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1.965 pvalchev 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Changes made between OpenBSD 3.8 and OpenBSD-current</font></h2>
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1.823 jsyn 21: This is a partial list of the major machine-independent changes
1.602 aaron 22: (i.e., these are the changes people ask about most often). Port
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1.422 deraadt 62: <ul>
1.978 pvalchev 63: <!-- 2005/11/14 -->
64: <li>Copy buffer in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">mg(1)</a> before handing it to basename(), and improve error checking of snprintfs.
65: <!-- 2005/11/13 -->
66: <li>Add more stat counters to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
67: <li>Rework the scsi delay code so attached <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a> devices don't freeze the system shortly and also speeds up the scsi probing at boot.
68: <li>Add lock code to both <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ses&sektion=4">ses(4)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=safte&sektion=4">safte(4)</a> to prevent concurrent writes.
69: <li>Handle asprintf() failure in krb5 login handler.
70: <li>For m68k platforms, compute rough estimate of how much mem uvm_init() will allocate to prevent problems with early pmap inits.
71: <li>Provide useful information if the hp300 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=frodo&sektion=4&arch=hp300">frodo(4)</a> driver panics due to looping interrupts.
72: <li>Print hp300 HP-IB disk geometry the same way as scsi disk geometries.
73: <li>Add support for interface names as host specifications in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsecctl&sektion=8">ipsecctl(8)</a>.
74: <li>Fix filedescriptor leak and missing fclose() in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ccdconfig&sektion=8">ccdconfig(8)</a>.
75: <li>No longer require Alpha bootflags to be set to "a" so that "s" can be used to go single-user. Default is multiuser now.
76: <li>Add i2cbus to smu and i2c to maciic on the macpcc platform.
77: <li>Move <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ac&sektion=8">ac(8)</a> from monthly to weekly in /etc.
78: <li>Fix even more memleaks in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8">sysctl(8)</a>.
79: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsecctl&sektion=8">ipsecctl(8)</a> handle transport/tunnel mode.
80: <li>Add support for VIA Rhine ethernet on macppc GENERIC and RAMDISK kernels.
81: <li>Move the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ses&sektion=4">ses(4)</a> code to use sensor kthreads instead of its own.
82: <!-- 2005/11/12 -->
83: <li>Make sure vax disksystem only touch associated processes of physical buffers.
84: <li>Fixed memory leak in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8">sysctl(8)</a>.
85: <li>Several rounds of asprintf() replacing malloc()+snprintf().
86: <li>For macppc, print available memory at boot the same way as i386/amd64.
87: <li>Enable common editing keybindings in mg minibuffer mode.
88: <li>Make the Zaurus scan the keyboard more often, from 8 to 20 scans a second.
89: <li>in /etc/security, make sure not to scan afs/xfs directories.
90: <li>Tweak the timing on Zaurus power button for sleep and safe-shutdown.
91: <li>Code added to enable and disable keyclick on attach for sparc/sparc64.
92: <li>In exec_elf, let unusual linux binaries run even if all sections are marked writeable.
1.979 ! pvalchev 93: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=maciic&sektion=4&arch=macppc">maciic(4)</a>, an OpenFirmware aware version of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iic&sektion=4">iic(4)</a> for macppc.
! 94: <li>Disable TRACE method for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd</a>, potential security risk and not that useful for debugging.
1.978 pvalchev 95: <li>Use more verbose error messages for the "bogus xmit rate" problem on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath</a>.
96: <!-- 2005/11/11 -->
97: <li>Disable <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahc&sektion=4">ahc0</a> on ISA buses until bugs are found, causes too much problems for everyone else.
98: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getent&sektion=1">getent(1)</a> added to OpenBSD.
99: <li>Make sure libwrap uses correct size when zeroing fd sets.
100: <li>Split bios memory map into 4G segments on i386, and ignore parts beyond 4G.
101: <li>Move <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=safte&sektion=4">safte(4)</a> over to the new kernel sensors framework.
102: <!-- 2005/11/10 -->
103: <li>Handle unreadable dirs better in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cp&sektion=1">cp(1)</a>.
104: <li>Fix for CRC32 on 64bit arches in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pax&sektion=1">pax(1)</a> when checksumming sv4cpio archives.
105: <li>In the IDE driver, don't fall back to fake geometry if other methods fail.
106: <li>dlopen() fixes in ld.so and support for RTLD_NOW added.
107: <li>Major splimp to splnet overhaul on various network drivers.
