svn commit: r251255 - releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes

Hiroki Sato hrs at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 2 15:36:30 UTC 2013


Author: hrs
Date: Sun Jun  2 15:36:29 2013
New Revision: 251255
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251255

Log:
  Update relnotes item:
  	comconsole_port and _pcidev loader variable,
  	hw.broken_txfifo tunable,
  	ule(4) SMT logical CPU selection improved,
  	atkbdc(4) Synaptics touchpad v7.5,
  	puc(4) more devices,
  	syscons(4) mouse detach handling fixed,
  	uart(4) more devices,
  	virtio(4) in GENERIC,
  	xhci(4) port routing, more devices,
  	snd_uaudio(4) USB Audio v2.0, more devices,
  	age(4) jumbo frame bugfix,
  	bge(4) more devices,
  	cxgbe(4) 1.8.4,
  	em(4) 7.3.7 and lem(4) 2.3.9,
  	ixgbe(4) 1.1.4,
  	oce(4) 4.6.95.0,
  	rl(4) more devices,
  	u3g(4) more devices,
  	bpf(4) performance improvement,
  	IP_RECVTOS sockopt,
  	net.inet.tcp.rexmit_drop_options added,
  	arcmsr(4) 1.20.00.26,
  	ata(4) more devices,
  	ata(4) SATA revision tunables,
  	kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered rename,
  	hpt27xx(4) in GENERIC,
  	mfi(4) hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough,
  	GEOM_RAID Intel RRT,
  	GEOM_RAID BIO_DELETE support,
  	linprocfs(5) /proc/filesystems,
  	msdosfs(5) bugfix,
  	ZFS SPA v5000,
  	ZFS import bugfix,
  	atrun(8) loadavg fix,
  	chkgrp(8) -q flag,
  	cut(1) -w flag,
  	devd(8) ! operator,
  	du(1) -g flag,
  	workaround for CVE-2010-2632,
  	ifconfig state for carp(4),
  	inetd(8) listen queue fix,
  	ip6addrctl(8) policy updated to RFC 6724,
  	rarpd(8) -P flag,
  	systat(1) fractional number support,
  	tcpdrop(8) colon-separated list support,
  	zfs(8) jail/unjail name/id support,
  	service(8) -R flag,
  	AWK 20121220,
  	ISC BIND 9.8.4-P2,
  	BZIP2 1.0.6,
  	libexpat 2.1.0,
  	netcat 5.2,
  	OpenSSH 6.1,
  	OpenSSL 0.9.8y,
  	sendmail 8.14.7,
  	tzdata2012j, and
  	XZ 5.0.4.
  
  Approved by:	re (implicitly)

Modified:
  releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
  releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent

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	Sun Jun  2 12:28:29 2013	(r251254)
+++ releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Sun Jun  2 15:36:29 2013	(r251255)
@@ -253,6 +253,24 @@
       <para revision="232757">A bug which could cause a kernel thread
 	to have a wrong CPU affinity configuration has been fixed.</para>
 
+      <para revision="245847">&man.loader.8; environment variables
+	<varname>comconsole_port</varname> and
+	<varname>comconsole_pcidev</varname> have been added.  The
+	former allows to set the base address of the serial console
+	I/O port. The later takes the string of the format
+	<literal><replaceable>bus</replaceable>:<replaceable>device</replaceable>:<replaceable>function</replaceable>:<replaceable>[bar]</replaceable></literal>
+	as a value and uses the serial port attached as PCI device at
+	the specified location for console.  Both variants pass
+	<varname>hw.uart.console</varname> variable to the
+	&man.uart.4; driver to properly hand-over the kernel
+	console.</para>
+
+      <para revision="246626">A new &man.loader.8; tunable
+	<varname>hw.broken_txfifo</varname> has been added to enable
+	workaround for old version of <application>QEMU</application>
+	and <application>Xen</application> which have a buggy emulated
+	UART.</para>
+
       <para revision="239860,239861">The
 	<literal>F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC</literal> command for &man.fcntl.2;
 	has been implemented.  This is standardized in IEEE Std
@@ -278,6 +296,17 @@
 	<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel to support break-to-debugger
 	capability.</para>
 
