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2008, 2009 The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
<p class="PUBDATE">$FreeBSD: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
196375 2009-08-19 03:58:12Z edwin $<br />
199847 2009-11-26 20:55:44Z hrs $<br />
</p>
<div class="LEGALNOTICE"><a id="TRADEMARKS" name="TRADEMARKS"></a>
@ -395,10 +395,10 @@ target="_top">SA-09:14.devfs</a></td>
to avoid panic (trap 9) at <code class="FUNCTION">map_invalidate_cache_range()</code>
even if Intel CPU is used. This tunable can be set to <tt class="LITERAL">-1</tt>
(default), <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt>. The <tt
class="LITERAL">-1</tt> is same as the current behavior, which automatically disable <tt
class="LITERAL">-1</tt> is same as the current behavior, which automatically disables <tt
class="LITERAL">CLFLUSH</tt> on Intel CPUs without <tt class="LITERAL">CPUID_SS</tt>
(this should be occurred on Xen only). You can specify <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt> when
this panic happened on non-Intel CPUs (such as AMD's). Because disabling <tt
(this should occurr on Xen only). You can specify <tt class="LITERAL">1</tt> when this
panic happens on non-Intel CPUs (such as AMD's). Because disabling <tt
class="LITERAL">CLFLUSH</tt> can reduce performance, you can try with setting <tt
class="LITERAL">0</tt> on Intel CPUs without <tt class="LITERAL">SS</tt> to use <tt
class="LITERAL">CLFLUSH</tt> feature.</p>
@ -420,9 +420,9 @@ kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel:</p>
options VIMAGE
</pre>
<p>Note that an option <tt class="LITERAL">SCTP</tt> in the <tt
class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel is not compatible with the <tt
class="LITERAL">VIMAGE</tt>. This limitation will be fixed in the next release.</p>
<p>Note that <tt class="LITERAL">options SCTP</tt> in the <tt
class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel is not compatible with <tt class="LITERAL">options
VIMAGE</tt>. This limitation will be fixed in the next release.</p>
<p>The vimage is a jail with a virtualized instance of the FreeBSD network stack. It can
be created by using <a
@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>vnet1.example.net</i></tt> path=/ persist
</pre>
<p>The vimage has own loopback interface and a separated network stack including the L3
routing table. Network interfaces on the system can be moved by using <a
routing tables. Network interfaces on the system can be moved by using <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>
<code class="OPTION">vnet</code> option between the different vimage jails and outside of
@ -447,8 +447,10 @@ them.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=epair&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">epair</span>(4)</span></a>
pseudo-interface driver has been added to help communication between vimage jails. It
emulates a pair of back-to-back connected Ethernet interfaces. For example, following
commands create the interface pair:</p>
emulates a pair of back-to-back connected Ethernet interfaces. For example, the following
commands create an interface pair of <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=epair&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">epair</span>(4)</span></a>:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> ifconfig epair0 create
@ -468,19 +470,19 @@ pseudo-interfaces and any physical interfaces on the system can be moved between
jails by using <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>
<code class="OPTION">vnet</code> option. Even after one of an <a
<code class="OPTION">vnet</code> option as described above. Even after half of an <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=epair&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">epair</span>(4)</span></a> pair is
moved, the back-to-back connection still valid and can be used for inter-jail
communication.</p>
<p>Note that the vimage is still considered as an experimental feature.</p>
<p>Note that vimage is still considered as an experimental feature.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A jail can have arbitrary named parameters similar to environmental variables and the
fixed jail parameters in the previous releases have been replaced with them. The jail
name can be used for identifying the jail in <a
<p>A jail can now have arbitrary named parameters similar to environmental variables and
the fixed jail parameters in the previous releases have been replaced with them. The jail
name can now be used for identifying the jail in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jexec&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jexec</span>(8)</span></a> and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=killall&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -488,9 +490,9 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=killall&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD
</li>
<li>
<p>Multiple addresses of both IPv4 and IPv6 per jail has been supported. It is even
possible to have jails without an IP address at all, which basically gives one a chrooted
environment with restricted process view and no networking.</p>
<p>Multiple IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses per jail are now supported. It is even possible to
have jails without an IP address at all, which basically gives one a chrooted environment
with restricted process view and no networking.</p>
</li>
<li>
@ -516,10 +518,10 @@ start with a specific route FIB now.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A <tt class="LITERAL">show jails</tt> subcommand in <a
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ddb&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ddb</span>(8)</span></a> has been
added.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ddb</span>(8)</span></a> kernel
debugger now supports a <tt class="LITERAL">show jails</tt> subcommand.</p>
</li>
<li>
@ -547,6 +549,15 @@ kernel symbol table.</p>
the default Linux infrastructure port is <tt
class="FILENAME">emulators/linux_base-f10</tt> (Fedora 10).</p>
<p>[amd64, i386] The FreeBSD virtual memory subsystem now supports fully transparent use
of <b class="APPLICATION">superpages</b> for application memory; application memory pages
are dynamically promoted to or demoted from superpages without any modification to
