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# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/7.2R/Makefile,v 1.3 2009/04/10 13:07:15 blackend Exp $
# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/7.2R/Makefile,v 1.4 2009/04/29 06:53:46 hrs Exp $
.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
.include "../Makefile.conf"
@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
.include "../Makefile.inc"
.endif
DOCS= announce.sgml schedule.sgml
DOCS= announce.sgml relnotes.sgml schedule.sgml
DATA= docbook.css
DATA+= errata.html
DATA+= hardware.html
DATA+= readme.html
DATA+= relnotes.html
DATA+= relnotes-detailed.html
.include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk"

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2008, 2009 The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
<p class="PUBDATE">$FreeBSD: releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
191667 2009-04-29 15:22:58Z hrs $<br />
191669 2009-04-29 17:50:48Z hrs $<br />
</p>
<div class="LEGALNOTICE"><a id="TRADEMARKS" name="TRADEMARKS"></a>
@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</
<div class="INFORMALTABLE"><a id="AEN48" name="AEN48"></a>
<table border="0" frame="void" class="CALSTABLE">
<!--
<col width="1*" />
<col width="1*" />
<col width="3*" />
-->
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Advisory</th>
@ -274,8 +279,7 @@ environment with restricted process view and no networking.</p>
<li>
<p>SCTP (<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sctp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE"
><span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sctp</span>(4)</span></a>) with
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sctp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE"><span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sctp</span>(4)</span></a>) with
IPv6 in jails has been implemented.</p>
</li>
@ -328,29 +332,30 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ktr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2
supports a new KTR tracepoint in the <tt class="LITERAL">KTR_CALLOUT</tt> class to note
when a callout routine finishes executing.</p>
<p>Types of variables used to track amount of allocated System V shared memory have been
changed from <tt class="LITERAL">int</tt> to <tt class="LITERAL">size_t</tt>. This makes
it possible to use more than 2 GB shared memory segments on 64-bit architectures. Please
note the new BUGS section in <a
<p>Types of variables used to track the amount of allocated System V shared memory have
been changed from <tt class="LITERAL">int</tt> to <tt class="LITERAL">size_t</tt>. This
makes it possible to use more than 2 GB of memory for shared memory segments on 64-bit
architectures. Please note the new BUGS section in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=shmctl&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">shmctl</span>(2)</span></a> and
<tt class="FILENAME">/usr/src/UPDATING</tt> for limitations of this temporary
solution.</p>
<p>A <a
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysctl</span>(3)</span></a> leaf
node has a flag to tag itself as MPSAFE now.</p>
nodes have a flag to tag themselves as MPSAFE now.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD 32-bit system call translation layer now supports installing 32-bit system
calls for <tt class="LITERAL">VFS_AIO</tt>.</p>
<p>[amd64, i386] The FreeBSD virtual memory subsystem now supports Superpages. The
Superpages is a feature that enables each entry in the TLB (translation lookaside buffer)
to map a large physical memory region into a virtual address space in modern CPUs. This
provides possible memory savings for applications that share large amounts of memory
between the address spaces and performance improvements due to fewer TLB misses. This is
disabled by default and can be enabled by setting a loader tunable <code
<p>[amd64, i386] The FreeBSD virtual memory subsystem now supports <b
class="APPLICATION">Superpages</b>. The <b class="APPLICATION">Superpages</b> is a
feature that enables each entry in the TLB (translation lookaside buffer) to map a large
physical memory region into a virtual address space in modern CPUs. This provides
possible memory savings for applications that share large amounts of memory between the
address spaces and performance improvements due to fewer TLB misses. This is disabled by
default and can be enabled by setting a loader tunable <code
class="VARNAME">vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled</code> to <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt>.</p>
<div class="SECT3">
@ -393,7 +398,7 @@ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>bar</i></tt> ${<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>variable</i></t
<hr />
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="PROC" name="PROC">2.2.2 Hardware Support</a></h4>
<p>[sparc64] The FreeBSD now supports Ultra SPARC III (Cheetah) family.</p>
<p>[sparc64] The FreeBSD now supports Ultra SPARC III (Cheetah) processor family.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -420,9 +425,11 @@ has been added.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpuctl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cpuctl</span>(4)</span></a>
driver, which provides a special device <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/cpuctl</tt> as an
interface to the system CPU has been added. The functionality includes to retrieve CPUID
information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR), and perform CPU firmware
updates.</p>
interface to the system CPU has been added. The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpuctl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cpuctl</span>(4)</span></a>
functionality includes the ability to retrieve CPUID information, read/write machine
