Author: hrs
Date: Thu Jul 22 01:01:16 2010
New Revision: 210362
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210362
Log:
New release notes:
ddb(4) show vnetrcrs,
sched_4bsd race fix,
pfil(9) virtualization,
ahci(4) Marvell 88SE912x support,
ahci(4) FBS support in PM,
ata(4) PUIS support,
cam(3) kern.cam.boot_delay, error recovery improvement,
gmultipath(8) destroy subcommand added,
isp(4) improved,
siis(4) Max Read Request Size increased,
nfsiod(8) race fixed,
ffs(7) inode number is now unsigned,
cp(1) -x added,
fsck_ffs(8) UFS1 last cylinder group issue fixed,
ifconfig(8) description support added,
netstat(1) -q option added,
restore(8) -P shot read issue fixed,
rtsold(8) -a improved,
strsignal(3) thread-safe,
sysctl(8) -i added,
rc.d/rtsold added,
firewall_coscripts in rc.conf added, and
ISC BIND 9.6.1-P3.
Modified:
stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Jul 21
21:23:23 2010 (r210361)
+++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Thu Jul 22
01:01:16 2010 (r210362)
@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@
&man.ddb.4; debugger now prints active string mount
options.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <command>show
+ vnetrcrs</command> command to dump the whole log of
+ distinctive <varname>curvnet</varname> recursion
+ events.</para>
+
<para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256
of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para>
@@ -267,6 +272,9 @@
timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the
wakeup has been fixed.</para>
+ <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has
+ been fixed.</para>
+
<para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented
process usage (<literal>%CPU</literal>) from working correctly
has been fixed.</para>
@@ -521,6 +529,10 @@
check. This feature is in the latest version of
<application>pf</application>.</para>
+ <para>The &man.pfil.9; framework for packet filtering in &os;
+ kernel now supports separate packet filtering instances like
+ &man.ipfw.4; for each VIMAGE jail.</para>
+
<para>A bug that proxy ARP entries cannot be added over
point-to-point link types has been fixed.</para>
@@ -551,6 +563,70 @@
<replaceable>/dev/ada1</replaceable></command>, for
example.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ahci.4; driver now supports SATA part of
+ Marvell 88SE912x controllers.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ahci.4; driver now supports FIS-based (Frame
+ Information Structure) switching of port multiplier on
+ supported controlers.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ahd.4; driver now supports three separated
+ error counters for correctable, uncorrectable, and fatal, in
+ &man.sysctl.8; MIB.</para>
+
+ <para>A new kernel option <option>option ATA_CAM</option> has
+ been added. This turns &man.ata.4; controller drivers into
+ &man.cam.4; interface modules. When enabled, this option
+ deprecates all &man.ata.4; peripheral drivers and interfaces
+ such as <filename>ad</filename> and
+ <filename>acd</filename>, and allows &man.cam.4; drivers
+ <filename>ada</filename>, and <filename>cd</filename> and
+ interfaces to be natively used instead. Note that this is
+ not enabled by default in the <filename>GENERIC</filename>
+ kernel.</para>
+
+ <para>A bug in the &man.ata.4; driver which can lead to
+ interrupt storms and command timeouts has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports Power-Up In Stand-by
+ (PUIS). The PUIS is a configudation of SATA or PATA drives
+ to prevent them from automatic spin-up when power is
+ applied. This feature can be controled via &man.cam.3;
+ framework (a typical application is staggered
+ spin-up).</para>
+
+ <para>USB mass storage device support in the &man.ata.4;
+ driver has been removed. Note that this was not used in
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel and the &man.umass.4;
+ driver supports such devices for a long time.</para>
+
+ <para>&os; &man.cam.3; SCSI framework has been improved:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>SATA and PATA support has been improved and it now
+ recognizes more detail device capabilities. For example,
+ the &man.ahci.4; and &man.siis.4; driver now reports maximum
+ tag number to the framework to optimize the NCQ
+ handling.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A loader tunable
+ <varname>kern.cam.boot_delay</varname> has been added.
+ This controls the delay time before &man.cam.3; probes
+ the attached devices.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>SCSI error recovery for devices on buses without
+ automatic sense reporting has been improved. Typical
+ devices are on ATAPI and USB. For example, this allows
+ &man.cam.3; to wait, while CD drive loads disk, instead
+ of immediately return error status.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
<para>A bug in the &man.fdc.4; driver which prevents the
kernel module from unloading has been fixed.</para>
@@ -588,6 +664,9 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+ <para>The &man.gmultipath.8; utility now supports
+ <command>destroy</command> command.</para>
+
<para>A bug in the &man.graid3.8; which causes a panic when a
large request arrives has been fixed. This happens when
<varname>MAXPHYS</varname> is set as larger than 128k.</para>
@@ -595,34 +674,12 @@
<para>The default block size of &man.gstripe.8; has been
increased from 4k to 64k.</para>
- <para>A new kernel option <option>option ATA_CAM</option> has
- been added. This turns &man.ata.4; controller drivers into
- &man.cam.4; interface modules. When enabled, this option
- deprecates all &man.ata.4; peripheral drivers and interfaces
- such as <filename>ad</filename> and
- <filename>acd</filename>, and allows &man.cam.4; drivers
- <filename>ada</filename>, and <filename>cd</filename> and
- interfaces to be natively used instead. Note that this is
- not enabled by default in the <filename>GENERIC</filename>
- kernel.</para>
+ <para>The &man.isp.4; driver has been improved in
+ stability.</para>
- <para>A bug in the &man.ata.4; driver which can lead to
- interrupt storms and command timeouts has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para>USB mass storage device support in the &man.ata.4;
- driver has been removed. Note that this was not used in
- <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel and the &man.umass.4;
- driver supports such devices for a long time.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.ahd.4; driver now supports three separated
- error counters for correctable, uncorrectable, and fatal, in
- &man.sysctl.8; MIB.</para>
-
- <para>SATA and PATA support of &os; &man.cam.3; SCSI framework
- has been improved and it now recognizes more detail device
- capabilities. For example, the &man.ahci.4; and
- &man.siis.4; driver now reports maximum tag number to the
- framework to optimize the NCQ handling.</para>
+ <para>The Max Read Request Size in the &man.siis.4; driver for
+ PCIe chips has been increased from 512 to 1024 bytes for
+ better performance.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
@@ -639,6 +696,20 @@
<option>negnametimeo</option> to <literal>0</literal>
disables negative name caching for the mount point.</para>
+ <para>A race condition in &os; NFS subsystem that occurs when
+ &man.nfsiod.8; threads are being created has been fixed.
