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New release notes (changes in the second half of July and
the first half of August 2004):
NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES,
ADAPTIVE_GIANT,
acpi_panasonic(4) added,
contigmalloc(9) reimplemented (vm.old_contigmalloc added),
hme(4) checksum offload support,
{mem,io}.ko added,
pcic(4) removed completely from GENERIC kernel configuration file,
psm(4) Synaptics TouchPad support,
Thread Local Storage (TLS) support,
ipfw(4) antispoof option,
GEOM_MIRROR class and gmirror(8) added,
col(1), colcrt(1), colrm(1), column(1), and fmt(1) multibyte
characters support,
df(1) bugfix,
ftpd(8) uses its euid for opening a data transfer socket,
gpt(8) -i option, remove command added,
kgdb(1) added,
LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE for libpthread,
look(1) -d bugfix,
make(1) "+" flag added,
make(1) MAKEFLAGS change,
tgmath.h C99 header added,
GNU extensions of mbsnrtowcs(3) and wcsnrtombs(3) implemented,
patch(1) replaced with a BSD-licensed version from OpenBSD,
ppp(8) "set pppoe [standard|3Com]" for ng_pppoe(4),
ul(1) multibyte characters support,
FILE 3.41 --> 4.10,
GCC 3.3.3 --> 3.4.2,
NTP 4.1.1.a --> 4.2.0,
rc.d localpkg support in the Ports Collection, and
crypto distribution now part of base.
Update release notes:
snd_*(4) reorganization, and
use the term "geom class" for consistency.
MFC:
ppp(8) "set rad_alive".
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<sect2 id="kernel">
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<title>Kernel Changes</title>
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<para>ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES has been added
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and enabled by default. This changes the behavior
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of blocking mutexes to spin if the thread that currently
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owns the mutex is executing on another CPU.
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This feature can be disabled explicitly by setting
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a kernel option <varname>NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES</varname>.</para>
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<para>A kernel option <varname>ADAPTIVE_GIANT</varname>, which
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causes a Giant lock to also be treated in
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an adaptive fashion when adaptive mutexes are enabled,
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has been added. This improves performance of SMP machines.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
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to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
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LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
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to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
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Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
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CF-R3.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
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to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
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certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
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@ -256,6 +273,12 @@
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In addition, a set of sysctls <varname>hw.busdma.*</varname>
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for &man.bus.dma.9; statistics has been added.</para>
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<para>&man.contigmalloc.9; has been reimplemented
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with an algorithm which stands a greatly-improved chance of working
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despite pressure from running programs. The old algorithm can be used
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by setting a sysctl <varname>vm.old_contigmalloc</varname>. More details
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can be found in the &man.contigmalloc.9; manual page.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
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synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
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<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
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@ -283,6 +306,14 @@
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long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
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MTU size.</para>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
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TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
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Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
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for UDP datagram which can yield to 0x0, UDP transmit
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checksum offload is disabled by default.
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This can be reactivated by setting special link
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option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
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<para>&man.jail.2; now supports use of raw sockets from within a jail.
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This feature is disabled by default, and controlled using the
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<varname>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</varname> sysctl.</para>
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<para>The midi driver, which supports serial port and several sound cards,
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has been removed.</para>
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<para><filename>/dev/kmem</filename>, <filename>/dev/mem</filename>,
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and <filename>/dev/io</filename> are also provided as kernel
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loadable modules now.</para>
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<para>A bug in &man.mmap.2; that pages marked as <literal>PROT_NONE</literal>
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may become readable under certain circumstances, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
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It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
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to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
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<para>The &man.pcm.4; driver has been modified to read
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<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
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of default values for mixer channels.</para>
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<para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
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kernel configuration file for GENERIC kernel because
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this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
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been commented out for a long time.</para>
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<para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
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now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
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<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
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<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
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<para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
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<literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
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and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers.</para>
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and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers.