application code. This change offers the benefit of large page sizes such as improved
virtual memory efficiency and reduced TLB (translation lookaside buffer) misses without
downsides like application changes and virtual memory inflexibility. This can be enabled
by setting a loader tunable <code class="VARNAME">vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled</code> to <tt
class="LITERAL">1</tt> and is enabled by default on amd64.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ddb&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ddb</span>(8)</span></a> kernel
@ -555,12 +566,13 @@ debugger now supports a <tt class="COMMAND">show mount</tt> subcommand.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The FreeBSD DTrace subsystem now supports a probe for process execution.</p>
<p>[7.2R] [amd64] The FreeBSD kernel virtual address space has been increased to 6GB.
This allows subsystems to use larger virtual memory space than before. For example, <a
This allows subsystems to use larger virtual memory space than before. For example, the
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> adaptive
replacement cache (ARC) requires large kernel memory space to cache file system data, so
it benefits from the increased address space. Note that the ceiling on the kernel map
size is now 60% of the size rather than an absolute quantity.</p>
size is now 60% of the size of physical memory rather than an absolute quantity.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kld&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -591,20 +603,11 @@ nodes have a flag to tag themselves as MPSAFE now.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The FreeBSD 32-bit system call translation layer now supports installing 32-bit
system calls for <tt class="LITERAL">VFS_AIO</tt>.</p>
<p>[7.2R] [amd64, i386] The FreeBSD virtual memory subsystem now supports fully
transparent use of <b class="APPLICATION">superpages</b> for application memory;
application memory pages are dynamically promoted to or demoted from superpages without
any modification to application code. This change offers the benefit of large page sizes
such as improved virtual memory efficiency and reduced TLB (translation lookaside buffer)
misses without downsides like application changes and virtual memory inflexibility. 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>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=clock_gettime&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">clock_gettime</span>(2)</span></a>
and the related system calls now support a clock ID <tt
class="LITERAL">CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID</tt>, defined in POSIX.</p>
class="LITERAL">CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID</tt>, as defined in POSIX.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpuset&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -671,7 +674,7 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fcntl&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+8
call now supports <tt class="LITERAL">F_DUP2FD</tt> command. This is equivalent to <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dup&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dup</span>(2)</span></a>, and
compatible with Sun Solaris and IBM AIX.</p>
compatible with the Sun Solaris and the IBM AIX.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The FreeBSD's <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=linux&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -683,8 +686,8 @@ primitives.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procstat&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">procstat</span>(1)</span></a>
utility has been added. This is a process inspection utility which provides both some of
the missing functionality from <a
utility has been added. This is a process inspection utility which provides some of the
missing functionality from <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">procfs</span>(5)</span></a> and
new functionality for monitoring and debugging specific processes.</p>
@ -692,8 +695,8 @@ new functionality for monitoring and debugging specific processes.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The client side functionality of <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rpc.lockd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rpc.lockd</span>(8)</span></a> has
been implemented in FreeBSD kernel. This implementation provides the correct semantics
for <a
been implemented in the FreeBSD kernel. This implementation provides the correct
semantics for <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=flock&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">flock</span>(2)</span></a> style
locks which are used by the <a
@ -727,8 +730,8 @@ call now supports <code class="OPTION">WNOWAIT</code> flag to keep the process w
status is returned in a waitable state and <code class="OPTION">WSTOPPED</code> which is
equivalent to <code class="OPTION">WUNTRACED</code>.</p>
<p>[7.1R] [amd64, i386, sparc64] The FreeBSD kernel now supports initial support of
binding interrupts to CPUs.</p>
<p>[7.1R] [amd64, i386, sparc64] The FreeBSD kernel now has initial support of binding
interrupts to CPUs.</p>
<p>[7.1R] [amd64, i386] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sched_ule&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -757,8 +760,8 @@ ID.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">boot</span>(8)</span></a> now
supports 4-byte volume ID that certain versions of <span
class="TRADEMARK">Windows</span>&reg; put into the MBR and invoking PXE by pressing F6
key on some supported BIOSes.</p>
class="TRADEMARK">Windows</span>&reg; put into the MBR and invoking PXE by pressing the
F6 key on some supported BIOSes.</p>
<p>[7.2R] [i386] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -800,54 +803,65 @@ boot partition if required.</p>
<hr />
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="PROC" name="PROC">2.2.2 Hardware Support</a></h4>
<p>The FreeBSD now includes an experimental support for MIPS platform.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD now includes experimental support for MIPS platform.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpi</span>(4)</span></a>
subsystem now supports System Resource Affinity Table (SRAT) used to describe affinity
relationships between CPUs and memory, ACPI 3.0 fields in the MADT including X2APIC
