Significant changes from NetBSD 2.0 to 3.0

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November 2005

racoon(8)
ipsec-tools 0.6.3 imported [manu 20051121]

October 2005

racoon(8)
ipsec-tools 0.6.2 imported [manu 20051014]

September 2005

xge(4)
Add driver for the Neterion Xframe-I 10 gigabit ethernet controller [ragge 20050909]

August 2005

sysinst
Added Spanish language translation. [xtraeme 20050826]
racoon(8)
ipsec-tools updated to 0.6.1 [manu 20050820]

July 2005

vndcompress(1)
Add vndcompress(1) and vnduncompress(1) to transform filesystem/disk images from "normal" into cloop2-format compressed images and back (written by Florian Stoehr). Compressed disk images can be used with the vnd(4) driver when compiled with VND_COMPRESSION and "vnconfig -z". Useful for creation of Live CDs/DVDs. [hubertf 20050725]
vnd(4)
Add support for configuring cloop2-compressed images read-only, written by Cliff Wright. [hubertf 20050716]

June 2005

azalia(4)
Add driver for High Definition Audio. [kent 20050621]

April 2005

sparc64
Switch to wscons [martin 20050429]
am-utils
Upgrade to 6.1-rc2 [christos 20050423]
postinstall(8)
Moved from /etc to /usr/sbin. [lukem 20050417]

March 2005

pkill(1)
Add -i option to ignore case for both pgrep(1) and pkill(1). [sketch 20050316]
sendmail(8)
update to 8.13.3. [atatat 20050315]
re(4)
Add TCPv4 hardware transmit segment offload support. [yamt 20050312]
stf(4)
Add support for changing the MTU. [tron 20050311]
rcp(1)
Add support for specifying the rhost as an IPv6 address string. [ginsbach 20050311]
rsh(1), rlogin(1)
Add -4 and -6 options, used to limit host addresses to IPv4 or IPv6 respectively. [ginsbach 20050311]
sockstat(1)
Add sockstat(1) modeled after the program by the same name in FreeBSD. [atatat 20050309]
rcp(1)
Add -4 and -6 options, used to limit host addresses to IPv4 or IPv6 respectively. [ginsbach 20050309]
xen
updated to support the xen 2.0 kernel, including domain0 support (this drops support for xen 1.2) [bouyer 20050309]
wm(4)
Add TCPv4 hardware transmit segment offload support. [matt 20050309]
/etc/postinstall
support -s /path/to/etc.tgz to extract the file into a temporary directory and run postinstall from there. [lukem 20050308]
ifconfig(8)
Allow switching TCP Segment Offloading on/off by adding a new tso4/-tso4 switch. [matt 20050306]

February 2005

openpam(3)
update to 20050201 (feterita) [christos 20050226]
file(1)
update to 4.13. [pooka 20050221]
gem(4), hme(4)
IPv4 TCP/UDP hardware checksumming added. [heas 20050220]
vge(4)
Add driver for VIA Networking Technologies VT612X [jdolecek 20050220]
pppd(8)
updated to version 2.4.3. [cube 20050220]
libradius(3)
import libradius from FreeBSD [manu 20050220]
evbarm
Add CompactFlash device on IQ31244. [rearnsha 20050219]
ipf(8)
updated to version 4.1.6. [martti 20050219]
racoon(8)
Switch to ipsec-tools' racoon [manu 20050216]
systat(1)
Add "df" display to give information about filesystems, available diskspace and used disk capacity, similar to df(1). [hubertf 20050216]
ssh
Imported OpenSSH 3.9 [christos 20050213]
ipsec(4)
Add support for IPsec NAT-T [manu 20050212]
artsata(4)
Add support for operation in DPA mode. [rearnsha 20050211]
ext2fs, fsck_ext2fs(8)
Upgrade filesystems automatically to support files >2GB if they are already at revision 1, filesystems at revision 0 will not be touched. [ws 20050209]
ipf(8)
updated to version 4.1.5. [martti 20050208]
groupadd(8)
Add the -r option, used to specify a gid range in which groups can be created. [jmmv 20050205]
/etc/security, security.conf(5)
Add option to permit non-alphanumeric login names. [jdolecek 20050205]

