Author: hrs
Date: Fri Jul 23 21:38:26 2010
New Revision: 210433
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210433
Log:
New relnotes item:
SPARC64 V support [sparc64],
usb(4) attach->notify event change,
uep(4) added,
cxgb(4) hardware filtering,
fxp(4) hardware MAC stats via sysctl,
ixgbe(4) version 2.2.0,
msk(4) 88E8059 support, shutdown issue fixed,
Xen netfront driver improved,
iflladdr_event for L2 addr change has been added,
ng_bridge(4) and ng_hub(4) "presistent" flag,
CAM ATA transport driver supports more SATA feature,
mvs(4) added,
siis(4) now enables MSI on SiI3124,
twa(4) driver updated,
UFS QUOTA64,
ZFS improvements,
camcontrol(8) -d/-f added,
liblzma and xz(1) added,
ln(1) bugfixes,
newfs_msdosfs(8) default volume label changed,
pam_krb5(8) no_user_check option added,
pathchk(1) -P for POSIX compatibility,
stat(1) %Sf added,
unzip(1) rename query, -Ccfpv options added,
ISC BIND 9.6.2-P2,
OpenSSL 0.9.8n, and
tzdata2010j.
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 Fri Jul 23
21:31:03 2010 (r210432)
+++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Jul 23
21:38:26 2010 (r210433)
@@ -199,36 +199,47 @@
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger has been improved:</para>
- <para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <command>show
- ifnets</command> and <command>show ifnet <replaceable>struct
- ifnet *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of
- <quote>ifnet *</quote> of each virtual network stack and
- fields of specified <varname>fip</varname>,
- respectively.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>It now supports <command>show
+ ifnets</command> and <command>show ifnet <replaceable>struct
+ ifnet *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of
+ <quote>ifnet *</quote> of each virtual network stack and
+ fields of specified <varname>fip</varname>,
+ respectively.</para>
+ </listitem>
- <para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <command>show all
- lltables</command>, <command>show lltable
- <replaceable>struct lltable *</replaceable></command>, and
- <command>show llentry <replaceable>struct llentry
- *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of
- <quote>lltable *</quote> of each virtual network stack,
- fields of specified structures respectively.</para>
-
- <para>The <command>show mount</command> command in the
- &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 &man.ddb.4; now supports <command>show
- vnet_sysinit</command> and <command>show
- vnet_unsysinit</command> commands to print
- ordered call lists.</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>It now supports <command>show all
+ lltables</command>, <command>show lltable
+ <replaceable>struct lltable *</replaceable></command>, and
+ <command>show llentry <replaceable>struct llentry
+ *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of
+ <quote>lltable *</quote> of each virtual network stack,
+ fields of specified structures respectively.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The <command>show mount</command> command now prints
+ active string mount options.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>It now supports <command>show
+ vnetrcrs</command> command to dump the whole log of
+ distinctive <varname>curvnet</varname> recursion
+ events.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>It now supports <command>show
+ vnet_sysinit</command> and <command>show
+ vnet_unsysinit</command> commands to print
+ ordered call lists.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
<para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256
of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para>
@@ -285,7 +296,8 @@
disabled by default in <filename>GENERIC</filename>
kernel.</para>
- <para arch="sparc64">&os; now supports UltraSPARC IV and IV+.</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">&os; now supports UltraSPARC IV, IV+, and
+ SPARC64 V CPUs.</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that
<varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed. This
@@ -364,8 +376,6 @@
<filename>gptzfsboot</filename> bootcode now fully support
64-bit LBAs for disk addresses. This allows booting from
large volumes.</para>
-
- <para></para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="proc">
@@ -392,6 +402,22 @@
JBus to PCIe bridge (called as <quote>Fire</quote>) found in
the Sun Fire V215/V245 and Sun Ultra 25/45 machines.</para>
+ <para>The &man.usb.4; subsystem now reports &man.devd.8;
+ <literal>notify</literal> events with the device properties
+ instead of <literal>attach</literal> events. The following is an
+ example entry of &man.devd.conf.5; to match a &man.umass.4;
+ device with a SCSI subclass and BBB protocol:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>notify 100 {
+ match "system" "USB";
+ match "subsystem" "INTERFACE";
+ match "type" "ATTACH";
+ match "intclass" "0x08";
+ match "intsubclass" "0x06";
+ match "intprotocol" "0x50";
+ action "/path/to/command -flag";
+};</programlisting>
+
<para arch="powerpc">The &man.smu.4; driver now provides
thermal management and monitoring features. This allows fan
control and thermal monitoring on SMU-based Apple G5
@@ -410,8 +436,6 @@
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
- <para></para>
-
<para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver now supports LCD
brightness control notify handler.</para>
@@ -433,13 +457,15 @@
operation via software upmix done by &man.sound.4;. Note
that stereo stream is no longer duplicated to all
ports.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel
+ from eGalax has been added. This driver is supported by
+ <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para>
</sect4>
<sect4 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
- <para></para>
-
<para>The &man.ath.4; driver now supports Atheros
AR9285-based devices.</para>
@@ -484,12 +510,25 @@
<para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to T3
firmware 7.8.0.</para>
+ <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports hardware
+ filtering based on inspection of L2/L3/L4 headers.
