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authorHiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-02 18:24:58 +0000
committerHiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-02 18:24:58 +0000
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New release notes (changes in the first half of July 2004):
bus_dma(9) alignment and boundary compensation support, kqueue(2) EVFILT_FS, KDB framework, sound and snd_* driver reorganization, natd(8) globalports option[*], ppp(8) LQM support[*] and "rad_alive N" option, GEOM_STRIPE FAST mode support, MSDOSFS_LARGE[*], ALTQ framework support added to various network drivers[*], bsdtar(1) now the default tar(1) utility, cvs(1) iso8601 option keyword, multibyte characters support: fgetwln(3), join(1), nextwctype(3), od(1), regex(3), rev(1), sed(1) 'y' command, and tr(1), ftw(3) and nftw(3) implemented, C99 functions: nearbyint(3), am-utils 6.0.9->6.0.10p1 import, GNU grep 2.4d->2.5.1 import, and tcsh 6.11->6.13.00 import. MFC: IPFilter 3.4.31->3.4.35. [*]Based on work by: josef
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=133022
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 62fd6c5cbcb9..f2ab5865a6ee 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@
This behavior can be disabled by setting a loader tunable
<varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+ <para>The &man.bus.dma.9; now supports transparently honoring
+ the alignment and boundary constraints in the dma tag
+ when loading buffers, and <function>bus_dmamap_load()</function>
+ will automatically use bounce buffers when needed.
+ In addition, a set of sysctls <varname>hw.busdma.*</varname>
+ for &man.bus.dma.9; statistics has been added.</para>
+
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
@@ -281,6 +288,72 @@
This feature is disabled by default, and controlled using the
<varname>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</varname> sysctl.</para>
+ <para>&man.kqueue.2; now supports a new filter
+ <literal>EVFILT_FS</literal> to be used to signal generic filesystem
+ events to the user space. Currently, mount, unmount, and up/down
+ status of NFS are signaled.</para>
+
+ <para>KDB, a new debugger framework has been added.
+ This consists of a new GDB backend, which has been rewritten to support
+ threading, run-length encoding compression, and so on, and
+ the frontend that provides a framework in which multiple, different
+ debugger backends can be configured and which provides
+ basic services to those backends.
+ The following options has been changed:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>KDB is enabled by default
+ via a kernel option <literal>options KDB</literal>,
+ <literal>options GDB</literal>, and <literal>options DDB</literal>.
+ Both <literal>DDB</literal> and
+ <literal>GDB</literal> specify which KDB backends to include.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>WITNESS_DDB has been renamed to WITNESS_KDB.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>DDB_TRACE has been renamed to KDB_TRACE.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>DDB_UNATTENDED has been renamed to KDB_UNATTENDED.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>SC_HISTORY_DDBKEY has been renamed to SC_HISTORY_KDBKEY.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>DDB_NOKLDSYM has been removed.
+ The new DDB backend supports pre-linker symbol
+ lookups as well as KLD symbol lookups at the same time.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>GDB_REMOTE_CHAT has been removed.
+ The GDB protocol hacks to allow this are &os; specific.
+ At the same time, the GDB protocol has packets for console
+ output.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>The KDB also serves as the single point of contact for any and
+ all code that wants to make use of the debugger functions,
+ such as entering the debugger or handling of the
+ alternate break sequence.
+ For this purpose, the frontend has been made non-optional.
+ All debugger requests are forwarded or handed over to the current
+ backend, if applicable.
+ Selection of the current backend is done by the
+ <varname>debug.kdb.current</varname> sysctl.
+ A list of configured backends can be obtained with the
+ <varname>debug.kdb.available</varname> sysctl.
+ One can enter the debugger by writing to the
+ <varname>debug.kdb.enter</varname> sysctl.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64">Loadable kernel modules now work and are
enabled in the amd64 build.</para>
@@ -318,6 +391,10 @@
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; now supports
<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
+ <para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
+ <literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
+ and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers.</para>
+
<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para>
@@ -600,6 +677,11 @@
could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing
the Security Policy Database (SPD).</para>
+ <para>&man.natd.8; now supports multiple instances via
+ a new option <option>globalports</option>.