January 2005

kernel
Add RFC-3378 EtherIP support. This feature allows adding gif(4) interfaces to bridge(4) interfaces. See brconfig(8). [kim 20050131]
kernel
Add ffs file system snapshots. See fssconfig(8). [hannken 20050131]
auich(4)
Add support for nForce2 Ultra 400. [jdolecek 20050127]
viaide(4)
Add support for nForce4. [kent 20050127]
auich(4)
Add support for nForce4. [kent 20050127]
kernel
Dirhash imported from FreeBSD. Maintains in-core hashes for large directories, improving ufs_lookup performance. Disabled by default, but can be enabled with 'options UFS_DIRHASH'. [rumble 20050123]
kernel
Save kernel memory by switching IPC domain initialization to use link sets, see <sys/cdefs.h>. Bump kernel version to 2.99.15 [matt 20050123]
seq(1)
Add BSD licensed version of this Plan 9 and GNU/Linux command, which prints sequences of numbers. [ginsbach 20050120]
viaide(4)
Add support for nForce2 Ultra 400 PATA and SATA. [jdolecek 20050113]
auixp(4)
Add driver for the audio part of the ATI IXP series of chipsets. [reinoud 20050112]
iwi(4)
Driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200AG/2915ABG driver written by Damien Bergamini. [skrll 20050111]
audio(9)
Add capability of audio software filter pipeline. The feature makes it easy for hadware drivers to add encoding support or sample rates support, and does not lead user- visible changes at this moment. [kent 20050111]
/rescue
Add: cgdconfig chroot less more scp slogin ssh vi [lukem 20050110]
shark
Switch to wscons. [tsutsui 20050109]
tap(4)
virtual Ethernet device [cube 20050108]
scsictl(8)
Add defects command to read defect data from direct access devices (disks). [ginsbach 20050107]
restore(8)
Stop asking stupid questions (restore owner/mode of . ?). Rather, do it only on a full restore. [fredb 20050108]
kernel, libc
Add system calls and VFS infrastructure for file system extended attributes. Adapted from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20050102]
uvm(9)
Allocate in-kernel map entries dynamically rather than allocating them statically at boot time. Now artificial limit of entries (MAX_KMAPENT) is obsolete. [yamt 20050101]
pool(9), pool_cache(9)
Introduce a new flag, PR_NOTOUCH. Now pool(9) and pool_cache(9) can handle non memory backed objects. [yamt 20050101]

December 2004

file(1)
update to 4.12. [pooka 20041213]
ixpide(4)
Add driver for the IDE controller of the ATI IXP series of chipsets. [cube 20041206]
ppp(4), sl(4), strip(4)
converted to cloning devices [christos 20041205]
lo(4)
converted to a cloning device [peter 20041203]
iteide(4)
Add driver for the ITE 8212 IDE controller. [grant 20041201]

November 2004

bpf(4)
Convert to a cloning device [christos 20041129]
am-utils
import 6.1b5pre 20040916 [christos 20041126]
pdcsata(4)
Driver for the SATA150 family of Promise controllers. [bouyer 20041124]
getent(1)
Add tool to get entries from an administrative database. [lukem 20041123]
kernel
CD9660 Joliet Unicode file names encoded into UTF-8, thus full Unicode range supported. [jdolecek 20041121]
syslogd(8)
Numerous improvements, most from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20041118]
pf(4)
PF from OpenBSD 3.6 imported [yamt 20041114]
postfix(1)
Postfix 2.1.5 imported. [heas 20041113]
ptyfs
New pseudo-terminal filesystem [christos 20041111]
bind
Bind-9.3.0 imported. [christos 20041106]
libc/ctype.h
Changed the #defines for all the ctype.h functions (isdigit() etc) to remove the (int) cast and thus detect broken code that could index outside the array. Fixed all the fallout. [dsl 20041104]

October 2004

axe(4)
The uax(4) driver has been replaced by the axe driver. [augustss 20041023]
cdce(4)
Driver for CDC USB Ethernet devices. Written by Daniel Hartmeier for OpenBSD. [augustss 20041022]
ehci(4)
Support for interrupt transfers added. From OpenBSD. This allows high speed hubs to be used with high speed devices. [augustss 20041022]
uaudio(4)
Support for selector unit, and make mixer item names compatible with other audio devices. Written by Kazuhito HONDA. [kent 20041021]
auvia(4)
Support for suspending/resuming. Written by Rhialto. [kent 20041017]
iyonix
Initial import of iyonix port [gavan 20041013]
auacer(4)
Driver for ALi M5455 audio controller. Output only so far. [augustss 20041010]

