diff --git a/en/releases/4.4R/Makefile b/en/releases/4.4R/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f6b4b90230 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/releases/4.4R/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/4.4R/Makefile,v 1.1 2001/04/21 07:58:32 jkh Exp $ + +.if exists(../Makefile.conf) +.include "../Makefile.conf" +.endif +.if exists(../Makefile.inc) +.include "../Makefile.inc" +.endif + +DOCS= announce.sgml notes.sgml errata.sgml + +.include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" diff --git a/en/releases/4.4R/announce.sgml b/en/releases/4.4R/announce.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0255300faa --- /dev/null +++ b/en/releases/4.4R/announce.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ + + + + %includes; +]> + +&header; + +

Date: Thursday, 20 Sep 2001 18:00:00 -0800
+ From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>
+ To: announce@FreeBSD.org
+ Subject: 4.4-RELEASE is now available

+ +

I am very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, +the very very latest in 4.x-STABLE branch technology. Since FreeBSD +4.3 was released in April 2001, we have made hundreds of fixes, +updated many different components and addressed a wide variety of +security issues. We have also substantially revamped the +documentation and provided much more comprehensive release notes. +Please see the various HTML (or, at your option, text) files in the +release directory for more information.

+ +

4.4-RELEASE is available for the +i386 +and +alpha +architectures and can be installed directly over the net using +the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/ftp server.

+ +ISO (CD) Images
+---------------
+

We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger +ISO images, but they will at least be available from:

+ +

+ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.4-install.iso
and + +ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.4-install.iso

+ + +

Where ${arch} is currently "i386" or "alpha". If you can't afford the +CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, +then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please do continue to +support the FreeBSD project by purchasing one of its official CD +releases from The FreeBSD Mall. +Each CD sets contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits +for the x86 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports +in the ports collection, please see also the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set +containing all such extra bits which can no longer fit on the 4 ISO set.

+ +

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the +following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, +the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong +Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, +Malaysia, Mordor, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, +Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine +and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've +never even heard of :).

+ +

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional +mirror(s) first by going to:

+ +

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

+ +

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

+ +

Most releases prior to 4.4-RELEASE have been team efforts, only +possible at all due to the collaboration of many different people. It +still bears noting, however, that 4.4-RELEASE was done completely by a +"release engineering team" rather than "a release engineer" and I +think it's fair to say that with 4.4-RELEASE, we've completed the +transition from having one primary person worry about releases to +having many primary people (re@FreeBSD.org) +worry about them. This is a distinct improvement from any point of view +and, I think, an important milestone in FreeBSD's progress.

+ +

In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.4-RELEASE +has been:

+ +

+ Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> : Release Engineering
+ Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> : Package collection
+ Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> : Package collection
+ Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> : Release notes +

+ +

Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into +making this release. I would also like to thank the FreeBSD +Committers <commiters@FreeBSD.org>, without which there would be +nothing to release, and the many thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide +who contributed bug fixes, features and suggestions.

+ + +Thanks!
+

+- Jordan + + + diff --git a/en/releases/4.4R/errata.sgml b/en/releases/4.4R/errata.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a552bc09b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/releases/4.4R/errata.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ + + + + %includes; +]> + + + +&header; + +
+If you read no other documentation before installing this
+version of FreeBSD, you should at least by all means *READ
+THE ERRATA* for this release so that you don't stumble over
+problems which have already been found and fixed.  This ERRATA.TXT
+file is obviously already out of date by definition, but other
+copies are kept updated on the net and should be consulted as
+the "current errata" for your release.  These other copies of
+the errata are located at: 
+
+  1. http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/
+
+  2. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/<your-release>/ERRATA.TXT   
+     (and any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location).          
+
+Any changes to this file are also automatically emailed to:
+
+	freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
+
+For all FreeBSD security advisories, see:
+
+	http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/
+
+for the latest security incident information.
+
+---- Security Advisories:
+
+None
+
+---- System Update Information:
+
+None
+
+
+

Release Home +&footer; + + diff --git a/en/releases/4.4R/notes.sgml b/en/releases/4.4R/notes.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..79c699f268 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/releases/4.4R/notes.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,1404 @@ + + + + + FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 Release Notes + + + + + +
+
+

FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 + Release Notes

+ +

The FreeBSD Project

+ +

Copyright © 2000, 2001 by The + FreeBSD Documentation Project

+
+
+ +
+
+ +

1 Introduction

+ +

This document contains the release notes for FreeBSD + 4.4-RELEASE on the i386 hardware platform. It describes new + features of FreeBSD that have been added (or changed) since + 4.3-RELEASE.