+ This allows &man.natd.8; to be bound to
+ different network interfaces and sharing of load.</para>
+
<para>The <literal>PFIL_HOOKS</literal> option is now enabled by
default in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. The most
notable effect of this change is to make
@@ -609,6 +691,11 @@
<para>The link state change notification of Ethernet media
support has been added to the routing socket.</para>
+ <para>The LQM, Link Quality Monitoring support of &man.ppp.8;
+ has been reimplemented. The LQM, which is described
+ in RFC 1989 allows PPP to keep track of the quality
+ of a running connection.</para>
+
<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
@@ -728,7 +815,22 @@
testing purposes has been added.</para>
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_STRIPE</literal>
- class which implements RAID0 transformation has been added.</para>
+ class which implements RAID0 transformation has been added.
+ This class has two modes: <quote>FAST</quote> and
+ <quote>ECONOMIC</quote>. In the <quote>FAST</quote> mode,
+ when very small stripe size is used, only one I/O request
+ will be send to every disks in stripe, and it is about 10
+ times faster for small stripe size than <quote>ECONOMIC</quote>
+ mode and other RAID0 implementations.
+ While this <quote>FAST</quote> mode is used by default,
+ because this mode consumes some more memory,
+ <quote>ECONOMIC</quote> mode which sends requests each time,
+ can be enabled by setting a loader tunable
+ <varname>kern.geom.stripe.fast</varname> to 0.
+ It is also possible to setup maximum memory
+ which <quote>FAST</quote> mode can consume,
+ by setting a loader tunable
+ <varname>kern.geom.stripe.maxmem</varname>.</para>
<para>GEOM Gate, which consists of a new <literal>GEOM_GATE</literal>
class and several GEOM Gate userland utilities
@@ -761,6 +863,16 @@
significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
+
+ <para>A kernel option <literal>options MSDOSFS_LARGE</literal>
+ has been added to support for FAT32 filesystems bigger
+ than 128GB. This is not enabled by default, and note
+ that this uses at least 32 bytes of kernel memory for
+ each file on disk, but this is only safe to use in certain
+ controlled situations such as read-only mount
+ with less than 1 million files and so on.
+ And this does not support exporting these large filesystems
+ over NFS.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="mm">
@@ -781,10 +893,15 @@
<para><application>ALTQ framework</application>
has been imported from the KAME snapshot as of 20040607.
This import breaks ABI compatibility of
- <varname>struct ifnet</varname>.</para>
+ <varname>struct ifnet</varname>.
+ Additionally some of the networking drivers have been
+ modified to support the ALTQ framework.
+ Updated drivers are &man.bfe.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.fxp.4;,
+ &man.em.4;, &man.lnc.4;, &man.tun.4;, &man.de.4;,
+ &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, and &man.xl.4;.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated
- from version 3.4.31 to version 3.4.35.</para>
+ from version 3.4.31 to version 3.4.35 &merged;.</para>
<para arch="ia64">An ia64 stack unwinder,
<application>Unwind Express (libuwx)</application>
@@ -798,6 +915,13 @@
<para>&man.bsdlabel.8; now supports a <option>-f</option> option
to work on files instead of disk partitions.</para>
+ <para>&man.bsdtar.1; is the default &man.tar.1; utility in &os;
+ base system now. <filename>/usr/bin/tar</filename>
+ has been a symlink pointing to
+ <filename>/usr/bin/bsdtar</filename> by default.
+ To use <filename>/usr/bin/gtar</filename>, <varname>WITH_GTAR</varname>
+ make variable can be used.</para>
+
<para>The <command>bthidcontrol</command> command and the
<command>bthidd</command> command, which support Bluetooth
HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para>
@@ -823,6 +947,9 @@
<option>-d</option>, and <option>-f</option>
now work correctly in locales with multibyte characters.</para>
+ <para>&man.cvs.1; now supports <option>iso8601</option>
+ option keyword to print dates in ISO 8601 format.</para>
+
<para>&man.daemon.8; now supports a <option>-p</option>
option to create a PID file.</para>
@@ -849,6 +976,9 @@
<para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and
&man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para>
+ <para>&man.fgetwln.3; function, a wide character version of
+ &man.fgetln.3; has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.find.1; utility now supports a <option>-acl</option>
primary to locate files with &man.acl.3;.</para>
@@ -858,6 +988,9 @@
to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ftw.3; and &man.nftw.3; functions have been implemented.
