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This document lists -applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as -significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading -are also presented.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<hr /> -</div> - -<div class="TOC"> -<dl> -<dt><b>Table of Contents</b></dt> - -<dt>1 <a href="#INTRO">Introduction</a></dt> - -<dt>2 <a href="#NEW">What's New</a></dt> - -<dd> -<dl> -<dt>2.1 <a href="#SECURITY">Security Advisories</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2 <a href="#KERNEL">Kernel Changes</a></dt> - -<dd> -<dl> -<dt>2.2.1 <a href="#PROC">Platform-Specific Hardware Support</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.2 <a href="#BOOT">Boot Loader Changes</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.3 <a href="#NET-IF">Network Interface Support</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.4 <a href="#NET-PROTO">Network Protocols</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.5 <a href="#DISKS">Disks and Storage</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.6 <a href="#FS">File Systems</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.7 <a href="#MM">Multimedia Support</a></dt> -</dl> -</dd> - -<dt>2.3 <a href="#USERLAND">Userland Changes</a></dt> - -<dt>2.4 <a href="#CONTRIB">Contributed Software</a></dt> - -<dt>2.5 <a href="#PORTS">Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</a></dt> - -<dt>2.6 <a href="#RELENG">Release Engineering and Integration</a></dt> - -<dt>2.7 <a href="#DOC">Documentation</a></dt> -</dl> -</dd> - -<dt>3 <a href="#UPGRADE">Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD</a></dt> -</dl> -</div> - -<div class="SECT1"> -<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="INTRO" name="INTRO">1 Introduction</a></h2> - -<p>This document contains the release notes for FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE on the i386 hardware -platform. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of FreeBSD. It also -provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of FreeBSD.</p> - -<p>This distribution of FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE is a release distribution. It can be found at -<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a> or any of its -mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) release distributions of FreeBSD -can be found in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html" -target="_top">``Obtaining FreeBSD'' appendix</a> to the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/" target="_top">FreeBSD -Handbook</a>.</p> - -<p>Users who are new to the 5-CURRENT series of FreeBSD releases should also read the -``Early Adopters Guide to FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE''. This document can generally be found in -the same location as the release notes (either as a part of a FreeBSD distribution or on -the FreeBSD Web site). It contains important information regarding the advantages and -disadvantages of using FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE, as opposed to releases based on the FreeBSD -4-STABLE development branch.</p> - -<p>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing FreeBSD. The -errata document is updated with ``late-breaking'' 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 FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT1"> -<hr /> -<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="NEW" name="NEW">2 What's New</a></h2> - -<p>This section describes many of the user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD -since 5.1-RELEASE. It includes items that are unique to the 5-CURRENT branch, as well as -some features that may have been recently merged to other branches (after FreeBSD -5.1-RELEASE). The latter items are marked as [MERGED].</p> - -<p>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after -5.1-RELEASE, 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 FreeBSD between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, -user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements.</p> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="SECURITY" name="SECURITY">2.1 Security Advisories</a></h3> - -<p>A single-byte buffer overflow in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=realpath&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">realpath</span>(3)</span></a> was -fixed. Although the fix was committed prior to FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE (and thus 5.1-RELEASE -was not affected), it was not noted in the release documentation. See security advisory -<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:08</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug that could allow the kernel to attempt delivery of invalid signals has been -fixed. The bug could have led to a kernel panic or, under some circumstances, -unauthorized modification of kernel memory. For more information, see security advisory -<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:09.signal.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:09</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug in the iBCS2 emulation module, which could result in disclosing the contents of -kernel memory, has been fixed. This module is not enabled in FreeBSD by default. For more -information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:10.ibcs2.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:10</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A buffer management bug in <b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSH</b>, which could potentially -cause a crash, has been fixed. More information can be found in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:12</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A buffer overflow in <b class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b> has been fixed. More -information can be found in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:13.sendmail.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:13</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug that could allow the kernel to cause resource starvation which eventually -results in a system panic in the ARP cache code has been fixed. More information can be -found in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:14.arp.