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More details can be found in related manual pages:
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sound(4), &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
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&man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
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&man.snd.es137x.4;, and &man.snd.solo.4;.</para>
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<para>The sound(4) (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
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<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
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of default values for mixer channels.</para>
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
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intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
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not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
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<devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
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<para>&os; dynamic linker now supports Thread Local Storage (TLS),
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a GCC feature which allows to add a __thread modifier
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to the declaration of global and static variables.
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This extra modifier means that the variable's value is
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thread-local; one thread changing its value will not
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affect any other thread.</para>
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<para>The kernel's file descriptor allocation code has been
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updated, and is now derived from similar code in OpenBSD.</para>
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<programlisting>ip verify unicast source reachable-via any</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support the <literal>antispoof</literal>
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option to verify if incoming packet's source address belongs to
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a directly connected network. If the network is directly
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connected, then the interface the packet came on in is compared to
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the interface the network is connected to. When incoming interface
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and directly connected interface are not the same, the packet does
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not match. For example:
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<programlisting>deny ip from any to any not antispoof in</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>&man.ipfw.4; now supports lookup tables. This feature is
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useful for handling large sparse address sets. &merged;</para>
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cases has been fixed.</para>
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_CONCAT</literal>
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class has been added to concatenate
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geom class has been added to concatenate
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multiple disks to appear as a single larger disk.</para>
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_NOP</literal> class for various
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_NOP</literal> geom class for various
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testing purposes has been added.</para>
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_STRIPE</literal>
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class which implements RAID0 transformation has been added.
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geom class which implements RAID0 transformation has been added.
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This class has two modes: <quote>fast</quote> and
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<quote>economic</quote>. In fast mode,
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when very small stripe size is used, only one I/O request
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<varname>kern.geom.stripe.maxmem</varname>.</para>
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<para>GEOM Gate, which consists of a new <literal>GEOM_GATE</literal>
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class and several GEOM Gate userland utilities
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geom class and several GEOM Gate userland utilities
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(&man.ggatel.8;, &man.ggatec.8;,
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and &man.ggated.8;) has been added. It supports exporting
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devices, including non GEOM-aware devices, through the network.</para>
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_LABEL</literal>
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class to detect volume labels on various file systems,
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geom class to detect volume labels on various file systems,
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such as UFS, MSDOSFS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32), and ISO9660,
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has been added.</para>
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_GPT</literal> kernel option,
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_GPT</literal> geom class,
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which supports GPT partitions and the ability to have a large
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number of partitions on a single disk, has been added into
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<filename>GENERIC</filename> by default.</para>
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> class to support
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> geom class to support
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which supports RAID1 functionality, has been added.
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The &man.gmirror.8; utility can be used for control
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of this class.</para>
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<para>A new <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> geom class to support
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cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;
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has been added.</para>
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<command>bthidd</command> commands, which support Bluetooth
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HIDs (Human Interface Devices), have been added.</para>
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<para>&man.col.1;, &man.colcrt.1;, &man.colrm.1;,
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&man.column.1;, and &man.fmt.1; now support multibyte characters.</para>
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<para>&man.conscontrol.8; now supports
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<literal>set</literal> and <literal>unset</literal>
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commands which set/unset the virtual console.
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<para>&man.df.1; now supports a <option>-c</option> option to display
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a grand total of statistics for file systems.</para>
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<para>A bug in &man.df.1; which can print invalid information
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when a <option>-t</option> option is specified and
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a mount point is not accessible by the calling user,
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has been fixed.</para>
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<para>The <command>doscmd</command> utility has been
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removed from the &os; base system. It is now available
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via the <filename role="package">emulators/doscmd</filename>
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<para>&man.ftw.3; and &man.nftw.3; functions have been implemented.
