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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 3 "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> 5 %release; 6]> 7<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 8<info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 9 10 11 <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author> 12 13 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 264379 2014-04-12 20:32:46Z gjb $</pubdate> 14 15 <copyright> 16 <year>2000</year> 17 <year>2001</year> 18 <year>2002</year> 19 <year>2003</year> 20 <year>2004</year> 21 <year>2005</year> 22 <year>2006</year> 23 <year>2007</year> 24 <year>2008</year> 25 <year>2009</year> 26 <year>2010</year> 27 <year>2011</year> 28 <year>2012</year> 29 <year>2013</year> 30 <year>2014</year> 31 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> 32 </copyright> 33 34 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 35 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 36 &tm-attrib.ibm; 37 &tm-attrib.ieee; 38 &tm-attrib.intel; 39 &tm-attrib.sparc; 40 &tm-attrib.general; 41 </legalnotice> 42 43 <abstract> 44 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary 45 of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 46 &release.branch; development line. 47 This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since 48 the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; 49 kernel and userland. 50 Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para> 51 </abstract> 52</info> 53 54<sect1 xml:id="intro"> 55 <title>Introduction</title> 56 57 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 58 &release.current;. It 59 describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. 60 It also provides some notes on upgrading 61 from previous versions of &os;.</para> 62 63 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes 64 apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development 65 branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary 66 &release.type; distributions along this branch 67 can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 68 69 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes 70 apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development 71 branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. 72 Information regarding 73 pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch 74 can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 75 76 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a 77 &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its mirrors. More 78 information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; 79 distributions of &os; can be found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 80 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 81 Handbook</link>.</para> 82 83 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before 84 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 85 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 86 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 87 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to 88 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 89 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 90 91</sect1> 92 93<sect1 xml:id="new"> 94 <title>What's New</title> 95 96 <para>This section describes 97 the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; 98 since &release.prev;.</para> 99 100 <para>Typical release note items 101 document recent security advisories issued after 102 &release.prev;, 103 new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, 104 major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also 105 list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering 106 practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single 107 change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses 108 primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major 109 architectural improvements.</para> 110 111 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 112 <title>Security Advisories</title> 113 114 <para/> 115 116 </sect2> 117 118 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 119 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 120 121 <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform 122 TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the 123 amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% 124 of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para> 125 126 <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel 127 can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para> 128 129 <para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added 130 for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and 131 assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added 132 to allow manipulation of processor sets.</para> 133 134 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture 135 facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured 136 to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or 137 a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls 138 this feature.</para> 139 140 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting 141 facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a 142 set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from 143 within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8; 144 utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual 145 page.</para> 146 147 <para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel 148 dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via 149 mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a 150 simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief 151 kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but 152 are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely 153 synchronized source code. More information can be found in the 154 &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para> 155 156 <para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While 157 the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful 158 in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the 159 KSE library was never developed to its full potential. 160 Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading 161 will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked 162 binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of 163 &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para> 164 165 <para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel 166 features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree. 167 The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient 168 interface for user applications to test the presence of 169 features.</para> 170 171 <para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large 172 memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para> 173 174 <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE 175 scheduler is now the default process scheduler 176 in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para> 177 178 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for 179 the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number 180 generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, 181 accessible with RDRAND instruction.</para> 182 183 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 184 <title>Virtualization support</title> 185 <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included 186 with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) 187 support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond 188 (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> 189 190 <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the 191 name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but 192 since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). 193 This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers 194 for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), 195 memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. 196 Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 197 198 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized drivers which 199 support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and made 200 part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, these drivers are not part of 201 GENERIC, so the following lines must be added to 202 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load these drivers: 203 <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES" 204hv_netsvc_load="YES" 205hv_utils_load="YES" 206hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the i386 207 kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the kernel config, and then 208 recompiling the kernel. Please refer to: 209 <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link> 210 for full instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under FreeBSD.</para> 211 212 <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. 213 &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from 214 OpenBSD.</para> 215 216 <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now 217 part of the GENERIC kernel.</para> 218 219 </sect3> 220 221 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 222 <title>ARM support</title> 223 224 <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added. 