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@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ Project, and pointers to some other sources of information.</p>
<hr />
<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="INTRO" name="INTRO">1 Introduction</a></h2>
<p>This distribution is a release candidate of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE, the latest point
along the 7.3-STABLE branch.</p>
<p>This distribution is a release of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE, the latest point along the
7.3-STABLE branch.</p>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr />
@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ class="TRADEMARK">UNIX</span>. Most ports are also available as pre-compiled
<hr />
<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="AEN43" name="AEN43">1.2 Target Audience</a></h3>
<p>This release candidate of FreeBSD is suitable for all users. It has undergone a period
of testing and quality assurance checking to ensure the highest reliability and
<p>This release of FreeBSD is suitable for all users. It has undergone a period of
testing and quality assurance checking to ensure the highest reliability and
dependability.</p>
</div>
</div>
@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ distribution, while others are available on-line or in print versions.</p>
<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="RELEASE-DOCS" name="RELEASE-DOCS">4.1 Release
Documentation</a></h3>
<p>A number of other files provide more specific information about this release candidate
<p>A number of other files provide more specific information about this release
distribution. These files are provided in various formats. Most distributions will
include both ASCII text (<tt class="FILENAME">.TXT</tt>) and HTML (<tt
class="FILENAME">.HTM</tt>) renditions. Some distributions may also include other formats
@ -374,13 +374,13 @@ Acknowledgments</a></h2>
<p>FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many hundreds, if not thousands, of
individuals from around the world who have worked countless hours to bring about this
release candidate. For a complete list of FreeBSD developers and contributors, please see
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/"
release. For a complete list of FreeBSD developers and contributors, please see <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/"
target="_top">&#8220;Contributors to FreeBSD&#8221;</a> on the FreeBSD Web site or any of
its mirrors.</p>
<p>Special thanks also go to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
world, without whom this release candidate simply would not have been possible.</p>
world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.</p>
</div>
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<p class="COPYRIGHT">Copyright &copy; 2010 The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
<p class="PUBDATE">$FreeBSD: releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
205342 2010-03-19 18:33:40Z hrs $<br />
205371 2010-03-20 14:36:39Z hrs $<br />
</p>
<div class="LEGALNOTICE"><a id="TRADEMARKS" name="TRADEMARKS"></a>
@ -114,11 +114,10 @@ presented.</p>
recently added, changed, or deleted features of FreeBSD. It also provides some notes on
upgrading from previous versions of FreeBSD.</p>
<p>This distribution of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE is a release candidate distribution. It can
be found at <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a> or
any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) release candidate
distributions of FreeBSD can be found in the <a
href="../../../../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html"
<p>This distribution of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE is a release distribution. It can be found at
<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a> or any of its
mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) release distributions of FreeBSD
can be found in the <a href="../../../../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html"
target="_top">&#8220;Obtaining FreeBSD&#8221; appendix</a> to the <a
href="../../../../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/" target="_top">FreeBSD
Handbook</a>.</p>
@ -127,7 +126,9 @@ Handbook</a>.</p>
errata document is updated with &#8220;late-breaking&#8221; 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 7.3-RELEASE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site.</p>
errata for FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE can be found on <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.3R/errata.html"
target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.3R/errata.html</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT1">
@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements.</p>
information, consult the individual advisories available from <a
href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</p>
<div class="INFORMALTABLE"><a id="AEN38" name="AEN38"></a>
<div class="INFORMALTABLE"><a id="AEN39" name="AEN39"></a>
<table border="0" frame="void" class="CALSTABLE">
<col width="1*" />
<col width="1*" />
@ -319,7 +320,7 @@ use source address selection or the primary jail address for unbound outgoing
connections. The default is that the source address selection is enabled. Also, the jail
parameter <code class="VARNAME">ip4.saddrsel</code> and <code
class="VARNAME">ip6.saddrsel</code> are boolean option to enable the source address
selection for IPv4 and IPv6, respectively. If another boolean parameters <code
selection for IPv4 and IPv6, respectively. If the boolean parameters <code
class="VARNAME">ip4.nosaddrsel</code> and <code class="VARNAME">ip6.nosaddrsel</code> are
set, the child jails do not inherit the address selection options of the parent.</p>
@ -329,7 +330,7 @@ set, the child jails do not inherit the address selection options of the parent.
