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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:28:04 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject:   svn commit: r260923 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
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Author: gjb
Date: Mon Jan 20 20:28:04 2014
New Revision: 260923
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260923

Log:
  Fix formatting, indentation, line length in preparation of
  upcoming changes to this file.
  
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

Modified:
  head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml

Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
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--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Mon Jan 20 20:06:13 2014	(r260922)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Mon Jan 20 20:28:04 2014	(r260923)
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
 <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN"
-        "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [
+	"../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [
 <!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent">
  %release;
 ]>
 <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>
-  
+  <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
 
   <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
 
@@ -28,7 +27,8 @@
     <year>2012</year>
     <year>2013</year>
     <year>2014</year>
-    <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
+    <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
+      Project</holder>
   </copyright>
 
   <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@
   </legalnotice>
 
   <abstract>
-    <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
-      of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
-      &release.branch; development line.
-      This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
-      the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
-      kernel and userland.
-      Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
+    <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
+      a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
+      &release.branch; development line.  This document lists
+      applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
+      release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
+      userland.  Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
+      presented.</para>
   </abstract>
 </info>
 
@@ -55,30 +55,32 @@
   <title>Introduction</title>
 
   <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
-    &release.current;.  It
-    describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
-    It also provides some notes on upgrading
-    from previous versions of &os;.</para>
-
-  <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
-    apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
-    branch since &release.branch; was created.  Information regarding pre-built, binary
-    &release.type; distributions along this branch
-    can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
-
-  <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
-    apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
-    branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;.
-    Information regarding
-    pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
-    can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
-
-  <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
-    &release.type; distribution.  It can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its mirrors.  More
-    information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
-    distributions of &os; can be found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
-    &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
-    Handbook</link>.</para>
+    &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
+    deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
+    upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
+
+  <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which
+    these release notes apply represents the latest point along the
+    &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was
+    created.  Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type;
+    distributions along this branch can be found at <uri
+      xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
+
+  <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
+    which these release notes apply represents a point along the
+    &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the
+    future &release.next;.  Information regarding pre-built, binary
+    &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at
+    <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
+
+  <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
+    &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution.  It can be
+    found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
+    any of its mirrors.  More information on obtaining this (or other)
+    &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link
+      xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
+	&os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
+      xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para>
 
   <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
     installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
@@ -87,101 +89,109 @@
     information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
     documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
     &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
-
 </sect1>
 
 <sect1 xml:id="new">
   <title>What's New</title>
 
-  <para>This section describes
-    the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
-    since &release.prev;.
-    In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch;
-    branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>Typical release note items
-    document recent security advisories issued after
-    &release.prev;,
-    new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
-    major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades.  They may also
-    list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
-    practices.  Clearly the release notes cannot list every single
-    change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses
-    primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major
-    architectural improvements.</para>
+  <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
+    features in &os; since &release.prev;.  In general, changes
+    described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless
+    specifically marked as &merged; features.</para>
+
+  <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories
+    issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new
+    commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software
+    upgrades.  They may also list changes to major ports/packages or
+    release engineering practices.  Clearly the release notes cannot
+    list every single change made to &os; between releases; this
+    document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible
+    changes, and major architectural improvements.</para>
 
   <sect2 xml:id="security">
     <title>Security Advisories</title>
 
-    <para/>
+    <para>No advisories.</para>
 
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
     <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 
-    <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform
-      TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the
-      amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
+    <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers
+      eliminates the need to perform TLB shootdown for mapping on
+      buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the amount of IPIs
+      for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
       of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para>
 
