# FreeBSD/pc98 6.4-RELEASE Release Notes

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The release notes for FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 6.4-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.

## 1 Introduction

This document contains the release notes for FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE on the NEC PC-98x1 hardware platform. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of FreeBSD. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of FreeBSD.

This distribution of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE is a release distribution. It can be found at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/ or any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) release distributions of FreeBSD can be found in the “Obtaining FreeBSD” appendix to the FreeBSD Handbook.

All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing FreeBSD. The errata document is updated with “late-breaking” information discovered late in the release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site.

## 2 What's New

This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD since 6.3-RELEASE.

Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after 6.3-RELEASE, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to FreeBSD between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements.

### 2.1 Security Advisories

Problems described in the following security advisories has been fixed. For more information, consult the individual advisories available from http://security.FreeBSD.org/.

Advisory | Date | Topic
--- | --- | ---
SA-08:03.sendfile | 14 February 2008 | sendfile(2) write-only file permission bypass
SA-08:05.openssh | 17 April 2008 | OpenSSH X11-forwarding privilege escalation
SA-08:06.bind | 13 July 2008 | DNS cache poisoning
SA-08:07.amd64 | 3 September 2008 | amd64 swapgs local privilege escalation
SA-08:09.icmp6 | 3 September 2008 | Remote kernel panics on IPv6 connections
SA-08:10.nd6 | 1 October 2008 | IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability
SA-08:11.arc4random | 24 November 2008 | arc4random(9) predictable sequence vulnerability

### 2.2 Kernel Changes

The opencrypto framework ( crypto(9)) and ipsec(4) subsystem now support Camellia block cipher.

The FreeBSD kernel malloc(9) now supports buffer corruption protection (RedZone). This detects both buffer underflow and buffer overflow bugs at runtime on free(9) and realloc(9) and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where it was freed. For more details, see `DEBUG_REDZONE` kernel option.

The client side functionality of rpc.lockd(8) has been implemented in FreeBSD kernel. This implementation provides the correct semantics for flock(2) style locks which are used by the lockf(1) command line tool and the pidfile(3) library. It also implements recovery from server restarts and ensures that dirty cache blocks are written to the server before obtaining locks (allowing multiple clients to use file locking to safely share data). Also, a new kernel option `options NFSLOCKD` has been added and enabled by default. If the kernel support is enabled, rpc.lockd(8) automatically detects and uses the functionality.

#### 2.2.1 Boot Loader Changes

FreeBSD now support booting from GPT-labeled disks from the BIOS.

#### 2.2.2 Hardware Support

The acpi_asus(4) driver now supports Asus EeePC backlight control.

##### 2.2.2.1 Multimedia Support

The `DRM` driver now supports i915 GME device.

##### 2.2.2.2 Network Interface Support

The bge(4) driver now supports BCM5906-based adapters.

#### 2.2.3 Network Protocols

The dummynet(4) subsystem now supports `fast` mode operation which allows certain packets to bypass the dummynet scheduler. This can achieve lower latency and lower overhead when the packet flow is under the pipe bandwidth, and eliminate recursion in the subsystem. The new sysctl variable `net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_fast` has been added to enable this feature.

The resolver(3) now allows underscore in domain names. Although this is a violation of RFC 1034 [STD 13], it is accepted by certain name servers as well as other popular operating systems' resolver library.

#### 2.2.4 Disks and Storage

The aac(4) driver now supports 64-bit array support for RAIDs larger than 2TB and simultaneous opens of the device for issuing commands to the controller.

A data corruption problem of the ata(4) driver on ServerWorks HT1000 chipsets has been fixed.

Stability of the iir(4) driver has been improved.

The mpt(4) driver now supports `mpt_user` personality.

### 2.3 Userland Changes

The bsdtar(1) utility now supports the following options: `--numeric-owner`, `-S`, and `-s`.

A bug in cp(1) utility which prevents POSIX.1e ACL (see also acl(3)) from copying properly has been fixed.

The cron(8) utility now supports `-m` flag which overrides the default mail recipient for cron mails unless explicitly provided by `MAILTO=` line in `crontab` file.

