Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:33:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r244664 - stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201212242033.qBOKXcms075908@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Mon Dec 24 20:33:37 2012 New Revision: 244664 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244664 Log: Fix various grammatical errors. Submitted by: bjk Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml ============================================================================== --- stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Dec 24 14:22:52 2012 (r244663) +++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Dec 24 20:33:37 2012 (r244664) @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para revision="232728">&os; Jail subsystem now supports + <para revision="232728">The &os; Jail subsystem now supports mounting &man.devfs.5;, &man.nullfs.5;, and ZFS filesystem inside a jail. New &man.jail.8; parameters <varname>allow.mount.devfs</varname>, @@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ <para revision="234167">A new &man.loader.8; tunable <varname>kern.eventtimer.activetick</varname> has been added. - This tunable is to specify whether each hardclock tick should - be run on every active CPU or only one. Setting it to - <literal>0</literal>, the number of interrupts can be reduced + This tunable specifies whether each hardclock tick should + be run on every active CPU or only one. By setting it to + <literal>0</literal>, the total number of interrupts can be reduced on SMP machines. The default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ &man.madvise.2; except that it operates on a file descriptor instead of a memory region.</para> - <para revision="237795">The &man.filemon.4; pseudo device has + <para revision="237795">The &man.filemon.4; pseudo-device has been added. This allows a process to collect file operations data of its children.</para> @@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ supports kernel profiling by using &man.kgmon.8;.</para> <para revision="231145">The &os; Linux ABI compatibility layer - now supports <function>linux_fadvice64()</function> and - <function>linux_fadvice64_64()</function> system call.</para> + now supports the <function>linux_fadvise64()</function> and + <function>linux_fadvise64_64()</function> system calls.</para> <para revision="230266">The default value of the &man.loader.8; tunable <varname>hw.memtest.tests</varname> is now @@ -211,23 +211,23 @@ <para revision="234075">A new &man.loader.8; tunable <varname>kern.msgbuf_show_timestamp</varname> has been added. - When this is enabled, timestamp is added to each line of the + When it is enabled, a timestamp is added to each line of the system message buffer. The default value is <literal>0</literal> (disabled).</para> <para revision="230320">The &man.null.4; and &man.zero.4; pseudo - device driver now supports non-blocking mode via &man.fcntl.2; + device driver now supports non-blocking mode via the &man.fcntl.2; system call.</para> <para revision="233599">The &os; &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler has - been improved on CPU load balancing of SMT (Simultaneous - MultiThreading) CPUs. It gives 10-15% performance improvement + been improved for CPU load balancing on SMT (Simultaneous + MultiThreading) CPUs. It gives a 10-15% performance improvement when the number of threads is lesser than the number of logical CPUs.</para> <para revision="235992" - arch="sparc64"><literal>PREEMPTION</literal> kernel option is - now enabled in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + arch="sparc64">The <literal>PREEMPTION</literal> kernel option is + now enabled in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> <para revision="230039">A new &man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>security.bsd.unprivileged_idprio</varname> has been @@ -242,11 +242,11 @@ <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> <para revision="230065">The &man.boot0cfg.8; utility now - supports configuration of PXE boot via + supports configuration of PXE boot via the <filename>boot0</filename> boot block temporarily on the next boot. The slice number <literal>6</literal> or a keyword <literal>PXE</literal> can be specified to enable - PXE boot in the <option>-s</option> option.</para> + PXE boot using the <option>-s</option> option.</para> <para revision="231287">The &os; &man.boot.8; block now supports <filename>/boot/config</filename> in addition to @@ -262,27 +262,27 @@ LBA for the metadata.