From 4ee034d81ed6904bec2d0f209160b2c8d12c3fe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glen Barber Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:06:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Sync with (local) changes against releng/10.0/release/doc/ that were needed to fix 10.0-RELEASE release notes. This corresponds to r43586 through r43593 of the doc/ repository. There are no corresponding changes to the src/ repository tracking these. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml | 84 ++----------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index e522a9d8bdd8..264324baea42 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ 2011 2012 2013 + 2014 The &os; Documentation Project @@ -128,11 +129,6 @@ The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB. - 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 facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or @@ -146,37 +142,6 @@ utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual page. - 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. - - 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; Project greatly appreciates the work of - &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support. - - 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. - - The &os; kernel now has support for large - memory page mappings (superpages). - - The ULE - scheduler is now the default process scheduler - in GENERIC kernels. - Support was added for the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, @@ -246,6 +211,7 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES" Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be + Hardware Support - The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 - PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. - - The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout. - - The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon - Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been - imported from OpenBSD. - Multimedia Support @@ -287,29 +245,8 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES" Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be Network Interface Support - The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support - for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers. - - 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 &man.igb.4; driver - will support new server adapters. - - The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support - for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit - Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers. - - 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. + 1.4.55. The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) @@ -417,7 +354,7 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES" Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be ZFS - &man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing + &man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single configuration menu that allows you to select all of the required details, including which drives to use, what ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration @@ -503,6 +440,9 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES" Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be &man.make.1; has been replaced with the "Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD. + Support for usernames up to 32 + characters. + The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports a option to set the mode of a new user's home directory. @@ -565,9 +505,6 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES" Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;). It returned a non-zero value before this change. - The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display - detailed information about processes. - The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports a flag to suppress warnings; it now also accepts multiple paths on its command line. @@ -634,10 +571,7 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES" Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be to 6.1.5. 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. + 2007 release to the 20121220 release. CVS has been removed from the base system, but is still available from ports