release-notes/devel/en_US PackageNotes.xml,1.23,1.24

[Paul W. Frields (pfrields)]

Author: pfrields

Update of /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/en_US
In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv31406

Modified Files:
	PackageNotes.xml 
Log Message:
Import changes for F9 from wiki.



Index: PackageNotes.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/en_US/PackageNotes.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.23 -r1.24
--- PackageNotes.xml	5 Nov 2007 12:37:53 -0000	1.23
+++ PackageNotes.xml	17 Mar 2008 13:14:18 -0000	1.24
@@ -19,6 +19,19 @@
     that are shown in the installation system.
   </para>
 
+  <section id="sn-perl-changes">
+    <title>Perl</title>
+    <para>Fedora 9 now includes Perl 5.10.0, the first "major" release
+      update in perl5 in some time. The Perl interpreter itself is
+      faster with a smaller memory footprint, and has several UTF-8 and
+      threading improvements. The Perl installation is now relocatable,
+      a blessing for systems administrators and operating system
+      packagers. Perl 5.10.0 also adds a new smart match operator, a
+      switch statement, named captures, state variables, and better
+      error messages.</para>
+    <para>For more information, refer to:</para>
+    <para><ulink url="http://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta.html"/></para>
+  </section>
   <section id="sn-yum-changes">
     <title>Yum Changes</title>
     <para>The <systemitem>installonlyn</systemitem> plugin functionality
@@ -38,13 +51,32 @@
       parameter in its configuration file, which is the relative cost of
       accessing a software repository. It is useful for weighing one
       software repository's packages as greater or less than any other.
-      The cost parameter defaults to 1000.</para>
+      The cost parameter defaults to 1000, with lower costs given
+      priority.</para>
+  </section>
+  <section id="sn-pam_mount">
+    <title>pam_mount</title>
+    <para>The <systemitem>pam_mount</systemitem> facility now uses a
+      configuration file written in XML. The
+      <filename>/etc/security/pam_mount.conf</filename> file will be
+      converted to <filename>/etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml</filename>
+      during update with
+      <command>/usr/bin/convert_pam_mount_conf.pl</command>, which
+      removes all comments. Any per-user configuration files must be
+      converted manually, with the conversion script if desired. A
+      sample <filename>pam_mount.conf.xml</filename> file with detailed
+      comments about the available options appears at
+      <filename>/usr/share/doc/pam_mount-*/pam_mount.conf.xml</filename>.</para>
+  </section>
+  <section id="sn-texlive">
+    <title>TeXLive</title>
+    <para><ulink url="http://www.tug.org/texlive/">TeXLive</ulink> is a
+      replacement for the old, unmaintained TeX package. It offers new
+      style packages and fixes many security problems with the old
+      distribution.</para>
   </section>
-
   <section id="sn-utility-packages">
     <title>Utility Packages</title>
-    <para>The <package>cryptsetup-luks</package> package has been
-      renamed to <package>cryptsetup</package>.</para>
     <para>The <package>i810switch</package> package has been removed.
       This functionality is now available through the
       <command>xrandr</command> command in the