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<h1 class="TITLE"><a id="AEN2" name="AEN2">FreeBSD/ia64 5.3-RELEASE Release
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Notes</a></h1>
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<h3 class="CORPAUTHOR">The FreeBSD Project</h3>
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<p class="COPYRIGHT">Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 The FreeBSD
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<div class="ABSTRACT"><a id="AEN13" name="AEN13"></a>
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<p>The release notes for FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the
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FreeBSD base system since 5.2.1-RELEASE. This document lists applicable security
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advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the
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FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</p>
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<dt>1 <a href="#INTRO">Introduction</a></dt>
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<dt>2 <a href="#NEW">What's New</a></dt>
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<dt>2.1 <a href="#SECURITY">Security Advisories</a></dt>
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<dt>2.2 <a href="#KERNEL">Kernel Changes</a></dt>
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<dt>2.2.1 <a href="#BOOT">Boot Loader Changes</a></dt>
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<dt>2.2.2 <a href="#PROC">Hardware Support</a></dt>
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<dt>2.2.3 <a href="#NET-PROTO">Network Protocols</a></dt>
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<dt>2.2.4 <a href="#DISKS">Disks and Storage</a></dt>
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<dt>2.2.5 <a href="#FS">File Systems</a></dt>
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<dt>2.2.6 <a href="#AEN925">Contributed Software</a></dt>
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<dt>2.3 <a href="#USERLAND">Userland Changes</a></dt>
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<dt>2.3.1 <a href="#RC-SCRIPTS"><tt class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.d</tt> Scripts</a></dt>
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<dt>2.4 <a href="#CONTRIB">Contributed Software</a></dt>
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<dt>2.5 <a href="#PORTS">Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</a></dt>
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<dt>2.6 <a href="#RELENG">Release Engineering and Integration</a></dt>
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<dt>2.7 <a href="#DOC">Documentation</a></dt>
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<dt>3 <a href="#UPGRADE">Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD</a></dt>
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<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="INTRO" name="INTRO">1 Introduction</a></h2>
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<p>This document contains the release notes for FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on the IA-64 hardware
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platform. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of FreeBSD. It also
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provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of FreeBSD.</p>
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<p>This distribution of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE is a release distribution. It can be found at
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<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a> or any of its
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mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) release distributions of FreeBSD
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can be found in the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html"
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target="_top">``Obtaining FreeBSD'' appendix</a> to the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/" target="_top">FreeBSD
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Handbook</a>.</p>
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<p>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing FreeBSD. The
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errata document is updated with ``late-breaking'' information discovered late in the
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release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs,
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security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata
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for FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site.</p>
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<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="NEW" name="NEW">2 What's New</a></h2>
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<p>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD since
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5.2.1-RELEASE. In general, changes described here are unique to the 5-STABLE branch
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unless specifically marked as [MERGED] features.</p>
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<p>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after
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5.3-RELEASE, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes,
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or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or
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release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change
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made to FreeBSD between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories,
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user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements.</p>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="SECURITY" name="SECURITY">2.1 Security Advisories</a></h3>
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<p>A bug in <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mksnap_ffs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mksnap_ffs</span>(8)</span></a>
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has been fixed; it caused the creation of a file system snapshot to reset the flags on
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the file system to their default values. The possible consequences depended on local
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usage, but could include disabling extended access control lists or enabling the use of
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setuid executables stored on an untrusted file system. This bug also affected the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dump</span>(8)</span></a> <var
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class="OPTION">-L</var> option, which uses <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mksnap_ffs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mksnap_ffs</span>(8)</span></a>.
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Note that <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mksnap_ffs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mksnap_ffs</span>(8)</span></a> is
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normally only available to the superuser and members of the <tt
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class="GROUPNAME">operator</tt> group. For more information, see security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:01.mksnap_ffs.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:01</a>.</p>
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<p>A bug with the System V Shared Memory interface (specifically the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=shmat&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">shmat</span>(2)</span></a> system
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call) has been fixed. This bug can cause a shared memory segment to reference unallocated
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kernel memory. In turn, this can permit a local attacker to gain unauthorized access to
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parts of kernel memory, possibly resulting in disclosure of sensitive information, bypass
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of access control mechanisms, or privilege escalation. More details can be found in
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security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:02</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A programming error in the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail_attach&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail_attach</span>(2)</span></a>
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system call has been fixed. This error could allow a process with superuser privileges
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inside a <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a>
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environment to change its root directory to that of a different jail, and thus gain full
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read and write access to files and directories within the target jail. More information
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can be found in security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:03.jail.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:03</a>.</p>
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<p>A potential low-bandwidth denial-of-service attack against the FreeBSD TCP stack has
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been prevented by limiting the number of out-of-sequence TCP segments that can be held at
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one time. More details can be found in security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:04</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A bug in <b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b>'s SSL/TLS ChangeCipherSpec message
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processing that could result in a null pointer dereference has been fixed. This could
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allow a remote attacker to crash an <b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b>-using application
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and cause a denial-of-service on the system. More details can be found in security
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advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:05.openssl.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:05</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A programming error in the handling of some IPv6 socket options within the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setsockopt&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">setsockopt</span>(2)</span></a>
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system call has been fixed. This allows a local attacker to cause a system panic, and may
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allow unauthorized access to parts of kernel memory, possibly resulting in disclosure of
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sensitive information, bypass of access control mechanisms, or privilege escalation. More
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details can be found in security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:06.ipv6.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:06</a>.</p>
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<p>Two programming errors in <b class="APPLICATION">CVS</b> have been fixed. They allow a
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server to overwrite arbitrary files on the client, and a client to read arbitrary files
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on the server when accessing remote CVS repositories. More details can be found in
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security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:07.cvs.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:07</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A bugfix for <b class="APPLICATION">Heimdal</b> rectifies a problem in which it would
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not perform adequate checking of authentication across autonomous realms. For more
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information, see security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:08.heimdal.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:08</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A programming error in <b class="APPLICATION">CVS</b> which could allow a malicious
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client to overwrite arbitrary portions of the server's memory has been fixed. For more
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information, see security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:10.cvs.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:10</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A potential cache consistency problem of the implementation of the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=msync&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">msync</span>(2)</span></a> system
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call involving the <var class="LITERAL">MS_INVALIDATE</var> operation has been fixed.
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However, as a side effect of closing this security problem, the <var
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class="LITERAL">MS_INVALIDATE</var> flag no longer guarantees that all pages in the range
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are invalidated. Users who require the old semantics of <var
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class="LITERAL">MS_INVALIDATE</var> and are not concerned with the security issue being
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fixed can set the <var class="VARNAME">vm.old_msync</var> sysctl to 1 which will revert
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to the old (insecure) behavior. For more information, see security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:11</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A programming error in the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(2)</span></a> system
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call which results in a failure to verify that an attempt to manipulate routing tables
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originated from a non-jailed process has been fixed. For more information, see security
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advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jail.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:12</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A programming error in the handling of some Linux system calls which may result in
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memory locations being accessed without proper validation has been fixed. For more
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information, see security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:13.linux.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:13</a>. [MERGED]</p>
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<p>A number of programming errors in <b class="APPLICATION">CVS</b> which allow
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information disclosure, denial-of-service, or possibly arbitrary code execution, have
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been fixed via an upgrade to <b class="APPLICATION">CVS</b> 1.11.17. For more
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information, see security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:14</a>.</p>
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<p>A bug in the <var class="LITERAL">CONS_SCRSHOT</var> <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ioctl&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ioctl</span>(2)</span></a> has
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been fixed; it may allow unauthorized access to parts of kernel memory, possibly
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resulting in disclosure of sensitive information, bypass of access control mechanisms, or
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privilege escalation. For more information, see security advisory <a
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href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:15.syscons.asc"
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target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:15</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<hr />
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<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="KERNEL" name="KERNEL">2.2 Kernel Changes</a></h3>
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<p><var class="LITERAL">ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES</var> has been added and enabled by default.