specific registers (MSR), and perform CPU firmware updates.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpufreq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -439,10 +446,10 @@ behavior by setting it to non-zero.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atkbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atkbd</span>(4)</span></a> now
disables the interrupt handler which is called from the keyboard callback function when
polled mode is enabled. This fixes duplicated/missing characters problem at mountroot on
multi CPU systems while <a
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atkbd</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now disables the interrupt handler which is called from the keyboard callback function
when polled mode is enabled. This fixes the problem of duplicated/missing characters at
the mountroot prompt on multi CPU systems while <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kbdmux&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kbdmux</span>(4)</span></a> is
enabled.</p>
@ -484,15 +491,16 @@ does. Note that it cannot be modified at run-time.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=agp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">agp</span>(4)</span></a> now
supports Intel G4X series graphics chipsets.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">agp</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now supports Intel G4X series graphics chipsets.</p>
<p>The DRM, a kernel module named Direct Rendering Manager that gives direct hardware
access to DRI clients, has been updated. Support for AMD/ATI r500, r600, r700, and IGP
based chips, XGI V3XE/V5/V8, and Intel i915 chipsets has been improved.</p>
<p>A new loader tunable <code class="VARNAME">hw.drm.msi</code> which controls if DRM
uses MSI or not. This is set to <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt> (enabled) by default.</p>
<p>A new loader tunable <code class="VARNAME">hw.drm.msi</code> has been added to control
if DRM uses MSI or not. This is set to <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt> (enabled) by
default.</p>
<p>The snd_au88x0(4) driver for Aureal Vortex 1/2/Advantage PCI has been removed because
this was broken for a long time.</p>
@ -500,15 +508,17 @@ this was broken for a long time.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_hda&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_hda</span>(4)</span></a>
driver has been updated. Changes include: multiple codec per HDA bus, multiple functional
groups per codec, multiple audio devices per functional group, digital (SPDIF/HDMI) audio
input/output, suspend/resume, and part of multichannel audio.</p>
driver has been updated. This changes include support for multiple codec per HDA bus,
multiple functional groups per codec, multiple audio devices per functional group,
digital (SPDIF/HDMI) audio input/output, suspend/resume, and part of multichannel
audio.</p>
<p>Note that due to added HDMI audio and logical audio devices support, updated driver
often provides several PCM devices. In some cases it can make system default audio device
no longer corresponding to the users's habitual audio connectors. In such cases the
default device can be specified in audio application setup or defined globally via <code
class="VARNAME">hw.snd.default_unit sysctl</code> as described in the <a
<p>Note that due to added HDMI audio and logical audio devices support, the updated
driver often provides several PCM devices. This means that in some cases the system
default audio device no longer corresponds to the users's habitual audio connectors. In
such cases the default device can be specified in audio applications' setup or defined
globally via <code class="VARNAME">hw.snd.default_unit sysctl</code>, as described in the
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sound&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sound</span>(4)</span></a> manual
page.</p>
@ -549,8 +559,7 @@ firmware has been updated to the latest version (4.6.X).</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cxgb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cxgb</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been updated to the firmware revision 4.7 and now supports hardware MAC
statistics.</p>
has been updated to firmware revision 4.7 and now supports hardware MAC statistics.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fxp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -577,7 +586,7 @@ added.</p>
<li>
<p>WoL (Wake on LAN) support for 82550, 82551, 82558, and 82559-based controllers has
been added. Note that ICH based controllers are treated as 82559, and 82557, earlier
revision of 82558, and 82559ER have no WoL capability.</p>
revisions of 82558, and 82559ER have no WoL capability.</p>
</li>
<li>
@ -587,11 +596,11 @@ on 82550 or 82551-based controllers.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>A bug in <a
<p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=igb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">igb</span>(4)</span></a> driver
which prevents a loader tunable <code class="VARNAME">hw.igb.ave_latency</code> from
working has been fixed.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">igb</span>(4)</span></a> driver,
which prevents the loader tunable <code class="VARNAME">hw.igb.ave_latency</code> from
working, has been fixed.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgbe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -607,7 +616,7 @@ now supports newer JMicron JMC250/JMC260 revisions.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=msk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">msk</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been improved. An issue which makes it hang up in a certain condition has been fixed.