108: <!-- 2005/11/09 -->
109: <li>Missing cast fixed in ISO9660 code, fixes PR 4480.
110: <li>Fix single stepping in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdb&sektion=1">gdb(1)</a> for sparc64.
111: <li>Allow any PPC instructions in macppc kernels, since we need 64-bit and altivec instructions anyhow.
112: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bus_dma&sektion=9">bus_dma(9)</a> support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=san&sektion=4">san(4)</a>, makes it work on amd64.
113: <li>Lots of 'register' cleaning in vfs filesystem code.
114: <!-- 2005/11/08 -->
115: <li>Add PCI ids for Intel Pro/10GbE CX4 adapters.
116: <li>Sync Intel Gigabit <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a> driver to v3.2.18.
117: <li>Better debug messages for scsi attach messages when size is unavailable.
118: <li>Allow ctrl-key patterns in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mg&sektion=1">mg(1)</a> keybind function.
119: <li>Fixes to amd64 for upcoming kdgb support.
120: <!-- 2005/11/07 -->
121: <li>spl fixes and graceful error handling for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sf&sektion=4">sf(4)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sk&sektion=4">sk(4)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ste&sektion=4">ste(4)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tl&sektion=4">tl(4)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vge&sektion=4">vge(4)</a>,<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vr&sektion=4">vr(4)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wb&sektion=4">wb(4)</a>.
122: <li>Add bus_dma support to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=de&sektion=4">de(4)</a>.
123: <li>Add LMC cPCI HSSI card support.to the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lmc&sektion=4">lmc(4)</a> driver.
124: <li>Steal code from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfctl&sektion=8">pfctl(8)</a> to improve address & mask handling in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsecctl&sektion=8">ipsecctl(8)</a>.
1.977 cloder 125: <li>Add keyboard bell support to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dnkbd&sektion=4&arch=hp300">dnkbd(4)</a> on hp300.
1.978 pvalchev 126: <li>Add bus DMA and big endian support to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lmc&sektion=4">lmc(4)</a>. Enable it on alpha, amd64, macppc, and sparc64 now.
1.977 cloder 127: <li>Add init code for BCM5421 to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=brgphy&sektion=4">brgphy(4)</a>.
128: <li>Fix some resource leaks in error paths in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>.
129: <li>Fix interrupt handling in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trm&sektion=4">trm(4)</a> to avoid "overlapping command attempted" error.
130: <li>Fix lots of little issues in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a> so it handles time jumps gracefully and correctly keeps the candidate list sorted in cost order.
131: <li>Bump <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> state, byte, and packet counters to u_int64_t.
132: <li>Remove hardcoded key lengths in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a> key exchange code, allowing implementation of KEX methods with different hashes (e.g. SHA-256).
133: <li>Add the required pieces to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> to support the "filter drop" option.
134: <li>TCP sockets now inherit sack_enable from listening socket. This should allow connections with both SACK and md5 options in SYN.
135: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>, also allow shared libs with paths to use version matching rules, rather than requiring an exact match.
136: <li>Teach <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> how to parse IPv6 addresses.
137: <li>Simplify SCSI delay code so that we can support different delay lengths for different devices in some cases.
138: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>, handle TX underrun by resetting the chip.
139: <li>Support soft reconfig in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>. On config reload, filter changes in outgoing rules propagate to peers automatically.
1.976 cloder 140: <li>Add basic support for hw.setperf and hw.cpuspeed to change CPU MHz on zaurus.
141: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tumbler&sektion=4&arch=macppc">tumbler(4)</a> audio driver for macppc.
142: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=daca&sektion=4&arch=macppc">aoa(4)</a> audio driver for macppc.
143: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=daca&sektion=4&arch=macppc">daca(4)</a> audio driver for macppc.
144: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipcomp&sektion=4">ipcomp(4)</a> support to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsecctl&sektion=8">ipsecctl(8)</a>.
145: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a> reget of partially downloaded files > 2GB work.
146: <li>Audit entire tree for misuse of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=queue&sektion=3">QUEUE(3)</a> macros, and put lots of thought into man pages so we show the exactly correct way to use them.
147: <li>Add preliminary powernow support on K8, and improve support on K7.
148: <li>Allow Sierra AC710 and AC750 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcmcia&sektion=4">pcmcia(4)</a> wireless devices to attach.
149: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a> to attach states to their rules, as long as rulesets are the same. This makes <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=altq&sektion=9">altq(9)</a> and per-rule settings to play nice with pfsync.
150: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a> more stable on hppa.