+ These are used to traverse a directory hierarchy.</para>
+
<para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on GEOM classes
from the userland has been added.</para>
@@ -906,6 +1039,8 @@
run command as a user which exists only in the &man.jail.2;
environment.</para>
+ <para>&man.join.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to
make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than
real, user IDs. &merged;</para>
@@ -962,6 +1097,9 @@
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
directive.</para>
+ <para>nearbyint(3) and nearbyintf(3) C99 functions
+ have been implemented.</para>
+
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows the users to set
a debugging option via the <filename>newsyslog.conf</filename>
file.</para>
@@ -972,6 +1110,10 @@
which needs to be signaled, and finally it will compress
all the files which were rotated.</para>
+ <para>&man.nextwctype.3; function to iterate over all characters
+ in a particular character class,
+ has been added.</para>
+
<para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently
supported system locales has been added. This is primarily
for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename>
@@ -1008,6 +1150,9 @@
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
membership lists.</para>
+ <para>&man.od.1; now has POSIX-style support for multibyte
+ characters.</para>
+
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands, which come from NetBSD,
have been added. They also support a <option>-M</option> option
to extract values associated with the name list from the
@@ -1015,6 +1160,11 @@
and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from
the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ppp.8; now support a <quote>set rad_alive
+ <replaceable>N</replaceable></quote> command
+ to enable periodic RADIUS accounting information
+ being sent to the RADIUS server.</para>
+
<para>&man.ps.1; compatibility with POSIX/SUSv3 has been improved.
The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs,
<option>-t</option> for a list of terminal names,
@@ -1035,6 +1185,9 @@
when a interface has more than one IP address has been fixed.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.regex.3; now supports regular expression matching aware
+ of multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para>The configuration files used by the &man.resolver.3; now
support the <literal>timeout:</literal> and
<literal>attempts:</literal> keywords.</para>
@@ -1050,6 +1203,8 @@
role="package">devel/gnomevfs</filename>, and <filename
role="package">devel/gnomevfs2</filename>.</para>
+ <para>&man.rev.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para>&man.rmdir.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag,
which makes it verbose.</para>
@@ -1066,6 +1221,9 @@
<para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
has been added.</para>
+ <para>&man.sed.1; <literal>y</literal> (translate) command
+ now supports multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para>&man.sha1.1; and &man.rmd160.1; utility have been added.
&merged;</para>
@@ -1093,6 +1251,8 @@
of I/O. This feature can be enabled by hitting <quote>m</quote>
or passing the command line option <option>-m io</option>.</para>
+ <para>&man.tr.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64">&man.truss.1; now includes early support
for &os;/amd64.</para>
@@ -1148,6 +1308,9 @@
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040527 snapshot.</para>
+ <para>The <application>AMD (am-utils)</application> has been updated
+ from version 6.0.9 to version 6.0.10p1.</para>
+
<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
release.</para>
@@ -1166,7 +1329,7 @@
6.1.1.</para>
<para><application>GNU grep</application> has been updated from
- 2.4d to 2.4.2.</para>
+ 2.4d to 2.5.1.</para>
<para><application>less</application> has been updated from
version 371 to version 381.</para>
@@ -1176,15 +1339,13 @@
<para>The <application>GNU regex</application> library has been
updated to the version included with <application>GNU
- grep</application> 2.4.2.</para>
+ grep</application> 2.5.1.</para>
<para><application>GNU sort</application> has been updated from
textutils 2.1 to coreutils 5.2.1.</para>
<para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the
- base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with
- <filename>tar</filename> being a link to
- <filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
+ base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
<para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been
updated from 0.6 to 0.6.1.</para>
@@ -1254,6 +1415,9 @@
<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para>
+ <para><application>tcsh</application> has been updated from
+ version 6.11 to version 6.13.00.</para>
+
<para>The timezone database has been updated from
<filename>tzdata2003a</filename> to
<filename>tzdata2004a</filename>.</para>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 62fd6c5cbcb9..f2ab5865a6ee 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@
This behavior can be disabled by setting a loader tunable
<varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+ <para>The &man.bus.dma.9; now supports transparently honoring
+ the alignment and boundary constraints in the dma tag
+ when loading buffers, and <function>bus_dmamap_load()</function>
+ will automatically use bounce buffers when needed.