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These are used to traverse a directory hierarchy.</para>
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<para>&man.ftpd.8; now opens a socket for a data transfer
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in active mode using effective uid of the current user,
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not root. This is useful to match anonymous FTP data
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traffic with a single &man.ipfw.8; rule with <quote>uid</quote>.</para>
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<para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on GEOM classes
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from the userland has been added.</para>
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<para>&man.gpt.8;, a GUID partition table maintenance utility
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now supports remove command and a <option>-i</option> option
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of the add command. This option allows the user to specify
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which partition number should be assigned to the new partition.</para>
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<para>The &man.id.1; now supports a <option>-M</option> option
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to print the MAC label of the current process.</para>
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<para>&man.join.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
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<para>&man.kgdb.1;, a kernel debugging utility which uses libgdb
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that understands kernel threads, kernel modules, and &man.kvm.3;,
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has been added.</para>
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<para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-e</option> flag to
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make the <option>-u</option> operate on effective, rather than
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real, user IDs. &merged;</para>
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</note>
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</para>
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<para><filename>libpthread</filename> now supports
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a <varname>LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE</varname> environmental
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variable to force 1:1 mode. Note that
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building <filename>libpthread</filename> with
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<option>-DSYSTEM_SCOPE_ONLY</option> flag also forces 1:1 mode,
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and this is set by default for architectures that do not
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support M:N mode yet.</para>
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<para>A bug in the <option>-d</option> option of &man.look.1;
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has been fixed. Also, &man.look.1; now works correctly in
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locales with multibyte characters.</para>
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<para>&man.ls.1; now treat filenames as multibyte character strings
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according to the current <varname>LC_CTYPE</varname>
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when determining which characters are printable.</para>
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<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
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directive.</para>
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<para>nearbyint(3) and nearbyintf(3) C99 functions
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<para>&man.make.1; now supports the POSIX-compatible
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<literal>+</literal> flag in the command line,
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which causes a line to be executed even when <option>-n</option>
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is specified. This is useful for calls to submakes, for example.</para>
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<para>&man.make.1; now put variable assignments from
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the command line into the <varname>MAKEFLAGS</varname>
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variable as required by POSIX. This causes such variables
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to be pushed into all sub-makes called by the &man.make.1;
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(except when the <varname>MAKEFLAGS</varname>
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variable is explicitly changed in the sub-make's environment).
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This makes them also mostly un-overrideable
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in sub-makes except on the sub-make's command line.</para>
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<para><function>nearbyint(3)</function> and
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<function>nearbyintf(3)</function> C99 functions
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have been implemented.</para>
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<para><filename>tgmath.h</filename> C99 header has
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been implemented. This provides
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type-generic macros for the <filename>math.h</filename>
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and <filename>complex.h</filename> functions that have
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float, double and long double implementations.</para>
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<para>The GNU extensions of <function>mbsnrtowcs(3)</function>
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and <function>wcsnrtombs(3)</function> have been implemented.</para>
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<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows the users to set
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a debugging option via the <filename>newsyslog.conf</filename>
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file.</para>
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<para>&man.od.1; now has POSIX-style support for multibyte
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characters.</para>
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<para>&man.patch.1; has been replaced with a BSD-licensed version
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from OpenBSD. This includes a <option>--posix</option> option
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for strict POSIX conformance.</para>
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<para>The &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1; commands, which come from NetBSD,
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have been added. They also support a <option>-M</option> option
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to extract values associated with the name list from the
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and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from
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the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para>
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<para>The userland &man.ppp.8; implementation now supports a <quote>set rad_alive
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<para>&man.ppp.8; now supports a <quote>set rad_alive
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<replaceable>N</replaceable></quote> command
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to enable periodic RADIUS accounting information
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being sent to the RADIUS server.</para>
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being sent to the RADIUS server. &merged;</para>
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<para>&man.ppp.8; now supports a
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<quote>set pppoe [standard|3Com]</quote> command
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to configure mode for &man.ng.pppoe.4; node under control.</para>
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<para>&man.ps.1; compatibility with POSIX/SUSv3 has been improved.