-    <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
-      can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
-
-    <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture
-      facility.  Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured
-      to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or
-      a textdump.  The new <command>capture</command> command controls
-      this feature.</para>
-
-    <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting
-      facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a
-      set of &man.ddb.4; commands.  These commands can be managed from
-      within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8;
-      utility.  More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual
-      page.</para>
+    <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory
+      the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to
+      4TB.</para>
+
+    <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an
+      output capture facility.  Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can
+      now be captured to a memory buffer for later inspection using
+      &man.sysctl.8; or a textdump.  The new
+      <command>capture</command> command controls this feature.</para>
+
+    <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple
+      scripting facility, which supports a set of named scripts
+      consisting of a set of &man.ddb.4; commands.  These commands can
+      be managed from within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new
+      &man.ddb.8; utility.  More details can be found in the
+      &man.ddb.4; manual page.</para>
 
     <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for
-      the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number
-      generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs,
-      accessible with RDRAND instruction.</para>
+      the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number generator,
+      found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, accessible with
+      RDRAND instruction.</para>
 
     <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
       <title>Virtualization support</title>
-      <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included
-        with &os;.  &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT)
-        support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond
-        (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> 
-  
-      <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added.  &man.virtio.4; is the
-        name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but
-        since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen).
-        This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers
-        for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;),
-        memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI.
-        Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
-  
-      <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized drivers which
-        support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and made
-        part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel.  For i386, these drivers are not part of
-        GENERIC, so the following lines must be added to
-        <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load these drivers:
-        <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES"
+
+      <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor,
+	&man.bhyve.8; is included with &os;.  &man.bhyve.8; requires
+	Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) support.
+	These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond (e.g.
+	Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para>
+
+      <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added.
+	&man.virtio.4; is the name for the paravirtualization
+	interface developed for the Linux KVM, but since adopted to
+	other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception
+	of Xen).  This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room
+	implementation of the virtio kernel drivers for disk IO
+	(&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO
+	(&man.vtnet.4;), memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;),
+	and PCI.  Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and
+	&man.bhyve.4;.</para>
+
+      <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized
+	drivers which support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and
+	made part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel.  For i386, these
+	drivers are not part of GENERIC, so the following lines must
+	be added to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load
+	these drivers:</para>
+
+      <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES"
 hv_netsvc_load="YES"
 hv_utils_load="YES"
-hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the i386
-        kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the kernel config, and then
-        recompiling the kernel.  Please refer to:
-        <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link>
-        for full instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under FreeBSD.</para>
+hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>
+
+      <para>Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the
+	i386 kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the
+	kernel config, and then recompiling the kernel.  Please refer
+	to: <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD
+	  and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link> for full
+	instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under
+	FreeBSD.</para>
 
       <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added.
-        &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
-        OpenBSD.</para>
+	&man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
+	OpenBSD.</para>
 
-      <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now
-        part of the GENERIC kernel.</para>
+      <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM
+	virtualization is now part of the GENERIC kernel.</para>
 
     </sect3>
 
@@ -189,25 +199,30 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
       <title>ARM support</title>
 
       <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added.
-        Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link>
-        and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start
-        guide</link>.</para>
-  
-      <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM EABI. This brings a number of
-        improvements and allows future support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> 
-  
-      <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, including support
-        for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local storage (TLS).
-        Additionally support for some newer SoC like the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added.
-        See <link xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this announcement</link>
-        for further details.</para>
-  
-      <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been added.  Superpages support
-        provides improved performance and scalability by allowing TLB
-        translations to dynamically cover large physical memory regions.
-        All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based platforms can take advantage of this feature.
-        See <link xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this page</link>
-        for further details.</para>
+	Refer to these <link
+	  xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup
+	  instructions</link> and <link
+	  xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick
+	  start guide</link>.</para>
+
+      <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM
+	EABI. This brings a number of improvements and allows future
+	support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para>
+
+      <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved,
+	including support for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local
+	storage (TLS).  Additionally support for some newer SoC like
+	the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added.  See <link
+	  xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this
+	  announcement</link> for further details.</para>
+
+      <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been
+	added.  Superpages support provides improved performance and
+	scalability by allowing TLB translations to dynamically cover
+	large physical memory regions.  All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based
+	platforms can take advantage of this feature.  See <link
+	  xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this
+	  page</link> for further details.</para>
 
