FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE Errata

The FreeBSD Project

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This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE, containing significant information discovered after the release. This information includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the software or documentation that could affect its operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted before installing this version of FreeBSD.

This errata document for FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE.

1 Introduction

This errata document contains ``late-breaking news'' about FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and fixed.

Any version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the ``current errata'' for this release. These other copies of the errata are located at http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/, plus any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.

Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 4-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot).

For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ or ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/.

2 Security Advisories

No active security advisories.

3 System Update - Information

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No active updates.

3 Late-Breaking + News

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In FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE, the default maximum TCP window + size was lowered from 65536 bytes to 57334 bytes, for + better compatability with some versions of IPFilter.

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A recently-discovered interaction between the FreeBSD + kernel and the archivers/zip port + can result in some errors on the alpha platform. A + post-release fix has been committed to the FreeBSD ports + tree; versions of the archivers/zip port beginning with 2.3_1 + will function correctly.

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On the alpha platform, the + de(4) and + txp(4) drivers were moved + from the boot kernel on the floppy images to modules on the + mfsroot floppy. This change was + made in order to get the alpha kernel to fit onto the boot + floppy. It should be transparent to all users, as + sysinstall(8) will + automatically load any kernel modules it finds on the mfsroot floppy.

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Several last-minute patches were made to the x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server package. These + allow the various server configuration programs to give + better support for the sysmouse + device supported by + moused(8). The binary + packages on the CDROMs and the FTP sites incoporate this + patch and bear the version number 4.2.0_3. However, the + ports collection included in the distribution does not + contain this patch. To get an updated version, use CVSup to obtain a more recent ports + collection.

All users of FreeBSD 4-STABLE + should subscribe to the <stable@FreeBSD.org> mailing + list.