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:14</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Several errors in the <b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSH</b> PAM challenge/response -authentication subsystem have been fixed. The impacts of these bugs vary; details can be -found in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:15.openssh.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:15</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">procfs</span>(5)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=linprocfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">linprocfs</span>(5)</span></a>, -which could result in disclosing the contents of kernel memory, has been fixed. More -information can be found in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:17.procfs.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:17</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Four separate security flaws in <b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b>, which could allow -a remote attacker to crash an <b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b>-using application or to -execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application, have been fixed. More -information can be found in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:18</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A potential denial of service in <b class="APPLICATION">BIND</b> has been fixed. For -more information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:19.bind.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:19</a>. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="KERNEL" name="KERNEL">2.2 Kernel Changes</a></h3> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> driver's -CPU component now supports idle states C1-C3 for both single and SMP systems, providing -power/heat savings when the processor is idle, according to ACPI 2.0. Additionally, the -throttling support has been updated to ACPI 2.0.</p> - -<p>A bug that caused <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atkbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atkbd</span>(4)</span></a> to -register an AT keyboard during console initialization, even when no AT keyboard was -connected, has been fixed. <tt class="COMMAND">kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1</tt> is no longer -needed when only a USB keyboard is connected. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cx&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cx</span>(4)</span></a> driver for -Cronyx-Sigma serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this update, the -cxconfig userland configuration utility has been replaced by a newer <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sconfig</span>(8)</span></a> -utility.</p> - -<p>The DRM kernel modules have been updated from DRI CVS as of 12 November 2003. Among -other changes, this change includes a newly-ported SiS 300/305/540/630/730 driver and -mostly-complete SMPng locking.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dcons&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dcons</span>(4)</span></a> ``dumb -console'' driver has been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be accessed -over FireWire using the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dcons_crom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dcons_crom</span>(4)</span></a> -driver. A <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dconschat&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dconschat</span>(8)</span></a> -utility provides user access to <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dcons&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dcons</span>(4)</span></a> -devices.</p> - -<p>A multi-byte character set conversion method is now supported by the <var -class="LITERAL">LIBICONV</var> kernel option.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hifn&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hifn</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now supports symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=puc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">puc</span>(4)</span></a> PCI -Universal Communications driver now supports connecting parallel ports to the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ppc</span>(4)</span></a> -driver.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=safe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">safe</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators. [MERGED]</p> - -<div class="WARNING"> -<blockquote class="WARNING"> -<p><b>Warning:</b> This driver should be considered experimental and and should be used -with some caution.</p> -</blockquote> -</div> - -<div class="NOTE"> -<blockquote class="NOTE"> -<p><b>Note:</b> The public key support is not implemented.</p> -</blockquote> -</div> - -<br /> -<br /> -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uart&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">uart</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added to support various classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous -Receiver/Transmitter) devices. It is an analog of the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sio&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sio</span>(4)</span></a> driver -but supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary to support serial ports -on certain architectures, such as ia64 and sparc64.</p> - -<p>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented. For more information, see <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=watchdog&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">watchdog</span>(4)</span></a> and -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=watchdogd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">watchdogd</span>(8)</span></a>.</p> - -<p>The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible changes are a change in the -layout policy (from fixed-width striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O -throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number of swap devices, and a -reduction in memory overheads.