Author: hrs
Date: Fri Feb 11 16:02:12 2011
New Revision: 218577
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218577
Log:
Add more relnotes items for 8.2R:
[mips] FreeBSD/mips merge,
[sparc64] reservation-based physical memory allocation enabled,
[amd64,i386] ACPI suspend/resume improvement,
[amd64,i386,ia64] hw.acpi.*_interface added,
[amd64] Xen HVM support improved,
[powerpc] OF loader bugfixes,
[amd64,i386] aesni(4) added,
[powerpc] CPU temp sensors on PowerMac SMU supported,
xhci(4) for Extensible Host Controller Interface added,
uaudio(4) MIDI input buffer bug fixed,
cdce(4) bugfix,
ixgbe(4) version 2.3.8,
miibus(4) improved,
mxge(4) TSO bug fixed,
nfe(4) WoL support,
re(4) TX interrupt moderation supported,
run(4) for Ralink RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U added,
ipfw(4) net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass with in-kernel NAT fixed,
ng_eiface(4) MTU handling fixed,
arcmsr(4) version 1.20.00.19,
fdisk(8) gjournal(8) and geli(8) GEOM class support,
gpart(8) backup/restore support,
newfs(8) 64KB blocksize UFS1 issue fixed,
jn(3) and jnf(3) accuracy issue fixed,
newsyslog(8) <include> support added,
ACPI-CA 20101013,
ISC BIND 9.6-ESV-R4,
netcat 4.8,
OpenSSL 0.9.8q,
xz 5.0.0 release[1], and
pkg_create(1) xz support.
Reword an entry for "sh(1) $@ and $* handling when -u nounset
is specified has been changed"[2].
Suggested by: mm[1] and jilles[2]
Approved by: re (implicit)
Modified:
releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Feb
11 15:15:08 2011 (r218576)
+++ releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Feb
11 16:02:12 2011 (r218577)
@@ -175,6 +175,14 @@
DMA bounce buffer which is required on systems with larger RAM
than 4GB.</para>
+ <para arch="mips" revision="215938">&os;/mips support has been
+ improved. It now supports SMP on a SWARM with a dual-core
+ Sibyte processor.</para>
+
+ <para arch="sparc64" revision="215598">&os;/sparc64 now supports
+ reservation-based physical memory allocation which provides
+ better performance.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64" revision="214620">&os;/amd64 now always sets
the KVA space as equal to or larger than physical memory size.
The default size was calculated based on one-third of the
@@ -187,18 +195,27 @@
<para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214621">CPU topology detection
for Intel CPUs has been improved.</para>
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215513">ACPI suspend/resume
+ functionality support has been improved.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214784">The qpi(4) pseudo bus
driver has been added. This supports extra PCI buses on Intel
QPI chipsets where various hardware such as memory controllers
for each socket is connected.</para>
- <para arch="amd64,ia64,i386" revision="215006">The &man.acpi.4;
+ <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64" revision="215006">The &man.acpi.4;
driver now uses ACPI Reset Register capability by default only
when a flag in the FADT which indicates it is available. This
behavior was controlled by a &man.sysctl.8; variable
<varname>hw.acpi.handle_reboot</varname> and the default value
was always set to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+ <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64" revision="215521">The &man.acpi.4;
+ driver now supports new loader tunables
+ <varname>hw.acpi.install_interface</varname> and
+ <varname>hw.acpi.remove_interface</varname>. For more
+ details, see &man.acpi.4; manual page.</para>
+
<para revision="209692">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now
supports an optional delay in <command>reset</command> and
<command>reboot</command> commands. This allows an
@@ -245,6 +262,10 @@
Tweaked Code Book mode with CipherText Stealing), which is
defined in IEEE Std. 1619-2007.</para>
+ <para arch="amd64" revision="215788">Xen HVM support in
+ &os;/amd64 kernel has been improved. For more details, see
+ &man.xen.4; manual page.</para>
+
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