     </sect3>
 
@@ -215,17 +230,17 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
     <sect3 xml:id="boot">
       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 
-      <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot
-	loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
+      <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the
+	boot loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
 	mode.  This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB
 	devices.</para>
 
-      <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has
-        been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk.  A
-        new <command>boot</command> command has been added to
-        &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the
-        required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot
-        partition if required.</para>
+      <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader
+	has been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk.
+	A new <command>boot</command> command has been added to
+	&man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the
+	required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot
+	partition if required.</para>
 
     </sect3>
     -->
@@ -236,10 +251,10 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
       <sect4 xml:id="mm">
 	<title>Multimedia Support</title>
 
-        <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design
-          has been added. New devices should support higher bandwidth,
-          increased sampling frequency and wider dynamic range.</para>
-
+	<para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB
+	  Audio reference design has been added. New devices should
+	  support higher bandwidth, increased sampling frequency and
+	  wider dynamic range.</para>
       </sect4>
 
       <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
@@ -256,188 +271,204 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
 	  number of outstanding issues.  It also now works on all
 	  architectures.</para>
 
-	<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has
-	  been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para>
-
-	<para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support
-	  40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para>
-
-	<para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added.  This is an
-	  experimental iWARP/RDMA driver
-	  (kernel verbs only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para>
-
-	<para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and
-	  OFED Infiniband core has been
-	  updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version 3.7</para>
-
-	<para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has been updated to firmware
-	  version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 NICs.  Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where
-	  each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 GB/s.  Support has been added
-	  for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and
-	  IP over Infiniband (ipoib).</para>
-
-	<para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added.  &man.netmap.4; is a framework for
-          high-performance direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high PPS
-          rates to userland applications while bypassing any kernel-side packet processing.
-          With &man.netmap.4; it is trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network interface with
-          minimal packet sizes.  For more information, see:
-          <link xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap Project</link>.</para> 
-
+	<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver
+	  has been updated to include a number of stability
+	  fixes.</para>
+
+	<para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been
+	  updated to support 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's
+	  Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para>
+
+	<para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added.
+	  This is an experimental iWARP/RDMA driver (kernel verbs
+	  only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para>
+
+	<para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise
+	  Distribution (OFED) and OFED Infiniband core has been
+	  updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version
+	  3.7</para>
+
+	<para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has
+	  been updated to firmware version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3
+	  NICs.  Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where
+	  each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40
+	  GB/s.  Support has been added for dynamically loading kernel
+	  modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and IP over Infiniband
+	  (ipoib).</para>
+
+	<para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added.
+	  &man.netmap.4; is a framework for high-performance
+	  direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high
+	  PPS rates to userland applications while bypassing any
+	  kernel-side packet processing.  With &man.netmap.4; it is
+	  trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network
+	  interface with minimal packet sizes.  For more information,
+	  see: <link
+	    xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap
+	    Project</link>.</para>
       </sect4>
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
       <title>Network Protocols</title>
 
-      <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses
-        more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as
-        quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant
-        address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with
-        &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel
-        interfaces to allocate multicast memberships.
-        Configuration of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well as format
-	of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has changed. See &man.carp.4;
-	for more information. The arpbalance feature of &man.carp.4; is currently
-	not supported anymore.</para>
-
-      <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking
-        and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in
-        significant improvements in performance.</para>
-
-      <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been
-        introduced.</para>
-
-      <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching differentiated services
-        codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to
-        &man.ipfw.8;.</para>
-
+      <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make
+	addresses more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such
+	as quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant
+	address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with
+	&man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel
+	interfaces to allocate multicast memberships.  Configuration
+	of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well
+	as format of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has
+	changed. See &man.carp.4; for more information. The arpbalance
+	feature of &man.carp.4; is currently not supported
+	anymore.</para>
+
+      <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports
+	fine-grain locking and better utilization on multi-cpu
+	machines resulting in significant improvements in
+	performance.</para>
+
+      <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables
+	has been introduced.</para>
+
+      <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching
+	differentiated services codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has
+	been added to &man.ipfw.8;.</para>
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3 xml:id="disks">
       <title>Disks and Storage</title>
 
