svn commit: r186759 - stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 5 05:53:15 UTC 2009
Author: hrs
Date: Mon Jan 5 05:53:14 2009
New Revision: 186759
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186759
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<article>
-<articleinfo>
- <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
+ <articleinfo>
+ <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
- <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor>
+ <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor>
- <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
+ <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
- <copyright>
- <year>2000</year>
- <year>2001</year>
- <year>2002</year>
- <year>2003</year>
- <year>2004</year>
- <year>2005</year>
- <year>2006</year>
- <year>2007</year>
- <year>2008</year>
- <holder role="mailto:doc at FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
- </copyright>
-
- <legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
- &tm-attrib.freebsd;
- &tm-attrib.ibm;
- &tm-attrib.ieee;
- &tm-attrib.intel;
- &tm-attrib.sparc;
- &tm-attrib.general;
- </legalnotice>
-
- <abstract>
- <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
- of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
- &release.branch; development line.
- This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
- the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
- kernel and userland.
- Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
- </abstract>
-</articleinfo>
-
-<sect1 id="intro">
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
- &release.current;. It
- describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
- It also provides some notes on upgrading
- from previous versions of &os;.</para>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2000</year>
+ <year>2001</year>
+ <year>2002</year>
+ <year>2003</year>
+ <year>2004</year>
+ <year>2005</year>
+ <year>2006</year>
+ <year>2007</year>
+ <year>2008</year>
+ <year>2009</year>
+ <holder role="mailto:doc at FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
+ </copyright>
+
+ <legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
+ &tm-attrib.freebsd;
+ &tm-attrib.ibm;
+ &tm-attrib.ieee;
+ &tm-attrib.intel;
+ &tm-attrib.sparc;
+ &tm-attrib.general;
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <abstract>
+ <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
+ of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
+ &release.branch; development line.
+ This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
+ the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
+ kernel and userland.
+ Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
+ </abstract>
+ </articleinfo>
+
+ <sect1 id="intro">
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+
+ <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
+ &release.current;. It
+ describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
+ It also provides some notes on upgrading
+ from previous versions of &os;.</para>
<![ %release.type.current [
- <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
- apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
- branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary
- &release.type; distributions along this branch
- can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
+ <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
+ apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
+ branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary
+ &release.type; distributions along this branch
+ can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
]]>
<![ %release.type.snapshot [
- <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
- apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
- branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;.
- Information regarding
- pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
- can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
+ <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
+ apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
+ branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;.
+ Information regarding
+ pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
+ can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
]]>
<![ %release.type.release [
- <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
- &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink
- url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More
- information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
- distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
- url="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
- &os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
- url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
- Handbook</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
+ &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink
+ url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More
+ information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
+ distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
+ url="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
+ &os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
+ url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</ulink>.</para>
]]>
- <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
- installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
- <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
- release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
- information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
- documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
- &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="new">
- <title>What's New</title>
-
- <para>This section describes
- the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
- since &release.prev;.
- </para>
-
- <para>Typical release note items
- document recent security advisories issued after
- &release.prev;,
- new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
- major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also
- list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
- practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single
- change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses
- primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major
- architectural improvements.</para>
-
- <sect2 id="security">
- <title>Security Advisories</title>
-
- <para></para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="kernel">
- <title>Kernel Changes</title>
-
- <para>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
- a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls
- this feature.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting
- facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a
- set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from
- within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8;
- utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual
- page.</para>
-
- <para>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>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The ULE
- scheduler is now the default process scheduler
- in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para>
+ <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
+ installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
+ <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
+ release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
+ information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
+ documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
+ &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="new">
+ <title>What's New</title>
+
+ <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
+ features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
+
+ <para>Typical release note items document recent security
+ advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
+ support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
+ contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
+ major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
+ the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
+ between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
+ advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
+ improvements.</para>
- <sect3 id="boot">
- <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
+ <sect2 id="security">
+ <title>Security Advisories</title>
<para></para>
+ </sect2>
- <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The BTX kernel used by the boot
- loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
- mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB
- devices.</para>
-
- <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] A new gptboot boot loader has
- been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A
- new <command>boot</command> command has been added to
- &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the
- required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot
- partition if required.</para>
-
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="proc">
- <title>Hardware Support</title>
-
- <para>The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040
- PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon
- Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been
- imported from OpenBSD.</para>
-
- <sect4 id="mm">
- <title>Multimedia Support</title>
-
- <para></para>
- </sect4>
-
- <sect4 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.
