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authorBruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-05-18 00:14:21 +0000
committerBruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-05-18 00:14:21 +0000
commit210ea397b87ca77a208dc55ce24c7e2ff0978ada (patch)
treef21fd49c5935a1c70c85ee1d1033a44d2a524e05 /release/texts/i386
parentea7549540f2bce42dd4768aead7533bd38f2dae8 (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
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@@ -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
---------------------------