Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:47:23 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@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: r263476 - stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201403211447.s2LElNCC052822@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb Date: Fri Mar 21 14:47:23 2014 New Revision: 263476 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/263476 Log: Prune entries not relevant to what will be 9.3-RELEASE. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml ============================================================================== --- stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Fri Mar 21 14:25:09 2014 (r263475) +++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Fri Mar 21 14:47:23 2014 (r263476) @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ ]> <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> - <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author> @@ -153,773 +152,54 @@ <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para revision="232728">The &os; Jail subsystem now supports - mounting &man.devfs.5;, &man.nullfs.5;, and ZFS filesystem - inside a jail. New &man.jail.8; parameters - <varname>allow.mount.devfs</varname>, - <varname>allow.mount.nullfs</varname>, and - <varname>allow.mount.zfs</varname> to control the per-jail - capabilities have been added. All of them are disabled by - default.</para> - - <para revision="234167">A new &man.loader.8; tunable - <varname>kern.eventtimer.activetick</varname> has been added. - This tunable specifies whether each hardclock tick should - be run on every active CPU or only one. By setting it to - <literal>0</literal>, the total number of interrupts can be reduced - on SMP machines. The default value is - <literal>1</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="229723">The &man.posix.fadvise.2; system call - has been implemented. This is a function similar to - &man.madvise.2; except that it operates on a file descriptor - instead of a memory region.</para> - - <para revision="237795">The &man.filemon.4; pseudo-device has - been added. This allows a process to collect file operations - data of its children.</para> - - <para revision="235413">The &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic</varname> is now set to - <literal>1</literal> by default.</para> - - <para revision="231907" arch="powerpc">&os;/powerpc64 now - supports kernel profiling by using &man.kgmon.8;.</para> - - <para revision="231145">The &os; Linux ABI compatibility layer - now supports the <function>linux_fadvise64()</function> and - <function>linux_fadvise64_64()</function> system calls.</para> - - <para revision="230266">The default value of the &man.loader.8; - tunable <varname>hw.memtest.tests</varname> is now - automatically set to <literal>0</literal> when &os; is running - on a virtual machine.</para> - - <para revision="234075">A new &man.loader.8; tunable - <varname>kern.msgbuf_show_timestamp</varname> has been added. - When it is enabled, a timestamp is added to each line of the - system message buffer. The default value is - <literal>0</literal> (disabled).</para> - - <para revision="230320">The &man.null.4; and &man.zero.4; pseudo - device driver now supports non-blocking mode via the &man.fcntl.2; - system call.</para> - - <para revision="233599">The &os; &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler has - been improved for CPU load balancing on SMT (Simultaneous - MultiThreading) CPUs. It gives a 10-15% performance improvement - when the number of threads is lesser than the number of - logical CPUs.</para> - - <para revision="235992" arch="sparc64">The <literal>PREEMPTION</literal> kernel option is - now enabled in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> - - <para revision="230039">A new &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>security.bsd.unprivileged_idprio</varname> has been - added. This variable controls whether non-root users can set - an idle priority or not. This is disabled by default.</para> - - <para revision="228445">The &man.splash.4; screen interface now - supports ASCII art in <application>TheDraw</application> - format.</para> + <para> </para> <sect3 xml:id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - <para revision="230065">The &man.boot0cfg.8; utility now - supports configuration of PXE boot via the - <filename>boot0</filename> boot block temporarily on the - next boot. The slice number <literal>6</literal> or a - keyword <literal>PXE</literal> can be specified to enable - PXE boot using the <option>-s</option> option.</para> - - <para revision="231287">The &os; &man.boot.8; block now - supports <filename>/boot/config</filename> in addition to - <filename>/boot.config</filename> as the boot block - parameter file. When both of them exist, the former will be - used.</para> - - <para revision="234693">The <filename>gptboot</filename> boot - block now reads the backup GPT header from the last LBA only - when the primary GPT header and tables are invalid. This - mitigates interoperability issues with some &man.geom.4; - providers like <literal>MIRROR</literal> which use the last - LBA for the metadata.