September 2004

pcap(3)
Synchronized with version 0.8.3 from tcpdump.org. [dyoung 20040927]
tcpdump(8)
Synchronized with version 3.8.3 from tcpdump.org. [dyoung 20040927]
mac68k
Support to build with soft-float enabled. [jmmv 20040926]
file(1)
update to 4.10. [pooka 20040916]
heimdal
import version 0.6.3. [lha 20040913]
uuidgen(1)
Add a UUID generation tool, adapted from FreeBSD, extended slightly with some additional DCE-compatible options. [thorpej 20040913]
libc
Add UUID manipulation routines, adapted from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20040913]
kernel
Add IPv4 PIM support from Pavlin Radoslavov and Hitoshi Asaeda. Part of this work has been supported by the XORP project http://www.xorp.org [manu 20040905]

August 2004

crtstuff
Switch to GCC-supplied crtbegin.o / crtend.o on GCC 3.3 platforms. [thorpej 20040827]
compat_darwin(8)
Support for MacOS X.3 binaries. [manu 20040825]
ipw(4)
Driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 driver written by Damien Bergamini. [lukem 20040823]
kernel
Support Thumb applications on ARM architecture 5. [rearnsha 20040821]
libc, libpthread
On ARM use interworking clean return sequences when built for v4T or later. [rearnsha 20040821]
libc
Add optimized ffs(3) implementation for ARM architecture 5. [rearnsha 20040821]
kernel
Add extensions to the autoconf(9) framework to allow device detachment and bus rescans in a bus independent way, and for better support of driver LKMs. [drochner 20040819]
/etc/postinstall
check for obsolete minor/teeny shared libraries. [lukem 20040812]

July 2004

i386
Support Intel ICH-based SpeedStep(TM) in ichlpcib(4). [mrg 20040731]
groff(1)
Updated to 1.19.1. [wiz 20040730]
wsconsctl(4)
Add support to change console border color. [jmmv 20040729]
wscons(4)
Add support to change console border color. [jmmv 20040729]
vga(4)
Add support to change console border color. [jmmv 20040729]
postfix(1)
Postfix 2.1.4 imported. [heas 20040728]
wsconsctl(4)
Add support to change console colors and kernel colors dynamically after boot. [jmmv 20040728]
wscons(4)
Add support to change console colors and kernel colors dynamically after boot. [jmmv 20040728]
spif(4)
New driver for Sun SUNW,spif multi-port Sbus cards originally written by Jason L. Wright for OpenBSD. [mrg 20040724]
/etc/security
allow mtree specfile entries in /etc/mtree/special.local to override entries in /etc/mtree/special. [lukem 20040723]
ipf(8)
updated to version 4.1.3. [martti 20040723]
mtree(8)
Implement -M to permit merging of specfile entries that have different types. [lukem 20040722]
sendmail(8)
The sendmail daemon will now start by default if the rc.d script determines a need for it. [atatat 20040715]
libc
Add wordexp(3) which performs shell-style word expansions. [seb 20040713]
texinfo(1)
upgraded to 4.7. [wiz 20040713]
sed(1)
Make patterns larger than _POSIX2_LINE_MAX*2-1 work. [manu 20040709]
libcrypt
Add support for SHA1 hashed (hmac_sha1 actually) passwords. [sjg 20040701]
sgimips
Add support for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2. [tsutsui 20040711]

June 2004

prep
Add IBM RS/6000 40P 7020-001 platform support. [kleink 20040626]
powerpc
Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
pf(4)
PF from OpenBSD 3.5 imported [itojun 20040622]
racoon(8)
upgraded to 20040617 [itojun 20040617]
hp700
Add FFS/LFS primary bootstrap (xxboot). [itohy 20040615]
xfree86
support absolute mouse positioning events on i386 and other platforms using the same mouse code [tsarna 20040603]