151: <li>Add very basic handling code for MCE and MCA on i386. This lets the system tell us when something has gone horribly wrong. amd64 should get this next.
152: <li>Fix a race condition in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a> between DPD timeouts and exchange timeouts.
153: <li>Add support for I2S sound bus on macppc, this will allow us to write audio drivers for new Macs. <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snapper&sektion=4&arch=macppc">snapper(4)</a> can use it right now.
154: <li>Sync <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=art&sektion=4">art(4)</a> link state handling with <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sppp&sektion=4">sppp(4)</a> and get blinkenlights for free.
155: <li>Sync <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>'s state modulation code with rest of the TCP stack.
156: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=netstart&sektion=8">netstart(8)</a>, do not process mygate if using dhcp for ipv4 or rtsol for ipv6.
157: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&sektion=1">nc(1)</a> to set ToS bits.
158: <li>Revamp interrupt handling in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a> for better performance.
159: <li>Rework multicast group deletion code for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vlan&sektion=4">vlan(4)</a>
160: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a> so it doesn't molest groups
161: on parent interface.
162: <li>OpenCVS <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rcsmerge&sektion=1">rcsmerge(1)</a> is working.
163: <li>Improve error reporting and progress meter display in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a>.
164: <li>Don't treat the processor in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=elansc&sektion=4&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">elansc(4)</a>
165: as a Pentium when it's a 486.
166: <li>Fix RID handling in USB <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi(4)</a>
167: driver that should avoid some <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wicontrol&sektion=8">wicontrol(8)</a> errors.
168: <li>Enable <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipmi&sektion=4">ipmi(4)</a> on amd64.
169: <li>Add support for VT8237 to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viaenv&sektion=4">viaenv(4)</a>.
170: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
171: don't try to match VIA IDE chips as ISA bridges.
172: <li>Add ability for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipmi&sektion=4">ipmi(4)</a>
173: to read power state, chassis intrusion, etc.
174: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi(4)</a> channel to
175: be changed from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>.
176: <li>Teach <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gcc&sektion=1">gcc(1)</a>
177: how to unwind StackGhost when generating DWARF2 info.
178: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smu&sektion=4&arch=macppc">smu(4)</a>
179: driver for fan speed control and real time clock on iMac G5's and some PowerMac G5's.
180: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
181: allow dynamic interface group expansion (e.g. "pass to group").
1.975 pvalchev 182: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4">sis(4)</a>,
183: do not reset timer while packets are queued for transmission,
184: fixes device stalls in certain scenarios.
1.976 cloder 185: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi(4)</a> usb,
1.974 pvalchev 186: fix command/write rid handling which makes scanning work to some
187: extent, and improves error reporting.
188: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wc&sektion=1">wc(1)</a>,
189: add -h option to display human-readable numbers.
190: <li>Some safety checks added to queue.h, to avoid accidents on certain
191: operations (eg. double list removal) being undetected.
192: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
193: use one mbuf tag instead of 6 distinct ones and optimize the
194: lookup code, thus helping performance.
195: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
196: fixup cache line on sii3114 controllers (as on sii3112). Also add VT8251 support.
197: <li>Sync with heimdal 0.7.
1.973 pvalchev 198: <li>Add v6 support to
1.974 pvalchev 199: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mygate&sektion=5">mygate(5)</a>.
1.973 pvalchev 200: <li>More <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rcs&sektion=1">rcs(1)</a>
201: improvements toward GNU compatibility as well as OpenCVS progress.
1.972 pvalchev 202: <li>Many fixes and
203: improvements in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>.
204: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>,
205: fix mget directory traversal vulnerability, CAN-2002-1345.
206: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a>,
207: make all usb1 controllers sleep until all the usb2 controllers have probed
208: and handed over any usb1 devices to the companion. For example
209: this enables usb keyboards to be used before the root is mounted,
210: eg. to enter the root device.
211: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=adjtime&sektion=2">adjtime(2)</a>,
212: fix arithmetic overflows which fixes adjusting in the wrong
213: direction for large offsets.
214: <li>macppc sysctl added to determine whether altivec is available
215: on the running CPU, with useful possibilities for applications.
216: <li>Beginning of macppc crashdump support added, as well
217: as much more macppc SMP progress.
1.971 pvalchev 218: <li>Various <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lge&sektion=4">lge(4)</a>
219: driver fixes, which turned it from a completely useless to a working driver,
220: now in GENERIC.