</para> - - <para revision="237766">The <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot - block and <filename>zfsloader</filename> support - filesystems within a ZFS storage pool. In - <filename>zfsloader</filename>, the ZFS device name format is now - <literal>zfs:pool/fs</literal> - and the fully qualified file path format is - <literal>zfs:pool/fs:/path/to/file</literal>. - The <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block accepts the - kernel/loader name in the format - <literal>pool:fs:path/to/file</literal> - or, as before, - <literal>pool:path/to/file</literal>. - In the latter case a default filesystem is used (the pool - root or a filesystem with the <literal>bootfs</literal> property). The - <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block passes - the GUIDs of the selected - storage pool and dataset to <filename>zfsloader</filename> - to be used as its defaults.</para> - - <para revision="236076" arch="sparc64">&os;/sparc64 now - supports booting from ZFS via the <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block and - <filename>zfsloader</filename>. For example, the following commands create a - mirrored storage pool <literal>rpool</literal> consisting of - <literal>da0a</literal> and <literal>da0b</literal> and - configure the storage pool as the root filesystem:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; gpart create -s vtoc8 da0 -&prompt.root; gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 10g da0 -&prompt.root; gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 10g da0 -&prompt.root; gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 10g da0 -&prompt.root; zpool create rpool mirror da0a da0b -&prompt.root; zpool set bootfs=rpool rpool -&prompt.root; zpool export rpool -&prompt.root; gpart bootcode -p /boot/zfsboot da0 -&prompt.root; sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 -&prompt.root; dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/da0a bs=512 oseek=1024 conv=notrunc -&prompt.root; dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/da0b bs=512 oseek=1024 conv=notrunc -&prompt.root; zpool import rpool -&prompt.root; cp -p /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /rpool/boot/zfs/zpool.cache -&prompt.root; zfs set mountpoint=/ rpool</screen> + <para> </para> + </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="proc"> <title>Hardware Support</title> - <para revision="230751" arch="powerpc">The &man.abtn.4; - driver, which supports ADB keyboards found on Apple laptops, - has been added.</para> - - <para revision="233798" arch="amd64">A workaround for Erratum - 721 for AMD Processor Family 10h and 12h has been - implemented. Under a highly specific and detailed set of - internal timing conditions, the processor may incorrectly - update the stack pointer after a long series of push and/or - near-call instructions, or a long series of pop and/or - near-return instructions.</para> - - <para revision="232677" arch="powerpc">The atibl(4) driver, - which supports backlight control of ATI graphics chips on - PowerBooks and iBooks, has been added.</para> - - <para revision="229858">The &man.acpi.wmi.4; driver now - supports attaching multiple instances.</para> - - <para revision="230290" arch="powerpc">The adm1030(4) driver - for G4 MDD fans now shows its PWM parameter in the device's - &man.sysctl.8; variable.</para> - - <para revision="234559" arch="arm">The cesa(4) driver for the - Marvell crypto engine and security accelerator has been - added.</para> - - <para revision="230305" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4; - driver now supports PowerPC G4+ (MPC745x/MPC744x).</para> - - <para revision="234046" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hwpmc.4; - driver now supports the Intel Sandy Bridge - microarchitecture.</para> - - <para revision="236238">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver now supports - software events. Simultaneous usage of software PMC and - hardware PMC is allowed.</para> - - <para revision="236078">The pcf8563(4) driver for the NXP - (Philips) PCF8563 RTC has been added.</para> - - <para revision="233471" arch="powerpc">&os;/powerpc now - supports the PWM-controlled fans found on the PowerMac SMU (System - Management Unit).</para> - - <para revision="236081" arch="arm">&os;/arm now supports the Atmel - SAM9XE family of microcontrollers.</para> - - <para revision="230754,233950">The following &man.sysctl.8; - variables have been added: <varname>kern.proc.env</varname> - for environment strings, <varname>kern.proc.auxv</varname> - for ELF auxiliary vectors from a process's stack, - <varname>kern.proc.groups</varname> for process groups, - <varname>kern.proc.rlimit</varname> for process resource - limits, <varname>kern.proc.ps_strings</varname> for the - ps_strings location, and <varname>kern.proc.osrel</varname> for - the osreldate of the process's binary.</para> - - <para revision="229100,229369">The &man.usb.4; driver now - handles suspend and resume correctly with no need to reload - the kernel module.</para> - - <para revision="230302">A bug in the &man.xhci.4; (USB 3.0) - driver has been fixed. It did not work with USB 3.0 - hubs.</para> - - <para revision="229927">The &man.viawd.4; driver, which - supports the watchdog timer found in VIA south bridges (VT8251, - CX700, VX800, VX855, VX900), has been added.