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The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs,
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<para arch="amd64">&man.truss.1; now includes early support
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for &os;/amd64.</para>
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<para>&man.ul.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
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<para>Many userland utilities in the base system (mostly GNU
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contributed utilities) now use the system version of
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&man.getopt.long.3;, rather than the GNU version.</para>
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<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from
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version 1.11.15 to version 1.11.17. &merged;</para>
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<para>The <application>FILE</application> has been
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updated from version 3.41 to version 4.10.</para>
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<para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs
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conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been
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updated from version 20030324 to version 20040118.</para>
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<para><application>GDB</application> has been updated to version
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6.1.1.</para>
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<para><application>GNU GCC</application> has been updated from
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3.3.3-prerelease as of November 6, 2003 to 3.4.2-prerelease as of July 28, 2004.</para>
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<para><application>GNU grep</application> has been updated from
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2.4d to 2.5.1.</para>
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has been updated from a snapshot as of
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November 3, 2003 to one as of April 26, 2004.</para>
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<para><application>NTP</application>
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has been updated from 4.1.1a to 4.2.0.</para>
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<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
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Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
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<sect2 id="ports">
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<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
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<para>Most of startup/shutdown scripts installed by
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various ports now use the new rc.d framework
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introduced in &os; 5.x, while some ports still use the
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old style scripts. On startup, the rc.d style scripts
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are executed first and then the old-style scripts.
|
||||
On shutdown, exactly the reverse happens.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The <literal>SIZE</literal> attribute for distfiles,
|
||||
which can be used for checking file sizes before fetching,
|
||||
has been added and enabled by default.
|
||||
|
|
@ -1494,6 +1648,13 @@
|
|||
<filename>driver.flp</filename> images are also obsolete and no
|
||||
longer built.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&os; cryptography support is no longer an optional component
|
||||
of releases, and the <literal>crypto</literal> release distribution
|
||||
is now part of <literal>base</literal>.
|
||||
Note that the <option>-DNOCRYPT</option> build option still
|
||||
exists for anyone who really wants to build non-cryptographic
|
||||
binaries. </para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application>
|
||||
has been updated from 2.4 to 2.6.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -226,10 +226,27 @@
|
|||
<sect2 id="kernel">
|
||||
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES has been added
|
||||
and enabled by default. This changes the behavior
|
||||
of blocking mutexes to spin if the thread that currently
|
||||
owns the mutex is executing on another CPU.
|
||||
This feature can be disabled explicitly by setting
|
||||
a kernel option <varname>NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES</varname>.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A kernel option <varname>ADAPTIVE_GIANT</varname>, which
|
||||
causes a Giant lock to also be treated in
|
||||
an adaptive fashion when adaptive mutexes are enabled,
|
||||
has been added. This improves performance of SMP machines.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
|
||||
to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
|
||||
LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
|
||||
to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
|
||||
Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
|
||||
CF-R3.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
|
||||
to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
|
||||
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
|
||||
|
|
@ -256,6 +273,12 @@
|
|||
In addition, a set of sysctls <varname>hw.busdma.*</varname>
|
||||
for &man.bus.dma.9; statistics has been added.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.contigmalloc.9; has been reimplemented
|
||||
with an algorithm which stands a greatly-improved chance of working
|
||||
despite pressure from running programs. The old algorithm can be used
|
||||
by setting a sysctl <varname>vm.old_contigmalloc</varname>. More details
|
||||
can be found in the &man.contigmalloc.9; manual page.</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;
|
||||
|
|
@ -283,6 +306,14 @@
|
|||
long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
|
||||
MTU size.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
|
||||
TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
|
||||
Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
|
||||
for UDP datagram which can yield to 0x0, UDP transmit
|
||||
checksum offload is disabled by default.
|
||||
This can be reactivated by setting special link
|
||||
option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.jail.2; now supports use of raw sockets from within a jail.