May 2004

postfix(1)
Postfix 2.1.1 imported. [heas 20040531]
ptm(4)
pty/98 pty multiplexor device [christos 20040526]
uep(4)
Added driver for eGalax USB touchpanel controller [tsarna 20040524]
emuxki(4)
Make this driver work on big endian machines (at least on macppc). [tsutsui 20040523]
resolver
The libc resolver has been updated to the bind9 one [christos 20040521]
sysinst
(i386) Allow installation/upgrade to an existing raid volume. [dsl 20040518]
bind
Bind-9.3.0beta3 imported. [christos 20040517]
du(1)
add a -n flag to not include "nodump" files. [simonb 20040517]
xdm(1)
use /var/db/xdm for the default authDir. [lukem 20040512]
libc
Make gmon / mcount work properly for threaded applications by keeping thread-specific gmonparam structures and then merging them before dumping the profile buffers. Written by Nathan J. Williams, contributed by Wasabi Systems, Inc. [thorpej 20040510]
heimdal
import version 0.6.2. [lha 20040508]

April 2004

i386
Add support for Enhanced SpeedStep Technology, from Michael Eriksson on port-i386. [lukem 20040430]
postfix(1)
Postfix 2.1.0 imported. [heas 20040427]
kernel
Add a POOL_INIT macro to declare and automatically initialise resource pools. [simonb 20040425]
statvfs(2)
Eliminate statfs(2) and friends, in preference for the POSIX/XOpen compliant statvfs(2) family. [christos 20040421]
locate.conf(5)
"ignorefs type" appends to the default list of types rather than overriding it. [lukem 20040419]
sysctl(8)
Add "vfs.generic.fstypes" node to display the currently available file system types. [lukem 20040419]
sysinst
use /etc/postinstall to update /etc (etc) instead of just saving /etc to /etc/old [dsl 20040418]
share/mk
Deprecate AINC in favour of AFLAGS. [lukem 20040418]
login.conf(5)
Add support for "sbsize" capability to control the socket buffer size limit. [matt 20040418]
sh(1)
Add support for "ulimit -b" to control the socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417]
ksh(1)
Add support for "ulimit -b" to control the socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417]
csh(1)
Add support for "limit sbsize" to control the socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417]
setrlimit(2)
Add RLIMIT_SBSIZE to limit the socket buffer size. [christos 20040417]
file(1)
update to 4.09. [pooka 20040408]
powerpc
implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
heimdal
import version 0.6.1. [lha 20040402]
which(1)
Replaced by a C program that only checks the path. [christos 20040401]

Port specific changes (top)

acorn26 acorn32 algor alpha amd64 amiga amigappc arc arm26 arm32 atari

bebox cats cesfic cobalt dreamcast evbarm evbmips evbppc evbsh3 evbsh5 ews4800mips

hp300 hp700 hpcarm hpcmips hpcsh i386 ibmnws iyonix luna68k mac68k macppc

mipsco mmeye mvme68k mvmeppc netwinder news68k newsmips next68k ofppc pc532 playstation2

pmax pmppc prep sandpoint sbmips sgimips shark sparc sparc64 sun2 sun3

vax walnut x68k xen

NetBSD/aarch64 covers (for NetBSD 3.0):

NetBSD/evbarm64

Changes to NetBSD/acorn26 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn26.

Changes to NetBSD/acorn32 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-acorn32.

Changes to NetBSD/algor 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-algor.

Changes to NetBSD/alpha 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-alpha.

Changes to NetBSD/amd64 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-amd64.

Changes to NetBSD/amiga 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-amiga.

Changes to NetBSD/amigappc 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-amigappc.

Changes to NetBSD/arc 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-arc.

Changes to NetBSD/arm26 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm26.

Changes to NetBSD/arm32 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-arm32.

Changes to NetBSD/atari 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-atari.

Changes to NetBSD/bebox 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-bebox.

Changes to NetBSD/cats 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-cats.

Changes to NetBSD/cesfic 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-cesfic.

Changes to NetBSD/cobalt 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-cobalt.

Changes to NetBSD/dreamcast 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-dreamcast.

Changes to NetBSD/evbarm 3.0

Add CompactFlash device on IQ31244. [rearnsha 20050219]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbarm.

Changes to NetBSD/evbmips 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/evbppc 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbppc.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh3 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbsh3.

Changes to NetBSD/evbsh5 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-evbsh5.

Changes to NetBSD/ews4800mips 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-ews4800mips.

Changes to NetBSD/hp300 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hp300.