</para> - - <para revision="235926">The &man.wbwd.4; driver, which - supports the watchdog timer found in Winbond Super I/O chips, - has been added.</para> + <para> </para> <sect4 xml:id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> - <para revision="236926,236927,239965">The drm2(4) Intel GPU driver, - which supports GEM and KMS and works with new generations of - GPUs such as IronLake, SandyBridge, and IvyBridge, has been - added. The &man.agp.4; driver now supports SandyBridge - and IvyBridge CPU northbridges.</para> - - <para revision="232798">The &man.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 PCM devices on a controller, - multichannel recording, additional playback/record - streams, higher bandwidth, and more informative device - names.</para> - - <para revision="233165">The &man.snd.hdspe.4; driver has - been added. This supports RME HDSPe AIO and RayDAT sound - cards.</para> - - <para revision="230964,230985,231047,235769">GPL-licensed - headers in the &man.snd.emu10kx.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;, - and &man.snd.csa.4; drivers have been replaced with - BSD-licensed one. These drivers are now fully - BSD-licensed and included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> - kernel on &os;/amd64 and &os;/i386.</para> + <para> </para> + </sect4> <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para revision="229520">A bug in the &man.ae.4; driver which could - prevent it from working under certain conditions has been - fixed.</para> - - <para revision="229106">The &man.axe.4; driver now supports - TX/RX checksum offloading support for the ASIX AX88772B - controller.</para> - - <para>The &man.bce.4; driver has been improved:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para revision="229864">Unnecessary link up/down has - been eliminated.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para revision="236216">A bug has been fixed which could - prevent IPMI from working when the interface was - marked as down.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para revision="235818">It 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.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>The &man.bge.4; and brgphy(4) drivers have been - improved:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para revision="229350">A bug which could prevent - DMA functionality from working correctly has been - fixed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para revision="233495">It now works with a PCI-X BCM 5704 - controller that is connected to AMD-8131 PCI-X bridge.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para revision="229357,229867,232134">It now supports - the BCM 5720 and BCM 5720C PHY, and the BCM 57780 1000BASE-T - media interface.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para revision="231734">It now supports a &man.loader.8; - tunable - <varname>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.msi</varname> - to control the use of MSI. The default value is - <literal>1</literal> (enabled).</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para revision="231093,237925">The &man.cxgbe.4; and - &man.cxgb.4; drivers have been updated to firmware version - 1.5.2.0. They now support device configuration via a - plain text configuration file, IPv6 hardware checksumming, - IPv6 TSO and LRO, a <literal>loadfw</literal> command in the - cxgbetool(8) utility which allows installing a firmware to - the card, and &man.sysctl.8; variables under - <varname>dev.t4nex.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.misc</varname> - for various information.</para> - - <para revision="229334">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports - NVIDIA (ULi) M5261/M5263 PCI FastEthernet controllers, which - are found on the ULi M1563 South Bridge and M1689 Bridge.</para> - - <para revision="229711,229717,229720">The &man.et.4; driver - now works on all platforms. A bug which could prevent - &man.altq.4; support from working has been fixed. A new - &man.sysctl.8; variable under - <varname>dev.et.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname> - has been added for hardware MAC statistics.</para> - - <para revision="238262">The &man.igb.4; driver has been - updated to version 2.3.4. It now supports newer i210/i211 - devices.</para> - - <para revision="233838,235843">The &man.iwn.4; driver now - supports Intel Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 and - Wireless-N 100/130 series.</para> - - <para revision="230709">The &man.miibus.4; bus driver now - supports device hints - <varname>hint.miibus.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.phymask</varname> - for PHY addresses being probed. This is useful to manually - probe PHYs which do not implement basic the register set of - IEEE 802.3. Also, the &man.miibus.4; driver has been - changed to a hinted bus, allowing to add child devices via - hints and to set their attach arguments in addition to - automatically-probed PHYs.</para> - - <para revision="229524">The &man.msk.4; driver now uses 64-bit - DMA addressing on 64-bit platforms.</para> - - <para revision="236413">The &man.mxge.4; driver has been - updated to firmware version 1.4.55 from Myricom.</para> - - <para revision="232137">The nsphyter(4) driver now supports - National DP83849.