Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:52:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r229787 - stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201201071852.q07IqG4F052185@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Sat Jan 7 18:52:16 2012 New Revision: 229787 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229787 Log: - Remove unnecessary and/or old parts. - Add relnote entries: msk(4) RX checksum bugfix, rdcphy(4) for R6040 10/100 PHY added, vte(4) for RDC R6040 added, vlan(4) IPv6 LLA interface ID bugfix, wpi(4) bugfix, md(4) vm.md_malloc_wait sysctl added, mmc(4) device detection fixed, FFS TRIM support added, poweroff(8) added, rtld(1) now supports shared objects for filtering, sh(1) kill built-in added, and KDE 4.7.3. 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 Sat Jan 7 16:16:13 2012 (r229786) +++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Jan 7 18:52:16 2012 (r229787) @@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ <!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN"> %release; - -<!-- Text constants which probably don't need to be changed.--> - -<!ENTITY % include.historic "IGNORE"> -<!ENTITY % no.include.historic "IGNORE"> ]> <article> @@ -53,29 +48,6 @@ It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> -<![ %release.type.current [ - - <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes - apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development - branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary - &release.type; distributions along this branch - can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para> - -]]> - -<![ %release.type.snapshot [ - - <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes - apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development - branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. - Information regarding - pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch - can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para> - -]]> - -<![ %release.type.release [ - <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More @@ -86,8 +58,6 @@ url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</ulink>.</para> -]]> - <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the @@ -103,10 +73,7 @@ <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; - since &release.prev;. - In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; - branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. - </para> + since &release.prev;.</para> <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after @@ -217,128 +184,48 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added - for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and - assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added - to allow manipulation of processor sets.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture - facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured - to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or - a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls - this feature.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting - facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a - set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from - within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8; - utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual - page.</para> - - <para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel - dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via - mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a - simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief - kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but - are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely - synchronized source code. More information can be found in the - &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para> - - <para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While - the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful - in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the - KSE library was never developed to its full potential. - Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading - will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked - binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of - &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para> - - <para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel - features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree. - The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient - interface for user applications to test the presence of - features.</para> - - <para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large - memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE - scheduler is now the default process scheduler - in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para> - <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot - loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real - mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB - devices.</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has - been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A - new <command>boot</command> command has been added to - &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the - required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot - partition if required.</para> - + <para></para> </sect3> <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Hardware Support</title> - <para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 - PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para> - - <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon - Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been - imported from OpenBSD.</para> - <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> <para></para> - </sect4> <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support - for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> - - <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers - with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue - to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new - client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver - will support new server adapters.</para> - - <para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support - for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit - Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> - - <para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide - support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network - adapters.</para> - - <para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been - updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para> - - <para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its - performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It - should also work on all architectures.</para> - - <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a - number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) - support.</para> - - <para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a - number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all - architectures.</para> + <para revision="216860">A bug in &man.msk.4; driver has been + fixed. It could prevent the RX checksum offloading from + working.</para> + + <para revision="216828">A rdcphy(4) driver for RDC Semiconductor + R6040 10/100 PHY has been added.</para> + + <para revision="216650">A bug in &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface + han been fixed. It could have a random interface + identifier in an automatically configured IPv6 link-local + address, instead of one generated with the parent + interface's IEEE 802 48-bit MAC address and an algorithm + described in RFC 4291.</para> + + <para revision="216829">A &man.vte.4; driver for RDC R6040 Fast + Ethernet controller, which is commonly found on Vortex86 + System On a Chip, has been added.</para> + + <para revision="216824">A bug in &man.wpi.4; driver has been + fixed. It could display the following error messages and + result in the device unusable:</para> - <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has - been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para> + <screen>wpi0: could not map mbuf (error 12) +wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load failed, error 12</screen> </sect4> </sect3> @@ -346,265 +233,95 @@ <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para>The &man.bpf.4; packet filter and capture facility now - supports a zero-copy mode of operation, in which buffers are - loaned from a user process to the kernel. This feature can - be enabled by setting - the <varname>net.bpf.zerocopy_enable</varname> sysctl - variable to <literal>1</literal>.</para> - - <para>ISDN4BSD(I4B), <filename>netatm</filename>, and all - related subsystems have been removed due to lack of - multi-processor support.</para> - - <para role="merged">A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding - bytes were used, has been fixed.</para> - + <para></para> </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than - 2TB in size.</para> - - <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for - disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests - have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down - until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now - supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure - this feature.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 - from Highpoint.</para> + <para revision="216793">The &man.md.4; memory-backed pseudo disk + device driver now supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>vm.md_malloc_wait</varname> to specify whether a + malloc-backed disk to using <varname>M_WAITOK</varname> or + <varname>M_NOWAIT</varname> for &man.malloc.9; calls. The + <varname>M_WAITOK</varname> can prevent memory allocation + failure under high load. If it is set to + <literal>0</literal>, a malloc-backed disk uses + <varname>M_NOWAIT</varname> for memory allocation. The + default value is <literal>0</literal>.</para> + <para revision="216941">A bug in the &man.mmc.4; driver that could + fail in device detection has been fixed.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para>A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has - been fixed.</para> - - <para>A new kernel-mode NFS lock manager has been added, - improving performance and behavior of NFS locking. A new - &man.clear.locks.8; command has been added to clear locks held - on behalf of an NFS client.