diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index a3e278472a1..867525aa166 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@
+ &os; always uses the local APIC timer
+ even on uni-processor systems now.
+
The default HZ
parameter (which controls various kernel timers) has been
increased from 100 to 1000
@@ -300,6 +303,13 @@
rebuilt to stay synchronized with data structure changes in the
kernel.
+ A new tunable vm.blacklist has been added.
+ This can hold a space or comma separated list of physical addresses.
+ The pages containing these physical addresses will
+ not be added to the free list and thus will effectively
+ be ignored by the &os; VM system. The physical addresses
+ of any ignored pages are listed in the message buffer as well.
+
Boot Loader Changes
@@ -590,6 +600,8 @@
Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to
make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;
+ The &man.ipfw.8; now supports IPv4 only rules.
+
&man.ipnat.8; now allows redirect rules to
work for non-TCP/UDP packets. &merged;
@@ -786,7 +798,9 @@
Machine-specific optimized versions of
&man.bcmp.3;, &man.bcopy.3;, &man.bzero.3;, &man.memcmp.3;,
&man.memcpy.3;, &man.memmove.3;, &man.memset.3;, &man.strcat.3;
- and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented.
+ and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented. Several mathematics
+ functions such as &man.ceill.3; and &man.sqrtf.3; are also
+ replaced with the optimized versions.
The &man.chflags.1; utility now supports the
flag, which supports changing flags on
@@ -833,6 +847,18 @@
The &man.getservent.3;, &man.getservbyname.3;, and
&man.getservbyport.3; functions are now thread-safe. &merged;
+ For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
+ (also known as POSIX 2001), the n_net
+ of struct netent and the first argument
+ of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an uint32_t.
+ Due to these changes the ABI on 64-bit platforms becomes
+ incompatible with previous releases of &os; and
+ the major version number of libpcap has been bumped.
+ If you upgrade &os; for 64-bit platforms, note that all of
+ the userland programs which use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;,
+ &man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3; and/or
+ libpcap have to be recompiled.
+
The gvinum(8) utility now supports
checkparity,
rebuildparity, and
@@ -1184,6 +1210,9 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"
FILE has been updated from 4.10
to 4.12.
+ GNU GCC has been updated from
+ from 3.4.2-prerelease as of 28 July, 2004 to 3.4.4.
+
A number of bug fixes and performance enhancements have been
added to GNU grep in the form of
patches from Fedora's grep-2.5.1-48 source RPM.
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index a3e278472a1..867525aa166 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@
+ &os; always uses the local APIC timer
+ even on uni-processor systems now.
+
The default HZ
parameter (which controls various kernel timers) has been
increased from 100 to 1000
@@ -300,6 +303,13 @@
rebuilt to stay synchronized with data structure changes in the
kernel.
+ A new tunable vm.blacklist has been added.
+ This can hold a space or comma separated list of physical addresses.
+ The pages containing these physical addresses will
+ not be added to the free list and thus will effectively
+ be ignored by the &os; VM system. The physical addresses
+ of any ignored pages are listed in the message buffer as well.
+
Boot Loader Changes
@@ -590,6 +600,8 @@
Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to
make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break. &merged;
+ The &man.ipfw.8; now supports IPv4 only rules.
+
&man.ipnat.8; now allows redirect rules to
work for non-TCP/UDP packets. &merged;
@@ -786,7 +798,9 @@
Machine-specific optimized versions of
&man.bcmp.3;, &man.bcopy.3;, &man.bzero.3;, &man.memcmp.3;,
&man.memcpy.3;, &man.memmove.3;, &man.memset.3;, &man.strcat.3;
- and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented.
+ and &man.strcpy.3; have been implemented. Several mathematics
+ functions such as &man.ceill.3; and &man.sqrtf.3; are also
+ replaced with the optimized versions.The &man.chflags.1; utility now supports the
flag, which supports changing flags on
@@ -833,6 +847,18 @@
The &man.getservent.3;, &man.getservbyname.3;, and
&man.getservbyport.3; functions are now thread-safe. &merged;
+ For conformation to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
+ (also known as POSIX 2001), the n_net
+ of struct netent and the first argument
+ of &man.getnetbyaddr.3; has been changed to an uint32_t.
+ Due to these changes the ABI on 64-bit platforms becomes
+ incompatible with previous releases of &os; and
+ the major version number of libpcap has been bumped.
+ If you upgrade &os; for 64-bit platforms, note that all of
+ the userland programs which use &man.getnetbyaddr.3;,
+ &man.getnetbyname.3;, &man.getnetent.3; and/or
+ libpcap have to be recompiled.
+
The gvinum(8) utility now supports
checkparity,
rebuildparity, and
@@ -1184,6 +1210,9 @@ moused_ums0_port="/dev/ums0"
FILE has been updated from 4.10
to 4.12.
+ GNU GCC has been updated from
+ from 3.4.2-prerelease as of 28 July, 2004 to 3.4.4.
+
A number of bug fixes and performance enhancements have been
added to GNU grep in the form of
patches from Fedora's grep-2.5.1-48 source RPM.