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authorHiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2011-02-08 15:03:13 +0000
committerHiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2011-02-08 15:03:13 +0000
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Add more relnotes items for 8.2R:
new sysctls: vm.kmem_map_size, vm.kmem_map_free, GPT support improved, ipfw0 interface panic due to multicast traffic injection fixed, lagg(4) net.link.lagg.failover_rx_all knob added, linprocfs(5) /proc/$$/environment support, ZFS now allows offlining log devices, gpart(8) -F option added, gaprt(8) more GPT attributes, mount(8) "rw" flags in -p option's output fixed, ncal(1) -A -B -C added, ntpd(8) SHM ref clock driver enabled, ruptime(1) hostname length extended, and tr(1) [=]=] regexp class fixed Approved by: re (implicit)
Notes
Notes: svn path=/releng/8.2/; revision=218444
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml76
1 files changed, 71 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index eae67a0286e1..a973a43f3d71 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -186,14 +186,18 @@
displays the list of all created cdev's, consisting of devfs
node name and struct cdev address.</para>
- <para revision="213554,213556,213560">The following sysctl
- variables are also now loader tunables:
+ <para revision="213554,213556,213560">The following
+ &man.sysctl.8; variables are also now loader tunables:
<varname>vm.kmem_size</varname>,
<varname>vm.kmem_size_max</varname>, and
<varname>vm.kmem_size_min</varname>,
<varname>debug.kdb.stop_cpus</varname>,
<varname>debug.trace_on_panic</varname>, and
- <varname>kern.sync_on_panic</varname>.</para>
+ <varname>kern.sync_on_panic</varname>. Also, new
+ &man.sysctl.8; variables <varname>vm.kmem_map_size</varname>
+ for the current kmem map size and
+ <varname>vm.kmem_map_free</varname> for largest contiguous
+ free range in kmem map have been added.</para>
<para revision="212427">The &os; &man.memguard.9; framework has
been improved to make it able to detect use-after-free of
@@ -203,6 +207,10 @@
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
+ <para revision="213994">&os; now fully supports GPT (GUID
+ Partition Table). Checksums of primary header and primary
+ partition table are verified properly now.</para>
+
<para revision="212717">The &man.pxeboot.8; now uses NFS
version 3 instead of version 2 by default.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -402,6 +410,9 @@
the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter subsystem has been changed.
It no longer accepts a packet.</para>
+ <para revision="214108">A possible panic in the &man.ipfw.4;
+ pseudo interface for logging has been fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="209691">IPsec flow distribution has been
improved for more parallel processing.</para>
@@ -415,6 +426,12 @@
<varname>net.inet6.ip6.use_defaultzone=1</varname> has been
fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="214111">The &man.lagg.4; interface now
+ supports a sysctl variable
+ <varname>net.link.lagg.failover_rx_all</varname>. This
+ controls whether to accept input packets on any link in a
+ failover lagg.</para>
+
<para revision="209843">A new &man.netgraph.4; node
&man.ng.patch.4; has been added. This performs data
modification of packets passing through. Modifications are
@@ -507,6 +524,10 @@
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
+ <para revision="214050">The &man.linprocfs.5; Linux process
+ file system now supports
+ <filename>proc/$$/environment</filename>.</para>
+
<para revision="212716">The &os; NFS client now supports a
kernel environment variable
<varname>boot.nfsroot.nfshandlelen</varname>. This lets the
@@ -523,6 +544,10 @@
related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6826241, 6869229, 6918420,
and 6917066.</para>
+ <para revision="214013">The ZFS now supports offlining of log
+ devices. The related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6599442,
+ 6726045, and 6803605.</para>
+
<para revision="212672">Performance improvements for the ZFS
have been imported from OpenSolaris. They include cachin of
ACL permission checks, faster handling of &man.stat.2;,
@@ -557,8 +582,8 @@
6821170, 6822816, 6824006, 6824062, 6824968, 6826466,
6826468, 6826469, 6826470, 6826471, 6826472, 6827260,
6830237, 6833162, 6833711, 6833999, 6834217, 6836714,
- 6836714, 6836768, 6838062, 6838344, 6841321, 6843069,
- 6843235, 6843235, 6844069, 6844069, 6844900, 6847229,
+ 6836714, 6836768, 6838062, 6838344, 6841321, 6843014,
+ 6843069, 6843235, 6844069, 6844069, 6844900, 6847229,
6848242, 6856634, 6857012, 6857012, 6857012, 6861983,
6862984, 6863610, 6870564, 6870564, 6880764, 6882227,
6892298, 6898245, 6906110, 6906946, 6939941, 6950219,
@@ -611,6 +636,19 @@
given geom/provider names with and without
<filename>/dev/</filename> prefix.</para>
+ <para revision="213684">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports
+ an <option>-F</option> option for <command>force</command>
+ subcommand. This option force destroying of the partition
+ table even if it is not empty.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213994">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports
+ <literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTME</literal>,
+ <literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTONCE</literal>, and
+ <literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTFAILED</literal> attributes in GPT.
+ The attribute keywords in the command line are
+ <literal>bootme</literal>, <literal>bootonce</literal>, and
+ <literal>bootfailed</literal> respectively.</para>
+
<para revision="213049">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports
<literal>SIGHUP</literal> for reloading the configuration
file. When <literal>SIGTERM</literal> or
@@ -630,11 +668,32 @@
&man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm) compression format.</para>
+ <para revision="213978">The <option>-p</option> option in the
+ &man.mount.8; utility now displays <literal>rw</literal> mount
+ option correctly as in the &man.fstab.5; format.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213889">The &man.ncal.1; utility has been
+ updated. The option <option>-b</option> has been replaced
+ with <option>-C</option> and <option>-B
+ <replaceable>number</replaceable></option>. Options
+ <option>-3</option> to show previous, this and next month, and
+ <option>-A <replaceable>number</replaceable></option> to show
+ months after this month have been added. The option
+ <option>-m <replaceable>N</replaceable>
+ <replaceable>YYYY</replaceable></option> now prints only the
+ month, not the whole year.</para>
+
<para revision="211699">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports
an <option>-S <replaceable>pidfile</replaceable></option>
option to override the default &man.syslogd.8; PID
file.</para>
+ <para revision="213980">The &man.ntpd.8; utility is now compiled
+ with shared memory reference clock driver. For exmaple, GPS
+ devices can be used as source of precise time via <filename
+ role="ports">astro/gpsd</filename> in the Ports
+ Collection.</para>
+
<para revision="212848">An off-by-one error in the &man.pax.1;
utility when ustar file name is too long has been
fixed.</para>
@@ -665,6 +724,9 @@
<option>-M <replaceable>freq</replaceable></option> to control
the minimum and maximum frequency, respectively.</para>
+ <para revision="213825">The &man.ruptime.1; utility now displays
+ hostnames longer than 12 characters.</para>
+
<para revision="210616">A bug in the &man.sh.1; program has been
fixed. A <literal>SIGINT</literal> signal is now passed
through from a child process if the shell is interactive and
@@ -688,6 +750,10 @@
utilities have been improved for better interoperability and
they now supports RFC 1350, 2347, 2348, 2349, and 3617.</para>
+ <para revision="213899">A bug in <literal>[=]=]</literal>
+ equivalent class handling in the &man.tr.1; utility has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="210566">The &man.uname.1; utility now supports an
<option>-o</option> flag as a synonym for the
<option>-s</option> flag for compatibility with other