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Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based -upon architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.</p> - -<p>Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their -products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and -the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed -by the “™” or the “®” symbol.</p> -</div> - -<div> -<div class="ABSTRACT"><a id="AEN23" name="AEN23"></a> -<p>The release notes for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the -FreeBSD base system on the 6-STABLE development line. 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="#BOOT">Boot Loader Changes</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.2 <a href="#PROC">Hardware Support</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.3 <a href="#NET-PROTO">Network Protocols</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.4 <a href="#DISKS">Disks and Storage</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.5 <a href="#FS">File Systems</a></dt> - -<dt>2.2.6 <a href="#AEN874">Contributed Software</a></dt> -</dl> -</dd> - -<dt>2.3 <a href="#USERLAND">Userland Changes</a></dt> - -<dd> -<dl> -<dt>2.3.1 <a href="#RC-SCRIPTS"><tt class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.d</tt> Scripts</a></dt> -</dl> -</dd> - -<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 6.0-RELEASE on the IA-64 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 6.0-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>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 6.0-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 the most user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD since -5.4-RELEASE. In general, changes described here are unique to the 6-STABLE branch unless -specifically marked as [MERGED] features.</p> - -<p>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after -5.4-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 bug in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fetch&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fetch</span>(1)</span></a> -utility, which allows a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's -memory to be overwritten, has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-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+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">linprocfs</span>(5)</span></a> -which could allow a malicious local user to read parts of kernel memory or perform a -local denial of service attack by causing a system panic, has been fixed. For more -information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Two buffer overflows in the TELNET client program have been corrected. They could have -allowed a malicious TELNET server or an active network attacker to cause <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=telnet&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">telnet</span>(1)</span></a> to -execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running it. More information can -be found in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>An information disclosure vulnerability in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sendfile&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sendfile</span>(2)</span></a> -system call, which could permit it to transmit random parts of kernel memory, has been -fixed. More details are in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:02.sendfile.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:02.sendfile</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>An information leak vulnerability in the <tt class="LITERAL">SIOCGIFCONF</tt> <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ioctl&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ioctl</span>(2)</span></a>, which -leaked 12 bytes of kernel memory, has been fixed. More details are in security advisory -<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:04.ifconf.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:04.ifconf</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Several programming errors in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cvs</span>(1)</span></a>, which -could potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed on CVS servers, have been -corrected. Further information can be found in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:05.cvs.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:05.cvs</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>An error in the default permissions on the <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/iir</tt> device -node, which allowed unprivileged local users can send commands to the hardware supported -by the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iir&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">iir</span>(4)</span></a> driver, -has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:06.iir</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug in the validation of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=i386_get_ldt&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">i386_get_ldt</span>(2)</span></a> -system call input arguments, which may allow kernel memory to be disclosed to a user -process, has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Several information disclosure vulnerabilities in various parts of the kernel have -been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:08.kmem.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:08.kmem</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tcpdump</span>(1)</span></a> -utility which allows a malicious remote user to cause a denial-of-service by using -specially crafted packets, has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:10.tcpdump.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:10.tcpdump</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Two problems in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gzip&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gzip</span>(1)</span></a> utility -have been fixed. These may allow a local user to modify permissions of arbitrary files -and overwrite arbitrary local files when uncompressing a file. For more information, see -security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:11.gzip.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:11.gzip</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug in <b class="APPLICATION">BIND 9</b> DNSSEC has been fixed. When DNSSEC is -enabled, this bug may allow a remote attacker to inject a specially crafted packet which -will cause <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">named</span>(8)</span></a> to -terminate. For more information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:12.bind9.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:12.bind9</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug has been fixed in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> that -could cause packets to be matched incorrectly against a lookup table. This bug only -affects SMP machines or UP machines that have the <tt class="LITERAL">PREEMPTION</tt> -kernel option enabled. More information is contained in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:13.ipfw.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:13.ipfw</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Two security-related problems have been fixed in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bzip2&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bzip2</span>(1)</span></a>. These -include a potential denial of service and unauthorized manipulation of file permissions. -For more information, see security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:14.bzip2.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:14.bzip2</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Two problems in FreeBSD's TCP stack have been fixed. They could allow attackers to -stall existing TCP connections, creating a denial-of-service situation. More information -is contained in security advisory <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:15.tcp.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-05:15.tcp</a>. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="KERNEL" name="KERNEL">2.2 Kernel Changes</a></h3> - -<p>The kernel debugger <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ddb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ddb</span>(4)</span></a> now -supports a <tt class="COMMAND">show alllocks</tt> command, which dumps a list of -processes and threads currently holding sleep mutexes (and spin mutexes for the current -thread). [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ichsmb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ichsmb</span>(4)</span></a> driver -is now available as a loadable kernel module.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a> feature -now supports a new sysctl <code class="VARNAME">security.jail.chflags_allowed</code>, -which controls the behavior of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chflags&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">chflags</span>(1)</span></a> -within a jail. If set to <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> (the default), then a jailed <tt -class="USERNAME">root</tt> user is treated as an unprivileged user; if set to <tt -class="LITERAL">1</tt>, then a jailed root user is treated the same as an unjailed <tt -class="USERNAME">root</tt> user. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A sysctl <code class="VARNAME">security.jail.getfsstatroot_only</code> has been -renamed to <code class="VARNAME">security.jail.enforce_statfs</code> and now supports the -following policies:</p> - -<div class="INFORMALTABLE"><a id="AEN154" name="AEN154"></a> -<table border="0" frame="void" class="CALSTABLE"> -<col width="1*" /> -<col width="3*" /> -<thead> -<tr> -<th>Value</th> -<th>Policy</th> -</tr> -</thead> - -<tbody> -<tr> -<td>0</td> -<td>Show all mount-points without any restrictions.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>1</td> -<td>Show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the mount-point's -path (for example, if the jail's chroot directory is <tt class="FILENAME">/jails/foo</tt> -and mount-point is <tt class="FILENAME">/jails/foo/usr/home</tt>, only <tt -class="FILENAME">/usr/home</tt> will be shown).</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>2</td> -<td>Show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.</td> -</tr> -</tbody> -</table> -</div> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=memguard&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">memguard</span>(9)</span></a>, a -kernel memory allocator designed to help detect “tamper-after-free” -scenarios, has been added. This must be explicitly enabled via <tt -class="LITERAL">options DEBUG_MEMGUARD</tt>, plus small kernel modifications. It is -generally intended for use by kernel developers.</p> - -<p><code class="VARNAME">struct ifnet</code> and the network interface API have been -changed. Due to ABI incompatibility, all drivers not in the FreeBSD base system need to -be updated to use the new API and recompiled.</p> - -<p>A number of bugs have been fixed in the ULE scheduler. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Fine-grained locking to allow much of the VFS stack to run without the Giant lock has -been added. This is enabled by default on the alpha, amd64, and i386 architectures, and -can be disabled by setting the loader tunable (and sysctl variable) <code -class="VARNAME">debug.mpsafevfs</code> to <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt>.</p> - -<p>System V IPC objects (message queues, semaphores, and shared memory) now have support -for Mandatory Access Control policies, notably <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_biba&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mac_biba</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_mls&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mac_mls</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_stub&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mac_stub</span>(4)</span></a>, and -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_test&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mac_test</span>(4)</span></a>.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysctl</span>(3)</span></a> MIBs -beginning with “debug” now require the kernel option <tt -class="LITERAL">options SYSCTL_DEBUG</tt>. This option is disabled by default.</p> - -<p>The generic <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tty&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tty</span>(4)</span></a> driver -interface has been added and many device drivers including <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cx&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cx</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}x</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cy&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cy</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}c</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=digi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">digi</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}D</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}m</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rp</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}R</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sab&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sab</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}z</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=si&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">si</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}A</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sio&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sio</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}d</tt>), sx (<tt class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}G</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uart&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">uart</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}u</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ubser&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ubser</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}y</tt>), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ucom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ucom</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}U</tt>), and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ucycom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ucycom</span>(4)</span></a> (<tt -class="LITERAL">{tty,cua}y</tt>) have been rewritten to use it. Note that <tt -class="FILENAME">/etc/remote</tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/ttys</tt> have been -updated as well.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vkbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vkbd</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added. This driver provides a software loopback mechanism that can implement a -virtual AT keyboard similar to what the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pty&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pty</span>(4)</span></a> driver -does for terminals.</p> - -<p>The default <code class="VARNAME">HZ</code> parameter (which controls various kernel -timers) has been increased from <tt class="LITERAL">100</tt> to <tt -class="LITERAL">1000</tt> on the i386 and ia64. It has been reduced from <tt -class="LITERAL">1024</tt> to <tt class="LITERAL">1000</tt> on the amd64 to reduce -synchronization effects with other system clocks.</p> - -<p>The maximum length of shell commands has changed from 128 bytes to <code -class="VARNAME">PAGE_SIZE</code>. By default, this value is either 4KB (i386, pc98, -amd64, and powerpc) or 8KB (sparc64 and ia64). As a result, compatibility modules need to -be rebuilt to stay synchronized with data structure changes in the kernel.</p> - -<p>A new tunable <code class="VARNAME">vm.blacklist</code> has been added. This can hold -a space or comma separated list of physical addresses. The pages containing these -physical addresses will not be added to the free list and thus will effectively be -ignored by the FreeBSD VM system. The physical addresses of any ignored pages are listed -in the message buffer as well.</p> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="BOOT" name="BOOT">2.2.1 Boot Loader Changes</a></h4> - -<p>The <tt class="COMMAND">autoboot</tt> loader command now supports the prompt -parameter.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="COMMAND">autoboot</tt> loader command will now prevent the user from -interrupting the boot process at all if the <code class="VARNAME">autoboot_delay</code> -variable is set to <tt class="LITERAL">-1</tt>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A loader menu option to set <code class="VARNAME">hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x1</code> has -been added. This setting allows USB keyboards to work if no PS/2 keyboard is -attached.</p> - -<p>The beastie boot menu has been disabled by default.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="PROC" name="PROC">2.2.2 Hardware Support</a></h4> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atkbdc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atkbdc</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atkbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atkbd</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=psm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">psm</span>(4)</span></a> drivers -have been rewritten in more bus-independent way, and now support the EBus found on the -sparc64 platform.</p> - -<p>A framework for flexible processor speed control has been added. It provides methods -for various drivers to control CPU power utilization by adjusting the processor speed. -More details can be found in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpufreq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cpufreq</span>(4)</span></a> -manual page. [MERGED] Currently supported drivers include ichss (Intel SpeedStep for -ICH), acpi_perf (ACPI CPU performance states), and acpi_throttle (ACPI CPU throttling). -The latter two drivers are contained in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> driver. -These can individually be disabled by setting device hints such as <code -class="VARNAME">hint.<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>ichss</i></tt>.0.disabled="1"</code>.</p> - -<p>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3 processors has been added to -the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">crypto</span>(9)</span></a> -subsystem.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hwpmc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hwpmc</span>(4)</span></a> -hardware performance monitoring counter driver has been added. This driver virtualizes -the hardware performance monitoring facilities in modern CPUs and provides support for -using these facilities from user level processes. For more details, see manual pages of -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hwpmc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hwpmc</span>(4)</span></a>, -associated libraries, and associated userland utilities.</p> - -<p>The pcii driver has been added to support GPIB-PCIIA IEEE-488 cards. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atkbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atkbd</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now supports a <tt class="LITERAL">0x8</tt> (bit 3) flag to disable testing the keyboard -port during the device probe as this can cause hangs on some machines, specifically -Compaq R3000Z series amd64 laptops.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=psm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">psm</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now has improved support for Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of -slow-speed movement and support for various extra buttons and dials. These features can -be tuned with the <code class="VARNAME">hw.psm.synaptics.<tt -class="REPLACEABLE"><i>*</i></tt></code> hierarchy of sysctl variables.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uftdi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">uftdi</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now supports the FTDI FT2232C chip.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uplcom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">uplcom</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now supports handling of the <tt class="LITERAL">CTS</tt> signal.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ehci&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ehci</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been improved.</p> - -<div class="SECT4"> -<hr /> -<h5 class="SECT4"><a id="MM" name="MM">2.2.2.1 Multimedia Support</a></h5> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_csa&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_csa</span>(4)</span></a> -driver now supports suspend and resume operation.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uaudio&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">uaudio</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now has some added functionality, including volume control on more inputs and recording -capability on some devices. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT4"> -<hr /> -<h5 class="SECT4"><a id="NET-IF" name="NET-IF">2.2.2.2 Network Interface Support</a></h5> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been updated to split the transmit rate control algorithm into a separate module. One -of <tt class="LITERAL">device ath_rate_onoe</tt>, <tt class="LITERAL">device -ath_rate_amrr</tt>, or <tt class="LITERAL">device ath_rate_sample</tt> must be included -in the kernel configuration when using the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath</span>(4)</span></a> -driver.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bge</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now supports the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> -framework, as well as the BCM5714, 5721, 5750, 5751, 5751M and 5789 chips. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cdce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cdce</span>(4)</span></a> USB -Communication Device Class Ethernet driver has been added. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cp</span>(4)</span></a> driver is now -MPSAFE. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ctau&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ctau</span>(4)</span></a> driver -is now MPSAFE. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cx&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cx</span>(4)</span></a> driver is now -MPSAFE. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dc</span>(4)</span></a> driver now -supports the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> -framework and is MPSAFE. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=de&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">de</span>(4)</span></a> driver is now -MPSAFE.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ed&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ed</span>(4)</span></a> driver now -supports the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> -framework. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ed&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ed</span>(4)</span></a> driver is now -MPSAFE.</p> - -<p>In the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a> driver, -hardware support for VLAN tagging is now disabled by default due to some interactions -between this feature and promiscuous mode. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Ethernet flow control is now disabled by default in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fxp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fxp</span>(4)</span></a> driver, -to prevent problems on a subnet when a system panics or is left in the kernel debugger. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The gx(4) driver has been removed because it is no longer maintained actively and the -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a> driver supports -all of the supported hardware.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hme</span>(4)</span></a> driver is -now MPSAFE. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipw</span>(4)</span></a> (for -Intel PRO/Wireless 2100), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">iwi</span>(4)</span></a> (for -Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG), <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ral&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ral</span>(4)</span></a> (for -Ralink Technology RT2500), and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ural&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ural</span>(4)</span></a> (for -Ralink Technology RT2500USB) drivers have been added.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ixgb</span>(4)</span></a> driver -is now MPSAFE. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The musycc driver, for the LanMedia LMC1504 T1/E1 network interface card, has been -removed due to disuse.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=my&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">my</span>(4)</span></a> driver is now -MPSAFE.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pcn&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pcn</span>(4)</span></a> driver is -now MPSAFE.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">re</span>(4)</span></a> driver now -supports the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> -framework. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sf</span>(4)</span></a> driver now has -support for device polling and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> and is -MPSAFE. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Several programming errors in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sk</span>(4)</span></a> driver have -been corrected. These bugs were particular to SMP systems, and could cause panics, page -faults, aborted SSH connections, or corrupted file transfers. More details can be found -in errata note <a -href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk</a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sk</span>(4)</span></a> driver now has -support for <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a>. This -driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based interfaces. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ste&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ste</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now has support for <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a>.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vge</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now has support for device polling (<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=polling&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">polling</span>(4)</span></a>).</p> - -<p>Support for 802.11 devices in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wlan&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">wlan</span>(4)</span></a> -framework has been greatly overhauled. In addition to architectural changes, it includes -completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x, WME/WMM, AP-side power-saving, and plugin -frameworks for cryptography modules, authenticators, and access control. Note in -particular that WEP now requires the <tt class="FILENAME">wlan_wep</tt> module to be -loaded (or compiled) into the kernel.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">xl</span>(4)</span></a> driver now -supports <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=polling&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">polling</span>(4)</span></a>. -[MERGED]</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="NET-PROTO" name="NET-PROTO">2.2.3 Network Protocols</a></h4> - -<p>The MTU feedback in IPv6 has been disabled when the sender writes data that must be -fragmented. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) has been implemented. CARP comes from -OpenBSD and allows multiple hosts to share an IP address, providing high availability and -load balancing. For more information, see the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">carp</span>(4)</span></a> manual -page. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=if_bridge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">if_bridge</span>(4)</span></a> -network bridging implementation, originally from NetBSD, has been added. It supports the -IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol, individual interface devices for each bridge, and -filtering of bridged packets. The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now supports configuration of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=if_bridge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">if_bridge</span>(4)</span></a>.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> <tt -class="LITERAL">IPDIVERT</tt> option is now available as a kernel loadable module. If -this module is not loaded, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> will -refuse to install <tt class="LITERAL">divert</tt> rules and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=natd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">natd</span>(8)</span></a> will -return the error message “protocol not supported”.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> system -can work with <code class="VARNAME">debug.mpsafenet</code>=<tt class="LITERAL">1</tt> -(this tunable is <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt> by default) when the <tt -class="LITERAL">gid</tt>, <tt class="LITERAL">jail</tt>, and/or <tt -class="LITERAL">uid</tt> rule options are used. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dummynet&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dummynet</span>(4)</span></a> -systems now support IPv6.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> now -supports classification and tagging of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> packets -via a divert socket. It is also possible to specify rules that match TCP packets with -specific payload sizes.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> <tt -class="LITERAL">ipfw fwd</tt> rule now supports the full packet destination manipulation -when the kernel option <tt class="LITERAL">options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED</tt> is -specified in addition to <tt class="LITERAL">options IPFIRWALL_FORWARD</tt>. This kernel -option disables all restrictions to ensure proper behavior for locally generated packets -and allows redirection of packets destined to locally configured IP addresses. Note that -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> rules -have to be carefully crafted to make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> system -now supports IPv4 only rules.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipnat&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipnat</span>(8)</span></a> now -allows redirect rules to work for non-TCP/UDP packets. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Ongoing work is reducing the use of the Giant lock by the network protocol stack and -improving the locking strategies.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libalias</tt> library can now be built as a kernel -module.</p> - -<p>The link state change notifications of network interfaces are sent to <tt -class="FILENAME">/dev/devctl</tt> now.</p> - -<p>A new <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> -NetGraph node provides a simple interface between the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netgraph&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">netgraph</span>(4)</span></a> -facilities.</p> - -<p>A new <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_nat&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_nat</span>(4)</span></a> -NetGraph node has been added to perform NAT functions.</p> - -<p>A new <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_netflow&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_netflow</span>(4)</span></a> -NetGraph node allows a router running FreeBSD to do NetFlow version 5 exports. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>A new <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_tcpmss&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_tcpmss</span>(4)</span></a> -NetGraph node has been added. This supports altering MSS options of TCP packets.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sppp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sppp</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now includes Frame Relay support. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sppp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sppp</span>(4)</span></a> driver -is now MPSAFE.</p> - -<p>The FreeBSD routing table now requires gateways for routes to be of the same address -family as the route itself. The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=route&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">route</span>(8)</span></a> utility -now rejects a combination of different address families. For example:</p> - -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> route add 10.1.1.1 -inet6 fe80::1%fxp0 -</pre> - -<p>The new sysctl <code class="VARNAME">net.link.tap.user_open</code> has been -implemented. This allows unprivileged access to <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tap&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tap</span>(4)</span></a> device -nodes based on file system permissions.</p> - -<p>A bug in TCP that sometimes caused RST packets to be ignored if the receive window was -zero bytes has been fixed. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <tt class="LITERAL">RST</tt> handling of the FreeBSD TCP stack has been improved -to make reset attacks as difficult as possible while maintaining compatibility with the -widest range of TCP stacks. The algorithm is as follows: For connections in the <tt -class="LITERAL">ESTABLISHED</tt> state, only resets with sequence numbers exactly -matching <code class="VARNAME">last_ack_sent</code> will cause a reset; all other -segments will be silently dropped. For connections in all other states, a reset anywhere -in the window will cause the connection to be reset. All other segments will be silently -dropped. Note that this behavior technically violates the RFC 793 specification; the -conventional (but less secure) behavior can be restored by setting a new sysctl <code -class="VARNAME">net.inet.tcp.insecure_rst</code> to <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt>. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>Several bugs in the TCP SACK implementation have been fixed. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed. This is because the design is based on a weak -security model that can easily permit denial-of-service attacks. This TCP extension has -been considered a defective one in a recent Internet Draft.</p> - -<p>The KAME IPv4 IPsec implementation integrated in FreeBSD now supports TCP-MD5. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>Random ephemeral port number allocation has led to some problems with port reuse at -high connection rates. This feature is now disabled during periods of high connection -rates; whenever new connections are created faster than <code -class="VARNAME">net.inet.ip.portrange.randomcps</code> per second, port number -randomization is disabled for the next <code -class="VARNAME">net.inet.ip.portrange.randomtime</code> seconds. The default values for -these two sysctl variables are <tt class="LITERAL">10</tt> and <tt -class="LITERAL">45</tt>, respectively. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>Fine-grained locking has been applied to many of the data structures in the IPX/SPX -protocol stack. While not fully MPSAFE at this point, it is generally safe to use IPX/SPX -without the Giant lock (in other words, the <code class="VARNAME">debug.mpsafenet</code> -sysctl variable may be set to <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt>).</p> - -<p>Unix domain sockets now support the <tt class="LITERAL">LOCAL_CREDS</tt> and <tt -class="LITERAL">LOCAL_CONNWAIT</tt> options. The <tt class="LITERAL">LOCAL_CREDS</tt> -option provides a mechanism for the receiver to receive the credentials of the process as -a <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=recvmsg&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">recvmsg</span>(2)</span></a> -control message. The <tt class="LITERAL">LOCAL_CONNWAIT</tt> option causes the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=connect&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">connect</span>(2)</span></a> -function to block until <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=accept&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">accept</span>(2)</span></a> has -been called on the listening socket. For more details, see the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=unix&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">unix</span>(4)</span></a> manual -page.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="DISKS" name="DISKS">2.2.4 Disks and Storage</a></h4> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=amr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">amr</span>(4)</span></a> driver is -now safe for use on systems using <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pae&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pae</span>(4)</span></a>. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arcmsr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">arcmsr</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been added. It supports the Areca ARC-11<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>xx</i></tt> and -ARC-12<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>xx</i></tt> series of SATA RAID controllers. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> family of -drivers has been overhauled and updated. It has been split into modules that can be -loaded and unloaded independently (the <tt class="FILENAME">atapci</tt> and <tt -class="FILENAME">ata</tt> modules are prerequisites for the device subdrivers, which are -<tt class="FILENAME">atadisk</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">atapicd</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">atapifd</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">atapist</tt>, and <tt -class="FILENAME">ataraid</tt>). On supported SATA controllers, devices can be hot -inserted/removed. ATA RAID support has been rewritten and supports a number of new -metadata formats. The <tt class="FILENAME">atapicd</tt> driver no longer supports CD -changers. This update has been referred to as “ATA mkIII”.</p> - -<p>The SHSEC GEOM class has been added. It provides for the sharing of a secret between -multiple GEOM providers. All of these providers must be present in order to reveal the -secret. This feature is controlled by the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gshsec&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gshsec</span>(8)</span></a> -utility. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been added. It uses the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">crypto</span>(9)</span></a> -framework for hardware acceleration and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geli</span>(8)</span></a> for more -information. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hptmv&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hptmv</span>(4)</span></a> driver, -which supports the HighPoint RocketRAID 182x series, has been added. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ips&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ips</span>(4)</span></a> driver -now support kernel crash dumps on some modern ServeRAID models. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=matcd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">matcd</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been removed. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The default SCSI boot-time probe delay in the <tt class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel -has been reduced from fifteen seconds to five seconds.</p> - -<p>The old vinum(4) subsystem has been removed in favor of the new <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a>-based -version.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=twa&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">twa</span>(4)</span></a> driver -has been updated to the 9.2 release (for FreeBSD 5.2.1) distributed from the 3ware -website.</p> - -<p>Information about newly-mounted cd9660 file systems (such as the presence of RockRidge -extensions) is now only printed if the kernel was booted in verbose mode. This change was -made to reduce the amount of (generally unnecessary) kernel log messages. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="FS" name="FS">2.2.5 File Systems</a></h4> - -<p>Recomputing the summary information for “dirty” UFS and UFS2 file systems -is no longer done at mount time, but is now done by background <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsck&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fsck</span>(8)</span></a>. This -change improves the startup speed when mounting large file systems after a crash. The -prior behavior can be restored by setting the <code -class="VARNAME">vfs.ffs.compute_summary_at_mount</code> sysctl variable to a non-zero -value. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More details can be found in errata -note <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc" -target="_top">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</a>. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="AEN874" name="AEN874">2.2.6 Contributed Software</a></h4> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">ACPI-CA</b> has been updated from 20040527 to 20041119. -[MERGED]</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="USERLAND" name="USERLAND">2.3 Userland Changes</a></h3> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdiff&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bsdiff</span>(1)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bspatch&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bspatch</span>(1)</span></a> -binary diff and binary patching tools have been added.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=burncd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">burncd</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now allows commands (such as <tt class="COMMAND">eject</tt>) to take place after -fixating a disk.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chflags&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">chflags</span>(1)</span></a> -utility now supports the <code class="OPTION">-h</code> flag, which supports changing -flags on symbolic links.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=env&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">env</span>(1)</span></a> program -now supports a <code class="OPTION">-v</code> flag to write the command to standard error -before it is executed.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=env&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">env</span>(1)</span></a> program -now supports a <code class="OPTION">-S <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>string</i></tt></code> -option to split the <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>string</i></tt> and pass them to the -command as the command-line arguments.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=env&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">env</span>(1)</span></a> program -now supports a <code class="OPTION">-P <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>altpath</i></tt></code> -option to set the command search path used to look for the command.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ftpd</span>(8)</span></a> program -now uses the <tt class="LITERAL">212</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">213</tt> status codes -for directory and file status correctly (<tt class="LITERAL">211</tt> was used in the -previous versions). This behavior is described in RFC 959. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <tt class="LITERAL">create</tt> command of the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpt&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gpt</span>(8)</span></a> utility -now supports a <code class="OPTION">-f</code> command-line flag to force creation of a -GPT even when there is an MBR record on a disk. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getaddrinfo</span>(3)</span></a> -function now queries <tt class="LITERAL">A</tt> DNS resource records before <tt -class="LITERAL">AAAA</tt> records when <tt class="LITERAL">AF_UNSPEC</tt> is specified. -Some broken DNS servers return <tt class="LITERAL">NXDOMAIN</tt> against non-existent <tt -class="LITERAL">AAAA</tt> queries, even when it should return <tt -class="LITERAL">NOERROR</tt> with empty return records. This is a problem for an -IPv4/IPv6 dual stack node because the <tt class="LITERAL">NXDOMAIN</tt> returned by the -first query of an <tt class="LITERAL">AAAA</tt> record makes the querying server stop -attempting to resolve the <tt class="LITERAL">A</tt> record if any. Also, this behavior -has been recognized as a potential denial-of-service attack (see <a -href="http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/714121" -target="_top">http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/714121</a> for more details). Note that -although the query order has been changed, the returned result still includes <tt -class="LITERAL">AF_INET6</tt> records before <tt class="LITERAL">AF_INET</tt> records. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gethostbyname&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">gethostbyname</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gethostbyname2&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">gethostbyname2</span>(3)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gethostbyaddr&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gethostbyaddr</span>(3)</span></a> -functions are now thread-safe. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getnetent&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getnetent</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getnetbyname&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getnetbyname</span>(3)</span></a>, -and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getnetbyaddr&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getnetbyaddr</span>(3)</span></a> -functions are now thread-safe. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getprotoent&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getprotoent</span>(3)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getprotobyname&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">getprotobyname</span>(3)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getprotobynumber&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">getprotobynumber</span>(3)</span></a> functions are now -thread-safe. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getservent&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getservent</span>(3)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getservbyname&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">getservbyname</span>(3)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getservbyport&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getservbyport</span>(3)</span></a> -functions are now thread-safe. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (also known as POSIX 2001), the <code -class="VARNAME">n_net</code> member of <code class="VARNAME">struct netent</code> and the -first argument of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getnetbyaddr&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getnetbyaddr</span>(3)</span></a> -has been changed to an <tt class="LITERAL">uint32_t</tt>. Due to these changes, the ABI -on 64-bit platforms is incompatible with previous releases of FreeBSD and the major -version number of the <tt class="FILENAME">libpcap</tt> shared library has been bumped. -On 64-bit platforms being upgraded from older FreeBSD versions, all userland programs -that use <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getnetbyaddr&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getnetbyaddr</span>(3)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getnetbyname&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getnetbyname</span>(3)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getnetent&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getnetent</span>(3)</span></a>, -and/or <tt class="FILENAME">libpcap</tt> have to be recompiled.</p> - -<p>The gvinum(8) utility now supports the <tt class="COMMAND">checkparity</tt>, <tt -class="COMMAND">rebuildparity</tt>, and <tt class="COMMAND">setstate</tt> subcommands. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> -utility has been restructured. It is now more modular and flexible with respect to -supporting interface-specific functionality. The 802.11 support has been updated to -support recent changes to the 802.11 subsystem and drivers.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-tunnel</code> parameter, which is just an -alias for <code class="OPTION">deletetunnel</code>, yet is more convenient and easier to -type.</p> - -<p>The <code class="OPTION">-vlandev</code> parameter to <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> no -longer requires a network interface as its argument. The argument still is supported for -backward compatibility, but now it is deprecated and its use is discouraged.</p> - -<p>Support for abbreviated forms of a number of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> options -has been deprecated. Warnings are printed to stderr indicating the correct full form when -one of these abbreviations is detected.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kldstat&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kldstat</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-m</code> option to return the status of a -specific kernel module. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The on-disk format of <tt class="LITERAL">LC_CTYPE</tt> files has been changed to be -machine-independent.</p> - -<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">libkvm</b> now supports ELF crash dumps on amd64 and i386 -platforms, large crash dumps (more than 4GB) on 32-bit platforms, and PAE crash dumps on -i386 platform.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mixer&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mixer</span>(8)</span></a> utility -now supports the <code class="OPTION">-S</code> option. This is the same as the <code -class="OPTION">-s</code> option but does not output mixing field separators.</p> - -<p>A bug in the <tt class="FILENAME">libalias</tt> library which causes a core dump when -the <code class="OPTION">-reverse</code> option is specified in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=natd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">natd</span>(8)</span></a> has been -fixed.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libarchive</tt> library (as well as the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tar</span>(1)</span></a> command -that uses it) now has support for reading ISO images (with optional RockRidge extensions) -and ZIP archives (with <tt class="LITERAL">deflate</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">none</tt> -compression). [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libarchive</tt> library now supports handling a ZIP archive -entry with more than 4GB compressed size (ZIP64 extension) and Unix extension.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libgpib</tt> library has been added to give userland access -to GPIB devices (using the the pcii driver) via the <code class="FUNCTION">ib<tt -class="REPLACEABLE"><i>foo</i></tt></code> API. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The default stack sizes in <tt class="FILENAME">libpthread</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">libthr</tt>, and <tt class="FILENAME">libc_r</tt> have been increased. -On 32-bit platforms, the main thread receives a 2MB stack size by default, with other -threads receiving a 1MB stack size by default. On 64-bit platforms, the default stack -sizes are 4MB and 2MB respectively. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">libxpg4</tt> library has been removed because all of its -functionality was long ago merged into <tt class="FILENAME">libc</tt>. All binaries -linked with <tt class="FILENAME">libxpg4</tt> must be recompiled or use <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libmap.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">libmap.conf</span>(5)</span></a>. -Note that the FreeBSD base system has no such binaries.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">lpd</span>(8)</span></a> program -now checks to make sure the data file has been completely transfered before starting to -print it when a data file received from some other host. Some implementations of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lpr&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">lpr</span>(1)</span></a> send the -control file for a print job before sending the matching data files, which can cause -problems if the receiving host is a busy print-server. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A number of new functions have been implemented in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=math&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">math</span>(3)</span></a> library. -These include <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ceill&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ceill</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=floorl&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">floorl</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ilogbl&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ilogbl</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fma&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fma</span>(3)</span></a> and -variants, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lrint&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">lrint</span>(3)</span></a> and -variants, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lround&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">lround</span>(3)</span></a> and -variants. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mknod&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mknod</span>(8)</span></a> utility -is now deprecated. Device nodes have been managed by the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">devfs</span>(5)</span></a> device -file system since FreeBSD 5.0.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=moused&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">moused</span>(8)</span></a> daemon -now supports “virtual scrolling”, in which mouse motions made while holding -down the middle mouse button are interpreted as scrolling. This feature is enabled with -the <code class="OPTION">-V</code> flag. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A separate directory has been added for <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">named</span>(8)</span></a> dynamic -zones which is owned by the <tt class="USERNAME">bind</tt> user (for creation of the zone -journal file). For more detail, see an example dynamic zone in the sample <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=named.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">named.conf</span>(5)</span></a>. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ncal&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ncal</span>(1)</span></a> utility -now supports a <code class="OPTION">-m</code> flag to generate a calendar for a specified -month in the current year. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">newfs</span>(8)</span></a> utility -now supports a <code class="OPTION">-n</code> flag to suppress the creation of a <tt -class="FILENAME">.snap</tt> directory on new file systems. This feature is intended for -use on memory or vnode file systems that will not require snapshot support. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">newfs</span>(8)</span></a> utility -now emits a warning when creating a UFS or UFS2 file system that cannot support -snapshots. This situation can occur in the case of very large file systems with small -block sizes. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newsyslog&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">newsyslog</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-d</code> option to specify an alternate root -for log files similar to <code class="VARNAME">DESTDIR</code> in the BSD make process. -This only affects log file paths, not configuration file (<code class="OPTION">-f</code>) -or archive directory (<code class="OPTION">-a</code>) paths.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newsyslog&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">newsyslog</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now supports a option <code class="OPTION">-N</code> that causes it not to rotate -any files.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="LITERAL">NO_NIS</tt> compile-time knob for userland has been added. As -its name implies, enabling this <tt class="FILENAME">Makefile</tt> variable will cause -NIS support to be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS utilities to not -be built. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>For years, FreeBSD has used <tt class="FILENAME">Makefile</tt> variables of the form -<code class="VARNAME">NO<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>FOO</i></tt></code> and <code -class="VARNAME">NO_<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>FOO</i></tt></code>. For consistency, those -variables using the former naming convention have been converted to the <code -class="VARNAME">NO_<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>FOO</i></tt></code> form. The file <tt -class="FILENAME">/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk</tt> has a complete list of these variables; -it also implements some temporary backward compatibility for the old names.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=periodic&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">periodic</span>(8)</span></a> -security output now supports the display of information about blocked packet counts from -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pf</span>(4)</span></a>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pgrep</span>(1)</span></a> command -now supports a <code class="OPTION">-S</code> option which allows matching system -processes (kernel threads).</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pgrep</span>(1)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkill</span>(1)</span></a> -commands now support a <code class="OPTION">-F</code> option, which matches a process -whose PID is stored in a file.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pgrep</span>(1)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkill</span>(1)</span></a> -commands now support a <code class="OPTION">-i</code> option to ignore case in the -process match.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pgrep</span>(1)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkill</span>(1)</span></a> -commands now support a <code class="OPTION">-j</code> option that matches processes based -on their <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(2)</span></a> ID.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pgrep</span>(1)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkill</span>(1)</span></a> -commands now support a <code class="OPTION">-o</code> option which matches only the -oldest (least recently started) of the matching processes.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsnap&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">portsnap</span>(8)</span></a> -utility for downloading, updating, and extracting compressed snapshots of the FreeBSD -ports tree has been added.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=powerd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">powerd</span>(8)</span></a> -program for managing power consumption has been added.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ppp</span>(8)</span></a> program -now implements an <code class="OPTION">echo</code> parameter, which allows LCP ECHOs to -be enabled independently of LQR reports. Older versions of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ppp</span>(8)</span></a> would -revert to LCP ECHO mode on negotiation failure. It is now necessary to specify <tt -class="COMMAND">enable echo</tt> to get this behavior. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <code class="OPTION">disable NAS-IP-Address</code> and <code -class="OPTION">disable NAS-Identifier</code> options, which support pre-RFC 2865 RADIUS -servers have been added to the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ppp</span>(8)</span></a> -program.</p> - -<p>Two bugs in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pppd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pppd</span>(8)</span></a> program -have been fixed. They may result in an incorrect CBCP response, which violates the -Microsoft PPP Callback Control Protocol section 3.2. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ps</span>(1)</span></a> utility now -supports a <tt class="LITERAL">jid</tt> keyword in the <code class="OPTION">-o</code> -option. It displays the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(2)</span></a> ID of -each process.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pstat&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pstat</span>(8)</span></a> program -now supports a <code class="OPTION">-h</code> option to print swap sizes with SI prefixes -such as K, M, and G, which are used to form binary multiples.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rescue&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rescue</span>(8)</span></a> -utilities in the <tt class="FILENAME">/rescue</tt> directory now include <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdtar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bsdtar</span>(1)</span></a> -instead of GNU tar.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">restore</span>(8)</span></a> -utility has regained the ability to read FreeBSD version 1 dump tapes. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>A bug of the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rexecd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rexecd</span>(8)</span></a> -utility which results in it behaving as if the <code class="OPTION">-i</code> option is -always specified has been fixed. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rexecd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rexecd</span>(8)</span></a> -utility has been removed. There are no rexec clients in the FreeBSD tree, and the client -function <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rexec&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rexec</span>(3)</span></a> is -present only in <tt class="FILENAME">libcompat</tt>.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rm&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rm</span>(1)</span></a> utility now -supports an <code class="OPTION">-I</code> option that asks for confirmation (once) if -recursively removing directories or if more than 3 files are listed in the command line. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rm&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rm</span>(1)</span></a> utility now -suppresses diagnostic messages when it attempts to remove a non-existent directory with -the <code class="OPTION">-r</code> and <code class="OPTION">-f</code> options specified. -This behavior is required by Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3).</p> - -<p>The following ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard functions have been implemented: <code -class="FUNCTION">roundl()</code>, <code class="FUNCTION">lroundl()</code>, <code -class="FUNCTION">llroundl()</code>, <code class="FUNCTION">truncl()</code>, and <code -class="FUNCTION">floorl()</code>.</p> - -<p>An <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rpmatch&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rpmatch</span>(3)</span></a> -library function has been added to check a string for being an affirmative or negative -response in the current locale.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtld&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rtld</span>(1)</span></a> dynamic -linker now supports specifying library replacements via the <code -class="VARNAME">LD_LIBMAP</code> environment variable. This variable will override the -entries in <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libmap.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">libmap.conf</span>(5)</span></a>. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The rune(3) non-standard multibyte and wide character support interface has been -removed.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sed&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sed</span>(1)</span></a> now -supports a <code class="OPTION">-l</code> option to make its output line-buffered. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">strftime</span>(3)</span></a> -function now supports some GNU extensions such as <tt class="LITERAL">-</tt> (no -padding), <tt class="LITERAL">_</tt> (use space as padding), and <tt -class="LITERAL">0</tt> (zero padding). [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslog&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">syslog</span>(3)</span></a> -function is now thread-safe. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">syslogd</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now opens an additional domain socket (<tt class="FILENAME">/var/run/logpriv</tt> -by default), with <tt class="LITERAL">0600</tt> permissions to be used by privileged -programs. This prevents privileged programs from locking when the domain sockets run out -of buffer space due to a local denial-of-service attack. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">syslogd</span>(8)</span></a> now -supports the <code class="OPTION">-S</code> option, which changes the pathname of the -privileged socket. This is useful for preventing the daemon from receiving any messages -from the local sockets (<tt class="FILENAME">/var/run/log</tt> and <tt -class="FILENAME">/var/run/logpriv</tt> are used by default). [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">syslogd</span>(8)</span></a> -utility now allows <tt class="LITERAL">:</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">%</tt> characters -in the hostname specifications. These characters are used in IPv6 addresses and scope -IDs. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=systat&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">systat</span>(1)</span></a> <code -class="OPTION">-netstat</code> display is now IPv6-aware. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <code class="OPTION">-f</code> option of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tail&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tail</span>(1)</span></a> utility -now supports more than one file at a time. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=telnet&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">telnet</span>(1)</span></a> and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=telnetd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">telnetd</span>(8)</span></a> -programs now support the <code class="OPTION">-S</code> option for specifying a numeric -TOS byte.