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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="AEN25" name="AEN25"></a> +<p>The release notes for FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the +FreeBSD base system on the 6.2-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> +</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 6.2-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 6.2-RELEASE is a release distribution. It can be found at +<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/" +target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/</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 6.2-RELEASE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="NEW" name="NEW">2 What's New</a></h2> + +<p>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD since +6.1-RELEASE.</p> + +<p>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after +6.1-RELEASE, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, +or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or +release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change +made to FreeBSD between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, +user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements.</p> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="SECURITY" name="SECURITY">2.1 Security Advisories</a></h3> + +<p>A bug in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ypserv&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ypserv</span>(8)</span></a>, which +effectively disabled the <tt class="FILENAME">/var/yp/securenets</tt> access control +mechanism, has been corrected. More details are available in security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:15.ypserv.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:15.ypserv</a>.</p> + +<p>A bug in the smbfs file system, which could allow an attacker to escape out of <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chroot&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">chroot</span>(2)</span></a> +environments on an smbfs mounted filesystem, has been fixed. For more details, see +security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs</a>.</p> + +<p>A potential denial of service problem in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sendmail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sendmail</span>(8)</span></a> +caused by excessive recursion which leads to stack exhaustion when attempting delivery of +a malformed MIME message, has been fixed. For more details, see security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail</a>.</p> + +<p>A potential buffer overflow condition in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sppp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sppp</span>(4)</span></a> has been +corrected. For more details, see security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:18.ppp.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:18.ppp</a>.</p> + +<p>An OpenSSL bug related to validation of PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures has been fixed. For +more details, see security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:19.openssl.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:19.openssl</a>.</p> + +<p>A potential denial of service attack against <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">named</span>(8)</span></a> has +been fixed. For more details, see security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind</a>.</p> + +<p>Several programming errors have been fixed in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gzip&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gzip</span>(1)</span></a>. They +could have the effect of causing a crash or an infinite loop when decompressing files. +More information can be found in security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:21.gzip.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:21.gzip</a>.</p> + +<p>Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in OpenSSH. More details can be found in +security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:22.openssh.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:22.openssh</a>.</p> + +<p>Multiple errors in the OpenSSL <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">crypto</span>(3)</span></a> +library have been fixed. Potential effects are varied, and are documented in more detail +in security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl</a>.</p> + +<p>A bug that could permit corrupt archives to cause an infinite loop in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libarchive&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">libarchive</span>(3)</span></a> +and <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tar</span>(1)</span></a> has been +fixed. More details are available in <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive</a>.</p> + +<p>A bug that could allow users in the <tt class="GROUPNAME">operator</tt> group to read +parts of kernel memory has been corrected. For more details, consult security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem</a>.</p> + +<p>A bug in the <tt class="FILENAME">jail</tt> startup script that could permit privilege +escalation via a symlink attack has been fixed. More information is available in <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail</a>.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="KERNEL" name="KERNEL">2.2 Kernel Changes</a></h3> + +<p>Security event auditing is now supported in the FreeBSD kernel, and is enabled by the +<tt class="LITERAL">AUDIT</tt> kernel configuration option. More information can be found +in the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=audit&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">audit</span>(4)</span></a> manual +page.</p> + +<p>Several workarounds for bugs in the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tty&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tty</span>(4)</span></a> layer +have been added; these changes prevent a variety of observed kernel panics.</p> + +<p>A bug has been fixed in the statistics-keeping code in the kernel's UMA memory +allocator. This caused a count of memory allocation failures (as shown by <tt +class="COMMAND">netstat -m</tt>) to increase erroneously.</p> + +<p>FreeBSD now runs on the Xbox, whose architecture is nearly identical to the i386. For +details of the latest development, see <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/xbox.html" +target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/xbox.html</a>.</p> + +<div class="SECT3"> +<hr /> +<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="BOOT" name="BOOT">2.2.1 Boot Loader Changes</a></h4> +</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=amdsmb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">amdsmb</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been added. It provides support for the AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 controller.</p> + +<p>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3, Eden, and C7 processors has +been added to the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">crypto</span>(9)</span></a> +subsystem. More information can be found in the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=padlock&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">padlock</span>(4)</span></a> +manual page.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nfsmb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nfsmb</span>(4)</span></a> driver, +which supports the NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus 2.0 controller, has been added.