</para> - - <para revision="231663">The &man.oce.4; driver, which - supports Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet cards, has been - added.</para> - - <para revision="236004">The &man.ral.4; driver now supports - Ralink RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.</para> - - <para revision="229529,231731">The &man.re.4; driver now - supports the RTL8411 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller. A bug - which could prevent WoL (Wake-on-LAN) from working on - RTL8168E has been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="234028">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been - updated to version 0.236.</para> - - <para revision="228100">The &man.sfxge.4; driver, which - supports 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on Solarflare SFC9000 - family controllers, has been added.</para> - - <para revision="233485">The smcphy(4) driver now supports the - Seeq Technology 80220 PHY. This is found on Adaptec - AIC-6915 Starfire Ethernet controllers supported by the - &man.sf.4; driver.</para> - - <para revision="229417,229438">The &man.ti.4; driver now - supports the &man.altq.4; framework, reporting link-state - changes, and &man.sysctl.8; variables under - <varname>dev.ti.<replaceable>N</replaceable></varname> for - interrupt moderation parameters.</para> - - <para revision="229441">A bug in the &man.ti.4; driver which could - prevent it from working correctly with the <literal>PAE</literal> - kernel option has been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="229540">The &man.vge.4; driver has been - updated to improve its link establishment and link-state - detection.</para> - - <para revision="229641">The &man.vr.4; driver now enables - flow control capability in the PHY drivers.</para> - - <para revision="231697">The &man.xnb.4; Xen Paravirtualized - Backend Ethernet Driver (netback) has been updated. This is - attached via the newbus framework and works properly in both - HVM and PVM mode.</para> + <para> </para> + </sect4> </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para revision="236051">The &man.if.bridge.4; pseudo-interface - now supports reporting link-state changes depending on the status - of the member interfaces.</para> - - <para revision="234597">The <literal>table</literal> argument - in the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter rule syntax now supports - IP address, interface name, port number, and jail ID. The - following syntax is valid:</para> - - <programlisting>skipto tablearg ip from any to any via table(42) in</programlisting> - - <para>The &os; &man.ip6.4; protocol stack has been improved in terms - of its performance. Benchmarking can be found at <uri xlink:href="http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/bench/">http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/bench/</uri>.</para>; - - <para revision="232292">The &os; &man.ip6.4; protocol stack now - supports multiple FIBs.</para> - - <para revision="230604">An IPv6 default route configured via - Router Advertisement messages is now reinstalled correctly - when the default route is manually removed and then another - RA message is received for the same route.</para> - - <para revision="227885">A bug which could return an incorrect - value for the <literal>IPV6_MULTICASE_HOPS</literal> socket option - has been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="231768">A new &man.sysctl.3; name - <literal>NET_RT_IFLISTL</literal> has been added. This - queries the address list and works on extended and - extensible structures <varname>if_msghdrl</varname> and - <varname>ifa_msghdrl</varname> without breaking the - ABI.</para> - - <para revision="231650,235527">The &man.netmap.4; fast packet - I/O framework has been added. The &man.em.4;, lem(4), - &man.igb.4;, and &man.re.4; drivers now support this - framework. The technical details can be found at <uri xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/</uri>.</para>; - - <para revision="231045">The &os; &man.sctp.4; protocol stack now - supports a new &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>net.inet.sctp.blackhole</varname>. If this is set - to <literal>1</literal>, no <literal>ABORT</literal> is sent - back in response to an incoming <literal>INIT</literal>. If - this is set to <literal>2</literal>, no - <literal>ABORT</literal> is sent back in response to an - out-of-the-blue packet. If set to <literal>0</literal> - (the default), <literal>ABORT</literal>s are sent.</para> - - <para revision="231049">A bug which could cause a system panic - when <literal>SCTP_RECVINFO</literal> or - <literal>SCTP_NXTINFO</literal> is specified to the - &man.getsockopt.2; system call has been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="231070,231140">The &os; &man.sctp.4; protocol stack now - supports the <literal>SCTP_REMOTE_UDP_ENCAPS_PORT</literal> - socket option.</para> - - <para revision="232805">The <literal>SO_PROTOCOL</literal> and - <literal>SO_PROTOTYPE</literal> socket options have been - added. These return the socket protocol number.