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# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/8.1R/Makefile,v 1.1 2010/04/04 06:10:42 kensmith Exp $
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Release Notes">
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&header;
<h2>Release Highlights</h2>
<p>The highlights in the 8.1-RELEASE are the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>[powerpc] FreeBSD now supports SMP in PowerPC G5
systems. Note that SMP support on FreeBSD/powerpc is disabled by
default in <tt class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel.</p></li>
<li><p>[sparc64] FreeBSD now supports UltraSPARC IV, IV+, and
SPARC64 V CPUs.</p></li>
<li><p>The ZFS zpool version has been updated to 14. The <tt
class="FILENAME">zfsloader</tt> has been added. This is a
separate <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> enabled
loader. Note that a ZFS bootcode (<tt
class="FILENAME">zfsboot</tt> or <tt
class="FILENAME">gptzfsboot</tt>) need to be installed to use
this new loader.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bwn&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">bwn</span>(4)</span></a> driver for
Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets has been added.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=run&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">run</span>(4)</span></a> driver for
Ralink RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB 802.11agn devices has
been added.</p></li>
<li><p>The sge(4) driver for Silicon Integrated Systems SiS190/191
Fast/Gigabit Ethernet has been added. This supports TSO and
TSO over VLAN.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uhso&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">uhso</span>(4)</span></a> driver for
Option HSDPA USB devices has been added. A new <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uhsoctl&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">uhsoctl</span>(1)</span></a> userland
utility can be used to initiate and close the WAN
connection.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=urtw&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">urtw</span>(4)</span></a> driver has
been improved and now supports RTL8187B-based
devices.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> subsystem
including <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dummynet&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">dummynet</span>(4)</span></a> has been
improved.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pfil&amp;sektion=9&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pfil</span>(9)</span></a>
framework for packet filtering in FreeBSD kernel now supports separate packet filtering
instances like <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> for each
VIMAGE jail.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vlan&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vlan</span>(4)</span></a> pseudo
interface now supports TSO (TCP Segmentation Offloading). The capability flag is named as
<code class="VARNAME">IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO</code> and it is separated from <code
class="VARNAME">IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING</code>. The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=age&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">age</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=alc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">alc</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ale&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ale</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bce</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bge</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cxgb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cxgb</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jme&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jme</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">re</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mxge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mxge</span>(4)</span></a> driver
support this feature.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vlan&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">vlan</span>(4)</span></a> pseudo
interface for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN now ignore renaming of the
parent's interface name. The configured VLAN interfaces
continue to work with the new name while previously the
configurations were removed as the renaming happens.</p></li>
<li><p>The HAST (Highly Avalable STorage) framework has been
added. This is a framework to allow transparently storing data
on two physically separated machines connected over the TCP/IP
network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary (Master-Backup,
Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the
cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Only Primary node
is able to handle I/O requests to HAST-managed
devices. Currently HAST is limited to two cluster nodes in
total.</p></li>
<li><p>FreeBSD <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&amp;sektion=3&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">cam</span>(3)</span></a> SCSI
framework has been improved and a new kernel option <code
class="OPTION">option ATA_CAM</code> has been added. This
turns <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> controller
drivers into <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">cam</span>(4)</span></a> interface
modules. When enabled, this option deprecates all <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> peripheral
drivers and interfaces such as <tt class="FILENAME">ad</tt>
and <tt class="FILENAME">acd</tt>, and allows <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">cam</span>(4)</span></a> drivers <tt
class="FILENAME">ada</tt>, and <tt class="FILENAME">cd</tt>
and interfaces to be natively used instead. Note that this
is not enabled by default in the <tt
class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mvs&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">mvs</span>(4)</span></a> CAM ATA
driver for Marvell 88SX50XX/88SX60XX/88SX70XX/SoC SATA
controllers has been added. This driver supports same
hardware as the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver does,
but provides many additional features, such as NCQ and
PMP.</p></li>
<li><p>The <tt class="FILENAME">liblzma</tt> library for LZMA2
lossless data compression algorithm and the userland utilities
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xz&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">xz</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xzdec&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">xzdec</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lzma&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">lzma</span>(1)</span></a>, and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lzmainfo&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">lzmainfo</span>(1)</span></a>. has been
imported.</p></li>
<li><p>The <b class="APPLICATION">ACPI-CA</b> has been updated to
20100304.</p></li>
<li><p><b class="APPLICATION">ISC BIND</b> has been updated to
version 9.6.2-P2.</p></li>
<li><p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSH</b> has been updated from
version 5.1p1 to version 5.4p1.</p></li>
<li><p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b> has been updated to
version 0.9.8n.</p></li>
<li><p><b class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b> has been updated to
version 8.14.4.</p></li>
<li><p>The supported version of the <b
class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> desktop environment (<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/gnome2/pkg-descr"><tt
class="FILENAME">x11/gnome2</tt></a>) has been updated to
2.28.2.</p></li>
<li><p>The supported version of the <b class="APPLICATION">KDE</b>
desktop environment (<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/kde4/pkg-descr"><tt
class="FILENAME">x11/kde4</tt></a>) has been updated to
4.4.3.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>For more details, please see <a href="relnotes-detailed.html">the
Detailed Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>A list of all platforms currently under development can be found
on the <a href="../../platforms/index.html">Supported
Platforms</a> page.</p>
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