Changes to NetBSD/hp700 3.0

Add FFS/LFS primary bootstrap (xxboot). [itohy 20040615]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hp700.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcarm 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcarm.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcmips 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcmips.

Changes to NetBSD/hpcsh 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-hpcsh.

Changes to NetBSD/i386 3.0

Add support for Enhanced SpeedStep Technology, from Michael Eriksson on port-i386. [lukem 20040430]
Support Intel ICH-based SpeedStep(TM) in ichlpcib(4). [mrg 20040731]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-i386.

Changes to NetBSD/ibmnws 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-ibmnws.

Changes to NetBSD/iyonix 3.0

Initial import of iyonix port [gavan 20041013]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-iyonix.

Changes to NetBSD/luna68k 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-luna68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mac68k 3.0

Support to build with soft-float enabled. [jmmv 20040926]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-mac68k.

Changes to NetBSD/macppc 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-macppc.

Changes to NetBSD/mipsco 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-mipsco.

Changes to NetBSD/mmeye 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-mmeye.

Changes to NetBSD/mvme68k 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvme68k.

Changes to NetBSD/mvmeppc 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-mvmeppc.

Changes to NetBSD/netwinder 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-netwinder.

Changes to NetBSD/news68k 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-news68k.

Changes to NetBSD/newsmips 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-newsmips.

Changes to NetBSD/next68k 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-next68k.

Changes to NetBSD/ofppc 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-ofppc.

Changes to NetBSD/pc532 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-pc532.

Changes to NetBSD/playstation2 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-playstation2.

Changes to NetBSD/pmax 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-pmax.

Changes to NetBSD/pmppc 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-pmppc.

Changes to NetBSD/prep 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Add IBM RS/6000 40P 7020-001 platform support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-prep.

Changes to NetBSD/sandpoint 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sandpoint.

Changes to NetBSD/sbmips 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sbmips.

Changes to NetBSD/sgimips 3.0

Add support for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2. [tsutsui 20040711]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sgimips.

Changes to NetBSD/shark 3.0

Switch to wscons. [tsutsui 20050109]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-shark.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc.

Changes to NetBSD/sparc64 3.0

Switch to wscons [martin 20050429]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sparc64.

Changes to NetBSD/sun2 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sun2.

Changes to NetBSD/sun3 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-sun3.

Changes to NetBSD/vax 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-vax.

Changes to NetBSD/walnut 3.0

powerpc: implement FP exception handling for OEA processors. [matt 20040404]
powerpc: Implement MPC601 support. [kleink 20040626]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-walnut.

Changes to NetBSD/x68k 3.0

None recorded in changes log.
Non port specific changes that may affect port-x68k.

Changes to NetBSD/xen 3.0

updated to support the xen 2.0 kernel, including domain0 support (this drops support for xen 1.2) [bouyer 20050309]
Non port specific changes that may affect port-xen.

Non port-specific changes (top)

/etc/postinstall

check for obsolete minor/teeny shared libraries. [lukem 20040812]
support -s /path/to/etc.tgz to extract the file into a temporary directory and run postinstall from there. [lukem 20050308]

/etc/security

allow mtree specfile entries in /etc/mtree/special.local to override entries in /etc/mtree/special. [lukem 20040723]
Add option to permit non-alphanumeric login names. [jdolecek 20050205]

/rescue

Add: cgdconfig chroot less more scp slogin ssh vi [lukem 20050110]

am-utils

import 6.1b5pre 20040916 [christos 20041126]
Upgrade to 6.1-rc2 [christos 20050423]

artsata(4)

Add support for operation in DPA mode. [rearnsha 20050211]

auacer(4)

Driver for ALi M5455 audio controller. Output only so far. [augustss 20041010]

audio(9)

Add capability of audio software filter pipeline. The feature makes it easy for hadware drivers to add encoding support or sample rates support, and does not lead user- visible changes at this moment. [kent 20050111]

auich(4)

Add support for nForce4. [kent 20050127]
Add support for nForce2 Ultra 400. [jdolecek 20050127]

auixp(4)

Add driver for the audio part of the ATI IXP series of chipsets. [reinoud 20050112]

auvia(4)

Support for suspending/resuming. Written by Rhialto. [kent 20041017]

axe(4)

