Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:14:50 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: "Garcia, John D." <JDGarcia@cps-satx.com>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <19980831231450.A25145@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <9EE1518FB16AD111B187080009DCE9F75D8320@mail.cps-satx.com>; from Garcia, John D. on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 01:46:18PM -0500 References: <9EE1518FB16AD111B187080009DCE9F75D8320@mail.cps-satx.com>
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On Mon 1998-08-31 (13:46), Garcia, John D. wrote:
> Are there any signigicant changes to FreeBSD 2.2.6 with the release of
> version 2.2.7? If there are, what are they.
Yes.
================================================================
RELEASE NOTES
FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE VERSION
================================================================
1. What's new since 2.2.6
-------------------------
Kernel features:
----------------
o DPT SCSI RAID controller updated (including support for EISA cards)
and is now enabled by default.
o MSDOS FAT32 (Win95 long filename) support.
o Various bugs in the SCSI changer code fixed.
o New support for Crystal Semiconductor CS8920 based ethernet cards.
o Dead LFS code removed.
o New updated Specialix SI/XIO/SX driver.
o dmesg (history buffer) now user-sizeable. See MSGBUF_SIZE
option in /sys/i386/conf/LINT.
o Various bugfixes for the Adaptec aic7870/aic7880 chipsets.
o Identify Pentium II processors properly at startup now.
o pcm audio driver updated to support Avance Logic ALS100 card and
basically improve audio support all around.
o Various fixes to NFS credential checking.
o Many updates for the NEC PC98 platform.
Userland features:
------------------
o inetd(8) now allows rate-limiting for services.
o ppp(8) utility significantly updated. See man page for details.
o Many (MANY!) man pages and other docs updated and cleaned up.
o libc_r (part of POSIX pthread support) is now part of the system by
default and incorporates numerous bug fixes.
o ls(1) has grown a number of new flags - man ls for details.
o cvs(1) updated to version 1.9.26
o Various parts of /etc updated with selected features from 3.0.
o as(1) now understands fildll/fistpll opcodes.
o Various improvements to the installation procedure.
o Various minor curses(3) positioning errors fixed.
o Several bugs in dump(8) and restore(8) fixed.
o Various enhancements made to the login class mechanism and
default limits raised for workstation users.
o ftpd disables Nagle on the control channel for better response.
Security issues:
----------------
o XFree86 updated to 3.3.2.3 - an important security release containing
changes from The Open Group which close several possible root-exploits
from local users.
o Crypto repository updated from 3.0 branch.
o popper and imap upgraded in ports collection to close some nasty security
holes (see Bugtrax).
o Various buffer overflows in utilities like rcp(1) and more(1) (just to
name a few) have been closed.
o Bounds-checking added to numerous "attackable" locations in BIND and
much of BIND significantly updated.
===========================================================================
Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za
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