Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:04:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-releng@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r218447 - releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201102081704.p18H4qJt053622@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Tue Feb 8 17:04:52 2011 New Revision: 218447 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218447 Log: Add more relnotes items for 8.2R: GENERIC now has KDB and KDB_TRACE by default, vfs.ncsizefactor and vfs.ncnegfactor added, opencrypto XTS-AES support, axe(4) TX packet rate improvement, rl(4) TX packet rate under high RX load improvement, gconcat(8) kernel crash dump support, geli(8) metadata version bump to 4, geli(8) kern.geom.eli.overwrites added, geli(8) key shift added, geli(8) XTS-AES support and enabled by default, geli(8) kern.geom.eli.debug=-1 support, geli(8) resize command added, geli(8) suspend/resume command added, geli(8) -f option added, geli(8) -J and -j options added, lpr(1) issue of files on ZFS fixed, watchdogd(8) MADV_PROTECTified, and ee(1) updated to 1.5.2. Approved by: re (implicit) Modified: releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Modified: releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml ============================================================================== --- releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Tue Feb 8 15:57:04 2011 (r218446) +++ releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Tue Feb 8 17:04:52 2011 (r218447) @@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ displays the list of all created cdev's, consisting of devfs node name and struct cdev address.</para> + <para revision="214326">The &os; <filename>GENERIC</filename> + kernel is now compiled with <option>KDB</option> and + <option>KDB_TRACE</option> options. From 8.2-RELEASE the + kernel supports displaying a stack trace on panic by using + &man.stack.9; facility with no debugger backend like + &man.ddb.8;. Note that this does not change the default + behaviors of the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel on + panic.</para> + <para revision="213554,213556,213560">The following &man.sysctl.8; variables are also now loader tunables: <varname>vm.kmem_size</varname>, @@ -197,13 +206,21 @@ &man.sysctl.8; variables <varname>vm.kmem_map_size</varname> for the current kmem map size and <varname>vm.kmem_map_free</varname> for largest contiguous - free range in kmem map have been added.</para> + free range in kmem map, <varname>vfs.ncsizefactor</varname> + for size factor for namecache, and + <varname>vfs.ncnegfactor</varname> for ratio of negative + namecache entries have been added.</para> <para revision="212427">The &os; &man.memguard.9; framework has been improved to make it able to detect use-after-free of allocated memories over a longer time. For more details, see &man.memguard.9; manual page.</para> + <para revision="214254">The &os; &man.crypto.4; framework + (opencrypto) now supports XTS-AES (XEX-TCB-CTS, or XEX-based + Tweaked Code Book mode with CipherText Stealing), which is + defined in IEEE Std. 1619-2007.</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -251,6 +268,10 @@ the &man.alc.4; driver has been reduced from 50ms to 1ms. The 50ms timer resulted in a poor UDP performance.</para> + <para revision="214297,214298,214301">The &man.axe.4; driver + has been improved for stability and better performance on + the TX packet rate.</para> + <para revision="211379">The &man.bce.4; driver now supports flow control.</para> @@ -353,6 +374,10 @@ <para>Note that the default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para> + <para revision="214407">The man.rl.4; driver has been + improved on interrupt handling. It now has better TX + performance under high RX load.</para> + <para revision="212468,213612,213628">The &man.sis.4; driver now works on all supported platforms. Some stability and performance issues have also been fixed.</para> @@ -510,6 +535,34 @@ SATA controllers in the &man.ata.4; has been improved.</para> + <para revision="214330">The &man.gconcat.8; GEOM class now + supports kernel crash dump. The dumping is performed to the + component where a dump partition begins.</para> + + <para revision="214405">A bug in the &man.geli.8; GEOM class + on little endian platforms has been fixed. The metadata + version has been updated to <literal>4</literal> due to + this.</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; GEOM class now + supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>kern.geom.eli.overwrites</varname>. This specifies + the number of times on-disk keys should be overwritten when + destroying them. The default value is + <literal>5</literal>.</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; GEOM class has been + improved for preventing the same encryption key from being + used in 2^20 blocks (sectors).</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; GEOM class now uses + XTS-AES mode by default.</para> + + <para revision="214405">A &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>kern.geom.eli.debug</varname> now allows a value + <literal>-1</literal>. This means turn off any log messages + of the &man.geli.8; GEOM class.</para> + <para revision="210376">The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports larger I/O sizes which the device and &man.CAM.4; subsystem can support. This was limited to 64KB, and the number of @@ -621,6 +674,30 @@ <option>-f</option> flag which forces a full dump of all the segments except for the malformed ones.</para> + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports + <command>resize</command> subcommand to resize encrypted file + systems prior to growing it</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports + <command>suspend</command> and <command>resume</command> + subcommands. The <command>suspend</command> subcommand makes + &man.geli.8; devices wait for all in-flight I/O requests, + suspend new I/O requests, remove all &man.geli.8; sensitive + data from the kernel memory (like encryption keys) and will + wait for either <command>geli resume</command> or + <command>geli detach</command> commmand. For more + information, see &man.geli.8; manual page.</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now checks the + metadata provider size strictly. If the check fails, the + provider is not attached. A new option <option>-f</option> + can override this behavior.</para> + + <para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports + <option>-J <replaceable>newpassfile</replaceable></option> and + <option>-j <replaceable>passfile</replaceable></option> + options for loading passphrease from a file.</para> + <para revision="211938">The <function>gethost*()</function>, <function>getnet*()</function>, and <function>getproto*()</function> functions now set the errno @@ -668,6 +745,10 @@ &man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm) compression format.</para> + <para revision="214442">A bug in the &man.lpr.1; utility which + prevents it from working with some files on a ZFS file system + has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="213978">The <option>-p</option> option in the &man.mount.8; utility now displays <literal>rw</literal> mount option correctly as in the &man.fstab.5; format.</para> @@ -764,6 +845,12 @@ <literal>^C</literal> in insert mode when reading an ex command.</para> + <para revision="214345">The &man.watchdogd.8; program now set + <literal>MADV_PROTECT</literal> memory flag onto themselves to + protect from being terminated by the &os; kernel when + available memory becomes short. This kind of process + termination happens in a swap-intensive workload.</para> + <para revision="209870">The <command>set sharenfs</command> command in the &man.zfs.8; utility now supports <option>sec</option> option.</para> @@ -793,7 +880,11 @@ <para>The <application>awk</application> has been updated from the 23 October 2007 release to the 26 November 2009 release.</para> +--> + <para revision="214287">The &man.ee.1; program has been updated + to version 1.5.2.</para> +<!-- <para><application>ISC BIND</application> has been updated to version 9.6.2-P2.</para>
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