Author: hrs
Date: Sun Jan 8 17:40:10 2012
New Revision: 229817
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229817
Log:
Add relnotes items:
cxgbe(4) for Chelsio T4 added,
dc(4) PAE support on FreeBSD/i386,
re(4) RTL8401E support added,
IPsec HMAC-SHA-256/384/512 authenticator hash size fix,
cc(4) TCP_CONGESTION socket option,
Citrus iconv imported (but disabled by default),
utxrm(8) utility added,
GNU binutils to 2.17.50,
LLVM/Clang 3.0 imported,
xz to 5.0.1,
bsdinstall(8) added as the default installer.
Modified:
stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Jan 8
17:25:15 2012 (r229816)
+++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Jan 8
17:40:10 2012 (r229817)
@@ -218,6 +218,14 @@
could make AR8152-based network interfaces stop working
has been fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="218794">A &man.cxgbe.4; driver for Chelsio
+ T4 (Terminator 4) based 10Gb/1Gb adapters has been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="218832" arch="i386">The &man.dc.4; driver
+ now works correctly in the kernel with
+ <option>PAE</option> option.</para>
+
<para revision="218530">The &man.igb.4; driver now supports
Intel I350 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller.</para>
@@ -239,8 +247,9 @@
<para revision="216828">A rdcphy(4) driver for RDC Semiconductor
R6040 10/100 PHY has been added.</para>
- <para revision="217498">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
- RTL8168E/8111E-VL PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers.</para>
+ <para revision="217498,218760">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
+ RTL8168E/8111E-VL PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers and
+ RTL8401E PCIe Fast Ethernet controller.</para>
<para revision="217766">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
TX interrupt moderation on RTL810xE PCIe Fast Ethernet
@@ -317,6 +326,16 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
+ <para revision="218794">&os; &man.ipsec.4; support now uses a
+ half of the hash size as the authenticator hash size in
+ Hashed Message Authentication Mode (HMAC-SHA-256,
+ HMAC-SHA-384, and HMAC-SHA-512) as described in RFC 4868.
+ This was 96-bit fixed length in prior releases because the
+ implementation was based on an old Internet draft
+ draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00. Note that this means
+ &release.current; and later are no longer interoperable with
+ the older &os; releases.</para>
+
<para revision="217169">A bug in &os; TCP/IP network stack has
been fixed. The source address selection could not being
performed when multicast options were present but without an
@@ -336,8 +355,15 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile
variable <varname>net.inet.tcp.cc.algorithm</varname>. The
value must be set to one of the names listed by the
<varname>net.inet.tcp.cc.available</varname>, and
- <literal>newreno</literal> is set at boot time. For more
- detail, see &man.cc.9; manual page.</para>
+ <literal>newreno</literal> is set at boot time.
+ For more
+ detail, see &man.cc.4; and &man.cc.9; manual pages.</para>
+
+ <para revision="218912">A new &man.tcp.4; socket option
+ <literal>TCP_CONGESTION</literal> has been added. This
+ allows to select or query a congestion control algorithm
+ that the TCP/IP network stack will use for connections on
+ the socket.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@@ -372,7 +398,7 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
- <para revision="207141">The &os; Fast File System now supports
+ <para revision="207141,218726">The &os; Fast File System now supports
softupdates journaling. It introduces a intent log into a
softupdates-enabled file system which eliminates the need
for background &man.fsck.8; even on unclean shutdown. This
@@ -429,6 +455,17 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile
<literal>root</literal> privileges of the worker processes to
<literal>hast</literal> user.</para>
+ <para revision="219019">An implementation of
+ <function>iconv()</function> API libraries and utilities which
+ are standardized in Single UNIX Specification have been
+ imported. These are based on NetBSD's Citrus implementation.
+ Note that these are not built nor installed by default. To
+ build and install them, specify
+ <literal>WITH_ICONV=yes</literal> in
+ <filename>/etc/src.conf</filename> and rebuild the base system
+ as described in &os Handbook (<ulink
+
url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html";></ulink>).</para>
+
<para revision="217013">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now
supports <literal>fdx</literal>, <literal>flow</literal>,
<literal>hdx</literal>, and <literal>loop</literal> keywords
@@ -516,6 +553,12 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile
&& and || around an arithmetic expression has been
fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="218847">A &man.utxrm.8; utility has been added.
+ This allows one to remove an entry from the
+ <filename>utmpx</filename> database by hand. This is useful
+ when a login daemon crashes or fails to remove the entry
+ during shutdown.</para>
+
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
@@ -532,16 +575,34 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile
<para revision="228189"><application>ISC BIND</application> has
been updated to version 9.8.1-P1.</para>
+ <para revision="218822"><application>GNU binutils</application>
+ has been updated to 2.17.50 (as of 3 July 2007), which is the
+ last available version under GPLv2.</para>
+
<para revision="224014"><literal>dialog</literal> has been
updated to version 1.1-20110707.</para>
+ <para revision="208954">The <application>LLVM</application>
+ compiler infrastructure and the
+ <application>clang</application>, a C language family
+ front-end, version 3.0 have been imported. Note that it is not
+ used for building the &os; base system. In &os; build
+ infrastructure, the &man.clang.1;, &man.clang...1;, and
+ &man.clang-cpp.1; utilities can be used in
+ <varname>CC</varname>, <varname>CXX</varname>, and
+ <varname>CPP</varname> &man.make.1; variables,
+ respectively.</para>
+
<para revision="218122">The <application>timezone</application>
database has been updated to the
<application>tzdata2011a</application> release.</para>
<para revision="217698">&man.unifdef.1; utility has been updated
to version 2.5.6.</para>
- </sect2>
+
+ <para>The <application>xz</application> program has been updated
+ from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1 release.</para>
+ </sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
@@ -552,6 +613,11 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile
<sect2 id="releng">
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
+ <para revision="218799">A new installer &man.bsdinstall.8; has
+ been added and integrated into installation ISO images. The
+ &man.sysinstall.8; utility is also available for settings
+ after the installation.</para>
+
<para>The supported version of
the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment
(<filename role="package">x11/kde4</filename>) has been
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