entries and UIDs for local SAPICs, and ACPI 3.0 flags in the FADT.</p>
subsystem now supports the System Resource Affinity Table (SRAT) used to describe
affinity relationships between CPUs and memory, ACPI 3.0 fields in the MADT including
X2APIC entries and UIDs for local SAPICs, and ACPI 3.0 flags in the FADT.</p>
<p>[powerpc] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpufreq&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cpufreq</span>(4)</span></a> now
supports PowerPC G5, along with a skeleton SMU driver in order to slew CPU voltage during
frequency changes.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cpufreq</span>(4)</span></a>
framework now supports PowerPC G5, along with a skeleton SMU driver in order to slew CPU
voltage during frequency changes.</p>
<p>The sec(4) driver has been added to provide support for the integrated security engine
found in Freescale system-on-chip devices.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD TTY layer has been replaced with a new one which has better support for
SMP and robust resource handling. A tty now has own mutex and it is expected to improve
scalability when compared to the old implementation based on Giant lock.</p>
scalability when compared to the old implementation based on the Giant lock.</p>
<p>[amd64, i386] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uart&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">uart</span>(4)</span></a> is now
the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the <a
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">uart</span>(4)</span></a> driver
is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sio&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sio</span>(4)</span></a> driver.
Note that the device nodes have been renamed with <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/cuau<tt
Note that the device nodes have been renamed from <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/cuad<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt></tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/ttyd<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt></tt> to <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/cuau<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt></tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/ttyu<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>N</i></tt></tt>.</p>
<div class="IMPORTANT">
<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
<p><b>Important:</b> Users who are upgrading will need to change their kernel
configurations and possibly also <tt class="FILENAME">/boot/loader.conf</tt> and <tt
class="FILENAME">/boot/device.hints</tt>.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p>The FreeBSD USB subsystem has been reimplemented to support modern devices and better
SMP scalability. The new implementation includes Giant-lock-free device drivers, Linux
SMP scalability. The new implementation includes Giant-lock-free device drivers, a Linux
compatibility layer, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=usbconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">usbconfig</span>(8)</span></a>
utility, full support for split transaction and isochronous transaction, and so on.
Device node names for USB devices are now in a the form of <tt
class="FILENAME">/dev/usb/<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>bus</i></tt>.<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dev</i></tt>.<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>iface</i></tt>.<tt
utility, full support for split transaction and isochronous transaction, and more. Device
node names for USB devices are now in a the form of <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/usb/<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>bus</i></tt>.<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dev</i></tt>.<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>endpoint</i></tt></tt>, and <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/usbctl</tt>
is the master device node. The name <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/ugen0.1</tt> in the
previous releases has been renamed as <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/ugen/0.1.0.0</tt>, for
example.</p>
is the master device node. Note that the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ugen&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ugen</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has nodes for each device as <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/ugen<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>bus</i></tt>.<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dev</i></tt></tt> for
backward compatibility.</p>
<p>[7.2R] [sparc64] The FreeBSD now supports Ultra SPARC III (Cheetah) processor
family.</p>
<p>[7.2R] [sparc64] FreeBSD now supports Ultra SPARC III (Cheetah) processor family.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -916,7 +930,7 @@ Tomatillo JBus to PCI 2.2 bridges has been added.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=u3g&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">u3g</span>(4)</span></a> driver
for USB based 3G cards and dongles including Vodafone Mobile Connect Card 3G, Qualcomm
CDMA MSM, Huawei E220, Novatel U740, Sierra MC875U, and so on has been added. This
CDMA MSM, Huawei E220, Novatel U740, Sierra MC875U, and more has been added. This
provides support for the multiple USB-to-serial interfaces exposed by many 3G USB/PC Card
modems, and the device is accessed through the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ucom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -928,11 +942,11 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tty&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sched_ule&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sched_ule</span>(4)</span></a>
scheduler now supports a loader tunable <code
class="VARNAME">machdep.hyperthreading_enabled</code> as the <a
scheduler now supports the loader tunable <code
class="VARNAME">machdep.hyperthreading_enabled</code> just like <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sched_4bsd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sched_4bsd</span>(4)</span></a>
does. Note that it cannot be modified at run-time.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sched_4bsd</span>(4)</span></a>.
