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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:02:48 +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: r217227 - in releng/8.2/release/doc: de_DE.ISO8859-1 en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes fr_FR.ISO8859-1 ja_JP.eucJP ru_RU.KOI8-R share/sgml zh_CN.GB2312
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Author: hrs
Date: Mon Jan 10 18:02:47 2011
New Revision: 217227
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/217227

Log:
  - Bump version numbers for the upcoming release.
  - Clean up old entries.
  
  Approved by:	re (implicit)

Deleted:
  releng/8.2/release/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/
  releng/8.2/release/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/
  releng/8.2/release/doc/ja_JP.eucJP/
  releng/8.2/release/doc/ru_RU.KOI8-R/
  releng/8.2/release/doc/zh_CN.GB2312/
Modified:
  releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
  releng/8.2/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent

Modified: releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml	Mon Jan 10 17:45:09 2011	(r217226)
+++ releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml	Mon Jan 10 18:02:47 2011	(r217227)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
 
   <copyright>
-    <year>2010</year>
+    <year>2011</year>
     <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
   </copyright>
 
@@ -132,64 +132,24 @@
 
 	    <tbody>
 	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl.asc"
-			      >SA-09:15.ssl</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>3&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2009</entry>
-		<entry><para>SSL protocol flaw</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld.asc"
-			      >SA-09:16.rtld</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>3&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2009</entry>
-		<entry><para>Improper environment sanitization in &man.rtld.1;</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc"
-			      >SA-09:17.freebsd-update</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>3&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2009</entry>
-		<entry><para>Inappropriate directory permissions in &man.freebsd-update.8;</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:01.bind.asc"
-			      >SA-10:01.bind</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>6&nbsp;Jan&nbsp;2010</entry>
-		<entry><para>BIND &man.named.8; cache poisoning with DNSSEC validation</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:02.ntpd.asc"
-			      >SA-10:02.ntpd</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>6&nbsp;Jan&nbsp;2010</entry>
-		<entry><para>ntpd mode 7 denial of service</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:03.zfs.asc"
-			      >SA-10:03.zfs</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>6&nbsp;Jan&nbsp;2010</entry>
-		<entry><para>ZFS ZIL playback with insecure permissions</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:04.jail.asc"
-			      >SA-10:04.jail</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>27&nbsp;May&nbsp;2010</entry>
-		<entry><para>Insufficient environment sanitization in &man.jail.8;</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:05.opie.asc"
-			      >SA-10:05.opie</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>27&nbsp;May&nbsp;2010</entry>
-		<entry><para>OPIE off-by-one stack overflow</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:06.nfsclient.asc"
-			      >SA-10:06.nfsclient</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>27&nbsp;May&nbsp;2010</entry>
-		<entry><para>Unvalidated input in nfsclient</para></entry>
-	      </row>
-	      <row>
-		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf.asc"
-			      >SA-10:07.mbuf</ulink></entry>
-		<entry>13&nbsp;July&nbsp;2010</entry>
-		<entry><para>Lost mbuf flag resulting in data corruption</para></entry>
+		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc"
+			      >SA-10:08.bzip2</ulink></entry>
+		<entry>20&nbsp;September&nbsp;2010</entry>
+		<entry><para>Integer overflow in bzip2 decompression</para></entry>
+	      </row>
+<!-- XXX: not for 8.2
+	      <row>
+		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:09.pseudofs.asc"
+			      >SA-10:09.pseudofs</ulink></entry>
+		<entry>10&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010</entry>
+		<entry><para>Spurious mutex unlock</para></entry>
+	      </row>
+-->
+	      <row>
+		<entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:10.openssl.asc"
+			      >SA-10:10.openssl</ulink></entry>
+		<entry>29&nbsp;November&nbsp;2010</entry>
+		<entry><para>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry>
 	      </row>
 	    </tbody>
 	</tgroup>
@@ -199,1272 +159,68 @@
     <sect2 id="kernel">
       <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 
-      <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger has been improved:</para>
-
-      <itemizedlist>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>It now supports <command>show
-	      ifnets</command> and <command>show ifnet <replaceable>struct
-		ifnet *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of
-	    <quote>ifnet *</quote> of each virtual network stack and
-	    fields of specified <varname>fip</varname>,