A hardware MAC statistics support has been added and users can get the information via
Hardware MAC statistics support has been added and users can get the information via
sysctl variables named <code class="VARNAME">dev.msk.<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt>.stats</code>.</p>
@ -625,8 +634,9 @@ now supports hardware MAC statistics.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">re</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
improved. It now detects the link status. A new loader tunable <code
class="VARNAME">hw.re.prefer_iomap</code> to disable memory register mapping. This
tunable is <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> for all controllers except RTL8169SC family.</p>
class="VARNAME">hw.re.prefer_iomap</code> has been added, to disable memory register
mapping. This tunable is <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> for all controllers except RTL8169SC
family.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE"><span
@ -642,16 +652,16 @@ tagged frame handling has been fixed.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=txp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">txp</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now works on all supported architecture. Also, <a
now works on all supported architectures. Support has been added for <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a> support,
WoL support, checksum offload when VLAN enabled, better link state change handling, a new
sysctl variable <code class="VARNAME">dev.txp.<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt>.stats</code> for MAC statistics have been added. A new
sysctl variable <code class="VARNAME">dev.txp.<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt>.process_limit</code> to control how many received
frames should be served in Rx handler (set to 64 by default and valid ranges are 16 to
128 in unit of frames) has been added. The firmware has been updated to the latest
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">altq</span>(4)</span></a>, WoL,
checksum offload when VLAN enabled, and link state change handling has been improved, and
new sysctl variables <code class="VARNAME">dev.txp.<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt>.stats</code> for MAC statistics have been added. New
sysctl variables <code class="VARNAME">dev.txp.<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt>.process_limit</code> has been added, to control how
many received frames should be served in Rx handler (set to 64 by default and valid
ranges are 16 to 128 in unit of frames). The firmware has been updated to the latest
version.</p>
</div>
</div>
@ -690,16 +700,16 @@ it has been implemented for IPv4.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_netflow&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_netflow</span>(4)</span></a>
Netgraph node now supports ability to generate egress netflow instead or in addition to
ingress. An <tt class="LITERAL">NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG</tt> control message has been added
to control the new functionality.</p>
Netgraph node now includes support for generating egress netflow instead or in addition
to ingress. An <tt class="LITERAL">NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG</tt> control message has been
added to control the new functionality.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tap&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tap</span>(4)</span></a>, Ethernet
tunnel software network interface now supports <tt class="LITERAL">TAPGIFNAME</tt>
character device ioctl. This is a convenient shortcut to obtain network interface name
using file descriptor for character device.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tap</span>(4)</span></a> Ethernet
tunnel software network interface now supports a new <tt class="LITERAL">TAPGIFNAME</tt>
character device ioctl. This is a convenient shortcut to obtain the network interface
name using a file descriptor to a character device.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tap&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -707,9 +717,9 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tap&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2
supports <tt class="LITERAL">SIOCSIFMTU</tt> ioctl to set a higher MTU than 1500
(ETHERMTU). This allows <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tap&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tap</span>(4)</span></a> device to
be added to a bridge, which requires all interface members to have the same MTU, with an
interface configured for jumbo frames.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tap</span>(4)</span></a> devices
to be added to the same bridge (which requires all interface members to have the same
MTU) with an interface configured for jumbo frames.</p>
<p>The domains list for handling the list of supported domains in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=unix&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -734,32 +744,32 @@ now recognizes nForce MCP67 and MCP73 SATA controllers as AHCI.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ataraid&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ataraid</span>(4)</span></a>
driver now has an initial support for DDF metadata found on Adaptec HostRAID controllers.
Note that spares and rebuilds are not supported yet.</p>
driver now includes preliminary support for DDF metadata found on Adaptec HostRAID
controllers. Note that spares and rebuilds are not supported yet.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cam</span>(4)</span></a> SCSI
subsystem now supports a sysctl variable <code
subsystem now supports a new sysctl variable <code
class="VARNAME">kern.cam.cd.retry_count</code>. This controls the number of retries for
the CD media. When trying to read scratched or damaged CDs and DVDs, the default
mechanism is sub-optimal, and programs like <b class="APPLICATION">ddrescue</b> do much
better if you turn off the retries entirely since their algorithms do it by themselves.
This value is set to <tt class="LITERAL">4</tt> (for a total 5 attempts) by default.
Setting to 0 turns off all retry attempts.</p>
This value is set to <tt class="LITERAL">4</tt> (for a total of 5 attempts) by default.
