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file descriptor handling bug fixed,
	support for copying console messages to remote gdb(1),
	kbdmux(4) now in GENERIC by default,
	scc(4) for generic serial devices added,
	net.inet.ip.portrange.reserved[high|low] for IPv6,
	ata(4) USB mass storage class support,
	gmirror kernel crash dump support,
	gmirror and graid3 parallel I/O request support,
	mfi(4) for LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family added,
	getfacl(1) -q option added,
	gvinum(8) resetconfig sub-command support,
	libarchive(3) tp format support removed,
	libarchive(3) POSIX.1e EA support added,
	libc symbol map added,
	libm symbol map added,
	ls(1) -U option added,
	mdconfig(8) XML device listing support,
	mdconfig(8) -u option now supports comma-separated multiple devices,
	BIND9 DNS resolver library imported,
	strtonum(3) from OpenBSD,
	rc.d/ike removed,
	GNU Readline library updated to 5.1,
	OpenSSH updated to 4.3p1,
	hostapd updated to 0.4.8,
	WPA supplicant updated to 0.4.8,
	zlib updated to 1.2.3,
	pkg_add(1) -F option added,
	portsnap(1) HTTP_PROXY_AUTH handling bug fixed,
	"make showconfig" in src/Makefile added, and
	/etc/src.conf added.
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command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks
for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel.</para>
<para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that simple
<literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> does not return
descriptor <literal>0</literal> in some cases, has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This allows
to load binary data into the kernel via a specially crafted module.</para>
<para>The &man.gdb.1; remote debugging interface now supports
copying console messages to a remote debugger instance.
To enable this, set <literal>debug.gdbcons="1"</literal>
in <filename>loader.conf</filename>, enter <literal>boot -d;
gdb; step</literal> from the loader prompt,
then attach &man.gdb.1; from a remote machine.
The sysctl variable <varname>debug.gdbcons</varname> can be
used to turn on/off this functionality.</para>
<para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
<para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been
@ -316,9 +329,20 @@
or at runtime via &man.kldload.8; and releasing the active
keyboard.</para>
<para>The &man.kbdmux.4; has been included in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.
Also, the <quote>Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard</quote>
menu item in the boot loader menu has been removed
since this fixes USB keyboard probing problems.</para>
<para arch="ia64">The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname>
is set to <literal>1</literal> by default.</para>
<para>The &man.scc.4; driver has been added.
This provides generic support for serial communications
controllers and delegates the control over each channel
and mode to a subordinate driver such as &man.uart.4;.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been
added.</para>
@ -534,6 +558,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
when the server sent FIN. This problem had occurred
with Solaris NFS servers.</para>
<para>The sysctl variable <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname>
and <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow</varname>
can be used with IPv6 now.</para>
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>net.inet.icmp.reply_from_interface</varname>
has been added. This allows the &man.icmp.4;
reply to non-local packets generated with
@ -610,12 +638,22 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
and Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise
Fasttrak TX4300.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel dump
and dumping to &man.ataraid.4; device.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel crash dump
and crash dumping to &man.ataraid.4; device.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports USB mass storage class
devices. To enable it, a line <literal>device atausb</literal>
in the kernel configuration file or loading the
<filename>atausb</filename> kernel module is needed.
Note that this conflicts &man.umass.4; and cannot coexist with
each other.</para>
<para>The &man.ataraid.4; driver now supports
JMicron ATA RAID metadata.</para>
<para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> class now supports
kernel crash dump to the GEOM providers.</para>
<para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> and <literal>GEOM_RAID3</literal>
classes now support sysctl variables
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.disconnect_on_failure</varname>
@ -632,6 +670,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
or <command>graid3 list</command> output with flag
<literal>BROKEN</literal>.</para>
<para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> and <literal>GEOM_RAID3</literal>
classes now support parallel I/O request handling. New sysctl variables
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.sync_requests</varname> and
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.sync_requests</varname>
define how many parallel I/O requests should be used.
Also, sysctl variables
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.reqs_per_sync</varname>,
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.syncs_per_sec</varname>,
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.reqs_per_sync</varname>, and
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.syncs_per_sec</varname>
have been removed.</para>
<para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
and mainly for performance testing.
