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The ukbd(4) driver -now supports Microsoft Natural Egronomic Keyboard 4000. It had an issue that +now supports Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. It had an issue that function keys were not recognized.[r239426]
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ target="_top">r238674] href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_hda&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE"> snd_hda(4) driver has been updated. It now supports and provides HDMI, new volume -control, automatic recording source selection, runtime reconfiguration, more then 4 +control, automatic recording source selection, runtime reconfiguration, more than 4 PCM devices on a controller, multichannel recording, additional playback/record streams, higher bandwidth, and more informative device names.[r246725]Link state change handling in the ale(4) network -driver has been improved.[r234127]
The ale(4) network -driver now supports flow control.[r234241]
A bug in the bce(4) network - driver has been fixed. It could prevent jumbo frame configuration from -working.[r235424]
A bug in r236217]
The bce(4) network -driver now supports remote PHYs, which allow the controller to perform MDIO -type accesses to a remote transceiver by using message pages defined through MRBE -(MultiRate Backplane Ethernet). This is found on machines such as the Dell -PowerEdge M610 Blade.[r235819]
A bug in the bge(4) network - driver which could cause watchdog timeout on BCM5704 controller connected -behind AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge has been fixed.[r233496]
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ could make the device stop working href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=236219" target="_top">r236219] -[amd64, i386, pc98] [amd64, i386, pc98] The cas(4), @@ -903,18 +903,18 @@ target="_top">r247430]
The fxp(4) network -driver has been improved. It does not cause unnecessary media change in -controller reconfiguration such as promiscuos mode change which leads to an extra -link reestablishment.[r233502]
The igb(4) network -driver now attempts to attach as many CPUs as possible to each queue. If the -number of CPUs are greater than or equal to the number of queues, all of queues are -bound to different CPUs.[r235616]
@@ -942,8 +942,8 @@ target="_top">r247501]A bug in ixgbe(4) network - driver has been fixed. It could cause a packet loss in TCP communication when -TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is enabled.[r235666]
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ target="_top">r248062]The ral(4) network -driver now supports Ralink RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.[r236008]
@@ -972,16 +972,17 @@ target="_top">r236008] href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">re(4) and rl(4) network drivers -which could cause a problem on RTL8139 family has been fixed.[rl(4) network +interface drivers which could cause a problem on RTL8139 family has been fixed.[r233490]A bug in the re(4) network -driver which could cause intermittent link up/down on RTL8169 controller has been -fixed.[r233493]
The r232594]
The run(4) network -driver now load the firmware upon initialization, not attachment. This fixes -an issue when the root filesystem is not available at the time of the device +interface driver now loads the firmware upon initialization, not attachment. +This fixes an issue when the root filesystem is not available at the time of device detection.[r233461]
The run(4) driver -has been updated to firmware verion 0.236.[r234029]
The sf(4) network driver -has been improved. A system load fluctuation under high network load has been -fixed.[sf(4) network +interface driver has been improved. System load fluctuation under high network + load has been fixed.[r233487]
The r242984]
The Locking performance of the -bpf(4) Berkeley -Packet Filter has been improved in the locking performance.[bpf(4) +Berkeley Packet Filter has been improved.[r247732]
@@ -1073,8 +1075,8 @@ target="_top">r247732] href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=if_bridge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE"> if_bridge(4) pseudo network interface driver now supports multiple bridges in the same STP -domain. It used the same MAC address as the bridge ID for all bridges on the -system.[r236056]The r236058]
The net.link.bridge
sysctl(8)
-variables can be set in
loader(8) and/or
-loader.conf(5)
-now.[loader.conf(5).[r236072]
The default number of the bridge forwarding cache entries of the r234637]
IP_RECVTOS socket option to receive for received UDP/IPv4 packets a cmsg of type IP_RECVTOS which contains the TOS byte has been -implemented. This allows to implement a protocol on top of UDP and -implementing ECN.[r247944]
@@ -1163,18 +1165,18 @@ class="filename">draft-gont-6man-ipv6-at href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=238495" target="_top">r238495] -A bug which could cause a system panic in multicast routing in kernel with VIMAGE
kernel option has been fixed. This option is disabled
-in GENERIC kernel.[A bug which could cause a system panic in the multicast routing in kernel with
+VIMAGE
kernel option has been fixed. This option is
+disabled in GENERIC kernel.[r233605]
The
lagg(4) pseudo
-network driver now allows to set which layers are used for the load balance
-hash calculation. It can be set in ifconfig lagghash
-option in a comma-separated list. The default value is ifconfig
+lagghash option in a comma-separated list. The default value is
lagghash l2,l3,l4
. For more detail, see
ifconfig(8)
@@ -1224,9 +1226,10 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=235056"
target="_top">r235056]
A loader tunable net.fibs
now supports to specify
-the number of routing tables. The ROUTETABLES
-kernel option can still be used to set the default number of routing tables.[A loader tunable net.fibs
now supports to
+specifying the number of routing tables. The ROUTETABLES
kernel option can still be used to set the
+default number of routing tables.[r235104]
The Performance of the da(4) driver has been - improved in performance of subsequent BIO_DELETE + class="citerefentry">da(4) driver +has been improved. It now handles subsequent BIO_DELETE requests handled as a single TRIM request.[r234914]
@@ -1403,7 +1406,7 @@ target="_top">r245941]The hptiop(4) driver -has bee updated to version 1.8 and now supports HighPoint RocketRAID +has been updated to version 1.8 and now supports HighPoint RocketRAID 4500/4311/4310/4211/4210/3560/3530.[r239159, r243679]
The tmpfs(5) -filesystem is not an experimental implementation anymore.[r234512]
@@ -1610,8 +1614,8 @@ target="_top">r247808]Bugs in
msdosfs(5)
-which could fail a FAT32 filesystem to mount, create a broken directory entry in a
-FAT32 filesystem, and prevent sync
and sync
and async
mount option from working, have been fixed.[r246547, r232665]
FreeBSD ZFS subsystem has been updated to support feature flags for ZFS pools
(the SPA version is 5000). Asynchronous destroy of ZFS dataset, LZ4
-compression, ZIO NOP-write optimization have been implemented as new feature.