+ In addition, a set of sysctls <varname>hw.busdma.*</varname>
+ for &man.bus.dma.9; statistics has been added.</para>
+
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
@@ -281,6 +288,72 @@
This feature is disabled by default, and controlled using the
<varname>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</varname> sysctl.</para>
+ <para>&man.kqueue.2; now supports a new filter
+ <literal>EVFILT_FS</literal> to be used to signal generic filesystem
+ events to the user space. Currently, mount, unmount, and up/down
+ status of NFS are signaled.</para>
+
+ <para>KDB, a new debugger framework has been added.
+ This consists of a new GDB backend, which has been rewritten to support
+ threading, run-length encoding compression, and so on, and
+ the frontend that provides a framework in which multiple, different
+ debugger backends can be configured and which provides
+ basic services to those backends.
+ The following options has been changed:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>KDB is enabled by default
+ via a kernel option <literal>options KDB</literal>,
+ <literal>options GDB</literal>, and <literal>options DDB</literal>.
+ Both <literal>DDB</literal> and
+ <literal>GDB</literal> specify which KDB backends to include.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>WITNESS_DDB has been renamed to WITNESS_KDB.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>DDB_TRACE has been renamed to KDB_TRACE.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>DDB_UNATTENDED has been renamed to KDB_UNATTENDED.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>SC_HISTORY_DDBKEY has been renamed to SC_HISTORY_KDBKEY.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>DDB_NOKLDSYM has been removed.
+ The new DDB backend supports pre-linker symbol
+ lookups as well as KLD symbol lookups at the same time.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>GDB_REMOTE_CHAT has been removed.
+ The GDB protocol hacks to allow this are &os; specific.
+ At the same time, the GDB protocol has packets for console
+ output.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>The KDB also serves as the single point of contact for any and
+ all code that wants to make use of the debugger functions,
+ such as entering the debugger or handling of the
+ alternate break sequence.
+ For this purpose, the frontend has been made non-optional.
+ All debugger requests are forwarded or handed over to the current
+ backend, if applicable.
+ Selection of the current backend is done by the
+ <varname>debug.kdb.current</varname> sysctl.
+ A list of configured backends can be obtained with the
+ <varname>debug.kdb.available</varname> sysctl.
+ One can enter the debugger by writing to the
+ <varname>debug.kdb.enter</varname> sysctl.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64">Loadable kernel modules now work and are
enabled in the amd64 build.</para>
@@ -318,6 +391,10 @@
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; now supports
<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
+ <para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
+ <literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
+ and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers.</para>
+
<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para>
@@ -600,6 +677,11 @@
could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing
the Security Policy Database (SPD).</para>
+ <para>&man.natd.8; now supports multiple instances via
+ a new option <option>globalports</option>.
+ This allows &man.natd.8; to be bound to
+ different network interfaces and sharing of load.</para>
+
<para>The <literal>PFIL_HOOKS</literal> option is now enabled by
default in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. The most
notable effect of this change is to make
@@ -609,6 +691,11 @@
<para>The link state change notification of Ethernet media
support has been added to the routing socket.</para>
+ <para>The LQM, Link Quality Monitoring support of &man.ppp.8;
+ has been reimplemented. The LQM, which is described
+ in RFC 1989 allows PPP to keep track of the quality
+ of a running connection.</para>
+
<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
@@ -728,7 +815,22 @@
testing purposes has been added.</para>
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_STRIPE</literal>
- class which implements RAID0 transformation has been added.</para>
+ class which implements RAID0 transformation has been added.
