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@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@
- Order a CDROM from our ordering system.
-
- See the information on The FTP page for
+
- See the information on the FTP page for
a list of mirror machines.
- Go to the pub/OpenBSD/5.5/ directory on
one of the mirror sites.
- Briefly read the rest of this document.
-
- Have a look at The 5.5 Errata page for a list
+
- Have a look at the 5.5 errata page for a list
of bugs and workarounds.
- See a detailed log of changes between the
5.4 and 5.5 releases.
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
- Users are advised to verify the installer (bsd.rd, install55.iso, etc.)
ahead of time using the
signify(1) tool if available.
-
- pkg_add(1) now trusts signed packages only by default.
+
- pkg_add(1) now only trusts signed packages by default.
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
installboot(8)
utility aiming for a unified implementation across platforms (currently
used by amd64 and i386 only).
-
The installer now parses nwid's with embedded blanks correctly.
+ The installer now parses nwids with embedded blanks correctly.
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
em(4).
Support for Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200, 2230 and 105/135 has been added to
iwn(4).
- Support for Areca ARC-1880, ARC-1882, ARC-1883, ARC-1223, ARC-1214, ARC-1264, ARC-1284 has been added to
+ Support for Areca ARC-1880, ARC-1882, ARC-1883, ARC-1223, ARC-1214, ARC-1264, and ARC-1284 has been added to
arc(4).
Support for Elantech v2 touchpads in pms(4) has been fixed.
Support for 802.11a (5Ghz) has been added to wpi(4).
@@ -193,11 +193,11 @@
Generic network stack improvements:
- - Added vxlan(4)
+
- Added vxlan(4),
a virtual extensible local area network tunnel interface.
- pflow(4)
- sends 64 bit time values for pflowproto 10. The changed templates /
- flows for pflowproto 10 are now parseable by existing receivers.
+ now sends 64 bit time values for pflowproto 10. The changed templates /
+ flows for pflowproto 10 are now parsable by existing receivers.
- Continued improvement of the checksum offload framework to streamline
the calculation of TCP, UDP, ICMP, and ICMPv6 checksums.
- Enabled IPv6 routing domain support.
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
- Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
- The popa3d POP3 server has been removed.
-
- Added ntpctl(8)
+
- Added ntpctl(8),
a program to control the Network Time Protocol daemon.
- slowcgi(8)
now works with a high number of concurrent connections.
@@ -239,24 +239,24 @@
- dhcpd(8) and dhclient(8) improvements:
- - no longer create a route to the bound address via 127.0.0.1.
-
- the options 'dhcp-lease-time', 'dhcp-rebinding-time', and 'dhcp-renewal-time' can now be configured in dhclient.conf(5).
+
- No longer create a route to the bound address via 127.0.0.1.
+
- The options 'dhcp-lease-time', 'dhcp-rebinding-time', and 'dhcp-renewal-time' can now be configured in dhclient.conf(5).
- 'next-server' (a.k.a. siaddr) info now saved in lease files.
-
- fall back to broadcasting when unicast renewal fails, as specified in
+
- Fall back to broadcasting when unicast renewal fails, as specified in
RFC 2131 and friends.
-
- fix various problems in communications between privileged and non-privileged processes.
-
- fix many abuses of memcpy.
-
- stop pretending we still support FDDI or token ring hardware types.
-
- fix classless static routes option handling and add syntax to parse human readable forms.
-
- fix 'effective' lease created by '-L' to have correct address, 'next_server', 'timestamp', and 'resolv_conf' fields.
-
- fix handling of non-printable characters in lease file strings.
-
- fix many edge cases in config file and lease parsing and ensure error messages refer to correct position in erroneous line.
-
- dhclient.conf(5) can now override anything in an offer or saved lease when creating the effective lease, in particular 'fixed-address', 'next-server', 'filename' and 'server-name'.
-
- fix parsing of dhclient.conf(5) statements 'fixed-address' and
+
- Fix various problems in communications between privileged and non-privileged processes.
+
- Fix many abuses of memcpy.
+
- Stop pretending we still support FDDI or token ring hardware types.
+
- Fix classless static routes option handling and add syntax to parse human-readable forms.
+
- Fix 'effective' lease created by '-L' to have correct address, 'next_server', 'timestamp', and 'resolv_conf' fields.
+
- Fix handling of non-printable characters in lease file strings.
+
- Fix many edge cases in config file and lease parsing and ensure that error messages refer to the correct position in erroneous line.
