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   1 <articleinfo>
   2   <title>&os;/&arch; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
   3
   4   <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor>
   5
   6   <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
   7
   8   <copyright>
   9     <year>2000</year>
  10     <year>2001</year>
  11     <year>2002</year>
  12     <year>2003</year>
  13     <year>2004</year>
  14     <year>2005</year>
  15     <year>2006</year>
  16     <year>2007</year>
  17     <year>2008</year>
  18     <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
  19   </copyright>
  20
  21   <legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
  22     &tm-attrib.freebsd;
  23     &tm-attrib.ibm;
  24     &tm-attrib.ieee;
  25     &tm-attrib.intel;
  26     &tm-attrib.sparc;
  27     &tm-attrib.general;
  28   </legalnotice>
  29
  30   <abstract>
  31     <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
  32       of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
  33       &release.branch; development line.
  34       This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
  35       the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
  36       kernel and userland.
  37       Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
  38   </abstract>
  39 </articleinfo>
  40
  41 <sect1 id="intro">
  42   <title>Introduction</title>
  43
  44   <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
  45     &release.current; on the &arch.print; hardware platform.  It
  46     describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
  47     It also provides some notes on upgrading
  48     from previous versions of &os;.</para>
  49
  50 <![ %release.type.current [
  51
  52   <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
  53     apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
  54     branch since &release.branch; was created.  Information regarding pre-built, binary
  55     &release.type; distributions along this branch
  56     can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
  57
  58 ]]>
  59
  60 <![ %release.type.snapshot [
  61
  62   <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
  63     apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
  64     branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;.
  65     Information regarding
  66     pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
  67     can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
  68
  69 ]]>
  70
  71 <![ %release.type.release [
  72
  73   <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
  74     &release.type; distribution.  It can be found at <ulink
  75     url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors.  More
  76     information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
  77     distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
  78     url="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
  79     &os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
  80     url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
  81     Handbook</ulink>.</para>
  82
  83 ]]>
  84
  85   <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
  86     installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
  87     <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
  88     release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
  89     information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
  90     documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
  91     &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
  92
  93 </sect1>
  94
  95 <sect1 id="new">
  96   <title>What's New</title>
  97
  98   <para>This section describes
  99     the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
 100     since &release.prev;.
 101   </para>
 102
 103   <para>Typical release note items
 104     document recent security advisories issued after
 105     &release.prev;,
 106     new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
 107     major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades.  They may also
 108     list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
 109     practices.  Clearly the release notes cannot list every single
 110     change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses
 111     primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major
 112     architectural improvements.</para>
 113
 114   <sect2 id="security">
 115     <title>Security Advisories</title>
 116
 117     <para>An error that could allow &man.sendfile.2; to
 118       inappropriately access the contents of a file has been fixed.
 119       For more information, see security advisory
 120       <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:03.sendfile.asc">FreeBSD-SA-08:03.sendfile</ulink>.</para>
 121
 122   </sect2>
 123
 124   <sect2 id="kernel">
 125     <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 126
 127     <para></para>
 128
 129     <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
 130
 131     <sect3 id="boot">
 132       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 133
 134       <!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
 135
 136       <para arch="i386,amd64">The BTX kernel used by the boot
 137         loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
 138         mode.  This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB
 139         devices.</para>
 140
 141     </sect3>
 142
 143     <sect3 id="proc">
 144       <title>Hardware Support</title>
 145
 146       <para></para>
 147
 148       <sect4 id="mm">
 149         <title>Multimedia Support</title>
 150
 151         <para></para>
 152       </sect4>
 153
 154       <sect4 id="net-if">
 155         <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 156
 157         <para></para>
 158
 159       </sect4>
 160     </sect3>
 161
 162     <sect3 id="net-proto">
 163       <title>Network Protocols</title>
 164
 165       <para></para>
 166
 167     </sect3>
 168
 169     <sect3 id="disks">
 170       <title>Disks and Storage</title>
 171
 172       <para></para>
 173
 174     </sect3>
 175
 176     <sect3 id="fs">
 177       <title>File Systems</title>
 178
 179       <para></para>
 180
 181     </sect3>
 182
 183   </sect2>
 184
 185   <sect2 id="userland">
 186     <title>Userland Changes</title>
 187
 188     <para></para>
 189
 190     <sect3 id="rc-scripts">
 191       <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
 192
 193       <para></para>
 194
 195     </sect3>
 196
 197   </sect2>
 198
 199   <sect2 id="contrib">
 200     <title>Contributed Software</title>
 201
 202     <para><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4
 203       to 1.0.5.</para>
 204
 205     <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
 206       8.14.2 to 8.14.3.</para>
 207
 208     <para>The timezone database has been updated from
 209       the <application>tzdata2007k</application> release to
 210       the <application>tzdata2008b</application> release.</para>
 211
 212   </sect2>
 213
 214   <sect2 id="ports">
 215     <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
 216
 217     <para></para>
 218
 219   </sect2>
 220
 221   <sect2 id="releng">
 222     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 223
 224     <para>The supported version of
 225       the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
 226       (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been
 227       updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para>
 228
 229   </sect2>
 230
 231   <sect2 id="doc">
 232     <title>Documentation</title>
 233
 234     <para></para>
 235
 236   </sect2>
 237 </sect1>
 238
 239 <sect1 id="upgrade">
 240   <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
 241
 242   <para>Source upgrades to &os; &release.current; are only supported
 243     from &os; 5.3-RELEASE or later.  Users of older systems wanting to
 244     upgrade &release.current; will need to update to &os; 5.3 or newer
 245     first, then to &os; &release.current;.</para>
 246
 247   <important>
 248     <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
 249       backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
 250       files.</para>
 251   </important>
 252 </sect1>