svn commit: r267696 - stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 21 00:45:45 UTC 2014
Author: gjb
Date: Sat Jun 21 00:45:44 2014
New Revision: 267696
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/267696
Log:
Purge information from the stable/9 relnotes that applied to
9.3-RELEASE, after releng/9.3 is branched.
Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
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--- stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sat Jun 21 00:35:20 2014 (r267695)
+++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sat Jun 21 00:45:44 2014 (r267696)
@@ -108,79 +108,9 @@
<tbody>
<row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd</link></entry>
- <entry>1 January 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>Fix &man.bsnmpd.1; remote denial of service
- vulnerability</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd</link></entry>
- <entry>1 January 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>Disable <quote>monitor</quote> feature in
- &man.ntpd.8; by default</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind</link></entry>
- <entry>1 January 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>Remote denial of service
- vulnerability</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:05.nfsserver.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:05.nfsserver</link></entry>
- <entry>8 April 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>Deadlock in the NFS server</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl</link></entry>
- <entry>8 April 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>ECDSA side channel leak</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp</link></entry>
- <entry>30 April 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>TCP reassembly vulnerability</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail</link></entry>
- <entry>26 May 2014</entry>
- <entry><para><application>Sendmail</application>
- improper close-on-exec flag handling</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace</link></entry>
- <entry>3 June 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>&man.ktrace.1; kernel memory
- disclosure</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam</link></entry>
- <entry>3 June 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>Incorrect error handling in PAM policy
- parser</para></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><link
- xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl</link></entry>
- <entry>5 June 2014</entry>
- <entry><para>Multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>No security advisories</para></entry>
+ <entry><para> </para></entry>
+ <entry><para> </para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
@@ -190,536 +120,25 @@
<sect2 xml:id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
- <para revision="256033">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been
- updated to version 1.20.00.28.</para>
-
- <para revision="256437" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">The &man.isci.4; driver is now loadable
- via &man.kldload.8;.</para>
-
- <para revision="256759">System-level &man.sysctl.8; values are
- now exposed to the system for the &man.ixgbe.4; device.</para>
-
- <para revision="256924">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been updated
- to support MegaRAID Invader controllers.</para>
-
- <para revision="257119">A kernel panic triggered in
- <literal>zfs_root()</literal> after a failed rollback has
- been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="257125" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
- <literal>debug.devfs_iosize_max_clamp</literal> has been added
- which enables and disables <literal>SSIZE_MAX</literal>-sized
- I/O requests on &man.devfs.5; files.</para>
-
- <para revision="257126" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
- &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.disallow_high_osrel</literal>,
- has been added which disables executing the images compiled on
- a userland with a higher major version number than the major
- version number of the running kernel.</para>
-
- <para revision="257253">A kernel panic triggered by unmounting
- a busy &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="257373">A deadlock triggered by powering off
- a USB device has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="258214">The &man.ata.4; driver has been updated
- to support Intel Lynx Point PCH SMBus devices.</para>
-
- <para revision="258215">The &man.ata.4; driver has been updated
- to support Coleto Creek devices.</para>
-
- <para revision="258217">The &man.ahci.4; driver has been updated
- to support the PCI-express solid state drive in the
- &apple; MacBook Air (model A1465).</para>
-
- <para revision="258635">The &man.sysctl.8;
- <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_limit</literal> can now be changed
- at runtime.</para>
-
- <para revision="258870">The &man.mmap.2; system call has been
- updated to more optimally use superpages and provide support
- for tweaking the alignment of virtual mappings.</para>
-
- <para revision="258962">A workaround has been implemented
- in the &man.bge.4; driver for hung transmission on BCM5719
- and BCM5720 chipsets.</para>
-
- <para revision="259002">A kernel panic when listing sysctls
- on a system with <literal>INVARIANTS</literal> enabled has
- been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="259466">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
- <literal>kern.supported_archs</literal> has been added,
- which will list the <envar>MACHINE_ARCH</envar> values
- whose binaries can be run on the system.</para>
-
- <para revision="259519" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&spectralogic;">Several problems that could trigger
- kernel panic on &man.kldload.8; and &man.kldunload.8; have
- been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="260082" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">A kernel panic triggered by some
- multi-threaded applications has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="260134">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been
