svn commit: r260922 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 20 20:06:14 UTC 2014
Author: gjb
Date: Mon Jan 20 20:06:13 2014
New Revision: 260922
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260922
Log:
Sync with (local) changes against releng/10.0/release/doc/
that were needed to fix 10.0-RELEASE release notes.
This corresponds to r43586 through r43593 of the doc/
repository. There are no corresponding changes to the src/
repository tracking these.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Jan 20 19:57:30 2014 (r260921)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Jan 20 20:06:13 2014 (r260922)
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
<year>2011</year>
<year>2012</year>
<year>2013</year>
+ <year>2014</year>
<holder role="mailto:doc at FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
</copyright>
@@ -128,11 +129,6 @@
<para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
- <para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added
- for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and
- assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added
- to allow manipulation of processor sets.</para>
-
<para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture
facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured
to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or
@@ -146,37 +142,6 @@
utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual
page.</para>
- <para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel
- dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via
- mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a
- simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief
- kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but
- are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely
- synchronized source code. More information can be found in the
- &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para>
-
- <para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While
- the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful
- in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the
- KSE library was never developed to its full potential.
- Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading
- will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked
- binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of
- &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para>
-
- <para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel
- features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree.
- The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient
- interface for user applications to test the presence of
- features.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large
- memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE
- scheduler is now the default process scheduler
- in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para>
-
<para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for
the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number
generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs,
@@ -246,6 +211,7 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al
</sect3>
+ <!--
<sect3 xml:id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
@@ -262,19 +228,11 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al
partition if required.</para>
</sect3>
+ -->
<sect3 xml:id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
- <para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040
- PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para>
-
- <para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon
- Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been
- imported from OpenBSD.</para>
-
<sect4 xml:id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -287,29 +245,8 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al
<sect4 xml:id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
- <para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support
- for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers
- with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue
- to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new
- client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver
- will support new server adapters.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support
- for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit
- Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide
- support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network
- adapters.</para>
-
<para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been
- updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its
- performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It
- should also work on all architectures.</para>
+ 1.4.55.</para>
<para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL)
@@ -417,7 +354,7 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al
<sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs">
<title>ZFS</title>
- <para revision="">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing
+ <para revision="256361">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing
ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single configuration menu
that allows you to select all of the required details, including
which drives to use, what ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration
@@ -503,6 +440,9 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al
<para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the
"Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD.</para>
+ <para revision="243023">Support for usernames up to 32
+ characters.</para>
+
<para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports
a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's
home directory.</para>
@@ -565,9 +505,6 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al
were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;).
It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para>
- <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display
- detailed information about processes.</para>
-
<para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports
a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also
accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para>
@@ -634,10 +571,7 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al
to 6.1.5.</para>
<para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May
- 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para>
-
- <para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4
- to 1.0.5.</para>
+ 2007 release to the 20121220 release.</para>
<para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the
base system, but is still available from ports</para>
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