loader(8)
tunables vfs.zfs.sync_pass_deferred_free
, r244088, r247310]
Note that this upgrade can cause interoperability issue when upgrading a FreeBSD -8.4 system to 9.0 or 9.1. This is because FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 support SPA version -28 and do not recognize version 5000. To mitigate this issue, the default SPA -version for a newly created ZFS pool on FreeBSD 8.4 is set to version 28. To create -a ZFS pool with version 5000, use Note that this upgrade can cause interoperability issues when upgrading a +FreeBSD 8.4 system to 9.0 or 9.1. This is because FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 support SPA +version 28 and do not recognize version 5000. To mitigate this issue, the default + SPA version for a newly created ZFS pool on FreeBSD 8.4 is set to version 28. +To create a ZFS pool with version 5000, use zpool(8) upgrade command after the creation.
@@ -1717,8 +1721,8 @@ target="_top">r242991]The
chkgrp(8)
-utility now supports -q
flag to disable printing of text
-when the group format is correct.[-q flag to disable printing of
+text when the group format is correct.[r244064]
The
cut(1) utility
-now supports -w
flag to specify whitespace as the
+now supports a -w
flag to specify whitespace as the
delimiter.[r244305]
The
daemon(8)
-utility now supports -r
flag to restart the program if
-it has been terminated.[-r flag to restart the program
+if it has been terminated.[r233762]
The devd(8) daemon -now supports ! character in regex matching in ! character in regex matching in devd.conf(5). It inverts the logic of the matching.[r233867]
The du(1) utility now
-supports -g
flag to display the results in
+supports a -g
flag to display the results in
gigabytes.[r247539]
The fetch(1) utility -now supports percent-encoded string in user and password component of a URL.[r235254]
-The maximum number of HTTP redirection has been increased from The maximum number of HTTP redirections has been increased from 5 to 20 in the fetch(1) @@ -1812,14 +1816,14 @@ target="_top">r242034]
The fetch(1) utility -now supports HTTP status code 305 (Use Proxy) and 305 (Use Proxy) and 308 (Permanent Redirect).[r242288, r242291]
-A countermeasure against a possible DoS (Denial of Service) attack described in +
A countermeasure against possible DoS (Denial of Service) attack described in CVE-2010-2632 in the ftpd(8) daemon @@ -1838,10 +1842,10 @@ target="_top">r235084]
The
ifconfig(8) now
-supports state
option for state option for
carp(4) protocol
-to set the state of a carp cluster. The valid keywords are master and backup.[r243466]
The
lastcomm(1)
-utility now supports ++format
option to specify
strftime(3)
@@ -1895,13 +1899,13 @@ target="_top">r237739]
The libpmc library has been updated to support more PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters) in Intel Core i7 and Xeon 5500 family - based on Intel documentatino as of October 2011. Specifically, DTLB_MISSES.PDE_MISS and DTLB_MISSES.LARGE_WALK_COMPLETED have been added.[r234045]
-The libradius now supports The libradius now supports the rad_bind_to(3) function.[r234555]
The libusb(3) -library now supports libusb_get_max_iso_packet_size(3) function.[r241368]
The
mktemp(1)
-utility now uses tmp as the default prefix when no
- -t
is specified.[tmp as the default prefix when -t
is not specified.[r241422]
The mv(1) utility now
-supports -h
flag. This forces it to treat a symbolic
+supports a -h
flag. This forces it to treat a symbolic
link to a directory for the target as a symbolic instead of a directory.[r241321]
A workaround has been implemented in A workaround has been implemented in the ppp(8) daemon to support some 3G modems which return a wrong signature in echo packets and make it @@ -2103,7 +2107,7 @@ target="_top">r241969]
The syslogd(8) -daemon now supports IPv6 address as destination address in syslog.conf(5).[r243684]
The tcpdrop(8) -utility now accepts the address and ports to be separated by a colon or period +utility now allows addresses and ports to be separated by a colon or period rather than a space to permit directly pasting the output of commands such as netstat and sockstat on the command line.[r235015]
The
usbhidctl(1)
-utility now supports -z
flag for reading operation. It
+utility now supports a -z
flag for reading operation. It
allows to not request current values from the device, but only receive
changes.[r235881]
The Performance of the -zfs(8) list -t snapshot command has been improved dramatically in - performance.[zfs(8) list -t snapshot command has been dramatically improved.[r233862]
The
zfs(8) get command now supports -t get command now supports a
-t datatype
option.[r233862]
Changing zfs(8) canmount property to on when dataset -is already mounted does not cause remount of the ZFS dataset now.[canmount property to on no longer +causes remount of the ZFS dataset when a dataset is already mounted.[r237457]
@@ -2215,7 +2218,7 @@ output and could prevent redirection fro href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=232549" target="_top">r232549] -The rc.d/jail script now supports The rc.d/jail script now supports a
jail_parameters
variable to specify extra parameters for
each jail.[r242083]
The
service(8)
-utility now supports -R
flag to restart all third party
- services in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.[-R flag to restart all third
+party services in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.[r246609]
The
pkg_add(1)
-utility now suports PACKAGESUFFIX
to specify extension
+utility now supports PACKAGESUFFIX
to specify extension
in a package filename.[r240674]