+ This class has two modes: <quote>FAST</quote> and
+ <quote>ECONOMIC</quote>. In the <quote>FAST</quote> mode,
+ when very small stripe size is used, only one I/O request
+ will be send to every disks in stripe, and it is about 10
+ times faster for small stripe size than <quote>ECONOMIC</quote>
+ mode and other RAID0 implementations.
+ While this <quote>FAST</quote> mode is used by default,
+ because this mode consumes some more memory,
+ <quote>ECONOMIC</quote> mode which sends requests each time,
+ can be enabled by setting a loader tunable
+ <varname>kern.geom.stripe.fast</varname> to 0.
+ It is also possible to setup maximum memory
+ which <quote>FAST</quote> mode can consume,
+ by setting a loader tunable
+ <varname>kern.geom.stripe.maxmem</varname>.</para>
<para>GEOM Gate, which consists of a new <literal>GEOM_GATE</literal>
class and several GEOM Gate userland utilities
@@ -761,6 +863,16 @@
significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
+
+ <para>A kernel option <literal>options MSDOSFS_LARGE</literal>
+ has been added to support for FAT32 filesystems bigger
+ than 128GB. This is not enabled by default, and note
+ that this uses at least 32 bytes of kernel memory for
+ each file on disk, but this is only safe to use in certain
+ controlled situations such as read-only mount
+ with less than 1 million files and so on.
+ And this does not support exporting these large filesystems
+ over NFS.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="mm">
@@ -781,10 +893,15 @@
<para><application>ALTQ framework</application>
has been imported from the KAME snapshot as of 20040607.
This import breaks ABI compatibility of
- <varname>struct ifnet</varname>.</para>
+ <varname>struct ifnet</varname>.
+ Additionally some of the networking drivers have been
+ modified to support the ALTQ framework.
+ Updated drivers are &man.bfe.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.fxp.4;,
+ &man.em.4;, &man.lnc.4;, &man.tun.4;, &man.de.4;,
+ &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, and &man.xl.4;.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated
- from version 3.4.31 to version 3.4.35.</para>
+ from version 3.4.31 to version 3.4.35 &merged;.</para>
<para arch="ia64">An ia64 stack unwinder,
<application>Unwind Express (libuwx)</application>
@@ -798,6 +915,13 @@
<para>&man.bsdlabel.8; now supports a <option>-f</option> option
to work on files instead of disk partitions.</para>
+ <para>&man.bsdtar.1; is the default &man.tar.1; utility in &os;
+ base system now. <filename>/usr/bin/tar</filename>
+ has been a symlink pointing to
+ <filename>/usr/bin/bsdtar</filename> by default.
+ To use <filename>/usr/bin/gtar</filename>, <varname>WITH_GTAR</varname>
+ make variable can be used.</para>
+
<para>The <command>bthidcontrol</command> command and the
<command>bthidd</command> command, which support Bluetooth
HID (Human Interface Device), have been added.</para>
@@ -823,6 +947,9 @@
<option>-d</option>, and <option>-f</option>
now work correctly in locales with multibyte characters.</para>
+ <para>&man.cvs.1; now supports <option>iso8601</option>
+ option keyword to print dates in ISO 8601 format.</para>
+
<para>&man.daemon.8; now supports a <option>-p</option>
option to create a PID file.</para>
@@ -849,6 +976,9 @@
<para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and
&man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para>
+ <para>&man.fgetwln.3; function, a wide character version of
+ &man.fgetln.3; has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.find.1; utility now supports a <option>-acl</option>
primary to locate files with &man.acl.3;.</para>
@@ -858,6 +988,9 @@
to the starting point of the traversal is <replaceable>n</replaceable>.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ftw.3; and &man.nftw.3; functions have been implemented.
