Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:42:18 -0500 From: Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@stat.duke.edu> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Typos in 5.3 Release Notes Message-ID: <4185947A.9000802@stat.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041030093009.GA28698@abigail.blackend.org> References: <4182A21B.9090604@stat.duke.edu> <20041030093009.GA28698@abigail.blackend.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050104070700090109090106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:03:39PM -0400, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > >>I have spotted several typos and grammatical errors in the 5.3 Release >>Notes. Is it too late to submit a patch? > > It's never too late :) > Please send us your patch. Here it is. I hope 32 KB isn't too much to send to the list, especially for my first patch... It's mostly corrections for punctuation and grammar, such as missing or extra commas and articles, tense or plurality disagreement between the subject and verb, et cetera. Feel free to ask for justification or clarification. For your reading pleasure, I've posted an HTML version of the patched document at http://www.stat.duke.edu/~vangyzen/FreeBSD/relnotes-5.3.html Cheers! Eric -- Eric van Gyzen Sr. Systems Programmer http://www.stat.duke.edu/~vangyzen/ ISDS, Duke University --------------050104070700090109090106 Content-Type: text/plain; name="relnotes-5.3.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="relnotes-5.3.diff" --- src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml.orig Mon Oct 25 16:51:54 2004 +++ src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml Sun Oct 31 20:13:28 2004 @@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ &merged;</para> <para>A bug in <application>OpenSSL</application>'s SSL/TLS - ChangeCipherSpec message processing could result in - a null pointer dereference, has been fixed. + ChangeCipherSpec message processing that could result in + a null pointer dereference has been fixed. This could allow a remote attacker to crash an <application>OpenSSL</application>-using application and cause a denial-of-service on the system. @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ <para>A programming error in the handling of some IPv6 socket options within the &man.setsockopt.2; system call has been fixed. This allows a local attacker to cause a - system panic, and may allow to gain unauthorized access to + system panic, and may allow unauthorized access to parts of kernel memory, possibly resulting in disclosure of sensitive information, bypass of access control mechanisms, or privilege escalation. @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:08.heimdal.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:08</ulink>. &merged;</para> <para>A programming error in <application>CVS</application> which - allow the malicious client to overwrite arbitrary portions of + could allow a malicious client to overwrite arbitrary portions of the server's memory has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:10.cvs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:10</ulink>. &merged;</para> @@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ For more information, see security advisory <ulink url="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:14</ulink>.</para>; - <para>A bug in <literal>CONS_SCRSHOT</literal> &man.ioctl.2; - has been fixed; it may allow to gain unauthorized access to + <para>A bug in the <literal>CONS_SCRSHOT</literal> &man.ioctl.2; + has been fixed; it may allow unauthorized access to parts of kernel memory, possibly resulting in disclosure of sensitive information, bypass of access control mechanisms, or privilege escalation. @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ the frontend that provides a framework in which multiple, different debugger backends can be configured and which provides basic services to those backends. - The following options has been changed:</para> + The following options have been changed:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -337,8 +337,8 @@ disables internal MAC Framework synchronization protecting against dynamic load and unload of MAC policies, has been added.</para> - <para>The &man.mac.bsdextended.4; policy now supports to match and - apply on a first rule only in place of all rules match. + <para>The &man.mac.bsdextended.4; policy can now + apply only the first matching rule instead of all matching rules. This feature can be enabled by setting a new sysctl <varname>mac_bsdextended_firstmatch_enabled</varname>.</para> @@ -359,8 +359,9 @@ and <filename>/dev/io</filename> are also provided as kernel loadable modules now.</para> - <para>A bug in &man.mmap.2; that pages marked as <literal>PROT_NONE</literal> - may become readable under certain circumstances, has been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>A bug in &man.mmap.2; that could cause pages marked as + <literal>PROT_NONE</literal> to become readable under certain + circumstances has been fixed. &merged;</para> <para arch="i386,pc98">A new kernel option <literal>MP_WATCHDOG</literal> has been added; it @@ -371,7 +372,7 @@ processor's idle thread; a callout is launched to reset a timer in the watchdog. If the callout fails to reset the timer for ten seconds, the timeout process will take place. The <varname>debug.watchdog_cpu</varname> - sysctl allows to select which CPU will run the watchdog.