+ Filtering based on source IP address, destination IP
+ address, source port number, destination port number,
+ 802.1q VLAN frame tag, UDP, TCP, and MAC address addr is
+ possible. The configuration can be done by the
+ cxgbtool(8) utility. Note that cxgbtool(8) is in
+ <filename>src/usr.sbin/cxgbtool</filename> but not
+ compilied by default.</para>
+
<para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum
offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version
7.0.0.</para>
+ <para>The &man.fxp.4; driver now exports the hardware MAC
+ statistics via sysctl variables.</para>
+
<para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version
1.9.3.</para>
@@ -501,14 +540,15 @@
images.</para>
<para>The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version
- 2.1.7.</para>
+ 2.2.0.</para>
<para>The &man.msk.4; driver has been improved:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>It now supports Marvell Yukon 88E8042, 88E8057
- devices and DGE-560SX (Yukon XL).</para>
+ <para>It now supports Marvell Yukon 88E8042, 88E8057,
+ 88E8059 (Yukon Optima) devices and DGE-560SX (Yukon
+ XL).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -523,10 +563,15 @@
separate interrupt moderation values for each
port.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A stability issue has been fixed. A heavy RX
+ traffic while rebooting is in progress could prevent
+ the system from working.</para>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The &man.mxge.4; driver has been updated to firmware
- version 1.4.50.</para>
+ version 1.4.50 from Myricom.</para>
<para>The &man.re.4; driver no longer performs an
unnecessary interface up/down during getting IP address
@@ -541,7 +586,8 @@
added.</para>
<para>The sge(4) driver for Silicon Integrated Systems
- SiS190/191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet has been added.</para>
+ SiS190/191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet has been added. This
+ supports TSO and TSO over VLAN.</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver has been improved:</para>
@@ -619,14 +665,15 @@
<para>The &man.urtw.4; driver has been improved and now
supports RTL8187B-based devices.</para>
+
+ <para>The &os; Xen netfront driver has been improved in
+ stability and performance./para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para></para>
-
<para>&os; flowtable now supports IPv6. This is for per-CPU
caching flows as a means of accelerating L3 and L2 lookups
as well as providing stateful load balancing when ECMP
@@ -640,6 +687,13 @@
&man.ifconfig.8; utility now shows this flag if
supported.</para>
+ <para>A new event handler <varname>iflladdr_event</varname>
+ has been added. This signals that the L2 address on an
+ interface has changed, and lets stacked interfaces such as
+ &man.vlan.4; detect that their lower interface has changed
+ and adjust things in order to keep working. This fixes an
+ issue of &man.lagg.4; and &man.vlan.4; configulation.</para>
+
<para>IPcomp (IP Payload Compression Protocol defined in RFC
2393) protocol is now enabled by default. Note that this
requires <option>option IPSEC</option> in the kernel
@@ -714,6 +768,14 @@
&man.ng.ppp.4;, Netgraph node drivers have been fixed. This
fixes kernel panics due to the misalightment.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.bridge.4; and &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node
+ drivers now supports a flag <literal>persistent</literal>.
