New release notes: Linuxulator for alpha removed, em(4) 5.1.5,

bridge(4) removed, dhclient(8) now sends hostname, du(1) -n,
getent(1) added.

Updated release note:  GNOME 2.14.1.
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Bruce A. Mah 2006-05-08 17:05:31 +00:00
parent 33e8449ce7
commit ca6b1a9837
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=158361
2 changed files with 48 additions and 4 deletions

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to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or
ignored by the current process and is enabled by default.</para>
<para arch="alpha">Support for Linux emulation on the Alpha
platform has been removed, due to the lack of a
<filename>linux_base</filename> port that both supports the
Alpha archiecture and is in good working condition.</para>
<para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9;
facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and
buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;,
@ -467,7 +472,7 @@
architectures such as sparc64. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to
version 3.2.18 from Intel, and now supports
version 5.1.5 from Intel. Among other changes, it now supports
82571 and 82572 based adapters.</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver now includes
@ -556,6 +561,10 @@
and a sysctl variable <varname>net.bpf.jitter.enable</varname>
can be used to disable this feature.</para>
<para>The bridge(4) driver has been removed from the tree. Its
functionality has been completely replaced by
&man.if.bridge.4;.</para>
<para>The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation
found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702 now supports IPv6 over GRE.</para>
@ -892,9 +901,17 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
in C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode
only.</para>
<para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in
DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration
file.</para>
<para>The &man.devd.8; utility now supports a <option>-f</option> option
to specify a configuration file. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.du.1; program now supports a <option>-n</option>
flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with
the <literal>nodump</literal> flag set.</para>
<para>The &man.ftpd.8; utility now creates a PID file
<filename>/var/run/ftpd.pid</filename> even when
no <option>-p</option> option is specified. &merged;</para>
@ -908,6 +925,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
comment listing the file name, owner, and group.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.getent.1; utility has been imported from NetBSD.
It retrieves and displays information from an administrative
database (such as <filename>hosts</filename>) using the lookup
order specified in &man.nsswitch.conf.5;.</para>
<para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para>
<para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports commands
@ -1408,7 +1430,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
(<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been
updated from 2.10.2 to 2.12.3. &merged;</para>
updated from 2.10.2 to 2.14.1. &merged;</para>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment

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to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or
ignored by the current process and is enabled by default.</para>
<para arch="alpha">Support for Linux emulation on the Alpha
platform has been removed, due to the lack of a
<filename>linux_base</filename> port that both supports the
Alpha archiecture and is in good working condition.</para>
<para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9;
facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and
buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;,
@ -467,7 +472,7 @@
architectures such as sparc64. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to
version 3.2.18 from Intel, and now supports
version 5.1.5 from Intel. Among other changes, it now supports
82571 and 82572 based adapters.</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver now includes
@ -556,6 +561,10 @@
and a sysctl variable <varname>net.bpf.jitter.enable</varname>
can be used to disable this feature.</para>
<para>The bridge(4) driver has been removed from the tree. Its
functionality has been completely replaced by
&man.if.bridge.4;.</para>
<para>The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation
found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702 now supports IPv6 over GRE.</para>
@ -892,9 +901,17 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
in C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode
only.</para>
<para>The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in
DHCP requests if it is not specified in the configuration
file.</para>
<para>The &man.devd.8; utility now supports a <option>-f</option> option
to specify a configuration file. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.du.1; program now supports a <option>-n</option>
flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with
the <literal>nodump</literal> flag set.</para>
<para>The &man.ftpd.8; utility now creates a PID file
<filename>/var/run/ftpd.pid</filename> even when
no <option>-p</option> option is specified. &merged;</para>
@ -908,6 +925,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
comment listing the file name, owner, and group.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.getent.1; utility has been imported from NetBSD.
It retrieves and displays information from an administrative
database (such as <filename>hosts</filename>) using the lookup
order specified in &man.nsswitch.conf.5;.</para>
<para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para>
<para>The &man.gvinum.8; utility now supports commands
@ -1408,7 +1430,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
(<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been
updated from 2.10.2 to 2.12.3. &merged;</para>
updated from 2.10.2 to 2.14.1. &merged;</para>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment