From owner-svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 18:52:16 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 9CB531065673; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:52:16 +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 8474B8FC0C; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:52:16 +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 q07IqGNt052187; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:52:16 GMT (envelope-from hrs@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from hrs@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q07IqG4F052185; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:52:16 GMT (envelope-from hrs@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201201071852.q07IqG4F052185@svn.freebsd.org> From: Hiroki Sato Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:52:16 +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: r229787 - 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: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:52:16 -0000 Author: hrs Date: Sat Jan 7 18:52:16 2012 New Revision: 229787 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229787 Log: - Remove unnecessary and/or old parts. - Add relnote entries: msk(4) RX checksum bugfix, rdcphy(4) for R6040 10/100 PHY added, vte(4) for RDC R6040 added, vlan(4) IPv6 LLA interface ID bugfix, wpi(4) bugfix, md(4) vm.md_malloc_wait sysctl added, mmc(4) device detection fixed, FFS TRIM support added, poweroff(8) added, rtld(1) now supports shared objects for filtering, sh(1) kill built-in added, and KDE 4.7.3. 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 Sat Jan 7 16:16:13 2012 (r229786) +++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Jan 7 18:52:16 2012 (r229787) @@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ %release; - - - - - ]>
@@ -53,29 +48,6 @@ It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;. -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 . - -]]> - -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 . - -]]> - -This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be found at or any of its mirrors. More @@ -86,8 +58,6 @@ url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook. -]]> - All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with late-breaking information discovered late in the @@ -103,10 +73,7 @@ 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. - + since &release.prev;. Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after @@ -217,128 +184,48 @@ Kernel Changes - A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added - for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and - assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added - to allow manipulation of processor sets. - - 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 capture command controls - this feature. - - 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. - - The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel - dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via - mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a - simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief - kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but - are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely - synchronized source code. More information can be found in the - &man.textdump.4; manual page. - - Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While - the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful - in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the - KSE library was never developed to its full potential. - Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading - will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked - binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of - &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support. - - The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel - features via the kern.features sysctl tree. - The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient - interface for user applications to test the presence of - features. - - The &os; kernel now has support for large - memory page mappings (superpages). - - The ULE - scheduler is now the default process scheduler - in GENERIC kernels. - Boot Loader Changes - 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. - - A new gptboot boot loader has - been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A - new boot 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. - + Hardware Support - The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 - PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. - - The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout. - - The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon - Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been - imported from OpenBSD. - Multimedia Support - Network Interface Support - The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support - for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers. - - The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers - with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue - to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new - client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver - will support new server adapters. - - The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support - for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit - Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers. - - The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide - support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network - adapters. - - The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been - updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29. - - The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its - performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It - should also work on all architectures. - - The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a - number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) - support. - - The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a - number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all - architectures. + A bug in &man.msk.4; driver has been + fixed. It could prevent the RX checksum offloading from + working. + + A rdcphy(4) driver for RDC Semiconductor + R6040 10/100 PHY has been added. + + A bug in &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface + han been fixed. It could have a random interface + identifier in an automatically configured IPv6 link-local + address, instead of one generated with the parent + interface's IEEE 802 48-bit MAC address and an algorithm + described in RFC 4291. + + A &man.vte.4; driver for RDC R6040 Fast + Ethernet controller, which is commonly found on Vortex86 + System On a Chip, has been added. + + A bug in &man.wpi.4; driver has been + fixed. It could display the following error messages and + result in the device unusable: - The &man.wpi.4; driver has - been updated to include a number of stability fixes. + wpi0: could not map mbuf (error 12) +wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load failed, error 12 @@ -346,265 +233,95 @@ Network Protocols - The &man.bpf.4; packet filter and capture facility now - supports a zero-copy mode of operation, in which buffers are - loaned from a user process to the kernel. This feature can - be enabled by setting - the net.bpf.zerocopy_enable sysctl - variable to 1. - - ISDN4BSD(I4B), netatm, and all - related subsystems have been removed due to lack of - multi-processor support. - - A bug in TCP options padding, where the wrong padding - bytes were used, has been fixed. - + Disks and Storage - The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than - 2TB in size. - - 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 spindown command to configure - this feature. - - The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 - from Highpoint. + 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 + malloc-backed disk to using M_WAITOK or + M_NOWAIT for &man.malloc.9; calls. The + M_WAITOK can prevent memory allocation + failure under high load. If it is set to + 0, a malloc-backed disk uses + M_NOWAIT for memory allocation. The + default value is 0. + A bug in the &man.mmc.4; driver that could + fail in device detection has been fixed. File Systems - A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has - been fixed. - - A new kernel-mode NFS lock manager has been added, - improving performance and behavior of NFS locking. A new - &man.clear.locks.8; command has been added to clear locks held - on behalf of an NFS client. - - The ZFS file system - has been upgraded to version 14. Additional changes include - support for NFSv4 ACLs, a speedup of zfs send and an improved L2ARC. - New statistics for prefetch and L2ARC have been introduced. - + The &os; Fast File System now supports + TRIM command when freeing data blocks. A + new flag in the &man.newfs.8; and + &man.tunefs.8; utilities sets the TRIM-enable flag in a file + system. The TRIM-enable flag makes the file system send a + delete request to the underlying device for each freed + 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. + Userland Changes - The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports - a option to set the mode of a new user's - home directory. - - BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, - based on libarchive, have replaced the GNU - Binutils versions of these utilities. - - BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have - replaced their GNU counterparts. - - &man.chflags.1; now supports a flag for - verbose output and a flag to ignore errors - with the same semantics as (for example) - &man.chmod.1;. - - For compatiblity with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now - supports a flag, which is equivalent to - specifying the flags. - - BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on - libarchive, has replaced the GNU cpio. - Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as - gcpio. - - The &man.env.1; program now supports - which will completely unset the given variable - name by removing it from the environment, - instead of just setting it to a null value. - - The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added. - - The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1 - If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now - supports - which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content - is newer than filename. - - &man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number - of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; - &man.find.1;. - - &man.jexec.8; now supports option to specify the - jail where the command will be executed. - - &man.kgdb.1; now supports a new add-kld - command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel - modules. - - The &man.ls.1; program now supports a - option to specify a date format string to be used with the long - format () output. - - &man.nc.1; now supports a switch to - disable the use of TCP options. - - &man.nc.1;'s switch has been deprecated. - It will be removed in a future release. - - The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns 2 - when the packet transmission was successful but no responses - were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;). - It returned a non-zero value before this change. - - The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display - detailed information about processes. - - The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports - a flag to suppress warnings; it now also - accepts multiple paths on its command line. - - The &man.split.1; utility now supports a - flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks. - - The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a - flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style - compression/decompression. - - The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a - flag to ignore user/group names - on create and extract. - - The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an - flag to sparsify files on extraction. - - The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a - flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular - expression. - - The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to - return the process group ID for the session leader for the - controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 - (POSIX). - - &man.top.1; now supports a flag to - provide per-CPU usage statistics. - - &man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures. - - - &man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS - number for each hop with the new switch; a - new option allows selecting a particular - WHOIS server. - - &man.traceroute6.8; now supports a flag - to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than - the usual UDP probe packets. + A &man.poweroff.8; utility has been added. + This is equivalent to: + + &prompt.root; shutdown -p now + + The &man.rtld.1; runtime linker now supports + shared objects as filters in ELF shared libraries. Both + standard and auxillary filtering have been supported. The + &man.rtld.1; linker's processing of a filter defers loading a + filtee until a filter symbol is referenced unless + LD_LOADFLTR environment variable is defined + or a -z loadfltr option was specified when + the filter was created. + + The &man.sh.1; program now supports + kill as a built-in command. This allows + specifying %job + which is equivalent to the corresponding process group. Note + that this built-in command returns the exit status + 2 instead of 1 if an + fatal error occurs as other built-in commands do. <filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts - Contributed Software - AMD has been updated from 6.0.10 - to 6.1.5. - - awk has been updated from 1 May - 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release. - - bzip2 has been updated from 1.0.4 - to 1.0.5. - - CVS has been updated from 1.11.17 - to a post-1.11.22 snapshot from 10 March 2008. - - FILE has been updated from 4.23 - to 5.03. - - hostapd has been - updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10. - - IPFilter has been updated from - 4.1.23 to 4.1.28. - - less has been updated from - v408 to v429. - - ncurses has been updated from - 5.6-20061217 to 5.6-20080503. - - OpenSSH has been updated - from 4.5p1 to 5.1p1. - - OpenPAM has been updated from the - Figwort release to the Hydrangea release. - - sendmail has been updated from - 8.14.1 to 8.14.5. - - The timezone database has been updated from - the tzdata2008h release to - the tzdata2009m release. - - The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8 and &man.zic.8 - have been updated from the tzcode2004a - release to the tzcode2009h 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. - - - WPA Supplicant has been - updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10. - - xz has been updated - from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0. - + Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure - The &man.pkg.create.1; utility now supports - . When this option is specified and a - package tarball exists, it will not be overwritten. This is - useful when multiple packages are saved with several consecutive - runs of &man.pkg.create.1; with the - options. - - The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically - signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful - for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however - &man.bzip2.1; compression has been the norm for some time - now. - + Release Engineering and Integration - The supported version of - the GNOME desktop environment - (x11/gnome2) has been - updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22. - + The supported version of + the KDE desktop environment + (x11/kde4) has been + updated from 4.5.5 to 4.7.3. @@ -618,6 +335,10 @@ Upgrading from previous releases of &os; + + Upgrading using freebsd-update(8) or source-based + procedure + Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the @@ -637,5 +358,13 @@ backing up all data and configuration files. + + + + User-visible incompatibilities + + This section describes notable incompatibilities which + your should know before upgrading your system. +