svn commit: r251226 - releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 1 15:02:16 UTC 2013
Author: hrs
Date: Sat Jun 1 15:02:15 2013
New Revision: 251226
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251226
Log:
Update relnotes item:
vnet context bug fixed,
dirty pages flushing issue fixed,
pathname-only boot.config(5) problem fixed,
UFS1 handling in boot loader on big endian platforms fixed,
gptboot altlba handling changed,
zfsboot -q option issue fixed,
workaround for AMD CPU 10h/12h erratum 721 added,
atkbdc(4) PNP0320 support added,
cpufreq(4) frequency tuning calculation fixed,
hwpmc(4) deadlock fixed,
pci(4) HT-MSI mapping support,
uart(4) serial over LAN on Intel 4 serries chipset support,
usb(4) suspend handling improved,
ale(4) link state handling improved, flow control support,
bge(4) watchdog timeout issue fixed, if_ierrors handling fixed,
cas(4),gem(4),hme(4) have been added to GENERIC for amd64/i386,
fxp(4) extra media change issue fixed,
iwn(4) Intel Centrino 6150 support,
re(4)/rl(4) RTL8139 support improved,
re(4) intermittent link up/down issue on RTL8169 fixed,
rl(4) WoL support is disabled by default,
run(4) firmware initinalization changed,
run(4) updated to 0.236,
sf(4) system load issue fixed,
u3g(4) new Qualcomm modems added as supported devices,
if_bridge(4) the number of forwarding cache entries bumped,
ipfw(4) table arg improved,
ipfw(4) net.inet.ip.fw.tables_max added,
vlan(4) EUI64 part of an IPv6 address fixed,
a panic in multicast routing on vimage kernel fixed,
a panic in ng_patch(4) fixed,
SCTP stack now supports ng_iface(4) and stf(4),
SCTP stack now supports net.inet.udp.checksum sysctl for encap,
new sysctl kern.features.ata_cam added,
cam(4) now tries READ CAPACITY(16),
isci(4) READ CAPACITY(16) bug fixed,
PART_LDM geom class added,
tmpfs(5) is not experimental anymore,
xen(4) blkfront driver attach issue fixed,
NFS stale name cache issue fixed,
NFS nametimeo parameter added,
daemon(8) -r,
devfs(5) ruleset=number mount option and -u support added,
libpmc more PMCs support,
libradius rad_bind_to(3) added,
libutil priority class capability bug fixed,
pam_unix(8) passwordtime capability support,
procstat(1) osreldate support,
remquo(3) bug fixed,
rtld(1) performance improved,
sh(1) arithmetic expansion improved,
unzip(1) -Z
zfs list -t snapshot improved in performance,
zfs get -t datatype added,
ISC BIND 9.6-ESV-R6,
tz2012a, and
pkg_create(1) -p option improved.
Approved by: re (implicitly)
Added:
releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent (contents, props changed)
Modified:
releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
Modified: releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sat Jun 1 14:16:51 2013 (r251225)
+++ releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sat Jun 1 15:02:15 2013 (r251226)
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN">
%release;
+<!ENTITY % man-refs SYSTEM "man-refs.ent">
+%man-refs;
]>
<article>
@@ -251,16 +253,84 @@
<para revision="232757">A bug which could cause a kernel thread
to have a wrong CPU affinity configuration has been fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="233584">A bug in VIMAGE &man.jail.8; which could
+ make the network subsystem run on an wrong vnet context has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233765,234094">A bug that changes to a mapped
+ file with the &man.mmap.2; system call were not flushed
+ properly under certain circumstances has been fixed. If a
+ process has an NFS-backed file and adds changes to it,
+ normally the changes are written into the backing store
+ automatically. However, the NFS client recognized the
+ modified parts are written successfully even when the write
+ operation was failed for some reason such as permission
+ denied.</para>
+
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="233377,234563" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">A bug in
+ &os; boot block has been fixed. A pathname of the third
+ stage loader (or kernel) in the &man.boot.config.5;
+ configuration file could not be recognized.</para>
+
+ <para revision="232963">A bug in &man.loader.8; which could
+ prevents a UFS1 filesystem on big endian platforms from
+ booting.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234694">The <application>gptboot</application>
+ boot block now reads the backup GPT header from the last LBA
+ only when the primary GPT header and tables are invalid.