-	    respectively.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>It now supports <command>show all
-	      lltables</command>, <command>show lltable
-	      <replaceable>struct lltable *</replaceable></command>, and
-	    <command>show llentry <replaceable>struct llentry
-		*</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of
-	    <quote>lltable *</quote> of each virtual network stack,
-	    fields of specified structures respectively.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>The <command>show mount</command> command now prints
-	    active string mount options.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>It now supports <command>show
-	      vnetrcrs</command> command to dump the whole log of
-	    distinctive <varname>curvnet</varname> recursion
-	    events.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>It now supports <command>show
-	      vnet_sysinit</command> and <command>show
-	      vnet_unsysinit</command> commands to print
-	    ordered call lists.</para>
-	</listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-
-      <para>A new kernel thread called <quote>deadlock
-	  resolver</quote> has been added.  This can be used to detect
-	possible deadlock by using information of thread state and
-	heuristic analysis.  This is not enabled by default.  To
-	enable this, an option <option>option DEADLKRES</option> in
-	kernel configuration file and recompilation of the
-	kernel.</para>
-
-      <para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256
-	of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para>
-
-      <para>Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead have been added
-	to &man.fcntl.2; system call:</para>
-
-      <itemizedlist>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para><varname>F_READAHEAD</varname> specifies the amount
-	    for sequential access.  The amount is specified in bytes and is
-	    rounded up to nearest block size.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para><varname>F_RDAHEAD</varname> is a Darwin compatible
-	    version that use 128KB as the sequential access
-	    size.</para>
-	</listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-
-      <para>Note that the read-ahead amount is also limited by
-	sysctl variable <varname>vfs.read_max</varname>, which may
-	need to be raised in order to better utilize this
-	feature.</para>
-
-      <para>The &man.lindev.4; driver has been added.  This is for
-	supporting various Linux-specific pseudo devices such as
-	<filename>/dev/full</filename>.  Note that this is not
-	included in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
-      <para>A POSIX function pselect(3) has been reimplemented as a
-	system call &man.pselect.2; to eliminate race
-	condition.</para>
-
-      <para>A kernel option <option>option
-	  INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE</option> has been added to
-	<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para>
-
-      <para>A bug in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler that the
-	timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the
-	wakeup has been fixed.</para>
-
-      <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has
-	been fixed.</para>
-
-      <para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented
-	process usage (<literal>%CPU</literal>) from working correctly
-	has been fixed.</para>
-
-      <para>New SDT (Statically Defined Tracing) probes such as ones
-	for <literal>opencrypto</literal> and <literal>vnet</literal>
-	have been added to &os; &man.dtrace.1; subsystem.</para>
-
-      <para arch="powerpc">&os; now supports SMP in PowerPC G5
-	systems.  Note that SMP support on &os;/&arch.powerpc; is
-	disabled by default in <filename>GENERIC</filename>
-	kernel.</para>
-
-      <para arch="sparc64">&os; now supports UltraSPARC IV, IV+, and
-	SPARC64 V CPUs.</para>
-
-      <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver has been improved.  The history
-	buffer can be fully saved/restored in the VESA mode switching
-	via a loader tunable
-	<varname>hint.sc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.vesa_mode</varname>.</para>
-
-      <para>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that
-	<varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed.  This
-	affects applications like &man.mail.1;.</para>
-
-      <para arch="amd64,i386">An x86 real mode emulator based on
-	OpenBSD's x86emu implementation has been added to improve real
-	mode BIOS call support on both &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64;.
-	The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.dpms.4;, vesa(4), &man.vga.4; driver
-	now use this emulator and work on the both platforms.</para>
-
-      <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; virtualization container can work
-	with &man.sctp.4; now.  Note that the VIMAGE is not enabled by
-	default in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
-      <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; now supports
-	<varname>ip4.saddrsel</varname>,
-	<varname>ip4.nosaddrsel</varname>,
-	<varname>ip6.saddrsel</varname>, and
-	<varname>ip6.nosaddrsel</varname> to control whether to use
-	source address selection or the primary jail address for
-	unbound outgoing connections.  The default value is to use
-	source address selection.</para>
+      <para></para>
 