</para> + sysctl selects which CPU will run the watchdog.</para> <para arch="i386,pc98">A sysctl <varname>debug.leak_schedlock</varname> has been added. This causes a sysctl handler that incorrectly leaks @@ -435,7 +436,7 @@ <para>The ULE scheduler has been added as an additional scheduler. Note that the conventional one, which is called 4BSD, is still used - as the default scheduler in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. + as the default scheduler in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. For the average user, interactivity is reported to be better in many cases. This means less <quote>skipping</quote> and <quote>jerking</quote> in @@ -515,7 +516,7 @@ LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para> <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added - to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports + to support hot keys on Panasonic laptops. It now supports Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and CF-R3.</para> @@ -524,7 +525,7 @@ certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as video output switching.</para> - <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide + <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to control display switching and backlight brightness using the ACPI Video Extensions.</para> @@ -567,10 +568,10 @@ It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para> - <para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a - kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because - this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually - been commented out for a long time.</para> + <para>The &man.pcic.4; driver is no longer maintained and has been + removed from the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel + configuration file. + The entry had actually been commented out for a long time.</para> <para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8; now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para> @@ -625,17 +626,18 @@ controllers, and the <devicename>wt</devicename> driver for Archive/Wangtek cartridge tapes. They are currently non-functional, and would require a considerable amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT. - The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including - <devicename>sasc</devicename> and <devicename>sgsc</devicename> - has also been removed.</para> + The userland support, such as related ioctls and utilities + including <devicename>sasc</devicename> and + <devicename>sgsc</devicename>, has also been removed.</para> - <para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers) - have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use + <para>The device driver infrastructure and many drivers + have been updated. Among the changes: many more drivers now use automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static - major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of - pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a + major numbers); enhanced functions have been added to support + cloning of pseudo-devices; several changes have been made to the + driver API, including a new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct - cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will + cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will require recompiling after this change.</para> <sect4 id="mm"> @@ -646,15 +648,15 @@ breakage and lack of maintainership.</para> <para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated - from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update + from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May 2004. This update includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para> - <para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized; + <para>The drivers for various sound cards have been reorganized; <literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver, and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now. The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port and several sound cards, has been removed. - More details can be found in related manual pages: + More details can be found in the related manual pages: &man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;, &man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;, &man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;, @@ -673,16 +675,17 @@ <title>Network Interface Support</title> <para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports - Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para> + Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters, has been added. &merged;</para> <para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64 Davicom cards that store their MAC address in Open Firmware.</para> <para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter - reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para> + reconfiguration has been fixed. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added. + <para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire, + has been added. Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported. This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146 @@ -757,7 +760,7 @@ support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601 chipset.