</p> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="PROC" name="PROC">2.2.1 Platform-Specific Hardware -Support</a></h4> - -<p>Large changes have been made to the i386 machine-dependent code to improve interrupt -routing and handling, as well as SMP support. Two major user-visible changes are that SMP -kernels can run on UP systems and that SMP functionality is now enabled by default in the -<tt class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel. Also, the <var class="LITERAL">options -APIC_IO</var> kernel option has been replaced by <var class="LITERAL">device -apic</var>.</p> - -<p>An integer overflow that could cause kernel panics on PAE machines of certain large -memory sizes has been corrected.</p> - -<p>Floating point emulation in the kernel has been removed.</p> - -<p>Problems with some Pentium 4 CPUs and some older Pentium Pro and Pentium II CPUs have -been worked around. Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or -unexplained crashes.</p> - -<p>Logical CPUs (with HyperThreading) are now enabled according to BIOS settings -(previously, they were disabled by default and had to be enabled explicitly).</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="BOOT" name="BOOT">2.2.2 Boot Loader Changes</a></h4> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="NET-IF" name="NET-IF">2.2.3 Network Interface Support</a></h4> - -<p>The new <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath</span>(4)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath_hal&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath_hal</span>(4)</span></a> -drivers provide support for 802.11a/b/g devices based on the AR5210, AR5211, and AR5212 -chips.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bfe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bfe</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added to support Broadcom BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bge</span>(4)</span></a> now -supports Broadcom 5705 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bge</span>(4)</span></a> driver -that prevented it from working correctly at 10 Mbps has been fixed.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a> driver now -has support for tuning the interrupt delays using sysctl tunables without recompiling the -driver.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fatm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fatm</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added. This is a driver for NATM and NgATM that supports Fore/Marconi PCA200 ATM -cards.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=harp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">harp</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added. This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP, which attaches to -all NetGraph ATM interfaces in the system and presents a physical interface to the HARP -stack for each of these interfaces.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hatm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hatm</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added to support Fore/Marconi HE155 and HE622 ATM cards.</p> - -<p>The hfa driver has been updated to firmware version 4.1.12 and now supports a limited -number of CBR channels.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=patm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">patm</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added to support IDT77252 based ATM interfaces.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">re</span>(4)</span></a> driver has -been added. It provides support for the RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S -PCI Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet controllers.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sk</span>(4)</span></a> now -supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A new <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=utopia&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">utopia</span>(4)</span></a> driver -supports 25MBit/sec, 155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration, status -and statistics reporting for the most commonly used ATM-PHY chips.</p> - -<p>The suspend/resume support for the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">wi</span>(4)</span></a> driver now -works correctly when the device is configured down. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">wi</span>(4)</span></a> driver -should once again work correctly with Lucent 802.11b interfaces.</p> - -<p>The 802.11 support layer has been rewritten to allow for future growth and new -features.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">xe</span>(4)</span></a> driver now -supports CE2, CEM28, and CEM33 cards, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=multicast&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">multicast</span>(4)</span></a> -datagrams. Also several bugs in the driver have been fixed.</p> - -<p>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt handlers marked as MPSAFE, -meaning they can run without the Giant lock. Among the drivers so converted are: <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ep&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ep</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fxp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fxp</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sn&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sn</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">wi</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sis</span>(4)</span></a>.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="NET-PROTO" name="NET-PROTO">2.2.4 Network Protocols</a></h4> - -<p>The <var class="LITERAL">ip_flow</var> feature in the IPv4 protocol implementation has -been replaced by the <var class="LITERAL">ip_fastforward</var> feature. <var -class="LITERAL">ip_fastforward</var> attempts to speed up simple cases of packet -forwarding, processing a forwarded packet to an outgoing interface without queues or -netisrs. If it cannot handle a particular packet, it passes that packet to the normal -<var class="LITERAL">ip_input</var> routines for processing. This feature can be enabled -by setting the <var class="VARNAME">net.inet.ip.fastforwarding</var> sysctl variable to -<var class="LITERAL">1</var>.