       <sect3 id="boot">
 	<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 
-	<para arch="pc98">The <filename>boot2</filename> bootcode has
-	  been reimplemented based on the &arch.i386 counterpart.  It
-	  now supports ELF binary, UFS2 file system, and larger number
-	  of slices.</para>
-
-	<para arch="ia64">The EFI <filename>loader</filename> program
-	  now supports a command-line option <option>-dev
-	    <replaceable>currdev</replaceable></option> to specify the
-	  default value of <varname>currdev</varname>.  This option
-	  can be set by the EFI boot manager.</para>
-
-	<para arch="powerpc">The &man.loader.8; program now supports
-	  U-Boot storage.</para>
-
-	<para arch="i386">The algorithm the &man.loader.8; uses has
-	  been improved to choose a memory range for its heap when
-	  using a range above 1MB.  This fixes a symptom that the
-	  loader fails to load a kernel.</para>
-
-        <para>A kernel environment variable
-	  <varname>vfs.root.mountfrom</varname> now supports
-	  multiple elements for root file system in a space-separated
-	  list.  Each list element will be tried in order and the
-	  first available one will be mounted.</para>
-
-        <para>The <filename>zfsloader</filename> has been added.  This
-	  is a separate &man.zfs.8; enabled loader.  Note that a ZFS
-	  bootcode (<filename>zfsboot</filename> or
-	  <filename>gptzfsboot</filename>) need to be installed
-	  to use this new loader.</para>
-
-        <para>The <filename>zfsboot</filename> and
-	  <filename>gptzfsboot</filename> bootcode now fully support
-	  64-bit LBAs for disk addresses.  This allows booting from
-	  large volumes.</para>
+	<para></para>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="proc">
 	<title>Hardware Support</title>
 
-        <para arch="powerpc">The <filename>adb</filename> driver now
-	  supports for interpreting taps on ADB touchpads as a button
-	  click.</para>
-
-        <para>The amdsbwd(4) driver for AMD SB600/SB7xx watchdog
-	  timer has been added.</para>
-
-        <para arch="powerpc">The <filename>apt</filename> driver for
-	  the Apple Touchpad present on MacBook has been added to
-	  <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
-        <para arch="sparc64">The epic(4) driver for the front panel
-	  LEDs in Sun Fire V215/V245 has been added.</para>
-
-        <para>A bug in the &man.ipmi.4; driver that caused incorrect
-	  watchdog timer setting has been fixed.</para>
-
-        <para arch="sparc64">The &man.pci.4; driver now supports a
-	  JBus to PCIe bridge (called as <quote>Fire</quote>) found in
-	  the Sun Fire V215/V245 and Sun Ultra 25/45 machines.</para>
-
-        <para arch="powerpc">The &man.smu.4; driver now provides
-	  thermal management and monitoring features.  This allows fan
-	  control and thermal monitoring on SMU-based Apple G5
-	  machines, as well as an &man.led.4; interface to control the
-	  sleep LED.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.tnt4882.4; driver for IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus now
-	  supports National Instruments TNT5004 chip.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.uart.4; driver now supports NetMos NM9865
-	  family of Serial/Parallel ports.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel
-	  from eGalax has been added.  This driver is supported by
-	  <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para>
-
-	<para>A bug in the &man.uftdi.4; driver that can allow to send
-	  a zero length packet has been fixed.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.usb.4; subsystem now reports &man.devd.8;
-	  <literal>notify</literal> events with the device properties
-	  instead of <literal>attach</literal> events.  The following is an
-	  example entry of &man.devd.conf.5; to match a &man.umass.4;
-	  device with a SCSI subclass and BBB protocol:</para>
-
-	<programlisting>notify 100 {
-	match "system"		"USB";
-	match "subsystem"	"INTERFACE";
-	match "type"		"ATTACH";
-	match "intclass"	"0x08";
-	match "intsubclass"	"0x06";
-	match "intprotocol"	"0x50";
-	action "/path/to/command -flag";
-};</programlisting>
+	<para></para>
 
 	<sect4 id="mm">
 	  <title>Multimedia Support</title>
 
-          <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver now supports LCD
-	    brightness control notify handler.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.acpi.sony.4; helper driver now supports
-	    default display brightness, wired LAN power, and bass
-	    gain.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.agp.4; driver has been improved.  It includes
-	    a fix for aperture size calculation issue which prevents
-	    some graphics cards from working.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver now allows AD1981HD codecs
-	    to use playback mixer.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver now supports multichannel
-	    (4.0 and 7.1) playback support.  The 5.1 mode support is
-	    disabled now due to unidentified synchronization problem.
-	    Devices which supports the 7.1 mode can handle the 5.1
-	    operation via software upmix done by &man.sound.4;.  Note
-	    that stereo stream is no longer duplicated to all
-	    ports.</para>
+	  <para></para>
 	</sect4>
 