</para> - <para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports + <para>The &man.vge.4; driver, which supports the VIA Networking Technologies VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY, has been added.</para> @@ -799,12 +802,12 @@ </para> <para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support the <literal>antispoof</literal> - option to verify if incoming packet's source address belongs to - a directly connected network. If the network is directly - connected, then the interface the packet came on in is compared to - the interface the network is connected to. When incoming interface - and directly connected interface are not the same, the packet does - not match. For example: + option to verify that an incoming packet's source address belongs + to a directly connected network. If the network is directly + connected, then the interface on which the packet came in is + compared to the interface to which the network is connected. + When the incoming interface and the directly connected interface + are not the same, the packet does not match. For example: <programlisting>deny ip from any to any not antispoof in</programlisting> </para> @@ -826,12 +829,13 @@ to enable it.</para> <para>A new sysctl <varname>net.inet.ip.process_options</varname> + has been added to control the processing of IP options. When this sysctl - is set to <literal>0</literal> IP options are ignored and passed unmodified, - set to <literal>1</literal> all IP options are processed (default), - and set to <literal>2</literal> all packets with - IP options are rejected with an ICMP filter prohibited message, - respectively.</para> + is set to <literal>0</literal>, IP options are ignored and passed + unmodified; + set to <literal>1</literal>, all IP options are processed (default); + and set to <literal>2</literal>, all packets with + IP options are rejected with an ICMP filter prohibited message.</para> <para>Some bugs in the IPsec implementation from the KAME Project have been fixed. These bugs were related to freeing @@ -841,8 +845,8 @@ <para>&man.natd.8; now supports multiple instances via a new option <option>globalports</option>. - This allows &man.natd.8; to be bound to - different network interfaces and sharing of load.</para> + This allows &man.natd.8; to bind to + different network interfaces and share load.</para> <para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para> @@ -893,7 +897,7 @@ <para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC 3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product - limiting. A set of sysctls <varname>net.inet.tcp.rfc3042</varname>, + limiting. The sysctls <varname>net.inet.tcp.rfc3042</varname>, <varname>net.inet.tcp.rfc3390</varname>, and <varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable</varname> for these features are available. @@ -927,7 +931,7 @@ increments between clock ticks so that ISNs will always be increasing, no matter how quickly the port is recycled.</para> - <para>The random ephemeral port allocation, which come from OpenBSD + <para>The random ephemeral port allocation, which comes from OpenBSD, has been implemented. This is enabled by default and can be disabled by using the <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized</varname> sysctl. &merged;</para> @@ -956,8 +960,8 @@ <note> <para>This also adds preliminary support for the Promise SX4/SX4000 as a <quote>normal</quote> Promise ATA - controller; ATA RAID's are supported though - but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1.</para> + controller; ATA RAID's are supported, + but only RAID0, RAID1, and RAID0+1.</para> </note> </para> @@ -1003,7 +1007,7 @@ <para>GEOM Gate, which consists of a new <literal>GEOM_GATE</literal> &man.geom.4; class and several GEOM Gate userland utilities (&man.ggatel.8;, &man.ggatec.8;, - and &man.ggated.8;) has been added. It supports exporting + and &man.ggated.8;), has been added. It supports exporting devices, including non &man.geom.4;-aware devices, through the network.</para> @@ -1019,7 +1023,7 @@ <filename>GENERIC</filename> by default.</para> <para>A new <literal>GEOM_MIRROR</literal> &man.geom.4; class to support - which supports RAID1 functionality, has been added. + RAID1 functionality has been added. The &man.gmirror.8; utility can be used for control of this class.</para> @@ -1039,13 +1043,14 @@ has been fixed.</para> <para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports - 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para> + 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers, has been added. + &merged;</para> <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use - &man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework. + <para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager has been updated to use the + &man.geom.4; disk I/O request transformation framework. A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para> <para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been @@ -1094,11 +1099,11 @@ <title>Contributed Software</title> <para>The <application>ALTQ framework</application> - has been imported from a KAME snapshot as of 7 June, 2004. + has been imported from a KAME snapshot as of 7 June 2004. This import breaks ABI compatibility of <varname>struct ifnet</varname> and requires all network drives to be recompiled. - Additionally some of the networking drivers have been + Additionally, some of the networking drivers have been modified to support the ALTQ framework. Updated drivers are &man.bfe.