</para> - - <para revision="232945">The <literal>TCP_KEEPINIT</literal>, - <literal>TCP_KEEPIDLE</literal>, - <literal>TCP_KEEPINTVL</literal>, and - <literal>TCP_KEEPCNT</literal> socket options have been - added. These allow controlling initial timeout, idle time, - idle resend interval, and idle send count on a per-socket - basis.</para> + <para> </para> + </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para revision="240758">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been - updated to version 1.20.00.25.</para> - - <para revision="229291">The &man.ahci.4; driver now supports a - new &man.loader.8; tunable <varname>hw.ahci.force</varname>. - This controls whether it attempts to attach an AHCI-capable - device even if it is configured to use legacy emulation. - This is enabled by default.</para> - - <para revision="231251">The new &man.cam.4;-based &man.ata.4; - driver now supports old &man.loader.8; tunables - <varname>hw.ata.ata_dma</varname> and - <varname>hw.ata.atapi_dma</varname>, for backward - compatibility.</para> - - <para revision="236778">The &man.cam.4; driver now supports - SEMB (SATA Enclosure Management Bridge) devices, which are - equivalent to the SCSI SES/SAF-TE devices.</para> - - <para revision="236765">A new &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>kern.cam.pmp.hide_special</varname> has been added. - This controls whether special PMP ports such as PMP (Port - MultiPlier) configuration or SEMB (SATA Enclosure Management - Bridge) will be exposed or hidden. The default value is - <literal>1</literal> (hidden).</para> - - <para revision="231772">The ctl(4) driver, which supports - &man.cam.4; Target Layer and &man.ctladm.8;, a userland - control utility, have been added. ctl(4) is a disk and - processor device emulation subsystem supporting tagged - queuing, SCSI task attribute, SCSI implicit command - ordering, full task management, multiple ports, multiple - simultaneous initiators, multiple simultaneous backing - stores, mode sense/select, and error injection - support.</para> - - <para revision="230014">The &man.cd.4; driver now supports - Audio CDs in the same way as &man.acd.4; did. It will - report a 2352-byte sector size to the &man.geom.4; subsystem and use - the <literal>READ CD</literal> command for reading the data. - This fixes an interoperability issue with <package>multimedia/vlc</package>.</para> - - <para revision="236677">The &man.da.4; driver now supports - <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal>. To select the method, a new - &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>kern.cam.da.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.delete_method</varname> - has been added for each device instance. The following - values are supported:</para> - - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1"> - <tgroup cols="2"> - <thead> - <row> - <entry>Value</entry> - <entry>Method</entry> - </row> - </thead> - - <tbody> - <row> - <entry>NONE</entry> - <entry>no provisioning support reported by the device</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry>DISABLE</entry> - <entry>provisioning support was disabled because of errors</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry>ZERO</entry> - <entry>WRITE SAME (10) command to write zeroes</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry>WS10</entry> - <entry>WRITE SAME (10) command with UNMAP bit set</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry>WS16</entry> - <entry>use WRITE SAME (16) command with UNMAP bit set</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry>UNMAP</entry> - <entry>use UNMAP command (equivalent of the ATA DSM TRIM command)</entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - - <para>When it was <literal>NONE</literal>, the device did not - report logical block provisioning support via respective - VPD pages. One can set a specific method for testing and it - will be disabled automatically when not supported on the - device.</para> - - <para revision="238500">The <application>MIRROR</application> - &man.geom.4; class now supports - <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal>. This means the - <literal>TRIM</literal> command will be issued on - supported devices when deleting data.</para> - - <para revision="229303,234916">The - <application>MULTIPATH</application> &man.geom.4; class has - been updated. It now supports Active/Active mode, - Active/Read mode as hybrid of Active/Active and - Active/Passive, keeping a failed path without removing the - geom provider, manual configuration without on-disk - metadata, and <command>add</command>, - <command>remove</command>, <command>fail</command>, - <command>restore</command>, <command>configure</command> - subcommands in the &man.gmultipath.8; utility to manage the - configured paths.</para> - - <para revision="234406">The - <application>PART_LDM</application> &man.geom.4; class has - been added. This partition scheme has support for Logical Disk - Manager, which is also known as dynamic volumes in Microsoft - Windows NT. Note that JBOD, RAID0, and RAID5 volumes are - not supported yet.</para> - - <para revision="230763">The <application>PART_MBR</application> - &man.geom.4; class now allows a primary or extended Linux - swap partition to be used as the system dump device.