Setting it to <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> turns off all retry attempts.</p>
<p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ciss&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ciss</span>(4)</span></a> driver
which caused low &#8220;max device openings&#8221; count that has led to poor performance
has been fixed.</p>
which caused low &#8220;max device openings&#8221; count and led to poor performance has
been fixed.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=glabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">glabel</span>(8)</span></a> GEOM
class now supports a new UFS-based label called <tt class="LITERAL">ufsid</tt> that can
be used to reference UFS-carrying devices by the unique file system ID. This file system
ID is automatically generated and detected when <a
ID is automatically generated and detected when the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=glabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">glabel</span>(8)</span></a> GEOM
class is enabled. An example of this new label is: <tt
@ -770,16 +780,16 @@ general is to avoid problems of device renaming when shifting drives or controll
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gjournal&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gjournal</span>(8)</span></a> GEOM
class now supports the root file system. Previously, an unclean shutdown would make it
impossible to mount root file system at boot.</p>
impossible to mount the root file system at boot.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpart&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gpart</span>(8)</span></a> utility
has been updated. The APM scheme now supports Tivo Series 1 partitions (read only), a new
EBR scheme to support Extended Boot Records has been added, the BSD scheme now support
bootcode, and bugs in PC98 and VTOC8 scheme have been fixed.</p>
bootcode, and bugs in the PC98 and VTOC8 schemes have been fixed.</p>
<p>An issue in the <a
<p>An issue in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gvinum&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gvinum</span>(8)</span></a> with
access permissions to underlying disks used by a gvinum plex has been fixed. If the plex
@ -795,7 +805,7 @@ has been updated to version 1.16 from the vendor.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mmc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mmc</span>(4)</span></a> and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mmcsd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mmcsd</span>(4)</span></a> driver
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mmcsd</span>(4)</span></a> drivers
now support MMC and SDHC cards, high speed timing, wide bus, and multiblock
transfers.</p>
@ -807,7 +817,7 @@ now in the <tt class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sdhci&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sdhci</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been added. This supports PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 according to SD
has been added. This supports PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 according to the SD
Host Controller Specification.</p>
<p>The <a
@ -828,7 +838,7 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mmcsd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mmcsd</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sdhci&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sdhci</span>(4)</span></a> driver
are now included as a kernel module.</p>
are now included as kernel modules.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
@ -838,16 +848,16 @@ are now included as a kernel module.</p>
<p>The semantics of <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acl&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acl</span>(3)</span></a> extended
access control list has been changed as follows:</p>
access control lists has been changed as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The inode modification time (mtime) is not updated when extended attribute are added,
<p>The inode modification time (mtime) is not updated when extended attributes are added,
modified, or removed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The inode access time (atime) is not updated when extended attribute are queried.</p>
<p>The inode access time (atime) is not updated when extended attributes are queried.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@ -860,7 +870,7 @@ variable is enabled by default to maintain the previous behavior.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD UDF file system now supports a fifo.</p>
<p>The shared vnode locking for pathname lookups in <a
<p>The shared vnode locking for pathname lookups in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=VFS&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">VFS</span>(9)</span></a> subsystem
has been improved. This is disabled by default. Setting a sysctl variable <code
@ -877,8 +887,8 @@ equivalent to the sysctl variable has been removed.</p>
<p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrol&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atacontrol</span>(8)</span></a>
utility which prevents it from working when <tt class="FILENAME">/usr</tt> is not mounted
or invoked from <tt class="FILENAME">/rescue</tt>, has been fixed.</p>
utility, which prevents it from working when <tt class="FILENAME">/usr</tt> is not
mounted or invoked from <tt class="FILENAME">/rescue</tt>, has been fixed.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=btpand&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -916,8 +926,8 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=du&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">du</span>(1)</span></a> utility now
supports an <code class="OPTION">-l</code> flag. When specified, the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=du&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">du</span>(1)</span></a> counts a file
with multiple hard links as multiple different files.</p>
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">du</span>(1)</span></a> utility counts
a file with multiple hard links as multiple different files.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=du&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE"><span
@ -930,8 +940,9 @@ files.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=du&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">du</span>(1)</span></a> utility now
supports a <code class="OPTION">-B <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>blocksize</i></tt></code>
option to calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is different from the
<code class="OPTION">-k</code> or <code class="OPTION">-m</code> options or setting <code
option to calculate block counts in blocks of <tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>blocksize</i></tt> bytes. This is different from the <code
class="OPTION">-k</code> or <code class="OPTION">-m</code> options or setting <code
class="VARNAME">BLOCKSIZE</code> and gives an estimate of how much space the examined
file hierarchy would require on a file system with the given <tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>blocksize</i></tt>. Unless in <code class="OPTION">-A</code> mode,
@ -954,10 +965,11 @@ compact and more script-friendly representation.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fetch&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fetch</span>(1)</span></a> utility
now supports an <code class="OPTION">-i</code> flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP
1.1 request. If specified it will cause the file to be downloaded only if it is more
recent than the mtime of the file. Also, <b class="APPLICATION">libfetch</b> now accepts
the mtime in the url structure and a flag to indicate when this behavior is desired.</p>
now supports an <code class="OPTION">-i</code> flag which supports the If-Modified-Since
HTTP 1.1 request. If specified it will cause the file to be downloaded only if it is more
recent than the mtime of the local file. Also, <b class="APPLICATION">libfetch</b> now
accepts the mtime in the url structure and a flag to indicate when this behavior is
desired.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsck&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -976,8 +988,8 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsck&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.