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lindev&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">lindev</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been added. This is for linux-specific pseudo devices and currently used only for <tt
has been added. This is for Linux-specific pseudo devices and currently used only for <tt
class="FILENAME">/dev/full</tt>.</p>
<p>FreeBSD Linux emulation layer now supports <code class="VARNAME">SO_PEERCRED</code>
@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the kernel.</p>
<hr />
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="BOOT" name="BOOT">2.2.1 Boot Loader Changes</a></h4>
<p>A new boot loader <tt class="LITERAL">gptzfsboot</tt>, which support GPT and ZFS has
<p>A new boot loader <tt class="LITERAL">gptzfsboot</tt>, which supports GPT and ZFS has
been added.</p>
<p>The boot loader <tt class="LITERAL">zfsboot</tt> now always uses 64-bit LBAs and
@ -414,8 +415,8 @@ supports ZFS has been added.</p>
<p>A bug in the boot loader has been fixed. It failed to recognize GPT correctly when the
system supports both of MBR and GPT and they are synchronized with each other.</p>
<p>[pc98] The <b class="APPLICATION">boot2</b> program has been replaced with the latest
version for i386.</p>
<p>[pc98] The <b class="APPLICATION">boot2</b> program has been reimplemented based on
the latest version for i386.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
@ -469,7 +470,10 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pmc&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3
library, and userland utilities <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pmcannotate&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pmcannotate</span>(8)</span></a>,
pmccontrol.8;, and <a
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pmccontrol&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pmccontrol</span>(8)</span></a>,
and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pmcstat&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pmcstat</span>(8)</span></a>, and
allows applications to use hardware performance counters to gather performance data about
@ -594,8 +598,8 @@ been improved for robust operation. Also, it now supports Yukon FE+ A0 including
<p>Several bugs in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mxge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mxge</span>(4)</span></a> driver
have been fixed and the firmware version is now 1.4.48b. It could lost the promiscuous
flag on resetting and a kernel panic on the hardware fault.</p>
have been fixed and the firmware version is now 1.4.48b. It could lose the promiscuous
flag on resetting and cause a kernel panic on the hardware fault.</p>
<p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nfe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable"><span
@ -762,7 +766,13 @@ bytes which is written by OpenSolaris.</p>
<p>The default stripe size of <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gstripe&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gstripe</span>(8)</span></a> GEOM
class has been changed from 4KB to 64KB.</p>
class has been changed from 4KB to 64KB. This change will affect users preferring the <tt
class="COMMAND">create</tt> command over the <tt class="COMMAND">label</tt> command,
which will now need to explicitly specify the old stripe size (<code
class="OPTION">-s</code> <tt class="LITERAL">4096</tt>) in order to use their old <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gstripe&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gstripe</span>(8)</span></a>
volumes.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hptrr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
@ -809,11 +819,12 @@ used by <b class="APPLICATION">UFS_DIRHASH</b>, has been fixed.</p>
<p>A new sysctl variable for the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=VFS&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">VFS</span>(9)</span></a> subsystem
<code class="VARNAME">vfs.flushbufqtarget</code> has been added. This fixes issues in <tt
class="LITERAL">bufdaemon</tt>, a kernel process responsible for flushing dirty buffers,
which can cause the process to deadlock in a certain workload. The value of the variable
determines the number of buffers will be flushed before allocating a new buffer. The
default value of the variable is <tt class="LITERAL">-1</tt> (disabled).</p>
<code class="VARNAME">vfs.flushbufqtarget</code> has been added. This can fix issues in
<tt class="LITERAL">bufdaemon</tt>, a kernel process responsible for flushing dirty
buffers, which can cause the process to deadlock in a certain workload. The value of the
variable determines the number of buffers will be flushed before allocating a new buffer.
The default value of the variable on 7.3-RELEASE is <tt class="LITERAL">-1</tt>
(disabled). The FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE uses <tt class="LITERAL">100</tt> by default.</p>
<p>ZFS has been updated from version 6 to version 13. This update includes numerous new
ZFS features, such as permitting non-<tt class="USERNAME">root</tt> users to perform some
@ -1268,8 +1279,16 @@ static_arp_gw="192.168.1.1 00:01:02:03:04:05"
<p>The timezone database has been updated to the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2010b</b>
release.</p>
<p>The timezone binary has been updated to the <b class="APPLICATION">tzcode2009k</b>
release.</p>
<p>The timezone libraries (stdtime part of <b class="APPLICATION">libc</b>) and related
binaries (<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zic&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">zic</span>(8)</span></a> and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zdump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">zdump</span>(8)</span></a>) have
been updated to the <b class="APPLICATION">tzcode2009k</b> release. Note that <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzsetup&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.3-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tzsetup</span>(8)</span></a> needs
to be run after the installation.</p>
<p><b class="APPLICATION">unifdef</b> has been updated to version 1.188.</p>
</div>