 	<sect4 id="net-if">
 	  <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 
-          <para>The &man.ath.4; driver now supports Atheros
-	    AR9285-based devices.</para>
-
-          <para>A bug in the &man.ath.4; driver which causes a problem
-	    of AR5416-based chipsets including AR9285 has been fixed.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports BCM5761, BCM5784, and
-	    BCM57780-based devices.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports TSO (TCP
-	    Segmentation Offloading) on BCM5755 or newer
-	    controllers.</para>
-
-          <para>A long-standing bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which
-	    was related to ASF heartbeat sending has been
-	    fixed.</para>
-
-          <para>A long-standing stability issue of the &man.bce.4; and
-	    &man.bge.4; driver due to a hardware bug in its DMA
-	    handling when the system has more than 4GB memory has been
-	    fixed.  This applies to BCM5714, BCM5715, and BCM5708
-	    controllers.</para>
-
-          <para>A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that incorrectly
-	    enabled TSO on BCM5754/BCM5754M controllers has been
-	    fixed.</para>
-
-	  <para>A bug in the &man.if.bridge.4; driver has been fixed.
-	    The MTU was set based on the firstly-added member even if
-	    the addition failed.</para>
-
-	  <para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports
-	    <varname>SIOCSIFMTU</varname> ioctl.  For example,
-	    <command>ifconfig bridge0 mtu 1280</command> can change
-	    the MTU of <literal>bridge0</literal> to
-	    <literal>1280</literal>.  Changing the MTU is allowed only
-	    when all members have the same MTU value.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.bwn.4; driver for Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets
-	    has been added.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to T3
-	    firmware 7.8.0.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports hardware
-	    filtering based on inspection of L2/L3/L4 headers.
-	    Filtering based on source IP address, destination IP
-	    address, source port number, destination port number,
-	    802.1q VLAN frame tag, UDP, TCP, and MAC address is
-	    possible.  The configuration can be done by the
-	    cxgbtool(8) utility.  Note that cxgbtool(8) is in
-	    <filename>src/usr.sbin/cxgbtool</filename> but not
-	    compiled by default.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version
-	    7.0.5.</para>
-
-          <para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum
-	    offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para>
-
-	  <para>The &man.fxp.4; driver now exports the hardware MAC
-	    statistics via sysctl variables.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version
-	    1.9.5.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.iwn.4; driver has been updated.  This
-	    includes various improvements and bugfixes regarding RF
-	    switch, bgscan support, suspend/resume support, locking
-	    issue, and more.  The line <literal>device iwnfw</literal>
-	    in the kernel configuration file will include all firmware
-	    images.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version
-	    2.2.0.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.msk.4; driver has been improved:</para>
-
-	  <itemizedlist>
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>It now supports Marvell Yukon 88E8042, 88E8057,
-		88E8059 (Yukon Optima) devices and DGE-560SX (Yukon
-		XL).</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>A rudimentary interrupt moderation with
-		programmable countdown timer register has been
-		implemented.  The default parameter of the holdoff
-		time is 100us and this can be changed via sysctl
-		variable
-		<varname>dev.mskc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_holdoff</varname>.
-		Note that the interrupt moderation is shared resource
-		on a dual-port controllers and it is impossible to use
-		separate interrupt moderation values for each
-		port.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>A stability issue has been fixed. A heavy RX
-		traffic while rebooting is in progress could prevent
-		the system from working.</para>
-	  </itemizedlist>
-
-          <para>The &man.mxge.4; driver has been updated to firmware
-	    version 1.4.50 from Myricom.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.re.4; driver no longer performs an
-	    unnecessary interface up/down during getting IP address
-	    via DHCP.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.re.4; driver now uses <literal>2048</literal>
-	    as PCIe Maximum Read Request Size.  This improves bulk
-	    transfer performance.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.run.4; driver for Ralink
-	    RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB 802.11agn devices has been
-	    added.</para>
-
-          <para>The sge(4) driver for Silicon Integrated Systems
-	    SiS190/191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet has been added.  This
-	    supports TSO and TSO over VLAN.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.ste.4; driver has been improved:</para>
-
-	  <itemizedlist>
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>The DMA handling has been improved.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Wake-On-LAN is now supported.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Unnecessary reinitialization of the
-		interfaces has been eliminated.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>RX interrupt moderation with single shot timer has
-		been implemented.  The default parameter of the
-		moderation time is 150us and this can be changed via
-		sysctl variable
-		<varname>dev.ste.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_rx_mod</varname>.
-		Setting it 0 effectively disables the RX interrupt
-		moderation feature.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-	  </itemizedlist>
-
-          <para>The tsec(4) driver now supports &man.altq.4;.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.u3g.4; driver has been improved and now works
-	    with ZTE MF636, Option Gi0322, Globetrotter GE40x, and
-	    Novatel MC950D.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.uhso.4; driver for Option HSDPA USB devices
-	    has been added.  A new &man.uhsoctl.1; userland utility
-	    can be used to initiate and close the WAN
-	    connection.</para>
-
-          <para>The &man.vge.4; driver has been improved:</para>
-
-	  <itemizedlist>
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>The DMA handling has been improved.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Wake-On-LAN is now supported.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Unnecessary reinitialization of the
-		interfaces has been eliminated.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Hardware MAC statistics are now supported via sysctl variables
-		<varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.stats</varname>.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Interrupt moderation with single shot timer and
-		scheme supported by VT61xx controllers have been
-		implemented.  The default parameters are tuned to
-		generate interrupt less than 8k per second, and these
-		parameters can be changed via sysctl variables
-		<varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_holdoff</varname>,
-		<varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.rx_coal_pkt</varname>,
-		and
-		<varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.tx_coal_pkt</varname>.
-		Note that an up/down cycle is needed to make a
-		parameter change take effect.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-	  </itemizedlist>
-
-          <para>The &man.urtw.4; driver has been improved and now
-	    supports RTL8187B-based devices.</para>
-
-          <para>The &os; Xen netfront driver has been improved in
-	    stability and performance.</para>
+	  <para></para>
 	</sect4>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="net-proto">
 	<title>Network Protocols</title>
 