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This changes the behavior of blocking mutexes to spin if the thread that currently owns
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the mutex is executing on another CPU. This feature can be disabled explicitly by setting
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a kernel option <var class="VARNAME">NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES</var>.</p>
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<p>A kernel option <var class="VARNAME">ADAPTIVE_GIANT</var>, which causes the Giant lock
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to also be treated in an adaptive fashion when adaptive mutexes are enabled, has been
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added. This improves the performance of SMP machines and is enabled by default on the
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i386.</p>
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<p>The <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bus_dma&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bus_dma</span>(9)</span></a>
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interface now supports transparently honoring the alignment and boundary constraints in
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the DMA tag when loading buffers, and <code class="FUNCTION">bus_dmamap_load()</code>
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will automatically use bounce buffers when needed. In addition, a set of sysctls <var
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class="VARNAME">hw.busdma.*</var> for <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bus_dma&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bus_dma</span>(9)</span></a>
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statistics has been added.</p>
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<p>The <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=contigmalloc&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">contigmalloc</span>(9)</span></a>
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function has been reimplemented with an algorithm which stands a greatly-improved chance
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of working despite pressure from running programs. The old algorithm can be used by
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setting a sysctl <var class="VARNAME">vm.old_contigmalloc</var>. More details can be
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found in the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=contigmalloc&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">contigmalloc</span>(9)</span></a>
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manual page.</p>
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<p>The <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">devfs</span>(5)</span></a> path
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rules now work correctly on directories.</p>
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<p>The <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getvfsent&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getvfsent</span>(3)</span></a> API
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has been removed.</p>
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<p>The <var class="VARNAME">hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range</var> loader tunable has
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been removed.</p>
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<p><a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(2)</span></a> now
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supports the use of raw sockets from within a jail. This feature is disabled by default,
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and controlled by using the <var class="VARNAME">security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</var>
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sysctl.</p>
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<p><a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kqueue</span>(2)</span></a> now
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supports a new filter <var class="LITERAL">EVFILT_FS</var> to be used to signal generic
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file system events to the user space. Currently, mount, unmount, and up/down status of
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NFS are signaled.</p>
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<p>KDB, a new debugger framework, has been added. This consists of a new GDB backend,
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which has been rewritten to support threading, run-length encoding compression, and so
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on, and the frontend that provides a framework in which multiple, different debugger
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backends can be configured and which provides basic services to those backends. The
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following options have been changed:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>KDB is enabled by default via the kernel options <var class="LITERAL">options
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KDB</var>, <var class="LITERAL">options GDB</var>, and <var class="LITERAL">options
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DDB</var>. Both <var class="LITERAL">DDB</var> and <var class="LITERAL">GDB</var> specify
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which KDB backends to include.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><var class="LITERAL">WITNESS_DDB</var> has been renamed to <var
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class="LITERAL">WITNESS_KDB</var>.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><var class="LITERAL">DDB_TRACE</var> has been renamed to <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">KDB_TRACE</var>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><var class="LITERAL">DDB_UNATTENDED</var> has been renamed to <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">KDB_UNATTENDED</var>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><var class="LITERAL">SC_HISTORY_DDBKEY</var> has been renamed to <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">SC_HISTORY_KDBKEY</var>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><var class="LITERAL">DDB_NOKLDSYM</var> has been removed. The new DDB backend supports
|
|
pre-linker symbol lookups as well as KLD symbol lookups at the same time.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><var class="LITERAL">GDB_REMOTE_CHAT</var> has been removed. The GDB protocol hacks to
|
|
allow this are FreeBSD specific. At the same time, the GDB protocol has packets for
|
|
console output.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>KDB also serves as the single point of contact for any and all code that wants to make
|
|
use of the debugger functions, such as entering the debugger or handling of the alternate
|
|
break sequence. For this purpose, the frontend has been made non-optional. All debugger
|
|
requests are forwarded or handed over to the current backend, if applicable. Selection of
|
|
the current backend is done by the <var class="VARNAME">debug.kdb.current</var> sysctl. A
|
|
list of configured backends can be obtained with the <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">debug.kdb.available</var> sysctl. One can enter the debugger by writing
|
|
to the <var class="VARNAME">debug.kdb.enter</var> sysctl.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new sysctl <var class="VARNAME">debug.kdb.stop_cpus</var> has been added. This
|
|
controls whether or not IPI (Inter Processor Interrupts) to other CPUs will be delivered
|
|
when entering the debugger, in order to stop them while in the debugger.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new kernel option <var class="LITERAL">MAC_STATIC</var> which disables internal MAC
|
|
Framework synchronization protecting against dynamic load and unload of MAC policies, has
|
|
been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_bsdextended&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
|
|
class="REFENTRYTITLE">mac_bsdextended</span>(4)</span></a> policy can now apply only the
|
|
first matching rule instead of all matching rules. This feature can be enabled by setting
|
|
a new sysctl <var class="VARNAME">mac_bsdextended_firstmatch_enabled</var>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_bsdextended&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
|
|
class="REFENTRYTITLE">mac_bsdextended</span>(4)</span></a> policy can now log failed
|
|
attempts to syslog's <var class="LITERAL">AUTHPRIV</var> facility. This feature can be
|
|
enabled by setting a new sysctl <var class="VARNAME">mac_bsdextended_logging</var>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>mballoc has been replaced with mbuma, an Mbuf and Cluster allocator built on top of a
|
|
number of extensions to the UMA framework. Due to this change, the <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">NMBCLUSTERS</var> kernel option is no longer used. The maximum number of
|
|
the clusters is still capped off according to <var class="LITERAL">maxusers</var>, but it
|
|
can be made unlimited by setting the <var class="VARNAME">kern.ipc.nmbclusters</var>
|
|
loader tunable to zero.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><tt class="FILENAME">/dev/kmem</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/mem</tt>, and <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/dev/io</tt> are also provided as kernel loadable modules now.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A bug in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mmap&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mmap</span>(2)</span></a> that
|
|
could cause pages marked as <var class="LITERAL">PROT_NONE</var> to become readable under
|
|
certain circumstances has been fixed. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new loader tunable <var class="VARNAME">debug.mpsafenet</var> has been added and
|
|
enabled by default. This causes the FreeBSD network stack to operate without the Giant
|
|
lock, resulting in performance improvement by increasing parallelism and decreasing
|
|
latency in network processing. Note that enabling one of the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_tty&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_tty</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
Netgraph node type, KAME IPsec, and IPX/SPX subsystem results in a boot-time restoration
|
|
of Giant-enabled network operation, or run-time warning on dynamic load as these
|
|
components require Giant lock for correct operation.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new kernel option <var class="VARNAME">NET_WITH_GIANT</var> has been added. This
|
|
restores the default value of debug.mpsafenet to <var class="LITERAL">0</var>, and is
|
|
intended for use on systems compiled with known unsafe components, or where a more
|
|
conservative configuration is desired.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new loader tunable <var class="VARNAME">debug.mpsafevm</var> has been added. This
|
|
currently results in almost Giant-free execution of zero-fill page faults.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree, in order to support per-class
|
|
variables in addition to per-device variables. This means that <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">dev.foo0.bar</var> is now called <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">dev.foo.0.bar</var>, and it is possible to to have <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">dev.foo.bar</var> as well.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new sysctl, <var class="VARNAME">kern.always_console_output</var>, has been added.