+ These are used to traverse a directory hierarchy.</para>
+
<para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on GEOM classes
from the userland has been added.</para>
@@ -906,6 +1039,8 @@
run command as a user which exists only in the &man.jail.2;
environment.</para>
+ <para>&man.join.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to
make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than
real, user IDs. &merged;</para>
@@ -962,6 +1097,9 @@
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
directive.</para>
+ <para>nearbyint(3) and nearbyintf(3) C99 functions
+ have been implemented.</para>
+
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows the users to set
a debugging option via the <filename>newsyslog.conf</filename>
file.</para>
@@ -972,6 +1110,10 @@
which needs to be signaled, and finally it will compress
all the files which were rotated.</para>
+ <para>&man.nextwctype.3; function to iterate over all characters
+ in a particular character class,
+ has been added.</para>
+
<para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently
supported system locales has been added. This is primarily
for the benefit of the <filename role="package">misc/utf8locale</filename>
@@ -1008,6 +1150,9 @@
role="package">net/nss_ldap</filename>) and groups with large
membership lists.</para>
+ <para>&man.od.1; now has POSIX-style support for multibyte
+ characters.</para>
+
<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands, which come from NetBSD,
have been added. They also support a <option>-M</option> option
to extract values associated with the name list from the
@@ -1015,6 +1160,11 @@
and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from
the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ppp.8; now support a <quote>set rad_alive
+ <replaceable>N</replaceable></quote> command
+ to enable periodic RADIUS accounting information
+ being sent to the RADIUS server.</para>
+
<para>&man.ps.1; compatibility with POSIX/SUSv3 has been improved.
The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs,
<option>-t</option> for a list of terminal names,
@@ -1035,6 +1185,9 @@
when a interface has more than one IP address has been fixed.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.regex.3; now supports regular expression matching aware
+ of multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para>The configuration files used by the &man.resolver.3; now
support the <literal>timeout:</literal> and
<literal>attempts:</literal> keywords.</para>
@@ -1050,6 +1203,8 @@
role="package">devel/gnomevfs</filename>, and <filename
role="package">devel/gnomevfs2</filename>.</para>
+ <para>&man.rev.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para>&man.rmdir.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag,
which makes it verbose.</para>
@@ -1066,6 +1221,9 @@
<para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon
has been added.</para>
+ <para>&man.sed.1; <literal>y</literal> (translate) command
+ now supports multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para>&man.sha1.1; and &man.rmd160.1; utility have been added.
&merged;</para>
@@ -1093,6 +1251,8 @@
of I/O. This feature can be enabled by hitting <quote>m</quote>
or passing the command line option <option>-m io</option>.</para>
+ <para>&man.tr.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64">&man.truss.1; now includes early support
for &os;/amd64.</para>
@@ -1148,6 +1308,9 @@
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040527 snapshot.</para>
+ <para>The <application>AMD (am-utils)</application> has been updated
+ from version 6.0.9 to version 6.0.10p1.</para>
+
<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
release.</para>
@@ -1166,7 +1329,7 @@
6.1.1.</para>
<para><application>GNU grep</application> has been updated from
- 2.4d to 2.4.2.</para>
+ 2.4d to 2.5.1.</para>
<para><application>less</application> has been updated from
version 371 to version 381.</para>
@@ -1176,15 +1339,13 @@
<para>The <application>GNU regex</application> library has been
updated to the version included with <application>GNU
- grep</application> 2.4.2.</para>
+ grep</application> 2.5.1.</para>
<para><application>GNU sort</application> has been updated from
textutils 2.1 to coreutils 5.2.1.</para>
<para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the
- base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>, with
- <filename>tar</filename> being a link to
- <filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
+ base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>.</para>
<para><application>Heimdal Kerberos</application> has been
updated from 0.6 to 0.6.1.</para>
@@ -1254,6 +1415,9 @@
<para><application>tcpdump</application> has been updated from
version 3.7.1 to version 3.8.3.</para>
+ <para><application>tcsh</application> has been updated from
+ version 6.11 to version 6.13.00.</para>
+
<para>The timezone database has been updated from
<filename>tzdata2003a</filename> to
<filename>tzdata2004a</filename>.</para>