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version 1.37, 2007/08/24 13:30:04 version 1.38, 2007/08/24 18:13:55
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 code and in the userland utilities that manipulate disk blocks. Note  code and in the userland utilities that manipulate disk blocks. Note
 that some parts of the system are not 64-bit disk block clean yet, so partition  that some parts of the system are not 64-bit disk block clean yet, so partition
 larger than 2TB cannot be used at the moment.  larger than 2TB cannot be used at the moment.
   <li>Large (&gt;2^32-1 sectors) SCSI disk sizes now probed.
 <li>Thread support for the Objective-C library (libobjc).  <li>Thread support for the Objective-C library (libobjc).
 <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp</a>  <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp</a>
 route handling has been fixed, solving some problems the routing daemons were exhibiting  route handling has been fixed, solving some problems the routing daemons were exhibiting
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 increase performance drastically, stateful passing more than twice as fast than before  increase performance drastically, stateful passing more than twice as fast than before
 <li>a change in how the kernel random pool is stirred increases performance with network  <li>a change in how the kernel random pool is stirred increases performance with network
 interface cards that support interrupt mitigation a lot.  interface cards that support interrupt mitigation a lot.
   <li>i386 TLB handling improved to avoid possible corruption on Core2Duo processors.
   <li>i386 and amd64 use the BIOS disk geometry when creating default disklabels.
   <li>default disk geometry changed from 64 heads/32 sectors to 255 heads/63 sectors.
   <li>more usb devices with various quirks coaxed to work.
   <li>Archive/Wangtek cartridge tape drives (wt*) no longer supported.
 </ul>  </ul>
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 <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:  <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
 <ul>  <ul>
 <li>...  <li>Allow the specification of an NTP server during installation.
   <li>Allow no fsck'ing of clean non-root partitions during upgrade.
   <li>Check for INSTALL.&lt;arch&gt; to confirm sets are for the correct architecture.
   <li>Create and format the MSDOS partition for macppc installs in a more flexible and reliable way.
 </ul>  </ul>
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