</para> - - <para role="merged">The <application>ZFS</application> file system - has been upgraded to version 14. Additional changes include - support for NFSv4 ACLs, a speedup of zfs send and an improved L2ARC. - New statistics for prefetch and L2ARC have been introduced.</para> - + <para revision="216796">The &os; Fast File System now supports + <literal>TRIM</literal> command when freeing data blocks. A + new flag <option>-t</option> in the &man.newfs.8; and + &man.tunefs.8; utilities sets the TRIM-enable flag in a file + system. The TRIM-enable flag makes the file system send a + delete request to the underlying device for each freed + block. The <literal>TRIM</literal> command is specified as + Data Set Management Command in ATA8-ACS2 standard to carry + the information related to deleted data blocks to device, + especially for SSD (Solid-State Drive) for optimization. + </para> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> - <para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports - a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's - home directory.</para> - - <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, - based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU - Binutils versions of these utilities.</para> - - <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have - replaced their GNU counterparts.</para> - - <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for - verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors - with the same semantics as (for example) - &man.chmod.1;.</para> - - <para>For compatiblity with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now - supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to - specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para> - - <para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on - <filename>libarchive</filename>, has replaced the GNU cpio. - Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as - <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para> - - <para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u - <replaceable>name</replaceable></option> - which will completely unset the given variable - <replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment, - instead of just setting it to a null value.</para> - - <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1 - If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now - supports <option>-i <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option> - which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content - is newer than <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.</para> - - <para>&man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number - of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; - &man.find.1;.</para> - - <para>&man.jexec.8; now supports <option>-h - <replaceable>hostname</replaceable></option> option to specify the - jail where the command will be executed.</para> - - <para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command> - command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel - modules.</para> - - <para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option> - option to specify a date format string to be used with the long - format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para> - - <para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to - disable the use of TCP options.</para> - - <para>&man.nc.1;'s <option>-o</option> switch has been deprecated. - It will be removed in a future release.</para> - - <para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal> - when the packet transmission was successful but no responses - were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;). - It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para> - - <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display - detailed information about processes.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports - a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also - accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para> - - <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option> - flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para> - - <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option> - flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style - compression/decompression.</para> - - <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a - <option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names - on create and extract.</para> - - <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an - <option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para> - - <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option> - flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular - expression.</para> - - <para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to - return the process group ID for the session leader for the - controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 - (POSIX).</para> - - <para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to - provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para> - - <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures. - </para> - - <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS - number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a - new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular - WHOIS server.</para> - - <para>&man.traceroute6.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> flag - to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than - the usual UDP probe packets.</para> + <para revision="216823">A &man.poweroff.8; utility has been added. + This is equivalent to:</para> + + <screen>&prompt.root; shutdown -p now</screen> + + <para revision="216695">The &man.rtld.1; runtime linker now supports + shared objects as filters in ELF shared libraries. Both + standard and auxillary filtering have been supported. The + &man.rtld.1; linker's processing of a filter defers loading a + filtee until a filter symbol is referenced unless + <varname>LD_LOADFLTR</varname> environment variable is defined + or a <literal>-z loadfltr</literal> option was specified when + the filter was created.</para> + + <para revision="216629">The &man.sh.1; program now supports + <command>kill</command> as a built-in command. This allows + specifying <literal>%<replaceable>job</replaceable></literal> + which is equivalent to the corresponding process group. Note + that this built-in command returns the exit status + <literal>2</literal> instead of <literal>1</literal> if an + fatal error occurs as other built-in commands do.</para> <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> <para></para> - </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="contrib"> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10 - to 6.1.5.</para> - - <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May - 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para> - - <para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4 - to 1.0.5.</para> - - <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from 1.11.17 - to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008.</para> - - <para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.23 - to 5.03.</para> - - <para><application>hostapd</application> has been - updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para> - - <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated from - 4.1.23 to 4.1.28.</para> - - <para><application>less</application> has been updated from - v408 to v429.</para> - - <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from - 5.6-20061217 to 5.6-20080503.</para> - - <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated - from 4.5p1 to 5.1p1.</para> - - <para role="merged"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the - Figwort release to the Hydrangea release.</para> - - <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from - 8.14.1 to 8.14.5.</para> - - <para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from - the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to - the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para> - - <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8 and &man.zic.8 - have been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application> - release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release. - If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8, - then please run &man.tzsetup.8 to install a new /etc/localtime. - </para> - - <para><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been - updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para> - - <para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated - from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para> - + <para></para> </sect2> <sect2 id="ports"> <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; utility now supports - <option>-n</option>. When this option is specified and a - package tarball exists, it will not be overwritten. This is - useful when multiple packages are saved with several consecutive - runs of &man.pkg.create.1; with the <option>-Rb</option> - options.</para> - - <para>The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically - signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful - for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however - &man.bzip2.1; compression has been the norm for some time - now.</para> - + <para></para> </sect2> <sect2 id="releng"> <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> - <para role="merged">The supported version of - the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment - (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been - updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para> - + <para>The supported version of + the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment + (<filename role="package">x11/kde4</filename>) has been + updated from 4.5.5 to 4.7.3.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="doc"> @@ -618,6 +335,10 @@ <sect1 id="upgrade"> <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> + <sect2> + <title>Upgrading using freebsd-update(8) or source-based + procedure</title> + <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the @@ -637,5 +358,13 @@ backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para> </important> + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-visible incompatibilities</title> + + <para>This section describes notable incompatibilities which + your should know before upgrading your system.</para> + </sect2> </sect1> </article>
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