</p> - -<p>The <var class="LITERAL">IP_ONESBCAST</var> option has been added to enable undirected -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ip</span>(4)</span></a> broadcasts -to be sent to specific network interfaces.</p> - -<p>Enabling the <var class="LITERAL">options IPFILTER</var> feature also requires -enabling <var class="LITERAL">options PFIL_HOOKS</var>.</p> - -<p>A bug in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> limit -rule processing that could cause various panics has been fixed. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> rules -now support comma-separated address lists (such as <var class="LITERAL">1.2.3.4, -5.6.7.8/30, 9.10.11.12/22</var>), and allow spaces after commas to make lists of -addresses more readable. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> rules -now support C++-style comments. Each comment is stored together with its rule and appears -using the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> <var -class="LITERAL">show</var> command. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> can now -modify <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> rules in -set 31, which was read-only and used for the default rules. They can be deleted by <tt -class="COMMAND">ipfw delete set 31</tt> command but are not deleted by the <tt -class="COMMAND">ipfw flush</tt> command. This implements a flexible form of ``persistent -rules''. More details can be found in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a>. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_atmpif&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_atmpif</span>(4)</span></a> -NetGraph node type has been added. It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one -to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware.</p> - -<p>Kernel support has been added for Protocol Independent Multicast routing (<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pim&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pim</span>(4)</span></a>). -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The FreeBSD Bluetooth protocol stack has been updated:</p> - -<ul> -<li> -<p><b class="APPLICATION">libsdp</b> has been re-implemented under a BSD style license. -This is because the Linux BlueZ code is distributed under the GPL.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hccontrol&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hccontrol</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now supports four new commands: Read/Write_Page_Scan_Mode and -Read/Write_Page_Scan_Period_Mode.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hcsecd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hcsecd</span>(8)</span></a> daemon -now stores link keys on a disk. It is no longer required to pair devices every time.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p>A NetGraph timeout problem in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_hci&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_hci</span>(4)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_l2cap&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_l2cap</span>(4)</span></a> -kernel modules, which could cause access to a data structure that was already freed, has -been fixed.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_ubt&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_ubt</span>(4)</span></a> -module, which cannot be built on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, has been fixed.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rfcomm_sppd&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rfcomm_sppd</span>(1)</span></a> -and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rfcomm_pppd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rfcomm_pppd</span>(8)</span></a> -now support to query the RFCOMM channel via SDP from the server. Specifying the RFCOMM -channel manually, this behavior can be disabled and these utilities will not use SDP -query.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sdpcontrol&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sdpcontrol</span>(8)</span></a> -utility, which is analogous to the sdptool utility in the Linux BlueZ SDP package, has -been added.</p> -</li> -</ul> - -<p>A number of fixes and updates to the IPv6 and IPSec code have been imported from the -KAME Project.</p> - -<p>Support for the IPv6 Advanced Sockets API now conforms to RFC 3542 (also known as RFC -2292bis), rather than RFC 2292. Applications using this API have been updated -accordingly.</p> - -<p>Support for the source address selection part of RFC 3484 has been added. The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip6addrctl&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ip6addrctl</span>(8)</span></a> -utility can be used to configure the address selection policy.</p> - -<p>The <var class="LITERAL">tcp_hostcache</var> feature has been added to the TCP -implementation. It caches measured parameters of past TCP sessions to provide better -initial start values for following connections from or to the same source or destination. -Similar information that used to be stored in the routing table has been removed.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="DISKS" name="DISKS">2.2.5 Disks and Storage</a></h4> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=amr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">amr</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now has system crashdump support. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A major rework of the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been committed. One of the more notable changes is that the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver is -now out from under the Giant kernel lock. Note that ATA software RAID systems must now -include <var class="LITERAL">device ataraid</var> in their kernel configuration files, as -it is no longer automatically implied by <var class="LITERAL">device atadisk</var>.