</para> <para revision="237766">The <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot - block and <filename>zfsloader</filename> supports + block and <filename>zfsloader</filename> support filesystems within a ZFS storage pool. In - <filename>zfsloader</filename>, ZFS device name format now - is + <filename>zfsloader</filename>, the ZFS device name format is now <literal>zfs:<replaceable>pool</replaceable>/<replaceable>fs</replaceable></literal> - and fully qualified file path is + and the fully qualified file path format is <literal>zfs:<replaceable>pool</replaceable>/<replaceable>fs</replaceable>:/<replaceable>path/to/file</replaceable></literal>. - The <filename>zfsboot</filename> accepts kernel/loader name - in a format + The <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block accepts the + kernel/loader name in the format <literal><replaceable>pool</replaceable>:<replaceable>fs</replaceable>:<replaceable>path/to/file</replaceable></literal> or, as before, <literal><replaceable>pool</replaceable>:<replaceable>path/to/file</replaceable></literal>. In the latter case a default filesystem is used (the pool - root or <literal>bootfs</literal> property). The - <filename>zfsboot</filename> passes GUIDs of the selected + root or a filesystem with the <literal>bootfs</literal> property). The + <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block passes + the GUIDs of the selected storage pool and dataset to <filename>zfsloader</filename> to be used as its defaults.</para> - <para revision="236076" arch="sparc64">The &os;/sparc64 now - supports booting from ZFS via zfsboot boot block and - zfsloader. For example, the following commands create a + <para revision="236076" arch="sparc64">&os;/sparc64 now + supports booting from ZFS via the <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block and + <filename>zfsloader</filename>. For example, the following commands create a mirrored storage pool <literal>rpool</literal> consisting of <literal>da0a</literal> and <literal>da0b</literal> and configure the storage pool as the root filesystem:</para> @@ -326,10 +326,10 @@ supports attaching multiple instances.</para> <para revision="230290" arch="powerpc">The adm1030(4) driver - for G4 MDD fan now shows its PWM parameter in the device + for G4 MDD fans now shows its PWM parameter in the device's &man.sysctl.8; variable.</para> - <para revision="234559" arch="arm">The cesa(4) driver for + <para revision="234559" arch="arm">The cesa(4) driver for the Marvell crypto engine and security accelerator has been added.</para> @@ -337,35 +337,35 @@ driver now supports PowerPC G4+ (MPC745x/MPC744x).</para> <para revision="234046" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hwpmc.4; - driver now supports Intel Sandy Bridge + driver now supports the Intel Sandy Bridge microarchitecture.</para> <para revision="236238">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver now supports software events. Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is allowed.</para> - <para revision="236078">The pcf8563(4) driver for NXP + <para revision="236078">The pcf8563(4) driver for the NXP (Philips) PCF8563 RTC has been added.</para> <para revision="233471" arch="powerpc">&os;/powerpc now - supports PWM-controlled fans found on PowerMac SMU (System + supports the PWM-controlled fans found on the PowerMac SMU (System Management Unit).</para> - <para revision="236081" arch="arm">&os;/arm now supports Atmel + <para revision="236081" arch="arm">&os;/arm now supports the Atmel SAM9XE family of microcontrollers.</para> <para revision="230754,233950">The following &man.sysctl.8; variables have been added: <varname>kern.proc.env</varname> for environment strings, <varname>kern.proc.auxv</varname> - for ELF auxiliary vectors from a process stack, + for ELF auxiliary vectors from a process's stack, <varname>kern.proc.groups</varname> for process groups, <varname>kern.proc.rlimit</varname> for process resource - limits, and <varname>kern.proc.ps_strings</varname> for - ps_strings location, <varname>kern.proc.osrel</varname> for - osreldate for process binary.</para> + limits, <varname>kern.proc.ps_strings</varname> for the + ps_strings location, and <varname>kern.proc.osrel</varname> for + the osreldate of the process's binary.</para> <para revision="229100,229369">The &man.usb.4; driver now - handles suspend and resume correctly with no need of reloading + handles suspend and resume correctly with no need to reload the kernel module.</para> <para revision="230302">A bug in the &man.xhci.4; (USB 3.0) @@ -373,24 +373,24 @@ hubs.</para> <para revision="229927">The &man.viawd.4; driver, which - supports watchdog timer found in VIA south bridge (VT8251, + supports the watchdog timer found in VIA south bridges (VT8251, CX700, VX800, VX855, VX900), has been added.</para> <para revision="235926">The &man.wbwd.4; driver, which - supports watchdog timer found in Winbond Super I/O chips, + supports the watchdog timer found in Winbond Super I/O chips, has been added.</para> <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> <para revision="236926,236927,239965">The drm2(4) Intel GPU driver, - which supports GEM, KMS, and works with new generations of + which supports GEM and KMS and works with new generations of GPUs such as IronLake, SandyBridge, and IvyBridge, has been added. The &man.agp.4; driver now supports SandyBridge and IvyBridge CPU northbridges.