- This driver is not enabled in <filename>GENERIC</filename>
- kernels for this release.</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>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.wpi.4; driver has
- been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para>
-
- </sect4>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="net-proto">
- <title>Network Protocols</title>
+ <sect2 id="kernel">
+ <title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para></para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="disks">
- <title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <sect3 id="boot">
+ <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
- <para>The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than
- 2TB in size.</para>
+ <para></para>
+ </sect3>
- <para>The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2
- from Highpoint.</para>
+ <sect3 id="proc">
+ <title>Hardware Support</title>
- </sect3>
+ <para></para>
- <sect3 id="fs">
- <title>File Systems</title>
+ <sect4 id="mm">
+ <title>Multimedia Support</title>
- <para></para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
+ <para></para>
+ </sect4>
- <sect2 id="userland">
- <title>Userland Changes</title>
+ <sect4 id="net-if">
+ <title>Network Interface Support</title>
- <para>The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports
- a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's
- home directory.</para>
-
- <para>&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for
- verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors
- with the same semantics as (for example)
- &man.chmod.1;.</para>
-
- <para>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>
-
- <para>&man.cron.8; now supports a <option>-m</option> option,
- which can help managing cron mails in massive hosting
- environment.</para>
+ <para></para>
- <para>&man.ypserv.8; now supports a <option>-P</option> option to
- specify the port number on which it should listen.</para>
+ </sect4>
+ </sect3>
- <sect3 id="rc-scripts">
- <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
+ <sect3 id="net-proto">
+ <title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para></para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="contrib">
- <title>Contributed Software</title>
+ <para></para>
- <para><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10
- to 6.1.5.</para>
+ </sect3>
- <para><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May
- 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para>
+ <sect3 id="disks">
+ <title>Disks and Storage</title>
- <para><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4
- to 1.0.5.</para>
+ <para></para>
- <para><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
- Figwort release to the Hydrangea release.</para>
+ </sect3>
- <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
- 4.5p1 to 5.1p1.</para>
+ <sect3 id="fs">
+ <title>File Systems</title>
- <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
- 8.14.2 to 8.14.3.</para>
+ <para></para>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
- <para>The timezone database has been updated from
- the <application>tzdata2007h</application> release to
- the <application>tzdata2008b</application> release.</para>
+ <sect2 id="userland">
+ <title>Userland Changes</title>
- </sect2>
+ <para></para>
- <sect2 id="ports">
- <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
+ <sect3 id="rc-scripts">
+ <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para></para>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
- </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="contrib">
+ <title>Contributed Software</title>
- <sect2 id="releng">
- <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
+ <para></para>
+ </sect2>
- <para>The supported version of
- the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
- (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been
- updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para>
+ <sect2 id="ports">
+ <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
- </sect2>
+ <para></para>
- <sect2 id="doc">
- <title>Documentation</title>
+ </sect2>
- <para></para>
- </sect2>
-</sect1>
+ <sect2 id="releng">
+ <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
-<sect1 id="upgrade">
- <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
+ <para></para>
+ </sect2>
- <para>[&arch.i386;, &arch.amd64;] Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE,
- binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the
- various security branches) are supported using the
- &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will
- update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or
- SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release.
- The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
- upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
+ <sect2 id="doc">
+ <title>Documentation</title>
- <para>An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the
- <command>Upgrade</command> option from the main &man.sysinstall.8;
- menu on CDROM distribution media. This type of binary upgrade
- may be useful on non-&arch.i386;, non-&arch.amd64; machines
- or on systems with no Internet connectivity.</para>
+ <para></para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
- base system from source code) from previous versions are
- supported, according to the instructions in
- <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
+ <sect1 id="upgrade">
+ <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
- <important>
- <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
- backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
- files.</para>
- </important>
-</sect1>
+ <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary
+ upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various
+ security branches) are supported using the
+ &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure
+ will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified
+ GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os;
+ release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the
+ host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
+
+ <para>An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the
+ <command>Upgrade</command> option from the main
+ &man.sysinstall.8; menu on CDROM distribution media. This type
+ of binary upgrade may be useful on non-&arch.i386;,
+ non-&arch.amd64; machines or on systems with no Internet
+ connectivity.</para>
+
+ <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
+ base system from source code) from previous versions are
+ supported, according to the instructions in
+ <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
+
+ <important>
+ <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
+ backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
+ files.</para>
+ </important>
+ </sect1>
</article>
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