+      <para revision="241246">The &os; &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler has
+	been improved in CPU selection on systems which support SMT
+	(Symmetric MultiThreading, also known as HyperThreading on
+	Intel CPUs).  It now prefers a logical CPU when the the other
+	logical CPUs on the physical one are idle, and an idle CPU in
+	an SMT CPU group always has lower priority.  The CPU load
+	calculation for load balancing has also been improved to
+	consider highest and lowest CPU load in comparison to
+	differentiate load in CPU groups.  This change gives 10-15%
+	performance improvement in SMT CPUs such as Core i7.</para>
+
       <para revision="236684">The &man.shm.map.9; and
 	&man.shm.unmap.9; functions have been added to allow in-kernel
 	code to map portions of shared memory objects created by
@@ -389,6 +418,10 @@
 	  found on machines which have Japanese PS/2 keyboard with
 	  106/109 keys.</para>
 
+	<para revision="244982" arch="amd64,i386,pc98">The
+	  &man.atkbdc.4; driver now supports Synaptics touchpad v7.5
+	  and above.</para>
+
 	<para revision="233369">A bug in &man.cpufreq.4; which could
 	  prevent CPU frequency tuning from working properly has been
 	  fixed.</para>
@@ -406,10 +439,12 @@
 	  bus briges.  This change improves handling of MSIs on AMD
 	  CPUs.</para>
 
-	<para revision="236651,238775">The &man.puc.4; driver now
-	  supports Sun 1040 PCI Quad Serial and Moxa PCIe
+	<para revision="236651,238775,243009,248041">The &man.puc.4;
+	  driver now supports Sun 1040 PCI Quad Serial, Moxa PCIe
 	  CP102E/CP102EL/CP104EL-A/CP104JU/CP114EL/CP118EL-A/CP168EL-A
-	  multiport serial boards.</para>
+	  multiport serial boards, Advantech PCI-1602 RS-485/RS-422
+	  serial card, and Sunix SER5437A dual serial PCI Express
+	  card.</para>
 
 	<para revision="240991" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.random.4;
 	  driver now supports VIA C3 Nehemiah random number generator
@@ -427,11 +462,21 @@
 	  Danish ISO-8859-1 keyboard found on Apple MacBook has been
 	  added.</para>
 
+	<para revision="246787">A bug in the &man.syscons.4; driver
+	  has been fixed.  It could cause a button of a USB mouse to
+	  be pressed and never released after detaching.</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="242883,243357,244140">The &man.uart.4; driver
+	  now supports Wacom Tablet at FuS Lifebook T, multiport
+	  serial device IrDA devices with PnP ID PNP0502, PNP0510, and
+	  PNP0511, V.34 modems based on CIR1000 Cirrus Logic chip, and
+	  MosChip MCS9904 four serial ports controller.</para>
+
 	<para revision="237189,237381">The &man.uftdi.4; driver now
 	  supports BeagleBone and FT2232-based egnite Turtelizer 2
 	  JTAG/RS232 Adapter.</para>
@@ -460,10 +505,10 @@
 	  supports Silicon Laboratories CP2103/CP2104/CP2105 based USB
 	  serial adapter.</para>
 
-	<para revision="239473" arch="amd64,i386">The paravirtualized
-	  <filename>virtio</filename> drivers have been added as
-	  kernel modules.  They include PCI fontend,
-	  <literal>net</literal>, <literal>block</literal>,
+	<para revision="239473,247907,247909" arch="amd64,i386">The
+	  paravirtualized &man.virtio.4; drivers have been added to
+	  <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.  They include PCI
+	  fontend, <literal>net</literal>, <literal>block</literal>,
 	  <literal>balloon</literal>, and <literal>scsi</literal>
 	  drivers.  The module files are
 	  <filename>virtio.ko</filename>,
@@ -477,6 +522,17 @@
 	  supports the watchdog timer found in Winbond Super I/O
 	  chips, has been added.</para>
 
+	<para revision="242985">The &man.xhci.4; USB driver now
+	  supports XHCI port routing on Intel 7 Series chipsets
+	  (Panther Point) and Intel 8 Series chipsets (Lynx Point).  A
+	  new &man.loader.8; tunable
+	  <varname>hw.usb.xhci.xhci_port_route</varname> has been
+	  added for routing bitmap for switching EHCI ports to XHCI
+	  controller.</para>
+
+	<para revision="245736">The &man.xhci.4; USB driver now
+	  supports Etron EJ168 USB 3.0 Host Controllers.</para>
+
 	<sect4 id="mm">
 	  <title>Multimedia Support</title>
 
