svn commit: r205371 - in releng/7.3/release/doc:
en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes share/sgml
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 20 14:36:40 UTC 2010
Author: hrs
Date: Sat Mar 20 14:36:39 2010
New Revision: 205371
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205371
Log:
Update release notes:
URL of Errata doc added[1],
s/release candidate/release/[1],
grammatical fixes[1],
description on pc98 boot2 fixed[2],
description on gstripe(8) improved[2],
description on vfs.flushbufqtarget improved[2], and
description on tzcode2009k improved[3].
Submitted by: dhw[1], ivoras[2], and edwin[3]
Approved by: re (implicitly)
Modified:
releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
releng/7.3/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent
Modified: releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Mar 20 14:35:24 2010 (r205370)
+++ releng/7.3/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Mar 20 14:36:39 2010 (r205371)
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
- &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
+ &release.current; can be found on <ulink url="&url.errata;"></ulink>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="new">
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
Also, the jail parameter <varname>ip4.saddrsel</varname> and
<varname>ip6.saddrsel</varname> are boolean option to enable
the source address selection for IPv4 and IPv6, respectively.
- If another boolean parameters
+ If the boolean parameters
<varname>ip4.nosaddrsel</varname> and
<varname>ip6.nosaddrsel</varname> are set, the child jails do
not inherit the address selection options of the
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@
been increased to 512GB.</para>
<para>The &man.lindev.4; driver has been added. This is for
- linux-specific pseudo devices and currently used only for
+ Linux-specific pseudo devices and currently used only for
<filename>/dev/full</filename>.</para>
<para>&os; Linux emulation layer now supports
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<para>A new boot loader <literal>gptzfsboot</literal>, which
- support GPT and ZFS has been added.</para>
+ supports GPT and ZFS has been added.</para>
<para>The boot loader <literal>zfsboot</literal> now always
uses 64-bit LBAs and supports more than seven drives in the
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
and GPT and they are synchronized with each other.</para>
<para arch="pc98">The <application>boot2</application> program
- has been replaced with the latest version for
+ has been reimplemented based on the latest version for
&arch.i386;.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@
Performance Monitoring Counter support has been added. This
consists of the kernel driver, &man.pmc.3; interface
library, and userland utilities &man.pmcannotate.8;,
- pmccontrol.8;, and &man.pmcstat.8;, and allows applications
+ &man.pmccontrol.8;, and &man.pmcstat.8;, and allows applications
to use hardware performance counters to gather performance
data about specific processes or for the system as a
whole.</para>
@@ -476,8 +476,8 @@
<para>Several bugs in the &man.mxge.4; driver have been
fixed and the firmware version is now 1.4.48b. It could
- lost the promiscuous flag on resetting and a kernel panic
- on the hardware fault.</para>
+ lose the promiscuous flag on resetting and cause a kernel
+ panic on the hardware fault.</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.nfe.4; driver has been fixed. It
caused buffer allocation failure for jumbo frames.</para>
@@ -599,7 +599,12 @@
92 bytes which is written by OpenSolaris.</para>
<para>The default stripe size of &man.gstripe.8; GEOM class
- has been changed from 4KB to 64KB.</para>
+ has been changed from 4KB to 64KB. This change will affect
+ users preferring the <command>create</command> command over
+ the <command>label</command> command, which will now need to
+ explicitly specify the old stripe size (<option>-s</option>
+ <literal>4096</literal>) in order to use their old
+ &man.gstripe.8; volumes.</para>
<para>The &man.hptrr.4; driver now supports a new loader
tunable <varname>hw.hptrr.attach_generic</varname> to
@@ -635,14 +640,15 @@
fixed.</para>
<para>A new sysctl variable for the &man.VFS.9; subsystem
- <varname>vfs.flushbufqtarget</varname> has been added. This
- fixes issues in <literal>bufdaemon</literal>, a kernel
- process responsible for flushing dirty buffers, which can
- cause the process to deadlock in a certain workload. The
- value of the variable determines the number of buffers will
- be flushed before allocating a new buffer. The default
- value of the variable is <literal>-1</literal>
- (disabled).</para>
+ <varname>vfs.flushbufqtarget</varname> has been added.
+ This can fix issues in <literal>bufdaemon</literal>, a
+ kernel process responsible for flushing dirty buffers, which
+ can cause the process to deadlock in a certain workload.
+ The value of the variable determines the number of buffers
+ will be flushed before allocating a new buffer. The default
+ value of the variable on 7.3-RELEASE is
+ <literal>-1</literal> (disabled). The &os; 8.0-RELEASE uses
+ <literal>100</literal> by default.</para>
<para>ZFS has been updated from version 6 to version 13.
This update includes numerous new ZFS features, such as
@@ -979,8 +985,11 @@ static_arp_gw="192.168.1.1 00:01:02:03:0
<para>The timezone database has been updated
to the <application>tzdata2010b</application> release.</para>
- <para>The timezone binary has been updated
- to the <application>tzcode2009k</application> release.</para>
+ <para>The timezone libraries (stdtime part of
+ <application>libc</application>) and related binaries
+ (&man.zic.8; and &man.zdump.8;) have been updated to the
+ <application>tzcode2009k</application> release. Note that
+ &man.tzsetup.8; needs to be run after the installation.</para>
<para><application>unifdef</application> has been updated to
version 1.188.</para>
Modified: releng/7.3/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent
==============================================================================
--- releng/7.3/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent Sat Mar 20 14:35:24 2010 (r205370)
+++ releng/7.3/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent Sat Mar 20 14:36:39 2010 (r205371)
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@
<!-- The URL for obtaining this version of FreeBSD. -->
<!ENTITY release.url "ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">
+<!ENTITY url.errata "http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.3R/errata.html">
<!-- The type of release (usually this will be either "snapshot"
or "release" -->
-<!ENTITY release.type "release candidate">
+<!ENTITY release.type "release">
<!ENTITY % release.type.current "IGNORE">
<!ENTITY % release.type.snapshot "IGNORE">
<!ENTITY % release.type.release "INCLUDE">
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