-        <para>&os; flowtable now supports IPv6.  This is for per-CPU
-	  caching flows as a means of accelerating L3 and L2 lookups
-	  as well as providing stateful load balancing when ECMP
-	  (Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing) is enabled by <option>option
-	  RADIX_MPATH</option>.</para>
-
-	<para>A new capability flag <literal>LINKSTATE</literal> has
-	  been added to <varname>struct
-	  ifnet.if_capabilities</varname>.  This indicates if the
-	  interface can check the link state or not.  The
-	  &man.ifconfig.8; utility now shows this flag if
-	  supported.</para>
-
-	<para>A new event handler <varname>iflladdr_event</varname>
-	  has been added.  This signals that the L2 address on an
-	  interface has changed, and lets stacked interfaces such as
-	  &man.vlan.4; detect that their lower interface has changed
-	  and adjust things in order to keep working.  This fixes an
-	  issue of &man.lagg.4; and &man.vlan.4; configuration.</para>
-
-        <para>IPcomp (IP Payload Compression Protocol defined in RFC
-	  2393) protocol is now enabled by default.  Note that this
-	  requires <option>option IPSEC</option> in the kernel
-	  configuration file and <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
-	  does not include it.  This functionality can be disabled by
-	  using a sysctl variable
-	  <varname>net.inet.ipcomp.ipcomp_enable</varname>.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.ipfw.4; subsystem including &man.dummynet.4;
-	  has been updated to <quote>ipfw3</quote> and various bugs
-	  have been fixed:</para>
-
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>The major enhancement is a completely restructured
-	      version of &man.dummynet.4;, with support for different
-	      packet scheduling algorithms (loadable at runtime),
-	      faster queue/pipe lookup, and a much cleaner internal
-	      architecture and kernel/userland ABI which simplifies
-	      future extensions.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>All of O(N) sequences in the firewall rule
-	      evaluation removed from the kernel critical sections.
-	      The worst case is now O(log N).</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>It now supports <literal>ipfw0</literal> pseudo
-	      interface for logging similar to &man.pflog.4;.  A sysctl
-	      <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=0</varname> enables logging
-	      to <literal>ipfw0</literal>, and
-	      <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1</varname> sends logging to
-	      &man.syslog.3; as before.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>The <literal>me</literal> keyword in the &man.ipfw.4;
-	      rule now matches any IPv6 addresses configured on an
-	      interface as well as IPv4 ones.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>A bug that <command>keep-alive</command> rule did
-	      not work for IPv6 packets has been fixed.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>The <literal>lookup</literal> match option has been added.</para>
-
-	    <programlisting>lookup {dst-ip|src-ip|dst-port|src-port|uid|jail} <replaceable>N</replaceable></programlisting>
-
-	    <para>This searches the specified field in table
-	      <replaceable>N</replaceable> and sets
-	      <literal>tablearg</literal> accordingly.  With
-	      <literal>dst-ip</literal> or <literal>src-ip</literal>
-	      the option replicates two existing options.  When used
-	      with other arguments, the option can be useful to
-	      quickly dispatch traffic based on other fields.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>A bug in the &man.sysctl.8; variable
-	      <varname>ip.fw.one_pass</varname> handling has been
-	      fixed.  A packet which comes from a pipe without being
-	      delayed incorrectly ignored this variable.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-
-	<para>A memory alignment issue in the &man.ng.ksocket.4; and
-	  &man.ng.ppp.4;, Netgraph node drivers have been fixed.  This
-	  fixes kernel panics due to the misalignment.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.ng.bridge.4; and &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node
-	  drivers now supports a flag <literal>persistent</literal>.
-	  It disables automatic node shutdown when the last hook gets
-	  disconnected.  The new control messages
-	  <literal>NGM_BRIDGE_SET_PERSISTENT</literal> and
-	  <literal>NGM_HUB_SET_PERSISTENT</literal> have been added
-	  for the flag.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.pf.4; subsystem now supports
-	  <literal>sloppy</literal> keyword to enable a TCP state
-	  machine for tracking TCP connections with no sequence number
-	  check.  This feature is in the latest version of
-	  <application>pf</application>.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.pfil.9; framework for packet filtering in &os;
-	  kernel now supports separate packet filtering instances like
-	  &man.ipfw.4; for each VIMAGE jail.</para>
-
-	<para>A bug that proxy ARP entries cannot be added over
-	  point-to-point link types has been fixed.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.tap.4; pseudo interface now reports the link
-	  state properly by updating <varname>if_link_state</varname>
-	  variable in the kernel.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface has been added to
-	  <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface now supports TSO (TCP
-	  Segmentation Offloading).  The capability flag is named as
-	  <varname>IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO</varname> and it is separated from
-	  <varname>IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING</varname>.  The &man.age.4;,
-	  &man.alc.4;, &man.ale.4;, &man.bce.4;, &man.bge.4;,
-	  &man.cxgb.4;, &man.jme.4;, &man.re.4;, and &man.mxge.4;
-	  driver support this feature.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
-	  now ignore renaming of the parent's interface name.  The
-	  configured VLAN interfaces continue to work with the new
-	  name while previously the configurations were removed as the
-	  renaming happens.</para>
+	<para></para>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="disks">
 	<title>Disks and Storage</title>
 