@@ -492,11 +548,26 @@
 	    controller, multichannel recording, additional
 	    playback/record streams, higher bandwidth, and more
 	    informative device names.</para>
+
+	  <para revision="242983">The &man.snd.uaudio.4; driver now
+	    supports USB Audio v2.0.</para>
+
+	  <para revision="247121">The &man.snd.uaudio.4; driver now
+	    supports Intel 8 Series chipsets (Lynx Point).</para>
+
+	  <para revision="244248">The &man.snd.uaudio.4; driver now
+	    supports various Yamaha keyboards.</para>
+
+	  <para revision="246788">The &man.snd.uaudio.4; driver now
+	    supports buttons such as volume up/down.</para>
 	</sect4>
 
 	<sect4 id="net-if">
 	  <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 
+	  <para revision="246725">The &man.age.4; network interface
+	    driver now supports jumbo frames.</para>
+
 	  <para revision="234127">Link state change handling in the
 	    &man.ale.4; network driver has been improved.</para>
 
@@ -524,6 +595,10 @@
 	    controller connected behind AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge has been
 	    fixed.</para>
 
+	  <para revision="243547,245152">The &man.bge.4; driver now
+	    supports
+	    BCM5717/5718/5719/5720/5761/57766. controllers.</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
@@ -537,10 +612,18 @@
 	    &man.gem.4;, and &man.hme.4; drivers have been added to
 	    <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
 
+	  <para revision="247670">The &man.cxgbe.4; network interface
+	    driver has been updated to firmware version 1.8.4.</para>
+
 	  <para revision="241376">A bug in statistics counters in the
 	    &man.em.4;, lem(4), and &man.igb.4; drivers has been
 	    fixed.</para>
 
+	  <para revision="247430">The &man.em.4; and lem(4) network
+	    interface drivers have been updated to version 7.3.7 and
+	    2.3.9, respectively.  It now supports Intel 82580 and
+	    I210/I217/I218 interfaces.</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
@@ -561,14 +644,20 @@
 	    chipsets, and Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100/130
 	    devices.</para>
 
-	  <para revision="236416">The &man.mxge.4; driver has been
-	    updated to firmware version 1.4.55 from Myricom.</para>
+	  <para revision="247501">The &man.ixgbe.4; network interface
+	    driver has been updated to version 1.1.4.</para>
 
 	  <para revision="235666">A bug in &man.ixgbe.4; network
 	    driver has been fixed.  It could cause a packet loss in
 	    TCP communication when TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is
 	    enabled.</para>
 
+	  <para revision="236416">The &man.mxge.4; driver has been
+	    updated to firmware version 1.4.55 from Myricom.</para>
+
+	  <para revision="248062">The &man.oce.4; network interface
+	    driver has been updated to version 4.6.95.0.</para>
+
 	  <para revision="236008">The &man.ral.4; network driver now
 	    supports Ralink RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.</para>
 
@@ -580,6 +669,9 @@
 	    driver which could cause intermittent link up/down on
 	    RTL8169 controller has been fixed.</para>
 
+	  <para revision="245858">The &man.rl.4; network interface
+	    driver now supports D-Link DFE-520TX rev C1.</para>
+
 	  <para revision="233490">WoL (Wake-on-LAN) support
 	    in the &man.rl.4; driver is now disabled by
 	    default.</para>
@@ -602,17 +694,24 @@
 	  <para revision="237145">The &man.tap.4; pseudo network
 	    interface driver now supports VIMAGE &man.jail.8;.</para>
 
-	  <para revision="232875,235012">The &man.u3g.4; driver now
-	    supports Qualcomm Vertex Wireless 110L modem, Qualcomm 3G
-	    modem, Qualcomm Vertex VW110L modem, and SIMCom
-	    SIM5218.</para>
+	  <para revision="232875,235012,243655">The &man.u3g.4; driver
+	    now supports Qualcomm Vertex Wireless 110L modem, Qualcomm
+	    3G modem, Qualcomm Vertex VW110L modem, SIMCom SIM5218,
+	    and Huawei K4505, K3770, E3131, E392, E3131, K3765, K4505,
+	    and ETS2055 3G modems.</para>
+
+	  <para revision="242984">The &man.udav.4; network interface
+	    driver now supports JP1082 USB-LAN adapter.</para>
 	</sect4>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="net-proto">
 	<title>Network Protocols</title>
 
