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RELEASE NOTES
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FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE [SNAPSHOT] VERSION
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================================================================
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What's new since 2.2.5
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Kernel features:
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o Added support for SMC EtherPower II 10/100 Fast Ethernet card
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(aka SMC9432TX based on SMC83c170 EPIC chip).
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o Added support for DPT SCSI RAID controllers (see LINT).
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o New Plug and Play (PnP) support that allows you to (re)configure
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PnP devices. Also support modems being detected by the PnP
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part and automatically attached.
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o Alternate sound driver (/sys/i386/isa/snd) from Luigi Rizzo;
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it does not yet support MIDI (for that, use the old sound
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driver) but it does have much better support for PNP sound
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cards and is much easier to configure (only one device).
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See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for more info.
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o Better Linux emulation (applications like RealVideo 5.0 for
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Linux now work).
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o Added support for ATAPI floppy drives (LS-120)
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o The psm, mse and sysmouse drivers are improved to provide
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better mouse support. moused(8) has been modified to support
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various mice with a ``wheel''. It also automatically
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recognizes mice which support the PnP COM device standard so
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that the user is no longer required to supply a mouse protocol
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type on the command line.
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o The Specialix multiport serial driver has had a facelift in
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an attempt to support the newer module types and host cards.
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It should support ISA, EISA and PCI now. Thanks to Nick Sayer
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of Specialix for providing patches for integration.
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Userland features:
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o popen() library call now uses and offers bidirectional pipes.
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o Added support for parallel makes in /usr/src (-j<n> works
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now with world target, particularly useful with SMP
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machines).
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o tcpdump(1) utility enhanced
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o Support for ldconfig -R (remove) added.
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o Various bugfixes and enhancements to pthread support.
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o calendar(1) program brought more up-to-date.
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o KerberosIV updated to latest version.
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o Various curses(3) bugs fixed.
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o Various IEEE754 conformance changes to libm(3).
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o Much cleanup and general improvements to the documentation.
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o Various improvements to the NIS code.
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Security issues:
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o Fixed /dev/io and mmap security holes.
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o Better protection against "LAND attacks"
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o Various buffer overruns detected and extra checks added.
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o Pentium "F00F bug" is detected and a work-around installed to
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prevent hangs.
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o srandomdev() support merged from -current and utilities updated
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to use it.
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