From owner-svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 13:54:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7351D106566B; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608E78FC08; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q08Ds9vE093107; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:54:09 GMT (envelope-from hrs@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from hrs@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q08Ds9GQ093105; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:54:09 GMT (envelope-from hrs@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201201081354.q08Ds9GQ093105@svn.freebsd.org> From: Hiroki Sato Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:54:09 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org X-SVN-Group: stable-9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: svn commit: r229812 - stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for all the -stable branches of the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:54:09 -0000 Author: hrs Date: Sun Jan 8 13:54:08 2012 New Revision: 229812 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229812 Log: Add relnotes items: igb(4) Intel I350 GbE support, re(4) TX IP checksum disabled on RTL8168C-based cards, cc(9) TCP congestion control algorithm framework added, gpart(8) various aliases and bios-boot GUID added, FFS SU+J added, more kern.features.* for UFS-related features, hastd(8) drops root privilege in worker processes, newsyslog(8) xz compression support added, ppp(8) iface name and iface description commands added, sh(1) arithmetic expression handling updated, ISC BIND to 9.8.1-P1, and tzdata2011a. Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml ============================================================================== --- stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Jan 8 13:51:09 2012 (r229811) +++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Jan 8 13:54:08 2012 (r229812) @@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ could make AR8152-based network interfaces stop working has been fixed. + The &man.igb.4; driver now supports + Intel I350 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller. + The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version 2.3.8. @@ -265,9 +268,12 @@ disabled by default because broken frames can be sent under certain conditions. - The &man.re.4; driver now supports - enabling TX and/or RX checksum offloading independently - from each other. + The &man.re.4; driver now + supports enabling TX and/or RX checksum offloading + independently from each other. Note that TX IP checksum + is disabled on some RTL8168C-based network interfaces + because it can generate an wrong IP checksum when the + packet contains IP options. A bug in the &man.re.4; driver has been fixed. It could cause a panic when receiving a jumbo @@ -315,11 +321,39 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile been fixed. The source address selection could not being performed when multicast options were present but without an interface being specified. + + + &os; TCP/IP network stack now supports &man.cc.9; pluggable + congestion control framework. This allows TCP congestion + control algorithms to be implemented as dynamically loadable + kernel modules. The following kernel modules are available + as of &release.current;: &man.cc.chd.4; for + CAIA-Hamilton-Delay algorithm, &man.cc.cubic.4; for CUBIC + algorithm, &man.cc.hd.4; for Hamilton-Delay algorithm, + &man.cc.htcp.4; for H-TCP algorithm, &man.cc.newreno.4; for + NewReno algorithm, and &man.cc.vegas.4; for Vegas algorithm. + The default algorithm can be set by a new &man.sysctl.8; + variable net.inet.tcp.cc.algorithm. The + value must be set to one of the names listed by the + net.inet.tcp.cc.available, and + newreno is set at boot time. For more + detail, see &man.cc.9; manual page. Disks and Storage + The &man.gpart.8; GEOM class now + supports the following aliases for the MBR and EBR schemes: + fat32, ebr, + linux-data, + linux-raid, and + linux-swap. + + The &man.gpart.8; GEOM class now + supports bios-boot GUID for the GPT + scheme which is used in GRUB 2 loader. + The &man.md.4; memory-backed pseudo disk device driver now supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable vm.md_malloc_wait to specify whether a @@ -338,6 +372,17 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile File Systems + The &os; Fast File System now supports + softupdates journaling. It introduces a intent log into a + softupdates-enabled file system which eliminates the need + for background &man.fsck.8; even on unclean shutdown. This + can be enabled in a per-filesystem basis by using a + flag in the &man.newfs.8; utility or a + option in the &man.tunefs.8; + utility. Note that the &release.current; installer + automatically enables the softupdates journaling for + newly-created UFS file systems. + The &os; Fast File System now supports TRIM command when freeing data blocks. A new flag in the &man.newfs.8; and @@ -347,8 +392,22 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile block. The TRIM command is specified as Data Set Management Command in ATA8-ACS2 standard to carry the information related to deleted data blocks to device, - especially for SSD (Solid-State Drive) for optimization. - + especially for SSD (Solid-State Drive) for optimization. + + The following &man.sysctl.8; variables + for showing availability of UFS-related feature on the + system have been added: + kern.features.ufs_acl for ACL (Access + Control List) support in UFS, + kern.features.ufs_gjournal for journaling + support through &man.gjournal.8; for UFS, + kern.features.ufs_quota for UFS disk + quotas support, kern.features.ufs_quota64 + for 64-bit UFS disk quotas support, + kern.features.softupdates for FFS + soft-updates support, and + kern.features.ffs_snapshot for FFS + snapshot support. @@ -366,6 +425,10 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile could prevent STAT FTP command from working properly has been fixed. + The &man.hastd.8; utility now drops + root privileges of the worker processes to + hast user. + The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports fdx, flow, hdx, and loop keywords @@ -380,11 +443,24 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile of netstat -ani and netstat -nr. + The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now + supports &man.xz.1; compression. An X flag + in the optional field has been added to specify the + compression. + A &man.poweroff.8; utility has been added. This is equivalent to: &prompt.root; shutdown -p now + The &man.ppp.8; utility now supports + iface name name + and iface description + description commands. + These have the same functionalities as name + and description subcommands in the + &man.ifconfig.8; utility. + The &man.rtld.1; runtime linker now supports shared objects as filters in ELF shared libraries. Both standard and auxiliary filtering have been supported. The @@ -421,7 +497,7 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile printed to stdout about this. The buffer was not flushed after this which could result in the message being written to the wrong file if the next command was a - builtin and had stdout redirected. + built-in and had stdout redirected. The &man.sh.1; program now supports a flag in trap command to @@ -433,6 +509,13 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile found before looking up directories in $PATH. + Arithmetic expression handling code in + the &man.sh.1; program has been updated by importing code from + dash. It now supports conditional + operator (?:) and a bug in evaluation of + && and || around an arithmetic expression has been + fixed. + <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts @@ -446,9 +529,16 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile ACPI CA has been updated to version 20110527. + ISC BIND has + been updated to version 9.8.1-P1. + dialog has been updated to version 1.1-20110707. + The timezone + database has been updated to the + tzdata2011a release. + &man.unifdef.1; utility has been updated to version 2.5.6.