-        <para>The &man.ada.4; driver now supports
-	  <varname>BIO_DELETE</varname>.  For SSDs this uses
-	  <literal>TRIM</literal> feature of <literal>DATA SET
-	  MANAGEMENT</literal> command, as defined by ACS-2
-	  specification working draft.  For Compact Flash use
-	  <literal>CFA ERASE</literal> command, same as &man.ad.4;
-	  does.  This change realizes restoring write speed of SSDs
-	  which supports <literal>TRIM</literal> command by doing
-	  <command>newfs -E
-	  <replaceable>/dev/ada1</replaceable></command>, for
-	  example.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.ahci.4; driver now supports SATA part of
-	  Marvell 88SE912x controllers.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.ahci.4; driver now supports FIS-based (Frame
-	  Information Structure) switching of port multiplier on
-	  supported controllers.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.ahd.4; driver now supports three separated
-	  error counters for correctable, uncorrectable, and fatal, in
-	  &man.sysctl.8; MIB.</para>
-
-        <para>A new kernel option <option>option ATA_CAM</option> has
-	  been added.  This turns &man.ata.4; controller drivers into
-	  &man.cam.4; interface modules.  When enabled, this option
-	  deprecates all &man.ata.4; peripheral drivers and interfaces
-	  such as <filename>ad</filename> and
-	  <filename>acd</filename>, and allows &man.cam.4; drivers
-	  <filename>ada</filename>, and <filename>cd</filename> and
-	  interfaces to be natively used instead.  Note that this is
-	  not enabled by default in the <filename>GENERIC</filename>
-	  kernel.</para>
-
-        <para>A bug in the &man.ata.4; driver which can lead to
-	  interrupt storms and command timeouts has been fixed.</para>
-
-        <para>USB mass storage device support in the &man.ata.4;
-	  driver has been removed.  Note that this was not used in
-	  <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel and the &man.umass.4;
-	  driver supports such devices for a long time.</para>
-
-	<para>&os; &man.cam.3; SCSI framework has been improved:</para>
-
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>SATA and PATA support has been improved and it now
-	      recognizes more detail device capabilities.  For example,
-	      the &man.ahci.4; and &man.siis.4; driver now reports maximum
-	      tag number to the framework to optimize the NCQ
-	      handling.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>A loader tunable
-	      <varname>kern.cam.boot_delay</varname> has been added.
-	      This controls the delay time before &man.cam.3; probes
-	      the attached devices.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>SCSI error recovery for devices on buses without
-	      automatic sense reporting has been improved.  Typical
-	      devices are on ATAPI and USB.  For example, this allows
-	      &man.cam.3; to wait, while CD drive loads disk, instead
-	      of immediately return error status.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports
-	      Power-Up In Stand-by (PUIS).  The PUIS is a configuration of
-	      SATA or PATA drives to prevent them from automatic spin-up
-	      when power is applied.  A typical application is staggered
-	      spin-up.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports
-	      negotiating and enabling additional SATA features such as
-	      device initiated power management, Automatic Partial to
-	      Slumber mode transition, and DMA auto-activation.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-
-	<para>A livelock issue of the &man.ciss.4; driver under a high
-	  load has been fixed.</para>
-
-        <para>A bug in the &man.fdc.4; driver which prevents the
-	  kernel module from unloading has been fixed.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.glabel.8; now supports the following sysctl
-	  variables for each label type to enable the labeling itself:</para>
-
-	  <programlisting>kern.geom.label.ext2fs.enable
-kern.geom.label.iso9660.enable
-kern.geom.label.msdosfs.enable
-kern.geom.label.ntfs.enable
-kern.geom.label.reiserfs.enable
-kern.geom.label.ufs.enable
-kern.geom.label.ufsid.enable
-kern.geom.label.gptid.enable
-kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisting>
-
-	<para>Note that all of them are also loader tunables.  They
-	  are enabled (set as <literal>1</literal>) by default.</para>
-
-        <para>&man.geom.8; providers including complex ones such as
-	  &man.gconcat.8;, &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8,
-	  &man.gstripe.8;, and some hardware RAID device drivers like