-	<para revision="r236056">The &man.if.bridge.4; pseudo network
+	<para revision="247732">The &man.bpf.4; Berkeley Packet Filter
+	  has been improved in the locking performance.</para>
+
+	<para revision="236056">The &man.if.bridge.4; pseudo network
 	  interface driver now supports multiple bridges in the same
 	  STP domain.  It used the same MAC address as the bridge ID
 	  for all bridges on the system.</para>
@@ -642,6 +741,12 @@
 	  to specify the maximum number of tables.  The default value
 	  is <literal>128</literal>.</para>
 
+	<para revision="247944"><literal>IP_RECVTOS</literal> socket
+	  option to receive for received UDP/IPv4 packets a cmsg of type
+	  IP_RECVTOS which contains the TOS byte has been implemented.
+	  This allows to implement a protocol on top of UDP and
+	  implementing ECN.</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
@@ -720,6 +825,12 @@
 	  cache has been fixed.  It could cause extra ICMP message
 	  exchanges when an ICMP unreach is received but allocation of
 	  the corresponding TCP host cache is failed.</para>
+
+	<para revision="247499">A &man.sysctl.8; variable
+	  <varname>net.inet.tcp.rexmit_drop_options</varname> has been
+	  added to not drop options from the third retransmitted SYN.
+	  The default value is set to <literal>1</literal> for
+	  backward compatibility.</para>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="disks">
@@ -729,12 +840,16 @@
 	  Marvell 88SE9220/9230/9235 PCIe 2.0 x2 6Gbps SATA
 	  controllers.</para>
 
-	<para revision="240715">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been
-	  updated to version 1.20.00.25.</para>
+	<para revision="244923,247827">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has
+	  been updated to version 1.20.00.26 and now supports
+	  ARC-1214 and ARC-1224.</para>
 
 	<para revision="236319">A bug in the &man.amr.4; driver which
 	  could cause data corruption has been fixed.</para>
 
+	<para revision="247099">The &man.ata.4; driver now supports
+	  Intel 8 Series chipsets (Lynx Point).</para>
+
 	<para revision="234912">The &man.ata.4; driver now creates
 	  symbolic links for backward compatibility when
 	  <option>ATA_CAM</option> kernel option is enabled.  In a
@@ -749,6 +864,19 @@
 	  <varname>kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases</varname> (enabled by
 	  default when <option>ATA_CAM</option> is set).</para>
 
+	<para revision="243124">The &man.ata.4; driver now has
+	  &man.loader.8; tunables to set initial SATA revision for the
+	  specific device.  The tunable name is
+	  <varname>hint.ata.<replaceable>busnum</replaceable>.dev<replaceable>devnum</replaceable>.sata_rev</varname>
+	  for a device <replaceable>devnum</replaceable> on a bus
+	  <replaceable>busnum</replaceable>, or
+	  <varname>hint.ata.<replaceable>busnum</replaceable>.sata_rev</varname>
+	  for all devices on a bus <replaceable>busnum</replaceable>.
+	  The valid values are <literal>1</literal>,
+	  <literal>2</literal>, and <literal>3</literal>, which
+	  correspond to 1.5 Gbps, 3 Gbps, and
+	  6 Gbps.</para>
+
 	<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
@@ -770,11 +898,21 @@
 	  SBC-3 (SCSI Block Commands-3) Specification is supported on
 	  the device.</para>
 
+	<para revision="247105">The &man.sysctl.8; variables
+	  <varname>kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered</varname> and
+	  <varname>kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered</varname> have been
+	  renamed with <varname>kern.cam.da.send_ordered</varname> and
+	  <varname>kern.cam.ada.send_ordered</varname>.</para>
+
 	<para revision="234914">The &man.da.4; driver has been
 	  improved in performance of subsequent
 	  <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> requests handled as a single
 	  <literal>TRIM</literal> request.</para>
 