|
|
It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite the use of <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">TIOCCONS</var>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A sysctl <var class="VARNAME">kern.sched.name</var> which has the name of the
|
|
scheduler currently in use, has been added, and the <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">kern.quantum</var> sysctl has been moved to <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">kern.sched.quantum</var> for consistency.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pci&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pci</span>(4)</span></a> bus
|
|
resource and power management have been updated.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="NOTE">
|
|
<blockquote class="NOTE">
|
|
<p><b>Note:</b> Although the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pci&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pci</span>(4)</span></a> bus power
|
|
state management has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems. This
|
|
can be disabled by setting the tunable <var class="VARNAME">hw.pci.do_powerstate</var> to
|
|
<var class="LITERAL">0</var>.</p>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<p>The ULE scheduler has been added as an additional scheduler. Note that the
|
|
conventional one, which is called 4BSD, is still used as the default scheduler in the <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> kernel. For the average user, interactivity is reported to
|
|
be better in many cases. This means less ``skipping'' and ``jerking'' in interactive
|
|
applications while the machine is very busy. This will not prevent problems due to
|
|
overloaded disk subsystems, but it does help with overloaded CPUs. On SMP machines, ULE
|
|
has per-CPU run queues which allow for CPU affinity, CPU binding, and advanced
|
|
HyperThreading support, as well as providing a framework for more optimizations in the
|
|
future. As fine-grained kernel locking continues, the scheduler will be able to make more
|
|
efficient use of the available parallel resources.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A linear search algorithm used in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vm_map_findspace&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
|
|
class="REFENTRYTITLE">vm_map_findspace</span>(9)</span></a> has been replaced with an
|
|
O(log n) algorithm built into the map entry splay tree. This significantly reduces the
|
|
overhead in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vm_map_findspace&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
|
|
class="REFENTRYTITLE">vm_map_findspace</span>(9)</span></a> for applications that <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mmap&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mmap</span>(2)</span></a> many
|
|
hundreds or thousands of regions.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The loader tunables <var class="VARNAME">debug.witness_*</var> have been renamed to
|
|
<var class="VARNAME">debug.witness.*</var>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The FreeBSD dynamic and static linker now support Thread Local Storage (TLS), a <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">GCC</b> feature which supports a <var class="LITERAL">__thread</var>
|
|
modifier to the declaration of global and static variables. This extra modifier means
|
|
that the variable's value is thread-local; one thread changing its value will not affect
|
|
the value of the variable in any other thread.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The kernel's file descriptor allocation code has been updated, and is now derived from
|
|
similar code in OpenBSD.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT3">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="BOOT" name="BOOT">2.2.1 Boot Loader Changes</a></h4>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT3">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="PROC" name="PROC">2.2.2 Hardware Support</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi_video&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpi_video</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
driver has been added to control display switching and backlight brightness using the
|
|
ACPI Video Extensions.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nmdm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nmdm</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="DEVICENAME">raid(4)</tt> driver (RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has
|
|
been removed. It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work to
|
|
make it work under the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> API in
|
|
5-CURRENT.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pcic&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pcic</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
is no longer maintained and has been removed from the <tt class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt>
|
|
kernel configuration file. The entry had actually been commented out for a long time.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ubser&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ubser</span>(4)</span></a> device
|
|
driver has been added to support BWCT console management serial adapters.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ucycom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ucycom</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
has been added for the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232
|
|
bridges, such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS receiver (which is the
|
|
only device currently supported by this driver). This driver is not complete because
|
|
there is no support yet for flow control and output.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The device driver infrastructure and many drivers have been updated. Among the
|
|
changes: many more drivers now use automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the
|
|
old static major numbers); enhanced functions have been added to support cloning of
|
|
pseudo-devices; several changes have been made to the driver API, including a new <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">d_version</var> field in <var class="VARNAME">struct cdevsw</var>. Note
|
|
that third-party device drivers will require recompiling after this change.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT4">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h5 class="SECT4"><a id="MM" name="MM">2.2.2.1 Multimedia Support</a></h5>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="DEVICENAME">meteor</tt> (video capture) driver has been removed due to
|
|
breakage and lack of maintainership.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated from the DRI Project CVS tree
|
|
as of 26 May 2004. This update includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The drivers for various sound cards have been reorganized; <var class="LITERAL">device
|
|
sound</var> is the generic sound driver, and <var class="LITERAL">device snd_*</var> are
|
|
device-specific sound drivers now. The <tt class="DEVICENAME">midi</tt> driver, which
|
|
supports serial port and several sound cards, has been removed. More details can be found
|
|
in the related manual pages: <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sound&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sound</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_ad1816&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_ad1816</span>(4)</span></a>,
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_als4000&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_als4000</span>(4)</span></a>,
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_cmi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_cmi</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_cs4281&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_cs4281</span>(4)</span></a>,
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_csa&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_csa</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_ds1&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_ds1</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_emu10k1&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_emu10k1</span>(4)</span></a>,
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_es137x&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_es137x</span>(4)</span></a>,
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_gusc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_gusc</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_maestro3&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_maestro3</span>(4)</span></a>,
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_sbc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_sbc</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_solo&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_solo</span>(4)</span></a>, and
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_uaudio&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
|
|
class="REFENTRYTITLE">snd_uaudio</span>(4)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sound&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sound</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
(formerly <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pcm&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pcm</span>(4)</span></a>) driver
|
|
has been modified to read <tt class="FILENAME">/boot/device.hints</tt> on startup, to
|
|
allow setting of default values for mixer channels. Note that currently the device
|
|
driver's name used in <tt class="FILENAME">/boot/device.hints</tt> is still <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">pcm</var>. More detailed information and examples can be found in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sound&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sound</span>(4)</span></a> manual
|
|
page.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT4">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h5 class="SECT4"><a id="NET-IF" name="NET-IF">2.2.2.2 Network Interface Support</a></h5>
|
|
|
|
<p>A short hiccup in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a> driver during
|
|
parameter reconfiguration has been fixed. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fwip&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fwip</span>(4)</span></a> driver,
|
|
which supports IP over FireWire, has been added. Note that currently the broadcast
|
|
channel number is hardwired and MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
|
|
This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146 standard for IP over
|
|
FireWire and eventually replace the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fwe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fwe</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
driver.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fxp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fxp</span>(4)</span></a> now uses
|
|
the device sysctl tree such as <var class="VARNAME">dev.fxp0</var>, and those sysctls can
|
|
be set on a per-device basis.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fxp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fxp</span>(4)</span></a> now
|
|
provides actual control over its capability to receive extended Ethernet frames,
|
|
indicated by the <var class="LITERAL">VLAN_MTU</var> interface capability. It can be
|
|
toggled from userland with the aid of the <var class="OPTION">vlanmtu</var> and <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-vlanmtu</var> options to <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hme</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
now natively supports long frames, so it can be used for <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vlan&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vlan</span>(4)</span></a> with
|
|
full Ethernet MTU size.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hme</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
now supports TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload. Since <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">hme</span>(4)</span></a> does not
|
|
compensate the checksum for UDP datagram which can yield to <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">0x0</var>, UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default. This can
|
|
be reactivated by setting the special link option <var class="OPTION">link0</var> with <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ixgb</span>(4)</span></a> driver,
|
|
which supports Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been added. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nge</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
from working has been fixed. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Several bugs related to <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=polling&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">polling</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
support in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rl</span>(4)</span></a> driver have
|
|
been fixed. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode handling in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sk&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sk</span>(4)</span></a> driver have
|
|
been fixed.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ste&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ste</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
now supports <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=polling&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">polling</span>(4)</span></a>.
|
|
[MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=udav&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">udav</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
has been added. It provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
|
|
chipset.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vge</span>(4)</span></a> driver,
|
|
which supports the VIA Networking Technologies VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and
|
|
integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY, has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vr</span>(4)</span></a> driver now
|
|
supports <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=polling&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">polling</span>(4)</span></a>.
|
|
[MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The hardware TX checksum support in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">xl</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
|
disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down the transmission rate. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Interface <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=polling&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">polling</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
support can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. The following network drivers
|
|
support <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=polling&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">polling</span>(4)</span></a>: <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dc</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fxp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fxp</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ixgb</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nge</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">re</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rl</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sis</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ste&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ste</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vge</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vr</span>(4)</span></a>. And they now
|
|
also support this capability and it can be controlled via <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a>
|
|
except for <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ixgb</span>(4)</span></a>.
|
|
[MERGED]</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT3">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="NET-PROTO" name="NET-PROTO">2.2.3 Network Protocols</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gre&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gre</span>(4)</span></a> tunnel
|
|
driver now supports WCCP version 2.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> rules
|
|
now support the <var class="LITERAL">versrcreach</var> option to verify that a valid
|
|
route to the source address of a packet exists in the routing table. This option is very
|
|
useful for routers with a complete view of the Internet (BGP) in the routing table to
|
|
reject packets with spoofed or unroutable source addresses. For example,</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
|
|
deny ip from any to any not versrcreach
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
is equivalent to the following in Cisco IOS syntax:
|
|
|
|
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
|
|
ip verify unicast source reachable-via any
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> rules
|
|
now support the <var class="LITERAL">antispoof</var> option to verify that an incoming
|
|
packet's source address belongs to a directly connected network. If the network is
|
|
directly connected, then the interface on which the packet came in is compared to the
|
|
interface to which the network is connected. When the incoming interface and the directly
|
|
connected interface are not the same, the packet does not match. For example:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
|
|
deny ip from any to any not antispoof in
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> rules
|
|
now support the <var class="LITERAL">jail</var> option to associate the rule with a
|
|
specific prison ID. For example:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
|
|
count ip from any to any jail 2
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
Note that this rule currently applies for TCP and UDP packets only. <br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> now
|
|
supports lookup tables. This feature is useful for handling large sparse address sets.