+ +

This distribution of FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE is a release + distribution. It can be found at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ or any of its + mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) + release distributions of FreeBSD can be found in the ``Obtaining FreeBSD'' appendix to the FreeBSD + Handbook.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2 What's New

+ +

This section describes the most user-visible new or + changed features in FreeBSD since 4.3-RELEASE.

+ +

Many additional changes were made to FreeBSD that are + not listed here for lack of space. For example, + documentation was corrected and improved, minor bugs were + fixed, insecure coding practices were audited and + corrected, and source code was cleaned up.

+ +

The release notes items are organized into three + different sections. Section 2.1 lists + recent changes to the FreeBSD kernel. Security fixes, + including those pertaining to security advisories, are + listed in Section 2.2. Finally, Section 2.3 covers changes to FreeBSD + userland applications included in the base system.

+ +
+
+ +

2.1 Kernel + Changes

+ +

The O_DIRECT flag has been + added to + open(2) and + fcntl(2). Specifying + this flag for open files will attempt to minimize the + cache effects of reading and writing.

+ +

An + orm(4) device has been + added to claim the option ROMs in the ISA memory I/O + space, to prevent other drivers from mistakenly assigning + addresses that conflict with these ROMs.

+ +

The out-of-swap process termination code now begins + killing processes earlier to avoid deadlocks; it now also + takes into account the swap space used by processes when + computing the process sizes.

+ +

Network device cloning has been implemented, and the + + gif(4) device has been + modified to take advantage of it. Thus, instead of + specifying how many + gif(4) interfaces are + available in kernel configuration files, + ifconfig(8)'s create option should be used when + another device instance is desired.

+ +

Two new + ddb(4) commands, hwatch and dhwatch, have been introduced. Analogous + to watch and dwatch, they install hardware watchpoints + (as opposed to software watchpoints) if supported by the + architecture.

+ +

A + nmdm(4) null-modem + terminal driver has been added.

+ +

The + stl(4) driver now + supports the PCI and ISA EasyIO multi-port serial cards + from Stallion Technologies based on the Signetics + SC26C194/8 Intelligent Quad/Octal UART.

+ +

The maxusers kernel + configuration parameter is now a boot-time tunable + variable. The kernel parameters derived from maxusers are now also tunables and can be + overridden at boot-time. The hz + parameter is also now a tunable.

+ +

The FreeBSD boot loader now contains a workaround to + support CDROM booting on certain IBM BIOSs that expect + the first sector of the emulated floppy to contain a + valid MS-DOS BPB that they can modify.

+ +
+
+ +

2.1.1 + Processor/Motherboard Support

+ +

Detection for new processors, such as the Transmeta + Crusoe, and Transmeta Crusoe with LongRun, has been + added.

+ +

Support for Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) has been introduced. The CPU_ENABLE_SSE kernel option + controls whether support is compiled into the + kernel.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.1.2 Network + Interface Support

+ +

The + fxp(4) driver now + requires a device miibus entry + in the kernel configuration file.

+ +

The + wx(4) driver now + supports the Intel PRO1000-F and PRO1000-T + (10/100/1000) adapters.

+ +

The + an(4) driver now + supports the Cisco Aironet 350 series of adaptors and + has received a few bug fixes; promiscuous mode now + works, and it can be configured before being brought + up.

+ +

The + xl(4) driver now + supports reception of VLAN tagged frames (on the + ``Cyclone'' or newer chipsets).

+ +

The + ti(4) driver + correctly masks VLAN tags.

+ +

Added the + nge(4) driver, which + supports PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the + National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 Gigabit + Ethernet controller chips, including the D-Link + DGE-500T, SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX), Asante + FriendlyNet GigaNIC 1000TA and 1000TPC and Addtron + AEG320T. This driver supports transmit and receive + checksum offloading.

+ +

The + lge(4) driver has + been added to support the Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator + Gigabit Ethernet controller chip. This device is used + on some fiber optic GigE cards from SMC, D-Link and + Addtron. Jumbograms and TCP/IP checksum offload on + receive are supported, although hardware VLAN filtering + is not.