+	<para revision="245941" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hpt27xx.4;
+	  driver has been included in <filename>GENERIC</filename>
+	  kernel.</para>
+
 	<para revision="239159,242216">The &man.hptiop.4; driver has
 	  bee updated to version 1.8 and now supports HighPoint
 	  RocketRAID 4500/4311/4310/4211/4210/3560/3530.</para>
@@ -805,6 +943,12 @@
 	  driver attach LSI MegaRAID cards which should be handled by
 	  the &man.mfi.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
 
+	<para revision="243826">The &man.mfi.4; driver now supports
+	  &man.loader.8; tunable
+	  <varname>hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough</varname> to
+	  control raw disk attachment.  The default value is
+	  <literal>0</literal> (disabled).</para>
+
 	<para revision="237877">The &man.mps.4; driver has been
 	  updated to version 14.00.00.01-fbsd. This now supports
 	  Integrated RAID, WarpDrive controllers,
@@ -840,6 +984,14 @@
 	  option in &man.graid.8; utility can be used to specify byte
 	  order for the DDF metadata.</para>
 
+	<para revision="246170">The <literal>RAID</literal>
+	  &man.geom.4; class now partially supports Intel Rapid
+	  Recover Technology (Intel RRT).  It is alike to RAID1, but
+	  with dedicating master and recovery disks and providing
+	  manual control over synchronization.  It allows to use
+	  recovery disk as snapshot of the master disk from the time
+	  of the last sync.</para>
+
 	<para revision="240554,240556">The <literal>RAID</literal>
 	  &man.geom.4; class now supports &man.sysctl.8; variables
 	  <varname>kern.geom.raid.enable</varname> and
@@ -856,6 +1008,10 @@
 	  <literal>raid1e</literal>, <literal>raid5</literal>, and
 	  <literal>concat</literal>.</para>
 
+	<para revision="243679">The <literal>RAID</literal>
+	  &man.geom.4; class now supports <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal>
+	  requests.</para>
+
 	<para revision="234512">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem is not an
 	  experimental implementation anymore.</para>
 
@@ -875,6 +1031,15 @@
       <sect3 id="fs">
 	<title>File Systems</title>
 
+	<para revision="247808">The &man.linprocfs.5; filesystem now
+	  supports <filename>/proc/filesystems</filename>.</para>
+
+	<para revision="246547,246548,246550">Bugs in &man.msdosfs.5;
+	  which could fail a FAT32 filesystem to mount, create a
+	  broken directory entry in a FAT32 filesystem, and prevent
+	  <option>sync</option> and <option>async</option> mount
+	  option from working, have been fixed.</para>
+
 	<para revision="233286">Bugs in &os; NFS subsystem has been
 	  fixed.  They could cause stale name cache entries on an NFS
 	  client.</para>
@@ -907,47 +1072,47 @@
 	<para revision="232665">Several bugs in &man.nullfs.5; which
 	  could cause a system panic have been fixed.</para>
 
+	<para revision="243717,244088,247310">&os; ZFS subsystem has
+	  been updated to support feature flags for ZFS pools (the SPA
+	  version is 5000).  Asynchronous destroy of ZFS dataset, LZ4
+	  compression, ZIO NOP-write optimization have been
+	  implemented as new feature.  &man.loader.8; tunables
+	  <varname>vfs.zfs.sync_pass_deferred_free</varname>,
+	  <varname>vfs.zfs.sync_pass_dont_compress</varname>,
+	  <varname>vfs.zfs.sync_pass_rewrite</varname>, and
+	  <varname>vfs.zfs.nopwrite_enabled</varname> have been
+	  added.</para>
+
+	<para>Note that this upgrade can cause interoperability issue
+	  when upgrading a &os; 8.4 system to 9.0 or 9.1.  This is
+	  because &os; 9.0 and 9.1 support SPA version 28 and do not
+	  recognize version 5000.  To mitigate this issue, the default
+	  SPA version for a newly created ZFS pool on &os; 8.4 is set
+	  to version 28.  To create a ZFS pool with version 5000, use
+	  &man.zpool.8; <command>upgrade</command> command after the
+	  creation.</para>
+
+	<para revision="246578">A bug in ZFS subsystem which could
+	  cause a system panic when importing a ZFS pool has been
+	  fixed.</para>
+
 	<para revision="235507">The &man.sysctl.8; variable
 	  <varname>vfs.zfs.txg.timeout</varname> has been changed from
 	  read-only to writable.</para>
-
-	<para>ZFS is upgraded to support zpool feature flags.  ZFS
-	  pool creation defaults to version 28 allowing upgrades to
-	  &os; 9.1-RELEASE, which does not support
-	  zpool feature flags.</para>
-
-	<para>Users who wish to enable these features can upgrade
-	  storage pools created on &os; 8.4-RC1 and later by
-	  running <command>zpool upgrade</command>.</para>
-
-	<para>The new features available are:</para>
-
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para><literal>async_destroy</literal>: allows a ZFS
-	      dataset to be destroyed asynchronously, reclaiming space
-	      by a background process.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para><literal>empty_bpobj</literal>: improves performance
-	      and reduces disk space needed by snapshots.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para><literal>lz4_compress</literal>: a new high
-	      performance compression algorithm that features better
-	      performance and compression ratio than lzjb.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-
-	<para>For more information, see &man.zpool-features.7;.</para>
       </sect3>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 id="userland">
       <title>Userland Changes</title>
 