The uax(4) driver has been replaced by the axe driver. [augustss 20041023]

azalia(4)

Add driver for High Definition Audio. [kent 20050621]

bind

Bind-9.3.0beta3 imported. [christos 20040517]
Bind-9.3.0 imported. [christos 20041106]

bpf(4)

Convert to a cloning device [christos 20041129]

cdce(4)

Driver for CDC USB Ethernet devices. Written by Daniel Hartmeier for OpenBSD. [augustss 20041022]

compat_darwin(8)

Support for MacOS X.3 binaries. [manu 20040825]

crtstuff

Switch to GCC-supplied crtbegin.o / crtend.o on GCC 3.3 platforms. [thorpej 20040827]

csh(1)

Add support for "limit sbsize" to control the socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417]

du(1)

add a -n flag to not include "nodump" files. [simonb 20040517]

ehci(4)

Support for interrupt transfers added. From OpenBSD. This allows high speed hubs to be used with high speed devices. [augustss 20041022]

emuxki(4)

Make this driver work on big endian machines (at least on macppc). [tsutsui 20040523]

ext2fs

Upgrade filesystems automatically to support files >2GB if they are already at revision 1, filesystems at revision 0 will not be touched. [ws 20050209]

file(1)

update to 4.09. [pooka 20040408]
update to 4.10. [pooka 20040916]
update to 4.12. [pooka 20041213]
update to 4.13. [pooka 20050221]

fsck_ext2fs(8)

Upgrade filesystems automatically to support files >2GB if they are already at revision 1, filesystems at revision 0 will not be touched. [ws 20050209]

gem(4)

IPv4 TCP/UDP hardware checksumming added. [heas 20050220]

getent(1)

Add tool to get entries from an administrative database. [lukem 20041123]

groff(1)

Updated to 1.19.1. [wiz 20040730]

groupadd(8)

Add the -r option, used to specify a gid range in which groups can be created. [jmmv 20050205]

heimdal

import version 0.6.1. [lha 20040402]
import version 0.6.2. [lha 20040508]
import version 0.6.3. [lha 20040913]

hme(4)

IPv4 TCP/UDP hardware checksumming added. [heas 20050220]

ifconfig(8)

Allow switching TCP Segment Offloading on/off by adding a new tso4/-tso4 switch. [matt 20050306]

ipf(8)

updated to version 4.1.3. [martti 20040723]
updated to version 4.1.5. [martti 20050208]
updated to version 4.1.6. [martti 20050219]

ipsec(4)

Add support for IPsec NAT-T [manu 20050212]

ipw(4)

Driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 driver written by Damien Bergamini. [lukem 20040823]

iteide(4)

Add driver for the ITE 8212 IDE controller. [grant 20041201]

iwi(4)

Driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200AG/2915ABG driver written by Damien Bergamini. [skrll 20050111]

ixpide(4)

Add driver for the IDE controller of the ATI IXP series of chipsets. [cube 20041206]

kernel

Add a POOL_INIT macro to declare and automatically initialise resource pools. [simonb 20040425]
Add extensions to the autoconf(9) framework to allow device detachment and bus rescans in a bus independent way, and for better support of driver LKMs. [drochner 20040819]
Support Thumb applications on ARM architecture 5. [rearnsha 20040821]
Add IPv4 PIM support from Pavlin Radoslavov and Hitoshi Asaeda. Part of this work has been supported by the XORP project http://www.xorp.org [manu 20040905]
CD9660 Joliet Unicode file names encoded into UTF-8, thus full Unicode range supported. [jdolecek 20041121]
Add system calls and VFS infrastructure for file system extended attributes. Adapted from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20050102]
Save kernel memory by switching IPC domain initialization to use link sets, see <sys/cdefs.h>. Bump kernel version to 2.99.15 [matt 20050123]
Dirhash imported from FreeBSD. Maintains in-core hashes for large directories, improving ufs_lookup performance. Disabled by default, but can be enabled with 'options UFS_DIRHASH'. [rumble 20050123]
Add ffs file system snapshots. See fssconfig(8). [hannken 20050131]
Add RFC-3378 EtherIP support. This feature allows adding gif(4) interfaces to bridge(4) interfaces. See brconfig(8). [kim 20050131]

ksh(1)

