{"id":243,"date":"2005-05-09T23:51:14","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=243"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:02:56","slug":"freebsd_54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/05\/09\/freebsd_54.php","title":{"rendered":"FreeBSD 5.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\">FreeBSD<\/a> today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/releases\/5.4R\/relnotes-i386.html\">released version 5.4<\/a>.  This looks like a pretty good release mostly for some changes to userland tools and some firewalling bits, some of the highlights for me are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CARP from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/\">OpenBSD<\/a> has been added, this allows for some nice shared IP addresses between machines with failover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=carp&#038;sektion=4&#038;manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE\">carp(4)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=ipfw&#038;sektion=8&#038;manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE\">ipfw(8)<\/a> ipfw fwd rule now supports the full packet destination manipulation when the kernel option options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED is specified in addition to options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD. This kernel option disables all restrictions to ensure proper behavior for locally generated packets and allows redirection of packets destined to locally configured IP addresses.<\/li>\n<li>The libarchive library (as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=tar&#038;sektion=1&#038;manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE\">tar(1)<\/a> command that uses it) now has support for reading ISO images (with optional RockRidge extensions) and ZIP archives (with deflate and none compression).<\/li>\n<li>The -f option of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=tail&#038;sektion=1&#038;manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE\">tail(1)<\/a> utility now supports more than one file at a time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&#038;sektion=5&#038;manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE\">rc.conf(5)<\/a> now supports changes of network interface names at boot time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a whole bunch of other interesting changes, be sure to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/releases\/5.4R\/migration-guide.html\">Migration Guide<\/a> before attempting to upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FreeBSD today released version 5.4. This looks like a pretty good release mostly for some changes to userland tools and some firewalling bits, some of the highlights for me are: CARP from OpenBSD has been added, this allows for some nice shared IP addresses between machines with failover carp(4) The ipfw(8) ipfw fwd rule now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}