-	  &man.twa.4; now inform its optimal access block size to the
-	  upper layer.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.gmirror.8; utility now supports
-	  <command>configure <option>-p</option>
-	    <replaceable>priority</replaceable></command> command to
-	  change the providers priority.</para>
-
-        <para>The balancing mode algorithm <literal>load</literal>
-	  used in the &man.gmirror.8; utility has been changed and it
-	  is now the default one instead of
-	  <literal>split</literal>:</para>
-
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>Instead of measuring last request execution time for
-	      each drive and choosing one with smallest time, use
-	      averaged number of requests, running on each drive. This
-	      information is more accurate and timely. It allows to
-	      distribute load between drives in more even and
-	      predictable way.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>For each drive track offset of the last submitted
-	      request. If new request offset matches previous one or
-	      close for some drive, prefer that drive.  It allows to
-	      significantly speedup simultaneous sequential reads.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-
-	<para>The &man.gmultipath.8; utility now supports
-	  <command>destroy</command>, <command>rotate</command>,
-	  <command>getactive</command> commands.</para>
-
-	<para>A bug in the &man.graid3.8; which causes a panic when a
-	  large request arrives has been fixed.  This happens when
-	  <varname>MAXPHYS</varname> is set as larger than 128k.</para>
-
-        <para>The default block size of &man.gstripe.8; has been
-	  increased from 4k to 64k.</para>
-
-	<para>The <literal>GEOM_SCHED</literal> module has been added.
-	  This supports scheduling disk I/O requests in a device
-	  independent manner.  A supported algorithm is an
-	  anticipatory scheduler <literal>gsched_rr</literal> which
-	  gives very nice performance improvements in presence of
-	  competing random access patterns.  See also &man.gsched.8;
-	  manual page for more details.</para>
-
-        <para>The HAST (Highly Available STorage) framework has been
-	  added:</para>
-
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>This is a framework to allow transparently storing
-	      data on two physically separated machines connected over
-	      the TCP/IP network.  HAST works in Primary-Secondary
-	      (Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means
-	      that only one of the cluster nodes can be active at any
-	      given time.  Only Primary node is able to handle I/O
-	      requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is
-	      limited to two cluster nodes in total.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>This operates on block level; it provides disk-like
-	      devices in <filename>/dev/hast/</filename> directory for
-	      use by file systems and/or applications.  Working on
-	      block level makes it transparent for file systems and
-	      applications.  There in no difference between using
-	      HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc.  All
-	      of them are just regular &man.geom.8; providers in
-	      &os;.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>The userland part consists of &man.hastd.8;,
-	      &man.hastctl.8;, and &man.hast.conf.5;.  More details
-	      can be found at <ulink
-		url="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST"></ulink>.</para>;
-	  </listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-
-        <para>The &man.isp.4; driver has been improved in
-	  stability.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.mvs.4; CAM ATA driver for Marvell
-	  88SX50XX/88SX60XX/88SX70XX/SoC SATA controllers has been
-	  added.  This driver supports same hardware as the
-	  &man.ata.4; driver does, but provides many additional
-	  features, such as NCQ and PMP.</para>
-
-        <para>The &man.siis.4; driver now enables MSI by default on
-	  SiI3124-based devices.  This can be disabled by using a
-	  <varname>hint.siis.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.msi</varname>
-	  loader tunable.</para>
-
-        <para>The Max Read Request Size in the &man.siis.4; driver for
-	  PCIe chips has been increased from 512 to 1024 bytes for
-	  better performance.</para>
-
-	<para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the latest
-	  version from LSI.</para>
+	<para></para>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="fs">
 	<title>File Systems</title>
 