|
||||
This feature is disabled by default, and controlled using the
|
||||
<varname>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</varname> sysctl.</para>
|
||||
|
|
@ -374,6 +405,10 @@
|
|||
<para>The midi driver, which supports serial port and several sound cards,
|
||||
has been removed.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><filename>/dev/kmem</filename>, <filename>/dev/mem</filename>,
|
||||
and <filename>/dev/io</filename> are also provided as kernel
|
||||
loadable modules now.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A bug in &man.mmap.2; that pages marked as <literal>PROT_NONE</literal>
|
||||
may become readable under certain circumstances, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -383,16 +418,28 @@
|
|||
It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
|
||||
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The &man.pcm.4; driver has been modified to read
|
||||
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
|
||||
of default values for mixer channels.</para>
|
||||
<para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
|
||||
kernel configuration file for GENERIC kernel because
|
||||
this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
|
||||
been commented out for a long time.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
|
||||
now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
|
||||
<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>
|
||||
and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers.
|
||||
More details can be found in related manual pages:
|
||||
sound(4), &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
|
||||
&man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
|
||||
&man.snd.es137x.4;, and &man.snd.solo.4;.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The sound(4) (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
|
||||
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
|
||||
of default values for mixer channels.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
|
||||
intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
|
||||
|
|
@ -452,6 +499,13 @@
|
|||
not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
|
||||
<devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&os; dynamic linker now supports Thread Local Storage (TLS),
|
||||
a GCC feature which allows to add a __thread modifier
|
||||
to the declaration of global and static variables.
|
||||
This extra modifier means that the variable's value is
|
||||
thread-local; one thread changing its value will not
|
||||
affect any other thread.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The kernel's file descriptor allocation code has been
|
||||
updated, and is now derived from similar code in OpenBSD.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -659,6 +713,17 @@
|
|||
<programlisting>ip verify unicast source reachable-via any</programlisting>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support the <literal>antispoof</literal>
|
||||
option to verify if incoming packet's source address belongs to
|
||||
a directly connected network. If the network is directly
|
||||
connected, then the interface the packet came on in is compared to
|
||||
the interface the network is connected to. When incoming interface
|
||||
and directly connected interface are not the same, the packet does
|
||||
not match. For example:
|
||||
|
||||
<programlisting>deny ip from any to any not antispoof in</programlisting>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.ipfw.4; now supports lookup tables. This feature is
|
||||
useful for handling large sparse address sets. &merged;</para>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -805,14 +870,14 @@
|
|||
cases has been fixed.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_CONCAT</literal>
|
||||
class has been added to concatenate
|
||||
geom class has been added to concatenate
|
||||
multiple disks to appear as a single larger disk.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_NOP</literal> class for various
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_NOP</literal> geom class for various
|
||||
testing purposes has been added.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_STRIPE</literal>
|
||||
class which implements RAID0 transformation has been added.
|
||||
geom class which implements RAID0 transformation has been added.
|
||||
This class has two modes: <quote>fast</quote> and
|
||||
<quote>economic</quote>. In fast mode,
|
||||
when very small stripe size is used, only one I/O request
|
||||
|
|
@ -830,22 +895,27 @@
|
|||
<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
|
||||
geom class and several GEOM Gate userland utilities
|
||||
(&man.ggatel.8;, &man.ggatec.8;,
|
||||
and &man.ggated.8;) has been added. It supports exporting
|
||||
devices, including non GEOM-aware devices, through the network.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_LABEL</literal>
|
||||
class to detect volume labels on various file systems,
|
||||
geom class to detect volume labels on various file systems,
|
||||
such as UFS, MSDOSFS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32), and ISO9660,
|
||||
has been added.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_GPT</literal> kernel option,
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_GPT</literal> geom class,
|
||||
which supports GPT partitions and the ability to have a large
|
||||
number of partitions on a single disk, has been added into
|
||||
<filename>GENERIC</filename> by default.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> class to support
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> geom class to support
|
||||
which supports RAID1 functionality, has been added.