-      <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than
-        2TB in size.</para>
+      <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes
+	larger than 2TB in size.</para>
 
       <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for
-        disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests
-        have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down
-        until the next request.  The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now
-        supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure
-        this feature.</para>
-
-      <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2
-        from Highpoint.</para>
-
-      <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides NVM Express support.
-        NVM Express is an optimized register interface, command set and feature set of
-        PCI Express (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs).  For more information,
-        see <link xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para>;
-
+	disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests
+	have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down
+	until the next request.  The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now
+	supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure
+	this feature.</para>
+
+      <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to
+	version 1.2 from Highpoint.</para>
+
+      <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides
+	NVM Express support.  NVM Express is an optimized register
+	interface, command set and feature set of PCI Express
+	(PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs).  For more information,
+	see <link
+	  xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para>;
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3 xml:id="fs">
       <title>File Systems</title>
 
-      <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been
-        added</para>
+      <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and
+	initiator has been added</para>
 
-      <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while
-        mounted read-write. This is especially useful for virtual
-        machines, allowing the addition of more harddrive space without
-        interruption of service.</para>
-
-      <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the
-        base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file
-        systems</para>
+      <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with
+	&man.growfs.8; while mounted read-write. This is especially
+	useful for virtual machines, allowing the addition of more
+	harddrive space without interruption of service.</para>
+
+      <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation
+	is now part of the base system. It allows the use of nearly
+	all fusefs file systems</para>
 
       <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs">
 	<title>ZFS</title>
 
-        <para revision="256361">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing
-          ZFS on the root file system.  It includes a single configuration menu
-          that allows you to select all of the required details, including
-          which drives to use, what ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration
-          the selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption, forcing 4K sectors,
-          pool name, etc.</para>
-
-        <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for
-          ZFS.</para>
-
-        <para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4 compression algorithm
-          has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually faster and can achieve a
-          higher compression ratio than LZJB, the default compression
-          algorithm</para>
-
-        <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</para>
-
-        <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from Illumos
-          was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write skips overwriting
-          data if the checksum (cryptographically secure) of new data
-          matches the checksum of existing data. It also saves space if
-          snapshots are in use.  This improvement only works only on
-          datasets with enabled compression, disabled deduplication and
-          sha256 checksums.</para>
-
-        <para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to
-          the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any
-          write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O
-          as well as space usage because if the old block is referenced
-          by a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though
-          both contain the same data.</para>
-
+	<para revision="256361">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports
+	  installing ZFS on the root file system.  It includes
+	  a single configuration menu that allows you to select all of
+	  the required details, including which drives to use, what
+	  ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration the
+	  selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption,
+	  forcing 4K sectors, pool name, etc.</para>
+
+	<para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for
+	  ZFS.</para>
+
+	<para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4
+	  compression algorithm has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually
+	  faster and can achieve a higher compression ratio than LZJB,
+	  the default compression algorithm</para>
+
+	<para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been
+	  added to ZFS.</para>
+
+	<para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from
+	  Illumos was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write
+	  skips overwriting data if the checksum (cryptographically
+	  secure) of new data matches the checksum of existing data.
+	  It also saves space if snapshots are in use.  This
+	  improvement only works only on datasets with enabled
+	  compression, disabled deduplication and sha256
+	  checksums.</para>
+
+	<para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to
+	  the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing
+	  any write I/O for data that has not changed. This will
+	  reduce I/O as well as space usage because if the old block
+	  is referenced by a snapshot, both copies of the block are
+	  kept even though both contain the same data.</para>
       </sect4>
-
     </sect3>
-
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 xml:id="userland">
     <title>Userland Changes</title>
 