</para> <para revision="232798">The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been - updated. It now supports HDMI, new volume control, + updated. It now supports and provides HDMI, new volume control, automatic recording source selection, runtime reconfiguration, more then 4 PCM devices on a controller, multichannel recording, additional playback/record @@ -405,19 +405,19 @@ headers in the &man.snd.emu10kx.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;, and &man.snd.csa.4; drivers have been replaced with BSD-licensed one. These drivers are now fully - BSD-licensed and included in <filename>GENERIC</filename> + BSD-licensed and included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel on &os;/amd64 and &os;/i386.</para> </sect4> <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para revision="229520">A bug in &man.ae.4; driver which could - prevent from working under certain conditions has been + <para revision="229520">A bug in the &man.ae.4; driver which could + prevent it from working under certain conditions has been fixed.</para> <para revision="229106">The &man.axe.4; driver now supports - TX/RX checksum offloading support for ASIX AX88772B + TX/RX checksum offloading support for the ASIX AX88772B controller.</para> <para>The &man.bce.4; driver has been improved:</para> @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para revision="236216">A bug has been fixed. It could + <para revision="236216">A bug has been fixed which could prevent IPMI from working when the interface was marked as down.</para> </listitem> @@ -439,29 +439,29 @@ which allow the controller to perform MDIO type accesses to a remote transceiver by using message pages defined through MRBE (MultiRate Backplane Ethernet). This is - found on machines such as Dell PowerEdge M610 + found on machines such as the Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <para>The &man.bge.4; and brgphy(4) driver have been + <para>The &man.bge.4; and brgphy(4) drivers have been improved:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> - <para revision="229350">A bug which could prevent the - DMA functionality from working correctly, has been + <para revision="229350">A bug which could prevent + DMA functionality from working correctly has been fixed.</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para revision="233495">It now works with PCI-X BCM 5704 - controller that connected to AMD-8131 PCI-X bridge.</para> + <para revision="233495">It now works with a PCI-X BCM 5704 + controller that is connected to AMD-8131 PCI-X bridge.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para revision="229357,229867,232134">It now supports - BCM 5720 and BCM 5720C PHY, and BCM 57780 1000BASE-T + the BCM 5720 and BCM 5720C PHY, and the BCM 57780 1000BASE-T media interface.</para> </listitem> @@ -475,25 +475,25 @@ </itemizedlist> <para revision="231093,237925">The &man.cxgbe.4; and - &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to firmware version - 1.5.2.0. This now supports device configuration via a + &man.cxgb.4; drivers have been updated to firmware version + 1.5.2.0. They now support device configuration via a plain text configuration file, IPv6 hardware checksumming, - IPv6 TSO and LRO, <literal>loadfw</literal> command in the - cxgbetool(8) utility which allows to install a firmware to - the card, &man.sysctl.8; variables under + IPv6 TSO and LRO, a <literal>loadfw</literal> command in the + cxgbetool(8) utility which allows installing a firmware to + the card, and &man.sysctl.8; variables under <varname>dev.t4nex.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.misc</varname> for various information.</para> <para revision="229334">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports NVIDIA (ULi) M5261/M5263 PCI FastEthernet controllers, which - are found on ULi M1563 South Bridge and M1689 Bridge.</para> + are found on the ULi M1563 South Bridge and M1689 Bridge.</para> <para revision="229711,229717,229720">The &man.et.4; driver now works on all platforms. A bug which could prevent &man.altq.4; support from working has been fixed. A new - &man.sysctl.8; variables under + &man.sysctl.8; variable under <varname>dev.et.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname> - have been added for hardware MAC statistics.</para> + has been added for hardware MAC statistics.</para> <para revision="238262">The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version 2.3.4. It now supports newer i210/i211 @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ supports device hints <varname>hint.miibus.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.phymask</varname> for PHY addresses being probed. This is useful to manually - probe PHYs which do not implement basic register set of + probe PHYs which do not implement basic the register set of IEEE 802.3. Also, the &man.miibus.4; driver has been changed to a hinted bus, allowing to add child devices via hints and to set their attach arguments in addition to @@ -523,14 +523,14 @@ National DP83849.</para> <para revision="231663">The &man.oce.4; driver, which - supports Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet card, has been + supports Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet cards, has been added.