</para> - - <para revision="235877" arch="amd64,i386">The - <application>RAID</application> &man.geom.4; class is now - included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> - - <para revision="230244">The <application>RAID</application> - &man.geom.4; class now supports disks with over 2TB capacity - for the Intel metadata format.</para> - - <para revision="235874">The <application>RAID</application> - &man.geom.4; class now supports the DDF metadata format, which - is defined in the SNIA Common RAID Disk Data Format - Specification v2.0.</para> - - <para revision="235483">The - <application>UNCOMPRESS</application> &man.geom.4; class and - the &man.mkulzma.8; utility have been added. This class - supports lzma compressed images like the - <application>UZIP</application> &man.geom.4; class and the - &man.mkuzip.8; utility.</para> - - <para revision="229975" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hpt27xx.4; - driver has been added. This supports HighPoint RocketRAID - 27xx-based SAS 6Gb/s HBA.</para> - - <para revision="231689" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.isci.4; - driver, which supports the integrated SAS controller in the - Intel C600 (Patsburg) chipset, has been added.</para> - - <para revision="230019">Bugs in &man.isp.4; target mode have - been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="230775">The &man.ixgbe.4; driver now supports - the Intel X540 adapter.</para> - - <para revision="227533">A bug in the &man.mfi.4; driver has been - fixed. It could cause some inconsistencies due to missed - interrupt acknowledgements and output the following log - message:</para> - - <screen>mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffXXXXXXXXXX TIMEOUT AFTER XX SECONDS</screen> - - <para revision="229611,234429">The &man.mfi.4; driver now - supports single-message MSI, and Drake Skinny and - Thunderbolt cards. The &man.loader.8; tunable - <varname>hw.mfi.msi</varname> has been added and it is - enabled by default.</para> - - <para revision="230920,231679,237876">The &man.mps.4; driver - has been updated to version 14.00.00.01-fbsd. This now - supports Integrated RAID, WarpDrive controllers, WRITE12 and - READ12 for direct I/O, SCSI protection information (EEDP), - Transport Level Retries (TLR) for tape drives, and LSI's - userland utility.</para> - - <para revision="232562">A bug in the &man.mpt.4; driver has - been fixed. It could attempt to attach MegaRAID cards which - should be handled by the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> + <para> </para> - <para revision="229107">The &man.usb.4; storage device driver - now enables power save mode by default.</para> </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para>The &os; NFS filesystem has been improved:</para> + <para> </para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para revision="233326">It now supports a timeout on - positive name cache entries on the client side. A new - mount option <varname>nametimeo</varname> has been added - and set to <literal>60</literal> (in seconds) by - default.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para revision="234740">A memory leak when a ZFS volume is - exported via the &os; NFS server has been fixed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para revision="233730">A bug has been fixed. When a - process writes to an mmap-backed file on an NFS - filesystem, flushing changes to the data could fail - under some circumstances such as errors due to - permission mismatch, and this failure could not be detected - as an error. A new &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>vfs.nfs.nfs_keep_dirty_on_error</varname> has - been added to control the behavior on the client side - related to this issue. When this is set to - <literal>1</literal>, the pages where a write operation - failed are kept dirty. The default value is set to - <literal>0</literal>.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para revision="229799">The &man.nfsv4.4; filesystem now - supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>vfs.nfsd.disable_checkutf8</varname>. This - disables the check for UTF-8 compliance in - filenames. This is disabled by default. Note that - enabling this may help wht some interoperability issues but - results in an NFSv4 server that is not RFC 3530 - compliant.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para revision="234511">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem is not an - experimental implementation anymore.</para> - - <para revision="234849">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem now - supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>vfs.tmpfs.memory_reserved</varname> to set the amount - of required free pages when &man.tmpfs.5; attempts to - allocate a new node.</para> - - <para revision="229578,232328">&os;'s ZFS filesystem has been - updated by merging improvements from the illumos project. The - following changes are made:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>New properties, <literal>clones</literal> and - <literal>written</literal>, have been added.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>send</command> command - now reports an estimated size of the stream.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>destroy</command> command - now reports an estimate of the space which would be reclaimed, - when <option>-n</option> is specified.