</p> + +<div class="SECT4"> +<hr /> +<h5 class="SECT4"><a id="MM" name="MM">2.2.2.1 Multimedia Support</a></h5> +</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+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been updated to HAL version 0.9.17.2.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath</span>(4)</span></a>, <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath_hal&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath_hal</span>(4)</span></a>, and +<tt class="LITERAL">ath_rate_sample</tt> drivers have been included in the <tt +class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel by default.</p> + +<p>Some improvements have been made to the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bce</span>(4)</span></a> driver to +improve its stability. One user-visible aspect of these changes is that transmit-side +checksum offload involving IP fragments has been disabled, because it was not handled +correctly by the hardware.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been +updated to version 6.2.9 from Intel. Among other changes, it adds support for a number of +new adapters. Compiling the driver with the <tt class="LITERAL">EM_FAST_INTR</tt> +preprocesor symbol defined will enable optional “fast interrupt” processing. +“Fast interrupt” processing, as implemented in this version of the driver, +has been shown to yield significant performance improvements in some cases, but has been +linked to stability issues in other cases.</p> + +<p>A number of improvements and bugfixes have been made to the functionality of the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">iwi</span>(4)</span></a> driver. +This driver now requires the firmware image in the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod/pkg-descr"><tt +class="FILENAME">net/iwi-firmware-kmod</tt></a> port/package; prior versions of this +driver used the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/iwi-firmware/pkg-descr"><tt +class="FILENAME">net/iwi-firmware</tt></a> port/package.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=my&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">my</span>(4)</span></a> driver now has +<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> +support.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nve&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nve</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been updated to version 1.0-0310 (23-Nov-2005). It also now has <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> +support.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sk</span>(4)</span></a> driver is now +MPSAFE.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=stge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">stge</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been added. It supports the Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet controller and +was ported from NetBSD.</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>Multiple copies of a packet received via different <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bpf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bpf</span>(4)</span></a> listeners +now all have identical timestamps.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=enc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">enc</span>(4)</span></a> IPsec +filtering pseudo-device has been added. It allows firewall packages using the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pfil&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pfil</span>(9)</span></a> +framework to examine (and filter) IPsec traffic before outbound encryption and after +inbound decryption.</p> + +<p>The sysctl variables <code class="VARNAME">net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</code> +and <code class="VARNAME">net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow</code> can be used with IPv6 +now.</p> + +<p>The <tt class="LITERAL">IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED</tt> kernel option has been +removed. This option was used to permit <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> to +redirect packets with local destinations. This behavior is now always enabled when the +<tt class="LITERAL">IPFIREWALL_FORWARD</tt> kernel option is enabled.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> packet +filter now supports <tt class="LITERAL">tag</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">untag</tt> rule +keywords. When a packet matches a rule with the <tt class="LITERAL">tag</tt> keyword, the +numeric tag for the given number in the range from 0 to 65535 will be attached to the +packet. The tag acts as an internal marker (it is not sent out over the wire) that can be +used to identify these packets later on, for example, by using <tt +class="LITERAL">tagged</tt> rule option. For more details, see <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a>.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_ether&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_ether</span>(4)</span></a> +Netgraph node no longer overwrites the MAC address of outgoing frames by default.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_tag&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_tag</span>(4)</span></a> +Netgraph node has been added to support the manipulation of mbuf tags attached to data in +the kernel.</p> + +<p>Support for <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kqueue</span>(2)</span></a> +operations has been added to the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tun&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tun</span>(4)</span></a> +driver.</p> + +<p>FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE contained a bug in the IPv6 implementation, which caused spurious +error messages to be printed for point-to-point interfaces. This problem has been +corrected.</p> + +<p>IPv6 link-local addresses are now enabled only if <code +class="VARNAME">ipv6_enable</code> is set in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a>.</p> + +<p>A bug that prevented <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">carp</span>(4)</span></a> from +working correctly in some IPv6 environments has been fixed.</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=arcmsr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">arcmsr</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been updated to version 1.20.00.13.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver +now supports USB mass storage class devices. To enable it, a line <tt +class="LITERAL">device atausb</tt> in the kernel configuration file or loading the <tt +class="FILENAME">atausb</tt> kernel module is needed. Note that this functionality cannot +coexist with the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">umass</span>(4)</span></a> +driver.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been updated to reflect the version in FreeBSD CURRENT.</p> + +<p><a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geli</span>(8)</span></a> is now +able to perform data integrity verification (data authentication) of encrypted data +stored on disk. Note that the encryption algorithm is now specified to the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geli</span>(8)</span></a> control +program using the <code class="OPTION">-e</code> option; the <code +class="OPTION">-a</code> option is now used to specify the authentication algorithm.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=isp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">isp</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been updated to reflect the version in FreeBSD CURRENT.