+ +

The + tx(4) driver now + supports the fiber-optic SMC 9432FTX NICs.

+ +

The + ed(4) driver now has + support for D-Link DL10022 chips, necessary for the + NetGear FA-410TX and other cards. As a result, device miibus is required in + kernel configurations using the + ed(4) driver.

+ +

The + txp(4) driver has + been added to support NICs based on the 3Com 3XP + Typhoon/Sidewinder (3CR990) chipset.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.1.3 Network + Protocols

+ +

TCP now has RFC 1323 extensions enabled by default + in + rc.conf(5).

+ +

RFC 1323 and RFC 1644 TCP extensions are now + disabled for a connection in progress if no response + has been received by the third SYN segment sent. This + behavior tries to work around (very old) terminal + servers with buggy VJ header compression + implementations.

+ +

The TCP_RESTRICT_RST kernel + option has been removed. Similar functionality can be + achieved with the net.inet.tcp.blackhole sysctl + variable.

+ +

The TCP implementation no longer requires the + allocation of a TCP template structure for each + connection; this should reduce the buffer usage on + large systems handling many connections.

+ +

A new sysctl net.inet.ip.check_interface, which is + off by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming + packet arrives on an interface that has an address + matching the packet's destination address.

+ +

A new options RANDOM_IP_ID + kernel option causes the ID field of IP packets to be + randomized. This closes a minor information leak which + allows a remote observer to determine the rate at which + the machine is generating packets, since the default + behavior is to increment a counter for each packet + sent.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.1.4 Disks and + Storage

+ +

The + asr(4) driver now + supports the Adaptec 2000S and 2005S Zero-Channel RAID + controllers.

+ +

The + aac(4) driver now + supports the Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S controller.

+ +

The + ata(4) driver again + has write-caching enabled by default.

+ +

The + wd(4) compatibility + devices were removed from the + ata(4) driver.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.1.5 + Filesystems

+ +

smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added. The + corresponding userland filesystem mount utility can be + found in the + net/smbfs port in the FreeBSD + Ports Collection.

+ +

A simple hash-based lookup optimization for large + directories called dirhash has + been added. Conditional on the UFS_DIRHASH kernel option, it improves + the speed of operations on very large directories at + the expense of some memory.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.1.6 PCCARD + Support

+ +

On many modern hosts, PCCARD devices can be + configured to route their interrupts via either the ISA + or PCI interrupt paths. The + pcic(4) driver has + been updated to support both interrupt paths (formerly, + only routing via ISA was supported). In most cases, + configuration of PCMCIA devices in laptops is simpler + and more flexible. In addition, various Cardbus bridge + PCI cards (such as those used by Orinoco PCI NICs) are + now supported. Some hosts may experience problems, such + as hangs or panics, with PCI interrupt routing; they + can frequently be made to work by forcing the + older-style ISA interrupt routing. The following lines, + placed in /boot/loader.conf, + may fix the problem:

+
+    hw.pcic.intr_path="1"
+    hw.pcic.irq="0"
+
+ +

When installing FreeBSD on such a system, typing the + following lines to the boot loader may be helpful in + starting up FreeBSD for the first time:

+ +

+
+    ok set hw.pcic.intr_path="1"
+    ok set hw.pcic.irq="0"
+
+
+
+ +

PCCARD ejection can sometimes result in a hang; a + workaround for these cases is to perform a:

+
+    # pccardc power 0 slot
+
+
+ +
+
+ +

2.1.7 Multimedia + Support

+ +

A driver for the Advance Logic ALS4000 has been + added.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.1.8 Contributed + Software

+ +

IPFilter has been updated + to 3.4.20.

+ +
+
+ +

2.1.8.1 + isdn4bsd

+ +

isdn4bsd has been + updated to version 1.0.1. As a result of this update, + users of the + i4bisppp(4) (kernel + PPP over ISDN) driver must + now use + ispppcontrol(8) + instead of + spppcontrol(8) to + configure and control these network interfaces.

+ +

The + ihfc(4) driver for + supporting Cologne Chip Designs HFC devices under isdn4bsd has been added.

+ +

The + itjc(4) driver for + supporting NETjet-S / Teles PCI-TJ devices under isdn4bsd has been added.

+ +

Experimental support for the Eicon.Diehl DIVA 2.0 + and 2.02 ISA PnP ISDN cards has been added to the + isic(4) isdn4bsd driver.

