could be - ; combined with the check to see if arch= wasn't specified - ; or was empty; they have the same outcome. - ((equal? arch "all") - (next-match)) - - ; arch= specified. If we're building for all architectures, - ; then print it prepended with the set of architectures to which - ; this element applies. - ; - ; XXX This doesn't work. -; ((equal? for-arch "all") -; (sosofo-append (literal "[") (literal arch) (literal "] ") -; (process-children))) - - ; arch= specified, so we need to check to see if the specified - ; parameter includes the architecture we're building for. - ((string-list-match? for-arch (split-string-to-list arch)) - (next-match)) - - ; None of the above - (else (empty-sosofo))))) - (mode qandatoc (default - (let* ((arch (attribute-string (normalize "arch"))) - (role (attribute-string (normalize "role"))) - (for-arch (entity-text "arch"))) - (cond + (let* ((role (attribute-string (normalize "role"))) + (for-arch (entity-text "arch"))) + (cond - ; If role=historic, and we're not printing historic things, then - ; don't output this element. - ((and (equal? role "historic") - (not %include-historic%)) - (empty-sosofo)) - + ;; If role=historic, and we're not printing historic things, then + ;; don't output this element. + ((and (equal? role "historic") + (not %include-historic%)) + (empty-sosofo)) - ; If arch= not specified, then print unconditionally. This clause - ; handles the majority of cases. - ((or (equal? arch #f) (equal? arch "")) - (next-match)) + ;; None of the above + (else (next-match)))))) - ; arch= specified, see if it's equal to "all". If so, then - ; print unconditionally. Note that this clause could be - ; combined with the check to see if arch= wasn't specified - ; or was empty; they have the same outcome. - ((equal? arch "all") - (next-match)) - - ; arch= specified. If we're building for all architectures, - ; then print it prepended with the set of architectures to which - ; this element applies. - ; - ; XXX This doesn't work. -; ((equal? for-arch "all") -; (sosofo-append (literal "[") (literal arch) (literal "] ") -; (process-children))) - - ; arch= specified, so we need to check to see if the specified - ; parameter includes the architecture we're building for. - ((string-list-match? for-arch (split-string-to-list arch)) - (next-match)) - - ; None of the above - (else (empty-sosofo)))))) +;; $paragraph$ function with arch attribute support. +(define ($paragraph$ #!optional (para-wrapper "P")) + (let ((footnotes (select-elements (descendants (current-node)) + (normalize "footnote"))) + (tgroup (have-ancestor? (normalize "tgroup"))) + (arch (attribute-string (normalize "arch"))) + (role (attribute-string (normalize "role"))) + (arch-string (entity-text "arch")) + (merged-string (entity-text "merged"))) + (make sequence + (make element gi: para-wrapper + attributes: (append + (if %default-quadding% + (list (list "ALIGN" %default-quadding%)) + '())) + (make sequence + (cond + ;; If arch= not specified, then print unconditionally. This clause + ;; handles the majority of cases. + ((or (equal? arch #f) + (equal? arch "") + (equal? arch "all")) + (process-children)) + (else + (sosofo-append + (make sequence + (literal "[") + (let loop ((prev (car (split-string-to-list arch))) + (rest (cdr (split-string-to-list arch)))) + (make sequence + (literal prev) + (if (not (null? rest)) + (make sequence + (literal ", ") + (loop (car rest) (cdr rest))) + (empty-sosofo)))) + (literal "] ") + (process-children) + (if (and (not (null? role)) (equal? role "merged")) + (literal " [" merged-string "]") + (empty-sosofo)))))) + (if (or %footnotes-at-end% tgroup (node-list-empty? footnotes)) + (empty-sosofo) + (make element gi: "BLOCKQUOTE" + attributes: (list + (list "CLASS" "FOOTNOTES")) + (with-mode footnote-mode + (process-node-list footnotes))))))))) ; We might have some sect1 level elements where the modification times ; are significant. An example of this is the "What's New" section in ; the release notes. We enable the printing of pubdate entry in ; sect1info elements to support this. (element (sect1info pubdate) (process-children)) (element quote (make sequence (literal "“") (process-children) (literal "”"))) (define ($create-refentry-xref-link$ #!optional (n (current-node))) (let* ((r (select-elements (children n) (normalize "refentrytitle"))) (m (select-elements (children n) (normalize "manvolnum"))) (v (attribute-string (normalize "vendor") n)) (u (string-append "&release.man.url;?query=" (data r) "&" "sektion=" (data m)))) (case v (("xfree86") (string-append u "&" "manpath=XFree86+&release.manpath.xfree86;" )) (("xorg") (string-append u "&" "manpath=Xorg+&release.manpath.xorg;" )) (("netbsd") (string-append u "&" "manpath=NetBSD+&release.manpath.netbsd;")) (("ports") (string-append u "&" "manpath=FreeBSD+&release.manpath.freebsd-ports;")) (else (string-append u "&" "manpath=FreeBSD+&release.manpath.freebsd;"))))) ]]> (define (toc-depth nd) (if (string=? (gi nd) (normalize "book")) 3 3)) Index: head/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent =================================================================== --- head/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent (revision 178341) +++ head/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent (revision 178342) @@ -1,61 +1,63 @@ + +