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>get</command> command now - supports the <option>-t <replaceable>type</replaceable></option> - flag to specify the data type.</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para revision="227705">A simple script - <filename>zfsboottest.sh</filename> has been added to the - source tree. This checks if the system is configured - correctly when using ZFS as the root filesystem. The script - is located at - <filename>/usr/src/tools/tools/zfsboottest.sh</filename> and - it uses the <filename>zfsboottest</filename> binary program in the - same directory.</para> - - <para>The binary program can be built and installed by the - following command:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/tools/tools/zfsboottest -&prompt.root; make -&prompt.root; make install</screen> - - <para>After that, the following command can be used to check the - system. <replaceable>poolname</replaceable> is the ZFS - storage pool name to boot:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; sh /usr/src/tools/tools/zfsboottest/zfsboottest.sh <replaceable>poolname</replaceable></screen> - - <para>The &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>vfs.zfs.txg.timeout</varname> has been changed from - read-only to writable.</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -932,276 +212,33 @@ &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely rewritten.</para> - <para revision="238481">&man.auth.conf.5; has been removed - because it was deprecated years ago.</para> - - <para revision="237740">The &man.camcontrol.8; utility now - supports a <command>fwdownload</command> subcommand for firmware - update on SCSI devices from Hitachi, HP, IBM, Plextor, - Quantum, and Seagate. This subcommand will reprogram the - firmware on devices connected over an ATA/SATA transport.</para> - - <para revision="230597">The &man.dhclient.8; utility now - supports <literal>domain-search</literal> (option number 119, - described in RFC 3397). This allows a DHCP server to publish - a list of implicit domain suffixes used during name lookup. - If this option is specified, a <literal>search</literal> - keyword will be added to - <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="230047">The &man.dump.8; utility now uses 53 - characters for the device names in - <filename>/etc/dumpdates</filename>. This was previously limited to 32 - characters.</para> - - <para revision="235253">The &man.fetch.1; utility now correctly - supports a percent-encoded user and password part in a - URL.</para> - - <para revision="230410">The &man.fdlopen.3; function has been - implemented. This is an interface for &man.rtld.1; to load a - shared object by file descriptor.</para> - - <para revision="229845">The &man.fopen.3; function now supports - the <option>x</option> (an exclusive create-and-open mode) option - in the ISO/IEC 9899:2011 and C11 standards.</para> - - <para revision="234023">A bug in the &man.gcc.1; compiler has - been fixed. It could lead to incorrect calculations when - <option>-ffast-math</option> is specified.</para> - - <para revision="229509">The &man.hastd.8; daemon now supports - specifying the filename of its process ID file in - &man.hast.conf.5;.</para> - - <para revision="231221">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now - supports a <literal>vlanhwcsum</literal> parameter to set or - reset checksum offloading capability on VLANs.</para> - - <para revision="238872">A bug in the &man.ifconfig.8; utility - which could display an error message in a jail with no IPv6 - support has been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="232486">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now - supports a <literal>carp state state</literal> - parameter to set - the state to <literal>backup</literal> or - <literal>master</literal> forcibly.</para> - - <para revision="235839">The &man.jail.8; utility now supports a - configuration file (&man.jail.conf.5;) for complex - configurations.</para> - - <para revision="237789">The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports a - <option>-p <replaceable>pid</replaceable></option> option to - accept either a process ID or a thread ID.</para> - - <para revision="236118">The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a - <option>-v</option> flag to display an entry in - <literal>name=value</literal> format, and a <option>-N</option> - flag to display only the name.</para> - - <para revision="233560">The &man.kldload.8; utility now supports a - <option>-n</option> flag to ignore the error status when the - specified module is already loaded.</para> - - <para revision="237738"><application>libedit</application> has - been updated to a NetBSD snapshot as of 28 December, - 2009.</para> - - <para revision="236523">&man.libmap.conf.5; now supports - <literal>include</literal> and <literal>includedir</literal> - directives. They allow to include specified files for the - configuration.</para> - - <para revision="234372">Lock handling performance in the - <application>libthr</application> pthread library has been - improved. It now works 10 times faster especially under the - condition that a mutex is heavily contested.