+ +

Active CAPI-based ISDN cards manufacured by AVM + are now supported using the + i4bcapi(4) and the + + iavc(4) driver. The + supported cards are the AVM B1 PCI and AVM B1 ISA + Basic Rate cards and the AVM T1 Primary Rate + cards.

+ +

A new maxconnecttime + keyword is now accepted in + isdnd.rc(5) files + to limit the time a connection may remain open.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.1.8.2 + KAME

+ +

The IPv6 stack is now based on a snapshot based on + the KAME Project's IPv6 snapshot as of 28 May, 2001. + Most of the items listed in this section are a result + of this import. Section + 2.3.1.2 lists userland updates to the KAME IPv6 + stack.

+ +

+ gif(4) is now based + on RFC 2893, rather than RFC 1933. The IFF_LINK2 interface flag can be used + to control ingress filtering.

+ +

IPSec has received some + enhancements, including the ability to use the + Rijndael and SHA2 algorithms. IPSec RC5 support has + been removed due to patent issues.

+ +

+ stf(4) now conforms + to RFC 3056; the IFF_LINK2 + interface flag can be used to control ingress + filtering.

+ +

IPv6 has better checking of illegal addresses + (such as loopback addresses) on physical + networks.

+ +

The IPV6_V6ONLY socket + option is now completely supported. The kernel's + default behavior with respect to this option is + controlled by the net.inet6.ip6.v6only sysctl + variable.

+ +

RFC 3041 (Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address + Autoconfiguration) is now supported. It can be + enabled via the net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr sysctl + variable.

+
+
+
+ +
+
+ +

2.2 Security-Related + Changes

+ +

The security fix mentioned in security advisory + FreeBSD-SA-01:39, which governs initial sequence number + generation for TCP connections, has raised some possible + compatibility issues. To mitigate this effect, the fix + can now be enabled or disabled using the net.inet.tcp.tcp_seq_genscheme sysctl + variable.

+ +

A vulnerability in the + fts(3) routines (used + by applications for recursively traversing a filesystem) + could allow a program to operate on files outside the + intended directory hierarchy. This bug has been fixed + (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:40).

+ +

+ portmap(8) is now + turned off by default, although it will be started + automatically on machines that enable NFS serving, NIS + services, or + amd(8) through + rc.conf(5).

+ +

A flaw allowed some signal handlers to remain in + effect in a child process after being exec-ed from its + parent. This allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary + code in the context of a setuid binary. This flaw has + been corrected (see security advisory + FreeBSD-SA-01:42).

+ +

A remote buffer overflow in + tcpdump(1) has been + fixed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:48).

+ +

A remote buffer overflow in + telnetd(8) has been + fixed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:49).

+ +

The new net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets and net.inet.ip6.maxfragpackets sysctl + variables limit the amount of memory that can be consumed + by IPv4 and IPv6 packet fragments, which defends against + some denial of service attacks (see security advisory + FreeBSD-SA-01:52).

+ +

The number of ``security profiles'' available in + sysinstall(8) for new + installations has been reduced to two.

+ +

All services in inetd.conf + are now disabled by default for new installations. + sysinstall(8) gives the + option of enabling or disabling + inetd(8) on new + installations, as well as editing inetd.conf.

+ +

A flaw in the implementation of the + ipfw(8) me rules on point-to-point links has been + corrected. Formerly, me filter + rules would match the remote IP address of a + point-to-point interface in addition to the intended + local IP address (see security advisory + FreeBSD-SA-01:53).

+ +

A vulnerability in + procfs(5), which could + allow a process to read sensitive information from + another process's memory space, has been closed (see + security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:55).

+ +

The PARANOID hostname + checking in tcp_wrappers now + works as advertised (see security advisory + FreeBSD-SA-01:56).

+ +

A local root exploit in + sendmail(8) has been + closed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:57).

+ +

A remote root vulnerability in + lpd(8) has been closed + (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:58).

+ +

A race condition in + rmuser(8) that briefly + exposed a world-readable /etc/master.passwd has been fixed (see + security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:59).

+ +

All non-root-owned binaries + in standard system paths now have the schg flag set to prevent exploit vectors + when run by + cron(8), by root, or by a user other then the one + owning the binary. In addition, + uustat(1) is now run + via /etc/periodic/daily/410.status-uucp as + uucp, not root.