@@ -252,6 +273,10 @@
Partition Table). Checksums of primary header and primary
partition table are verified properly now.</para>
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="215919,215920">Memory
+ management issues which prevents &os; OpenFirmware loader
+ and netbooting from working have been fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="212717">The &man.pxeboot.8; now uses NFS
version 3 instead of version 2 by default.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -259,21 +284,41 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
- <para revision="210476">The &man.aibs.4; driver has been
- added. This supports the hardware sensors in ASUS
- motherboards and replaces the &man.acpi.aiboost.4;
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215633">The &man.aesni.4;
+ driver, which supports AES accelerator on Intel CPUs has
+ been added. This accelerates AES operations for
+ &man.crypto.4;.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="210476">The &man.aibs.4;
+ driver has been added. This supports the hardware sensors
+ in ASUS motherboards and replaces the &man.acpi.aiboost.4;
driver.</para>
- <para revision="211914">The &man.coretemp.4; driver now supports
- Xeon 5500/5600 series.</para>
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="211914">The &man.coretemp.4;
+ driver now supports Xeon 5500/5600 series.</para>
+
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="215694">&os;/powerpc now
+ supports I2C bus in Apple System Management Unit.</para>
- <para revision="209952">The &man.ichwd.4; driver
- now supports Intel NM10 Express chipset watchdog
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="215695">A device driver which
+ supports CPU temperature sensors on PowerMac 11,2 has been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215482">The &man.ehci.4;, &man.ohci.4;, and
+ &man.uhci.4; driver now support LOW speed BULK transfer
+ mode.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="209952">The &man.ichwd.4;
+ driver now supports Intel NM10 Express chipset watchdog
timer.</para>
<para revision="215036">The &man.tpm.4; driver, which supports
Trusted Platform Module has been added.</para>
+ <para revision="215944">The xhci(4) driver, which supports
+ Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) and USB 3.0 has
+ been added.</para>
+
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -282,6 +327,15 @@
hardware drivers such as ones which<filename
role="ports">multimedia/pwc</filename> and <filename
role="ports">multimedia/webcamd</filename> provide.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215483">MIDI input buffer size in the
+ &man.uaudio.4; driver has been changed. This fixes a
+ problem where the input appears several seconds
+ late.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215484">An issue in the &man.uaudio.4;
+ driver which prevents some USB audio devices from working
+ has been fixed.</para>
</sect4>
<sect4 id="net-if">
@@ -304,9 +358,6 @@
has been improved for stability and better performance on
the TX packet rate.</para>
- <para revision="211379">The &man.bce.4; driver now supports
- flow control.</para>
-
<para revision="214997">The &man.bge.4; driver now supports
BCM5718 family. This family is the successor to the
BCM5714/BCM5715 family and supports IPv4/IPv6 checksum
@@ -358,6 +409,9 @@
prevents WPA authentication from working has been
fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="215499">A bug in the &man.cdce.4; driver has
+ been fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="211848">The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports
the following new &man.sysctl.8; variables:
<varname>hw.cxgb.nfilters</varname> sets the maximum
@@ -387,9 +441,6 @@
<screen>&prompt.root; echo f2 > /dev/led/em0</screen>
- <para revision="212386">The &man.ixgbe.4;
- driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para>
-
<para revision="212150">The &man.epair.4; virtual Ethernet
interface driver now supports explicit UP/DOWN linkstate.