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.lnc.4;, &man.tun.4;, &man.de.4;, @@ -1125,7 +1130,7 @@ <para>&man.bsdtar.1; is now the default &man.tar.1; utility in the &os; base system. <filename>/usr/bin/tar</filename> - has been a symlink pointing to + is a symlink pointing to <filename>/usr/bin/bsdtar</filename> by default. To return to using <filename>/usr/bin/gtar</filename> by default, the <varname>WITH_GTAR</varname> @@ -1142,12 +1147,12 @@ <para>&man.conscontrol.8; now supports <literal>set</literal> and <literal>unset</literal> commands which set/unset the virtual console. - <literal>unset</literal> makes outputs from the system, such as - the kernel &man.printf.9;, always go out to the real + <literal>unset</literal> makes output from the system, such as + the kernel &man.printf.9;, always go to the real main console. This is an interface to the tty ioctl <literal>TIOCCONS</literal>.</para> - <para>The &man.cron.8 daemon now accepts two new options, + <para>The &man.cron.8 daemon accepts two new options, <option>-j</option> and <option>-J</option>, to enable time jitter for jobs to run as unprivileged users and the superuser, respectively. Time jitter means that &man.cron.8 @@ -1156,11 +1161,11 @@ smooth load peaks appearing when a lot of jobs are scheduled for a particular moment. &merged;</para> - <para>&man.cut.1; <option>-c</option>, - <option>-d</option>, and <option>-f</option> + <para>&man.cut.1;'s <option>-c</option>, + <option>-d</option>, and <option>-f</option> options now work correctly in locales with multibyte characters.</para> - <para>&man.cvs.1; now supports <option>iso8601</option> + <para>&man.cvs.1; now supports an <option>iso8601</option> option keyword to print dates in ISO 8601 format.</para> <para>&man.daemon.8; now supports a <option>-p</option> @@ -1201,7 +1206,7 @@ &man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para> <para>&man.fgetwln.3; function, a wide character version of - &man.fgetln.3; has been added.</para> + &man.fgetln.3;, has been added.</para> <para>The &man.find.1; utility now supports a <option>-acl</option> primary to locate files with &man.acl.3;.</para> @@ -1213,12 +1218,12 @@ &merged;</para> <para>&man.ftpd.8; now opens a socket for a data transfer - in active mode using effective UID of the current user, + in active mode using the effective UID of the current user, not <username>root</username>. This is useful for matching anonymous FTP data traffic with a single &man.ipfw.8; rule with <literal>uid</literal>.</para> - <para>The &man.ftw.3; and &man.nftw.3; functions have been implemented. - These are used to traverse a directory hierarchy.</para> + <para>The &man.ftw.3; and &man.nftw.3; functions + to traverse a directory hierarchy have been implemented.</para> <para>The &man.geom.8; utility for operating on &man.geom.4; classes from the userland has been added.</para> @@ -1229,7 +1234,7 @@ which allows the user to specify the partition number of a new partition.</para> - <para>The &man.id.1; now supports a <option>-M</option> option + <para>&man.id.1; now supports a <option>-M</option> option to print the MAC label of the current process.</para> <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now supports renaming of network interfaces @@ -1260,7 +1265,7 @@ to fix problem when non-8 space tabs are used.</para> <para>&man.ip6fw.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to - stop it from making any changes to the rules in the kernel</para> + stop it from making any changes to the rules in the kernel.</para> <para>&man.ipcs.1; now supports a <option>-u</option> option to display information about IPC mechanisms owned by the specified @@ -1271,7 +1276,7 @@ the rule body.</para> <para>&man.jail.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> option to - run command as a user which exists only in the &man.jail.2; + run a command as a user which exists only in the &man.jail.2; environment.</para> <para>&man.jail.8; now supports a <option>-l</option> option to @@ -1279,7 +1284,7 @@ except for <varname>HOME</varname>, <varname>SHELL</varname>, <varname>PATH</varname>, <varname>TERM</varname>, and <varname>USER</varname> before running the jailed program under - specific user's credentials. This behavior is similar to that + a specific user's credentials. This behavior is similar to that provided by the &man.su.1; <option>-l</option> option.</para> @@ -1348,20 +1353,20 @@ variable can be used to force M:N mode (using process scope threads). For example:</para> - <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE=yes <replaceable>threaded_app</replaceable></userinput></screen> + <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>env LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE=yes <replaceable>threaded_app</replaceable></userinput></screen> <para>forces the application <replaceable>threaded_app</replaceable> to use system scope threads, and</para> - <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>LIBPTHREAD_PROCESS_SCOPE=yes <replaceable>threaded_app</replaceable></userinput></screen> + <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>env LIBPTHREAD_PROCESS_SCOPE=yes <replaceable>threaded_app</replaceable></userinput></screen> - <para>forces it to use process scope threads, respectively.