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                          RELEASE NOTES
                  FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE VERSION
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 1. What's new since 2.2.7
 -------------------------
 
 Kernel features:
 ----------------
 o Add support for >8G IDE drives.
 
 o Add support for 3Com 3c905B ethernet adapters
 
 o Add support for PCI ThunderLAN-based ethernet adapters (Compaq/Olicom)
 
 o Significantly improve Linux emulator again.  Things like QuakeII should
   just run out-of-the-box now (given the rest of their requirements).
 
 o Major changes from -current's pthread implementation merged: This includes
   file locking based on FILE *, signal fixes, read/write-locks, better POSIX
   compliance and better performance.
 
 o Add a new flexible bandwidth limiter/delay emulator called
   dummynet. See dummynet(4).
 
 o Add support for bridging on multiple interfaces (10 and 100 Mbit/s).
   See bridge(4).
 
 o NFS client accelerator added.  See 'nfs_access_cache' in rc.conf(5).
 
 
 Userland features:
 ------------------
 
 o /bin/sh signal and trap handling reworked. Among other things, this
   makes tty-mode emacs work when called from system(2), i.e. by a mail
   agent.
 
 o ppp(8) merged from 3.0, adding features like multilink and VPN
   support as well as fixing a number of known bugs.
 
 
 Security issues:
 ----------------
 
-o All open CERT/Bugtraq advisories against 2.2.8 have been dealt with.
+o All open CERT/Bugtraq advisories reported since 2.2.7's release
+  have been dealt with.
 
 
 2. Supported Configurations
 ---------------------------
 
 FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
 based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
 386sx is not recommended).  Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
 configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
 also provided.
 
 What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
 FreeBSD.  Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
 received confirmation of this.
 
 
 2.1. Disk Controllers
 ---------------------
 
 WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
 WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
 IDE
 ATA
 
 Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
 Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
 Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
 Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
 controllers.
 Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
 
 ** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
    on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
    system BIOS I/O vectors.  They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
    CDROMs, etc, however.  The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
    without a boot ROM.  Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
    indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
    or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
    Check your system/board documentation for more details.
 
 Buslogic 545S & 545c
 Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
 Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
 Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
 Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
 
 SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
 controllers:
 	ASUS SC-200
   	Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
 	NCR cards (all)
 	Symbios cards (all)
 	Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
 	Tyan S1365
 
 Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
 AMD 53c974 as well).
 
 NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. 
 
 DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
 
 UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
 
 Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
 
 Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
 
 WD7000 SCSI controller.
 
 With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
 SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
 DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
 
 The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
 (cd)    SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
         SoundBlaster SCSI)
 (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
         interface (562/563 models)
 (scd)   Sony proprietary interface (all models)
 (wcd)   ATAPI CDROM interface
 (acd)	ATAPI CD-R interface (alternative to 'wcd')
 
 
 Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware:
 
   Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
   Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
   Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
   and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
 
   Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight)
 
   (mcd)   Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models)
 
 2.2. Ethernet cards
 -------------------
 
 Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
 
 AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
 
 SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
 WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
 based clones.  SMC Elite Ultra.  SMC Etherpower II.
 
 Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following:
  Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port
  Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP
  Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC
  Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP
 
 DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
 DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
 DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
 DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
 
 Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
 
 HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
 
 Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
 Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
 Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
 
 Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
 Isolink 4110     (8 bit)
 
 Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
 
 3Com 3C501 cards
 
 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
 
 3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
 
 3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
 
 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B PCI and EISA
 (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
 
 Toshiba ethernet cards
 
 PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
 supported.
 
 No token ring cards are supported at this time.
 
 
 2.3. Misc
 ---------
 
 AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
 
 ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
 ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
 
 Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
 Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
 Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
 Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
 
 Comtrol Rocketport card.
 
 Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
 
 STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
 
 SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
 SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
 
 Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
 ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
 
 Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
 and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
 
 Connectix QuickCam
 Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
 Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
 Cortex1 frame grabber
 Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI)
 STB TV PCI
 Intel Smart Video Recorder III
 Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 chip.
 
 HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives.
 
 PS/2 mice
 
 Standard PC Joystick
 
 X-10 power controllers
 
 GPIB and Transputer drivers.
 
 Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
 
 
 FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
 
 
 3. Obtaining FreeBSD
 --------------------
 
 You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
 
 3.1. FTP/Mail
 -------------
 
 You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
 `ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
 
 For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
 MIRROR.SITES.  Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
 networking terms) to you.  Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
 Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to 
 become an official mirror site.
 
 
 3.2. CDROM
 ----------
 
 FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP and 2.2.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
 
         Walnut Creek CDROM
         4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
         Concord CA  94520
         1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX)
 
 Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
 Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
 
         ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog
 
 Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
 FreeBSD SNAPshot CDs are $39.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
 (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate).  With a
 subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
 Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
 your subscription at any time without further obligation.
 
 Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
 and $9.00 overseas.  They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
 Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
 States.  California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
 
 Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
 unconditional return policy.
 
 
 4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
 Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
 valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
 (preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
 
 The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
 Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI
 script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html.  Bug reports
 will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
 be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
 as possible.  Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
 in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
 and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
 watch out for.
 
 If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
 submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
  
                freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
  
 Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move
 even onto a totally different system.  We much prefer if you could use
 this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem
 reports.  However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether
 the problem might have already been fixed since.
  
 Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to:
  
                freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
  
 Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
 extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
 enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves!  To
 contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
 mail to:
  
                freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
  
 Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
 amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
 are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
 may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
  
                freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
  
 All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone wishing
 to do so.  Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
 `help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message.  This
 will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
 archives, etc.  There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
 special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
 and ask about them!
  
 5. Acknowledgements
 -------------------
  
 FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
 hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
 hard to bring you this release.  For a complete list of FreeBSD
 project staffers, please see:
  
         http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html
  
 or, if you've loaded the doc distribution:
  
         file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html
  
 Special mention to:
  
         The donors listed at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/donors.html
  
         Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
  
         And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
         world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
  
 We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
  
 
                         The FreeBSD Project

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