@ -649,6 +699,9 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated and now supports
amd64 as well as PAE.</para>
<para>The &man.mfi.4; driver, which supports
LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support
various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member
state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization
@ -779,12 +832,19 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<option>-k</option> and <option>-K</option> options
to specify a key file in addition to a passphrase.</para>
<para>The &man.getfacl.1; utility now supports
a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress the per-file header
comment listing the file name, owner, and group.</para>
<para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para>
<para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports commands
to rename objects and to move a subdisk from
one drive to another.</para>
<para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports
<command>resetconfig</command> sub-command.</para>
<para>An implementation of Generic Security Service API (GSS-API)
version 2 and its C binding described in RFC2743 and RFC2744
has been added. This is a new extensible GSS-API layer which
@ -828,13 +888,19 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
and be able to patch memory on a live system.</para>
<para>The &man.libarchive.3; library now supports
<quote>tp</quote> format, which was the standard system
archiver for Fourth Edition through Sixth Edition Unix and
replaced by tar in Seventh Edition.</para>
POSIX.1e-style Extended Attribute.</para>
<para>The <application>libc</application> library now includes
initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version
definitions.</para>
<para>The <application>libedit</application> library has been
updated from the NetBSD source tree as of August 2005.</para>
<para>The <application>libm</application> library now includes
initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version
definitions.</para>
<para>The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added.
This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications
in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an
@ -854,6 +920,19 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
an <option>-I</option> flag to disable the automatic
<option>-A</option> flag for the superuser.</para>
<para>The &man.ls.1; utility now supports
an <option>-U</option> flag to use the file creation
time for sorting.</para>
<para>The &man.mdconfig.8; utility now supports XML
output of the device listing. Currently
<command>list</command> and <command>query</command>
sub-command support this feature.</para>
<para>The &man.mdconfig.8; utility's <option>-u</option> option
now supports specifying multiple devices separated
by comma character.</para>
<para>The &man.mdmfs.8; utility now supports a <option>-P</option> flag
to allow skipping &man.newfs.8; process
when using a vnode-backed disk.</para>
@ -923,6 +1002,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a
<option>-P</option> option which allows to specify pidfile.</para>
<para>The DNS resolver library in &os;'s <application>libc</application>
has been updated to BIND9's one.</para>
<para>The &man.rfcomm.pppd.8; now supports service name
in addition to <option>-c</option> option with channel number.
The supported names are: DUN (Dial-Up Networking), FAX (Fax),
@ -942,6 +1024,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.sh.1; utility now supports <literal>times</literal>
built-in command.</para>
<para>The &man.strtonum.3; library function has been implemented
based on OpenBSD's implementation. This is an improved version of
&man.strtoll.3;.</para>
<para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para>
@ -1005,6 +1091,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
scripts has been added for &man.geli.8; device
configuration on boot.</para>
<para>The <filename>ike</filename> script for
IPsec IKE daemon has been removed because no such daemon
is included in the base system.</para>
<para>The <filename>hcsecd</filename> and
<filename>sdpd</filename> scripts have been added.
for &man.hcsecd.8; and &man.sdpd.8; daemons.
@ -1061,20 +1151,39 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para><application>BSNMPD</application> has been updated from
1.11 to 1.12.</para>
<para><application>GNU Readline library</application>
has been updated from 5.0 to 5.1.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated from
4.1.8 to 4.1.10.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
4.2p1 to 4.3p1. &merged;</para>
<para><application>hostapd</application>
has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.</para>
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
8.13.4 to 8.13.6. &merged;</para>
<para>The timezone database has been updated from the
<application>tzdata2005l</application> release to the
<application>tzdata2005r</application> release. &merged;</para>
<para><application>WPA Supplicant</application>
has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.</para>
<para><application>zlib</application>
has been updated from version 1.2.2 to version 1.2.3.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
<para>The &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an <option>-F</option>
flag to disable checking whether the same package is already
installed or not.</para>
<para>The &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an <option>-P</option>
flag, which is the same as the <option>-p</option> flag
except that the given prefix is also used recursively for the
@ -1099,6 +1208,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
easy to use, fast, lightweight, and generally good way for
users to keep their ports trees up to date.</para>
<para>A incorrect handling of <varname>HTTP_PROXY_AUTH</varname>
in the &man.portsnap.8; utility has been fixed.</para>
<para>The startup scripts from the <varname>local_startup</varname>
directory now evaluated by using &man.rcorder.8; with scripts
in the base system.</para>
@ -1195,6 +1307,15 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>A bug that <filename>CHECKSUM.MD5</filename> includes
an incorrect checksum of the file itself has been fixed.</para>
<para>A new &man.make.1; target <command>make showconfig</command>
has been added in <filename>src/Makefile</filename>
to show build configuration of the &os; source tree.</para>
<para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which
contains settings that will apply to every build involving
the &os; source tree, has been added.