+ +

A security hole in the form of a buffer overflow in + the + semop(2) system call + has been closed.

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.3 Userland + Changes

+ +

+ ip6fw(8) now has the + ability to use a preprocessor and use the -q (quiet) flag when reading from a + file.

+ +

+ ping(8) now supports a + -m option to set the TTL of + outgoing packets.

+ +

+ ln(1) now takes a -h flag to avoid following a target + that is a link, with a -n flag + for compatibility with other implementations.

+ +

+ find(1) now has the -anewer, -cnewer, -mnewer, + -okdir, and -newer[acm][acmt] primaries for comparisons + of file timestamps.

+ +

The performance of the ELF dynamic linker has been + improved.

+ +

+ ifconfig(8) can now + accept addresses in slash/CIDR notation.

+ +

+ c89(1) has been + converted from a shell script to a binary executable, + fixing some minor bugs.

+ +

+ vidcontrol(1) now + supports a -p option to take a + snapshot of a + syscons(4) video + buffer. These snapshots can be manipulated by the + graphics/scr2png utility in the + Ports Collection.

+ +

+ vidcontrol(1) now + allows the user to omit the font size specification when + loading a font, and has some better error-handling.

+ +

+ telnet(1) now supports + a -u flag to allow connections to + UNIX-domain (AF_UNIX) + sockets.

+ +

+ newfs(8) now takes a + -U option to enable softupdates + on a new filesystem.

+ +

libcrypt now has support for + Blowfish password hashing.

+ +

Ukrainian language support has been added to the + FreeBSD console.

+ +

+ savecore(8) now works + correctly on machines with 2 GB or more of RAM.

+ +

The syntax of + inetd(8)'s support for + + faithd(8) is now + compatible with that of other BSDs.

+ +

The ident protocol support in + + inetd(8) has been + cleaned up and updated.

+ +

+ inetd(8) now has the + ability to manage UNIX-domain sockets.

+ +

The + resolver(3) in FreeBSD + now implements EDNS0 support, which will be necessary + when working with IPv6 transport-ready resolvers/DNS + servers.

+ +

+ df(1) now takes a -l option to only display information + about locally-mounted filesystems.

+ +

+ whois(1) now directs + queries for IP addresses to ARIN. If a query to ARIN + references APNIC or RIPE, the appropriate server will + also be queried, provided that the -Q option is not specified.

+ +

The -T option to + dump(8) no longer + swallows an extra argument.

+ +

+ dump(8) has a new -D option, allowing the path to the + /etc/dumpdates file to be + changed.

+ +

libfetch now has support for + a HTTP_USER_AGENT environment + variable.

+ +

The + getprogname(3) and + setprogname(3) library + functions have been added to manipulate the name of the + current program. They are used by error-reporting + routines to produce consistent output.

+ +

+ xargs(1) now supports a + -J replstr option that allows the + user to tell + xargs(1) to insert the + data read from standard input at a specific point in the + command line arguments, rather than at the end.

+ +

+ ifconfig(8) now has + support for setting parameters for IEEE 802.11 wireless + network devices. + wi(4) and + an(4) devices are + supported.

+ +

+ ifconfig(8) no longer + displays the list of supported media by default. Instead + it displays it when the -m option + is given.

+ +

+ lpd(8) now takes two + new options: -c will log all + connection errors to + syslogd(8), while -W will allow connections from + non-reserved ports.

+ +

+ lpc(8) has been + improved; lpc clean is now + somewhat safer, and a new lpc + tclean command has been added to check to see what + files would be removed by lpc + clean.

+ +

+ du(1) now takes a -I command-line flag to ignore/skip + files and subdirectories matching a specified shell-glob + mask.

+ +

+ growfs(8), a utility + for growing FFS filesystems, has been added. + ffsinfo(8), a utility + for dump all the meta-information of an existing + filesystem, has also been added.

+ +

+ mail(1) now takes a -E flag to avoid sending messages + with empty bodies.

+ +

+ vidcontrol(1) now + supports a -C option to clear the + history buffer for a given tty, as well as a -h option to set the size of the history + buffer.

+ +

+ last(1) now implements + a -d option that provides a + ``snapshot'' of who was logged in at a particular date + and time.

+ +

libcrypt and libdescrypt have been unified to provide + a configurable password authentication hash library. Both + the md5 and des hash methods are provided unless the des + hash is specifically compiled out.

