Annotation of wikisrc/users/maya/release-notes-8-draft.mdwn, revision 1.3
1.1 maya 1: # NetBSD-8 release notes items #
2:
3: Below list needs to be expanded about ARM, MPSAFE networking changes.
4: Then expanded to be readable by an average technically inclined person.
5: Then reordered for most cool things on top.
6:
1.3 ! kamil 7: * PaX MPROTECT (W\^X) memory protection enforced by default on architectures with fine-grained memory protection
! 8: * PaX ASLR in some archs, MKPIE default for userland
1.1 maya 9: XXX list of archs
10: * SSP/FORTIFY default for userland and packages.
11: XXX is SSP / MKPIE new to userland?
12: * In-kernel audio mixer
1.3 ! kamil 13: * Real-Time Signals
! 14: * Synchronize Machine Independent features in ptrace(2) with Linux and FreeBSD
! 15: * Improved C11 feature completeness
! 16: * ext4 enhanced read-only support
! 17: * nc(1) imported from OpenBSD
! 18: * sys_info a new script to return version information for system libraries and utilities
1.1 maya 19:
20: * USB system rework. added USB3 support.
21:
22: The following networking components and drivers have been made MPSAFE:
23: XXX long list, TODO.smpnet is a start
24:
25:
26: * Reproducible build (link to blog)
27: * Dynamic tracing (DTrace) for kernel code (link to guide/intro)
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29:
30: amd64, i386:
31:
32: * Meltdown fixes
33: * SMEP
34: * SMAP
1.2 maya 35: * amd64 kernel W\^X
1.1 maya 36: * EFI bootloader
1.3 ! kamil 37: * added i386 GENERIC_PAE kernel that supports >4GB systems
! 38: * Debug Registers for debuggers
1.1 maya 39:
40: xen:
41:
42: * kernel modules support
43:
44: ARM:
45:
46: * awin, FDT
47: XXX elaborate
48:
49:
50: * TC-USB, TurboChannel USB support for ...
51: * mntva, driver for mntmn's VA2000 amiga graphics card
52:
53: * bta2dpd - new Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile daemon
54: * iwm(4), a driver for Intel Wireless devices (AC7260, AC7265, AC3160...)
55: * nvme(4), a driver for NVMe hardware, ported from OpenBSD
56: * nouveau, an open source driver for modern nVidia graphics, ported from linux, available by default.
57: (this is at the bottom because we mentioned it in 7.1 too)
1.3 ! kamil 58:
! 59: Third party software:
! 60:
! 61: * GCC 5.4 with Address Sanitizer and Undefined Behavior Sanitizer
! 62: * GDB 7.12
! 63: * GNU binutils 2.27
! 64: * Clang/LLVM
! 65: * OpenSSH
! 66: * OpenSSL
! 67: * mdocml
! 68: * acpica
! 69: * ntp
! 70: * dhcpcd
! 71: * Lua
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