Add support for "ulimit -b" to control the socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417]

libc

Make gmon / mcount work properly for threaded applications by keeping thread-specific gmonparam structures and then merging them before dumping the profile buffers. Written by Nathan J. Williams, contributed by Wasabi Systems, Inc. [thorpej 20040510]
Add wordexp(3) which performs shell-style word expansions. [seb 20040713]
Add optimized ffs(3) implementation for ARM architecture 5. [rearnsha 20040821]
On ARM use interworking clean return sequences when built for v4T or later. [rearnsha 20040821]
Add UUID manipulation routines, adapted from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20040913]
Add system calls and VFS infrastructure for file system extended attributes. Adapted from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20050102]

libc/ctype.h

Changed the #defines for all the ctype.h functions (isdigit() etc) to remove the (int) cast and thus detect broken code that could index outside the array. Fixed all the fallout. [dsl 20041104]

libcrypt

Add support for SHA1 hashed (hmac_sha1 actually) passwords. [sjg 20040701]

libpthread

On ARM use interworking clean return sequences when built for v4T or later. [rearnsha 20040821]

libradius(3)

import libradius from FreeBSD [manu 20050220]

lo(4)

converted to a cloning device [peter 20041203]

locate.conf(5)

"ignorefs type" appends to the default list of types rather than overriding it. [lukem 20040419]

login.conf(5)

Add support for "sbsize" capability to control the socket buffer size limit. [matt 20040418]

mtree(8)

Implement -M to permit merging of specfile entries that have different types. [lukem 20040722]

openpam(3)

update to 20050201 (feterita) [christos 20050226]

pcap(3)

Synchronized with version 0.8.3 from tcpdump.org. [dyoung 20040927]

pdcsata(4)

Driver for the SATA150 family of Promise controllers. [bouyer 20041124]

pf(4)

PF from OpenBSD 3.5 imported [itojun 20040622]
PF from OpenBSD 3.6 imported [yamt 20041114]

pkill(1)

Add -i option to ignore case for both pgrep(1) and pkill(1). [sketch 20050316]

pool(9)

Introduce a new flag, PR_NOTOUCH. Now pool(9) and pool_cache(9) can handle non memory backed objects. [yamt 20050101]

pool_cache(9)

Introduce a new flag, PR_NOTOUCH. Now pool(9) and pool_cache(9) can handle non memory backed objects. [yamt 20050101]

postfix(1)

Postfix 2.1.0 imported. [heas 20040427]
Postfix 2.1.1 imported. [heas 20040531]
Postfix 2.1.4 imported. [heas 20040728]
Postfix 2.1.5 imported. [heas 20041113]

postinstall(8)

Moved from /etc to /usr/sbin. [lukem 20050417]

ppp(4)

converted to cloning devices [christos 20041205]

pppd(8)

updated to version 2.4.3. [cube 20050220]

ptm(4)

pty/98 pty multiplexor device [christos 20040526]

ptyfs

New pseudo-terminal filesystem [christos 20041111]

racoon(8)

upgraded to 20040617 [itojun 20040617]
Switch to ipsec-tools' racoon [manu 20050216]
ipsec-tools updated to 0.6.1 [manu 20050820]
ipsec-tools 0.6.2 imported [manu 20051014]
ipsec-tools 0.6.3 imported [manu 20051121]

rcp(1)

Add -4 and -6 options, used to limit host addresses to IPv4 or IPv6 respectively. [ginsbach 20050309]
Add support for specifying the rhost as an IPv6 address string. [ginsbach 20050311]

re(4)

Add TCPv4 hardware transmit segment offload support. [yamt 20050312]

resolver

The libc resolver has been updated to the bind9 one [christos 20040521]

restore(8)

Stop asking stupid questions (restore owner/mode of . ?). Rather, do it only on a full restore. [fredb 20050108]

rlogin(1)

Add -4 and -6 options, used to limit host addresses to IPv4 or IPv6 respectively. [ginsbach 20050311]

rsh(1)

Add -4 and -6 options, used to limit host addresses to IPv4 or IPv6 respectively. [ginsbach 20050311]

scsictl(8)

Add defects command to read defect data from direct access devices (disks). [ginsbach 20050107]

security.conf(5)

Add option to permit non-alphanumeric login names. [jdolecek 20050205]

sed(1)

