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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index d3f82d78fed7..1528435f1aa5 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate> - <!-- Last rev: 278934 --> + <!-- Last rev: 282146 --> <copyright> <year>2015</year> @@ -316,7 +316,24 @@ <para revision="279571" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when - a previous upgrade has not been throughly completed.</para> + a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para> + + <para revision="279122" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.netstat.1; utility has been + updated to link against the &man.libxo.3; shared + library.</para> + + <para revision="280870">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3; + library that would prevent a directory from being included in + the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used + has been fixed.</para> + + <para revision="281311" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The + &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set + <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and + <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow + directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to + &man.tar.1;.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> @@ -335,9 +352,6 @@ <para revision="261071">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to version 3.5.0.</para> - <para revision="261212"><application>bmake</application> has - been updated to version 20140101.</para> - <para revision="261283"><application>libc++</application> has been updated to version 3.4.</para> @@ -379,6 +393,7 @@ <application>addr2line</application>, <application>elfcopy (strip)</application>, <application>nm</application>, + <application>readelf</application>, <application>size</application>, and <application>strings</application> were switched to the versions from the ELF Tool Chain project.</para> @@ -388,17 +403,34 @@ adding <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support to the &man.sh.1; shell.</para> - <para revision="277270"><application>OpenSSL</application> has - been updated to version 1.0.1l.</para> - - <para revision="278433">The &man.xz.1; utility has been udpated - to version 5.2.0.</para> - <para revision="278433">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated to support multi-threaded compression.</para> - <para revision="278970">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been - updated to version 20150204.</para> + <para revision="280297"><application>OpenSSL</application> has + been updated to version 1.0.1m.</para> + + <para revision="280932" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The + <application>elftoolchain</application> utilities have been + updated to version 3179.</para> + + <para revision="281316">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated + to version 5.2.1.</para> + + <para revision="281373">The &man.nvi.1; utility has been updated + to version 2.1.3.</para> + + <para revision="281396">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been + updated to version 20150410.</para> + + <para revision="281806">The &man.wpa.supplicant.8; and + &man.hostapd.8; utilties have been updated to version + 2.4.</para> + + <para revision="281812"><application>bmake</application> has + been updated to version 20150418.</para> + + <para revision="282089">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been + updated to version 1.5.3.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> @@ -481,6 +513,10 @@ <acronym>ELF</acronym> object in the <literal>dlpi_name</literal> structure member.</para> + <para revision="273562" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.libxo.3; library has been + imported to the base system.</para> + <para revision="273806" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&chelsio;">A userland library for Chelsio Terminator 5 based iWARP cards has been added, allowing userland <acronym>RDMA</acronym> @@ -509,6 +545,15 @@ updated to be able to handle 32-bit aligned data on 64-bit platforms, also providing a significant improvement in 32-bit workloads.</para> + + <para revision="281130">Several standard include headers have + been updated to use of <application>gcc</application> + attributes, such as <literal>__result_use_check()</literal>, + <literal>__alloc_size()</literal>, and + <literal>__nonnull()</literal>.</para> + + <para revision="281845">Support for file verification in + <acronym>MAC</acronym> has been added.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> @@ -547,6 +592,30 @@ <para revision="272089">A bug in &man.ipfw.4; that could potentially lead to a kernel panic when using &man.dummynet.4; at layer 2 has been fixed.</para> + + <para revision="280930" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&mitail;">The + kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> has been updated to include + several enhancements:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>The 45 MiB limit on requests queued for + &man.nfsd.8; threads has been removed.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Avoids unnecessary throttling by not deferring + accounting for completed requests.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Fixes an integer overflow and signedness bugs.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + + <para revision="281261" arch="powerpc">Support for + &man.dtrace.1; has been added for the + Book-E ™.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> @@ -604,6 +673,14 @@ <para revision="279361">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> + + <para revision="280308,280949" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has + been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations + using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, + <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which + when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision + timestamps for these operations.</para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -642,6 +719,9 @@ <filename>/dev/hpet<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> device, providing access to <acronym>HPET</acronym> from userspace.</para> + + <para revision="280183">The <literal>drm</literal> code has + been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> @@ -676,6 +756,9 @@ <para revision="276526">The <literal>asr(4)</literal> driver has been removed, and is no longer supported.</para> + + <para revision="281387">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been + updated to version 1.1.1.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> @@ -768,6 +851,10 @@ driver has been updated to correct performance counter sampling on G4 (MPC74xxx) and G5 class processors.</para> + <para revision="281713" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4; + driver has been updated to support the Freescale e500 + core.</para> + <para revision="275732" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;,&netgate;">The <application>OpenCrypto</application> framework has been @@ -819,6 +906,14 @@ <para revision="273515">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para> + + <para revision="279957">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been + updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for + virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> + + <para revision="281439" arch="arm">Support for the + <application>QEMU</application> <literal>virt</literal> system + has been added.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> @@ -835,6 +930,10 @@ driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> + + <para revision="280259" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Initial + support for the ARM AArch64 architecture has been + added.</para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -846,6 +945,7 @@ <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> <title>General Storage</title> + <para revision="278037" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms @@ -907,6 +1007,12 @@ Alternatively, &man.syscons.4; can be enabled at boot time by entering <literal>set kern.vty=sc</literal> at the &man.loader.8; prompt.</para> + + <para revision="281616">The boot loader has been updated to + support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before + loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add + <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to + &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> @@ -1002,6 +1108,13 @@ </tbody> </tgroup> </informaltable> + + <para revision="280971" contrib="sponsor" + sponsor="&netflix;, &nginx;">Support for <acronym>IP</acronym> + identification for atomic datagrams (<acronym>RFC</acronym> + 6864) has been added. Support for this feature can be toggled + with the <literal>net.inet.ip.rfc6864</literal> + &man.sysctl.8;, which is enabled by default.</para> </sect2> </sect1> |