svn commit: r251228 - releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 1 19:07:04 UTC 2013
Author: hrs
Date: Sat Jun 1 19:07:03 2013
New Revision: 251228
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251228
Log:
Update relnotes item:
debug.kdb.breack_to_debugger, debug.kdb.alt_break_to_debugger added,
kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic added,
usb(4) multi-TT hub support,
wbwd(4) added,
bce(4) jumbo frame fixed,
bce(4) remote PHYs support,
iwn(4) Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100/130 support,
igb(4) CPU binding on an SMP machine changed,
ixgbe(4) TSO issue fixed,
u3g(4) SIM5218 support,
FIB handling improved: locking removal, net.fibs tunable,
TCP host cache issue fixed,
ATA_CAM compat shims added,
da(4) subsequent BIO_DELETE request gathering,
da(4) new device support,
mfi(4) LSI MegaRAID SAS ThuderBolt support,
GEOM_MULTIPATH improvements,
GEOM_RAID DDF metadata support,
NFS: a workaround for a non-FreeBSD server implemented,
vfs.zfs.txg.timeout is now writable,
dot.cshrc changed,
fetch(1) percent-encoded user and password support,
PROFIL_USE_PID variable for gprof profiling data generation,
lastcomm(1) +format option added,
libusb_get_max_iso_packet_size(3) added,
pam_exec(8) return_prog_exit_status option added,
setbuf(1) and libstdbuf library added,
traceroute(8) bugfix,
usbdump(8) filtering support, and
usbhidctl(1) -z flag.
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 Sat Jun 1 18:03:01 2013 (r251227)
+++ releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sat Jun 1 19:07:03 2013 (r251228)
@@ -257,6 +257,21 @@
make the network subsystem run on an wrong vnet context has been
fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="235121"><varname>debug.kdb.break_to_debugger</varname>
+ and <varname>debug.kdb.alt_break_to_debugger</varname> have been
+ added as &man.sysctl.8; variables and loader tunables. These
+ are disabled by default and <option>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</option>
+ and <option>ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</option> kernel options now
+ set them enabled. These changes allow
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel to support break-to-debugger
+ capability.</para>
+
+ <para revision="235502">A new &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic</varname> has been
+ added. When set to <literal>1</literal>, only one thread runs
+ uninterruptedly after a system panic and the other CPUs are
+ stopped. The default value is <literal>0</literal>.</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
@@ -332,6 +347,16 @@
suspend events synchronously. This fixed problems of
suspend and resume.</para>
+ <para revision="235011">The &man.usb.4; driver now supports
+ multi-TT mode operation, which can have one transaction
+ translator for each downstream-facing port on a USB hub.
+ This allows more bandwidth for isochronous FULL speed
+ application connected through a High Speed USB HUB.</para>
+
+ <para revision="235947">The &man.wbwd.4; driver, which
+ supports the watchdog timer found in Winbond Super I/O
+ chips, has been added.</para>
+
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -347,6 +372,17 @@
<para revision="234241">The &man.ale.4; network driver now
supports flow control.</para>
+ <para revision="235424">A bug in the &man.bce.4; network
+ driver has been fixed. It could prevent jumbo frame
+ configuration from working.</para>
+
+ <para revision="235819">The &man.bce.4; network driver now
+ supports remote PHYs, which allow the controller to perform
+ MDIO type accesses to a remote transceiver by using message
+ pages defined through MRBE (MultiRate Backplane
+ Ethernet). This is found on machines such as the Dell
+ PowerEdge M610 Blade.</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
@@ -368,8 +404,21 @@
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="235616">The &man.igb.4; network driver now
+ attempts to attach as many CPUs as possible to each queue.