</p> - -<p>Prepending a <tt class="LITERAL">+</tt> character to port numbers passed to <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=telnet&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">telnet</span>(1)</span></a> -program will now disable option negotiation and allow the transfer of characters with the -high bit set. This feature is intended to support the fairly common use of <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=telnet&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">telnet</span>(1)</span></a> as a -protocol tester.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcpdrop&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tcpdrop</span>(8)</span></a> -command, which closes a selected TCP connection, has been added. It was obtained from -OpenBSD. [MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=what&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">what</span>(1)</span></a> now -supports a <code class="OPTION">-q</code> flag, which causes it to print matching text, -but not format it.</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=whois&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">whois</span>(1)</span></a> now -supports a <code class="OPTION">-k</code> flag for querying <tt -class="HOSTID">whois.krnic.net</tt> (the National Internet Development Agency of Korea), -which holds details of IP address allocations within Korea. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <code class="OPTION">-I</code> option of the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xargs&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">xargs</span>(1)</span></a> command -has been changed to conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2004. The standard requires that the -constructed arguments cannot grow larger than 255 bytes.</p> - -<p>A bug, which caused the last line of configuration files such as <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hosts&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hosts</span>(5)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=services&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">services</span>(5)</span></a>, and -so on to be ignored if it did not end in a newline character, has been fixed. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>A new system user/group <tt class="USERNAME">_dhcp</tt> has been added to support <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dhclient</span>(8)</span></a> from -OpenBSD.</p> - -<div class="SECT3"> -<hr /> -<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="RC-SCRIPTS" name="RC-SCRIPTS">2.3.1 <tt -class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.d</tt> Scripts</a></h4> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">rc.d/bsnmpd</tt> startup script for <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsnmpd&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bsnmpd</span>(1)</span></a> has -been added.</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">rc.d/jail</tt> startup script now supports <code -class="VARNAME">jail_<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>_flags</code> variable which -allows to specify <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a> flags. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a> now -supports changes of network interface names at boot time. [MERGED] For example:</p> - -<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING"> -ifconfig_fxp0_name="net0" -ifconfig_net0="inet 10.0.0.1/16" -</pre> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">rc.d/moused</tt> script now starts/stops/checks a specific -device when the device name is given as the second argument to the script:</p> - -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> /etc/rc.d/moused start ums0 -</pre> - -<p>To use different <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a> knobs -with different mice, use the device name as part of the knob. For example, if the mouse -device is <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/ums0</tt> the following lines can be used:</p> - -<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING"> -moused_ums0_enable=yes -moused_ums0_flags="-z 4" -moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0" -</pre> - -<p><a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a> now -supports the <code class="VARNAME">tmpmfs_flags</code> and <code -class="VARNAME">varmfs_flags</code> variables. These can be used to pass extra options to -the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdmfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mdmfs</span>(8)</span></a> -utility, to customize the finer details of the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=md&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">md</span>(4)</span></a> file system -creation, such as to turn on/off softupdates, to specify a default owner for the file -system, and so on. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The following scripts have been removed because they were NetBSD specific and never -used in FreeBSD: <tt class="FILENAME">altqd</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">dhcpd</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">dhcrelay</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">downinterfaces</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">gated</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">ifwatchd</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">kdc</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">lkm1</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">lkm2</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">lkm3</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">mixerctl</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">mopd</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">mountall</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">ndbootd</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">network</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">poffd</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">postfix</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">ppp</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">racoon</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">raidframe</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">rbootd</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">rtsold</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">screenblank</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">swap2</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">sysdb</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">wscons</tt>, <tt -class="FILENAME">xdm</tt>, and <tt class="FILENAME">xfs</tt></p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="CONTRIB" name="CONTRIB">2.4 Contributed Software</a></h3> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">awk</b> has been updated from the 7 February 2004 release to -the 24 April 2005 release.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">BIND</b> has been updated from version 9.3.0 to version 9.3.1. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">bsnmp</b> has been updated from 1.7 to 1.10.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">bzip2</b> has been updated from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenBSD dhclient</b> as of OpenBSD 3.7 has been imported. It -replaces the ISC DHCP client used in prior versions of FreeBSD.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">FILE</b> has been updated from 4.10 to 4.12.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU GCC</b> has been updated from from 3.4.2-prerelease as of -28 July, 2004 to 3.4.4.</p> - -<p>A number of bug fixes and performance enhancements have been added to <b -class="APPLICATION">GNU grep</b> in the form of patches from Fedora's grep-2.5.1-48 -source RPM.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU readline</b> has been updated from version 4.3 to version -5.0.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">IPFilter</b> has been updated from 3.4.35 to 4.1.18.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">Heimdal</b> has been updated from 0.6.1 to 0.6.3. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">hostapd</b> v0.3.9 has been imported. This is a user space -IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator and RADIUS authentication -server. For more details, see <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hostapd</span>(8)</span></a>.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">libpcap</b> has been updated from v0.8.3 to v0.9.1 (alpha -096).</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">libregex</b> has been updated from a snapshot from <b -class="APPLICATION">GNU grep</b> 2.5.1 to a snapshot from the <tt -class="LITERAL">fedora-glibc-2_3_4-21</tt> tag in the <b class="APPLICATION">glibc</b> -CVS repository.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">libz</b> has been updated from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">lukemftp</b> has been updated from a 26 April 2004 snapshot -from NetBSD's sources to a snapshot as of 16 May 2005.</p> - -<p>A snapshot of <b class="APPLICATION">netcat</b> from OpenBSD as of 4 February 2005 has -been added. More information can be found in the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nc&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"><span - class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nc</span>(1)</span></a> manual page. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">NgATM</b> has been updated from 1.0 to 1.2.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenPAM</b> has been updated from the Eelgrass release to the -Figwort release.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSH</b> has been updated from 3.8p1 to 4.1p1.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b> has been updated from 0.9.7d to 0.9.7e. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">pf</b> has been updated from the version included with <b -class="APPLICATION">OpenBSD</b> 3.5 to the version included with <b -class="APPLICATION">OpenBSD</b> 3.7.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b> has been updated from version 8.13.3 to version -8.13.4. It now supports <tt class="LITERAL">OSTYPE(freebsd6)</tt>.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">tcpdump</b> has been updated from v3.8.3 to v3.9.1 (alpha -096).</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">tcsh</b> has been updated from 6.13.00 to 6.14.00.</p> - -<p><b class="APPLICATION">texinfo</b> has been updated from 4.6 to 4.8.</p> - -<p>The timezone database has been updated from the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2004e</b> -release to the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2004g</b> release. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">WPA Supplicant</b> v0.3.9 has been imported. This provides -WPA Supplicant component of WPA/IEEE 802.11i features. For more details, see <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">wpa_supplicant</span>(8)</span></a>.