+ +

+ install(1) has a number + of new features, including the -b + and -B options for backing up + existing target files and the -S + option for ``safe'' (atomic copy) operation. The -c (copy) flag is now the default, + and the -D (debugging) flag has + been withdrawn. + install(1) now issues a + warning if -d (create + directories) and -C (copy changed + files only) are used together.

+ +

The FreeBSD Makefile + infrastructure now supports the WARNS directive from NetBSD. This + directive controls the addition of compiler warning flags + to CFLAGS in a relatively + compiler-neutral manner.

+ +

A new + fsck_msdosfs(8) utility + has been added to check the consistency of MS-DOS + filesystems.

+ +

The + kldconfig(8) utility + has been added to make it easier to manipulate the kernel + module search path.

+ +

+ moused(8) now takes a + -a option to control mouse + acceleration.

+ +

The tcpmssfixup + ppp(8) option now + adjusts the maximum receive segment size of incoming TCP + SYN segments as well as outgoing TCP SYN segments.

+ +

+ sysctl(8) now supports + a -N option to print out variable + names only.

+ +

+ sysctl(8) has replaced + the -A and -X options with -ao + and -ax respectively; the former + options are now deprecated. The -w flag is deprecated as well; it is not + needed to determine the user's intentions.

+ +

+ cdcontrol(1) now + supports next and prev commands to skip forwards or + backwards a specified number of tracks while playing an + audio CD.

+ +

+ col(1) now takes a -p flag to force unknown control + sequences to be passed through unchanged.

+ +

+ tmpnam(3) will now use + the TMPDIR environment variable, + if set, to specify the location of temporary files.

+ +

+ rc(8) now deletes all + non-directory files in /var/run + and /var/spool/lock at boot + time.

+ +

+ fmtcheck(3), a function + for checking consistency of format string arguments, has + been added.

+ +

+ apmd(8) now has the + ability to monitor battery levels and execute commands + based on percentage or minutes of battery life remaining + via the apm_battery + configuration directive. See the commented-out examples + in /etc/apmd.conf for the + syntax.

+ +

+ pppd(8) (the control + program for kernel-level PPP) is now installed mode 4550 and root:dialer, rather than mode 4555 (in other words, it is no longer + world-executable). Users of + pppd(8) may need to + change their group settings.

+ +
+
+ +

2.3.1 Contributed + Software

+ +

BIND is now built with + the NOADDITIONAL flag, which + causes + named(8) to operate + in a more consistent fashion for certain common + misconfigurations.

+ +

BIND has been updated to + 8.2.4-REL.

+ +

Binutils have been + upgraded to 2.11.2.

+ +

bzip2 1.0.1 has been + imported; this brings the + bzip2(1) program and + the libbz2 library to the + base system.

+ +

The + ee(1) Easy Editor has been updated to + 1.4.2.

+ +

file has been updated to + 3.36.

+ +

+ gcc(1) now supports + the environment variable GCC_OPTIONS, which can hold a set of + default options for GCC.

+ +

GNATS has been updated to + 3.113.

+ +

groff and its related + utilities have been updated to FSF version 1.17.2. This + import brings in a new + mdoc(7) macro package + (sometimes referred to as mdocNG), which removes many of the + limitations of its predecessor.

+ +

libpcap has been updated + to 0.6.2.

+ +

OpenSSL has been upgraded + to 0.9.6a.

+ +

sendmail and associated + utilities have been upgraded to version 8.11.6. See /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES + for more information.

+ +

+ traceroute(8) now + takes its default maximum TTL value from the net.inet.ip.ttl sysctl variable.

+ +

tcpdump has been updated + to 3.6.3.

+ +
+
+ +

2.3.1.1 + CVSup

+ +

CVSup, a frequently + used utility in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, was + formerly installable using several ports and + packages. The + net/cvsup-bin and + net/cvsupd-bin + ports/packages are no longer necessary or available; + the + net/cvsup port should be + used instead.

+ +

CVSup has been updated + to 16.1_3, which is available in the FreeBSD Ports + Collection as + net/cvsup. This update + fixes a long-standing (but only recently encountered) + bug which affects the timestamps on all files after + Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001 (1,000,000,000 seconds + after the UNIX epoch).

