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Diffstat (limited to 'release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT')
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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 0358351de284..48cb9eb0988c 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -196,6 +196,12 @@ For the same reason SLIP has been removed from the mfsroot image as well. Support for AlphaServer 2100A ('Lynx') has been added. +netgraph(4) has received some updates. + +sbufs, null-terminated string data structures, and their associated +support routines, have been added to the kernel. Details are in +sbuf(9). + 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- @@ -243,6 +249,15 @@ X11 forwarding was fixed. [MERGED] The ssh(1) binary is no longer SUID root by default. +Some fixes were applied to the Kerberos IV implementation related to +environment variables, a possible buffer overrun, and overwriting +ticket files. [MERGED] + +telnet(1) now does a better job of sanitizing its environment. [MERGED] + +Several vulnerabilities in procfs(4) were fixed (see security advisory +FreeBSD-SA-00:78). [MERGED] + 1.3. USERLAND CHANGES --------------------- @@ -473,9 +488,9 @@ top(1) will now use the full width of its tty. groff(1) and its related utilities have been updated to FSF version 1.16.1. [MERGED] -A number of cleanups have been applied to the PCI subsystem. -/usr/share/misc/pci_vendors now contains a vendor/device database, -which can be used by pciconf(8). +A number of cleanups and enhancements have been applied to the PCI +subsystem. /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors now contains a vendor/device +database, which can be used by pciconf(8). growfs(8), a utility for growing FFS filesystems, has been added. ffsinfo(8), a utility for dump all the meta-information of an existing @@ -483,6 +498,19 @@ filesystem, has also been added. indent(1) has gained some new formatting options. [MERGED] +sysinstall now uses some more intuitive defaults thanks to some new +dialog support functions. [MERGED] + +gcc has been updated to 2.96. + +Shortly after the receipt of a SIGINFO signal (normally control-T from +the controlling tty), fsck_ffs will now output a line indicating the +current phase number and progress information relevant to the current +phase. + +Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system, +lpd(1), lpd(8), syslogd(8), and logger(1) are now all IPv6-capable. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- |