diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index d1465ff3219..f1febe75fa9 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -1079,6 +1079,11 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any
are deprecated and have been removed.
&merged;
+ A new GEOM_MULTIPATH class has been added to support
+ multiple access paths to disk devices. The &man.gmultipath.8;
+ utility has been added to control the behavior of disk devices
+ using this feature.
+
A new GEOM class GEOM_ZERO has been added.
It creates a very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero
and is mainly useful for performance testing.
@@ -1167,12 +1172,28 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"
Initial (read-only) support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been
added.
+
+ The unionfs file system has been re-implemented. This
+ version solves many crashing and locking issues compared to
+ the previous implementation. It also adds
+ new transparent and masquerade
+ modes for automatically creating files in the upper file system
+ layer of unions. More information can be found in the
+ &man.mount.unionfs.8; manual page. &merged;
+
Userland Changes
+ The addr2ascii() and ascii2addr() library calls, originally
+ introduced by the INRIA IPv6 implementation, have been removed
+ from libc. They have no consumers in the
+ &os; base system. In a related change, support
+ for AF_LINK addresses has been added to
+ &man.getnameinfo.3;.
+
Padding of ai_addrlen
in struct addrinfo has been removed,
which was originally for the ABI compatibility.
@@ -1242,6 +1263,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"
flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with
the nodump flag set. &merged;
+ The &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; programs now attempt to
+ save and restore extended attribute information on files.
+
The &man.fsdb.8; utility now supports changing the birth
time of files on UFS2 file systems using the new
btime command. &merged;
@@ -1486,6 +1510,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"
installed statically instead of being generated on every
reboot.
+ The objformat(1) utility and getobjformat(3) library (the
+ last remnants of a.out object file support) have been removed.
+
The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports
display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;,
&man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices.
@@ -1618,6 +1645,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"
The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration
file now support functionality which is equivalent to it.
+ The vnconfig(8) utility, which was long ago replaced by
+ &man.mdconfig.8;, has been removed.
+
The &man.xargs.1; utility now supports a
flag which makes the command execution when the standard input
does not contain any non-whitespace-characters. &merged;
@@ -1796,7 +1826,8 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"
0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.
ncurses has been updated from
- 5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217.
+ 5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217. ncurses now also has wide
+ character support.
hostapd
has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.