+      <para revision="242991">The load average limit in the
+	&man.atrun.8; utility has been set based on the number of
+	CPUs.</para>
+
+      <para revision="244064">The &man.chkgrp.8; utility now supports
+	<option>-q</option> flag to disable printing of text when the
+	group format is correct.</para>
+
       <para revision="239877">The &man.crontab.1; utility now waits
 	for a second before updating the spool directory's mtime.  It
 	could happen that the modified crontab updated the
@@ -957,7 +1122,11 @@
 	<literal>crontab</literal> database is not updated
 	properly.</para>
 
-      <para revision="234979">The default
+      <para revision="244305">The &man.cut.1; utility now supports
+	<option>-w</option> flag to specify whitespace as the
+	delimiter.</para>
+
+      <para revision="234979,242642">The default
 	<filename>dot.cshrc</filename> file for &man.csh.1; and
 	&man.tcsh.1; has been changed.  For more detail, see
 	<filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para>
@@ -966,6 +1135,11 @@
 	<option>-r</option> flag to restart the program if it has been
 	terminated.</para>
 
+      <para revision="247768">The &man.devd.8; daemon now supports
+	<literal>!</literal> character in regex matching in
+	&man.devd.conf.5;.  It inverts the logic of the
+	matching.</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
@@ -974,6 +1148,10 @@
 	and applies all its rules at mount time.  If the specified
 	ruleset doesn't exist, a new empty ruleset is created.</para>
 
+      <para revision="247539">The &man.du.1; utility now supports
+	<option>-g</option> flag to display the results in
+	gigabytes.</para>
+
       <para revision="235254">The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports
 	percent-encoded string in user and password component of a
 	URL.</para>
@@ -986,15 +1164,34 @@
 	supports HTTP status code <literal>305</literal> (Use Proxy)
 	and <literal>308</literal> (Permanent Redirect).</para>
 
+      <para revision="246357">A countermeasure against a possible DoS
+	(Denial of Service) attack described in CVE-2010-2632 in the
+	&man.ftpd.8; daemon has been implemented.</para>
+
       <para revision="235084">A new environment variable
 	<varname>PROFIL_USE_PID</varname> has been added to generate
 	profiling data for the &man.gprof.1; utility with a filename
 	including the process ID.</para>
 
+      <para revision="243466">The &man.ifconfig.8; now supports
+	<varname>state</varname> option for &man.carp.4; protocol to
+	set the state of a carp cluster.  The valid keywords are
+	<literal>master</literal> and
+	<literal>backup</literal>.</para>
+
       <para revision="236875">A bug in the &man.inetd.8; daemon which
 	could cause wrong accounting for elapsed time has been
 	fixed.</para>
 
+      <para revision="246403">The &man.inetd.8; daemon now set the
+	listen queue size to the value of
+	<varname>kern.ipc.somaxconn</varname> instead of hardcoded value
+	<literal>64</literal>.</para>
+
+      <para revision="246599">The default &man.ip6addrctl.8; address
+	selection policy for IPv4 and IPv6 has been updated to one in
+	RFC 6724.</para>
+
       <para revision="237790">The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports a
 	<option>-p <replaceable>pid</replaceable></option> option to
 	accept either a process ID or a thread ID.</para>
@@ -1088,6 +1285,13 @@
 	<varname>dsiz</varname> and <varname>ssiz</varname> keywords
 	to show data and stack size respectively.</para>
 
