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<p>This is a simplified version of the &os; 9.1-RELEASE release notes.</p>
<div class="IMPORTANT">
<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
<p><b>Important:</b> If you are upgrading from a previous
release of FreeBSD, please read <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.1R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE"
target="_top">upgrading section in the Release Notes</a> for
notable incompatibilities carefully.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<h2>Release Highlights</h2>
<p>The highlights in the 9.1-RELEASE are the following. For more
details, please see <a href="relnotes-detailed.html">the
Detailed Release Notes</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>FreeBSD Jail subsystem now supports &#09;mounting <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs&amp;sektion=5&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">devfs</span>(5)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nullfs&amp;sektion=5&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">nullfs</span>(5)</span></a>, and ZFS
filesystem &#09;inside a jail. New <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">jail</span>(8)</span></a> parameters
&#09;<code class="varname">allow.mount.devfs</code>,
&#09;<code class="varname">allow.mount.nullfs</code>, and
&#09;<code class="varname">allow.mount.zfs</code> to
control the per-jail &#09;capabilities have been
added. All of them are disabled by &#09;default.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=232728"
target="_top">r232728</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The FreeBSD <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sched_ule&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">sched_ule</span>(4)</span></a>
scheduler has &#09;been improved on CPU load balancing of
SMT (Simultaneous &#09;MultiThreading) CPUs. It gives
10-15% performance improvement &#09;when the number of
threads is lesser than the number of &#09;logical CPUs.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=233599"
target="_top">r233599</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot0cfg&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">boot0cfg</span>(8)</span></a>
utility now &#09; supports configuration of PXE boot via
&#09; <tt class="filename">boot0</tt> boot block
temporarily on the &#09; next boot. The slice number <tt
class="literal">6</tt> or a &#09; keyword <tt
class="literal">PXE</tt> can be specified to enable &#09;
PXE boot in the <code class="option">-s</code> option.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=230065"
target="_top">r230065</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>[amd64, i386] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hwpmc&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">hwpmc</span>(4)</span></a> &#09;
driver now supports Intel Sandy Bridge &#09;
microarchitecture.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234046"
target="_top">r234046</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>[arm] FreeBSD/arm now supports Atmel &#09; SAM9XE family
of microcontrollers.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236081"
target="_top">r236081</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xhci&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">xhci</span>(4)</span></a> (USB 3.0)
&#09; driver has been fixed. It did not work with USB 3.0
&#09; hubs.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=230302"
target="_top">r230302</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The drm2(4) Intel GPU driver, &#09; which supports GEM,
KMS, and works with new generations of &#09; GPUs such as
IronLake, SandyBridge, and IvyBridge, has been &#09;
added. The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=agp&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">agp</span>(4)</span></a> dirver now
supports SandyBridge &#09; and IvyBridge CPU
northbridges.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236926"
target="_top">r236926</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236927"
target="_top">r236927</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=239965"
target="_top">r239965</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_hda&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">snd_hda</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been &#09; updated. It now supports HDMI, new volume
control, &#09; automatic recording source selection, runtime
&#09; reconfigureation, more then 4 PCM devices on a
controller, &#09; multichannel recording, additional
playback/record &#09; streams, higher bandwidth, and more
informative device &#09; names.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=232798"
target="_top">r232798</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_hdspe&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">snd_hdspe</span>(4)</span></a>
driver has &#09; been added. This supports RME HDSPe AIO
and RayDAT sound &#09; cards.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=233165"
target="_top">r233165</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>A bug in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ae&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE"><span
class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ae</span>(4)</span></a> driver which
could &#09; prevent from working under certain conditions
has been &#09; fixed.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229520"
target="_top">r229520</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">bge</span>(4)</span></a> and
brgphy(4) driver have been &#09; improved:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A bug which could prevent the &#09;&#09;DMA
functionality from working correctly, has been
&#09;&#09;fixed.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229350"
target="_top">r229350</a>]</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It now works with PCI-X BCM 5704 &#09;&#09;controller
that connected to AMD-8131 PCI-X bridge.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=233495"
target="_top">r233495</a>]</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It now supports &#09;&#09;BCM 5720 and BCM 5720C PHY,
and BCM 57780 1000BASE-T &#09;&#09;media interface.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229357"