</para> <para revision="236004">The &man.ral.4; driver now supports Ralink RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.</para> <para revision="229529,231731">The &man.re.4; driver now - supports RTL8411 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller. A bug + supports the RTL8411 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller. A bug which could prevent WoL (Wake-on-LAN) from working on RTL8168E has been fixed.</para> @@ -541,20 +541,20 @@ supports 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on Solarflare SFC9000 family controllers, has been added.</para> - <para revision="233485">The smcphy(4); driver now supports + <para revision="233485">The smcphy(4) driver now supports the Seeq Technology 80220 PHY. This is found on Adaptec - AIC-6915 Starfire Ethernet controller supported by the + AIC-6915 Starfire Ethernet controllers supported by the &man.sf.4; driver.</para> <para revision="229417,229438">The &man.ti.4; driver now - supports &man.altq.4; framework, reporting link-state - change, and &man.sysctl.8; variables under + supports the &man.altq.4; framework, reporting link-state + changes, and &man.sysctl.8; variables under <varname>dev.ti.<replaceable>N</replaceable></varname> for - the interrupt moderation parameters.</para> + interrupt moderation parameters.</para> - <para revision="229441">A bug in &man.ti.4; driver which could - prevent it from working correctly with <literal>PAE</literal> - kernel option, has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="229441">A bug in the &man.ti.4; driver which could + prevent it from working correctly with the <literal>PAE</literal> + kernel option has been fixed.</para> <para revision="229540">The &man.vge.4; driver has been updated to improve its link establishment and link-state @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ <para revision="231697">The &man.xnb.4; Xen Paravirtualized Backend Ethernet Driver (netback) has been updated. This is - attached via newbus framework and works properly in both + attached via the newbus framework and works properly in both HVM and PVM mode.</para> </sect4> </sect3> @@ -573,8 +573,8 @@ <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para revision="236051">The &man.if.bridge.4; pseudo interface - now supports reporting link-state change depending on status + <para revision="236051">The &man.if.bridge.4; pseudo-interface + now supports reporting link-state changes depending on the status of the member interfaces.</para> <para revision="234597">The <literal>table</literal> argument @@ -584,23 +584,23 @@ <programlisting>skipto tablearg ip from any to any via table(42) in</programlisting> - <para>&os; &man.ip6.4; protocol stack now has been improved in terms + <para>The &os; &man.ip6.4; protocol stack has been improved in terms of its performance. Benchmarking can be found at <ulink url="http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/bench/"></ulink>.</para>; - <para revision="232292">&os; &man.ip6.4; protocol stack now - supports multiple FIB.</para> + <para revision="232292">The &os; &man.ip6.4; protocol stack now + supports multiple FIBs.</para> <para revision="230604">An IPv6 default route configured via Router Advertisement messages is now reinstalled correctly when the default route is manually removed and then another - same RA message is received.</para> + RA message is received for the same route.</para> <para revision="227885">A bug which could return an incorrect - value of <literal>IPV6_MULTICASE_HOPS</literal> socket option + value for the <literal>IPV6_MULTICASE_HOPS</literal> socket option has been fixed.</para> - <para revision="231768">A new &man.sysctl.8; + <para revision="231768">A new &man.sysctl.3; name <literal>NET_RT_IFLISTL</literal> has been added. This queries the address list and works on extended and extensible structures <varname>if_msghdrl</varname> and @@ -609,39 +609,39 @@ <para revision="231650,235527">The &man.netmap.4; fast packet I/O framework has been added. The &man.em.4;, lem(4), - &man.igb.4;. and &man.re.4; drivers now support this + &man.igb.4;, and &man.re.4; drivers now support this framework. The technical details can be found at <ulink url="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/"></ulink>.</para>; - <para revision="231045">&os; &man.sctp.4; protocol stack now + <para revision="231045">The &os; &man.sctp.4; protocol stack now supports a new &man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>net.inet.sctp.blackhole</varname>. If this is set to <literal>1</literal>, no <literal>ABORT</literal> is sent back in response to an incoming <literal>INIT</literal>. If this is set to <literal>2</literal>, no - <literal>ABORT</literal> is sent back in response to an out - of the blue packet. If set to <literal>0</literal> + <literal>ABORT</literal> is sent back in response to an + out-of-the-blue packet. If set to <literal>0</literal> (the default), <literal>ABORT</literal>s are sent.