From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 4 08:20:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCD2C6F5; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD9111CF4; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rB48K4pn023468; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:20:04 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id rB48K4Td023467; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:20:04 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201312040820.rB48K4Td023467@svn.freebsd.org> From: Craig Rodrigues Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:20:04 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r258914 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 08:20:05 -0000 Author: rodrigc Date: Wed Dec 4 08:20:04 2013 New Revision: 258914 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258914 Log: Update release notes. Submitted by: skreuzer Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Wed Dec 4 07:55:49 2013 (r258913) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Wed Dec 4 08:20:04 2013 (r258914) @@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ Kernel Changes + The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel + can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB. + 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 @@ -201,7 +204,9 @@ Multimedia Support - + 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. @@ -249,26 +254,23 @@ 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. - - The IEEE 802.11s element identifiers have - been updated to reflect the final version of the amendment. This - update breaks compatibility with older mesh setups but is necessary - as the previous IDs are used by another amendment leading to - unexpected results when trying to associate with an accesspoint - using the affected IDs. + &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 + ifconfig, better locking and using modern kernel + interfaces to allocate multicast memberships. + + The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking + and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in + significant improvements in performance. + + Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been + introduced. + + Support for setting/matching differentiated services + codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to + &man.ipfw.8;. @@ -293,19 +295,34 @@ File Systems - A problem with using &man.mmap.2; on ZFS filesystems has - been fixed. + A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been + added - 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 28. Changes include Data - Deduplication, Triple parity RAIDZ, and zfs diff. + 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. + + A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the + base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file + systems + + 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 + + Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS. + + 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. + @@ -443,8 +460,8 @@ 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. + CVS has been removed from the + base system, but is still available from ports FILE has been updated from 4.23 to 5.03.