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20111227: |
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import raid5 module for GEOM, graid5(8) |
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This is experimental and known to use a lot of kernel |
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memory. |
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20111223: |
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telnetd: fix a root exploit from a fixed buffer that was not checked |
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pam: don't allow escape from policy path. Exploitable in KDE, etc. |
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Fix pam_ssh module: |
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If the pam_ssh module is enabled, attackers may be able to gain access |
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to user accounts which have unencrypted SSH private keys. |
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This has to due with the way that openssl works. It ignores unencrpted data. |
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Fix security issue with chroot and ftpd. |
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nsdispatch(3) doesn't know it's working in a chroot and some |
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operations can cause files to get reloaded causing a security |
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hole in things like ftpd. |
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20111217: |
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libdialog/dialog upgraded to an lgpl version. As it's not |
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backwardly compatable, include the old libdialog as libodialog |
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20111212: |
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mksh r40d imported |
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20111210: |
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re(4) and rl(4) updated to support new chips. |
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GEOM synced with FreeBSD 7-stable. |
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MidnightBSD GPT partition types created in sys/gpt.h and |
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setup in boot loader and GEOM. |
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amdsbwd(4) (amd watchdog for south bridge) updated to support |
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8xx series chipset. |
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20111207: |
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import bsd grep from FreeBSD/OpenBSD. |
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MK_BSD_GREP controls which grep is installed |
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as grep with the other as bsdgrep or gnugrep. |
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20111122: |
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mksh vR40c imported. |
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20111117: |
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BIND 9.6 ESV R5 P1 |
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20111107: |
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tzdata 2011n |
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20111026: |
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mDNSResponder v320 |
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BIND 9.6 ESV R5 |
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20111022: |
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cflow 0.0.6 imported |
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20111020: |
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less v436 imported |
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amdsbwd(4) AMD southbridge watchdog |
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20111019: |
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awk 20110810 imported |
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et(4) Agere Gigabit Ethernet/Fast Ethernet driver added, but |
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not included in GENERIC kernel. The kernel module needs |
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testing before we can include it in GENERIC. |
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intr_bind code ported to allow an IRQ to be bound to one |
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specific CPU core. |
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20111017: |
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Time Zone Data v. 2011l (Released 10 October 2011) |
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Updated list of countries (iso3166) to work with new timezone data. |
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20111015: |
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Introduce CPU Affinity in MidnightBSD. cpuset(1) can be used |
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to control which core or group of cores can be used for a given |
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process. Several new system calls were added to support this |
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functionality in the running kernel and for 32bit binary |
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compatibility on amd64. |
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The scheduler default has been changed to ULE in i386 and |
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amd64. Changes were made to both schedulers (4BSD AND ULE) |
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for this feature. |
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This work is based on Jeff Roberson's FreeBSD 7.1 patches. |
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20111004: |
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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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20110120: |
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BIND 9.6.2-P3 |
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sudo 1.7.4-p6 |
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20110115: |
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Add experimental jme(4) for Jmicron ethernet devices. |
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20101130: |
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A double free exists in the SSL client ECDH handling code, when |
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processing specially crafted public keys with invalid prime |
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numbers. [CVE-2010-2939] |
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20101120: |
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Several portions of the kernel and userland code related to UFS file |
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systems (and UFS2) cannot properly handle inode counts above 2^31 due |
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to use of int types. Based on a patch from FreeBSD, I've modified |
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our UFS2 implementation to handle unsigned values for inode counts |
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which should allow for file systems greater than 16TB. |
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newfs and growfs was also modified. |
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20101110: |
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Fix a security issue with pseudofs which could result in running code in kernel |
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context or a kernel panic depending on system configuration. This affects file |
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systems such as procfs for instance. |
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20101021: |
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sysrc is a utility to print and modify name/value pairs in /etc/rc.conf easily. |
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This is similar to functions present in many linux distros. The utility was |
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written by Devin Teske for FreeBSD. |
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20100920: |
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bzip2 security patch for integer overflow. |
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20100905: |
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MidnightBSD RELENG_0_3 branch created. Aggressive development continues here |
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for 0.4. |
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20100902: |
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Fix a security issue with libutil that allows users to bypass cpu limits in |
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login.conf in some cases. This combined with OpenSSH for example can allow |
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the user to get more resources than they're allowed. |
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20100822: |
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Import Apple's mDNSResponder (mdnsd). |
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20100814: |
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libdispatch added to MidnightBSD. This provides functionality found in |
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Mac OS X's GCD. We do not have blocks support yet. As this code is |
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licensed under Apache 2, we create a new MK_APACHE option so that |
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it's not required for all users to run code under a license they |
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may not like. |
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20100713: |
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mbuf readonly fix related to sendfile(2) data corruption. |
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20100704: |
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brainfuck(1) imported from MirBSD. |
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20100505: |
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zlib 1.2.5 |
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20100430: |
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Sudo 1.7.2p6 imported |
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20100321: |
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Update zlib to 1.2.4 |
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20100319: |
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Removed i586 from default i386 generic kernel. |
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20100317: |
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Update to tzdata2010e (time zones). This includes changes in |
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Mexico. |
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Add support for several newer sound cards via hda including |
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ATI and Realtek chipsets. |
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20100313: |
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CPU detection has been changed. VIA Padlock detection added. |
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20100312: |
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Fix a number of bugs and compiler warnings in libmport. Handle |
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plus signs in paths for mport.check-fake |
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20100311: |
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mksh R39c |
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20100309: |
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Sudo 1.7.2p5 |
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sqlite3 3.6.23 |
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mksh R39b |
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libffi (ffi) 3.0.9 |
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20100206: |
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WITHOUT_LIB32 is no longer needed on AMD64. GCC was fixed to |
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properly pass arguments to ld. |
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re(4) and rl(4) have been updated to support several new |
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realtek chipsets. Performance has been improved on re(4). |
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20100204: |
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Fix a bug cropping up on AMD64 MidnightBSD with sftp |
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segfaulting. |
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20100116: |
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Import ash changes from FreeBSD (bin/sh) 8-Stable. |
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BIND 9.6.1-P2 |
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20100110: |
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Import Sendmail 8.14.4. Fix for SSL vulnerability. |
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posix_spawn(3) added to MidnightBSD libc. Users may need to build and |
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install libc before doing a full buildworld when upating from 0.2 or |
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older current systems. |
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kqueue(2) was modified to support portions of libdispatch functionality. |
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20100106: |
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Bind security update. Fix a bug with DNSSEC that causes negative |
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cache entries and thus a possible DNS cache poisoning attack. |
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Fix a bug in ZFS that can reset permissions on system crashes. |
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20091228: |
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amdtemp(4) was added. It allows one to monitor to the temperature |
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of an AMD CPU such as a Phenom. |
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20091205: |
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OpenSSL security fix |
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The SSL version 3 and TLS protocols support session renegotiation without |
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cryptographically tying the new session parameters to the old parameters. |
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20091128: |
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OpenBSD sensors framework imported including sensorsd(8) |
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20091126: |
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OpenNTPD 4.4 import |
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Update OpenSSH to 5.3p1 |
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mksh R39 |
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20091124: |
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cpdup updated from DragonFly to 1.15 |
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tzdata2009s updated with latest timezone data for November 2009. |
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