</para> <para revision="231049">A bug which could cause a system panic when <literal>SCTP_RECVINFO</literal> or - <literal>SCTP_NXTINFO</literal> is specified to - &man.getsockopt.2; system call, has been fixed.</para> + <literal>SCTP_NXTINFO</literal> is specified to the + &man.getsockopt.2; system call has been fixed.</para> - <para revision="231070,231140">&os; &man.sctp.4; protocol stack now - supports <literal>SCTP_REMOTE_UDP_ENCAPS_PORT</literal> + <para revision="231070,231140">The &os; &man.sctp.4; protocol stack now + supports the <literal>SCTP_REMOTE_UDP_ENCAPS_PORT</literal> socket option.</para> - <para revision="232805"><literal>SO_PROTOCOL</literal> and + <para revision="232805">The <literal>SO_PROTOCOL</literal> and <literal>SO_PROTOTYPE</literal> socket options have been - added. These returns the socket protocol number.</para> + added. These return the socket protocol number.</para> - <para revision="232945"><literal>TCP_KEEPINIT</literal>, + <para revision="232945">The <literal>TCP_KEEPINIT</literal>, <literal>TCP_KEEPIDLE</literal>, <literal>TCP_KEEPINTVL</literal>, and <literal>TCP_KEEPCNT</literal> socket options have been - added. These allow to control initial timeout, idle time, - idle resend interval, and idle send count in a per-socket + added. These allow controlling initial timeout, idle time, + idle resend interval, and idle send count on a per-socket basis.</para> </sect3> @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ This is enabled by default.</para> <para revision="231251">The new &man.cam.4;-based &man.ata.4; - driver now supports old &man.loader.8; tunables, + driver now supports old &man.loader.8; tunables <varname>hw.ata.ata_dma</varname> and <varname>hw.ata.atapi_dma</varname>, for backward compatibility.</para> @@ -686,8 +686,8 @@ <para revision="230014">The &man.cd.4; driver now supports Audio CDs in the same way as &man.acd.4; did. It will - report 2352-byte sector to &man.geom.4; subsystem and use - <literal>READ CD</literal> command for reading the data. + report a 2352-byte sector size to the &man.geom.4; subsystem and use + the <literal>READ CD</literal> command for reading the data. This fixes an interoperability issue with <filename role="package">multimedia/vlc</filename>.</para> @@ -742,15 +742,15 @@ </informaltable> <para>When it was <literal>NONE</literal>, the device did not - report the logical block provisioning support via respective + report logical block provisioning support via respective VPD pages. One can set a specific method for testing and it will be disabled automatically when not supported on the device.</para> <para revision="238500">The <application>MIRROR</application> &man.geom.4; class now supports - <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal>. This means - <literal>TRIM</literal> command will be issued on the + <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal>. This means the + <literal>TRIM</literal> command will be issued on supported devices when deleting data.</para> <para revision="229303,234916">The @@ -762,37 +762,37 @@ metadata, and <command>add</command>, <command>remove</command>, <command>fail</command>, <command>restore</command>, <command>configure</command> - subcommands in &man.gmultipath.8; utility to manage the + subcommands in the &man.gmultipath.8; utility to manage the configured paths.</para> <para revision="234406">The <application>PART_LDM</application> &man.geom.4; class has - been added. This partition scheme supports for Logical Disk + been added. This partition scheme has support for Logical Disk Manager, which is also known as dynamic volumes in Microsoft Windows NT. Note that JBOD, RAID0, and RAID5 volumes are not supported yet.</para> - <para revision="230763"><application>PART_MBR</application> + <para revision="230763">The <application>PART_MBR</application> &man.geom.4; class now allows a primary or extended Linux swap partition to be used as the system dump device.</para> <para revision="235877" arch="amd64,i386">The <application>RAID</application> &man.geom.4; class is now - included in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> <para revision="230244">The <application>RAID</application> &man.geom.4; class now supports disks with over 2TB capacity - for Intel metadata format.</para> + for the Intel metadata format.</para> <para revision="235874">The <application>RAID</application> - &man.geom.4; class now supports DDF metadata format, which + &man.geom.4; class now supports the DDF metadata format, which is defined in the SNIA Common RAID Disk Data Format Specification v2.0.</para> <para revision="235483">The <application>UNCOMPRESS</application> &man.geom.4; class and the &man.mkulzma.8; utility have been added. This class - supports lzma compressed images like + supports lzma compressed images like the <application>UZIP</application> &man.geom.4; class and the &man.mkuzip.8; utility.</para> @@ -808,11 +808,11 @@ been fixed.</para> <para revision="230775">The &man.ixgbe.4; driver now supports - Intel X540 adapter.</para> + the Intel X540 adapter.