Note that it cannot be modified at run-time.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cmx&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -942,10 +956,10 @@ driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</p>
<p>[7.1R] [sparc64] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kbdmux&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kbdmux</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been added. The <a
now supports sparc64. The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sunkbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sunkbd</span>(4)</span></a> now
supports <a
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sunkbd</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now supports <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atkbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">atkbd</span>(4)</span></a>
emulation like <a
@ -956,8 +970,8 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ukbd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.
<p>[7.1R] An option of the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=puc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">puc</span>(4)</span></a> driver
<tt class="LITERAL">PUC_FASTINTR</tt> has been no longer supported.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">puc</span>(4)</span></a> driver,
<tt class="LITERAL">PUC_FASTINTR</tt>, is no longer supported.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=psm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -978,7 +992,7 @@ been imported from OpenBSD.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD audio subsystem has been improved. The changes include volume per channel,
high quality fixed-point band-limited SINC sampling rate converter, bit-perfect mode,
transparent/adaptive virtual channel, and exclusive stream. For more details, see <a
transparent/adaptive virtual channel, and exclusive stream. For more details, see the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd</span>(4)</span></a> manual
page.</p>
@ -988,21 +1002,22 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=agp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">agp</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now supports Intel G4X series graphics chipsets.</p>
<p>[7.2R] 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>[7.2R] The Direct Rendering Manager (<b class="APPLICATION">DRM</b>), a kernel module
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>[7.2R] 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>[7.2R] The snd_au88x0(4) driver for Aureal Vortex 1/2/Advantage PCI has been removed
because this was broken for a long time.</p>
because it has been broken for a long time.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_hda&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_hda</span>(4)</span></a>
driver has been updated. This changes include support for multiple codec per HDA bus,
driver has been updated. These changes include support for multiple codecs 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>
@ -1011,8 +1026,8 @@ audio.</p>
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
setup or defined globally via <code class="VARNAME">hw.snd.default_unit</code> sysctl
variable, as described in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sound&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sound</span>(4)</span></a> manual
page.</p>
@ -1020,7 +1035,7 @@ page.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=agp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">agp</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now supports Intel G33 and G45.</p>
now supports the Intel G33 and G45.</p>
<p>[7.1R] [i386] The <tt class="FILENAME">dpms(4)</tt> driver has been added to use the
VESA BIOS for DPMS during suspend and resume.</p>
@ -1057,7 +1072,7 @@ has been improved. Changes include:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The multicast filter re-programming becomes robust.</p>
<p>The multicast filter re-programming is now more robust.</p>
</li>
<li>
@ -1084,7 +1099,7 @@ revisions of 82558, and 82559ER have no WoL capability.</p>
<li>
<p>[7.2R] VLAN hardware tag insertion/stripping support and Tx/Rx checksum offload for
VLAN frames support have been added. Note that the VLAN hardware assistance is available
VLAN frames support has been added. Note that the VLAN hardware assistance is available
only on 82550 or 82551-based controllers.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@ -1092,7 +1107,7 @@ only on 82550 or 82551-based controllers.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=miibus&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">miibus</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now supports Marvell 88E3016.</p>
now supports the Marvell 88E3016.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=msk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -1155,7 +1170,7 @@ Atheros Hardware Access Layer, has been updated to the open source version.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=axe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">axe</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been improved in performance by eliminating extra context switches and now supports
Apple USB Ethernet adapter.</p>
the Apple USB Ethernet adapter.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -1172,7 +1187,7 @@ has been updated to firmware revision 4.7 and now supports hardware MAC statisti
<p>[7.2R] A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=igb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<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
which prevented the loader tunable <code class="VARNAME">hw.igb.ave_latency</code> from
working, has been fixed.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
@ -1188,7 +1203,7 @@ now supports newer JMicron JMC250/JMC260 revisions.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=msk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-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.
has been improved. An issue which made it hang up in a certain condition has been fixed.