target="_top">r229357</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229867"
target="_top">r229867</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=232134"
target="_top">r232134</a>]</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It now supports a <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">loader</span>(8)</span></a>
&#09;&#09;tunable &#09;&#09;<code
class="varname">dev.bge.<tt
class="replaceable"><i>N</i></tt>.msi</code>
&#09;&#09;to control the use of MSI. The default value
is &#09;&#09;<tt class="literal">1</tt> (enabled).[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231734"
target="_top">r231734</a>]</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cxgbe&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">cxgbe</span>(4)</span></a> and &#09;
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cxgb&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">cxgb</span>(4)</span></a> driver has
been updated to firmware version &#09; 1.5.2.0. This now
supports device configuration via a &#09; plain text
configration file, IPv6 hardware checksumming, &#09; IPv6
TSO and LRO, <tt class="literal">loadfw</tt> command in the
&#09; cxgbetool(8) utility which allows to install a
firmware to &#09; the card, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a> variables
under &#09; <code class="varname">dev.t4nex.<tt
class="replaceable"><i>N</i></tt>.misc</code> &#09; for
various information.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231093"
target="_top">r231093</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=237925"
target="_top">r237925</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=igb&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">igb</span>(4)</span></a> driver has
been &#09; updated to version 2.3.4. It now supports newer
i210/i211 &#09; devices.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=238262"
target="_top">r238262</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mxge&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">mxge</span>(4)</span></a> driver has
been &#09; updated to firmware version 1.4.55 from
Myricom.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236413"
target="_top">r236413</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">oce</span>(4)</span></a> driver,
which &#09; supports Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet
card, has been &#09; added.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231663"
target="_top">r231663</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ral&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ral</span>(4)</span></a> driver now
supports &#09; Ralink RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236004"
target="_top">r236004</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE"><span
class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">re</span>(4)</span></a> driver now
&#09; supports RTL8411 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller. A
bug &#09; which could prevent WoL (Wake-on-LAN) from
working on &#09; RTL8168E has been fixed.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229529"
target="_top">r229529</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231731"
target="_top">r231731</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sfxge&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">sfxge</span>(4)</span></a> driver,
which &#09; supports 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on
Solarflare SFC9000 &#09; family controllers, has been
added.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=228100"
target="_top">r228100</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xnb&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">xnb</span>(4)</span></a> Xen
Paravirtualized &#09; Backend Ethernet Driver (netback)
has been updated. This is &#09; attached via newbus
framework and works properly in both &#09; HVM and PVM
mode.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231697"
target="_top">r231697</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <tt class="literal">table</tt> argument &#09; in the
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> packet
filter rule syntax now supports &#09; IP address,
interface name, port number, and jail ID. [<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234597"
target="_top">r234597</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>FreeBSD <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip6&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ip6</span>(4)</span></a> protocol
stack now has been improved in terms &#09; of its
performance. Benchmarking can be found at <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/bench/"
target="_top">http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/bench/</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>FreeBSD <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip6&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ip6</span>(4)</span></a> protocol
stack now &#09; supports multiple FIB.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=232292"
target="_top">r232292</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">netmap</span>(4)</span></a> fast
packet &#09; I/O framework has been added. The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE"><span
class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">em</span>(4)</span></a>, lem(4),
&#09;
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifpnp&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ifpnp</span>(4)</span></a>. and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE"><span
class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">re</span>(4)</span></a> drivers now
support this &#09; framework. The technical details can be
found at <a href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/"
target="_top">http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/</a>.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231650"
target="_top">r231650</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=235527"
target="_top">r235527</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arcmsr&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">arcmsr</span>(4)</span></a> driver
has been &#09; updated to version 1.20.00.25.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=240758"
target="_top">r240758</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">cam</span>(4)</span></a> driver now
