From bb8a76389d903a7d41723d7cbc3553d41b49a943 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:03:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add more relnotes items for 8.2R: new sysctls: vm.kmem_map_size, vm.kmem_map_free, GPT support improved, ipfw0 interface panic due to multicast traffic injection fixed, lagg(4) net.link.lagg.failover_rx_all knob added, linprocfs(5) /proc/$$/environment support, ZFS now allows offlining log devices, gpart(8) -F option added, gaprt(8) more GPT attributes, mount(8) "rw" flags in -p option's output fixed, ncal(1) -A -B -C added, ntpd(8) SHM ref clock driver enabled, ruptime(1) hostname length extended, and tr(1) [=]=] regexp class fixed Approved by: re (implicit) git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.2@218444 ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 76 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index eae67a02..a973a43f 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -186,14 +186,18 @@ displays the list of all created cdev's, consisting of devfs node name and struct cdev address. - The following sysctl - variables are also now loader tunables: + The following + &man.sysctl.8; variables are also now loader tunables: vm.kmem_size, vm.kmem_size_max, and vm.kmem_size_min, debug.kdb.stop_cpus, debug.trace_on_panic, and - kern.sync_on_panic. + kern.sync_on_panic. Also, new + &man.sysctl.8; variables vm.kmem_map_size + for the current kmem map size and + vm.kmem_map_free for largest contiguous + free range in kmem map have been added. The &os; &man.memguard.9; framework has been improved to make it able to detect use-after-free of @@ -203,6 +207,10 @@ Boot Loader Changes + &os; now fully supports GPT (GUID + Partition Table). Checksums of primary header and primary + partition table are verified properly now. + The &man.pxeboot.8; now uses NFS version 3 instead of version 2 by default. @@ -402,6 +410,9 @@ the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter subsystem has been changed. It no longer accepts a packet. + A possible panic in the &man.ipfw.4; + pseudo interface for logging has been fixed. + IPsec flow distribution has been improved for more parallel processing. @@ -415,6 +426,12 @@ net.inet6.ip6.use_defaultzone=1 has been fixed. + The &man.lagg.4; interface now + supports a sysctl variable + net.link.lagg.failover_rx_all. This + controls whether to accept input packets on any link in a + failover lagg. + A new &man.netgraph.4; node &man.ng.patch.4; has been added. This performs data modification of packets passing through. Modifications are @@ -507,6 +524,10 @@ File Systems + The &man.linprocfs.5; Linux process + file system now supports + proc/$$/environment. + The &os; NFS client now supports a kernel environment variable boot.nfsroot.nfshandlelen. This lets the @@ -523,6 +544,10 @@ related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6826241, 6869229, 6918420, and 6917066. + The ZFS now supports offlining of log + devices. The related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6599442, + 6726045, and 6803605. + Performance improvements for the ZFS have been imported from OpenSolaris. They include cachin of ACL permission checks, faster handling of &man.stat.2;, @@ -557,8 +582,8 @@ 6821170, 6822816, 6824006, 6824062, 6824968, 6826466, 6826468, 6826469, 6826470, 6826471, 6826472, 6827260, 6830237, 6833162, 6833711, 6833999, 6834217, 6836714, - 6836714, 6836768, 6838062, 6838344, 6841321, 6843069, - 6843235, 6843235, 6844069, 6844069, 6844900, 6847229, + 6836714, 6836768, 6838062, 6838344, 6841321, 6843014, + 6843069, 6843235, 6844069, 6844069, 6844900, 6847229, 6848242, 6856634, 6857012, 6857012, 6857012, 6861983, 6862984, 6863610, 6870564, 6870564, 6880764, 6882227, 6892298, 6898245, 6906110, 6906946, 6939941, 6950219, @@ -611,6 +636,19 @@ given geom/provider names with and without /dev/ prefix. + The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports + an option for force + subcommand. This option force destroying of the partition + table even if it is not empty. + + The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports + GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTME, + GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTONCE, and + GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTFAILED attributes in GPT. + The attribute keywords in the command line are + bootme, bootonce, and + bootfailed respectively. + The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports SIGHUP for reloading the configuration file. When SIGTERM or @@ -630,11 +668,32 @@ &man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm) compression format. + The option in the + &man.mount.8; utility now displays rw mount + option correctly as in the &man.fstab.5; format. + + The &man.ncal.1; utility has been + updated. The option has been replaced + with and . Options + to show previous, this and next month, and + to show + months after this month have been added. The option + now prints only the + month, not the whole year. + The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports an option to override the default &man.syslogd.8; PID file. + The &man.ntpd.8; utility is now compiled + with shared memory reference clock driver. For exmaple, GPS + devices can be used as source of precise time via astro/gpsd in the Ports + Collection. + An off-by-one error in the &man.pax.1; utility when ustar file name is too long has been fixed. @@ -665,6 +724,9 @@ to control the minimum and maximum frequency, respectively. + The &man.ruptime.1; utility now displays + hostnames longer than 12 characters. + A bug in the &man.sh.1; program has been fixed. A SIGINT signal is now passed through from a child process if the shell is interactive and @@ -688,6 +750,10 @@ utilities have been improved for better interoperability and they now supports RFC 1350, 2347, 2348, 2349, and 3617. + A bug in [=]=] + equivalent class handling in the &man.tr.1; utility has been + fixed. + The &man.uname.1; utility now supports an flag as a synonym for the flag for compatibility with other -- 2.42.0