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ccd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ccd</span>(4)</span></a> can now -operate on raw disks and other <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> -providers.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=da&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">da</span>(4)</span></a> driver no -longer tries to send 6-byte commands to USB and FireWire devices. The quirks for these -devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been disabled; to restore the old -behavior, add <var class="LITERAL">options DA_OLD_QUIRKS</var> to the kernel -configuration. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Various <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> modules -can now be loaded as kernel modules, namely: <tt class="FILENAME">geom_apple</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">geom_bde</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">geom_bsd</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">geom_gpt</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">geom_mbr</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">geom_pc98</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">geom_sunlabel</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">geom_vol_ffs</tt>.</p> - -<p>A <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_FOX</var> module has been added to detect and select -between multiple redundant paths to the same device.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=matcd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">matcd</span>(4)</span></a> driver, -which supports the Matsushita CR-562 and CR-563 CD drives, has returned.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=twe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">twe</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now supports the 3ware generic API. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="FS" name="FS">2.2.6 File Systems</a></h4> - -<p>Multi-byte character conversion with the cd9660, msdosfs, ntfs, and udf filesystems is -now supported by including the <var class="LITERAL">CD9660_ICONV</var>, <var -class="LITERAL">MSDOSFS_ICONV</var>, <var class="LITERAL">NTFS_ICONV</var>, and <var -class="LITERAL">UDF_ICONV</var> kernel options, respectively.</p> - -<p>Some off-by-one errors in the smbfs that prevented it from working correctly with -15-character NetBIOS names have been fixed.</p> - -<p>The sizes of some members of the <var class="LITERAL">statfs</var> structure have -changed from 32 bits to 64 bits in order to better support multi-terabyte -filesystems.</p> - -<ul> -<li> -<p>Users performing source upgrades across this change must ensure that their kernel and -userland bits are in sync, by following the documented source upgrade procedures.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p>A backward compatibility version of the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=statfs&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">statfs</span>(2)</span></a> system -call exists but only if the <var class="LITERAL">COMPAT_FREEBSD4</var> kernel option is -defined. Including this option in the kernel is strongly encouraged.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p>Programs that use the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=statfs&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">statfs</span>(2)</span></a> will -need to be recompiled. Among the known examples are the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/gnomevfs2/pkg-descr"><tt -class="FILENAME">devel/gnomevfs2</tt></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/mail/postfix/pkg-descr"><tt -class="FILENAME">mail/postfix</tt></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/security/cfg/pkg-descr"><tt -class="FILENAME">security/cfg</tt></a> ports.</p> -</li> -</ul> - -<br /> -<br /> -<p>Support for NFSv4 has been added with the import of the University of Michigan's Citi -NFSv4 client implementation. More information can be found in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nfs4&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_nfs4</span>(8)</span></a> -and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=idmapd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">idmapd</span>(8)</span></a> manual -pages.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="MM" name="MM">2.2.7 Multimedia Support</a></h4> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="USERLAND" name="USERLAND">2.3 Userland Changes</a></h3> - -<p>The last bits of the i386-only, a.out compiler toolchain have been removed.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpiconf&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpiconf</span>(8)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">-i</var> option to print battery information.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpidb&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpidb</span>(8)</span></a>, an -ACPI DSDT debugger, has been added.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">arp</span>(8)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">-i</var> option to limit the scope of the current -operation to the ARP entries on a particular interface. This option applies to the -display operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous network interfaces. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=asf&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">asf</span>(8)</span></a> utility, -which helps load the symbol files from KLDs into a <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gdb&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gdb</span>(1)</span></a> debugging -environment, has been added.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atmconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atmconfig</span>(8)</span></a> -program has been added for configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM -functionality.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chroot&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">chroot</span>(8)</span></a> now -allows the optional setting of a user, primary group, or group list to use inside the -chroot environment via the <var class="OPTION">-u</var>, <var class="OPTION">-g</var>, -and <var class="OPTION">-G</var> options respectively. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">compat4x.i386</tt> libraries have been updated to correspond -to those available in FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE.</p> - -<p>The dev_mkdb utility is unnecessary due to the mandatory presence of devfs, and has -been removed.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dhclient</span>(8)</span></a> now -polls the state of network interfaces and only sends DHCP requests on interfaces that are -up. The polling interval can be controlled with the <var class="OPTION">-i</var> -option.</p> - -<p>The default mode for the <tt class="FILENAME">lost+found</tt> directory of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsck&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fsck</span>(8)</span></a> is now -<var class="LITERAL">0700</var> instead of <var class="LITERAL">01777</var>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsck_ffs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fsck_ffs</span>(8)</span></a> and -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">newfs</span>(8)</span></a> now -create a <tt class="FILENAME">.snap</tt> directory in the root directory of each -filesystem, with group <tt class="GROUPNAME">operator</tt>. <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsck_ffs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fsck_ffs</span>(8)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mksnap_ffs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mksnap_ffs</span>(8)</span></a>, -and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dump</span>(8)</span></a> will -write their filesystem snapshots to this directory. This change avoids locking access to -the root directory of a filesystem during snapshot creation and also helps non-<tt -class="USERNAME">root</tt> users create snapshots.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ffsinfo&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ffsinfo</span>(8)</span></a> -utility has been updated to understand UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iasl&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">iasl</span>(8)</span></a> utility, -a compiler/decompiler for ACPI Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine language (AML), has -been added.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">staticarp</var> option for an interface, which disables -the sending of ARP requests for that interface.</p> - -<p>A fix in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=initgroups&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">initgroups</span>(3)</span></a> -library function now causes logins to fail if the login process is unable to successfully -set the process credentials to include <span class="emphasis"><i -class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> groups defined for a user. The current kernel limit is 16 -groups; administrators may wish to check that users do not have more than 16 groups -defined, or they will be unable to log in.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> <var -class="LITERAL">list</var> and <var class="LITERAL">show</var> commands now support -ranges of rule numbers. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">-n</var> flag to test the syntax of commands without -actually changing anything. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kdump&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kdump</span>(1)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">-p</var> option to display only the trace events -corresponding to a specific process, as well as a new <var class="OPTION">-E</var> flag -to display timestamps relative to the start of the dump.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=last&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">last</span>(1)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">-n</var> flag to limit the number of lines in its output -report.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libalias</tt> library, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=natd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">natd</span>(8)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ppp</span>(8)</span></a> now -support Cisco Skinny Station protocol, which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to -talk to Cisco Call Managers. Note that currently having the Call Manager behind the NAT -gateway is not supported. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libcipher</tt> DES cryptography library has been removed. All -of its functionality is provided by the <tt class="FILENAME">libcrypto</tt> library, and -all base systems programs that used <tt class="FILENAME">libcipher</tt> have been -converted to use <tt class="FILENAME">libcrypto</tt> instead.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libkiconv</tt> library has been added to support working with -loadable character set conversion tables in the kernel.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libthr</tt> 1:1 threading library is now built by -default.</p> - -<p><tt class="FILENAME">libwrap</tt> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcpdchk&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tcpdchk</span>(8)</span></a> are -now configured to support the extended <b class="APPLICATION">tcp_wrappers</b> syntax by -default.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=locale&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">locale</span>(1)</span></a> -utility has been re-implemented and is now POSIX-compliant. A new <var -class="OPTION">-m</var> option shows all available codesets.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount</span>(8)</span></a> utility -now supports to display the filesystem ID for each file system in addition to the normal -information when a <var class="OPTION">-v</var> flag is specified, and the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=umount&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">umount</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now accepts the filesystem ID as well as the usual device and path names. This -allows to unambiguously specify which file system is to be unmounted even when two or -more file systems share the same device and mount point names.