|
||||
The &man.gmirror.8; utility can be used for control
|
||||
of this class.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A new <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> geom class to support
|
||||
cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;
|
||||
has been added.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -925,6 +995,9 @@
|
|||
<command>bthidd</command> commands, which support Bluetooth
|
||||
HIDs (Human Interface Devices), have been added.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.col.1;, &man.colcrt.1;, &man.colrm.1;,
|
||||
&man.column.1;, and &man.fmt.1; now support multibyte characters.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.conscontrol.8; now supports
|
||||
<literal>set</literal> and <literal>unset</literal>
|
||||
commands which set/unset the virtual console.
|
||||
|
|
@ -955,6 +1028,11 @@
|
|||
<para>&man.df.1; now supports a <option>-c</option> option to display
|
||||
a grand total of statistics for file systems.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A bug in &man.df.1; which can print invalid information
|
||||
when a <option>-t</option> option is specified and
|
||||
a mount point is not accessible by the calling user,
|
||||
has been fixed.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The <command>doscmd</command> utility has been
|
||||
removed from the &os; base system. It is now available
|
||||
via the <filename role="package">emulators/doscmd</filename>
|
||||
|
|
@ -991,9 +1069,19 @@
|
|||
<para>&man.ftw.3; and &man.nftw.3; functions have been implemented.
|
||||
These are used to traverse a directory hierarchy.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.ftpd.8; now opens a socket for a data transfer
|
||||
in active mode using effective uid of the current user,
|
||||
not root. This is useful to match anonymous FTP data
|
||||
traffic with a single &man.ipfw.8; rule with <quote>uid</quote>.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on GEOM classes
|
||||
from the userland has been added.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.gpt.8;, a GUID partition table maintenance utility
|
||||
now supports remove command and a <option>-i</option> option
|
||||
of the add command. This option allows the user to specify
|
||||
which partition number should be assigned to the new partition.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The &man.id.1; now supports a <option>-M</option> option
|
||||
to print the MAC label of the current process.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1041,6 +1129,10 @@
|
|||
|
||||
<para>&man.join.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.kgdb.1;, a kernel debugging utility which uses libgdb
|
||||
that understands kernel threads, kernel modules, and &man.kvm.3;,
|
||||
has been added.</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>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1090,6 +1182,18 @@
|
|||
</note>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><filename>libpthread</filename> now supports
|
||||
a <varname>LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE</varname> environmental
|
||||
variable to force 1:1 mode. Note that
|
||||
building <filename>libpthread</filename> with
|
||||
<option>-DSYSTEM_SCOPE_ONLY</option> flag also forces 1:1 mode,
|
||||
and this is set by default for architectures that do not
|
||||
support M:N mode yet.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>A bug in the <option>-d</option> option of &man.look.1;
|
||||
has been fixed. Also, &man.look.1; now works correctly in
|
||||
locales with multibyte characters.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.ls.1; now treat filenames as multibyte character strings
|
||||
according to the current <varname>LC_CTYPE</varname>
|
||||
when determining which characters are printable.</para>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1097,9 +1201,33 @@
|
|||
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
|
||||
directive.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>nearbyint(3) and nearbyintf(3) C99 functions
|
||||
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the POSIX-compatible
|
||||
<literal>+</literal> flag in the command line,
|
||||
which causes a line to be executed even when <option>-n</option>
|
||||
is specified. This is useful for calls to submakes, for example.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.make.1; now put variable assignments from
|
||||
the command line into the <varname>MAKEFLAGS</varname>
|
||||
variable as required by POSIX. This causes such variables
|
||||
to be pushed into all sub-makes called by the &man.make.1;
|
||||
(except when the <varname>MAKEFLAGS</varname>
|
||||
variable is explicitly changed in the sub-make's environment).