+      <para revision="245077">The &man.rarpd.8; daemon now supports
+	&man.vlan.4; interface and <option>-P</option> option to
+	specify the PID file.  When <option>-a</option> flag is
+	specified,
+	<filename>/var/run/rarpd.<replaceable>ifname</replaceable>.pid</filename>
+	is used as the PID filename by default.</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
@@ -1122,6 +1326,15 @@
 	IPv6 address as destination address in
 	&man.syslog.conf.5;.</para>
 
+      <para revision="243684">The &man.systat.1; utility now accepts
+	fractional number of seconds.</para>
+
+      <para revision="247563">The &man.tcpdrop.8; utility now accepts
+	the address and ports to be separated by a colon or period
+	rather than a space to permit directly pasting the output of
+	commands such as netstat and sockstat on the command
+	line.</para>
+
       <para revision="239751">The &man.top.1; utility now displays ZFS
 	ARC memory usage on hosts using ZFS.</para>
 
@@ -1149,6 +1362,11 @@
 	command now supports <option>-t
 	<replaceable>datatype</replaceable></option> option.</para>
 
+      <para revision="246750">The &man.zfs.8; <command>jail</command>
+	and <command>unjail</command> commands now support
+	<literal>jailnames</literal> and
+	<literal>jailid</literal>.</para>
+
       <para revision="235952">The &man.zfs.8; <command>send</command>
 	command now reports transmitted data size in bytes when
 	<option>-v</option> flag is specified.</para>
@@ -1171,6 +1389,10 @@
 	<para revision="242083">The <filename>rc.d/jail</filename>
 	  script now supports <varname>jail_parameters</varname>
 	  variable to specify extra parameters for each jail.</para>
+
+	<para revision="246609">The &man.service.8; utility now
+	  supports <option>-R</option> flag to restart all third party
+	  services in <filename>/usr/local/etc/rc.d</filename>.</para>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="periodic-scripts">
@@ -1183,8 +1405,14 @@
     <sect2 id="contrib">
       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 
-      <para revision="241443"><application>ISC BIND</application> has
-	been updated to 9.6-ESV-R7-P4.</para>
+      <para revision="246374"><application>AWK</application> has been
+	updated to 20121220.</para>
+
+      <para revision="248807"><application>ISC BIND</application> has
+	been updated to version 9.8.4-P2.</para>
+
+      <para revision="247448"><application>BZIP2</application> has
+	been updated to version 1.0.6.</para>
 
       <para revision="232635"><application>TENEX C shell</application>
 	(&man.tcsh.1;) has been updated to version 6.18.01.</para>
@@ -1192,15 +1420,27 @@
       <para revision="240160"><application>LESS</application>
 	(&man.less.1;) has been updated to version v451.</para>
 
-      <para revision="237614"><application>netcat</application> has
-	been updated to a version as of OpenBSD 5.1.</para>
+      <para revision="247514"><application>libexpat</application> has
+	been updated to version 2.1.0.</para>
+
+      <para revision="243819"><application>netcat</application> has
+	been updated to a version as of OpenBSD 5.2.</para>
 
-      <para revision="237999"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
-	been updated to version 0.9.8x.</para>
+      <para revision="247521"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
+	been updated to version 6.1.</para>
 
-      <para revision="233448">The <application>timezone</application>
+      <para revision="248057"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
+	been updated to version 0.9.8y.</para>
+
+      <para revision="250167"><application>sendmail</application> has
+	been updated to version 8.14.7.</para>
+
+      <para revision="243006">The <application>timezone</application>
 	database has been updated to
-	<application>tzdata2012a</application> release.</para>
+	<application>tzdata2012j</application> release.</para>
+
+      <para revision="245129"><application>XZ</application> has been
+	updated to version 5.0.4.</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 id="ports">

Modified: releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent
==============================================================================
--- releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent	Sun Jun  2 12:28:29 2013	(r251254)
+++ releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent	Sun Jun  2 15:36:29 2013	(r251255)
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 <!ENTITY man.pcf8563.4 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pcf8563</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
 <!ENTITY man.uchcom.4 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>uchcom</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
+<!ENTITY man.virtio.4 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>virtio</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
 
 <!ENTITY man.boot.config.5 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>boot.config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
 


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