-	<para>The &man.msdosfs.5; subsystem is now MP-safe and a race
-	  condition when a force unmount happens has been
-	  fixed.</para>
-
-	<para>&os; NFS subsystem now supports a timeout for the
-	  negative name cache entries in the client.  This avoids a
-	  bogus negative name cache entry from persisting forever when
-	  another client creates an entry with the same name within
-	  the same NFS server time of day clock tick.  The mount
-	  option <option>negnametimeo</option> can be used to override
-	  the default timeout interval (60 seconds) on a
-	  per-mount-point basis.  a Setting
-	  <option>negnametimeo</option> to <literal>0</literal>
-	  disables negative name caching for the mount point.</para>
-
-	<para>A race condition in &os; NFS subsystem that occurs when
-	  &man.nfsiod.8; threads are being created has been fixed.
-	  This also fixes an interoperability issue found in
-	  combination of a &os; NFS client and a Linux NFS
-	  server.</para>
-
-	<para>The inode number handling in &man.ffs.7; file system is
-	  now unsigned.  Previously some large inode numbers can be
-	  treated as negative, and this issue shows up at file systems
-	  with the size of more than 16Tb in 16k block case.  The
-	  &man.newfs.8; utility never create a file system with more
-	  than 2^32 inodes by cutting back on the number of inodes per
-	  cylinder group if necessary to stay under the limit.</para>
-
-	<para>The UFS file system (&man.ffs.7;) now supports NFSv4
-	  ACL.</para>
-
-        <para>&os; &man.VFS.9; subsystem now supports a new sysctl
-	   variable <varname>vfs.vlru_allow_cache_src</varname>.  This
-	   allow <filename>vnlru</filename> kernel thread to reclaim
-	   of the directory vnodes that are source of the namecache
-	   records.  This is not enabled by default because for
-	   typical workload it would make namecache unusable, but
-	   large nested directory tree easily puts any process that
-	   accesses file system into one second wait for
-	   <filename>vnlru</filename> kernel thread.</para>
-
-	<para>The ZFS file system has been improved:</para>
-
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>It now supports NFSv4 ACL.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>The L2ARC code has been improved in stability and
-	      performance.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>The zpool version has been updated to
-	      version 14.  It is now possible to use zpools created on
-	      OpenSolaris 2009.06.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>A sysctl variable

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