-   <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the default
-      system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU libstdc++ are no
-      longer built by default.  &man.clang.1; and libc++ from LLVM are used on
-      these platforms by instead.  GCC 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built
-      and used by default on pc98 and all other platforms where &man.clang.1;
-      is not the default system compiler.
-   </para>
-
-   <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated to
-     version 3.3 release.  Please refer to
-     <link xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">;
-     Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para>
-
-    <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by &man.unbound.8; for
-      local dns resolution in the base system.  With this change, nslookup
-      and dig are no longer a part of the base system.  Users should
-      instead use &man.host.1; and &man.drill.1; Alternatively,
-      nslookup and dig can be obtained by installing the
-      dns/bind-tools port.</para>
-
-    <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base system.
-      Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such as libdisk, libftpio,
-      and sade have also been removed.  sysinstall has been replaced by
-      &man.bsdinstall.8; and &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para>
-
-    <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added.  This tool
-      makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of
-      the installed kernel and userland.</para>
-
-    <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base system, and replaced
-      by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1; program.</para>
-
-    <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base system, and replaced
-      by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1; program.</para>
+    <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the
+      default system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU
+      libstdc++ are no longer built by default.  &man.clang.1; and
+      libc++ from LLVM are used on these platforms by instead.  GCC
+      4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built and used by default on pc98
+	and all other platforms where &man.clang.1; is not the default
+	system compiler.</para>
+
+    <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated
+     to version 3.3 release.  Please refer to <link
+       xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">;
+       Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para>
+
+    <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by
+      &man.unbound.8; for local dns resolution in the base system.
+      With this change, nslookup and dig are no longer a part of the
+      base system.  Users should instead use &man.host.1; and
+      &man.drill.1; Alternatively, nslookup and dig can be obtained by
+      installing the dns/bind-tools port.</para>
+
+    <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base
+      system.  Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such
+      as libdisk, libftpio, and sade have also been removed.
+      sysinstall has been replaced by &man.bsdinstall.8; and
+      &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para>
+
+    <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added.
+      This tool makes a best effort to determine the version and patch
+      level of the installed kernel and userland.</para>
+
+    <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base
+      system, and replaced by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1;
+      program.</para>
+
+    <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base
+      system, and replaced by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1;
+      program.</para>
 
     <para revision="235723">Berkely yacc (byacc) has been imported
-      from <link xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible island</link>.
-      This brings bison compatibilities to &man.yacc.1; while preserving full
-      backwards compatibility with previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para>
+      from <link
+	xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible
+	island</link>.  This brings bison compatibilities to
+      &man.yacc.1; while preserving full backwards compatibility with
+      previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para>
 
-    <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex 2.5.37</para>
+    <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex
+      2.5.37</para>
 
-    <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the 
+    <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the
       "Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD.</para>
 
     <para revision="243023">Support for usernames up to 32
@@ -454,10 +485,10 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
     <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have
       replaced their GNU counterparts.</para>
 
-    <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for
-      verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors
-      with the same semantics as (for example)
-      &man.chmod.1;.</para>
+    <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports
+      a <option>-v</option> flag for verbose output and
+      a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors with the same
+      semantics as (for example) &man.chmod.1;.</para>
 
     <para>For compatibility with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now
       supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to
@@ -469,12 +500,13 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
       <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para>
 
     <para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u
-      <replaceable>name</replaceable></option>
-      which will completely unset the given variable
-      <replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment,
-      instead of just setting it to a null value.</para>
+	<replaceable>name</replaceable></option> which will completely
+      unset the given variable <replaceable>name</replaceable> by
+      removing it from the environment, instead of just setting it to
+      a null value.</para>
 
-    <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para>
+    <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been
+      added.</para>
 
     <para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1
       If-Modified-Since behavior.  The &man.fetch.1; program now
@@ -509,10 +541,10 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
       a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also
       accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para>
 
