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author | Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-03-23 04:12:07 +0000 |
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committer | Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-03-23 04:12:07 +0000 |
commit | 72b218d3665a5f430523881e660cfa8981ae2829 (patch) | |
tree | 61b63c7f5605b2cb07c472b37ed8bce795cfbe2c /release/doc | |
parent | 67361fdf2da6f3120511f78cda0a8da7f759c4af (diff) | |
download | src-72b218d3665a5f430523881e660cfa8981ae2829.tar.gz src-72b218d3665a5f430523881e660cfa8981ae2829.zip |
New release notes: KSE removed, cmx(4), uslcom(4), sf(4) update,
re(4) update, vr(4) update, TCP options padding fix, ata(4) spindown,
hptrr(4) 1.2, mmap(2)/ZFS fix, chflags(1) -v/-f, cp(1) -a, find(1)
primaries to match GNU find, split(1) -n, tar(1) -Z, bzip2 1.0.5.
Modified release notes: CVS post-1.11.12 snapshot from 10 March 2008.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=177518
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 68 |
1 files changed, 63 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index b6682f1f7085..623dbe910965 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -167,6 +167,14 @@ synchronized source code. More information can be found in the &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para> + <para>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.</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -187,7 +195,12 @@ <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Hardware Support</title> - <para></para> + <para>The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 + PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para> + + <para>The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon + Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been + imported from OpenBSD.</para> <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> @@ -199,6 +212,18 @@ <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> + <para>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.</para> + + <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a + number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) + support.</para> + + <para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a + number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all + architectures.</para> + <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.wpi.4; driver has been added to support the Intel 3945 Wireless LAN Controller.</para> @@ -209,21 +234,31 @@ <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para></para> + <para>A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding + bytes were used, has been fixed.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para></para> + <para>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 <command>spindown</command> command to configure + this feature.</para> + + <para>The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 + from Highpoint.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para></para> + <para>A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has + been fixed.</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -235,6 +270,26 @@ based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU Binutils versions of these utilities.</para> + <para>&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for + verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors + with the same semantics as (for example) + &man.chmod.1;. &merged;</para> + + <para>For compatiblity with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now + supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to + specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para> + + <para>&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;.</para> + + <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option> + flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para> + + <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option> + flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style + compression/decompression.</para> + <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular @@ -261,8 +316,11 @@ <para><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release. &merged;</para> + <para><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4 + to 1.0.5.</para> + <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from 1.11.17 - to 1.11.22.</para> + to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008.</para> <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated from 4.1.23 to 4.1.28.</para> |