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT3"> +<hr /> +<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="FS" name="FS">2.2.5 File Systems</a></h4> + +<p>Several bugs related to locking have been fixed in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">devfs</span>(5)</span></a>. These +fixes prevent several observed deadlock conditions.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=linsysfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">linsysfs</span>(5)</span></a> +pseudo-filesystem driver has been added. It provides a subset of the Linux <tt +class="FILENAME">sys</tt> filesystem, and is required for the correct operation of some +Linux binaries (such as the LSI MegaRAID SAS utility).</p> + +<p>A deadlock observed when both quotas and snapshots were in use on a file system on +FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE has been corrected.</p> + +<p>A performance regression with NFS servers running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, caused by a +leak of the Giant kernel lock, has been fixed.</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=asf&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">asf</span>(8)</span></a> utility +has been revised and extended. Now it can operate via several interfaces including <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kvm&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kvm</span>(3)</span></a>, which +supports not only live systems, but also kernel crash dumps.</p> + +<p>The OpenBSM userland tools, including <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=audit&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">audit</span>(8)</span></a>, <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=auditd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">auditd</span>(8)</span></a>, <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=auditreduce&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">auditreduce</span>(1)</span></a>, +and <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=praudit&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">praudit</span>(1)</span></a>, have +been added.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cp&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cp</span>(1)</span></a> utility now +supports a <code class="OPTION">-l</code> option, which causes it to create hardlinks to +the source files instead of copying them.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=csup&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">csup</span>(1)</span></a> utility +has been imported. This is an implementation of a CVSup-compatible client written in the +C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode only.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dhclient</span>(8)</span></a> +program now sends the host's name in DHCP requests if it is not specified in the +configuration file.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=du&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">du</span>(1)</span></a> program now +supports a <code class="OPTION">-n</code> flag, which causes it to ignore files and +directories with the <tt class="LITERAL">nodump</tt> flag set.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">find</span>(1)</span></a> program +now supports <code class="OPTION">-Btime</code> and other related primaries, which can be +used to create expressions based on a file's creation time.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span +class="REFENTRYTITLE">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a> utility, a tool for managing +binary updates to the FreeBSD base system, has been added.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsdb&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fsdb</span>(8)</span></a> utility +now supports changing the birth time of files on UFS2 file systems using the new <tt +class="LITERAL">btime</tt> command.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsdb&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fsdb</span>(8)</span></a> program +now supports a <tt class="LITERAL">findblk</tt> command, which finds the inode(s) owning +a specific disk block.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getent&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getent</span>(1)</span></a> +utility has been imported from NetBSD. It retrieves and displays information from an +administrative database (such as <tt class="FILENAME">hosts</tt>) using the lookup order +specified in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nsswitch.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span +class="REFENTRYTITLE">nsswitch.conf</span>(5)</span></a>.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=id&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">id</span>(1)</span></a> utility now +supports a <code class="OPTION">-A</code> flag to print process audit properties, +including the audit user id.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iostat&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">iostat</span>(8)</span></a> +utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-x</code> flag (inspired by Solaris) to print +extended disk statistics. If the new <code class="OPTION">-z</code> flag is also +specified, no output is made for disks with no activity.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a> program +now supports a <code class="OPTION">-s</code> option to specify a jail's securelevel.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jexec&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jexec</span>(8)</span></a> utility +now supports <code class="OPTION">-u</code> and <code class="OPTION">-U</code> flags to +specify username credentials under which a command should be executed.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=logger&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">logger</span>(1)</span></a> +utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-P</code>, which specifies the port to which +syslog messages should be sent.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ls&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ls</span>(1)</span></a> utility now +supports an <code class="OPTION">-U</code> flag to use the file creation time for +sorting.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount</span>(8)</span></a> utility +now supports a <tt class="LITERAL">late</tt> keyword in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstab&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fstab</span>(5)</span></a>, along +with a corresponding <code class="OPTION">-l</code> command-line option to specify that +these “late” file systems should be mounted.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ping&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ping</span>(8)</span></a> command +now supports a <code class="OPTION">-W</code> option to specify the maximum time to wait +for an echo reply.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkill</span>(1)</span></a> utility +(also known as <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pgrep</span>(1)</span></a>) has +been moved from <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/bin</tt> to <tt class="FILENAME">/bin</tt> so +that it can be used by startup scripts. Symbolic links from its former location have been +created for backward compatibliity.