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_cd9660&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_cd9660</span>(8)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_ntfs</span>(8)</span></a>, -and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_udf&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_udf</span>(8)</span></a> -utilities now support a <var class="OPTION">-C</var> option to specify local character -sets to convert Unicode filenames. It is possible to specify multi-byte character sets -using this option.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_msdosfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_msdosfs</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now supports a <var class="OPTION">-M</var> option to specify the maximum file -permissions for directories in the file system. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_msdosfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_msdosfs</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now supports a <var class="OPTION">-D</var> option to specify MS-DOS codepages -and a <var class="OPTION">-L</var> option to specify local character sets. They are used -to convert character sets of filenames. The <tt -class="FILENAME">/usr/libdata/msdosfs</tt> tables have been retired.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nwfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_nwfs</span>(8)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_portalfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_portalfs</span>(8)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_smbfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_smbfs</span>(8)</span></a> -utilities have been moved from <tt class="FILENAME">/sbin</tt> to <tt -class="FILENAME">/usr/sbin</tt>.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nologin&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nologin</span>(8)</span></a> -program has been reimplemented in C (it was formerly a shell script).</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a> -variable <var class="VARNAME">ntpd_flags</var> for <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ntpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ntpd</span>(8)</span></a> now -includes <var class="OPTION">-f /var/db/ntpd.drift</var> by default.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pam_guest&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pam_guest</span>(8)</span></a> PAM -module has been added to allow guest logins. It replaces the pam_ftp(8) module.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ps</span>(1)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">top</span>(1)</span></a> now -support a <var class="OPTION">-H</var> flag to display all kernel-visible threads in each -process.</p> - -<p>A bug that <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rarpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rarpd</span>(8)</span></a> does -not recognize removable Ethernet NICs has been fixed.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=repquota&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">repquota</span>(8)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">-n</var> flag to display users and groups numerically.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtld&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rtld</span>(1)</span></a> now -includes ``libmap'' functionality by default; the <var class="VARNAME">WITH_LIBMAP</var> -compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More information can be found in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libmap.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">libmap.conf</span>(5)</span></a>.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=savecore&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">savecore</span>(8)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">-C</var> flag that merely indicates the existence or -absence of a coredump file.</p> - -<p>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary now that all kernels use ELF -format and there is no a.out format toolchain.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> -now gives the ability to select an alternate MTA during installation. Currently, <b -class="APPLICATION">exim</b> and <b class="APPLICATION">Postfix</b> are supported.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> no -longer supports system ``security profiles''; this feature has been replaced by -individual tuning knobs to enable and disable <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sshd</span>(8)</span></a> and set -the system securelevels.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=systat&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">systat</span>(1)</span></a> now -includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6 traffic. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uname&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">uname</span>(1)</span></a> now -supports a <var class="OPTION">-i</var> flag to return the kernel identification. This -name is also available via the <var class="VARNAME">kern.ident</var> sysctl variable.</p> - -<p>A number of utilities available in <tt class="FILENAME">/bin</tt> and <tt -class="FILENAME">/sbin</tt> are now available as a statically-linked ``crunched'' binary -that lives in <tt class="FILENAME">/rescue</tt>. This functionality is similar to the <tt -class="FILENAME">/stand</tt> directory installed by <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>, -but <tt class="FILENAME">/rescue</tt> includes more functionality and is updated as part -of <var class="LITERAL">buildworld</var>/<var class="LITERAL">installworld</var> -operations. More details can be found in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rescue&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rescue</span>(8)</span></a>.