- renamed from <literal>runfw</literal> to
- <literal>run.fw</literal> for consistency with other firmware
- files.</para>
-
- <para revision="260433">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
- <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
- added. This allows tuning the amount of time the system
- will wait before rebooting after &man.panic.9;. The
- <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal> value defaults
- to the kernel configuration option,
- <literal>PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="260644">Hardware Random Number Generators have
- been disabled by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="261485">Support for GPS ports has been added
- to the &man.uhso.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="262116">A memory leak of compressed buffers
- has been fixed in
- <literal>l2arc_write_done()</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="262153">The &man.netmap.4; framework has been
- updated to match the version in <literal>head/</literal>,
- which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
- VALE switch port.</para>
-
- <para revision="262175">A deadlock triggered by sending
- a mounted &man.zfs.8; snapshot has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="262231">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
- to &man.ppc.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="262564">Support for the ext4 filesystem
- has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts.</para>
-
- <para revision="262594">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
- a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
- fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="262988" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">TTM,
- a memory manager used by video
- drivers, has been merged.</para>
-
- <para revision="263103">Support for
- <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
- to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
-
- <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
- <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
- fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="263391">The
- <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
- has been added. See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
- information.</para>
-
- <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
- <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="263817,263818" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">The <literal>vt</literal> driver
- has been merged from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="265729" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;">The &man.mpr.4; device has
- been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb
- SCSI/SATA controllers.</para>
-
- <para revision="266167">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
- functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
- &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
- Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="266269">Support for &man.xen.4;
- hardware-assisted virtualization, <literal>XENHVM</literal>,
- is now available as a loadable module,
- <literal>xenhvm.ko</literal>.</para>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="proc">
- <title>Hardware Support</title>
-
- <para revision="261510">Trackpad support for
- &apple; MacBook products has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="261973">The &man.nve.4; driver has been
- deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
- instead.</para>
-
- <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
- updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
-
- <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
- added.</para>
-
- <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
- updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
-
- <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
- <title>Network Interface Support</title>
-
- <para revision="257611">The &man.re.4; driver has been
- updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8106E
- chipset.</para>
-
- <para revision="257614,257616">The &man.re.4; driver has
- been updated to support the RTL8168G, RTL8168GU and
- RTL8411B chipsets.</para>
-
- <para revision="257618">The &man.re.4; driver has been
- updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8168EP
- chipset.</para>
-
- <para revision="258586">The &man.oce.4; driver has been
- updated to version 10.0.664.0.</para>
-
- <para revision="258898">The &man.qlxgbe.4; driver has been
- imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="258936">The &man.qlxge.4; driver has been
- imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="258965">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
- updated to support the BCM5725 chipset.</para>
-
- <para revision="258967">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
- updated to support the BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782,
- BCM57786 and BCM57787 chipsets.</para>
-
- <para revision="259457">The &man.run.4; driver has been
- updated to support MediaTek/Ralink chipsets RT5370 and
- RT5372.</para>
-
- <para revision="259460">The &man.usb.4; wireless radiotap
- headers have been realigned, allowing wireless adapters
- to work on &arch.arm;, &arch.mips;, and other similar
- platforms where alignment is important.</para>
-
- <para revision="260119">The &man.run.4; firmware has been
- updated to version 0.33.</para>
-
- <para revision="260252">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
- merged from <literal>head/</literal>, providing support
- for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb PCIe adapters.</para>
-
- <para revision="261865">The &man.run.4; driver has been
- updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
- chipset.</para>
-
- <para revision="261933">The &man.run.4; driver has been
- updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
- adapter.</para>
-
- <para revision="262153">The &man.axge.4; driver has been