-    <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will now
-      refuse to parse some invalid scripts.  Additionally, it now
-      has filename completion and defaults to the &quot;emacs&quot; editing
-      mode.</para>
+    <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will
+      now refuse to parse some invalid scripts.  Additionally, it now
+      has filename completion and defaults to the &quot;emacs&quot;
+      editing mode.</para>
 
     <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
       flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para>
@@ -540,8 +572,8 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
     <para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to
       provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para>
 
-    <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures.
-      </para>
+    <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit
+      architectures.</para>
 
     <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS
       number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a
@@ -555,102 +587,106 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
     <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
       <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
 
-      <para/>
-
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect3>
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
     <title>Contributed Software</title>
 
-    <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to 3.4.0.
-      See <link xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this link</link>.
-      for more details.</para>
+    <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to
+      3.4.0.  See <link
+	xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this
+	link</link> for more details.</para>
 
-    <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10
-      to 6.1.5.</para>
+    <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been
+      updated from 6.0.10 to 6.1.5.</para>
 
-    <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May
+    <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been
+      updated from 1 May
       2007 release to the 20121220 release.</para>
 
-    <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the
-    base system, but is still available from ports</para>
+    <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been
+      removed from the base system, but is still available from
+      ports</para>
 
-    <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base system and
-      is installed as <application>svnlite</application>.  <application>svnlite</application>
-      should only be used for checking out &os; source and committing, and does not
-      replace the full Subversion port.</para>
+    <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base
+      system and is installed as <application>svnlite</application>.
+      <application>svnlite</application> should only be used for
+      checking out &os; source and committing, and does not replace
+      the full Subversion port.</para>
 
-    <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been updated to 5.11.</para>
+    <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been
+      updated to 5.11.</para>
 
-    <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has been
-      updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para>
+    <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has
+      been updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para>
 
-    <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to 5.1.2.</para>
+    <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to
+      5.1.2.</para>
 
-    <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been updated to
-      v458.</para>
+    <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been
+      updated to v458.</para>
 
-    <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from
-      to 5.7-20081102.</para>
+    <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from to
+      5.7-20081102.</para>
 
-    <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated
-      to 6.4.</para>
+    <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been
+      updated to 6.4.</para>
 
-    <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to
-      the Micrampelis release.</para>
+    <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
+      been updated to the Micrampelis release.</para>
 
-    <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
-      8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para>
+    <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been
+      updated from 8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para>
 
     <para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from
       the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to
       the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para>
 
-    <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8;
-      have been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application>
+    <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8; have
+      been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application>
       release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release.
-      If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8;,
-      then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to install a new /etc/localtime.
-      </para>
+      If you have upgraded from source or via the
+      &man.freebsd-update.8;, then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to
+      install a new /etc/localtime.</para>
 
-    <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been
-      updated to 2.0.</para>
+    <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application>
+      has been updated to 2.0.</para>
 
     <para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated
       from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para>
 
-    <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated to 2.1.2.</para>
-
-    <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide character locales.</para>
+    <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated
+      to 2.1.2.</para>
 
+    <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide character
+      locales.</para>
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 xml:id="ports">
     <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
 
-    <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info,
-      pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been removed.
-      &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary packages.  &man.pkg.7;
-      is the next generation &os; package manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para>
-
+    <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete,
+      pkg_info, pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been
+      removed.  &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary
+      packages.  &man.pkg.7; is the next generation &os; package
+      manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para>
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 xml:id="releng">
     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 
-    <para role="merged">The supported version of
-      the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
-      (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been
-      updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para>
-
+    <para role="merged">The supported version of the
+      <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
+      (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been updated from 2.20.1
+      to 2.22.</para>
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 xml:id="doc">
     <title>Documentation</title>
 
-    <para/>
-
+    <para>&nbsp;</para>
   </sect2>
 </sect1>
 
@@ -671,9 +707,8 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>  Al
     <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
 
   <important>
-    <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
-      backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
-      files.</para>
+    <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up
+      <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para>
   </important>
 </sect1>
 </article>



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