supports &#09; SEMB (SATA Enclosure Management Bridge)
devices, which are &#09; equivalent to the SCSI SES/SAF-TE
devices.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236778"
target="_top">r236778</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The ctl(4) driver, which supports &#09; <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">cam</span>(4)</span></a> Target
Layer and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ctladm&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ctladm</span>(8)</span></a>, a
userland &#09; control utility, have been added. ctl(4) is
a disk and &#09; processor device emulation subsystem
supporting tagged &#09; queueing, SCSI task attribute,
SCSI implicit command &#09; ordering, full task
management, multiple ports, multiple &#09; simultaneous
initiators, multiple simultaneous backing &#09; stores,
mode sense/select, and error injection &#09; support.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231772"
target="_top">r231772</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <b class="application">MIRROR</b> &#09; <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class now
supports &#09; <tt class="literal">BIO_DELETE</tt>. This
means &#09; <tt class="literal">TRIM</tt> command will be
issued on the &#09; supported devices when deleting
data.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=238500"
target="_top">r238500</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The &#09; <b class="application">MULTIPATH</b> <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class has
&#09; been updated. It now supports Active/Active mode,
&#09; Active/Read mode as hybrid of Active/Active and
&#09; Active/Passive, keeping a failed path without
removing the &#09; geom provider, manual configuration
without on-disk &#09; metadata, and <tt
class="command">add</tt>, &#09; <tt
class="command">remove</tt>, <tt
class="command">fail</tt>, &#09; <tt
class="command">restore</tt>, <tt
class="command">configure</tt> &#09; subcommands in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmultipath&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">gmultipath</span>(8)</span></a>
utility to manage the &#09; configured paths.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229303"
target="_top">r229303</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234916"
target="_top">r234916</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The &#09; <b class="application">UNCOMPRESS</b> <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class and
&#09; the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mkulzma&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">mkulzma</span>(8)</span></a> utility
have been added. This class &#09; supports lzma compressed
images like &#09; <b class="application">UZIP</b> <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class and
the &#09; <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mkuzip&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">mkuzip</span>(8)</span></a>
utility.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=235483"
target="_top">r235483</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>[amd64, i386] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hpt27xx&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">hpt27xx</span>(4)</span></a> &#09;
dirver has been added. This supports HighPoint RocketRAID
&#09; 27xx-based SAS 6Gb/s HBA.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229975"
target="_top">r229975</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>[amd64, i386] The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=isci&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">isci</span>(4)</span></a> &#09;
driver, which supports the integrated SAS controller in
the &#09; Intel C600 (Patsburg) chipset, has been
added.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231689"
target="_top">r231689</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgbe&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ixgbe</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now supports &#09; Intel X540 adapter.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=230775"
target="_top">r230775</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfi&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mfi</span>(4)</span></a> driver
now &#09; supports single-message MSI, and Drake Skinny and &#09; ThunderBolt cards. The
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">loader</span>(8)</span></a> tunable
&#09; <code class="varname">hw.mfi.msi</code> has been
added and it is &#09; enabled by default.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229611"
target="_top">r229611</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234429"
target="_top">r234429</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mps&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">mps</span>(4)</span></a> driver
&#09; has been updated to version 14.00.00.01-fbsd. This
now &#09; supports Integrated RAID, WarpDrive controllers,
WRITE12 and &#09; READ12 for direct I/O, SCSI protection
information (EEDP), &#09; Transport Level Retries (TLR)
for tape drives, and LSI's &#09; userland utility.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=230920"
target="_top">r230920</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231679"
target="_top">r231679</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=237876"
target="_top">r237876</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=usb&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">usb</span>(4)</span></a> storage
device driver &#09; now enables power save mode by
default.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229107"
target="_top">r229107</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The FreeBSD NFS filesystem has been improved:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>It now supports a timeout on &#09; positive name cache
entries on the client side. A new &#09; mount option
<code class="varname">nametimeo</code> has been added
&#09; and set to <tt class="literal">60</tt> (in second)
by &#09; default.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=233326"
target="_top">r233326</a>]</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A memory leak when a ZFS volume is &#09; exported via