221: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>,
222: add a "best effort" MPLS decoder - since the protocol info is not always available
223: in the tag, a "guess" is done.
224: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vfs&sektion=9">vfs(9)</a>,
225: undo a very old change which was never quite finished, and could
226: cause severe corruption in the buffer lists by removing a buffer
227: from the hash twice.
228: <li>Fix msdos filesystem corruption when moving a directory under
229: a new parent.
230: <li>Sync to Intel's latest
231: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>
232: driver, which adds support for the 82571 and 82572 PCI Express chips.
233: <li>Add Spanning Tree Protocol support to
234: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcap&sektion=3">pcap(3)</a>.
235: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4">iwi(4)</a>,
236: use firmware extended scan command (which doesn't crash) and enable
237: 802.11a scanning for 2915ABG adapters.
238: <li>In ext2fs, use part of the reserved space on the disk inode to scatter
239: 16 more bits for the UID/GID, making them 32-bit.
240: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mg&sektion=1">mg(1)</a>
241: undo much more emacs-like and correct.
242: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ksh&sektion=1">ksh(1)</a>,
243: introduce mknod as a built-in, which has significant speed gains in MAKEDEV.
244: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cardbus&sektion=4">cardbus(4)</a>/
245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcmcia&sektion=4">pcmcia(4)</a>
246: support for AMD64.
247: <li>Add multicast routing to GENERIC, now it can be enabled/disabled
248: using the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8">sysctl(8)</a>
249: interface.
250: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vfs&sektion=9">vfs(9)</a>,
251: make the syncer grab a reference for the vnode it uses, to avoid it from
252: being reclaimed while in this sensitive time frame. This fixes the
253: sched_sync: fsync failed panic often seen on MP machines.
254: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipmi&sektion=4">ipmi(4)</a>,
255: a driver for the Intelligent Platform Management Interface, an
256: autonomous monitoring and recovery mechanism implemented directly in
257: platform management hardware and firmware.
258: <li>Bump max array size in
259: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ksh&sektion=1">ksh(1)</a>,
260: needed for MAKEDEV speed-ups.
261: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lndir&sektion=1">lndir(1)</a>,
262: ignore the "special" .#* files left over by cvs/emacs.
263: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ami&sektion=4">ami(4)</a>,
264: eliminate possible I/O failures caused by ioctl/raw commands.
265: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a>,
266: add a simple active "failover" trunk mode.
267: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hardclock&sektion=9">hardclock(9)</a>,
268: fix a race condition in process exit, which caused freed
269: memory to be left referenced in the master kernel timeout worklist,
270: leading to a possible uvm_fault crash.
271: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral&sektion=4">ral(4)</a>
272: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ural&sektion=4">ural(4)</a>,
273: fix a problem in packet enqueue function which prevented dhcpd to work
274: in standalone AP mode (without bridging).
1.970 pvalchev 275: <li>OpenCVS: work keeps going, now with the help of cloudy weather
276: in the Caribbean!
277: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8">hostapd(8)</a>,
278: implement a way to match IEEE 802.11 flooding, which helps detect known
279: DoS attacks.
280: <li>Beginning stages for macppc G5 support!
281: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vfs&sektion=9">vfs(9)</a>,
282: sync dirty data when going from read-write to read-only, fixes crashes.
283: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm_map&sektion=9">uvm_map(9)</a>,
284: grab a fresh page using the uvm_km_page allocator instead of calling panic()
285: when running out of static kernel map entries.
286: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umodem&sektion=4">umodem(4)</a>,
287: add support for nokia 6680 with a ca-42 cable.
288: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=axe&sektion=4">axe(4)</a>,
289: enable support for gigabit adapters; only works reliably with USB1 for now.
290: <li>More <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>
291: fixes: fully unload dependant libraries, fixes bug exhibited with gphoto2.
292: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ehci&sektion=4">ehci(4)</a>,
293: force takeover of host ports after hibernate/resume, otherwise devices
294: will incorrectly attach to the companion controller.
295: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atw&sektion=4">atw(4)</a>,
296: handle needed operations specially to make ADM8211B devices work.
297: <li>Only allow root to run <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>,
298: it's needed for the chroot security.
299: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=art&sektion=4">art(4)</a>,
300: notify sppp about link state changes, which fixes PPP encoding.
1.967 pvalchev 301: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
302: remove the very basic rate control implementation and use
303: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rssadapt&sektion=9">rssadapt(9)</a> instead.
304: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>,
305: add the ability to disable EPSV/EPRT from the command line.