</para> + <para>forces it to use process scope threads.</para> <para>A bug in the <option>-d</option> option of &man.look.1; has been fixed. Also, &man.look.1; now works correctly in locales with multibyte characters.</para> - <para>&man.ls.1; now treat filenames as multibyte character strings + <para>&man.ls.1; now treats filenames as multibyte character strings according to the current <varname>LC_CTYPE</varname> when determining which characters are printable.</para> @@ -1395,11 +1400,11 @@ <para>The GNU extensions of &man.mbsnrtowcs.3; and &man.wcsnrtombs.3; have been implemented.</para> - <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows the users to set + <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now allows users to set a debugging option via the <filename>newsyslog.conf</filename> file.</para> - <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now uses a new order when processing + <para>&man.newsyslog.8; uses a new order when processing files to rotate. It first rotates all files that need to be rotated, then sends a single signal to each process which needs to be signaled, and finally compresses @@ -1523,7 +1528,7 @@ <para>The &man.sdpd.8; Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon has been added.</para> - <para>&man.sed.1; <literal>y</literal> (translate) command + <para>&man.sed.1;'s <literal>y</literal> (translate) command now supports multibyte characters.</para> <para>The &man.sha1.1; and &man.rmd160.1; utilities have been added. @@ -1540,9 +1545,9 @@ <option>-h</option> to print the label in human readable size/offset format.</para> - <para>&man.talk.1; now use <hostid>localhost</hostid> + <para>&man.talk.1; now uses <hostid>localhost</hostid> as a default machine name in &man.talkd.8; - request packets, when the destination and source are local. + request packets when the destination and source are local. This makes &man.talk.1; dependent on a valid host entry for <hostid>localhost</hostid> in <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> or the DNS.</para> @@ -1551,7 +1556,7 @@ a <option>-w</option> option allows new files to be created, and a <option>-U</option> option allows the umask to be set.</para> - <para>&man.top.1; now supports to display the current amount + <para>&man.top.1; can now display the current amount of I/O. This feature can be enabled by hitting <quote>m</quote> or passing the command line option <option>-m io</option>.</para> @@ -1571,25 +1576,25 @@ <filename>var</filename> scripts.</para> <para>The <filename>gbde_swap</filename> script, which supports - gbde-enabled swap devices has been added. + gbde-enabled swap devices, has been added. When the <varname>gbde_swap_enable</varname> variable is specified in &man.rc.conf.5;, a swap device named <filename>/dev/<replaceable>foo.bde</replaceable></filename> in &man.fstab.5; is automatically attached at boot time with the device <filename>/dev/<replaceable>foo</replaceable></filename> - and a random key, which + and a random key, which is generated by computing the MD5 checksum of 512 bytes read from <filename>/dev/random</filename>. Note that this prevents recovery of kernel dumps.</para> <para>The <varname>ip6addrctl_enable</varname> and - <varname>ip6addrctl_verbose</varname> have been added. + <varname>ip6addrctl_verbose</varname> variables have been added. When <varname>ip6addrctl_enable</varname> is set to <literal>YES</literal>, the address selection policy is installed into the kernel. - If there is <filename>/etc/ip6addrctl.conf</filename> - it will be used, otherwise a default policy will be installed. + If <filename>/etc/ip6addrctl.conf</filename> exists, + it will be used; otherwise, a default policy will be installed. The default policy is one described in RFC 3484 when <varname>ipv6_enable</varname> is set to <literal>YES</literal>. Otherwise, the priority policy for IPv4 address will be used @@ -1607,16 +1612,14 @@ <listitem> <para>&man.named.8; runs in a &man.chroot.2; directory <filename>/var/named</filename> by default. - This behavior can be disabled by using the - <varname>named_chrootdir</varname> variable, - and the &man.chroot.2; directory can be changed by using the - <varname>named_chrootdir</varname> variable in - <filename>rc.conf</filename>, respectively.</para> + The <varname>named_chrootdir</varname> variable can be used + to disable this behavior or to change the &man.chroot.2; + directory.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>When the <varname>named_chroot_autoupdate</varname> - variable is set to <literal>YES</literal> (this is default), + variable is set to <literal>YES</literal> (the default), the chroot directory is automatically configured at the boot time. A symbolic link which points to <filename>/var/named/etc/namedb</filename> is @@ -1636,7 +1639,7 @@ </itemizedlist> <para>The <filename>pf</filename> and <filename>pflog</filename> - scripts for &man.pf.4; has been added.</para> + scripts for &man.pf.4; have been added.</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -1656,9 +1659,6 @@ <para><application>BIND</application> has been updated from version 8.3.1-REL to version 9.3.0.