|
|
[MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">forward</var> rule has to be compiled into the kernel with a kernel
|
|
option <var class="LITERAL">IPFIREWALL_FORWARD</var> to enable it.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new sysctl <var class="VARNAME">net.inet.ip.process_options</var> has been added to
|
|
control the processing of IP options. When this sysctl is set to <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">0</var>, IP options are ignored and passed unmodified; set to <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">1</var>, all IP options are processed (default); and set to <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">2</var>, all packets with IP options are rejected with an ICMP filter
|
|
prohibited message.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Some bugs in the IPsec implementation from the KAME Project have been fixed. These
|
|
bugs were related to freeing memory objects before all references to them were removed,
|
|
and could cause erratic behavior or kernel panics after flushing the Security Policy
|
|
Database (SPD).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=natd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">natd</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports multiple instances via a new option <var class="OPTION">globalports</var>. This
|
|
allows <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=natd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">natd</span>(8)</span></a> to bind
|
|
to different network interfaces and share load.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_atmllc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_atmllc</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
Netgraph node type, which handles RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_hub&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_hub</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
Netgraph node type, which supports a simple packet distribution that acts like an
|
|
Ethernet hub, has been added. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_rfc1490&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_rfc1490</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
Netgraph node type now supports Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
|
|
RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_sppp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_sppp</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
Netgraph node type, which is a <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netgraph&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">netgraph</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
interface to the original <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sppp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sppp</span>(4)</span></a> network
|
|
module for synchronous lines, has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some behavior lost in the change from
|
|
4.<var class="REPLACEABLE">X</var> style <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_tee&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_tee</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
Netgraph nodes.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_vlan&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_vlan</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
Netgraph node type, which supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><var class="LITERAL">PFIL_HOOKS</var> support is now always compiled into the kernel,
|
|
and the associated kernel compile options have been removed. All of the packet filter
|
|
subsystems that FreeBSD supports now use the <var class="LITERAL">PFIL_HOOKS</var>
|
|
framework.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The link state change notification of Ethernet media support has been added to the
|
|
routing socket.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Link Quality Monitoring (LQM) support in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ppp</span>(8)</span></a> has been
|
|
reimplemented. LQM, which is described in RFC 1989, allows PPP to keep track of the
|
|
quality of a running connection. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and the match function to allow creation
|
|
of <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=stf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">stf</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
interfaces named <tt class="DEVICENAME">stf0</tt>, <tt class="DEVICENAME">stf</tt>, or
|
|
<tt class="DEVICENAME">6to4</tt>. Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for
|
|
example, <tt class="COMMAND">ifconfig stf</tt> now creates the interface named <tt
|
|
class="DEVICENAME">stf</tt>, not <tt class="DEVICENAME">stf0</tt>, and does not print <tt
|
|
class="DEVICENAME">stf0</tt> to stdout.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC 3042 (Limited Retransmit),
|
|
RFC 3390 (increased initial congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
|
|
limiting. The sysctls <var class="VARNAME">net.inet.tcp.rfc3042</var>, <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">net.inet.tcp.rfc3390</var>, and <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable</var> for these features are available. More
|
|
information can be found in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tcp</span>(4)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>FreeBSD's TCP implementation now includes support for a minimum MSS (settable via the
|
|
<var class="VARNAME">net.inet.tcp.minmss</var> sysctl variable) and a rate limit on
|
|
connections that send many small TCP segments within a short period of time (via the <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload</var> sysctl variable). Connections exceeding
|
|
this limit may be reset and dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
|
|
resource exhaustion attacks.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The TCP implementation now includes partial (output-only) support for RFC 2385
|
|
(TCP-MD5) digest support. This feature, enabled with the <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">TCP_SIGNATURE</var> and <var class="LITERAL">FAST_IPSEC</var> kernel
|
|
options, is a TCP option for authenticating TCP sessions. <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setkey&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">setkey</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
includes support for the TCP-MD5 class of security associations. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The TCP connection reset handling has been improved to make several reset attacks as
|
|
difficult as possible while maintaining compatibility with the widest range of TCP
|
|
stacks.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The implementation of RFC 1948 has been improved. The time offset component of an
|
|
Initial Sequence Number (ISN) now includes random positive increments between clock ticks
|
|
so that ISNs will always be increasing, no matter how quickly the port is recycled.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The random ephemeral port allocation, which comes from OpenBSD, has been implemented.
|
|
This is enabled by default and can be disabled by using the <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized</var> sysctl. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>TCP Selective Acknowledgements (SACK) as described in RFC 2018 have been added. This
|
|
improves TCP performance over connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled
|
|
with the sysctl <var class="VARNAME">net.inet.tcp.sack.enable</var>.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT3">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="DISKS" name="DISKS">2.2.4 Disks and Storage</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
now supports <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cardbus&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cardbus</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
ATA/SATA controllers.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A number of bugs in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
have been fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should work better, and some
|
|
problems with timeouts should be resolved.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
now supports the Promise command sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers
|
|
(PDC203** PDC206**).</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="NOTE">
|
|
<blockquote class="NOTE">
|
|
<p><b>Note:</b> This also adds preliminary support for the Promise SX4/SX4000 as a
|
|
``normal'' Promise ATA controller; ATA RAID's are supported, but only RAID0, RAID1, and
|
|
RAID0+1.</p>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<p>The <var class="LITERAL">DA_OLD_QUIRKS</var> kernel option, which is for the CAM SCSI
|
|
disk driver (<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cam</span>(4)</span></a>), has
|
|
been removed. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A bug in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> that
|
|
could result in I/O hangs in some rare cases has been fixed.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_CONCAT</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class
|
|
has been added to concatenate multiple disks to appear as a single larger disk.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_NOP</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class
|
|
for various testing purposes has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_RAID3</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class
|
|
for RAID3 transformation and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=graid3&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">graid3</span>(8)</span></a>
|
|
userland utility have been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_STRIPE</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class
|
|
which implements RAID0 transformation has been added. This class has two modes: ``fast''
|
|
and ``economic''. In fast mode, when very small stripe size is used, only one I/O request
|
|
will be sent to every disk in a stripe; it performs about 10 times faster for small
|
|
stripe sizes than economic mode and other RAID0 implementations. While fast mode is used
|
|
by default, it consumes more memory than economic mode, which sends requests each time.
|
|
Economic mode can be enabled by setting a loader tunable <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">kern.geom.stripe.fast</var> to 0. It is also possible to specify the
|
|
maximum memory that fast mode can consume, by setting the loader tunable <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">kern.geom.stripe.maxmem</var>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>GEOM Gate, which consists of a new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_GATE</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class
|
|
and several GEOM Gate userland utilities (<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ggatel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ggatel</span>(8)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ggatec&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ggatec</span>(8)</span></a>, and
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ggated&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ggated</span>(8)</span></a>), has
|
|
been added. It supports exporting devices, including non <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a>-aware
|
|
devices, through the network.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_LABEL</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class to
|
|
detect volume labels on various file systems, such as UFS, MSDOSFS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32),
|
|
and ISO9660, has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_GPT</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class,
|
|
which supports GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitions and the ability to have a large
|
|
number of partitions on a single disk, has been added into <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">GENERIC</tt> by default.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_MIRROR</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class to
|
|
support RAID1 functionality has been added. The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmirror&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gmirror</span>(8)</span></a>
|
|
utility can be used for control of this class.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_UZIP</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class to
|
|
implement read-only compressed disks has been added. This currently supports cloop V2.0
|
|
disk compression format.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A new <var class="LITERAL">GEOM_VINUM</var> <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> class to
|
|
support cooperation between <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vinum&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vinum</span>(4)</span></a> and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> has been
|
|
added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ips&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ips</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
now supports the recent Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">umass</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
|
now supports the missing ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly.
|
|
[MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vinum&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">vinum</span>(4)</span></a> volume
|
|
manager has been updated to use the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> disk I/O
|
|
request transformation framework. A <tt class="COMMAND">gvinum</tt> userland utility has
|
|
been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT3">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="FS" name="FS">2.2.5 File Systems</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support for large (> 4GB) files.