</p> + +<p>An extensible implementation of <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=printf&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">printf</span>(3)</span></a>, +compatible with GLIBC, has been added to <tt class="FILENAME">libc</tt>. It is only used +if the environment variable <code class="VARNAME">USE_XPRINTF</code> is defined, one of +the extension functions is called, or the global variable <code +class="VARNAME">__use_xprintf</code> is set to a value greater than <tt +class="LITERAL">0</tt>. Five extensions are currently supported: <tt +class="LITERAL">%H</tt> (hex dump), <tt class="LITERAL">%T</tt> (<code +class="VARNAME">time_t</code> and time-related structures), <tt class="LITERAL">%M</tt> +(errno message), <tt class="LITERAL">%Q</tt> (double-quoted, escaped string), <tt +class="LITERAL">%V</tt> (<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strvis&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">strvis</span>(3)</span></a>-format +string),</p> + +<p>The DNS resolver library in FreeBSD's <b class="APPLICATION">libc</b> has been updated +to that from BIND 9.3.3.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tail&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tail</span>(1)</span></a> utility +now supports a <code class="OPTION">-q</code> flag to suppress header lines when multiple +files are specified.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=traceroute&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">traceroute</span>(8)</span></a> +program now supports a <code class="OPTION">-D</code> flag, which causes it to display +the differences between the sent and received packets.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=traceroute&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">traceroute</span>(8)</span></a> +utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-e</code> option, which sets a fixed +destination port for probe packets. This can be useful for tracing behind +packet-filtering firewalls.</p> + +<p><a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=traceroute&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">traceroute</span>(8)</span></a> +now decodes the complete set of ICMP unreachable messages in its output.</p> + +<p>The compiler toolchain is now capable of generating executables for systems using the +ARM processor.</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">auditd</tt> script for OpenBSM <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=auditd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">auditd</span>(8)</span></a> has +been added.</p> + +<p>A bug in the <tt class="FILENAME">rc.d/jail</tt> startup script, which caused a number +of problems for users attempting to use jails on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, has been +corrected.</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">BIND</b> has been updated from 9.3.1 to 9.3.3.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">GCC</b> has been updated from 3.4.4 to 3.4.6.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">IPFilter</b> has been updated from 4.1.8 to 4.1.13.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">less</b> has been updated from v381 to v394.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">libpcap</b> has been updated from 0.9.1 to 0.9.4.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">lukemftpd</b> has been updated from a snapshot from NetBSD as +of 9 August 2004 to a snapshot from NetBSD as of 31 August 2006.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">netcat</b> has been updated from the version in a 4 February +2005 OpenBSD snapshot to the version included in OpenBSD 3.9.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSH</b> has been updated from 4.2p1 to 4.5p1.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b> has been updated from 8.13.6 to 8.13.8.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">tcpdump</b> has been updated from 3.9.1 to 3.9.4.</p> + +<p>The timezone database has been updated from the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2005r</b> +release to the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2006g</b> release.</p> + +<p>TrustedBSD <b class="APPLICATION">OpenBSM</b>, version 1.0 alpha 12, an implementation +of the documented Sun Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit API and file format, as well as +local extensions to support the Mac OS X and FreeBSD operating systems has been added. +This also includes command line tools for audit trail reduction and conversion to text, +as well as documentation of the commands, file format, and APIs. For this functionality, +the <tt class="LITERAL">AUDIT</tt> kernel option, <tt class="FILENAME">/var/audit</tt> +directory, and <tt class="LITERAL">audit</tt> group have been added.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">zlib</b> has been updated from version 1.2.2 to version +1.2.3.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="PORTS" name="PORTS">2.5 Ports/Packages Collection +Infrastructure</a></h3> + +<p><a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_add</span>(1)</span></a> now +supports an <code class="OPTION">-F</code> flag to disable checking whether the same +package is already installed or not.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="RELENG" name="RELENG">2.6 Release Engineering and +Integration</a></h3> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> +utility now displays the running FreeBSD version in menu titles.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> +program contained a bug that could prevent it from installing a kernel if no distribution +was explicitly selected at install-time. This bug has now been fixed.</p> + +<p>A bug in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> +that sometimes prevented package installs from multiple CDROM volumes has been fixed.</p> + +<p>A <tt class="FILENAME">/media</tt> directory has been added to contain mount points +for removable media such as CDROMs, floppy disks, USB drives, and so on.</p> + +<p>The supported version of the <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> desktop environment (<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/gnome2/pkg-descr"><tt +class="FILENAME">x11/gnome2</tt></a>) has been updated from 2.12.3 to 2.16.1. As a part +of this update, the default prefix for <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> (and some related +programs) has moved from <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/X11R6</tt> to <tt +class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>. This version of <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> also +adds support for the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), which provides features such as +auto-mounting removable media, auto-playing CDs, and more integrated power control.</p> + +<p>The supported version of the <b class="APPLICATION">KDE</b> desktop environment (<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/kde3/pkg-descr"><tt +class="FILENAME">x11/kde3</tt></a>) has been updated from 3.5.1 to 3.5.4.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="DOC" name="DOC">2.7 Documentation</a></h3> + +<p>The manual pages for <b class="APPLICATION">NTP</b> have been updated to 4.2.0, to +match the version of code actually included in FreeBSD.</p> + +<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=nanobsd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nanobsd</span>(8)</span></a>, <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysctl</span>(9)</span></a>.</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 6.2-RELEASE are only supported from FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE or +later. Users of older systems wanting to upgrade 6.2-RELEASE will need to update to +FreeBSD 5.3 or newer first, then to FreeBSD 6.2-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="http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/</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>All users of FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE should subscribe to the <<a +href="mailto:stable@FreeBSD.org">stable@FreeBSD.org</a>> mailing list.</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> + |