</para> - <para revision="227533">A bug in &man.mfi.4; driver has been - fixed. It could cause some inconsistency due to missing of - interrupt acknowledge and output the following log + <para revision="227533">A bug in the &man.mfi.4; driver has been + fixed. It could cause some inconsistencies due to missed + interrupt acknowledgements and output the following log message:</para> <screen>mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffXXXXXXXXXX TIMEOUT AFTER XX SECONDS</screen> @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ <para revision="233326">It now supports a timeout on positive name cache entries on the client side. A new mount option <varname>nametimeo</varname> has been added - and set to <literal>60</literal> (in second) by + and set to <literal>60</literal> (in seconds) by default.</para> </listitem> @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ process writes to an mmap-backed file on an NFS filesystem, flushing changes to the data could fail under some circumstances such as errors due to - permission mismatch and this failure could not detected + permission mismatch, and this failure could not be detected as an error. A new &man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>vfs.nfs.nfs_keep_dirty_on_error</varname> has been added to control the behavior on the client side @@ -874,12 +874,12 @@ <listitem> <para revision="229799">The &man.nfsv4.4; filesystem now - supports a new &man.sysctl.8; variable + supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>vfs.nfsd.disable_checkutf8</varname>. This - disables the check for a UTF-8 compliance in the + disables the check for UTF-8 compliance in filenames. This is disabled by default. Note that - enabling this may help some interoperability issue but - results in an NFSv4 server that is non-RFC 3530 + enabling this may help wht some interoperability issues but + results in an NFSv4 server that is not RFC 3530 compliant.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> @@ -888,28 +888,28 @@ experimental implementation anymore.</para> <para revision="234849">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem now - supports a new &man.sysctl.8; variable - <varname>vfs.tmpfs.memory_reserved</varname> to set amount + supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>vfs.tmpfs.memory_reserved</varname> to set the amount of required free pages when &man.tmpfs.5; attempts to allocate a new node.</para> - <para revision="229578,232328">&os; ZFS filesystem has been - updated by merging improvements in illumos project. The + <para revision="229578,232328">&os;'s ZFS filesystem has been + updated by merging improvements from the illumos project. The following changes are made:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>New properties, <literal>clones</literal> and <literal>written</literal>, have been added.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>&man.zfs.8; <command>send</command> command - now reports estimated size of the stream.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>send</command> command + now reports an estimated size of the stream.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>&man.zfs.8; <command>destroy</command> command - now reports estimated space which would be reclaimed when - <option>-n</option> flag is specified.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>destroy</command> command + now reports an estimate of the space which would be reclaimed, + when <option>-n</option> is specified.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>&man.zfs.8; <command>get</command> command now - supports <option>-t <replaceable>type</replaceable></option> + <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>get</command> command now + supports the <option>-t <replaceable>type</replaceable></option> flag to specify the data type.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ correctly when using ZFS as the root filesystem. The script is located at <filename>/usr/src/tools/tools/zfsboottest.sh</filename> and - it uses <filename>zfsboottest</filename> binary program in the + it uses the <filename>zfsboottest</filename> binary program in the same directory.</para> <para>The binary program can be built and installed by the @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ <para>The &man.sysctl.8; variable <varname>vfs.zfs.txg.timeout</varname> has been changed from - read-only to writable one.</para> + read-only to writable.</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ because it was deprecated years ago.</para> <para revision="237740">The &man.camcontrol.8; utility now - supports <command>fwdownload</command> subcommand for firmware + supports a <command>fwdownload</command> subcommand for firmware update on SCSI devices from Hitachi, HP, IBM, Plextor, Quantum, and Seagate. This subcommand will reprogram the firmware on devices connected over an ATA/SATA transport.</para> @@ -963,11 +963,11 @@ <para revision="230047">The &man.dump.8; utility now uses 53 characters for the device names in - <filename>/etc/dumpdates</filename>. This was limited to 32 + <filename>/etc/dumpdates</filename>. This was previously limited to 32 characters.