|
||||
This makes them also mostly un-overrideable
|
||||
in sub-makes except on the sub-make's command line.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><function>nearbyint(3)</function> and
|
||||
<function>nearbyintf(3)</function> C99 functions
|
||||
have been implemented.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><filename>tgmath.h</filename> C99 header has
|
||||
been implemented. This provides
|
||||
type-generic macros for the <filename>math.h</filename>
|
||||
and <filename>complex.h</filename> functions that have
|
||||
float, double and long double implementations.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The GNU extensions of <function>mbsnrtowcs(3)</function>
|
||||
and <function>wcsnrtombs(3)</function> 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>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1153,6 +1281,10 @@
|
|||
<para>&man.od.1; now has POSIX-style support for multibyte
|
||||
characters.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.patch.1; has been replaced with a BSD-licensed version
|
||||
from OpenBSD. This includes a <option>--posix</option> option
|
||||
for strict POSIX conformance.</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
|
||||
|
|
@ -1160,10 +1292,14 @@
|
|||
and a <option>-N</option> option to extract the name list from
|
||||
the specified system instead of the default kernel.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The userland &man.ppp.8; implementation now supports a <quote>set rad_alive
|
||||
<para>&man.ppp.8; now supports a <quote>set rad_alive
|
||||
<replaceable>N</replaceable></quote> command
|
||||
to enable periodic RADIUS accounting information
|
||||
being sent to the RADIUS server.</para>
|
||||
being sent to the RADIUS server. &merged;</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.ppp.8; now supports a
|
||||
<quote>set pppoe [standard|3Com]</quote> command
|
||||
to configure mode for &man.ng.pppoe.4; node under control.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.ps.1; compatibility with POSIX/SUSv3 has been improved.
|
||||
The changes include <option>-p</option> for a list of process IDs,
|
||||
|
|
@ -1258,6 +1394,8 @@
|
|||
<para arch="amd64">&man.truss.1; now includes early support
|
||||
for &os;/amd64.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&man.ul.1; now supports multibyte characters.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>Many userland utilities in the base system (mostly GNU
|
||||
contributed utilities) now use the system version of
|
||||
&man.getopt.long.3;, rather than the GNU version.</para>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1323,6 +1461,9 @@
|
|||
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from
|
||||
version 1.11.15 to version 1.11.17. &merged;</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The <application>FILE</application> has been
|
||||
updated from version 3.41 to version 4.10.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs
|
||||
conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been
|
||||
updated from version 20030324 to version 20040118.</para>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1330,6 +1471,9 @@
|
|||
<para><application>GDB</application> has been updated to version
|
||||
6.1.1.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><application>GNU GCC</application> has been updated from
|
||||
3.3.3-prerelease as of November 6, 2003 to 3.4.2-prerelease as of July 28, 2004.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><application>GNU grep</application> has been updated from
|
||||
2.4d to 2.5.1.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1362,6 +1506,9 @@
|
|||
has been updated from a snapshot as of
|
||||
November 3, 2003 to one as of April 26, 2004.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><application>NTP</application>
|
||||
has been updated from 4.1.1a to 4.2.0.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
|
||||
Dogwood release to the Eelgrass release.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1436,6 +1583,13 @@
|
|||
<sect2 id="ports">
|
||||
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>Most of startup/shutdown scripts installed by
|
||||
various ports now use the new rc.d framework
|
||||
introduced in &os; 5.x, while some ports still use the
|
||||
old style scripts. On startup, the rc.d style scripts
|
||||
are executed first and then the old-style scripts.
|
||||
On shutdown, exactly the reverse happens.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The <literal>SIZE</literal> attribute for distfiles,
|
||||
which can be used for checking file sizes before fetching,
|
||||
has been added and enabled by default.
|
||||
|
|
@ -1494,6 +1648,13 @@
|
|||
<filename>driver.flp</filename> images are also obsolete and no
|
||||
longer built.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>&os; cryptography support is no longer an optional component
|
||||
of releases, and the <literal>crypto</literal> release distribution
|
||||
is now part of <literal>base</literal>.
|
||||
Note that the <option>-DNOCRYPT</option> build option still
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<para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application>
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has been updated from 2.4 to 2.6.
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