|
|
This support is partial in that it will refuse to create large files on file systems that
|
|
have not been upgraded to <var class="LITERAL">EXT2_DYN_REV</var> or that do not have the
|
|
<var class="LITERAL">EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</var> flag set in the
|
|
superblock.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred when attempting operations
|
|
against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only server.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <var class="LITERAL">MSDOSFS_LARGE</var> kernel option has been added to support
|
|
FAT32 file systems bigger than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It uses at
|
|
least 32 bytes of kernel memory for each file on disk; furthermore it is only safe to use
|
|
in certain controlled situations, such as read-only mount with less than 1 million files
|
|
and so on. Exporting these large file systems over NFS is not supported.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing, which prevents ``man in the
|
|
middle'' attacks and is required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
|
|
default configuration. As signing each message imposes a significant performance penalty,
|
|
this feature is only enabled if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
|
|
option to <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_smbfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
|
|
class="REFENTRYTITLE">mount_smbfs</span>(8)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT3">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="AEN925" name="AEN925">2.2.6 Contributed Software</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">ALTQ framework</b> has been imported from a KAME snapshot
|
|
as of 7 June 2004. This import breaks ABI compatibility of <var class="VARNAME">struct
|
|
ifnet</var> and requires all network drives to be recompiled. Additionally, some of the
|
|
networking drivers have been modified to support the ALTQ framework. Updated drivers are
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bfe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bfe</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fxp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fxp</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">em</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lnc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">lnc</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tun&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tun</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=de&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">de</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rl</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sis</span>(4)</span></a>, and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">xl</span>(4)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">IPFilter</b> has been updated from version 3.4.31 to version
|
|
3.4.35 [MERGED].</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>An ia64 stack unwinder, <b class="APPLICATION">Unwind Express (libuwx)</b> by
|
|
Hewlett-Packard has been imported for use in the kernel.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT2">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="USERLAND" name="USERLAND">2.3 Userland Changes</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpidump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acpidump</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports SSDT tables. Dumping or disassembling the DSDT will now include the contents if
|
|
there are any SSDT table as well.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bsdlabel</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-f</var> option to work on files instead of disk
|
|
partitions.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdtar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bsdtar</span>(1)</span></a> is now
|
|
the default <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tar</span>(1)</span></a> utility
|
|
in the FreeBSD base system. <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/bin/tar</tt> is a symlink pointing
|
|
to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/bin/bsdtar</tt> by default. To return to using <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/usr/bin/gtar</tt> by default, the <var class="VARNAME">WITH_GTAR</var>
|
|
make variable can be used.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="COMMAND">bthidcontrol</tt> and <tt class="COMMAND">bthidd</tt>
|
|
commands, which support Bluetooth HIDs (Human Interface Devices), have been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=col&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">col</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=colcrt&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">colcrt</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=colrm&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">colrm</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=column&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">column</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fmt&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fmt</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=join&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">join</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rev&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rev</span>(1)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tr&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tr</span>(1)</span></a>, and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ul&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ul</span>(1)</span></a> now support
|
|
multibyte characters.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=conscontrol&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">conscontrol</span>(8)</span></a>
|
|
now supports <var class="LITERAL">set</var> and <var class="LITERAL">unset</var> commands
|
|
which set/unset the virtual console. <var class="LITERAL">unset</var> makes output from
|
|
the system, such as the kernel <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=printf&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">printf</span>(9)</span></a>,
|
|
always go to the real main console. This is an interface to the tty ioctl <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">TIOCCONS</var>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cron&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cron</span>(8)</span></a> daemon
|
|
accepts two new options, <var class="OPTION">-j</var> and <var class="OPTION">-J</var>,
|
|
to enable time jitter for jobs to run as unprivileged users and the superuser,
|
|
respectively. Time jitter means that <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cron&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cron</span>(8)</span></a> will
|
|
sleep for a small random period of time in the specified range before executing a job.
|
|
This feature is intended to smooth load peaks appearing when a lot of jobs are scheduled
|
|
for a particular moment. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cut&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cut</span>(1)</span></a>'s <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-c</var>, <var class="OPTION">-d</var>, and <var class="OPTION">-f</var>
|
|
options now work correctly in locales with multibyte characters.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">cvs</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports an <var class="OPTION">iso8601</var> option keyword to print dates in ISO 8601
|
|
format.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=daemon&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">daemon</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-p</var> option to create a PID file.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dd</span>(1)</span></a> now supports a
|
|
<var class="OPTION">fillchar</var> option to specify an alternative padding character
|
|
when using a conversion mode, or when using <var class="OPTION">noerror</var> with <var
|
|
class="OPTION">sync</var> and an input error occurs.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=df&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">df</span>(1)</span></a> now supports a
|
|
<var class="OPTION">-c</var> option to display a grand total of statistics for file
|
|
systems.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A bug in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=df&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">df</span>(1)</span></a>, which can
|
|
print invalid information when a <var class="OPTION">-t</var> option is specified and a
|
|
mount point is not accessible by the calling user, has been fixed.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="COMMAND">doscmd</tt> utility has been removed from the FreeBSD base
|
|
system. It is now available via the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/doscmd/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">emulators/doscmd</tt></a> port in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dump</span>(8)</span></a> and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">restore</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
support a <var class="OPTION">-P</var> option to specify backup methods other than files
|
|
and tapes. The argument is passed to a normal <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sh&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sh</span>(1)</span></a> pipeline with
|
|
either the <var class="VARNAME">$DUMP_VOLUME</var> or <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">$RESTORE_VOLUME</var> environment variable defined, respectively. For
|
|
more information, see <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">dump</span>(8)</span></a> and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">restore</span>(8)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=eeprom&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">eeprom</span>(8)</span></a>
|
|
utility to display and modify system configurations stored in EEPROM or NVRAM has been
|
|
added. The current implementation supports systems equipped with Open Firmware.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fgetwln&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fgetwln</span>(3)</span></a>
|
|
function, a wide character version of <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fgetln&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fgetln</span>(3)</span></a>, has
|
|
been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">find</span>(1)</span></a> utility
|
|
now supports a <var class="OPTION">-acl</var> primary to locate files with <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acl&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">acl</span>(3)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">find</span>(1)</span></a> utility
|
|
now supports a new primary <var class="OPTION">-depth <var
|
|
class="REPLACEABLE">n</var></var> which tests whether the depth of the current file
|
|
relative to the starting point of the traversal is <var class="REPLACEABLE">n</var>.
|
|
[MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ftpd</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
opens a socket for a data transfer in active mode using the effective UID of the current
|
|
user, not <tt class="USERNAME">root</tt>. This is useful for matching anonymous FTP data
|
|
traffic with a single <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> rule
|
|
with <var class="LITERAL">uid</var>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftw&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ftw</span>(3)</span></a> and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nftw&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nftw</span>(3)</span></a>
|
|
functions to traverse a directory hierarchy have been implemented.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(8)</span></a> utility
|
|
for operating on <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> classes
|
|
from the userland has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpt&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gpt</span>(8)</span></a>, a GUID
|
|
partition table maintenance utility, now supports a <var class="OPTION">remove</var>
|
|
command. Its <var class="OPTION">add</var> command now supports a <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-i</var> option, which allows the user to specify the partition number of
|
|
a new partition.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=id&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">id</span>(1)</span></a> now supports a
|
|
<var class="OPTION">-M</var> option to print the MAC label of the current process.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports renaming of network interfaces at run-time using the <var
|
|
class="OPTION">name</var> parameter.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
prints the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=polling&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">polling</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
status on the interface. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
provides the <var class="OPTION">vlanmtu</var> and <var class="OPTION">-vlanmtu</var>
|
|
options, which control the capability of some Ethernet interfaces to receive extended
|
|
frames (i.e. frames containing more than 1500 bytes of payload).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ifconfig</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
provides the <var class="OPTION">vlanhwtag</var> and <var class="OPTION">-vlanhwtag</var>
|
|
options, which control the capability of some Ethernet interfaces to process VLAN tags in
|
|
the hardware.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=indent&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">indent</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-ldi</var> option to control indentation of local
|
|
variables. A number of other tunings were made to this utility.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=indent&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">indent</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports <var class="OPTION">-fbs</var> and <var class="OPTION">-ut</var> for function
|
|
declarations with the opening brace on the same line as the declaration of arguments all
|
|
spaces and no tabs in order to fix problem when non-8 space tabs are used.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip6fw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ip6fw</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-n</var> flag to stop it from making any changes to the
|
|
rules in the kernel.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipcs&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipcs</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-u</var> option to display information about IPC
|
|
