Introduction of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE

Review of innovations:

Core
In the framework opencrypto added support 128-bit block cipher Camellia, which was developed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and is open for free use in the spring of 2006.
Added support for RedZone - improving the safety of memory at the kernel level, through the protection buffer from damage when allocating / freeing the memory during a call malloc (9);
Added to the kernel implementation of client side functionality rpc.lockd, used to organize the locks in NFS. The implementation supports the restoration of the status of locks on the client side after the restart the NFS server, and guaranteed cache reset before installing the lock, which allows multiple clients to file loki with the simultaneous use of data. Ability to turn over NFSLOCKD option in the kernel configuration, if the kernel has been rebuilt with support NFSLOCKD process rpc.lockd it automatically identifies and begins to use;
The users can download FreeBSD discs equipped with GPT (GUID Partition Table) instead of MBR. BTX-kernel used loader now supports booting from USB devices, thanks to the support function calls BIOS;
Support equipment:
In acpi_asus driver adds support for managing the intensity of illumination of the screen for netbooks Asus EeePC;
DRM driver now supports video cards based on Intel i915 GME;
In bge driver added support for Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the chip Broadcom BCM5906;
Aac appeared in support for 64-bit disk arrays to create the RAID partitions exceeding 2TB, as well as the possibility of simultaneous access to a device for sending commands, controller;
In the ata driver fixed a bug that could lead to data corruption on systems based on chips ServerWorks HT1000;
Increased stability of the driver iir (ICP Vortex RAID);
In the driver mpt (LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI / Fibre Channel) supports userland interface mpt_user.
Subsystem dummynet moved to separate the kernel module and supports a mode of rapid passes packets bypassing dummynet-scheduler, in moments when the intensity of the controlled flow not exceeding a specified bandwidth. Ability to turn a sysctl variable net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_fast.
In the DNS resolver adds support for domain names containing the underscore character, despite the fact that this violates RFC 1034;
Utilities userland
In the utility bsdtar added implementation options - numeric-owner,-S and-s;
In the utility cp error that interferes with copying attributes POSIX.1e ACL;
In the utility cron adds support for option “-m”, through which can be forced to ask the recipient’s email address from the system cron, if a job in crontab clearly not given “MAILTO =”;
In the command cvs now supports flag “-n”, acting as the inversion of the flag “-N”;
Dump and restore utilities now support extended attributes;
In freebsd-update.conf supported by the new directive IDSIgnorePaths;
In the utility fwcontrol added option “-f” to determine the root node at the next reset FireWire bus;
In the make variable modifier appears support “: u” to remove adjacent duplicate words;
In mountd added option “-h bindip” to explicitly specify the IP, which should take TCP and UDP connections;
In moused appeared to control the speed and sensitivity of scrolling through the option “-L” and “-U”;
In the mv command supports POSIX-compliant behavior, when you move the directory to another existing directory located on another device;
At the top and vmstat added option “-P”, when specifying which statistics are displayed with reference to CPU;
Code Center pkg_install imported from branches 8.0-CURRENT as of May 30, 2008;
Removed from the system utilities and pkg_sign pkg_check;
Removed RC-script ike;
In rc.conf variable added dummynet_enable to load the kernel module dummynet, if firewall_enable set to YES. Also in rc.conf is now possible to configure the network interfaces and subnets linked to the group of packet filter rules defined in rc.firewall, when a variable is set to firewall_type simple or client. See description of variables firewall_client_net, firewall_simple_iif, firewall_simple_inet, firewall_simple_oif and firewall_simple_onet;
RC-ppp script now supports the configuration of multiple links, via variable ppp_profile. RC-script rfcomm_pppd_server rfcomm_pppd supports running the server at boot time;
In the RC-load is realized script sysctl settings from the file / etc / sysctl.conf.local in addition to / etc / sysctl.conf;
Update third-party programs included in the base system:
Package am-utils upgraded to version 6.1.5;
ISC BIND DNS server is updated to version 9.3.5-P2;
bzip2 upgraded from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5;
NTP updated to version 4.2.4p5;
Utility FILE has been updated to version 4.21;
Libarchive library updated to version 2.5.4b, but the internal number is saved as 1.9.25 for compatibility API / ABI;
Ncurses library has been updated to version 5.6-20080503;
Package OpenPAM upgraded to release “Hydrangea”;
sendmail 8.14.2 is replaced with the version 8.14.3;
tcsh was updated to version 6.15.00;
In the ports supported version of GNOME (x11/gnome2) upgraded from 2.20.1 to 2.22.3, KDE (x11/kde3) from 3.5.8 to 3.5.10.
For assemblies amd64 and i386 now distributed installation DVD-ROM.

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