For details, see &man.build.7; and &man.src.conf.5;.</para>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
(<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been

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command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks
for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel.</para>
<para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that simple
<literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> does not return
descriptor <literal>0</literal> in some cases, has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This allows
to load binary data into the kernel via a specially crafted module.</para>
<para>The &man.gdb.1; remote debugging interface now supports
copying console messages to a remote debugger instance.
To enable this, set <literal>debug.gdbcons="1"</literal>
in <filename>loader.conf</filename>, enter <literal>boot -d;
gdb; step</literal> from the loader prompt,
then attach &man.gdb.1; from a remote machine.
The sysctl variable <varname>debug.gdbcons</varname> can be
used to turn on/off this functionality.</para>
<para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
<para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been
@ -316,9 +329,20 @@
or at runtime via &man.kldload.8; and releasing the active
keyboard.</para>
<para>The &man.kbdmux.4; has been included in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.
Also, the <quote>Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard</quote>
menu item in the boot loader menu has been removed
since this fixes USB keyboard probing problems.</para>
<para arch="ia64">The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname>
is set to <literal>1</literal> by default.</para>
<para>The &man.scc.4; driver has been added.
This provides generic support for serial communications
controllers and delegates the control over each channel
and mode to a subordinate driver such as &man.uart.4;.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been
added.</para>
@ -534,6 +558,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
when the server sent FIN. This problem had occurred
with Solaris NFS servers.</para>
<para>The sysctl variable <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname>
and <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow</varname>
can be used with IPv6 now.</para>
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>net.inet.icmp.reply_from_interface</varname>
has been added. This allows the &man.icmp.4;
reply to non-local packets generated with
@ -610,12 +638,22 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
and Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise
Fasttrak TX4300.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel dump
and dumping to &man.ataraid.4; device.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel crash dump
and crash dumping to &man.ataraid.4; device.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports USB mass storage class
devices. To enable it, a line <literal>device atausb</literal>
in the kernel configuration file or loading the
<filename>atausb</filename> kernel module is needed.
Note that this conflicts &man.umass.4; and cannot coexist with
each other.</para>
<para>The &man.ataraid.4; driver now supports
JMicron ATA RAID metadata.</para>
<para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> class now supports
kernel crash dump to the GEOM providers.</para>
<para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> and <literal>GEOM_RAID3</literal>
classes now support sysctl variables
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.disconnect_on_failure</varname>
@ -632,6 +670,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
or <command>graid3 list</command> output with flag
<literal>BROKEN</literal>.</para>
<para>The <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> and <literal>GEOM_RAID3</literal>
classes now support parallel I/O request handling. New sysctl variables
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.sync_requests</varname> and
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.sync_requests</varname>
define how many parallel I/O requests should be used.
Also, sysctl variables
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.reqs_per_sync</varname>,
<varname>kern.geom.mirror.syncs_per_sec</varname>,
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.reqs_per_sync</varname>, and
<varname>kern.geom.raid3.syncs_per_sec</varname>
have been removed.</para>
<para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
and mainly for performance testing.
@ -649,6 +699,9 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated and now supports
amd64 as well as PAE.</para>
<para>The &man.mfi.4; driver, which supports
LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support
various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member
state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization
@ -779,12 +832,19 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<option>-k</option> and <option>-K</option> options
to specify a key file in addition to a passphrase.</para>
<para>The &man.getfacl.1; utility now supports
a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress the per-file header
comment listing the file name, owner, and group.</para>
<para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para>
<para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports commands
to rename objects and to move a subdisk from
one drive to another.</para>
<para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports
<command>resetconfig</command> sub-command.</para>
<para>An implementation of Generic Security Service API (GSS-API)
version 2 and its C binding described in RFC2743 and RFC2744
has been added. This is a new extensible GSS-API layer which
@ -828,13 +888,19 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
and be able to patch memory on a live system.</para>
<para>The &man.libarchive.3; library now supports
<quote>tp</quote> format, which was the standard system
archiver for Fourth Edition through Sixth Edition Unix and
replaced by tar in Seventh Edition.</para>
POSIX.1e-style Extended Attribute.</para>
<para>The <application>libc</application> library now includes
initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version
definitions.</para>
<para>The <application>libedit</application> library has been
updated from the NetBSD source tree as of August 2005.</para>
<para>The <application>libm</application> library now includes
initial implementation of symbol maps and symbol version
definitions.</para>
<para>The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added.