+ It disables automatic node shutdown when the last hook gets
+ disconnected. The new control messages
+ <literal>NGM_BRIDGE_SET_PERSISTENT</literal> and
+ <literal>NGM_HUB_SET_PERSISTENT</literal> have been added
+ for the flag.</para>
+
<para>The &man.pf.4; subsystem now supports
<literal>sloppy</literal> keyword to enable a TCP state
machine for tracking TCP connections with no sequence number
@@ -827,6 +889,11 @@
when power is applied. A typical application is staggered
spin-up.</para>
+ <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports
+ negotiating and enabling additional SATA features such as
+ device initiated power management, Automatic Partial to
+ Slumber mode transition, and DMA auto-activation.</para>
+
<para>A livelock issue of the &man.ciss.4; driver under a high
load has been fixed.</para>
@@ -939,9 +1006,23 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<para>The &man.isp.4; driver has been improved in
stability.</para>
+ <para>The &man.mvs.4; CAM ATA driver for Marvell
+ 88SX50XX/88SX60XX/88SX70XX/SoC SATA controllers has been
+ added. This driver supports same hardware as the
+ &man.ata.4; driver does, but provides many additional
+ features, such as NCQ and PMP.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.siis.4; driver now enables MSI by default on
+ SiI3124-based devices. This can be disabled by using a
+ <varname>hint.siis.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.msi</varname>
+ loader tunable.</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>
+
+ <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the latest
+ version from LSI.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
@@ -979,6 +1060,16 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<para>The UFS file system (&man.ffs.7;) now supports NFSv4
ACL.</para>
+ <para>The UFS file system (&man.ffs.7;) now supports both
+ 32-bit and 64-bit &man.quota.1;. The command
+ <command>quotacheck -c 64</command> converts the 32-bit
+ quota to 64-bit. Note that the traditional 32-bit quota
+ still works with no problem for sizes smaller than 2Tb, and
+ the quota subsystem is not compilied in
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default. To enable
+ it, an option <option>option QUOTA</option> in the kernel
+ configuration file and recompilation of the kernel.</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
@@ -989,16 +1080,75 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
accesses file system into one second wait for
<filename>vnlru</filename> kernel thread.</para>
- <para>The ZFS file system now supports NFSv4 ACL.</para>
+ <para>The ZFS file system has been improved:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>It now supports NFSv4 ACL.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The L2ARC code has been improved in stability and
+ performance.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The zpool version has been updated to
+ version 14. It is now possible to use zpools created on
+ OpenSolaris 2009.06.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A sysctl variable
+ <varname>vfs.zfs.txg.write_limit_override</varname> has
+ been added. This can be used for tuning of ZFS write
+ throttling.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>ZFS prefech statistics has been added as a sysctl
+ variable
+ <varname>kstat.zfs.misc.zfetchstats</varname>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>zpool export</command>
+ command now supports <option>-F</option> flag.
+ When exporting with this flag, <filename>zpool.cache</filename>
+ remains untouched.</para>
+ </listitem>
- <para>The zpool version of ZFS subsystem has been updated to
- version 14. It is now possible to use zpools created on
- OpenSolaris 2009.06.</para>
-
- <para>Bugs in the ZFS file system that <command>zfs snapshot
- -r</command> fails when the file system is busy, and
- <command>zfs receive</command> can fail with an E2BIG
- error, have been fixed.</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A data corruption issue of <command>zfs
+ send/receive</command> between two different platforms
+ has been fixed. Symbolic links could be broken in the
+ previous releases.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A possible deadlock of <command>zfs
+ receive</command> has been fixed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Possible panics of <command>zfs destroy</command>
+ and <command>zfs rollback</command> have been
+ fixed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A occasional failure of <command>zfs
+ rename</command> due to a busy state has been
+ fixed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Bugs that <command>zfs snapshot
+ -r</command> fails when the file system is busy, and
+ <command>zfs receive</command> can fail with an E2BIG
+ error, have been fixed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@@ -1016,6 +1166,12 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<command>identify</command>. It displays whole of identify
data block.</para>
+ <para>The &man.camcontrol.8; utility now supports
+ <option>-d</option> and <option>-f</option> flags in the
+ subcommand <command>cmd</command>. They specify DMA protocol
+ or FPDMA (NCQ) protocol to be used for ATA command,
+ respectively.</para>
+
<para>The &man.chgrp.1; and &man.chown.8; now support a
<option>-x</option> flag to make it not traverse across
multiple mount points for the recursive operation.</para>
@@ -1072,6 +1228,15 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<option>-ta</option> flag to treat all
<literal>_t</literal>-suffixed identifiers as types.</para>
+ <para>The <filename>liblzma</filename> library for LZMA2
+ lossless data compression algorithm and the userland utilities
+ &man.xz.1;, &man.xzdec.1;, &man.lzma.1;, and &man.lzmainfo.1;.
