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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="AEN26" name="AEN26"></a> +<p>The release notes for FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the +FreeBSD base system on the 6.3-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 6.3-RELEASE on the NEC PC-98x1 +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 6.3-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 6.3-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 +6.2-RELEASE.</p> + +<p>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after +6.2-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>Two remote denials of service in BIND (one involving DNSSEC and one involving +recursive DNS queries) have been fixed. For more information, see security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind</a>.</p> + +<p>Processing of IPv6 type 0 Routing Headers is now controlled by the <code +class="VARNAME">net.inet6.ip6.rthdr0_allowed</code> sysctl variable, which defaults to +<tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> (off). For more information, see security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6</a>.</p> + +<p>Problems with <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libarchive&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-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+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tar</span>(1)</span></a> handling +corrupted <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tar</span>(5)</span></a> archive +files have been fixed. More details can be found in security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive</a>.</p> + +<p>A buffer overflow in OpenSSL (fixed incorrectly in a previously security patch) has +been corrected. More details can be found in security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:08.openssl.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-07:08.openssl</a>.</p> + +<p>An flaw that could lead to the disclosure of previously-generated <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">random</span>(4)</span></a> data +has been corrected. Information regarding this issue can be found in security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:09.random.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-07:09.random</a>.</p> + +<p>Information disclosure issues found in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=openpty&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">openpty</span>(3)</span></a> and +<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ptsname&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ptsname</span>(3)</span></a> have +been corrected. Information regarding this issue can be found in security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:01.pty.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-08:01.pty</a>.</p> + +<p>A programming error in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=inet_network&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">inet_network</span>(3)</span></a> +Internet address manipulation function that could lead to overwriting a region of memory +with user defined data has been corrected. Information regarding this issue can be found +in security advisory <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc</a>.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="KERNEL" name="KERNEL">2.2 Kernel Changes</a></h3> + +<p><a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> now has +support for the HPET time counter.</p> + +<p>Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and Extended Message Signaled Interrupts +(MSI-X) has been added to the kernel's PCI support code.</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>An <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi_dock&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpi_dock</span>(4)</span></a> +driver has been added to provide support for controlling laptop docking station functions +via ACPI.</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_envy24&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_envy24</span>(4)</span></a> +driver has been added to support the Envy24 series of audio chips.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_envy24ht&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_envy24ht</span>(4)</span></a> +driver has been added to support the VIA Envy24HT series of audio chips.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_hda&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_hda</span>(4)</span></a> +driver has been added. It supports devices that conform to revision 1.0 of the Intel High +Definition Audio specification.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_spicds&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_spicds</span>(4)</span></a> +driver has been added to support I2S SPI audio codec chips.</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+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ath</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been updated to HAL version 0.9.20.3.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=axe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">axe</span>(4)</span></a> driver +now supports <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-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=cxgb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cxgb</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been added. It provides support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Chelsio +T3 and T3B chipsets.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=edsc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">edsc</span>(4)</span></a> driver, +which provides Ethernet discard network interfaces, has been added.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been +updated to version 6.7.2 from Intel.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=msk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">msk</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been added. It supports network interfaces using the Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II +Gigabit Ethernet controller.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vge</span>(4)</span></a> driver +now supports <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a>.</p> + +<p>The 802.11 protocol stack now has support for 900 MHz cards, as well as quarter- and +half-channel support for 802.11a.</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 <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=if_bridge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">if_bridge</span>(4)</span></a> +driver now supports RSTP, the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w).</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lagg&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">lagg</span>(4)</span></a> driver, +ported from OpenBSD and NetBSD, has been added to support a variety of protocols and +algorithms for link aggregation, failover, and fault tolerance.</p> + +<p>A new <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_deflate&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_deflate</span>(4)</span></a> +NetGraph node type has been added. It implements Deflate PPP compression.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_ppp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_ppp</span>(4)</span></a> +Netgraph node is now MPSAFE.</p> + +<p>A new <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_pred1&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_pred1</span>(4)</span></a> +NetGraph node type has been added to implement Predictor-1 PPP compression.</p> + +<p>A bug which prevented FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE from running IPv6 correctly over <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gif</span>(4)</span></a> tunnels +has been fixed.</p> + +<p>The <code class="VARNAME">net.link.tap.up_on_open</code> sysctl variable has been +added to the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tap&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tap</span>(4)</span></a> driver. +If enabled, new tap devices will marked <tt class="LITERAL">up</tt> upon creation.</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=mpt&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mpt</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been updated to support various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member +state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization status reporting, and sysctl +variables for volume re-synchronization rate, volume member write cache status, and +volume transaction queue depth.