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New release notes:

- GCC SSP enabled by default
- X11BASE change
- touch -A
- fwip(4) and dcons(4) in GENERIC
- FireWire/dcons support in the i386/amd64 loader

Modified release notes:
- MFCs noted: newly supported ftpd RFCs, lagg(4), mpt(4) changes,
  snd_atiixp(4) suspend/resume
- sa(8) entry moved to the correct place
- xorg 7.2 update
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Christian Brueffer 2007-06-02 09:24:39 +00:00
parent 09a52a5532
commit c15c9f81c7
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=170203

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@ -318,6 +318,9 @@
configurations. This change may result in a small performance
increase for some workloads.</para>
<para>The dumb console driver (&man.dcons.4;) is now enabled in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show lock</literal>
command. If the argument has a valid lock class,
this displays various information about the lock and calls a
@ -530,6 +533,12 @@
the <literal>BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED</literal> kernel option.
&merged;</para>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] &man.firewire.4; and &man.dcons.4;
support has been added to the boot loader. To enable it,
<literal>LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT=yes</literal> has to be added
to <filename>/etc/make.conf</filename> and the loader be rebuilt.
</para>
<!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
<para>[&arch.pc98;] A bootable CDROM loader has been implemented
@ -688,7 +697,7 @@
This supports ATI IXP 200/300/400 series audio controllers. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.snd.atiixp.4; driver now supports
suspend and resume features.</para>
suspend and resume features. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.snd.cmi.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
@ -707,7 +716,7 @@
<para>The &man.snd.ich.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been added. It supports
devices that conform to revision 1.0 of the Intel High Definition
devices that conform to revision 1.0 of the Intel High Definition
Audio specification.</para>
<para>The &man.snd.solo.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
@ -789,6 +798,9 @@
by defining <literal>NO_EM_FASTINTR</literal> kernel option
for debugging purpose.</para>
<para>The IP over FireWire (&man.fwip.4;) driver is now enabled in
the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
<para>The firmware images needed by the &man.ipw.4; driver are now
part of the &os; base system. For the loaded firmware to work the
license at <filename>/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE</filename>
@ -1033,7 +1045,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.lagg.4; driver, ported from OpenBSD and NetBSD,
has been added to support a variety of protocols and algorithms
for link aggregation, failover, and fault tolerance.</para>
for link aggregation, failover, and fault tolerance. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE.</para>
@ -1294,10 +1306,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization
status reporting, and sysctl variables for volume
re-synchronization rate, volume member write cache status,
and volume transaction queue depth.</para>
and volume transaction queue depth. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports SAS HBA (partially),
64-bit PCI, and large data transfer.</para>
64-bit PCI, and large data transfer. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
@ -1506,7 +1518,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
and rudimentary support for RFC2640 (UTF8). The RFC2640 support
is optional and can be enabled using the new <option>-8</option>
flag. More information can be found in the &man.ftpd.8; manual
page.</para>
page. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.gcc.1; SSP (Stack-Smashing Protector) support is now
enabled by default.</para>
<para>The &man.gbde.8; utility now supports
<option>-k</option> and <option>-K</option> options
@ -1831,6 +1846,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
function has been added to
allow lookups for a specific version of a given symbol.</para>
<para>The &man.sa.8; utility now supports <option>-U</option>
and <option>-P</option> flags. They can be used to specify
the per-user and per-process summary file location,
respectively.</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.sed.1; utility which can cause
incorrect calculation of pattern space length in some cases
has been fixed.</para>
@ -1876,6 +1896,10 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.top.1; program now supports a <option>-j</option>
flag to display the &man.jail.8; ID for each process. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.touch.1; utility now supports a <option>-A</option>
flag that allows the access and modification times of a file be
adjusted by a specified value. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.traceroute.8; program now supports
a <option>-D</option> flag, which causes it to display the
differences between the sent and received
@ -2197,11 +2221,6 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
directory argument is given, it will set current
working directory to the first prefix given by the
<command>@cwd</command> command. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.sa.8; utility now supports <option>-U</option>
and <option>-P</option> flags. They can be used to specify
the per-user and per-process summary file location,
respectively.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
@ -2314,7 +2333,11 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>&xorg;</application> windowing system
(<filename role="package">x11/xorg</filename>) has been updated
from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0. &merged;</para>
from 6.8.2 to 7.2.0. &merged;</para>
<para>The default value of <varname>X11BASE</varname> has been changed
from <filename>/usr/X11R6</filename> to <filename>/usr/local</filename>,
the default value of <varname>LOCALBASE</varname>. &merged;</para>
<para>[&arch.pc98;] &os;/pc98 release CDROMs are now
bootable on systems with some supported SCSI adapters.