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>
@ -1209,7 +1224,7 @@ family.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rl</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
improved. It now detects the link status and a bug which prevents it from working on
improved. It now detects the link status and a bug which prevented it from working on
systems with more than 4GB memory has been fixed.</p>
<p>[7.2R] A bug in <a
@ -1290,11 +1305,6 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hme</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been improved.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgbe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ixgbe</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been updated to version 1.6.2 from Intel.</p>
<p>[7.1R] A bug in some of the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=miibus&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">miibus</span>(4)</span></a>
@ -1346,7 +1356,7 @@ has been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</p>
This is a kernel network dispatch interface which allows device drivers (and other packet
sources) to direct packets to protocols for directly dispatched or deferred processing.
The new implementation supports up to one netisr thread per CPU, and several benchmarks
on SMP machines show substantial performance improvement over the old one.</p>
on SMP machines show substantial performance improvement over the previous version.</p>
<p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -1374,8 +1384,8 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0
page.</p>
<p>The IGMPv3 and SSM (Source-Specific Multicast) including IPv6 SSM and MLDv2 have been
added. Although the old KAME MLDv2 hooks has been replaced with the new implementation,
the related kernel programming interface is preserved.</p>
added. Although the old KAME MLDv2 hooks have been replaced with the new implementation,
the related kernel programming interfaces have been preserved.</p>
<p>The multicast routing code has been improved and the IPv4 and IPv6 support has been
split.</p>
@ -1501,14 +1511,14 @@ notified.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bpf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bpf</span>(4)</span></a> now
supports an ioctl <tt class="LITERAL">BIOCSETFNR</tt>. This is just like <tt
class="LITERAL">BIOCSETF</tt> but it does not drop all the packets buffered on the
class="LITERAL">BIOCSETF</tt>, but it does not drop all the packets buffered on the
descriptor and reset the statistics.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=if_bridge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">if_bridge</span>(4)</span></a> now
allow to limit the number of source MACs that can be behind a bridge interface via <tt
class="LITERAL">ifmaxaddr</tt> parameter of <a
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">if_bridge</span>(4)</span></a>
interface can limit the number of source MACs that can be behind a bridge interface via
<tt class="LITERAL">ifmaxaddr</tt> parameter of <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>.</p>
@ -1529,8 +1539,8 @@ feature.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=enc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">enc</span>(4)</span></a> now
supports sysctl variables to control whether the firewalls or <a
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">enc</span>(4)</span></a> interface
now supports sysctl variables to control whether the firewalls or <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bpf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bpf</span>(4)</span></a> will see
inner and outer headers or just inner or outer headers for incoming and outgoing IPsec
@ -1548,7 +1558,7 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8
subsystem that PMTU was broken in those cases when there was a route with a lower MTU
than the MTU of the outgoing interface, has been fixed.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The netatm subsystem has been removed due to lacking of multiprocessor
<p>[7.1R] The netatm subsystem has been removed due to lacking multiprocessor
support.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
@ -1572,9 +1582,9 @@ allows underscore in domain names. Although this is a violation of RFC 1034 [STD
is accepted by certain name servers as well as other popular operating systems' resolver
library.</p>
<p>[7.1R] A socket option <tt class="LITERAL">TCP_CONGESTION</tt> for TCP socket has been
added. This is for setting and retrieving the congestion control algorithm. The name used
is to allow compatibility with Linux.</p>
<p>[7.1R] A socket option <tt class="LITERAL">TCP_CONGESTION</tt> for TCP sockets has
been added. This is for setting and retrieving the congestion control algorithm. The name
used is to allow compatibility with Linux.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rwlock&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -1701,19 +1711,19 @@ default. To enable this, adding the following kernel options to your kernel conf
file and rebuild the kernel:</p>
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
device ahci
device siis
device ahci
device siis
</pre>
<p>The current implementation supports AHCI-compliant controllers and SiliconImage
SiI3124/SiI3132/SiI3531 controllers. The device node of an ATA drive is <tt
class="LITERAL">ada</tt> and one of an ATAPI drive is <tt class="LITERAL">cd</tt>.</p>
class="LITERAL">ada</tt> and an ATAPI drive is <tt class="LITERAL">cd</tt>.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD iSCSI initiator implementation has been improved and supports IPv6.</p>
<p>A userland utility <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mftutil&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mftutil</span>(8)</span></a> for
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfiutil&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mfiutil</span>(8)</span></a> for
the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mfi</span>(4)</span></a> devices
@ -1736,7 +1746,8 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=siis&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">siis</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been added to provide support for SiliconImage SiI3124/3132/3531 SATA2 controllers.
