Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:36:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-releng@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r205371 - in releng/7.3/release/doc: en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes share/sgml Message-ID: <201003201436.o2KEadam000232@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Sat Mar 20 14:36:39 2010 New Revision: 205371 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205371 Log: Update release notes: URL of Errata doc added[1], s/release candidate/release/[1], grammatical fixes[1], description on pc98 boot2 fixed[2], description on gstripe(8) improved[2], description on vfs.flushbufqtarget improved[2], and description on tzcode2009k improved[3]. Submitted by: dhw[1], ivoras[2], and edwin[3] Approved by: re (implicitly) Modified: releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml releng/7.3/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent Modified: releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml ============================================================================== --- releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Mar 20 14:35:24 2010 (r205370) +++ releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Mar 20 14:36:39 2010 (r205371) @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; - &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> + &release.current; can be found on <ulink url="&url.errata;"></ulink>.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="new"> @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Also, the jail parameter <varname>ip4.saddrsel</varname> and <varname>ip6.saddrsel</varname> are boolean option to enable the source address selection for IPv4 and IPv6, respectively. - If another boolean parameters + If the boolean parameters <varname>ip4.nosaddrsel</varname> and <varname>ip6.nosaddrsel</varname> are set, the child jails do not inherit the address selection options of the @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ been increased to 512GB.</para> <para>The &man.lindev.4; driver has been added. This is for - linux-specific pseudo devices and currently used only for + Linux-specific pseudo devices and currently used only for <filename>/dev/full</filename>.</para> <para>&os; Linux emulation layer now supports @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> <para>A new boot loader <literal>gptzfsboot</literal>, which - support GPT and ZFS has been added.</para> + supports GPT and ZFS has been added.</para> <para>The boot loader <literal>zfsboot</literal> now always uses 64-bit LBAs and supports more than seven drives in the @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ and GPT and they are synchronized with each other.</para> <para arch="pc98">The <application>boot2</application> program - has been replaced with the latest version for + has been reimplemented based on the latest version for &arch.i386;.</para> </sect3> @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Performance Monitoring Counter support has been added. This consists of the kernel driver, &man.pmc.3; interface library, and userland utilities &man.pmcannotate.8;, - pmccontrol.8;, and &man.pmcstat.8;, and allows applications + &man.pmccontrol.8;, and &man.pmcstat.8;, and allows applications to use hardware performance counters to gather performance data about specific processes or for the system as a whole.</para> @@ -476,8 +476,8 @@ <para>Several bugs in the &man.mxge.4; driver have been fixed and the firmware version is now 1.4.48b. It could - lost the promiscuous flag on resetting and a kernel panic - on the hardware fault.</para> + lose the promiscuous flag on resetting and cause a kernel + panic on the hardware fault.</para> <para>A bug in the &man.nfe.4; driver has been fixed. It caused buffer allocation failure for jumbo frames.</para> @@ -599,7 +599,12 @@ 92 bytes which is written by OpenSolaris.</para> <para>The default stripe size of &man.gstripe.8; GEOM class - has been changed from 4KB to 64KB.</para> + has been changed from 4KB to 64KB. This change will affect + users preferring the <command>create</command> command over + the <command>label</command> command, which will now need to + explicitly specify the old stripe size (<option>-s</option> + <literal>4096</literal>) in order to use their old + &man.gstripe.8; volumes.</para> <para>The &man.hptrr.4; driver now supports a new loader tunable <varname>hw.hptrr.attach_generic</varname> to @@ -635,14 +640,15 @@ fixed.</para> <para>A new sysctl variable for the &man.VFS.9; subsystem - <varname>vfs.flushbufqtarget</varname> has been added. This - fixes issues in <literal>bufdaemon</literal>, a kernel - process responsible for flushing dirty buffers, which can - cause the process to deadlock in a certain workload. The - value of the variable determines the number of buffers will - be flushed before allocating a new buffer. The default - value of the variable is <literal>-1</literal> - (disabled).</para> + <varname>vfs.flushbufqtarget</varname> has been added. + This can fix issues in <literal>bufdaemon</literal>, a + kernel process responsible for flushing dirty buffers, which + can cause the process to deadlock in a certain workload. + The value of the variable determines the number of buffers + will be flushed before allocating a new buffer. The default + value of the variable on 7.3-RELEASE is + <literal>-1</literal> (disabled). The &os; 8.0-RELEASE uses + <literal>100</literal> by default.</para> <para>ZFS has been updated from version 6 to version 13. This update includes numerous new ZFS features, such as @@ -979,8 +985,11 @@ static_arp_gw="192.168.1.1 00:01:02:03:0 <para>The timezone database has been updated to the <application>tzdata2010b</application> release.</para> - <para>The timezone binary has been updated - to the <application>tzcode2009k</application> release.</para> + <para>The timezone libraries (stdtime part of + <application>libc</application>) and related binaries + (&man.zic.8; and &man.zdump.8;) have been updated to the + <application>tzcode2009k</application> release. Note that + &man.tzsetup.8; needs to be run after the installation.</para> <para><application>unifdef</application> has been updated to version 1.188.</para> Modified: releng/7.3/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent ============================================================================== --- releng/7.3/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent Sat Mar 20 14:35:24 2010 (r205370) +++ releng/7.3/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent Sat Mar 20 14:36:39 2010 (r205371) @@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ <!-- The URL for obtaining this version of FreeBSD. --> <!ENTITY release.url "ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">; +<!ENTITY url.errata "http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.3R/errata.html">; <!-- The type of release (usually this will be either "snapshot" or "release" --> -<!ENTITY release.type "release candidate"> +<!ENTITY release.type "release"> <!ENTITY % release.type.current "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % release.type.snapshot "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % release.type.release "INCLUDE">
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