the FreeBSD NFS server has been fixed.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234740"
target="_top">r234740</a>]</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A bug has been fixed. When a &#09; process writes to an
mmap-backed file on an NFS &#09; filesystem, flushing
changes to the data could fail &#09; under some
circumstances such as errors due to &#09; permission
mismatch and this failure could not detected &#09; as an
error. A new <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a>
variable &#09; <code
class="varname">vfs.nfs.nfs_keep_dirty_on_error</code>
has &#09; been added to control the behavior on the
client side &#09; related to this issue. When this is
set to &#09; <tt class="literal">1</tt>, the pages where
a write operation &#09; failed are kept dirty. The
default value is set to &#09; <tt
class="literal">0</tt>.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=233730"
target="_top">r233730</a>]</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nfsv4&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">nfsv4</span>(4)</span></a>
filesystem now &#09; supports a new <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a>
variable &#09; <code
class="varname">vfs.nfsd.disable_checkutf8</code>. This
&#09; disables the check for a UTF-8 compliance in the
&#09; filenames. This is disabled by default. Note
that &#09; enabling this may help some
interoperability issue but &#09; results in an NFSv4
server that is non-RFC 3530 &#09; compliant.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229799"
target="_top">r229799</a>]</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmpfs&amp;sektion=5&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">tmpfs</span>(5)</span></a>
filesystem is not an &#09; experimental implementation
anymore.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234511"
target="_top">r234511</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmpfs&amp;sektion=5&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">tmpfs</span>(5)</span></a>
filesystem now &#09; supports a new <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a> variable
&#09; <code
class="varname">vfs.tmpfs.memory_reserved</code> to set
amount &#09; of required free pages when <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmpfs&amp;sektion=5&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">tmpfs</span>(5)</span></a> attempts
to &#09; allocate a new node.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234849"
target="_top">r234849</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>FreeBSD ZFS filesystem has been &#09; updated by merging
improvements in illumos project. The &#09; following changes
are made:[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229578"
target="_top">r229578</a>, <a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=232328"
target="_top">r232328</a>]</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>New properties, <tt class="literal">clones</tt> and &#09; <tt
class="literal">written</tt>, have been added.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> <tt
class="command">send</tt> command &#09; now reports
estimated size of the stream.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> <tt
class="command">destroy</tt> command &#09; now reports
estimatated space which would be reclaimed when &#09;
<code class="option">-n</code> flag is specified.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> <tt
class="command">get</tt> command now &#09; supports
<code class="option">-t <tt
class="replaceable"><i>type</i></tt></code> &#09; flag
to specify the data type.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">dhclient</span>(8)</span></a>
utility now &#09;supports <tt
class="literal">domain-search</tt> (option number 119,
&#09;described in RFC 3397). This allows a DHCP server to
publish &#09;a list of implicit domain suffixes used
during name lookup. &#09;If this option is specified, a
<tt class="literal">search</tt> &#09;keyword will be added
to &#09;<tt class="filename">/etc/resolv.conf</tt>.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=230597"
target="_top">r230597</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>A bug in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gcc&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">gcc</span>(1)</span></a> compiler
has &#09;been fixed. It could lead to incorrect
calculations when &#09;<code
class="option">-ffast-math</code> flag is specified.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234023"
target="_top">r234023</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>
utility now &#09;supports <tt
class="literal">vlanhwcsum</tt> parameter to set or
&#09;reset checksum offloading capability on VLANs.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231221"
target="_top">r231221</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>
utility now &#09;supports <tt class="literal">carp
&#09;<tt class="replaceable"><i>state</i></tt></tt>
parameter to set &#09;the state to <tt
class="literal">backup</tt> or &#09;<tt
class="literal">master</tt> forcibly.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=232486"
target="_top">r232486</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">jail</span>(8)</span></a> utility
now supports &#09;configuration file (<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail.conf&amp;sektion=5&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">jail.conf</span>(5)</span></a>) for
complex &#09;configurations.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=235839"
target="_top">r235839</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>Lock handling performance in the &#09;<b
class="application">libthr</b> pthread library has been
&#09;improved. It now works 10 times faster especially under
the &#09;condition that a mutex is heavily contested.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=234372"
target="_top">r234372</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">libcxxrt</b> and &#09;<b
class="application">libc++</b> C++ runtime libraries from
&#09;PathScale have been imported. This implementation is a
full &#09;replacement for the GNU <b
class="application">libsupc++</b> &#09;library for platforms
that use the Itanium C++ ABI, including &#09;i386 and amd64,
and will replace portions of the C++ stack &#09;previously
only available under the GPL. It provides
&#09;implementations of the dynamic features of C++,