</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="PORTS" name="PORTS">2.5 Ports/Packages Collection -Infrastructure</a></h3> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_create&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_create</span>(1)</span></a> -utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-R</code> flag. When creating a package file -from the locally installed package, it creates package files for all packages on which -that locally installed package depends if this flag is specified.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_version&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_version</span>(1)</span></a> -utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-q</code> flag to suppress the output of the -port version comparison characters <tt class="LITERAL"><</tt>, <tt -class="LITERAL">=</tt>, and <tt class="LITERAL">></tt>.</p> - -<p>The <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_version&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_version</span>(1)</span></a> -utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-I</code> flag, which causes only the <tt -class="FILENAME">INDEX</tt> file to be used for determining if a package is out of date. -[MERGED]</p> - -<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">ports/INDEX<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>*</i></tt></tt> files, -which kept an index of all of the entries in the ports collection, have been removed from -the CVS repository. [MERGED] These files were generated only infrequently, and therefore -were usually out-of-date and inaccurate. Users requiring an index file (such as for use -by programs such as <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portupgrade&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">portupgrade</span>(1)</span></a>) -have two alternatives for obtaining a copy:</p> - -<ul> -<li> -<p>Build an index file based on the current ports tree by running <tt -class="COMMAND">make index</tt> from the top of the <tt class="FILENAME">ports/</tt> -tree.</p> -</li> - -<li> -<p>Fetch an index file over the network by running <tt class="COMMAND">make -fetchindex</tt> from the top of the <tt class="FILENAME">ports/</tt> tree. This index -file will (typically) be accurate to within a day.</p> -</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="RELENG" name="RELENG">2.6 Release Engineering and -Integration</a></h3> - -<p>In prior FreeBSD releases, the <tt class="FILENAME">disc1</tt> CD-ROM (or ISO image) -was a bootable installation disk containing the base system, ports tree, and common -packages. The <tt class="FILENAME">disc2</tt> CD-ROM (or ISO image) was a bootable -“fix it” disk with a live filesystem, to be used for making emergency -repairs. This layout has now changed. For all architectures except ia64, the <tt -class="FILENAME">disc1</tt> image now contains the base system distribution files, ports -tree, and the live filesystem, making it suitable for both an initial installation and -repair purposes. (On the ia64, the live filesystem is on a separate disk due to its -size.) Packages appear on separate disks; in particular, the <tt -class="FILENAME">disc2</tt> image contains commonly packages such as desktop -environments. Documents from the FreeBSD Documentation Project also appear on <tt -class="FILENAME">disc2</tt>. [MERGED]</p> - -<p>The supported version of the <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> desktop environment has -been updated from 2.6.2 to 2.10.2. More information about running <b -class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> on FreeBSD can be found on the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/" target="_top">FreeBSD GNOME Project</a> Web page. -[MERGED]</p> - -<div class="NOTE"> -<blockquote class="NOTE"> -<p><b>Note:</b> Users of older versions of the <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> desktop -(<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/gnome2/pkg-descr"><tt -class="FILENAME">x11/gnome2</tt></a>) must take particular care in upgrading. Simply -upgrading it from the FreeBSD Ports Collection with <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portupgrade&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">portupgrade</span>(1)</span></a> -(<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/portupgrade/pkg-descr"><tt -class="FILENAME">sysutils/portupgrade</tt></a>) will cause serious problems. <b -class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> desktop users should read the instructions carefully at <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq210.html" -target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq210.html</a> and use the <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh" target="_top"><tt -class="FILENAME">gnome_upgrade.sh</tt></a> script to properly upgrade to <b -class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> 2.10.</p> -</blockquote> -</div> - -<br /> -<br /> -<p>The supported version of the <b class="APPLICATION">KDE</b> desktop environment has -been updated from 3.3.0 to 3.4.2. More information regarding running <b -class="APPLICATION">KDE</b> on FreeBSD can be found on the <a -href="http://freebsd.kde.org/" target="_top">KDE on FreeBSD</a> Web page. [MERGED]</p> - -<div class="NOTE"> -<blockquote class="NOTE"> -<p><b>Note:</b> Users of older versions of <b class="APPLICATION">KDE</b> should follow -the upgrading procedure documented on the <a href="http://freebsd.kde.org/" -target="_top">KDE on FreeBSD</a> Web page or in <tt -class="FILENAME">ports/UPDATING</tt>.</p> -</blockquote> -</div> - -<br /> -<br /> -<p>The supported version of <b class="APPLICATION">Xorg</b> has been updated from 6.7.0 -to 6.8.2. [MERGED]</p> -</div> - -<div class="SECT2"> -<hr /> -<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="DOC" name="DOC">2.7 Documentation</a></h3> - -<p>Documentation of existing functionality has been improved by the addition of the -following manual pages: <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi_ibm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpi_ibm</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi_sony&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpi_sony</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ataraid&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ataraid</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bus_space&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bus_space</span>(9)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=central&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">central</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=clkbrd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">clkbrd</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=creator&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">creator</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">devfs.conf</span>(5)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs.rules&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">devfs.rules</span>(5)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ebus&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ebus</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=eeprom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">eeprom</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fhc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fhc</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=machfb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">machfb</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ofw_console&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ofw_console</span>(4)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=openfirm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">openfirm</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=openprom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">openprom</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pmap_page_init&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">pmap_page_init</span>(9)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pthread_atfork&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">pthread_atfork</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rtc</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sbus&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sbus</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sched_4bsd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sched_4bsd</span>(4)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sched_ule&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sched_ule</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_fm801&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_fm801</span>(4)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_neomagic&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_neomagic</span>(4)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_t4dwave&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_t4dwave</span>(4)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_via8233&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_via8233</span>(4)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_via82c686&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_via82c686</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_vibes&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_vibes</span>(4)</span></a>.</p> - -<p>Manual pages in the base system have received a number of cleanups, both for content -and presentation. Cross-references are more correct and consistent, standard section -headings are now used throughout, and markup has been cleaned up.</p> - -<p>The following manual pages, which were derived from RFCs and possibly violate the -IETF's copyrights, have been replaced: <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gai_strerror&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gai_strerror</span>(3)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getaddrinfo</span>(3)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getnameinfo&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getnameinfo</span>(3)</span></a>, -<a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=inet6_opt_init&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">inet6_opt_init</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=inet6_option_space&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">inet6_option_space</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=inet6_rth_space&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">inet6_rth_space</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=inet6_rthdr_space&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span -class="REFENTRYTITLE">inet6_rthdr_space</span>(3)</span></a>, <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=icmp6&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">icmp6</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a -href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip6&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> -<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ip6</span>(4)</span></a>. -[MERGED]</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>Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE are only supported from FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE or -later. Users of older systems wanting to upgrade 6.0-RELEASE will need to update to -FreeBSD 5.3 or newer first, then to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE.</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> -</body> -</html> - |