mechanisms owned by the specified user.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-b</var> flag to print only the action and comment for
|
|
each rule, thus omitting the rule body.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-U</var> option to run a command as a user which exists
|
|
only in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(2)</span></a>
|
|
environment.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-l</var> option to clean the environment. All environment
|
|
variables are discarded except for <var class="VARNAME">HOME</var>, <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">SHELL</var>, <var class="VARNAME">PATH</var>, <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">TERM</var>, and <var class="VARNAME">USER</var> before running the jailed
|
|
program under a specific user's credentials. This behavior is similar to that provided by
|
|
the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=su&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">su</span>(1)</span></a> <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-l</var> option.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kgdb&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kgdb</span>(1)</span></a>, a
|
|
kernel debugging utility which uses <b class="APPLICATION">libgdb</b> and understands
|
|
kernel threads, kernel modules, and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kvm&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">kvm</span>(3)</span></a>, has been
|
|
added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=killall&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">killall</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-e</var> flag to make the <var class="OPTION">-u</var>
|
|
operate on effective, rather than real, user IDs. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libalias&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">libalias</span>(3)</span></a> now
|
|
has support (and a new API) for multiple aliasing instances in a single process. The
|
|
existing API has been reimplemented in terms of the new one to preserve
|
|
compatibility.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A <b class="APPLICATION">libarchive</b> library for manipulation of compressed and
|
|
uncompressed archive files has been added. More details can be found in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libarchive&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
|
|
class="REFENTRYTITLE">libarchive</span>(3)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">libdisk</b> now uses <var class="VARNAME">d_addr_t</var> for
|
|
disk addresses. This allows <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> to
|
|
properly handle disks and file systems more than 1 TB.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The library formerly known as <b class="APPLICATION">libkse</b> has been renamed <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">libpthread</b> and is now the default threading library on the i386,
|
|
amd64, and ia64 platforms. <b class="APPLICATION">GCC</b>'s <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-pthread</var> option has been changed to use <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">libpthread</b> rather than <b class="APPLICATION">libc_r</b>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="NOTE">
|
|
<blockquote class="NOTE">
|
|
<p><b>Note:</b> Users with older binaries (for example, ports compiled before this change
|
|
was made) should use <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libmap.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">libmap.conf</span>(5)</span></a>
|
|
to map <b class="APPLICATION">libc_r</b> and/or <b class="APPLICATION">libkse</b> to <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">libpthread</b>.</p>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="NOTE">
|
|
<blockquote class="NOTE">
|
|
<p><b>Note:</b> Users with NVIDIA-supplied drivers and libraries may need to use a <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libmap.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">libmap.conf</span>(5)</span></a>
|
|
that maps <b class="APPLICATION">libpthread</b> references to the older <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">libc_r</b> since these drivers and utilities do not work with <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">libpthread</b>.</p>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">libpthread</b> now supports a <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE</var> environment variable to force 1:1 mode
|
|
(using system scope threads). Note that building <b class="APPLICATION">libpthread</b>
|
|
with <var class="OPTION">-DSYSTEM_SCOPE_ONLY</var> flag also forces 1:1 mode, and that
|
|
this option is set by default for architectures that do not support M:N mode yet. In
|
|
addition, a <var class="VARNAME">LIBPTHREAD_PROCESS_SCOPE</var> environment variable can
|
|
be used to force M:N mode (using process scope threads). For example:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre class="SCREEN">
|
|
<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">env LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE=yes <var
|
|
class="REPLACEABLE">threaded_app</var></kbd>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>forces the application <var class="REPLACEABLE">threaded_app</var> to use system scope
|
|
threads, and</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre class="SCREEN">
|
|
<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd
|
|
class="USERINPUT">env LIBPTHREAD_PROCESS_SCOPE=yes <var
|
|
class="REPLACEABLE">threaded_app</var></kbd>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>forces it to use process scope threads.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A bug in the <var class="OPTION">-d</var> option of <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=look&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">look</span>(1)</span></a> has been
|
|
fixed. Also, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=look&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">look</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
works correctly in locales with multibyte characters.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ls&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ls</span>(1)</span></a> now treats
|
|
filenames as multibyte character strings according to the current <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">LC_CTYPE</var> when determining which characters are printable.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">make</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports the new <var class="LITERAL">.warning</var> directive.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">make</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports the POSIX-compatible <var class="LITERAL">+</var> flag in <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">Makefile</tt> command lines, which causes a line to be executed even
|
|
when <var class="OPTION">-n</var> is specified. This is useful for calls to submakes, for
|
|
example.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">make</span>(1)</span></a> now puts
|
|
variable assignments from the command line into the <var class="VARNAME">MAKEFLAGS</var>
|
|
variable as required by POSIX. This causes such variables to be pushed into all sub-makes
|
|
called by the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">make</span>(1)</span></a> (except
|
|
when the <var class="VARNAME">MAKEFLAGS</var> variable is explicitly changed in the
|
|
sub-make's environment). This makes them also mostly un-overrideable in sub-makes except
|
|
on the sub-make's command line.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nearbyint&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nearbyint</span>(3)</span></a> and
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nearbyintf&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nearbyintf</span>(3)</span></a>
|
|
C99 functions have been implemented.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">tgmath.h</tt> C99 header has been implemented. This provides
|
|
type-generic macros for the <tt class="FILENAME">math.h</tt> and <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">complex.h</tt> functions that have float, double and long double
|
|
implementations.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The GNU extensions of <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mbsnrtowcs&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mbsnrtowcs</span>(3)</span></a>
|
|
and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wcsnrtombs&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">wcsnrtombs</span>(3)</span></a>
|
|
have been implemented.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newsyslog&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">newsyslog</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
allows users to set a debugging option via the <tt class="FILENAME">newsyslog.conf</tt>
|
|
file.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newsyslog&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">newsyslog</span>(8)</span></a>
|
|
uses a new order when processing files to rotate. It first rotates all files that need to
|
|
be rotated, then sends a single signal to each process which needs to be signaled, and
|
|
finally compresses all the files that were rotated.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nextwctype&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nextwctype</span>(3)</span></a>
|
|
function to iterate over all characters in a particular character class has been
|
|
added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently supported system locales has
|
|
been added. This is primarily for the benefit of the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/misc/utf8locale/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">misc/utf8locale</tt></a> port.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>An Israel Hebrew locale <var class="LITERAL">he_IL.UTF-8</var> has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=logins&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">logins</span>(1)</span></a>
|
|
utility has been added to display information about user and system accounts.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mountd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mountd</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports the <var class="OPTION">-p</var> option, which allows users to specify a known
|
|
port for use in firewall rulesets.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netstat&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">netstat</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
displays the multicast group memberships present in the system.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">newfs</span>(8)</span></a> and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdmfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">mdmfs</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
support a <var class="OPTION">-l</var> flag to enable them to set the MAC multilabel flag
|
|
on new file systems without requiring the use of <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tunefs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tunefs</span>(8)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nologin&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nologin</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
reports login attempts via <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">syslogd</span>(8)</span></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nologin&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nologin</span>(8)</span></a> has
|
|
been moved from <tt class="FILENAME">/sbin/nologin</tt> to <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/usr/sbin/nologin</tt>. <tt class="FILENAME">/sbin/nologin</tt> remains
|
|
as a symbolic link for backward compatibility.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A bugfix has been applied to NSS support, which fixes problems when using third-party
|
|
NSS modules (such as <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/nss_ldap/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">net/nss_ldap</tt></a>) and groups with large membership lists.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=od&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">od</span>(1)</span></a> now has
|
|
POSIX-style support for multibyte characters.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=patch&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">patch</span>(1)</span></a> has
|
|
been replaced with a BSD-licensed version from OpenBSD. This includes a <var
|
|
class="OPTION">--posix</var> option for strict POSIX conformance.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pgrep</span>(1)</span></a> and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkill</span>(1)</span></a>
|
|
commands, which come from NetBSD, have been added. They also support a <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-M</var> option to extract values associated with the name list from the
|
|
specified core instead of the default <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/kmem</tt>, and a <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-N</var> option to extract the name list from the specified system instead
|
|
of the default kernel.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ppp</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a ``set rad_alive <var class="REPLACEABLE">N</var>'' command to enable periodic
|
|
RADIUS accounting information being sent to the RADIUS server. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ppp</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a ``set pppoe [standard|3Com]'' command to configure the operating mode of an
|
|
underlying <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ng_pppoe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ng_pppoe</span>(4)</span></a>
|
|
Netgraph node.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ps</span>(1)</span></a> compatibility
|
|
with POSIX/SUSv3 has been improved. The changes include <var class="OPTION">-p</var> for
|
|
a list of process IDs, <var class="OPTION">-t</var> for a list of terminal names, <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-A</var> which is equivalent to <var class="OPTION">-ax</var>, <var
|
|
class="OPTION">-G</var> for a list of group IDs, <var class="OPTION">-X</var> which is
|
|
the opposite of <var class="OPTION">-x</var>, and some minor improvements. For more
|
|
information, see <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ps</span>(1)</span></a>. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ps</span>(1)</span></a> now supports a
|
|
<var class="OPTION">-O emul</var> format option, which prints the name of the system call
|
|
emulation environment the process is in.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pw</span>(8)</span></a> now supports a
|
|