+ This mitigates interoperability issues with some
+ &man.geom.4; providers like <literal>MIRROR</literal> which
+ use the last LBA for the metadata.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234680">A bug in the
+ <application>zfsboot</application> boot block which could
+ prevent <option>-q</option> option from working has been
+ fixed.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="233799" arch="amd64">A workaround for Erratum
+ 721 for AMD Processor Family 10h and 12h has been
+ implemented. Under a highly specific and detailed set of
+ internal timing conditions, the processor may incorrectly
+ update the stack pointer after a long series of push and/or
+ near-call instructions, or a long series of pop and/or
+ near-return instructions.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233795" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The
+ &man.atkbdc.4; driver now supports a keyboard controller
+ which has PnP ID <literal>PNP0320</literal>. This can be
+ found on machines which have Japanese PS/2 keyboard with
+ 106/109 keys.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233369">A bug in &man.cpufreq.4; which could
+ prevent CPU frequency tuning from working properly has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233825">A bug in &man.hwpmc.4; driver which
+ could cause a deadlock in &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234151" arch="amd64">The &man.pci.4; driver
+ now supports mapping between MSI (Message Signaled Interrupt)
+ and HyperTransport interrupt messages on HyperTransport to PCI
+ bus briges. This change improves handling of MSIs on AMD
+ CPUs.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233065" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.uart.4;
+ driver now supports Intel AMT Serial Port for Remote
+ Keyboard and Text (KT) Redirection (Serial Over LAN) on
+ Intel 4 Series Chipset family.</para>
+
+ <para revision="232871">The &man.usb.4; driver now handles
+ suspend events synchronously. This fixed problems of
+ suspend and resume.</para>
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -271,18 +341,115 @@
<sect4 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
+ <para revision="234127">Link state change handling in the
+ &man.ale.4; network driver has been improved.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234241">The &man.ale.4; network driver now
+ supports flow control.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233496">A bug in the &man.bge.4; network
+ driver which could cause watchdog timeout on BCM5704
+ controller connected behind AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233499">A bug in
+ <varname>if_ierrors</varname> counter in the &man.bge.4;
+ driver running on BCM5700, 5701, 5702, 5703, or 5704
+ controller has been fixed. It reported only the number of
+ discarded packets.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233744" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">&man.cas.4;,
+ &man.gem.4;, and &man.hme.4; drivers have been added to
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233502">The &man.fxp.4; network driver has
+ been improved. It does not cause unnecessary media change
+ in controller reconfiguration such as promiscuos mode
+ change which leads to an extra link
+ reestablishment.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233839">The &man.iwn.4; driver now supports
+ Intel Centrino 6150 wireless N and WiMAX chipsets.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233490">A bug in the &man.re.4; and
+ &man.rl.4; network drivers which could cause a problem on
+ RTL8139 family has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233493">A bug in the &man.re.4; network
+ driver which could cause intermittent link up/down on
+ RTL8169 controller has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233490">WoL (Wake-on-LAN) support
+ in the &man.rl.4; driver is now disabled by
+ default.</para>
+
<para revision="232594">The &man.run.4; driver now supports
Logitec LAN-W300NU2.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233461">The &man.run.4; network driver now
+ load the firmware upon initialization, not attachment.
+ This fixes an issue when the root filesystem is not
+ available at the time of the device detection.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234029">The &man.run.4; driver has been
+ updated to firmware verion 0.236.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233487">The &man.sf.4; network driver has
+ been improved. A system load fluctuation under high network
+ load has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="232875">The &man.u3g.4; driver now supports
+ Qualcomm Vertex Wireless 110L modem, Qualcomm 3G modem, and
+ Qualcomm Vertex VW110L modem.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
+ <para revision="233085">The default number of the bridge
+ forwarding cache entries of the &man.if.bridge.4; pseudo
+ network interface driver has been increased from
+ <literal>100</literal> to <literal>2000</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para>The <literal>table</literal> argument
+ in the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter rule syntax now supports
+ IP address, interface name, port number, and jail ID. The
+ following syntax is valid:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>skipto tablearg ip from any to any via table(42) in</programlisting>
+
+ <para revision="234637">A new &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>net.inet.ip.fw.tables_max</varname> has been added
+ to specify the maximum number of tables. The default value
+ is <literal>128</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233112">A bug in &os; IPv6 stack has been
+ fixed. It could cause a &man.vlan.4; pseudo network
+ interface to get the EUI64 part in an autoconfigured IPv6
+ address from an unrelated Ethernet interface on the
+ system.</para>
+
<para revision="232552">&os; IPv6 stack now supports multiple
FIBs. One can use &man.setfib.1; to select a different
routing table for IPv6.</para>
+ <para revision="233605">A bug which could cause a system panic
+ in multicast routing in kernel with <option>VIMAGE</option>
+ kernel option has been fixed. This option is disabled in
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234682">A bug in the &man.ng.patch.4;
+ &man.netgraph.4; node which could cause a system panic has
+ been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233245,233246">&os; SCTP stack now supports
+ &man.ng.iface.4; and &man.stf.4; interface.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234805">&os; SCTP stack now supports
+ <varname>net.inet.udp.checksum</varname> &man.sysctl.8;
+ variable for SCTP over UDP over IPv4 encapsulation.</para>
+
<para revision="232819"><literal>SO_PROTOCOL</literal> and
<literal>SO_PROTOTYPE</literal> socket option have been
added. These are socket level options to get the protocol
@@ -294,18 +461,63 @@
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <para revision="233714">A new &man.sysctl.8;
+ <varname>kern.features.ata_cam</varname> has been added.
