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Highlights</h2> + + <p>The highlights in the 7.3-RELEASE are the following:</p> + + <ul> + <li><p>The <b class="APPLICATION">ZFS</b> file system has been + updated to version 13. The changes include ZFS operations by a regular + user, L2ARC, ZFS Intent Log on separated disks (slog), sparse volumes, + and so on.</p></li> + + <li><p>A lock handling error has been fixed in interaction between + <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=malloc&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"> + <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">malloc</span>(3)</span></a> + implementation and threading library. </p></li> + + <li><p>A deadlock in the <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sched_ule&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"> + <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sched_ule</span>(4)</span></a> + scheduler has been fixed. </p></li> + + <li><p>A new sysctl variable <code class="VARNAME">security.bsd.map_at_zero</code> has been added + and set to <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt> (allow) by default. This + controls whether FreeBSD allows to map an object at the + address <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt>, which is part of the + user-controlled portion of the virtual address + space. Disabling this has some effect on preventing an attack + which injects malicious code into that location and triggers a + NULL pointer dereference in the kernel.</p></li> + + <li><p>A new boot loader <tt class="LITERAL">gptzfsboot</tt>, + which supports GPT and ZFS has been added. <tt class="LITERAL">zfsloader</tt>, the final boot loader similar + to <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"> + <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">loader</span>(8)</span></a> which + supports ZFS has been added.</p></li> + + <li><p>[amd64, i386] CPU cache flushing has been optimized when + changing caching attributes of pages by doing nothing for CPUs that + support self-snooping and using <tt class="LITERAL">CLFLUSH</tt> + instead of a full cache invalidate when possible.</p></li> + + <li><p>The <b class="APPLICATION">amdsbwd(4)</b> driver for AMD + SB600/SB7xx watchdog timer has been added.</p></li> + + <li><p>[amd64, i386] The <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hwpmc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"> + <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hwpmc</span>(4)</span></a> driver for + Hardware Performance Monitoring Counter support has been + added. </p></li> + + <li><p><b class="APPLICATION">DRM</b> now supports Radeon HD 4200 (RS880), 4770 (RV740), and + R6/7xx 3D, and Intel G41 chips.</p></li> + + <li><p>The <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=alc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"><span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">alc</span>(4)</span></a> driver for + Atheros AR8131/AR8132 PCIe Ethernet controller has been + added.</p></li> + + <li><p>[sparc64] The <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cas&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"><span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cas</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been + added to provide support for Sun Cassini/Cassini+ and National + Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn Gigabit Ethernet devices.</p></li> + + <li><p>A userland utility <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfiutil&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"> + <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mfiutil</span>(8)</span></a> for the <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"><span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mfi</span>(4)</span></a> devices has + been added.</p></li> + + <li><p>A userland utility <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mptutil&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"> + <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mptutil</span>(8)</span></a> for the + <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mpt&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"><span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mpt</span>(4)</span></a> devices has + been added.</p></li> + + <li><p>The <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=yp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"><span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">yp</span>(8)</span></a> utilities now + support <tt class="FILENAME">shadow.byname</tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">shadow.byuid</tt> maps. These requires + privileged port access.</p></li> + + <li><p>The <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=service&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable" shape="rect"> + <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">service</span>(8)</span></a> command + as an easy interface for the rc.d scripts has been + added.</p></li> + + <li><p><b class="APPLICATION">ISC BIND</b> has been updated to + version 9.4-ESV.</p></li> + + <li><p><b class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b> has been updated from + version 8.14.3 to version 8.14.4.</p></li> + + <li><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" shape="rect"><tt class="FILENAME">x11/gnome2</tt></a>) has been updated to + 2.28.2.</p></li> + + <li><p>The supported version of the <b class="APPLICATION">KDE</b> + desktop environment (<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/kde4/pkg-descr" shape="rect"><tt class="FILENAME">x11/kde4</tt></a>) has been updated to 4.3.5.</p></li> + + <li><p>FreeBSD release ISO images now have “FreeBSD-” + at the beginning of the filenames.</p></li> + </ul> + + <p>For more details, please see <a href="relnotes-detailed.html" shape="rect">the + Detailed Release Notes</a>.</p> + + <p>A list of all platforms currently under development can be found + on the <a href="../../platforms/index.html" shape="rect">Supported + Platforms</a> page.</p> + + </div> + <br class="clearboth" /> + </div> + <div id="footer"><span><a href="../../search/index-site.html">Site Map</a> | + <a href="../../copyright/">Legal Notices</a> | © 1995–2020 The FreeBSD Project. + All rights reserved.</span><br /> + Last modified: 2013-11-13</div> + </div> + </div> + </body> +</html> |