This fixes an issue when it is used with the &man.carp.4;
@@ -402,18 +453,41 @@
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6000 series. The firmware has
been updated to version 9.221.4.1.</para>
- <para revision="209308">The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been
- updated to version 2.2.1. It now supports 82599, better
- interrupt handling, hardware assist to LRO, and so
- on.</para>
+ <para revision="212386">The &man.ixgbe.4;
+ driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para>
+
+ <para revision="209308,215970,217593">The &man.ixgbe.4;
+ driver has been updated to version 2.3.8. It now supports
+ 82599, better interrupt handling, hardware assist to LRO,
+ VM SRIOV interface, and so on.</para>
+
+ <para revision="211379,215881,216023,216029,216031">The
+ &man.miibus.4; has been rewritten for the generic IEEE
+ 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support. The
+ &man.alc.4; &man.bge.4;, &man.bce.4;, &man.jme.4;,
+ &man.msk.4;, &man.nfe.4;, &man.re.4;, and &man.stge.4;
+ drivers along with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4), ip1000phy(4),
+ atphy(4), bmtphy(4), gentbi(4), inphy(4), jmphy(4),
+ nsgphy(4), nsphyter(4), and &man.rgephy.4; have been
+ updated to support flow control via this facility./para>
<para revision="212386">The &man.mwlfw.4;
driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para>
+ <para revision="216054">A bug in the &man.mxge.4; driver
+ which prevents TSO from working has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215456">The &man.nfe.4; driver now supports
+ WoL (Wake on LAN).</para>
+
<para revision="215218">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
64-bit DMA addressing for RTL810xE/RTL8168/RTL8111 PCIe
controllers.</para>
+ <para revision="215405">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
+ hardware interrupt moderation of TX completion interrupt
+ on RTL8169/RTL8169 controllers.</para>
+
<para revision="211377">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports WoL
(Wake on LAN) on RTL8139B or newer controllers.</para>
@@ -436,10 +510,14 @@
<para>Note that the default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para>
- <para revision="214407">The man.rl.4; driver has been
+ <para revision="214407">The &man.rl.4; driver has been
improved on interrupt handling. It now has better TX
performance under high RX load.</para>
+ <para revision="217861">The &man.run.4; driver, which is
+ from OpenBSD and supports Ralink RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U
+ USB 802.11agn devices has been added.</para>
+
<para revision="215216">A bug in the &man.sk.4; driver has
been fixed. It did not program the station address for
Yukon controllers and overriding the station address with
@@ -493,10 +571,11 @@
<para revision="209783">The &man.altq.4; support is now provided
as a kernel module <filename>alq.ko</filename>.</para>
- <para revision="212738">A bug in the &man.ipfw.4; packet
- filter subsystem has been fixed. The &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass</varname> did not work for
- <literal>netgraph</literal> action.</para>
+ <para revision="212738,216348">A bug in the &man.ipfw.4;
+ packet filter subsystem has been fixed. The &man.sysctl.8;
+ variable <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass</varname> did not
+ work for <literal>netgraph</literal> action and in-kernel
+ NAT.</para>
<para revision="215342">A new loader tunable
<varname>net.link.ifqmaxlen</varname> has been added. It
@@ -530,11 +609,9 @@
controls whether to accept input packets on any link in a
failover lagg.</para>
- <para revision="209843">A new &man.netgraph.4; node
- &man.ng.patch.4; has been added. This performs data
- modification of packets passing through. Modifications are
- restricted to a subset of C language operations on unsigned
- integers of 8, 16, 32 or 64-bit size.</para>
+ <para revision="215869">The &man.ng.eiface.4; &man.netgraph.4;
+ node now supports VLAN-compatible MTU and an MTU size which
+ is larger than 1500.</para>
<para revision="212320">The &man.ng.ether.4; &man.netgraph.4;
node now supports interface transfer between multiple virtual
@@ -543,6 +620,12 @@
interface is now destroyed and recreated when the network
interface is moved to another vnet.</para>
+ <para revision="209843">A new &man.netgraph.4; node
+ &man.ng.patch.4; has been added. This performs data
+ modification of packets passing through. Modifications are
+ restricted to a subset of C language operations on unsigned
+ integers of 8, 16, 32 or 64-bit size.</para>
+
<para revision="212905">An ICMP unreachable problem in the
&man.pf.4; packet filter subsystem when TSO support is
enabled has been fixed.</para>
@@ -594,8 +677,8 @@
seconds for device reset timeout instead of 10 seconds
because some devices needs 10-12 seconds to spin up.</para>
- <para revision="210836">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver
- has been updated to version 1.20.00.17.</para>
+ <para revision="215825">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver
+ has been updated to version 1.20.00.19.</para>
<para revision="215173">The &man.ada.4; driver now supports a
now &man.sysctl.8; variable
@@ -772,6 +855,10 @@
negative, it displays entries with a value less than the