+ If the number of CPUs are greater than or equal to the
+ number of queues, all of queues are bound to different
+ CPUs.</para>
+
+ <para revision="233839,235844">The &man.iwn.4; driver now
+ supports Intel Centrino 6150 wireless N and WiMAX
+ chipsets, and Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100/130
+ devices.</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="233490">A bug in the &man.re.4; and
&man.rl.4; network drivers which could cause a problem on
@@ -398,9 +447,10 @@
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>
+ <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>
</sect4>
</sect3>
@@ -443,6 +493,17 @@
&man.netgraph.4; node which could cause a system panic has
been fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="235056">&os; routing table handling has been
+ improved. It can now perform packet forwarding even while a
+ user application is reading the whole routing table via
+ &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="235104">A loader tunable
+ <varname>net.fibs</varname> now supports to specify the
+ number of routing tables. The <option>ROUTETABLES</option>
+ kernel option can still be used to set the default number of
+ routing tables.</para>
+
<para revision="233245,233246">&os; SCTP stack now supports
&man.ng.iface.4; and &man.stf.4; interface.</para>
@@ -456,11 +517,30 @@
number found in <application>Linux</application> or
<application>Solaris</application>. For more detail, see
&man.setsockopt.2; manual page.</para>
+
+ <para revision="235053">An issue in &os; &man.tcp.4; host
+ 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>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <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
+ kernel with <option>ATA_CAM</option>, an ATA/SATA disk is
+ recognized as a device node with a name
+ <filename>ada0</filename> instead of
+ <filename>ad0</filename>. A symbolic link
+ <filename>/dev/ad0</filename> is automatically generated for
+ <filename>/dev/ada0</filename> to keep backward
+ compatibility. This symbolic link generation can be
+ controlled by a
+ <varname>kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases</varname> (enabled by
+ default when <option>ATA_CAM</option> is set).</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
@@ -475,6 +555,15 @@
SBC-3 (SCSI Block Commands-3) Specification is supported on
the device.</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="235086">The &man.da.4; now supports Olympus
+ FE-210 camera, LG UP3S MP3 player, and Laser MP3-2GA13
+ MP3.</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>
@@ -484,16 +573,38 @@
CAPACITY(16)</literal> SCSI command for an SATA device has
been fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="235625">The &man.mfi.4; driver now supports
+ LSI MegaRAID SAS cards named "Drake Skinny" and
+ "ThunderBolt". This includes Dell PERC H810/H800/H710/H700
+ and Intel RAID Controller RS25DB080/RS25NB008.</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="234917">The <literal>MULTIPATH</literal>
+ &man.geom.4; class has been updated. It now supports
+ Active/Active mode, Active/Read mode as hybrid of
+ Active/Active and Active/Passive, keeping a failed path
+ without removing the geom provider, manual configuration
+ without on-disk metadata, and add, remove, fail, restore,
+ configure subcommands in the &man.gmultipath.8; utility to
+ manage the configured paths.</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="235875">The <literal>RAID</literal>
+ &man.geom.4; class now supports the DDF metadata format,
+ which is defined in the SNIA Common RAID Disk Data Format
+ Specification v2.0. It can read non-degraded
+ RAID4/5/5E/5EE/5R/6/MDF volumes. An <option>-o</option>
+ option in &man.graid.8; utility can be used to specify byte
+ order for the DDF metadata.</para>
+
<para revision="234512">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem is not an
experimental implementation anymore.</para>
@@ -518,9 +629,19 @@
positive name caching by setting it to
<literal>0</literal>.</para>
+ <para revision="235417">A workaround has been implemented in
+ &os; NFS subsystem to handle a reply to an NFS create RPC
+ which do not include file attributes under certain
+ circumstances. This improves interoperability between
+ non-&os; NFS servers and &os; NFS clients.</para>
+
<para revision="232665">Several bugs in &man.nullfs.5; which
could cause a system panic have 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
@@ -558,6 +679,11 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
+ <para revision="234979">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>
+
<para revision="233762">The &man.daemon.8; utility now supports
<option>-r</option> flag to restart the program if it has been
terminated.</para>
@@ -570,6 +696,20 @@
and applies all its rules at mount time. If the specified
ruleset doesn't exist, a new empty ruleset is created.</para>
+ <para revision="235254">The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports
+ percent-encoded string in user and password component of a
+ URL.</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="235888">The &man.lastcomm.1; utility now
+ supports <option>+<replaceable>format</replaceable></option>
+ option to specify &man.strftime.3; format for process start
+ and exit times.</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
@@ -581,6 +721,9 @@
<para revision="234555">The <application>libradius</application>
now supports &man.rad.bind.to.3; function.</para>
+ <para revision="235017">The &man.libusb.3; library now supports
+ &man.libusb.get.max.iso.packet.size.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>
@@ -589,6 +732,12 @@
&man.setusercontext.3; function) from working when the
password is not set.</para>
+ <para revision="234843">The &man.pam.exec.8; module now supports
+ <option>return_prog_exit_status</option>. When this option is
+ enabled, the program exit status is used as the
+ &man.pam.exec.8; return code. It allows the program to tell
+ why the step failed (user unknown, for example).</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>
@@ -609,13 +758,30 @@
improved in performance of TLS (Thread Local Storage)
handling.</para>
+ <para revision="235141">The &man.setbuf.1; utility and
+ <application>libstdbuf</application> library have been added.
+ This controls the default buffering behavior of standard stdio
+ streams.</para>
+
<para revision="234001">The &man.sh.1; program now allows
underscore characters in the arithmetic expansion.</para>
+ <para revision="235163">A bug in &man.traceroute.8; utility
+ which could result in not accepting any incoming packets has
+ been fixed.</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="235015">The &man.usbdump.8; utility now supports
+ filtering USB devices and USB endpoints.</para>
+
+ <para revision="235881">The &man.usbhidctl.1; utility now
+ supports <option>-z</option> flag for reading operation. It
+ allows to not request current values from the device, but only
+ receive changes.</para>
+
<para revision="233862"><command>zfs list -t snapshot</command>
command has been improved dramatically in performance.</para>
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 Sat Jun 1 18:03:01 2013 (r251227)
+++ releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/man-refs.ent Sat Jun 1 19:07:03 2013 (r251228)
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
<!ENTITY man.rad.bind.to.3 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>rad_bind_to</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
+<!ENTITY man.libusb.get.max.iso.packet.size.3 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libusb_get_max_iso_packet_size</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
+
<!ENTITY man.boot.config.5 "<citerefentry><refentrytitle>boot.config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>">
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