</para> <para revision="235253">The &man.fetch.1; utility now correctly - supports percent-encoded user and password part in a + supports a percent-encoded user and password part in a URL.</para> <para revision="230410">The &man.fdlopen.3; function has been @@ -975,50 +975,50 @@ shared object by file descriptor.</para> <para revision="229845">The &man.fopen.3; function now supports - <option>x</option> (an exclusive create-and-open mode) option - in ISO/IEC 9899:2011, C11 standard.</para> + the <option>x</option> (an exclusive create-and-open mode) option + in the ISO/IEC 9899:2011 and C11 standards.</para> <para revision="234023">A bug in the &man.gcc.1; compiler has been fixed. It could lead to incorrect calculations when - <option>-ffast-math</option> flag is specified.</para> + <option>-ffast-math</option> is specified.</para> - <para revision="229509">The &man.hastd.8; daemon now supports to - specify filename of the process ID file in + <para revision="229509">The &man.hastd.8; daemon now supports + specifying the filename of its process ID file in &man.hast.conf.5;.</para> <para revision="231221">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now - supports <literal>vlanhwcsum</literal> parameter to set or + supports a <literal>vlanhwcsum</literal> parameter to set or reset checksum offloading capability on VLANs.</para> <para revision="238872">A bug in the &man.ifconfig.8; utility which could display an error message in a jail with no IPv6 - support, has been fixed.</para> + support has been fixed.</para> <para revision="232486">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now - supports <literal>carp + supports a <literal>carp <replaceable>state</replaceable></literal> parameter to set the state to <literal>backup</literal> or <literal>master</literal> forcibly.</para> - <para revision="235839">The &man.jail.8; utility now supports + <para revision="235839">The &man.jail.8; utility now supports a configuration file (&man.jail.conf.5;) for complex configurations.</para> - <para revision="237789">The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports + <para revision="237789">The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports a <option>-p <replaceable>pid</replaceable></option> option to accept either a process ID or a thread ID.</para> - <para revision="236118">The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports + <para revision="236118">The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-v</option> flag to display an entry in - <literal>name=value</literal> format, and <option>-N</option> + <literal>name=value</literal> format, and a <option>-N</option> flag to display only the name.</para> - <para revision="233560">The &man.kldload.8; utility now supports + <para revision="233560">The &man.kldload.8; utility now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to ignore the error status when the specified module is already loaded.</para> <para revision="237738"><application>libedit</application> has - been updated to NetBSD snapshot as of 28 December, + been updated to a NetBSD snapshot as of 28 December, 2009.</para> <para revision="236523">&man.libmap.conf.5; now supports @@ -1046,15 +1046,15 @@ a <option>-P <replaceable>pid</replaceable></option> option to control limits for the specified process.</para> - <para revision="237731">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now supports - <option>-e</option> flag to display PCI error details in the + <para revision="237731">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now supports a + <option>-e</option> flag to display PCI error details in listing mode. When this is specified, the status of any error bits in the PCI status register and PCI-express device status register will be displayed. It also lists any errors indicated by version 1 of PCI-express Advanced Error Reporting (AER).</para> - <para revision="229710">The &man.procstat.1; utility now shows + <para revision="229710">The &man.procstat.1; utility now shows the superpage mapping flag when displaying process virtual memory mappings.</para> @@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ display resource limits.</para> <para revision="234535">A bug in the &man.remquo.3; functions - that the quotient did not always have the correct sign when + where the quotient did not always have the correct sign when the remainder was <literal>0</literal>, and another bug that the remainder and quotient were both off by a bit in certain cases involving subnormal remainders, have been fixed. Note @@ -1073,11 +1073,11 @@ i386.</para> <para revision="231579">The &man.rtld.1; run-time linker now - supports GCC's RELRO (RElocation Read-Only). This prevents + supports GCC's RELRO (RElocation Read-Only). This prevents the GOT (Global Offset Table) from being overwritten.</para> <para revision="235396">The &man.rtld.1; run-time linker now - supports GNU hash section (<literal>DT_GNU_HASH</literal>), + supports a GNU hash section (<literal>DT_GNU_HASH</literal>), which is a replacement of optional ELF hash section.