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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 UltraSPARC +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>The loader tunable <code class="VARNAME">debug.mpsafevm</code> has been enabled by +default. [MERGED]</p> + +<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 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>The following device drivers have been added and enabled by default in the <tt +class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel: <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>, +creator(4), machfb(4), <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syscons&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">syscons</span>(4)</span></a>, <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ohci&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ohci</span>(4)</span></a>, <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>, <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ukbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ukbd</span>(4)</span></a>, <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ums&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ums</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">usb</span>(4)</span></a>.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=auxio&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">auxio</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been added; it supports some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus <span +class="TRADEMARK">UltraSPARC</span>® models. [MERGED]</p> + +<p>The clkbrd driver has been added to support the <tt class="LITERAL">clock-board</tt> +device frequently found on Sun E<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>xx</i></tt>00 servers.</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 rtc driver has been added to support the MC146818-compatible clock found on some +<span class="TRADEMARK">UltraSPARC</span> II and III models. [MERGED]</p> + +<p>The <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> driver +is now enabled in the <tt class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel, and is now the default +driver for serial ports. The <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> +and <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> drivers +are now disabled in the <tt class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel. [MERGED]</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> + +<p>The zs driver has been removed in favor of the <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> +driver.</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_audiocs&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_audiocs</span>(4)</span></a> +driver has been added to support the Crystal Semiconductor CS4231 audio controller found +on <span class="TRADEMARK">UltraSPARC</span> workstations. [MERGED]</p> + +<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=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> + |