225 Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link> 226 and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start 227 guide</link>.</para> 228 229 <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM EABI. This brings a number of 230 improvements and allows future support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> 231 232 <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, including support 233 for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local storage (TLS). 234 Additionally support for some newer SoC like the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. 235 See <link xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this announcement</link> 236 for further details.</para> 237 238 <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been added. Superpages support 239 provides improved performance and scalability by allowing TLB 240 translations to dynamically cover large physical memory regions. 241 All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based platforms can take advantage of this feature. 242 See <link xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this page</link> 243 for further details.</para> 244 245 </sect3> 246 247 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 248 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 249 250 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot 251 loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real 252 mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB 253 devices.</para> 254 255 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has 256 been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A 257 new <command>boot</command> command has been added to 258 &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the 259 required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot 260 partition if required.</para> 261 262 </sect3> 263 264 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 265 <title>Hardware Support</title> 266 267 <para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 268 PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para> 269 270 <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para> 271 272 <para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon 273 Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been 274 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 275 276 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 277 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 278 279 <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design 280 has been added. New devices should support higher bandwidth, 281 increased sampling frequency and wider dynamic range.</para> 282 283 </sect4> 284 285 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 286 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 287 288 <para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support 289 for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> 290 291 <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers 292 with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue 293 to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new 294 client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver 295 will support new server adapters.</para> 296 297 <para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support 298 for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit 299 Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> 300 301 <para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide 302 support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network 303 adapters.</para> 304 305 <para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been 306 updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para> 307 308 <para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its 309 performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It 310 should also work on all architectures.</para> 311 312 <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a 313 number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) 314 support.</para> 315 316 <para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a 317 number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all 318 architectures.</para> 319 320 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has 321 been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para> 322 323 <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support 324 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para> 325 326 <para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added. This is an 327 experimental iWARP/RDMA driver 328 (kernel verbs only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para> 329 330 <para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and 331 OFED Infiniband core has been 332 updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version 3.7</para> 333 334 <para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has been updated to firmware 335 version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where 336 each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 GB/s. Support has been added 337 for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and 338 IP over Infiniband (ipoib).</para> 339 340 <para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added. &man.netmap.4; is a framework for 341 high-performance direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high PPS 342 rates to userland applications while bypassing any kernel-side packet processing. 343 With &man.netmap.4; it is trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network interface with 344 minimal packet sizes. For more information, see: 345 <link xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap Project</link>.</para> 346 347 </sect4> 348 </sect3> 349 350 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 351 <title>Network Protocols</title> 352 353 <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses 354 more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as 355 quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant 356 address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with 357 &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel 358 interfaces to allocate multicast memberships. 359 Configuration of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well as format 360 of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has changed. See &man.carp.4; 361 for more information. The arpbalance feature of &man.carp.4; is currently 362 not supported anymore.</para> 363 364 <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking 365 and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in 366 significant improvements in performance.</para> 367 368 <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been 369 introduced.</para> 370 371 <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching differentiated services 372 codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to 373 &man.ipfw.8;.</para> 374 375 </sect3> 376 377 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 378 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 379 380 <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than 381 2TB in size.</para> 382 383 <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for 384 disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests 385 have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down 386 until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now 387 supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure 388 this feature.</para> 389 390 <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 391 from Highpoint.</para> 392 393 <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides NVM Express support. 394 NVM Express is an optimized register interface, command set and feature set of 395 PCI Express (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information, 396 see <link xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para> 397 398 </sect3> 399 400 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 401 <title>File Systems</title> 402 403 <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been 404 added</para> 405 406 <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while 407 mounted read-write. This is especially useful for virtual 408 machines, allowing the addition of more harddrive space without 409 interruption of service.</para> 410 411 <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the 412 base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file 413 systems</para> 414 415 <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs"> 416 <title>ZFS</title> 417 418 <para revision="">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing 419 ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single configuration menu 420 that allows you to select all of the required details, including 421 which drives to use, what ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration 422 the selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption, forcing 4K sectors, 423 pool name, etc.</para> 424 425 <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for 426 ZFS.