It supports Serial ATA and ATAPI devices, port multipliers (including FIS-based
switching), hardware command queues (31 command per port) and Native Command Queuing.</p>
switching), hardware command queues (31 commands per port) and Native Command
Queuing.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -1806,7 +1817,7 @@ underlying disks, requiring them to be opened for reading as well as writing.</p
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hptmv&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hptmv</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been updated to version 1.16 from the vendor.</p>
has been updated to version 1.16 from HighPoint.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mmc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -1914,6 +1925,16 @@ CPU load.</p>
<hr />
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="FS" name="FS">2.2.5 File Systems</a></h4>
<p>&#8220;dangerously dedicated&#8221; mode for the UFS file system is no longer
supported.</p>
<div class="IMPORTANT">
<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
<p><b>Important:</b> Such disks will need to be reformatted to work with this
release.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gvinum&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gvinum</span>(8)</span></a> now
@ -1959,7 +1980,8 @@ is <tt class="LITERAL">newnfs</tt>, and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_newnfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_newnfs</span>(8)</span></a>
program has also been added. The old, unmaintained NFSv4 client based on an
implementation at University of Michigan was removed from the FreeBSD source tree.</p>
implementation from the University of Michigan was removed from the FreeBSD source
tree.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD NFS subsystem now uses TCP as the default transport.</p>
@ -2037,7 +2059,7 @@ default utility for building the FreeBSD base system.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=awk&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">awk</span>(1)</span></a> utility
now supports 64 files. The upper limit was 20 in the prior releases.</p>
now supports 64 files. The upper limit was 20 in prior releases.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsnmpd&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -2055,7 +2077,7 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cat&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cp&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cp</span>(1)</span></a> now use a
larger buffer if the number of pages of the physical memory on the system is grater than
32k. This reduces a number of context switches.</p>
32k. This reduces the number of context switches.</p>
<p>A new BSD-licensed <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpio&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -2237,7 +2259,7 @@ analysis.</p>
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=route&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">route</span>(8)</span></a> utility
now supports <tt class="COMMAND">show</tt>, <tt class="COMMAND">weights</tt>, and <tt
class="COMMAND">sticky</tt> commands. For more details, see <a
class="COMMAND">sticky</tt> commands. For more details, see the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=route&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">route</span>(8)</span></a> manual
page.</p>
@ -2264,6 +2286,46 @@ disabled for setuid/setgid processes. The <code class="VARNAME">$ORIGIN</code>
translation relies on the <tt class="LITERAL">AT_EXECPATH</tt> auxinfo supplied by the
FreeBSD kernel.</p>
<p>It is no longer possible to create UFS filesystems in &#8220;dangerously
dedicated&#8221; mode using <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
since this mode is no longer supported.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
menus have been simplified to reduce confusion and duplication with other parts of the
system. The <b class="APPLICATION">Xorg</b> window system should be installed just like
any other package. Configuration of <b class="APPLICATION">Linux</b> and <b
class="APPLICATION">OSF/1</b> emulation should be done via kernel rebuilds. Support for
installation from tape media was removed as it was believed to be broken. Obsolete code
to support <tt class="LITERAL">OLDCARD</tt> was also removed.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
now understands how to use unsliced USB drives as installation source media via <tt
class="FILENAME">/dev/da<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>X</i></tt><tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>a</i></tt></tt></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
now recognizes the new <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/ada<tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>X</i></tt></tt> disk devices, if compiled into the kernel.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
now uses the <tt class="FILENAME">freebsd-doc-<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>*</i></tt></tt>
packages for localized documents.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
now ejects the CDROM after installation if it was used as source media.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=traceroute&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">traceroute</span>(8)</span></a>
@ -2708,13 +2770,14 @@ class="OPTION">-mcpu=ultrasparc</code>.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> now
supports display of WPS IE (Wireless Provisioning Services Information Element).</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>
command now supports display of WPS IE (Wireless Provisioning Services Information
Element).</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kgdb&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kgdb</span>(1)</span></a> now