absolute value of <replaceable>threshold</replaceable>.</para>
+ <para revision="215667">The &man.fdisk.8; utility now supports
+ partitions which are provided by &man.gjournal.8; or
+ &man.geli.8; GEOM class.</para>
+
<para revision="210567">The &man.gcore.1; utility now supports an
<option>-f</option> flag which forces a full dump of all the
segments except for the malformed ones.</para>
@@ -811,6 +898,11 @@
<command>resize</command> command to resize partitions for all
schemes but EBR.</para>
+ <para revision="215941">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports
+ <command>backup</command> and <command>restore</command>
+ subcommands to backup partition tables and restore
+ them.</para>
+
<para revision="213661">The &man.gpart.8; utility now handles
given geom/provider names with and without
<filename>/dev/</filename> prefix.</para>
@@ -851,6 +943,16 @@
<literal>bootme</literal>, <literal>bootonce</literal>, and
<literal>bootfailed</literal> respectively.</para>
+ <para revision="215728">An issue in the &man.newfs.8; utility
+ has been fixed. A UFS1 file system created with 64KB
+ blocksize was incorrectly recognized as one with a broken
+ superblock. This is because &os; kernel checks UFS2
+ superblock at 64KB offset in the partition first, and UFS1
+ with 64KB blocksize has an alternative superblock at the same
+ location. For example, a file system created by
+ <command>newfs -U -O 1 -b 65536 -f 8192</command> could lead
+ to this symptom.</para>
+
<para revision="213049">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports
<literal>SIGHUP</literal> for reloading the configuration
file. When <literal>SIGTERM</literal> or
@@ -862,6 +964,10 @@
accepted <literal>10.0.0.1/10.0.0.1</literal> as
<literal>10.0.0.1/10</literal>.</para>
+ <para revision="215237">An accuracy issue in the &man.jn.3; and
+ &man.jnf.3; functions in <filename>libm</filename> has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="209284">Incorrect behaviors in stuttering
sequences and reverse ranges in the &man.jot.1; utility have
been fixed.</para>
@@ -899,6 +1005,13 @@
option to override the default &man.syslogd.8; PID
file.</para>
+ <para revision="215622">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now
+ supports a special log file name
+ <literal><include></literal> for processing file
+ inclusion. Globing in the file name and circular dependency
+ detection are supported. For more details, see
+ &man.newsyslog.conf.5; manual page.</para>
+
<para revision="213980">The &man.ntpd.8; utility is now compiled
with shared memory reference clock driver. For example, GPS
devices can be used as source of precise time via <filename
@@ -938,9 +1051,11 @@
<para revision="213825">The &man.ruptime.1; utility now displays
hostnames longer than 12 characters.</para>
- <para revision="215066">A <option>-u nounset</option> option in
- the &man.sh.1; program now handles expansion of positional and
- special variables $@, $*, and $!.</para>
+ <para revision="215066">A behavior of the &man.sh.1; program
+ when an <option>-u nounset</option> option is specified has
+ been changed. The special parameters <varname>$@</varname>
+ and <varname>$*</varname> no longer cause an error when there
+ are no positional parameters.</para>
<para revision="210616">A bug in the &man.sh.1; program has been
fixed. A <literal>SIGINT</literal> signal is now passed
@@ -1000,45 +1115,39 @@
ports' files with mismatched checksum has been added. For more
details, see &man.periodic.conf.5;</para>
</sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="rc-scripts">
- <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
-
- <para></para>
- </sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
- <para></para>
-<!--
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> has been updated to
- 20100304.</para>
+ 20101013.</para>
- <para>The <application>awk</application> has been updated from
- the 23 October 2007 release to the 26 November 2009 release.</para>
--->
<para revision="214287">The &man.ee.1; program has been updated
to version 1.5.2.</para>
<para><application>ISC BIND</application> has been updated to
- version 9.6-ESV-R2.</para>
-<!--
- <para><application>netcat</application> has been updated to
- version 4.7.</para>
+ version 9.6-ESV-R4.</para>
- <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
- version 5.1p1 to version 5.4p1.</para>
+ <para><application>netcat</application> has been updated to
+ version 4.8.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated to
- version 0.9.8n.</para>
+ version 0.9.8q.</para>
- <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated to
- version 8.14.4.</para>
--->
<para>The timezone database has been updated to the
<application>tzdata2010o</application> release.</para>
+
+ <para><application>xz</application> has been updated from
+ snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0 release</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="ports">
+ <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
+
+ <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; utility now supports
+ <application>xz</application> compression. Note that the
+ default is still <application>bzip2</application>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
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