survive with file systems that has very serious data damage. This is a useful last resort
when on disk data damage is very serious and causes <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsck&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fsck</span>(8)</span></a> to crash
otherwise.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fsck</span>(8)</span></a> to
crash.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -1002,7 +1014,7 @@ warning message.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">make</span>(1)</span></a> utility
now supports a <code class="OPTION">-p</code> flag to print the input graph only, not
now supports a <code class="OPTION">-p</code> flag to print the input graph only, without
executing any commands. The output is the same as <code class="OPTION">-d g1</code>. When
combined with <code class="OPTION">-f /dev/null</code>, only the built-in rules of make
are displayed.</p>
@ -1018,7 +1030,7 @@ generated in addition to the same effect of a <code class="OPTION">-q</code> fla
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">make</span>(1)</span></a> utility
now supports the <code class="VARNAME">.MAKE.JOB.PREFIX</code> variable. If <code
class="OPTION">-j</code> and <code class="OPTION">-v</code> are specified, it outputs for
class="OPTION">-j</code> and <code class="OPTION">-v</code> are specified, its output for
each target is prefixed with a token <tt class="LITERAL">--- <tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target</i></tt> ---</tt> the first part of which can be controlled
via the variable.</p>
@ -1030,7 +1042,7 @@ now supports <code class="VARNAME">.MAKE.PID</code> and <code
class="VARNAME">.MAKE.PPID</code> variable. These are set to process ID of the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">make</span>(1)</span></a> process
and one of its parent process respectively.</p>
and its parent process respectively.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=makefs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -1041,7 +1053,7 @@ utility to create a file system image from a directory tree has been added.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mergemaster&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mergemaster</span>(8)</span></a>
utility now supports an <code class="OPTION">-F</code> option to automatically install
files that differ only in version control ID strings.</p>
files that differ only in their version control ID strings.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -1059,7 +1071,7 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netstat&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">netstat</span>(1)</span></a>
utility now reports <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=unix&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">unix</span>(4)</span></a> sockets
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">unix</span>(4)</span></a> sockets'
listen queue statistics when an <code class="OPTION">-L</code> flag is specified.</p>
<p>A bug in the <a
@ -1088,15 +1100,16 @@ registers (BAR) that are assigned resources for each device.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=powerd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">powerd</span>(8)</span></a>
program has been improved. Changes include reasonable CPU load estimation on SMP systems
and a new mode named as <tt class="LITERAL">hiadaptive</tt> for AC-powered systems which
rises frequency twice faster, drops it 4 times slower, prefers twice lower CPU load and
has additional delay before leaving the highest frequency after the period of maximum
load.</p>
and a new mode named as <tt class="LITERAL">hiadaptive</tt> for AC-powered systems. The
<tt class="LITERAL">hiadaptive</tt> mode raises the CPU frequency twice as fast as <tt
class="LITERAL">adaptive</tt>, it drops the CPU frequency 4 times slower, prefers twice
lower CPU load and has an additional delay before leaving the highest frequency after the
period of maximum load.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=stat&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">stat</span>(1)</span></a> utility
now displays an octal representation of suid, sgid and sticky bits when an <code
now displays an octal representation of suid, sgid and sticky bits when the <code
class="OPTION">-x</code> flag is specified.</p>
<p>The <a
@ -1113,8 +1126,8 @@ longest input line.</p>
<p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rpc.yppasswdd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rpc.yppasswdd</span>(8)</span></a>
program which leaves a zombie process when a password or default shell is changed has
been fixed.</p>
program, which causes it to leave a zombie process when a password or default shell is
changed, has been fixed.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
@ -1132,10 +1145,11 @@ release to the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2009f</b> release.</p>
<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="PORTS" name="PORTS">2.5 Ports/Packages Collection
Infrastructure</a></h3>
<p>A bug in <a
<p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_create&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_create</span>(1)</span></a>
which prevents the <code class="OPTION">-n</code> flag from working has been fixed.</p>
utility, which prevents the <code class="OPTION">-n</code> flag from working has been
fixed.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Ports Collection now supports multiple <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
@ -1185,7 +1199,7 @@ kernels distributed as a part of an official FreeBSD release. The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a> utility requires that the host
being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</p>
being upgraded has Internet connectivity.</p>
<p>An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the <tt
class="COMMAND">Upgrade</tt> option from the main <a

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