FreeBSD 2.2.6 Release Notes
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RELEASE NOTES
FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE VERSION
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What's new since 2.2.5
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Kernel features:
o Added support for SMC EtherPower II 10/100 Fast Ethernet card
(aka SMC9432TX based on SMC83c170 EPIC chip).
o Added support for DPT SCSI RAID controllers (see LINT).
o New Plug and Play (PnP) support that allows you to (re)configure
PnP devices. Also support modems being detected by the PnP
part and automatically attached.
o Alternate sound driver (/sys/i386/isa/snd) from Luigi Rizzo;
it does not yet support MIDI (for that, use the old sound
driver) but it does have much better support for PNP sound
cards and is much easier to configure (only one device).
See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for more info.
o Better Linux emulation (applications like RealVideo 5.0 for
Linux now work).
o Added support for ATAPI floppy drives (LS-120)
o The psm, mse and sysmouse drivers are improved to provide
better mouse support. moused(8) has been modified to support
various mice with a ``wheel''. It also automatically
recognizes mice which support the PnP COM device standard so
that the user is no longer required to supply a mouse protocol
type on the command line.
Userland features:
o popen() library call now uses and offers bidirectional pipes.
o Added support for parallel makes in /usr/src (-j n works
now with world target, particularly useful with SMP
machines).
o tcpdump(1) utility enhanced
o Support for ldconfig -R (remove) added.
o Various bugfixes and enhancements to pthread support.
o calendar(1) program brought more up-to-date.
o KerberosIV updated to latest version.
o Various curses(3) bugs fixed.
o Various IEEE754 conformance changes to libm(3).
o Much cleanup and general improvements to the documentation.
o Various improvements to the NIS code.
Security issues:
o Fixed /dev/io and mmap security holes.
o Better protection against "LAND attacks"
o Various buffer overruns detected and extra checks added.
o Pentium "F00F bug" is detected and a work-around installed to
prevent hangs.
o srandomdev() support merged from -current and utilities updated
to use it.
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