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Updating Information for MidnightBSD users |
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Fix a problem with unix socket handling caused by the recent |
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patch to unix socket path handling. This allows network |
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apps to work under the linuxolator again. |
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20111001: |
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Import libfetch & fetch(1) from FreeBSD 9. Passive FTP is |
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now default and an environment variable must be set to use |
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active. |
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20110930: |
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Introduce quirks handling for several umass devices including |
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USB cameras. Add workaround for Cyberpower UPS devices. |
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Bring in further bug fixes from FreeBSD and NetBSD for alc(4). |
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Stale ip/tcp header pointers are no longer used, lockups fixed |
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when network cable is unplugged on bootup, enable TX checksum |
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offloading. |
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Add a new man page for gcache(8), a useful geom class when |
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working with large raid3 sets. |
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Restore previous workaround for Cypress pata storage controller. |
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20110929: |
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Sync ath(4) with FreeBSD 7.3. |
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The following modules are no longer available, and should be |
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removed from loader.conf: |
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ath_hal ath_rate_amrr ath_rate_onoe ath_rate_sample |
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alc(4) would hibernate when a cable was unplugged and often |
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required bring the interface down and up to "wake up" so that |
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a connection could be established. Disable hibernation. |
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20110928: |
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Fix security issues with gzip and compress related to .Z |
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files that are corrupted. |
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Fix path validation with unix domain sockets. |
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20110917: |
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Remove dependance on mports perl for generating releases as |
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it's in the base system. |
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20110914: |
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Import xz 5.0.3 with liblzma 5.0.3 |
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20110813: |
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synced the sparc64 GENERIC kernel configuration with amd64. |
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20110806: |
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sqlite 3.7.7.1 imported |
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msearch(1), libmsearch and msearch.import added. msearch(1) provides |
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a full text search command line tool. libmsearch can also be used |
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to build a graphical based search in the future. You can enable |
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index building for msearch in periodic.conf or manually run the |
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/usr/libexec/msearch.index tool. Full text indexes take considerable |
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space in /var. I'm using approximately 500MB currently. |
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Fix a long standing bug with the periodic script to check package |
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versions. This will be obsolete with mport though. |
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20110710: |
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kdb_enter_why added to MidnightBSD to allow the kernel debugger to |
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know why it's in use and thus script can be run. |
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Yet another problem with the perl manifest was fixed |
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20110709: |
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cpufreq(1) is a new utility to monitor CPU frequency which may change |
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with use of powerd(8) and cpufreq(4). |
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20110612: |
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Update mksh to R40 |
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Catch up ObsoleteFiles.inc to remove Perl 5.10.x. Good to run when |
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updating current (cd /usr/src && make check-old) |
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20110528: |
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Fix CVE-2011-1910 in BIND 9.6.x. This affects caching resolvers. |
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20110526: |
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newfs: |
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Raised the default blocksize for UFS/FFS filesystems from |
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16K to 32K and the default fragment size from 2K to 4K. |
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This should slightly imporve performance on "advanced format" |
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hard drives such as the WD EARS drives. Drives of this type |
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have emulation modes that slow down with lower sizes. Of course |
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the drive must still be aligned properly when using fdisk. |
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20110521: |
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mport tool now has a deleteall command. This can be used to remove |
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all packages from a system. |
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A few bugs with the perl 5.14 import have been fixed. |
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20110518: |
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Perl 5.14.0 |
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20110517: |
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Sendmail 8.14.5 |
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20110314: |
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DRM/DRI code updated to support newer video cards. (FreeBSD 7.1) |
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cdevpriv wrappers added |
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nss_mdns hack introduced to work around linking problem. |
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dnsextd fixed after update to mDNSResponder code. |
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20110308: |
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Introduce liblzma & xz 5.0.1 to the base system |
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Patch for OpenSSL security issue CVE-2011-0014. |
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"OSREVISION 4004" |
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nsswitch module for multicast dns (nss_mdns) added. |
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tzdata2011c |
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20110220: |
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cam(4) syncronized with FreeBSD 7.3. |
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20110219: |
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amdtemp(4) updated to support sensors framework. |
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20110217: |
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Perl 5.10.1 imported |
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20110216: |
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Introduce igb(4) and split Intel Gigabit Ethernet adapters between |
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igb(4) and em(4). Newer devices use igb(4). The code has moved |
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to sys/dev/e1000 for both devices in the kernel. igb(4) has |
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been placed in GENERIC on i386 and amd64. |
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Update bfe(4) to support newer devices and WOL. |
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20110215: |
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age(4) added. |
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20110208: |
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BIND 9.6.3 which fixes a bug with DNSSEC records getting added. |
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20110206: |
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eeemon(4) added to monitor Asus Eee PC. |
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20110205: |
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OpenSSH 5.7p1 |
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GNU sort 6.9 (coreutils) |
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20110203: |
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one true awk 20100523 imported |
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sqlite 3.7.5 |
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OpenSSL 0.9.8q |
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20110202: |
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tcsh 6.17.00 |
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file 5.05 |
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20110122: |
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Import it(4) and lm(4), with support for Super I/O hardware monitors. This |
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uses the sensors framework ported by Constantine A. Murenin (GSOC2007) |
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$FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.416.2.18 2006/02/22 11:51:57 yar Exp $ |
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$MidnightBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.136 2011/10/01 04:47:31 laffer1 Exp $ |
