Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:09:39 +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: r191503 - releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <200904252309.n3PN9dnO065969@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Sat Apr 25 23:09:39 2009 New Revision: 191503 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191503 Log: Update release note: agp(4) Intel G4X support, DRM update, snd_hda(4) update, jail(8) FIB support, ng_netflow(4) egress netflow support, mmc(4) and mmcsd(4) improved, sdhci(4) added, mmc(4), mmcsd(4), and sdhci(4) as kernel module, fetch(1) -i flag, fsck(8) -C flag, ipfw(8) -q flag fixed, powerd(8) improved, rpc.yppasswdd(8) zombie process issue fixed, and pkg_create(1) -n fixed. Approved by: re (implicit) Modified: releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Modified: releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml ============================================================================== --- releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Apr 25 23:08:59 2009 (r191502) +++ releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Apr 25 23:09:39 2009 (r191503) @@ -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> @@ -212,7 +207,7 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para></para> + <para>&os; DTrace subsystem now supports a probes for process execution.</para> <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -228,7 +223,29 @@ <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> - <para></para> + <para>The &man.agp.4; now supports Intel G4X series graphics + chipsets.</para> + + <para>The DRM, a kernel module named Direct Rendering + Manager that gives direct hardware access to DRI clients, + has been updated. Support for AMD/ATI r500 and IGP based + chips, XGI V3XE/V5/V8, and Intel i915 chipsets has been + improved.</para> + + <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been updated. Changes + include: multiple codec per HDA bus, multiple functional + gropups per codec, multiple audio devices per functional + group, digital (SPDIF/HDMI) audio input/output, + suspend/resume, and part of multichannel audio.</para> + + <para>Note that due to added HDMI audio and logical audio + devices support, updated driver often provides several PCM + devices. In some cases it can make system default audio + device no longer corresponding to the users's habbitual + audio connectors. In such cases the default device can be + specified in audio application setup or defined globally + via <varname>hw.snd.default_unit sysctl</varname> + as described in the &man.sound.4; manual page.</para> </sect4> <sect4 id="net-if"> @@ -242,15 +259,28 @@ <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para></para> + <para>The &man.jail.8; subsystem now supports start with a + specific route FIB.</para> + <para>The &man.ng.netflow.4; Netgraph node now supports + ability to generate egress netflow instead or in addition to + ingress. A <literal>NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG</literal> control + message has been added to control the new functionality.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para></para> + <para>The &man.mmc.4; and &man.mmcsd.4; driver now support MMC + and SDHC cards, high speed timing, wide bus, and multiblock + transfers.</para> + + <para>The &man.sdhci.4; driver has been added. This supports + PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 accord- ing to SD Host + Controller Specification.</para> + <para>The &man.mmc.4; &man.mmcsd.4;, and &man.sdhci.4; driver + are now included as a kernel module.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="fs"> @@ -263,7 +293,35 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> - <para></para> + <para>The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an + <option>-i</option> flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP + request.</para> + + <para>The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a + <option>-C</option> flag for catastriphic recovery mode, which + will enable certain aggressive operations that can make + &man.fsck.8; to survive with file systems that has very + serious data damage, which is an useful last resort when on + disk data damage is very serious and causes &man.fsck.8; to + crash otherwise.</para> + + <para>A bug in the &man.ipfw.8; utility which displays extra + messages for a NAT rule even when a <option>-q</option> flag + is specified.</para> + + <para>The &man.powerd.8; program has been improved. Changes + include reasonable CPU load estimation on SMP systems and a + new mode named as <literal>hiadaptive</literal> for AC-powered + systems which rises frequency twice faster, drops it 4 times + slower, prefers twice lower CPU load and has additional delay + before leaving the highest frequency after the period of + maximum load.</para> + + <para>The &man.strndup.3; function has been added.</para> + + <para>A bug in the &man.rpc.yppasswdd.8; program which leaves a + zombie process when a password or default shell is changed has + been fixed.</para> <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> @@ -281,14 +339,13 @@ <para>The timezone database has been updated from the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to the <application>tzdata2009f</application> release.</para> - </sect2> <sect2 id="ports"> <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - <para></para> - + <para>A bug in the &man.pkg.create.1; which prevents the + <option>-n</option> flag from working has been fixed.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="releng">
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