+ This shows whether <literal>ATA_CAM</literal> kernel option
+ is enabled or not. This option is disabled in
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+
+ <para revision="232942">The &man.cam.4; driver now uses
+ <literal>READ CAPACITY(16)</literal> SCSI command to get
+ device information by default when possible. This enables
+ to detect whether Logical Block Provisioning (also known as
+ <literal>TRIM</literal> or <literal>UNMAP</literal>) in
+ SBC-3 (SCSI Block Commands-3) Specification is supported on
+ the device.</para>
+
<para revision="232554">The &man.isci.4; driver now supports
Intel C600 Serial Attached SCSI controllers with chip IDs from
<literal>0x1d6c</literal> to <literal>0x1d6f</literal>.</para>
+ <para revision="233789">A bug in the &man.isci.4; driver which
+ could not correctly handle <literal>READ
+ CAPACITY(16)</literal> SCSI command for an SATA device has
+ been fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="232563">A bug which could make the &man.mpt.4;
driver attach LSI MegaRAID cards which should be handled by
the &man.mfi.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234407">The <literal>PART_LDM</literal>
+ &man.geom.4; class has been added. This partition scheme has
+ support for Logical Disk Manager, which is also known as
+ dynamic volumes in Microsoft Windows NT. Note that JBOD,
+ RAID0, and RAID5 volumes are not supported yet.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234512">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem is not an
+ experimental implementation anymore.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233791">A bug in the &man.xen.4;
+ <application>blkfront</application> driver has been fixed.
+ It could not attach on Citrix XenServer configurations that
+ advertise the multi-page ring extension.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
+ <para revision="233286">Bugs in &os; NFS subsystem has been
+ fixed. They could cause stale name cache entries on an NFS
+ client.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233327">&os; NFS subsystem now supports a
+ timeout parameter on positive name cache entries on the NFS
+ client side. <literal>nametimeo</literal> mount option has
+ been added to specify the timeout. The default value is
+ <literal>60</literal> seconds, and one can disable the
+ positive name caching by setting it to
+ <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+
<para revision="232665">Several bugs in &man.nullfs.5; which
could cause a system panic have been fixed.</para>
@@ -346,7 +558,70 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="233762">The &man.daemon.8; utility now supports
+ <option>-r</option> flag to restart the program if it has been
+ terminated.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233867">The &man.devfs.5; mount now supports
+ <option>ruleset=number</option> mount option and updating the
+ existing mount by using <option>-u</option> flag in the
+ &man.mount.8; utility. This new option sets the specified
+ ruleset number as the active ruleset of the new devfs mount
+ and applies all its rules at mount time. If the specified
+ ruleset doesn't exist, a new empty ruleset is created.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234045">The <application>libpmc</application>
+ library has been updated to support more PMCs (Performance
+ Monitoring Counters) in Intel Core i7 and Xeon 5500 family
+ based on Intel documentatino as of October 2011.
+ Specifically, <literal>DTLB_MISSES.PDE_MISS</literal> and
+ <literal>DTLB_MISSES.LARGE_WALK_COMPLETED</literal> have been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234555">The <application>libradius</application>
+ now supports &man.rad.bind.to.3; function.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233153">A bug in the the
+ <application>libutil</application> library has been fixed. It
+ could prevent configuration of <varname>priority</varname>
+ class capability in <filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>
+ (<literal>LOGIN_SETPRIORITY</literal> in
+ &man.setusercontext.3; function) from working when the
+ password is not set.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234741">A bug in &man.pam.unix.8; module has
+ been fixed. It could prevent <varname>passwordtime</varname>
+ login capability in &man.login.conf.5; from working.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233953">The &man.procstat.1; utility now
+ displays <varname>osreldate</varname> in binary information
+ for a process.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234534">A bug in the &man.remquo.3; functions
+ where the quotient did not always have the correct sign when
+ the remainder was 0, and another bug that the remainder and
+ quotient were both off by a bit in certain cases involving
+ subnormal remainders, have been fixed. Note that these bugs
+ affected all platforms except &arch.amd64; and
+ &arch.i386;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233067">The &man.rtld.1; dynamic linker has been
+ improved in performance of TLS (Thread Local Storage)
+ handling.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234001">The &man.sh.1; program now allows
+ underscore characters in the arithmetic expansion.</para>
+
+ <para revision="234331">The &man.unzip.1; program now supports a
+ <option>-Z</option> flag to enable
+ <application>zipinfo</application> mode.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233862"><command>zfs list -t snapshot</command>
+ command has been improved dramatically in performance.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233862"><command>zfs get</command> command now
+ supports <option>-t
+ <replaceable>datatype</replaceable></option> option.</para>
<sect3 id="rcd-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
@@ -369,14 +644,23 @@
<sect2 id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
+ <para revision="233915"><application>ISC BIND</application> has
+ been updated to 9.6-ESV-R6.</para>
+
<para revision="232635"><application>TENEX C shell</application>
(&man.tcsh.1;) has been updated to version 6.18.01.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233448">The <application>timezone</application>
+ database has been updated to
+ <application>tzdata2012a</application> release.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para revision="233686">The &man.pkg.create.1; program now
+ allows a relative pathname in the <option>-p</option>
+ option.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
Added: releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent
==============================================================================
--- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added)
+++ releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent Sat Jun 1 15:02:15 2013 (r251226)
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<!ENTITY man.rad.bind.to.3 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>rad_bind_to</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
+<!ENTITY man.boot.config.5 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>boot.config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
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