supports an <tt class="COMMAND">add-kld <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>kld</i></tt></tt>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kgdb</span>(1)</span></a> command
now supports an <tt class="COMMAND">add-kld <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>kld</i></tt></tt>
command to locate a <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kld&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kld</span>(4)</span></a> and load
@ -2722,8 +2785,8 @@ its symbols.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kgdb&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kgdb</span>(1)</span></a> now has
a shared library backend for kernel files that treats <a
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kgdb</span>(1)</span></a> command
now has a shared library backend for kernel files that treats <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kld&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kld</span>(4)</span></a> as shared
libraries and auto-loading symbols for <a
@ -2756,8 +2819,8 @@ class="REFENTRYTITLE">bzip2</span>(1)</span></a>-compressed manual pages.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mdconfig</span>(8)</span></a> now
supports a <code class="OPTION">-v</code> (verbose) flag to <code
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mdconfig</span>(8)</span></a>
command now supports a <code class="OPTION">-v</code> (verbose) flag to <code
class="OPTION">-l</code> command. It shows size and backing store of all <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=md&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">md</span>(4)</span></a> devices at one
@ -2796,8 +2859,9 @@ scroll threshold.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mv&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mv</span>(1)</span></a> now support
POSIX specification when moving a directory to an existing directory across devices.</p>
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mv</span>(1)</span></a> command now
support POSIX specification when moving a directory to an existing directory across
devices.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=periodic&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -2843,8 +2907,8 @@ been decreased to 0.000001 from 0.01.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=realpath&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">realpath</span>(1)</span></a>
utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-q</code> flag to suppress warnings; it now
also accepts multiple paths on its command line.</p>
utility now supports a <code class="OPTION">-q</code> flag to suppress warnings and
accepts multiple paths on its command line.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rfcomm_pppd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -2867,15 +2931,16 @@ class="COMMAND">spdadd</tt> command.</p>
<p>[7.1R] A bug in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=telnetd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">telnetd</span>(8)</span></a> that
it attempts authentication even when <code class="OPTION">-a off</code> option is
specified has been fixed.</p>
caused it to attempt authentication even when <code class="OPTION">-a off</code> option
is specified has been fixed.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">top</span>(1)</span></a> and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vmstat&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vmstat</span>(8)</span></a> now
support <code class="OPTION">-P</code> flag which displays per-CPU statistics.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vmstat</span>(8)</span></a>
commands now support <code class="OPTION">-P</code> flag which displays per-CPU
statistics.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uuid_enc_le&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
@ -2902,9 +2967,9 @@ at a time.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ypserv&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ypserv</span>(8)</span></a> now
supports a <code class="OPTION">-P</code> option to specify the port number on which it
should listen.</p>
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ypserv</span>(8)</span></a> daemon
now supports a <code class="OPTION">-P</code> option to specify the port number on which
it should listen.</p>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr />
@ -2928,7 +2993,7 @@ with no configuration file <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/ntp.conf</tt> now.</p>
<p>[7.1R] The <tt class="FILENAME">ppp</tt> <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc</span>(8)</span></a> script now
supports multiple instances. For more details, see description of <code
supports multiple instances. For more details, see the description of <code
class="VARNAME">ppp_profile</code> variable in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a>.</p>
@ -2983,8 +3048,8 @@ version 2.0.1.</p>
<p><b class="APPLICATION">TCPDUMP</b> has been updated to 4.0.0.</p>
<p>The timezone database has been updated from to the <b
class="APPLICATION">tzdata2009f</b> release.</p>
<p>The timezone database has been updated to the <b class="APPLICATION">tzdata2009f</b>
release.</p>
<p><b class="APPLICATION">wpa_supplicant</b> has been updated to version 0.6.8</p>
@ -3027,7 +3092,7 @@ Infrastructure</a></h3>
<p>[7.2R] A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_create&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_create</span>(1)</span></a>
utility, which prevents the <code class="OPTION">-n</code> flag from working has been
utility, which prevented the <code class="OPTION">-n</code> flag from working has been
fixed.</p>
<p>[7.2R] The FreeBSD Ports Collection now supports multiple <a