including &#09;dynamic casting, exception handling, and
thread-safe static &#09;initializers.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=235798"
target="_top">r235798</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtld&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">rtld</span>(1)</span></a> run-time
linker now &#09;supports GCC's RELRO (RElocation
Read-Only). This prevents &#09;GOT (Global Offset Table)
from being overwritten.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=231579"
target="_top">r231579</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtld&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">rtld</span>(1)</span></a> run-time
linker now &#09;supports GNU hash section (<tt
class="literal">DT_GNU_HASH</tt>), &#09;which is a
replacement of optional ELF hash section.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=235396"
target="_top">r235396</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setbuf&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">setbuf</span>(1)</span></a> utility
and &#09;<b class="application">libstdbuf</b> library have
been added. &#09;This controls the default buffering
behavior of standard &#09;stdio streams.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=235139"
target="_top">r235139</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xlocale&amp;sektion=3&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">xlocale</span>(3)</span></a> API has
been &#09;implemented. This consists of <tt
class="literal">_l</tt>-suffixed &#09;versions of various
standard library functions that use the &#09;global
locale, making them take an explicit locale parameter
&#09;and allowing thread-safe extended locale
support. This is &#09;from Apple Darwin, and mainly for
use by &#09;<b class="application">libc++</b>.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=235785"
target="_top">r235785</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">ISC BIND</b> has &#09;been updated to version 9.8.3-P4.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=241417"
target="_top">r241417</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The &#09;<b class="application">compiler-rt</b> library,
which provides &#09;low-level target-specific interfaces
such as functions in &#09;<b class="application">libgcc</b>,
has been updated to &#09;revision 147467.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236018"
target="_top">r236018</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">file</b> &#09;(<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=file&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">file</span>(1)</span></a>) has been
updated to version 5.11.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=237983"
target="_top">r237983</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>GNU <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gperf&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">gperf</span>(1)</span></a> has been
updated to &#09;version 3.0.3 (the latest GPLv2-licensed
version).[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=230237"
target="_top">r230237</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">libarchive</b>, &#09;<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdtar&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">bsdtar</span>(1)</span></a>, and
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpio&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">cpio</span>(1)</span></a> have been
updated to version &#09;2.8.5.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229588"
target="_top">r229588</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">libpcap</b> &#09;library have been
updated to 1.2.1.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236167"
target="_top">r236167</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">libstdc++</b> &#09;have been
updated to rev 135556 of &#09;<tt
class="literal">gcc-4_2-branch</tt> (LGPLv2-licensed
&#09;version).[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=229551"
target="_top">r229551</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <b class="application">LLVM</b> &#09;compiler
infrastructure and <b class="application">clang</b>, &#09;a
C language family front-end, version 3.1 have been
imported. &#09;Note that it is not used for building the
FreeBSD base system by &#09;default.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236144"
target="_top">r236144</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <tt class="literal">netcat</tt> utility &#09;has been
updated to version 5.1.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=235971"
target="_top">r235971</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">OpenSSL</b> has &#09;been updated
to 0.9.8x.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=237998"
target="_top">r237998</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">tcpdump</b> &#09;(<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span
class="refentrytitle">tcpdump</span>(1)</span></a>)
utility has been updated to 4.2.1.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=236192"
target="_top">r236192</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <b class="application">TENEX C &#09;shell</b> (<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcsh&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE">
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tcsh</span>(1)</span></a>) has
been updated to version &#09;6.18.01.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=232633"
target="_top">r232633</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The <b class="application">timezone</b> &#09;database has
been updated to the &#09;<b class="application">tzdata2012a</b>
release.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=233447"
target="_top">r233447</a>]</p></li>
<li><p><b class="application">zlib</b> &#09;library have been
updated to 1.2.7.[<a
href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=237691"
target="_top">r237691</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>The supported version of the &#09;<b
class="application">KDE</b> desktop environment (<a
href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/x11/kde4/pkg-descr?revision=HEAD"><tt
class="filename">x11/kde4</tt></a>) has been updated to
&#09;4.8.4.</p></li>
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