</para> <para revision="235139">The &man.setbuf.1; utility and @@ -1086,10 +1086,10 @@ stdio streams.</para> <para revision="227702">The &man.top.1; utility now correctly - supports per-thread I/O statistics of ZFS in <option>-m + supports per-thread I/O statistics of ZFS in the <option>-m io</option> option.</para> - <para revision="234330">The &man.unzip.1; utility now supports + <para revision="234330">The &man.unzip.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option> option for zipinfo.</para> <para revision="235785">The &man.xlocale.3; API has been @@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ <para revision="231721">A new variable <varname>daily_status_zfs_zpool_list_enable</varname> has - been added. It controls whether listing all of the ZFS + been added. It controls whether or not to list all of the ZFS pools in <filename>periodic/daily/404.status-zfs</filename>. The default value is <literal>YES</literal>.</para> @@ -1118,13 +1118,13 @@ <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title> - <para revision="227607"><filename>rc.d/nfsd</filename> script - now sets <varname>vfs.nfsd.server_max_nfsvers</varname> + <para revision="227607">The <filename>rc.d/nfsd</filename> script + now sets the <varname>vfs.nfsd.server_max_nfsvers</varname> &man.sysctl.8; variable to <literal>4</literal> when <varname>nfsv4_server_enable</varname> is set to <literal>YES</literal>.</para> - <para revision="242189">A backward compatibility issue when + <para revision="242189">A backwards compatibility issue when both <literal>ipv6_enable=YES</literal> and <literal>ipv6_gateway_enable=YES</literal> are defined at the same time has been fixed.</para> @@ -1153,12 +1153,12 @@ &man.bsdtar.1;, and &man.cpio.1; have been updated to version 2.8.5.</para> - <para revision="236167"><application>libpcap</application> - library have been updated to 1.2.1.</para> + <para revision="236167">The <application>libpcap</application> + library has been updated to 1.2.1.</para> <para revision="229551"><application>libstdc++</application> - have been updated to rev 135556 of - <literal>gcc-4_2-branch</literal> (LGPLv2-licensed + has been updated to revision 135556 of the + <literal>gcc-4_2-branch</literal> (the last LGPLv2-licensed version).</para> <para revision="236144">The <application>LLVM</application> @@ -1171,10 +1171,10 @@ has been updated to version 5.1.</para> <para revision="237998"><application>OpenSSL</application> has - been updated to 0.9.8x.</para> + been updated to version 0.9.8x.</para> - <para revision="236192"><application>tcpdump</application> - (&man.tcpdump.1;) utility has been updated to 4.2.1.</para> + <para revision="236192">The <application>tcpdump</application> + (&man.tcpdump.1;) utility has been updated to version 4.2.1.</para> <para revision="232633">The <application>TENEX C shell</application> (&man.tcsh.1;) has been updated to version @@ -1184,8 +1184,8 @@ database has been updated to the <application>tzdata2012a</application> release.</para> - <para revision="237691"><application>zlib</application> - library have been updated to 1.2.7.</para> + <para revision="237691">The <application>zlib</application> + library has been updated to version 1.2.7.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="releng"> @@ -1196,9 +1196,9 @@ role="package">x11/kde4</filename>) has been updated to 4.8.4.</para> - <para revision="234055" arch="powerpc">Issues that &os; - installation CDROM image caused a panic, and did not - recognized on OpenBIOS-based environment like QEMU, have been + <para revision="234055" arch="powerpc">Issues where the &os; + installation CDROM image caused a panic, and was not + recognized on OpenBIOS-based environments like QEMU, have been fixed.</para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -1207,22 +1207,22 @@ <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> <sect2> - <title>Upgrading using freebsd-update(8) or a source-based + <title>Upgrading using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a source-based procedure</title> <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure - will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as a - unmodified GENERIC kernel distributed as a part of an official - &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires - that the host being upgraded have Internet - connectivity.</para> + will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as an + unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel, distributed as + a part of an official &os; release. The + &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being + upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; base system from source code) from previous versions are - supported, according to the instructions in + supported using to the instructions in <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> <para>For more specific information about upgrading
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