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| author | Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-18 00:14:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-18 00:14:21 +0000 |
| commit | 210ea397b87ca77a208dc55ce24c7e2ff0978ada (patch) | |
| tree | f21fd49c5935a1c70c85ee1d1033a44d2a524e05 /release/texts/i386 | |
| parent | ea7549540f2bce42dd4768aead7533bd38f2dae8 (diff) | |
New release notes: digi driver, FICL 2.05, xargs(1) -J, apmd(8) now
support battery state monitoring, ncurses 5.2-20010512.
Woefully overdue release notes: ddb(4) show pcpu, telnet(1) autologin
and encryption defaults and -y option.
Notes
svn path=/head/; revision=76780
Diffstat (limited to 'release/texts/i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index c28af996dcb9..1e11e34debe0 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -444,6 +444,13 @@ Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIC 1000TA and 1000TPC and Addtron AEG320T. The USER_LDT kernel option is now activated by default. +A new ddb command "show pcpu" lists some of the per-CPU data. + +A new digi(4) driver has been added to support PCI Xr-based and ISA +Xem Digiboard cards. A new digictl program is (mainly) used to +re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as +the PC/Xem. + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -814,7 +821,7 @@ mount(8) and mount_*(8)). The behavior of fsck(8) when dealing with various passes (a la /etc/fstab) has been modified to accomodate multiple-disk filesystems. -ncurses has been updated to ncurses-5.1-20001009. [MERGED] +ncurses has been updated to ncurses-5.2-20010512. gperf has been updated to 2.7.2. [MERGED] @@ -1209,6 +1216,19 @@ fdread(1), a program to read data from floppy disks, has been added. It is designed to provide a means of recovering at least some data from bad media, and to obviate for a complex invocation of dd(1). +xargs(1) now supports a -J replstr option that allows the user to tell +xargs to insert the data read from standard input at a specific point +in the command line arguments rather than at the end. + +apmd(8) now supports monitoring of the battery state via the +apm_battery configuration directive. + +telnet(1) now does autologin and encryption by default; a new -y +option turns off encryption. + +The Forth Inspired Command Language used in the boot loader has been +updated to 2.05. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- |