</para> - <para><application>Binutils</application> have been updated to - a 23 May 2004 snapshot from the FSF 2.15 branch.</para> - <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from version 1.11.15 to version 1.11.17. &merged;</para> @@ -1672,13 +1672,17 @@ <para><application>GDB</application> has been updated to version 6.1.1.</para> + <para><application>GNU Binutils</application> has been updated to + a 23 May 2004 snapshot from the FSF 2.15 branch.</para> + <para><application>GNU GCC</application> has been updated from - 3.3.3-prerelease as of 6 November, 2003 to 3.4.2-prerelease as of 28 July, 2004.</para> + 3.3.3-prerelease as of 6 November 2003 to 3.4.2-prerelease + as of 28 July 2004.</para> <para><application>GNU grep</application> has been updated from version 2.4d to version 2.5.1.</para> - <para><application>less</application> has been updated from + <para><application>GNU less</application> has been updated from version 371 to version 381.</para> <para><application>GNU readline</application> 4.3 has been updated @@ -1689,7 +1693,7 @@ grep</application> 2.5.1.</para> <para><application>GNU sort</application> has been updated from - textutils 2.1 to a coreutils snapshot as of 12 August, 2004.</para> + textutils 2.1 to a coreutils snapshot as of 12 August 2004.</para> <para>The <application>GNU tar</application> implementation in the base system is now called <filename>gtar</filename>.</para> @@ -1705,7 +1709,7 @@ <para><application>lukemftpd</application> has been updated from a snapshot as of - 3 November, 2003 to one as of 9 August, 2004.</para> + 3 November 2003 to one as of 9 August 2004.</para> <para><application>NTP</application> has been updated from version 4.1.1a to version 4.2.0.</para> @@ -1734,7 +1738,8 @@ of <application>OpenSSL</application>.</para> <para><application>pf</application>, OpenBSD's packet filter as of - OpenBSD 3.5-stable, has been imported into &os; source tree and is now installed + OpenBSD 3.5-stable, has been imported into the &os; source tree + and is now installed by default. Two new users (<username>proxy</username> and <username>_pflogd</username>) and three new groups (<username>authpf</username>, <username>proxy</username>, @@ -1755,8 +1760,8 @@ <application>pf</application> have been imported. &man.ftp-proxy.8; is an ftp proxy for &man.pf.4;, &man.pfctl.8; is an equivalent to &man.ipf.8;, - &man.pflogd.8; is a daemon logging packets via <literal>if_pflog</literal> - in &man.pcap.3; format, and + &man.pflogd.8; is a daemon which logs packets via + <literal>if_pflog</literal> in &man.pcap.3; format, and &man.authpf.8; is an authentication shell to modify &man.pf.4; rulesets.</para> @@ -1764,7 +1769,7 @@ release 2.22 to release 2.27 from rhyolite.com. Note that for users relying on RIP's MD5 authentication feature, &man.routed.8; routed is now incompatible with previous versions - of &os;; however it is now compatible with implementations from + of &os;; however, it is now compatible with implementations from Sun, Cisco and other vendors.</para> <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from @@ -1787,11 +1792,12 @@ <sect2 id="ports"> <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - <para>Most of startup/shutdown scripts installed by + <para>Most of the startup/shutdown scripts installed by various ports now use the new &man.rc.8; framework - introduced in &os; 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable>, while some ports still use the + introduced in &os; 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable>, while some ports + still use the old-style scripts. On startup, the new &man.rc.8; style scripts - are executed first and then the old-style scripts. + are executed before the old-style scripts. On shutdown, exactly the reverse happens.</para> <para>The <literal>SIZE</literal> attribute for distfiles, @@ -1804,7 +1810,7 @@ report incorrect or bogus sizes.</para> <para>Two new files have been added to the ports tree to track - note-worthy changes: <filename>ports/CHANGES</filename> lists + noteworthy changes: <filename>ports/CHANGES</filename> lists major changes to the Ports Collection and its infrastructure. <filename>ports/UPDATING</filename> describes some potential pitfalls that can be encountered when updating certain ports, @@ -1830,7 +1836,7 @@ databases.</para> <para>&man.pkg.create.1; now supports a <option>-S</option> - option to make all <literal>@cwd</literal> be prefixed + option to make all <literal>@cwd</literal> paths be prefixed during package creation.</para> <para>&man.pkg.info.1; now supports a <option>-j</option> @@ -1915,7 +1921,8 @@ &release.current; Migration Guide</quote>. This document generally has the filename <filename>MIGRATE5.TXT</filename> on the distribution media, or any other place that the release notes can be found. It - offers some notes on migrating from &os; 4.X, but more importantly, also + offers some notes on migrating from &os; 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>, + but more importantly, also discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to &os; 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> versus running &os; 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para> --------------050104070700090109090106--
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