306: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cd&sektion=4">cd(4)</a>,
307: add missing parenthesis which can problems with devices
308: not supporting TEST UNIT READY.
309: <li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>
310: IPv6 support.
311: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4">iwi(4)</a>,
312: add initial bits for IBSS support and fix association with
313: APs not broadcasting their SSIDs.
314: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8">ppp(8)</a>
315: RFC 2472 compliant and fix various IPv6 problems as well as improve
316: radius support.
317: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
318: don't attach unsupported radio chipsets.
319: <li>Fix initialisation of net.inet.udp.baddynamic.
320: <li>Add amd64 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdc&sektion=4">fdc(4)</a>
321: floppy support.
322: <li>Correctly close <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=raid&sektion=4">raid(4)</a>
323: devices which fixes crashes.
324: <li>More OpenCVS improvements, RCS keyword expansion now works for
1.969 miod 325: all keywords except $Log$.
1.967 pvalchev 326: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rpc.rstatd&sektion=8">rpc.rstatd(8)</a>,
327: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=yppush&sektion=8">yppush(8)</a>,
328: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ypserv&sektion=8">ypserv(8)</a>
329: to use poll() instead of select().
330: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>,
331: rework symbol lookup to more closely match sun's documentation and treat
332: dlopens as load groups. Also cleanly handle the case where a dynamic object
333: is opened, but one of it's dependent libraries is missing. Do not promote
334: DT_NEEDED libs to RTLD_GLOBAL when being dlopen'ed. A few other
335: simplifications and behaviour improvements and regression tests to match.
1.966 pvalchev 336: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
1.967 pvalchev 337: correctly handle loopback interfaces and other fixes.
1.966 pvalchev 338: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptrace&sektion=2">ptrace(2)</a>
339: to follow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fork&sektion=2">fork(2)</a>
340: with PTRACE_FORK.
341: <li>Support ATI IXP 200/300/400 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a> controllers.
342: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ieee80211_input&sektion=9">ieee80211_input(9)</a> and family,
343: replace node hash table with red-black tree. Fixes some bugs in the node table,
344: hash collisions are no longer a possibility, and it simplifies things.
345: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mountd&sektion=8">mountd(8)</a>,
346: fix a NFS race when mounting filesystems on nfs servers.
347: <li>X.Org fix for a buffer overrun observed as a crash by eclipse users,
348: also fix a possible integer overflow in pixmap creation code.
349: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>,
350: fake geometry for all UMASS devices since it's almost always fictitious,
351: reported to fix various devices.
352: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sasyncd&sektion=8">sasyncd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 353: fix transfers of very large SA/SPD snapshots.
354: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xargs&sektion=1">xargs(1)</a>
355: POSIX compliant, make it run programs even when zero arguments are specified.
356: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a>,
357: add multicast, VLAN support and various improvements.
358: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>,
359: program the MAC address correctly into the card after it has been
360: changed, e.g. by
361: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=1">ifconfig(1)</a>.
362: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shutdown&sektion=2">shutdown(2)</a>,
363: return ENOTCONN if a socket is unconnected.
1.966 pvalchev 364: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8">hostapd(8)</a>
1.964 pvalchev 365: to use red-black trees for the node tables instead of hash tables.
366: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
367: fix a possible division by zero.
368: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>@pci,
369: allocate memory for the right structure, which fixes possible page faults.
1.966 pvalchev 370: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 371: reload sessions every time the capabilities change.
372: <li>An <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>
373: fix for a case where free(NULL, ...) was possible and lead to a crash.
374: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umidi&sektion=4">umidi(4)</a>,
375: fix corruption to multi-byte MIDI messages when a single real time byte is inserted.
376: <li>Fix two hppa hardware erratas.
377: <li>Teach <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=file&sektion=1">file(1)</a>
378: about the flac audio format.
379: <li>Many mvme88k improvements.
380: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=m4&sektion=1">m4(1)</a>
1.968 espie 381: SusV3-compliant and add various regression tests.
1.964 pvalchev 382: <li>OpenCVS: add support for the CVS/Tag file writing/parsing, fix
383: corrupt Entry files, various other improvements.
384: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
385: fix the DIOCCHANGERULE ioctl to properly initialize the NAT table, only
386: affects custom programs using this ioctl.
387: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
388: change matching code to only look at the PCI ID and ignoring the PCI class,
389: enabling some mass storage devices to work.
390: <li>Many <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a>
391: improvements including -u option enabled now which automatically will update
392: all installed packages.
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