<var class="OPTION">-H</var> option, which accepts an encrypted password on a file
|
|
descriptor. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A bug in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rarpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rarpd</span>(8)</span></a> that
|
|
prevents it from working properly when a interface has more than one IP address has been
|
|
fixed. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=regex&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">regex</span>(3)</span></a> now
|
|
supports regular expression matching aware of multibyte characters.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The configuration files used by the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=resolver&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">resolver</span>(3)</span></a> now
|
|
support the <var class="LITERAL">timeout:</var> and <var class="LITERAL">attempts:</var>
|
|
keywords.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=resolver&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">resolver</span>(3)</span></a> and
|
|
associated interfaces are now much more reentrant and thread-safe. Multiple DNS lookups
|
|
can now be run at the same time, showing major improvements in the performance of some
|
|
multi-threaded applications. Some multi-threaded programs need to be recompiled; examples
|
|
from the Ports Collection are <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/www/mozilla/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">www/mozilla</tt></a> and variants, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/mail/evolution/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">mail/evolution</tt></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/gnomevfs/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">devel/gnomevfs</tt></a>, and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/gnomevfs2/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">devel/gnomevfs2</tt></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rmdir&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rmdir</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-v</var> flag, which makes it verbose.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=savecore&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">savecore</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
works correctly for dump files larger than 2GB.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A bug in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=script&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">script</span>(1)</span></a> has
|
|
been fixed so that it now works correctly if the standard input is closed. This fix
|
|
prevents a potentially dangerous interaction with the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/portupgrade/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">sysutils/portupgrade</tt></a> package; if it was run non-interactively,
|
|
it could remove all out-of-date ports without reinstalling them.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sdpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sdpd</span>(8)</span></a>
|
|
Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol daemon has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sed&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sed</span>(1)</span></a>'s <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">y</var> (translate) command now supports multibyte characters.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sha1&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sha1</span>(1)</span></a> and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rmd160&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rmd160</span>(1)</span></a>
|
|
utilities have been added. Similar to <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=md5&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">md5</span>(1)</span></a>, they
|
|
calculate a message digest of their inputs. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=smbmsg&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">smbmsg</span>(8)</span></a>, a
|
|
small utility to send/receive SMBus messages, has been added.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=talk&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">talk</span>(1)</span></a> now uses
|
|
<tt class="HOSTID">localhost</tt> as a default machine name in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=talkd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">talkd</span>(8)</span></a> request
|
|
packets when the destination and source are local. This makes <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=talk&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">talk</span>(1)</span></a>
|
|
dependent on a valid host entry for <tt class="HOSTID">localhost</tt> in <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/etc/hosts</tt> or the DNS.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tftpd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">tftpd</span>(8)</span></a> now
|
|
supports two new options: a <var class="OPTION">-w</var> option allows new files to be
|
|
created, and a <var class="OPTION">-U</var> option allows the umask to be set.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">top</span>(1)</span></a> can now
|
|
display the current amount of I/O. This feature can be enabled by hitting ``m'' or
|
|
passing the command line option <var class="OPTION">-m io</var>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Many userland utilities in the base system (mostly GNU contributed utilities) now use
|
|
the system version of <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getopt_long&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">getopt_long</span>(3)</span></a>,
|
|
rather than the GNU version.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT3">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h4 class="SECT3"><a id="RC-SCRIPTS" name="RC-SCRIPTS">2.3.1 <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.d</tt> Scripts</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">diskless</tt> script has been split out into <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">hostname</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">resolve</tt>, <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">tmp</tt>, and <tt class="FILENAME">var</tt> scripts.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">gbde_swap</tt> script, which supports gbde-enabled swap
|
|
devices, has been added. When the <var class="VARNAME">gbde_swap_enable</var> variable is
|
|
specified in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a>, a
|
|
swap device named <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/<var class="REPLACEABLE">foo.bde</var></tt>
|
|
in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstab&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fstab</span>(5)</span></a> is
|
|
automatically attached at boot time with the device <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/<var
|
|
class="REPLACEABLE">foo</var></tt> and a random key, which is generated by computing the
|
|
MD5 checksum of 512 bytes read from <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/random</tt>. Note that this
|
|
prevents recovery of kernel dumps.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <var class="VARNAME">ip6addrctl_enable</var> and <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">ip6addrctl_verbose</var> variables have been added. When <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">ip6addrctl_enable</var> is set to <var class="LITERAL">YES</var>, the
|
|
address selection policy is installed into the kernel. If <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/etc/ip6addrctl.conf</tt> exists, it will be used; otherwise, a default
|
|
policy will be installed. The default policy is one described in RFC 3484 when <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">ipv6_enable</var> is set to <var class="LITERAL">YES</var>. Otherwise,
|
|
the priority policy for IPv4 address will be used as a default policy.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">mixer</tt> script has been added. It saves the current
|
|
settings of all audio mixers present in the system on shutdown and restores the settings
|
|
on boot.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">named</tt> script has been updated to support <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">BIND 9</b> in the base system. The changes include:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">named</span>(8)</span></a> runs in
|
|
a <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chroot&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">chroot</span>(2)</span></a>
|
|
directory <tt class="FILENAME">/var/named</tt> by default. The <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">named_chrootdir</var> variable can be used to disable this behavior or to
|
|
change the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chroot&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">chroot</span>(2)</span></a>
|
|
directory.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>When the <var class="VARNAME">named_chroot_autoupdate</var> variable is set to <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">YES</var> (the default), the chroot directory is automatically configured
|
|
at the boot time. A symbolic link which points to <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/var/named/etc/namedb</tt> is created as <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/etc/namedb</tt>, and a symbolic link which points to <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/var/named/var/run/named/pid</tt> is created as <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">/var/run/named/pid</tt>. The latter can be disabled by using the <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">named_symlink_enable</var> variable in <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">rc.conf</tt>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">rndc.key</tt> file is automatically created if it does not
|
|
exist.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">pf</tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">pflog</tt> scripts for <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pf</span>(4)</span></a> have been
|
|
added.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT2">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="CONTRIB" name="CONTRIB">2.4 Contributed Software</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">ACPI-CA</b> code has been updated from the 20030619
|
|
snapshot to the 20040527 snapshot.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">AMD (am-utils)</b> has been updated from version 6.0.9 to
|
|
version 6.0.10p1.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">awk</b> from Bell Labs has been updated from the 29 July 2003
|
|
release to the 7 February 2004 release.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">BIND</b> has been updated from version 8.3.1-REL to version
|
|
9.3.0.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">CVS</b> has been updated from version 1.11.15 to version
|
|
1.11.17. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">FILE</b> has been updated from version 3.41 to version
|
|
4.10.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">gdtoa</b> (a library that performs conversions of numbers
|
|
between binary and decimal form) has been updated from version 20030324 to version
|
|
20040118.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">GDB</b> has been updated to version 6.1.1.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU Binutils</b> has been updated to a 23 May 2004 snapshot
|
|
from the FSF 2.15 branch.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU GCC</b> has been updated from 3.3.3-prerelease as of 6
|
|
November 2003 to 3.4.2-prerelease as of 28 July 2004.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU grep</b> has been updated from version 2.4d to version
|
|
2.5.1.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU less</b> has been updated from version 371 to version
|
|
381.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU readline</b> 4.3 has been updated with official patches 001
|
|
through 005.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">GNU regex</b> library has been updated to the version
|
|
included with <b class="APPLICATION">GNU grep</b> 2.5.1.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">GNU sort</b> has been updated from textutils 2.1 to a coreutils
|
|
snapshot as of 12 August 2004.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">GNU tar</b> implementation in the base system is now called
|
|
<tt class="FILENAME">gtar</tt>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">Heimdal Kerberos</b> has been updated from version 0.6 to
|
|
version 0.6.1.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <b class="APPLICATION">ISC DHCP</b> client has been updated from version 3.0.1
|
|
RC10 to version 3.0.1.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">libpcap</b> has been updated from version 0.7.1 to version
|
|
0.8.3.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">lukemftpd</b> has been updated from a snapshot as of 3 November
|
|
2003 to one as of 9 August 2004.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">NTP</b> has been updated from version 4.1.1a to version
|
|
4.2.0.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenPAM</b> has been updated from the Dogwood release to the
|
|
Eelgrass release.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSH</b> has been updated from version 3.6.1p1 to version
|
|
3.8.1p1.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="NOTE">
|
|
<blockquote class="NOTE">
|
|
<p><b>Note:</b> The configuration defaults for <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sshd</span>(8)</span></a> have
|
|
been changed. SSH protocol version 1 is no longer enabled by default. In addition,
|
|
password authentication over SSH is disabled by default if PAM is enabled.</p>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b> has been updated from version 0.9.7c to version
|
|
0.9.7d. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b> VIA C3 Nehemiah PadLock ACE (Advanced Cryptography
|
|
Engine) crypto support, which provides Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, has
|
|
been imported from a prerelease version of <b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">pf</b>, OpenBSD's packet filter as of OpenBSD 3.5-stable, has
|
|
been imported into the FreeBSD source tree and is now installed by default. Two new users
|
|
(<tt class="USERNAME">proxy</tt> and <tt class="USERNAME">_pflogd</tt>) and three new
|
|
groups (<tt class="USERNAME">authpf</tt>, <tt class="USERNAME">proxy</tt>, and <tt
|
|
class="USERNAME">_pflogd</tt>), which <b class="APPLICATION">pf</b> needs, have been
|
|
added as well.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="NOTE">
|
|
<blockquote class="NOTE">
|
|
<p><b>Note:</b> On upgrading from source, these user accounts must be added in advance.