- added.</para>
-
- <para revision="262362">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
- imported from OpenBSD.</para>
-
- <para revision="263582">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
- updated to version 1.78.78.</para>
- </sect4>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="fs">
- <title>File Systems</title>
-
- <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
- updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
- feature.</para>
- </sect3>
+ <para> </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
- <para revision="256054">A new flag <literal>-c</literal>, has
- been added to &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1;, which restricts
- the process lookup to the specified login class.</para>
-
- <para revision="257496">The &man.ddb.8; utility has been updated
- to add <command>show ioapic</command> and <command>show all
- ioapics</command>.</para>
-
- <para revision="258183">Setting <literal>nmbcluster</literal>
- values to their current value will now be ignored, instead of
- failing with an error.</para>
-
- <para revision="258763">The <filename
- class="directory">/var/cache</filename> directory is now
- created with mode <literal>0755</literal> instead of mode
- <literal>0750</literal>, since this directory is used by
- many third-party applications, which makes dropping group
- privileges impossible.</para>
-
- <para revision="258818">The &man.uname.1; utility has been
- updated to include the <literal>-U</literal> and
- <literal>-K</literal> flags, which print the
- <envar>__FreeBSD_version</envar> for the running userland
- and kernel, respectively.</para>
-
- <para revision="258844">The &man.fetch.3; library has been
- updated to support SNI (Server Name Identification), allowing
- to use virtual hosts on HTTPS.</para>
-
- <para revision="259243">A segmentation fault and internal
- compiler error bug in &man.gcc.1; triggered by throwing
- a warning before parsing any tokens has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="259269,259406" contrib="vendor"
- vendor="&google;">Several updates to &man.gcc.1;
- have been imported from Google.</para>
-
- <para revision="259448">A byte-order bug in the Heimdal
- <literal>gss_pseudo_random()</literal> function which would
- prevent interoperability with other
- <application>Kerberos</application> implementations has been
- fixed. In particular, this would prevent interoperability
- with the MIT implementation.</para>
-
- <para revision="260007">The &man.hastctl.8; utility has been
- updated to output the current queue sizes.</para>
-
- <para revision="260197">The &man.ps.1; utility will no longer
- truncate the <literal>command</literal> output column.</para>
-
- <para revision="260208">The &man.protect.1; command has been
- added, which allows exempting processes from being killed
- when swap is exhausted.</para>
-
- <para revision="260507">The &man.gmirror.8; utility now prevents
- deactivating the last component of a mirror.</para>
-
- <para revision="260507">A new &man.gmirror.8; command,
- <command>gmirror destroy</command>, has been added, which will
- destroy the &man.geom.8; and erase the &man.gmirror.8;
- metadata.</para>
-
- <para revision="260650">The &man.etcupdate.8; utility, a tool
- for managing updates to files in <filename
- class="directory">/etc</filename>, has been merged from
- <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="260651">The &man.find.1; utility has been
- updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
- <literal>-lname</literal> and <literal>-ilname</literal>
- flags.</para>
-
- <para revision="260868,260869">The
- <literal>hw.uart.console</literal> is now always updated when
- the comconsole setup changes.</para>
-
- <para revision="260909">The &man.kldload.8; utility has been
- updated to display a message directing to &man.dmesg.8;,
- instead of the cryptic message <quote>Exec format
- error</quote>.</para>
-
- <para revision="261674">A bug that could trigger an infinite
- loop in KDE and X has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="262076">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
- changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
- file takes on the disk to match the behavior documented in
- &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
-
- <para revision="262105">A bug in &man.zdb.8; which would cause
- numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
- flags has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="262124">The default number of &man.nfsd.8;
- threads has been increased from <literal>4</literal> to
- <literal>(8 * N)</literal>, where <literal>N</literal> is
- the number of CPUs as reported by
- <command>sysctl -n hw.ncpu</command>.</para>
-
- <para revision="262134">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now has
- a <literal>-V</literal> flag, which lists information such
- as serial numbers for each device.</para>
-
- <para revision="262158">A bug that would allow creating
- a &man.zfs.8; snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
- fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="262160">Receiving a &man.zfs.8; dataset with
- <command>zfs recv -F</command> now properly destroys any
- snapshots that were created since the incremental source
- snapshot.</para>
-
- <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
- <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
- <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
- has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
-
- <para revision="263031">A default
- <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
- applications.</para>
-
- <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library,
- a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library, has been
- imported.</para>
-
- <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
- utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
- This implements binary package signature verification when
- bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
- bootstrap</command>.</para>
-
- <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