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mpt&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mpt</span>(4)</span></a> driver +now supports SAS HBA (partially), 64-bit PCI, and large data transfer.</p> + +<p>The scsi_sg driver, which emulates a significant subset of the Linux SCSI SG +passthrough device API, has been added. It is intended to allow programs running under +Linux emulation (as well as native FreeBSD applications) to access the <tt +class="FILENAME">/dev/sg<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>*</i></tt></tt> devices supported by +Linux.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=twa&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">twa</span>(4)</span></a> driver +has been updated to the 3.60.03.006 release on the 3ware Web site. It now supports AMCC's +3ware 9650 series of SATA controllers.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT3"> +<hr /> +<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="FS" name="FS">2.2.5 File Systems</a></h4> + +<p>The unionfs file system has been re-implemented. This version solves many crashing and +locking issues compared to the previous implementation. It also adds new +“transparent” and “masquerade” modes for automatically creating +files in the upper file system layer of unions. More information can be found in the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_unionfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_unionfs</span>(8)</span></a> +manual page.</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=camcontrol&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">camcontrol</span>(8)</span></a> +utility now supports a <tt class="COMMAND">readcap</tt> command to display the size of +devices.</p> + +<p>A bug in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span +class="REFENTRYTITLE">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a>, which caused it not to update +SMP kernels correctly, has been fixed.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fdisk</span>(8)</span></a> program +now supports a <code class="OPTION">-p</code> flag to print the slice table in fdisk +configuration format.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span +class="REFENTRYTITLE">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a> utility now supports an <tt +class="COMMAND">upgrade</tt> command to perform binary upgrades between different +versions of FreeBSD.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ftpd</span>(8)</span></a> utility +now has support for RFC2389 (FEAT) and rudimentary support for RFC2640 (UTF8). The +RFC2640 support is optional and can be enabled using the new <code +class="OPTION">-8</code> flag. More information can be found in the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ftpd</span>(8)</span></a> manual +page.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwpcap&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfwpcap</span>(8)</span></a> +utility has been added; it captures packets on a <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=divert&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">divert</span>(4)</span></a> socket +and writes them as <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pcap&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pcap</span>(3)</span></a> (also +known as <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tcpdump</span>(1)</span></a>) +format data to a file or pipe.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rpc.lockd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rpc.lockd</span>(8)</span></a> and +<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rpc.statd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rpc.statd</span>(8)</span></a> +programs now accept <code class="OPTION">-p</code> options to indicate which port they +should bind to.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pw</span>(8)</span></a> program now +supports a <code class="OPTION">-M</code> option to set the permissions of a user's newly +created home directory.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">top</span>(1)</span></a> program +now supports a <code class="OPTION">-j</code> flag to display the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a> ID for +each process.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=touch&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">touch</span>(1)</span></a> utility +now supports a <code class="OPTION">-A</code> flag that allows the access and +modification times of a file be adjusted by a specified value.</p> + +<p>The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_passphrase&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span +class="REFENTRYTITLE">wpa_passphrase</span>(8)</span></a> utility has been added. It +generates a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII passphrase.</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">sendmail</tt> script can be instructed not to rebuild the +aliases database if it is missing or older than the aliases file. If desired, set the new +rc.conf option <code class="VARNAME">sendmail_rebuild_aliases</code> to "NO" to turn off +that functionality.</p> + +<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.d/nfslocking</tt> script has been deprecated and will +be removed in a future release. It has been replaced by the <tt +class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.d/lockd</tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.d/statd</tt> +scripts.</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 24 April 2005 release to the +1 May 2007 release.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">BIND</b> has been updated from 9.3.3 to 9.3.4-p1.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">BZIP2</b> has been updated from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4.</p> + +<p>GNU <b class="APPLICATION">Diffutils</b> has been updated from 2.7 to 2.8.7.</p> + +<p>The GNU version of <b class="APPLICATION">gzip</b> has been replaced with a modified +version of gzip ported from NetBSD.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">IPFilter</b> has been updated from 4.1.13 to 4.1.28.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">less</b> has been updated from v381 to v416.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">ncurses</b> has been updated from 5.2-20020615 to 5.6-20061217. +ncurses now also has wide character support.</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 4.1.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU Readline library</b> has been updated from 5.0 to 5.2 patch +2.</p> + +<p><b class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b> has been updated from 8.13.8 to 8.14.2.</p> + +<p>The timezone database has been updated from the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2006g</b> +release to the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2007k</b> release.</p> + +<p>TrustedBSD <b class="APPLICATION">OpenBSM</b> has been updated from 1.0 alpha 12 to +1.0.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="PORTS" name="PORTS">2.5 Ports/Packages Collection +Infrastructure</a></h3> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="RELENG" name="RELENG">2.6 Release Engineering and +Integration</a></h3> + +<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 2.16.1 to 2.20.1.</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 3.5.4 to 3.5.7.</p> + +<p>The supported version of the <b class="APPLICATION">Xorg</b> windowing system (<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/xorg/pkg-descr"><tt +class="FILENAME">x11/xorg</tt></a>) has been updated from 6.9.0 to 7.3.0.</p> + +<p>The default value of <code class="VARNAME">X11BASE</code> has been changed from <tt +class="FILENAME">/usr/X11R6</tt> to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, the default +value of <code class="VARNAME">LOCALBASE</code>.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="DOC" name="DOC">2.7 Documentation</a></h3> +</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 6.3-RELEASE are only supported from FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE or +later. Users of older systems wanting to upgrade 6.3-RELEASE will need to update to +FreeBSD 5.3 or newer first, then to FreeBSD 6.3-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> + |