|
|
<var class="LITERAL">mergemaster -p</var> can be used to assist in creating the proper
|
|
entries in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=passwd&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">passwd</span>(5)</span></a> and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=group&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">group</span>(5)</span></a> files.
|
|
The <var class="VARNAME">NO_PF</var> variable in <tt class="FILENAME">make.conf</tt> can
|
|
be used to prevent <b class="APPLICATION">pf</b> from building.</p>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<p>Several userland utilities of OpenBSD's <b class="APPLICATION">pf</b> have been
|
|
imported. <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftp-proxy&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ftp-proxy</span>(8)</span></a> is
|
|
an ftp proxy for <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pf</span>(4)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pfctl&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pfctl</span>(8)</span></a> is an
|
|
equivalent to <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipf&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipf</span>(8)</span></a>, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pflogd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pflogd</span>(8)</span></a> is a
|
|
daemon which logs packets via <var class="LITERAL">if_pflog</var> in <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pcap&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pcap</span>(3)</span></a> format,
|
|
and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=authpf&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">authpf</span>(8)</span></a> is an
|
|
authentication shell to modify <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pf</span>(4)</span></a> rulesets.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">routed</b> has been updated from release 2.22 to release 2.27
|
|
from rhyolite.com. Note that for users relying on RIP's MD5 authentication feature, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=routed&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">routed</span>(8)</span></a> routed
|
|
is now incompatible with previous versions of FreeBSD; however, it is now compatible with
|
|
implementations from Sun, Cisco and other vendors.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b> has been updated from version 8.12.10 to version
|
|
8.13.1. [MERGED]</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">tcpdump</b> has been updated from version 3.7.1 to version
|
|
3.8.3.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">tcsh</b> has been updated from version 6.11 to version
|
|
6.13.00.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The timezone database has been updated from <tt class="FILENAME">tzdata2003a</tt> to
|
|
<tt class="FILENAME">tzdata2004e</tt>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b class="APPLICATION">zlib</b> has been updated from version 1.1.4 to version
|
|
1.2.1.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT2">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="PORTS" name="PORTS">2.5 Ports/Packages Collection
|
|
Infrastructure</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Most of the startup/shutdown scripts installed by various ports now use the new <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc</span>(8)</span></a> framework
|
|
introduced in FreeBSD 5.<var class="REPLACEABLE">X</var>, while some ports still use the
|
|
old-style scripts. On startup, the new <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE"><span
|
|
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">rc</span>(8)</span></a> style scripts
|
|
are executed before the old-style scripts. On shutdown, exactly the reverse happens.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <var class="LITERAL">SIZE</var> attribute for distfiles, which can be used for
|
|
checking file sizes before fetching, has been added and enabled by default. <var
|
|
class="VARNAME">DISABLE_SIZE</var> is a user control knob to disable the distfile size
|
|
checking. This is especially useful on old FreeBSD versions which did not have <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fetch&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">fetch</span>(1)</span></a> support
|
|
for this, and for some FTP proxies which always report incorrect or bogus sizes.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Two new files have been added to the ports tree to track noteworthy changes: <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">ports/CHANGES</tt> lists major changes to the Ports Collection and its
|
|
infrastructure. <tt class="FILENAME">ports/UPDATING</tt> describes some potential
|
|
pitfalls that can be encountered when updating certain ports, analogous to <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">src/UPDATING</tt> for the base system.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The version number parsing code has been rewritten in the system <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">pkg_*</tt> tools, restoring compatibility with 4.x and <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/portupgrade/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">sysutils/portupgrade</tt></a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The package tools can now match packages with relational operators and csh-style <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">{...}</var> choices. For example:</p>
|
|
|
|
<pre class="SCREEN">
|
|
<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">pkg_info -I 'docbook>=3.0'</kbd>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>will list (all) docbook DTDs with at least version 3.0. Additional command line
|
|
options have also been added to aid pattern matching.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The package tools have improved handling of corrupt package databases.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_create&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_create</span>(1)</span></a>
|
|
now supports a <var class="OPTION">-S</var> option to make all <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">@cwd</var> paths be prefixed during package creation.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_info&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_info</span>(1)</span></a> now
|
|
supports a <var class="OPTION">-j</var> option to show the requirements script for each
|
|
package.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT2">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="RELENG" name="RELENG">2.6 Release Engineering and
|
|
Integration</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>FreeBSD cryptography support is no longer an optional component of releases, and the
|
|
<var class="LITERAL">crypto</var> release distribution is now part of <var
|
|
class="LITERAL">base</var>. Note that the <var class="OPTION">-DNOCRYPT</var> build
|
|
option still exists for anyone who really wants to build non-cryptographic binaries.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The supported release of <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> has been updated from
|
|
version 2.4 to version 2.6.2.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="NOTE">
|
|
<blockquote class="NOTE">
|
|
<p><b>Note:</b> If you are using the older <b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> desktop
|
|
itself (<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/gnome2/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">x11/gnome2</tt></a>), simply upgrading it from the FreeBSD Ports
|
|
Collection with <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portupgrade&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">portupgrade</span>(1)</span></a>
|
|
(<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/portupgrade/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">sysutils/portupgrade</tt></a>) will cause serious problems. If you are a
|
|
<b class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> desktop user, please read the instructions carefully at
|
|
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html"
|
|
target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html</a>, and use the <tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">gnome_upgrade.sh</tt> script to properly upgrade to <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> 2.6.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Note that if you are just a casual user of some of the <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">GNOME</b> libraries, <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portupgrade&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports">
|
|
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">portupgrade</span>(1)</span></a>
|
|
should be sufficient to update your ports.</p>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<p>The supported release of <b class="APPLICATION">KDE</b> has been updated from version
|
|
3.1.4 to version 3.3.0.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/security/portaudit/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">security/portaudit</tt></a> utility has been added to the FreeBSD Ports
|
|
Collection. This utility will read a database containing known ports vulnerabilities and
|
|
report them to the administrator.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>FreeBSD now uses <b class="APPLICATION">Xorg</b> instead of <b
|
|
class="APPLICATION">XFree86</b> as the default X Window System. The supported release is
|
|
<b class="APPLICATION">Xorg</b> X11R6.7.0. Note that <b class="APPLICATION">XFree86</b>
|
|
is also available in the FreeBSD Ports Collection (<a
|
|
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11/XFree86-4/pkg-descr"><tt
|
|
class="FILENAME">x11/XFree86-4</tt></a>).</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT2">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h3 class="SECT2"><a id="DOC" name="DOC">2.7 Documentation</a></h3>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="SECT1">
|
|
<hr />
|
|
<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="UPGRADE" name="UPGRADE">3 Upgrading from previous releases of
|
|
FreeBSD</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Users with existing FreeBSD systems are <span class="emphasis"><i
|
|
class="EMPHASIS">highly</i></span> encouraged to read the ``FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Migration
|
|
Guide''. This document generally has the filename <tt class="FILENAME">MIGRATE5.TXT</tt>
|
|
on the distribution media, or any other place that the release notes can be found. It
|
|
offers some notes on migrating from FreeBSD 4.<var class="REPLACEABLE">X</var>, but more
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importantly, also discusses some of the relative merits of upgrading to FreeBSD 5.<var
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class="REPLACEABLE">X</var> versus running FreeBSD 4.<var
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class="REPLACEABLE">X</var>.</p>
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<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
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<p><b>Important:</b> Upgrading FreeBSD should, of course, only be attempted after backing
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up <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> data and configuration
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files.</p>
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<p align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related documents, can be
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downloaded from <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</small></p>
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<p align="center"><small>For questions about FreeBSD, read the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">documentation</a> before contacting <<a
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href="mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org">questions@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p>
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<p align="center"><small>For questions about this documentation, e-mail <<a
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href="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p>
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