</para> - - <para revision="235798">A new C++ stack has been imported. This - consists of <application>libcxxrt</application>, originally - developed by a &os; developer under contract by PathScale and - open sourced by the &os; and NetBSD foundations, and - <application>libc++</application> from the LLVM project. - <application>libcxxrt</application> is a drop-in replacement - for GNU <application>libsupc++</application>, which implements - the C++ runtime support for features such as run-time type - information, dynamic casting, thread-safe static initializer, - and exceptions. <application>libc++</application> implements - the C++11 standard library, and will replace GNU - <application>libstdc++</application> in a future release. In - 9.1-RELEASE, <application>libstdc++</application> is still - installed as standard and now dynamically links against - <application>libsupc++</application>. This allows libraries - linking <application>libstdc++</application> and - <application>libc++</application> to both be used in the same - program, to aid migration.</para> - - <para revision="230919">The &man.limits.1; utility now supports - a <option>-P <replaceable>pid</replaceable></option> option to - control limits for the specified process.</para> - - <para revision="237731">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now supports a - <option>-e</option> flag to display PCI error details in - listing mode. When this is specified, the status of any error - bits in the PCI status register and PCI-express device status - register will be displayed. It also lists any errors - indicated by version 1 of PCI-express Advanced Error Reporting - (AER).</para> - - <para revision="229710">The &man.procstat.1; utility now shows the - superpage mapping flag when displaying process virtual memory - mappings.</para> - - <para revision="230917,230918">The &man.procstat.1; utility now - supports an <option>-e</option> flag to display process - environment variables, an <option>-x</option> flag to display - ELF auxiliary vectors, and an <option>-l</option> flag to - display resource limits.</para> - - <para revision="234535">A bug in the &man.remquo.3; functions - where the quotient did not always have the correct sign when - the remainder was <literal>0</literal>, and another bug that - the remainder and quotient were both off by a bit in certain - cases involving subnormal remainders, have been fixed. Note - that these bugs affected all platforms except amd64 and - i386.</para> - - <para revision="231579">The &man.rtld.1; run-time linker now - supports GCC's RELRO (RElocation Read-Only). This prevents the - GOT (Global Offset Table) from being overwritten.</para> - - <para revision="235396">The &man.rtld.1; run-time linker now - supports a GNU hash section (<literal>DT_GNU_HASH</literal>), - which is a replacement of optional ELF hash section.</para> - - <para revision="235139">The &man.setbuf.1; utility and - <application>libstdbuf</application> library have been added. - This controls the default buffering behavior of standard - stdio streams.</para> - - <para revision="227702">The &man.top.1; utility now correctly - supports per-thread I/O statistics of ZFS in the <option>-m - io</option> option.</para> - - <para revision="234330">The &man.unzip.1; utility now supports a - <option>-Z</option> option for zipinfo.</para> - - <para revision="235785">The &man.xlocale.3; API has been - implemented. This consists of <literal>_l</literal>-suffixed - versions of various standard library functions that use the - global locale, making them take an explicit locale parameter - and allowing thread-safe extended locale support. Most of - these APIs are required for IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (POSIX.1-2008 - or ISO/IEC 9945:2009) compatibility, and are required by - <application>libc++</application> and recent versions of - <application>GNOME</application>. This implementation also - supports several extensions for compatibility with Apple - <application>Darwin</application>.</para> - <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts"> <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title> - <para revision="231721">A new variable - <varname>daily_status_zfs_zpool_list_enable</varname> has - been added. It controls whether or not to list all of the ZFS - pools in <filename>periodic/daily/404.status-zfs</filename>. - The default value is <literal>YES</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="229381">The default value of - <varname>daily_scrub_zfs_default_threshold</varname> used in - <filename>periodic/daily/800.scrub-zfs</filename> is now set - to 35 days.</para> + <para> </para> + </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title> - <para revision="227607">The <filename>rc.d/nfsd</filename> script - now sets the <varname>vfs.nfsd.server_max_nfsvers</varname> - &man.sysctl.8; variable to <literal>4</literal> when - <varname>nfsv4_server_enable</varname> is set to - <literal>YES</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="242189">A backwards compatibility issue when - both <literal>ipv6_enable=YES</literal> and - <literal>ipv6_gateway_enable=YES</literal> are defined at - the same time has been fixed.</para> + <para> </para> + *** DIFF OUTPUT TRUNCATED AT 1000 LINES ***
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