+
- dhclient.conf(5) can now override anything in an offer or saved lease when creating the effective lease. In particular, 'fixed-address', 'next-server', 'filename' and 'server-name'.
+
- Fix parsing of dhclient.conf(5) statements 'fixed-address' and
'next-server'.
-
- log failures to fchmod() or fchown() files being written.
-
- create lease files with permissions 0640.
-
- fix possible failure to write resolv.conf(5) when -L is used.
+
- Log failures to fchmod() or fchown() files being written.
+
- Create lease files with permissions 0640.
+
- Fix possible failure to write resolv.conf(5) when -L is used.
- 'send dhcp-client-identifier "";' in dhclient.conf(5) will result in no 'dhcp-client-identifier' (option 61) being sent.
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
- TLS generic improvements:
- Support for TLS Perfect Forward Secrecy.
-
- Support for providing custom CA certificate.
+
- Support for providing custom CA certificates.
- MTA improvements:
@@ -323,11 +323,11 @@
- Always attempt TLS before falling back to plaintext.
- Always present certificate if one is available.
- AUTH LOGIN now supported.
-
- mta can now specify a EHLO-hostname when relaying.
+
- MTA can now specify a EHLO-hostname when relaying.
- SMTP server improvements:
- - inet4-only and inet6-only listeners are now possible.
+
- IPv4-only and IPv6-only listeners are now possible.
- Listeners may now hide the From part in a Received-line.
- Listeners may require clients to provide a valid certificate.
- Banner hostname can now be dynamically fetched from a table.
@@ -341,15 +341,15 @@
- table(5) describes format for static, file and db backends.
- sendmail(8) describes our "sendmail" interface.
- - Reduced memory-usage in both general and stressed cases.
-
- OpenSMTPD now automagically upgrades queue if format changes!
+
- Reduced memory usage in both general and stressed cases.
+
- OpenSMTPD now automagically upgrades queue if the format changes!
- Support Qmail-like "sticky home".
- Support for authenticating users from a credentials table.
- Introduce passwd(5) table backend for user and credentials lookup.
-
- Expansion variables in ~/.forward now supports modifiers.
+
- Expansion variables in ~/.forward now support modifiers.
- Much more efficient scheduler!
- Many documentation fixes and improvements.
-
- And a lot of minor bug-fixes and internal cleanup!
+
- And a lot of minor bug fixes and internal cleanup!
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@
- New in-memory file system, tmpfs.
- Many fuse(4) improvements and stability fixes.
-
- Added POSIX required nl(1) utility.
+
- Added POSIX-required nl(1) utility.
- OpenBSD/vax has switched to GCC 3.
- Replaced getdirentries(2) with getdents(2), vastly improving the performance and memory usage of telldir(3).
- amd64 and i386 now use the MWAIT instruction for their idle loop where available to reduce latency.
@@ -398,12 +398,12 @@
- ino_t is now a 64 bit type, mostly to support large NFS filesystems.
- Corrected handling of UTIME_OMIT.
- pax(1) now sets the mode and timestamps correctly on symlinks, and makes hardlinks to symlinks when requested.
-
- Corrected handling of shared-library destructors when libc is statically linked.
+
- Corrected handling of shared library destructors when libc is statically linked.
- Corrected various disk drivers to handle non-512-byte sectors and disk sizes greater than 32-bits.
- Corrected growfs(8) to handle non-512-byte sectors and disk sizes greater than 32-bits.
- All CIRCLEQ uses replaced with TAILQ.
- Preserve and honour changes to the OpenBSD bounds in a disklabel.
-
- fdisk(8) now always writes a good signature when MBR is written to disk.
+
- fdisk(8) now always writes a good signature when the MBR is written to disk.
- disklabel(8) now writes the disklabel to the correct location on non-512-byte sector devices.
- Fix athn(4) tick calculations to eliminate excessive timeouts.
- Allow disklabel(8) to set any partition, including 'C', to type UNUSED.
@@ -622,8 +622,8 @@
- Ports and packages:
- Over 8,700 ports.
-
- Major overhaul of the package tools resulting in much better memory usage.
-
- pkg_add(1) now trusts signed packages only by default.
+
- Major overhaul of the package tools, resulting in much better memory usage.
+
- pkg_add(1) now only trusts signed packages by default.
- The build process now allows some limited capability for building
conflicting packages, yielding KDE 4 packages as a result, along
with KDE 3 ones.