+
+ +
+
+ +

2.3.1.2 + KAME

+ +

The IPv6 stack is now based on a snapshot based on + the KAME Project's IPv6 snapshot as of 28 May, 2001. + Most of the items listed in this section are a result + of this import. Section + 2.1.8.2 lists kernel updates to the KAME IPv6 + stack.

+ +

+ faithd(8) now + supports a configuration file for access control.

+ +

+ ifconfig(8) can now + perform the functions of + gifconfig(8).

+ +

+ ifconfig(8) can now + perform the functions of + prefix(8). + prefix(8) is now a + shell script for partial backwards compatibility.

+ +

+ ndp(8) now + implements garbage collection for stale NDP entries, + as described in RFC 2461 (Neighbor Discovery for IP + Version 6 (IPv6)).

+ +

+ pim6dd(8) and + pim6sd(8) have been + removed due to restrictive licensing conditions. + These programs are available in the ports collection + as + net/pim6dd and + net/pim6sd.

+ +

+ route6d(8) now + supports an -n flag to avoid + updating the kernel forwarding table.

+ +

The -R (router + renumbering) option to + rtadvd(8) is + currently ignored.

+
+
+ +
+
+ +

2.3.2 Ports/Packages + Collection

+ +

+ pkg_version(1) now + takes a -s flag to limit its + operation to ports/packages matching a given + string.

+
+
+
+ +
+
+ +

3 Upgrading from + previous releases of FreeBSD

+ +

If you're upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, + most likely it's 4.X and there may be some issues affecting + you, depending of course on your chosen method of + upgrading. There are two popular ways of upgrading FreeBSD + distributions:

+ +

+ + +
+
+ +

Please read the INSTALL.TXT + file for more information, preferably before beginning an upgrade. If you are + upgrading from source, please be sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING as well.

+ +

Finally, if you want to use one of various means to + track the -STABLE or -CURRENT branches of FreeBSD, please + be sure to consult the ``-CURRENT vs. -STABLE'' section of the + FreeBSD Handbook.

+
+
+
+ +

This file, and other release-related + documents, can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/.

+ +

For questions about FreeBSD, read the + documentation + before contacting <questions@FreeBSD.org>.

+ +

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

+ +

Release Home +
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+ + diff --git a/en/releases/Makefile b/en/releases/Makefile index 2182703b82..0a29f106a6 100644 --- a/en/releases/Makefile +++ b/en/releases/Makefile @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ -# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/Makefile,v 1.27 2000/11/21 20:40:38 jkh Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/Makefile,v 1.28 2001/04/21 07:58:29 jkh Exp $ .if exists(../Makefile.conf) .include "../Makefile.conf" .endif .if exists(../Makefile.inc) .include "../Makefile.inc" .endif DOCS?= index.sgml snapshots.sgml SUBDIR= 1.1 1.1.5 2.0 2.0.5R 2.1R 2.1.5R 2.1.6R 2.1.7R 2.2R SUBDIR+= 2.2.1R 2.2.2R 2.2.5R 2.2.6R 2.2.7R 2.2.8R 3.0R 3.1R 3.2R -SUBDIR+= 3.3R 3.4R 3.5R 4.0R 4.1R 4.1.1R 4.2R 4.3R +SUBDIR+= 3.3R 3.4R 3.5R 4.0R 4.1R 4.1.1R 4.2R 4.3R 4.4R .if defined $(NEW_BUILD) SUBDIR= .endif .include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" diff --git a/en/releases/index.sgml b/en/releases/index.sgml index a4436acd94..b2045f2867 100644 --- a/en/releases/index.sgml +++ b/en/releases/index.sgml @@ -1,229 +1,236 @@ - + %includes; ]> - + &header;

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Current Release(s)

Release &rel.current; (April 2001) Announcement : Release Notes : Errata

The latest daily release from our FreeBSD-stable branch is also available. Please see Getting FreeBSD for details.

Future Releases

We will continue to bring you new releases from both our FreeBSD-stable and FreeBSD-current branches, both as developer's snapshots and as regular full releases. The next scheduled release on the -stable branch will be - FreeBSD 4.4 on September 15, 2001. The first release on + FreeBSD 4.5 on January 15, 2002. The first release on what is now the -current branch will be FreeBSD 5.0, scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2002.

Past Releases

Release Usage Statistics

A snapshot of the current FreeBSD release usage is available at http://www.FreeBSD.org/statistic/release_usage/2001/.

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