Assorted improvements:
- - Position-independent executables (PIE) are now used by default on alpha, amd64, hppa, landisk, loongson, sgi and sparc64
+
- Position-independent executables (PIE) are now used by default on alpha, amd64, hppa, landisk, loongson, sgi and sparc64.
- ldomctl(8)
was added to manage logical domains on sun4v systems through
- ldomd(8)
-
- Support for WPA Enterprise was added to the wpa_supplicant package
-
- OpenBSD/luna88k and OpenBSD/mvme88k have switched to GCC 3, elf(5) and gained shared library support
-
- OpenBSD/hp300 and OpenBSD/mvme68k have switched to GCC 3 and elf(5)
-
- gcc(1) stack smashing protector added for Alpha and MIPS (enabled by default)
-
- softraid(4) RAID1 and crypto volumes are now bootable on i386 and amd64 (full disk encryption)
+ ldomd(8).
+
- Support for WPA Enterprise was added to the wpa_supplicant package.
+
- OpenBSD/luna88k and OpenBSD/mvme88k have switched to GCC 3, elf(5) and gained shared library support.
+
- OpenBSD/hp300 and OpenBSD/mvme68k have switched to GCC 3 and elf(5).
+
- gcc(1) stack smashing protector added for Alpha and MIPS (enabled by default).
+
- softraid(4) RAID1 and crypto volumes are now bootable on i386 and amd64 (full disk encryption).
- Large performance and reliability improvements in
make(1),
especially in parallel mode. make no longer does any busy waiting, it handles
@@ -165,13 +165,14 @@
Column numbers have been made configureable and locale is respected for ctype purposes, like displaying ISO Latin 1 characters.
- Improved our own pkg-config(1)
implementation to make it compatible with freedesktop.org's 0.27.1 release.
-
- A number of improvements to the buffer cache and page daemon interactions to avoid issues in low memory/low kva situations.
+
- A number of improvements to the buffer cache and page daemon interactions to avoid issues in low memory/low kva situations.
- Various bug fixes in uvm to avoid potential races and deadlock issues.
-
- Softdep speedup improvements by the revert of a previously necessary wokaround to prevent kva starvation.
-
- Memory filesystem (mfs) switched to bufq, giving us queue limits and FIFO queueing (rather than the current LIFO queueing)
+
- Softdep speedup improvements by the revert of a previously necessary wokaround to prevent kva starvation.
+
- Memory filesystem (mfs) switched to bufq, giving us queue limits and FIFO queueing (rather than the current LIFO queueing).
- Shared library on GCC 4 platforms now each get their own stack protector cookies instead of sharing a single global cookie.
-
- Threaded programs and libraries can now be linked with the POSIX-standard -lpthread flag instead of the OpenBSD-specific -pthread flag.
-
+
- Threaded programs and libraries can now be linked with the POSIX-standard -lpthread flag instead of the OpenBSD-specific -pthread flag
+
- Many improvements to the cwm(1) window manager,
+including tab completion and Xft support for menus, improved Xinerama support, and per-group vertical/horizontal manual tiling support.
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@
optimizations that amount to a large performance increase:
dpb can now build selected large ports using parallel make, and it
has a notion of affinity, so that ports failing on a cluster will be
-preferentiably restarted on the same machine.
+preferentially restarted on the same machine.