</p> - -<p>Many executables in <tt class="FILENAME">/bin</tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">/sbin</tt> -are now built using dynamic, rather than static linking. This feature brings support for -loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in those directories. It -also reduces the storage requirements for the root filesystem due to the use of shared -libraries. This feature can be disabled in a <var class="LITERAL">buildworld</var> by -defining the Makefile variable <var class="VARNAME">NO_DYNAMICROOT</var>. Note that -statically-linked, crunched executables are available in the <tt -class="FILENAME">/rescue</tt> directory for use during system repair and recovery -operations.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="CONTRIB" name="CONTRIB">2.4 Contributed Software</a></h3> - -<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">ACPI-CA</b> code has been updated from the 20030228 -snapshot to the 20030619 snapshot.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">amd</b> has been updated from 6.0.7 to 6.0.9.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">awk</b> from Bell Labs has been updated from a 14 March 2003 -snapshot to a 29 July 2003 snapshot.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">BIND</b> has been updated from 8.3.4 to 8.3.7. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">GCC</b> has been updated from 3.2.2 to a 3.3.3 post-release -snapshot from 6 November 2003.</p> - -<div class="NOTE"> -<blockquote class="NOTE"> -<p><b>Note:</b> Previous versions of <b class="APPLICATION">GCC</b> generated incorrect -code when <var class="LITERAL">-march=pentium4</var> optimization was enabled. This -problem is believed to have been fixed with this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for -the case of <var class="LITERAL">CPUTYPE=p4</var> has been removed.</p> -</blockquote> -</div> - -<br /> -<br /> -<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU Readline</b> has been updated from 4.2 to 4.3.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU Sort</b> has been updated from the version in textutils -2.0.21 to the version in textutils 2.1.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">Heimdal Kerberos</b> has been updated from 0.5.1 to 0.6.</p> - -<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">ISC DHCP</b> client has been updated from 3.0.1rc11 to -3.0.1rc12.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">lukemftp</b> has been updated from 1.6beta2 to a 11 November -2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenPAM</b> has been updated from the ``Dianthus'' release to -the ``Dogwood'' release.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b> has been updated from 0.9.7a to 0.9.7c. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b> has been updated from version 8.12.9 to version -8.12.10. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">texinfo</b> has been updated from 4.5 to 4.6. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The timezone database has been updated from the <tt class="FILENAME">tzdata2003a</tt> -release to the <tt class="FILENAME">tzdata2003d</tt> release. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="PORTS" name="PORTS">2.5 Ports/Packages Collection -Infrastructure</a></h3> - -<p>If <tt class="MAKEVAR">GNU_CONFIGURE</tt> is defined, all instances of <tt -class="FILENAME">config.guess</tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">config.sub</tt> found under -<tt class="FILENAME"><tt class="MAKEVAR">WRKDIR</tt></tt> are replaced with the master -versions from <tt class="FILENAME"><tt class="MAKEVAR">PORTSDIR</tt>/Template</tt>. This -allows old ports (which contain old versions of these scripts) to build on newer -architectures like ia64 and amd64.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="RELENG" name="RELENG">2.6 Release Engineering and -Integration</a></h3> - -<p>The supported release of <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> has been updated from 2.2.1 -to 2.4. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The supported release of <b class="APPLICATION">KDE</b> has been updated from 3.1.2 to -3.1.4. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="DOC" name="DOC">2.7 Documentation</a></h3> - -<p>To reduce duplication of information (and subsequent difficulty in maintaining -consistency), many instances of specific devices supported in the Hardware Notes have -been moved to system manual pages. This project is ongoing as of this release.</p> - -<p>A Turkish (tr_TR.ISO8859-9) translation project has been started.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="SECT1"> -<hr /> -<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="UPGRADE" name="UPGRADE">3 Upgrading from previous releases of -FreeBSD</a></h2> - -<p>Users with existing FreeBSD systems are <span class="emphasis"><i -class="EMPHASIS">highly</i></span> encouraged to read the ``Early Adopter's Guide to -FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE''. This document generally has the filename <tt -class="FILENAME">EARLY.TXT</tt> on the distribution media, or any other place that the -release notes can be found. It offers some notes on upgrading, but more importantly, also -discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to FreeBSD 5.<var -class="REPLACEABLE">X</var> versus running FreeBSD 4.<var -class="REPLACEABLE">X</var>.</p> - -<div class="IMPORTANT"> -<blockquote class="IMPORTANT"> -<p><b>Important:</b> Upgrading FreeBSD should, of course, only be attempted after backing -up <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> data and configuration -files.</p> -</blockquote> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr /> -<p align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related documents, can be -downloaded from <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</small></p> - -<p align="center"><small>For questions about FreeBSD, read the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">documentation</a> before contacting <<a -href="mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org">questions@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p> - -<p align="center"><small>For questions about this documentation, e-mail <<a -href="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p> - -<br /> -<br /> -</body> -</html> - |