+ This also fixes an interoperability issue found in
+ combination of a &os; NFS client and a Linux NFS
+ server.</para>
+
+ <para>The inode number handling in &man.ffs.7; file system is
+ now unsigned. Previously some large inode numbers can be
+ treated as negative, and this issue shows up at file systems
+ with the size of more than 16Tb in 16k block case. The
+ &man.newfs.8; utility never create a file system with more
+ than 2^32 inodes by cutting back on the number of inodes per
+ cylinder group if necessary to stay under the limit.</para>
+
<para>&os; &man.VFS.9; subsystem now supports a new sysctl
variable <varname>vfs.vlru_allow_cache_src</varname>. This
allow <filename>vnlru</filename> kernel thread to reclaim
@@ -676,6 +747,9 @@
<command>identify</command>. It displays whole of identify
data block.</para>
+ <para>The &man.cp.1; now supports a <option>-x</option> flag to
+ make it not traverse across multiple mount points.</para>
+
<para>The &man.cp.1;, &man.find.1;, &man.getfacl.1;, &man.mv.1;,
and &man.setfacl.1; utilities now support NFSv4 ACL.</para>
@@ -695,15 +769,36 @@
<para>A bug in &man.fetch.1; utility which incorrectly evaluates
a variable <varname>NO_PROXY</varname> has been fixed.</para>
+ <para>A bug in the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility which causes the
+ last cylinder group of a UFS1 file system is always reported
+ as broken even after it is fixed.</para>
+
<para>The &man.gcore.1; utility now recognizes threads in the
process and handles dumps on a thread scope.</para>
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports manipulation of
NDP flags handled by &man.ndp.8;.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports a
+ <command>description
+ <replaceable>value</replaceable></command> command to add a
+ description <replaceable>value</replaceable> to the specified
+ interface.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility now supports
+
<literal>[<replaceable>ipaddr</replaceable>]:<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal>
+ notation in addition to the existing one. This allows IPv6
+ address in the address field, and a path including
+ <quote><literal>:</literal></quote> to be mounted.</para>
+
<para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports ARP information
in statistics shown by the <option>-s</option> flag.</para>
+ <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now supports a <option>-q
+ <replaceable>number</replaceable></option> option to specify
+ the number of outputs. This is used in conjunction with
+ <option>-w</option> option.</para>
+
<para>The &man.newsyslog.8; utility does not consider
non-existence of a PID file as an error now. A new flag
<option>-P</option> reverts it to the old behavior.</para>
@@ -715,6 +810,15 @@
to the Solaris utility of the same name, and waits for any
process to terminate.</para>
+ <para>A bug in the &man.restore.8; utility which caused short
+ reads when a option <option>-P</option> was used has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.rtsold.8; <option>-a</option> flag now excludes
+ the interfaces which IPv6 or accepting ICMPv6 Router
+ Advertisement message is disabled from the auto-probed
+ interface list.</para>
+
<para>The &man.scandir.3; and &man.alphasort.3; functions has
been updated to conform POSIX.1-2008 (IEEE Std
1003.1-2008).</para>
@@ -736,6 +840,15 @@
available memory becomes short. This kind of process
termination happens in a swap-intensive workload.</para>
+ <para>The &man.strsignal.3; function is now thread-safe.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a
+ <option>-i</option> flag to ignore failures while retrieving
+ individual OIDs. This allows the same list of OIDs to be
+ passed to &man.sysctl.8; across different systems where
+ particular OIDs may not exist, and still get as much
+ information as possible from them.</para>
+
<para>The &man.traceroute.8; utility now performs source address
selection correctly even in a VIMAGE &man.jail.8;
environment.</para>
@@ -774,11 +887,20 @@
<filename>rc.d</filename> system.</para>
<para>A new <filename>rc.d</filename> script
+ <filename>rtsold</filename> has been added. This handles
+ &man.rtsold.8; daemon.</para>
+
+ <para>A new <filename>rc.d</filename> script
<filename>static_arp</filename> has been added. This allows
the administrator to statically define mappings of MAC
address to IPv4 at boot time. See also the &man.rc.conf.5;
manual page for more details.</para>
+ <para>The &man.rc.conf.5; now supports a
+ <varname>firewall_coscripts</varname> variable. This should
+ contain a list of commands which should be excuted after
+ firewall starts or stops.</para>
+
<para>The &man.rc.conf.5; now supports configuring
&man.vlan.4; interfaces as child devices similar to
&man.wlan.4; interfaces. &man.vlan.4; interfaces are listed
@@ -807,7 +929,7 @@
the 23 October 2007 release to the 26 November 2009 release.</para>
<para><application>ISC BIND</application> has been updated to
- version 9.6.1-P2.</para>
+ version 9.6.1-P3.</para>
<para><application>netcat</application> has been updated to
version 4.6.</para>
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