- been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
-
- <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
- <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
- with the &os; Ports Collection. It is installed as
- <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
- remains the &os; version.</para>
-
- <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
- supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
- return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
-
- <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
- <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
- have been added to match &oracle; Solaris 11.</para>
-
- <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
- been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
- providing output in a parseable form.</para>
-
- <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
- been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
- several bug fixes and documentation improvements. The
- &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
- rewritten.</para>
-
- <para revision="264423">The &man.sh.1; command interpreter has
- been updated to expand assignments after
- <literal>export</literal>, <literal>local</literal>, and
- <literal>readonly</literal> differently. As result of this
- change, variable assignment such as <literal>local
- v=$1</literal> will assign the first positional
- parameter to <literal>v</literal>, even if
- <literal>$1</literal> contains spaces, and
- <literal>local w=<replaceable>~/myfile</replaceable></literal>
- will expand the tilde (<literal>~</literal>).</para>
-
- <para revision="264699">The &man.find.1; utility has been
- updated to implement <literal>-ignore_readdir_race</literal>.
- Prior to this change, <literal>-ignore_readdir_race</literal>
- existed as an option for GNU &man.find.1; compatibility, and
- was ignored if specified. A counter primary,
- <literal>-noignore_readdir_race</literal> now also exists, and
- is the default behavior.</para>
-
- <para revision="266286">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
- to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to filter
- output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. Additionally,
- argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
- <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
- host system.</para>
-
- <para revision="266287">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
- to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
- &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="266818">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default
- format has been changed to
- <literal>$2b$</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="267114">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
- includes files in the
- <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
- <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
- directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
-
- <para revision="267243">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
- has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows
- the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
- device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
- to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="267379">The &man.arc4random.3; library has been
- updated to match that of &os;-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para revision="267411">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
- updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
- ends event collection after the specified number of
- seconds.</para>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
- <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
-
- <para revision="263662">The
- <filename>/etc/periodic/security/800.loginfail</filename>
- &man.periodic.8; script has been refined to catch more
- authentication failures and reduce false positives.</para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
- <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
-
- <para revision="256917">Support for <quote>first boot</quote>
- scripts has been added to &man.rc.8;. See &man.rc.8; and
- &man.rc.conf.5; for implementation details.</para>
-
- <para revision="260432">The &man.rc.8; system will now
- re-source &man.rc.conf.5; on receipt of
- <literal>SIGALRM</literal>.</para>
- </sect3>
+ <para> </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
- <para revision="255934">The &man.readline.3; library has been
- updated to version 1.104.</para>
-
- <para revision="266711"><application>Sendmail</application> has
- been updated to version 8.14.9.</para>
-
- <para revision="262706" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&dkhostmaster;"><application>BIND</application> has
- been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
-
- <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
- to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
-
- <para revision="263970"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
- been updated to version 6.6p1.</para>
-
- <para revision="267285"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
- been updated to version 0.9.8za.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="releng">
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
- <para revision="260891">As part of the release build, the
- &man.etcupdate.8; utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
- &man.etcupdate.8; to work after the first upgrade of a
- system.</para>
-
- <para revision="262879" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
- script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
- updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
- medium.</para>
-
- <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
- been updated to support multiple byte orders. Similar to
- &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
- be created with proper endinanness as part of
- cross-architecture release builds.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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