+ has been imported. When the old system is upgraded to
+ &release.current;, deinstalling a version found in the Ports
+ Collection (<filename>archivers/xz</filename>) and
+ recompilation of the packages which depend on it may be
+ required.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64,i386">The <filename>libz</filename> library
has been improved in performance. For &os/&arch.i386;, note
that this improvement uses instructions only on i686-class CPU
@@ -1079,6 +1244,20 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<literal>CPUTYPE=pentium4</literal> in
<filename>/etc/make.conf</filename> enables them.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ln.1; utility now reports an error correctly when
+ a <option>-f</option> flag and two same file entries were
+ specified in the command line option. It removed the file
+ first and then reported a <quote>not found</quote>
+ error.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ln.1; utility now removes trailing slash
+ characters when creating a link to a directory. The followin
+ command sequence reported an error in the previous
+ releases:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.user; mkdir test1 test2
+&prompt.user; ln -s ../test2/ test1</screen>
+
<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
@@ -1097,6 +1276,10 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
the number of outputs. This is used in conjunction with
<option>-w</option> option.</para>
+ <para>The &man.newfs.msdos.8; utility now uses
+ <literal>NO_NAME</literal> as the default volume label and
+ <literal>BSD4.4</literal> as the OEM String.</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>
@@ -1104,6 +1287,15 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<para>The &man.ntpd.8; program no longer tries to bind to an
IPv6 anycast address.</para>
+ <para>The &man.pam.krb5.8; PAM module now supports
+ <option>no_user_check</option> option. This allows to
+ authorize a user not known to the local system.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.pathchk.1; utility now supports a
+ <option>-P</option> flag defined in POSIX-1.2008. This checks
+ for empty pathnames and components starting with
+ <quote><literal>-</literal></quote>.</para>
+
<para>A variable <varname>daily_clean_tmps_ignore</varname>
which is used in the &man.periodic.8; daily script now has
<filename>/tmp/.snap</filename>. This prevents
@@ -1164,6 +1356,10 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
available memory becomes short. This kind of process
termination happens in a swap-intensive workload.</para>
+ <para>The &man.stat.1; utility now supports
+ <literal>%Sf</literal> output specifier to display the file
+ flags symbolically.</para>
+
<para>The &man.strsignal.3; function is now thread-safe.</para>
<para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a
@@ -1182,6 +1378,15 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
compress blank lines around a deleted section to prevent blank
lines around paragraphs of code from getting doubled.</para>
+ <para>The &man.unzip.1; utility now supports the rename query
+ when a file with the same name as the one about to be
+ extracted already exists.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.unzip.1; utility now supports
+ <option>-C</option>, <option>-c</option>, <option>-f</option>,
+ <option>-p</option>, and <option>-v</option> flags which are
+ compatible with Info-ZIP.</para>
+
<para>The &man.usbconfig.8; utility now supports a new flag
<option>-d</option> to specify the &man.ugen.4; device, and
<command>add_quirk</command> and
@@ -1204,8 +1409,6 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
- <para></para>
-
<para>The &man.service.8; command has been added. This
provides an easy command-line interface to the
<filename>rc.d</filename> system.</para>
@@ -1268,8 +1471,6 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
- <para></para>
-
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> has been updated to
20100304.</para>
@@ -1277,7 +1478,7 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
the 23 October 2007 release to the 26 November 2009 release.</para>
<para><application>ISC BIND</application> has been updated to
- version 9.6.2-P1.</para>
+ version 9.6.2-P2.</para>
<para><application>netcat</application> has been updated to
version 4.7.</para>
@@ -1285,69 +1486,14 @@ kern.geom.label.gpt.enable</programlisti
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
version 5.1p1 to version 5.4p1.</para>
+ <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated to
+ version 0.9.8n.</para>
+
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated to
version 8.14.4.</para>
<para>The timezone database has been updated to the
- <application>tzdata2010i</application> release.</para>
-<!--
-
- <para role="8.0">The <application>ee</application> (easy editor) has
- been updated to 1.5.0. This version is now licensed under a
- 2-clause BSD license, instead of the Artistic license.</para>
-
- <para role="8.0">The <application>hostapd</application> has been updated
to
- version 0.6.8 + radius ACL support.</para>
-
- <para role="8.0">The <application>less</application> has been updated to
- version v436.</para>
-
- <para role="8.0">The <filename>libarchive</filename> library has
- been updated to version 2.7.0.</para>
-
- <para role="8.0">The <filename>libexpat</filename> library has
- been updated from version 1.95.5 to version 2.0.1.</para>
-
- <para role="8.0">The <filename>ncurses</filename> library has been
updated
- to version 5.7-20081102.</para>
-
- <para role="8.0"><application>OpenBSM</application> 1.1 from
- Trusted BSD Project has been merged.</para>
-
- <para role="8.0"><application>TCPDUMP</application> has been
- updated to 4.0.0.</para>
-
- <para role="8.0"><application>wpa_supplicant</application> has been
updated to
- version 0.6.8</para>
-
- <para role="8.0">The <application>ZFS</application> file system
- has been updated from version 6 to version 13.</para>
-
- <para role="7.1">The <application>am-utils</application> has been
updated from
- version 6.0.10p1 to version 6.1.5.</para>
-
- <para role="7.1">The <application>bzip2</application> has been updated
from
- version 1.0.4 to version 1.0.5.</para>
-
- <para role="7.1">The <application>CVS</application> has been updated to
- version 1.11.22.1.</para>
-
- <para role="7.1"><application>NTP</application> has been updated to
version
- 4.2.4p5.</para>
-
- <para role="7.1"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated
from the
- Figwort release to the Hydrangea release.</para>
-
- <para role="7.1">The &man.resolver.3; library has been updated to
- one of <application>ISC BIND</application> 9.4.3.</para>
-
--->
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ports">
- <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
-
- <para></para>
+ <application>tzdata2010j</application> release.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
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