Make patterns larger than _POSIX2_LINE_MAX*2-1 work. [manu 20040709]

sendmail(8)

The sendmail daemon will now start by default if the rc.d script determines a need for it. [atatat 20040715]
update to 8.13.3. [atatat 20050315]

seq(1)

Add BSD licensed version of this Plan 9 and GNU/Linux command, which prints sequences of numbers. [ginsbach 20050120]

setrlimit(2)

Add RLIMIT_SBSIZE to limit the socket buffer size. [christos 20040417]

sh(1)

Add support for "ulimit -b" to control the socket buffer size resource limit. [christos 20040417]

share/mk

Deprecate AINC in favour of AFLAGS. [lukem 20040418]

sl(4)

converted to cloning devices [christos 20041205]

sockstat(1)

Add sockstat(1) modeled after the program by the same name in FreeBSD. [atatat 20050309]

spif(4)

New driver for Sun SUNW,spif multi-port Sbus cards originally written by Jason L. Wright for OpenBSD. [mrg 20040724]

ssh

Imported OpenSSH 3.9 [christos 20050213]

statvfs(2)

Eliminate statfs(2) and friends, in preference for the POSIX/XOpen compliant statvfs(2) family. [christos 20040421]

stf(4)

Add support for changing the MTU. [tron 20050311]

strip(4)

converted to cloning devices [christos 20041205]

sysctl(8)

Add "vfs.generic.fstypes" node to display the currently available file system types. [lukem 20040419]

sysinst

use /etc/postinstall to update /etc (etc) instead of just saving /etc to /etc/old [dsl 20040418]
(i386) Allow installation/upgrade to an existing raid volume. [dsl 20040518]
Added Spanish language translation. [xtraeme 20050826]

syslogd(8)

Numerous improvements, most from FreeBSD. [thorpej 20041118]

systat(1)

Add "df" display to give information about filesystems, available diskspace and used disk capacity, similar to df(1). [hubertf 20050216]

tap(4)

virtual Ethernet device [cube 20050108]

tcpdump(8)

Synchronized with version 3.8.3 from tcpdump.org. [dyoung 20040927]

texinfo(1)

upgraded to 4.7. [wiz 20040713]

uaudio(4)

Support for selector unit, and make mixer item names compatible with other audio devices. Written by Kazuhito HONDA. [kent 20041021]

uep(4)

Added driver for eGalax USB touchpanel controller [tsarna 20040524]

uuidgen(1)

Add a UUID generation tool, adapted from FreeBSD, extended slightly with some additional DCE-compatible options. [thorpej 20040913]

uvm(9)

Allocate in-kernel map entries dynamically rather than allocating them statically at boot time. Now artificial limit of entries (MAX_KMAPENT) is obsolete. [yamt 20050101]

vga(4)

Add support to change console border color. [jmmv 20040729]

vge(4)

Add driver for VIA Networking Technologies VT612X [jdolecek 20050220]

viaide(4)

Add support for nForce2 Ultra 400 PATA and SATA. [jdolecek 20050113]
Add support for nForce4. [kent 20050127]

vnd(4)

Add support for configuring cloop2-compressed images read-only, written by Cliff Wright. [hubertf 20050716]

vndcompress(1)

Add vndcompress(1) and vnduncompress(1) to transform filesystem/disk images from "normal" into cloop2-format compressed images and back (written by Florian Stoehr). Compressed disk images can be used with the vnd(4) driver when compiled with VND_COMPRESSION and "vnconfig -z". Useful for creation of Live CDs/DVDs. [hubertf 20050725]

which(1)

Replaced by a C program that only checks the path. [christos 20040401]

wm(4)

Add TCPv4 hardware transmit segment offload support. [matt 20050309]

wscons(4)

Add support to change console colors and kernel colors dynamically after boot. [jmmv 20040728]
Add support to change console border color. [jmmv 20040729]

wsconsctl(4)

Add support to change console colors and kernel colors dynamically after boot. [jmmv 20040728]
Add support to change console border color. [jmmv 20040729]

xdm(1)

use /var/db/xdm for the default authDir. [lukem 20040512]

xfree86

support absolute mouse positioning events on i386 and other platforms using the same mouse code [tsarna 20040603]

xge(4)

Add driver for the Neterion Xframe-I 10 gigabit ethernet controller [ragge 20050909]

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