This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications
in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an
@ -854,6 +920,19 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
an <option>-I</option> flag to disable the automatic
<option>-A</option> flag for the superuser.</para>
<para>The &man.ls.1; utility now supports
an <option>-U</option> flag to use the file creation
time for sorting.</para>
<para>The &man.mdconfig.8; utility now supports XML
output of the device listing. Currently
<command>list</command> and <command>query</command>
sub-command support this feature.</para>
<para>The &man.mdconfig.8; utility's <option>-u</option> option
now supports specifying multiple devices separated
by comma character.</para>
<para>The &man.mdmfs.8; utility now supports a <option>-P</option> flag
to allow skipping &man.newfs.8; process
when using a vnode-backed disk.</para>
@ -923,6 +1002,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a
<option>-P</option> option which allows to specify pidfile.</para>
<para>The DNS resolver library in &os;'s <application>libc</application>
has been updated to BIND9's one.</para>
<para>The &man.rfcomm.pppd.8; now supports service name
in addition to <option>-c</option> option with channel number.
The supported names are: DUN (Dial-Up Networking), FAX (Fax),
@ -942,6 +1024,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.sh.1; utility now supports <literal>times</literal>
built-in command.</para>
<para>The &man.strtonum.3; library function has been implemented
based on OpenBSD's implementation. This is an improved version of
&man.strtoll.3;.</para>
<para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para>
@ -1005,6 +1091,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
scripts has been added for &man.geli.8; device
configuration on boot.</para>
<para>The <filename>ike</filename> script for
IPsec IKE daemon has been removed because no such daemon
is included in the base system.</para>
<para>The <filename>hcsecd</filename> and
<filename>sdpd</filename> scripts have been added.
for &man.hcsecd.8; and &man.sdpd.8; daemons.
@ -1061,20 +1151,39 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para><application>BSNMPD</application> has been updated from
1.11 to 1.12.</para>
<para><application>GNU Readline library</application>
has been updated from 5.0 to 5.1.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated from
4.1.8 to 4.1.10.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
4.2p1 to 4.3p1. &merged;</para>
<para><application>hostapd</application>
has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.</para>
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
8.13.4 to 8.13.6. &merged;</para>
<para>The timezone database has been updated from the
<application>tzdata2005l</application> release to the
<application>tzdata2005r</application> release. &merged;</para>
<para><application>WPA Supplicant</application>
has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.</para>
<para><application>zlib</application>
has been updated from version 1.2.2 to version 1.2.3.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
<para>The &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an <option>-F</option>
flag to disable checking whether the same package is already
installed or not.</para>
<para>The &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an <option>-P</option>
flag, which is the same as the <option>-p</option> flag
except that the given prefix is also used recursively for the
@ -1099,6 +1208,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
easy to use, fast, lightweight, and generally good way for
users to keep their ports trees up to date.</para>
<para>A incorrect handling of <varname>HTTP_PROXY_AUTH</varname>
in the &man.portsnap.8; utility has been fixed.</para>
<para>The startup scripts from the <varname>local_startup</varname>
directory now evaluated by using &man.rcorder.8; with scripts
in the base system.</para>
@ -1195,6 +1307,15 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>A bug that <filename>CHECKSUM.MD5</filename> includes
an incorrect checksum of the file itself has been fixed.</para>
<para>A new &man.make.1; target <command>make showconfig</command>
has been added in <filename>src/Makefile</filename>
to show build configuration of the &os; source tree.</para>
<para>The <filename>src.conf</filename> file, which
contains settings that will apply to every build involving
the &os; source tree, has been added.
For details, see &man.build.7; and &man.src.conf.5;.</para>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
(<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been