The cvs(1) now supports `-n` flag which is the opposite of `-N` flag.

The dump(8) and restore(8) utility now support extended attributes (see also extattr(9)).

The fortune(6) program now supports `FORTUNE_PATH` environment variable to specify search path of the fortune files.

A bug in the fortune(6) program that prevents `-e` option with multiple files from working has been fixed.

The freebsd-update.conf(5) now supports `IDSIgnorePaths` statement.

The fwcontrol(8) utility now supports `-f `node`` option which specifies `node` as the root node on the next bus reset.

The make(1) utility now supports `:u` variable modifier which removes adjacent duplicate words.

The incorrect output grammer of morse(6) program has been fixed.

The mountd(8) utility now supports `-h `bindip`` option which specifies IP addresses to bind to for TCP and UDP requests. This option may be specified multiple times. If no `-h` option is specified, `INADDR_ANY` will be used. Note that when specifying IP addresses with this option, it will automatically add `127.0.0.1` and if IPv6 is enabled, `::1` to the list.

The moused(8) utility now supports `-L` flag which changes the speed of scrolling and changes `-U` option behavior to only affect the scroll threshold.

The mv(1) now support POSIX specification when moving a directory to an existing directory across devices.

The periodic(8) now supports `daily_status_mail_rejects_shorten` configuration variable in periodic.conf(5). This allows the rejected mail reports to tally the rejects per blacklist without providing details about individual sender hosts. The default configuration keeps the reports in their original form.

The ping6(8) now uses exit status of `0` and `2` in the same manner as ping(8).

A bug in telnetd(8) that it attempts authentication even when `-a all` option is specified has been fixed.

The top(1) and vmstat(8) now support `-P` flag which displays per-CPU statistics.

The watch(8) utility now supports more than 10 snp(4) devices at a time.

#### 2.3.1 `/etc/rc.d` Scripts

The `ike` rc(8) script has been removed.

The rc.conf(5) now supports `dummynet_enable` variable which allow dummynet(4) kernel module to be loaded when `firewall_enable` is `YES`.

The `ppp` rc(8) script now supports multiple instances. For more details, see description of `ppp_profile` variable in rc.conf(5).

The `rfcomm_pppd_server` rc(8) script which allows start rfcomm_pppd(8) in server mode at boot time, has been added. Multiple profiles can be started at the same time. For more details, see rc.conf(5).

The `sysctl` rc(8) script now supports loading `/etc/sysctl.conf.local` in addition to `/etc/sysctl.conf`.

The rc.conf(5) now supports configuration of interfaces and attached networks for firewall rule set by `rc.firewall` when `firewall_type` is `simple` or `client`. See `firewall_client_net`, `firewall_simple_iif`, `firewall_simple_inet`, `firewall_simple_oif`, and `firewall_simple_onet`.

### 2.4 Contributed Software

am-utils has been updated to version 6.1.5.

ISC BIND has been updated to version 9.3.5-P2.

bzip2 has been updated from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.

NTP has been updated to version 4.2.4p5.

FILE has been updated to version 4.21.

`libarchive` has been virtually updated to 2.5.4b. Note that the internal version number remains 1.9.25 because the API/ABI compatibility is preserved.

ncurses library has been updated to version 5.6-20080503.

OpenPAM has been updated to Hydrangea release.

sendmail has been updated from 8.14.2 to 8.14.3.

tcsh has been updated to version 6.15.00.

The timezone database has been updated from the tzdata2007k release to the tzdata2008e release.

### 2.5 Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure

The `pkg_install` utilities have been upgraded to snapshot on 8.0-CURRENT as of May 30, 2008.

The pkg_sign(1) and the pkg_check(1) utility have been removed.

### 2.6 Release Engineering and Integration

The supported version of the GNOME desktop environment (`x11/gnome2`) has been updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.3.

The supported version of the KDE desktop environment (`x11/kde3`) has been updated from 3.5.8 to 3.5.10.

## 3 Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD

Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE are only supported from FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems wanting to upgrade 6.4-RELEASE will need to update to FreeBSD 5.3 or newer first, then to FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE.

> Important: Upgrading FreeBSD should, of course, only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files.

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