</para> 427 428 <para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4 compression algorithm 429 has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually faster and can achieve a 430 higher compression ratio than LZJB, the default compression 431 algorithm</para> 432 433 <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</para> 434 435 <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from Illumos 436 was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write skips overwriting 437 data if the checksum (cryptographically secure) of new data 438 matches the checksum of existing data. It also saves space if 439 snapshots are in use. This improvement only works only on 440 datasets with enabled compression, disabled deduplication and 441 sha256 checksums.</para> 442 443 <para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to 444 the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any 445 write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O 446 as well as space usage because if the old block is referenced 447 by a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though 448 both contain the same data.</para> 449 450 </sect4> 451 452 </sect3> 453 454 </sect2> 455 456 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 457 <title>Userland Changes</title> 458 459 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 460 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 461 462 <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the default 463 system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU libstdc++ are no 464 longer built by default. &man.clang.1; and libc++ from LLVM are used on 465 these platforms by instead. GCC 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built 466 and used by default on pc98 and all other platforms where &man.clang.1; 467 is not the default system compiler. 468 </para> 469 470 <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated to 471 version 3.3 release. Please refer to 472 <link xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html"> 473 Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para> 474 475 <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by &man.unbound.8; for 476 local dns resolution in the base system. With this change, nslookup 477 and dig are no longer a part of the base system. Users should 478 instead use &man.host.1; and &man.drill.1; Alternatively, 479 nslookup and dig can be obtained by installing the 480 dns/bind-tools port.</para> 481 482 <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base system. 483 Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such as libdisk, libftpio, 484 and sade have also been removed. sysinstall has been replaced by 485 &man.bsdinstall.8; and &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para> 486 487 <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added. This tool 488 makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of 489 the installed kernel and userland.</para> 490 491 <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base system, and replaced 492 by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1; program.</para> 493 494 <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base system, and replaced 495 by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1; program.</para> 496 497 <para revision="235723">Berkely yacc (byacc) has been imported 498 from <link xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible island</link>. 499 This brings bison compatibilities to &man.yacc.1; while preserving full 500 backwards compatibility with previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para> 501 502 <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex 2.5.37</para> 503 504 <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the 505 "Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD.</para> 506 507 <para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports 508 a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's 509 home directory.</para> 510 511 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, 512 based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU 513 Binutils versions of these utilities.</para> 514 515 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have 516 replaced their GNU counterparts.</para> 517 518 <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for 519 verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors 520 with the same semantics as (for example) 521 &man.chmod.1;.</para> 522 523 <para>For compatibility with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now 524 supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to 525 specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para> 526 527 <para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on 528 <filename>libarchive</filename>, has replaced the GNU cpio. 529 Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as 530 <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para> 531 532 <para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u 533 <replaceable>name</replaceable></option> 534 which will completely unset the given variable 535 <replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment, 536 instead of just setting it to a null value.</para> 537 538 <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para> 539 540 <para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1 541 If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now 542 supports <option>-i <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option> 543 which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content 544 is newer than <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.</para> 545 546 <para>&man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number 547 of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; 548 &man.find.1;.</para> 549 550 <para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command> 551 command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel 552 modules.</para> 553 554 <para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option> 555 option to specify a date format string to be used with the long 556 format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para> 557 558 <para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to 559 disable the use of TCP options.</para> 560 561 <para>&man.nc.1;'s <option>-o</option> switch has been deprecated. 562 It will be removed in a future release.</para> 563 564 <para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal> 565 when the packet transmission was successful but no responses 566 were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;). 567 It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para> 568 569 <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display 570 detailed information about processes.</para> 571 572 <para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports 573 a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also 574 accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para> 575 576 <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will now 577 refuse to parse some invalid scripts. Additionally, it now 578 has filename completion and defaults to the "emacs" editing 579 mode.</para> 580 581 <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option> 582 flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para> 583 584 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option> 585 flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style 586 compression/decompression.</para> 587 588 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a 589 <option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names 590 on create and extract.</para> 591 592 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an 593 <option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para> 594 595 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option> 596 flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular 597 expression.</para> 598 599 <para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to 600 return the process group ID for the session leader for the 601 controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 602 (POSIX).</para> 603 604 <para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to 605 provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para> 606 607 <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures. 608 </para> 609 610 <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS 611 number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a 612 new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular 613 WHOIS server.</para> 614 615 <para>&man.traceroute6.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> flag 616 to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than 617 the usual UDP probe packets.</para> 618 619 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 620 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 621 622 <para/> 623 624 </sect3> 625 </sect2> 626 627 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 628 <title>Contributed Software</title> 629 630 <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to 3.4.0. 631 See <link xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this link</link>. 632 for more details.</para> 633 634 <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10 635 to 6.1.5.</para> 636 637 <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May 638 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para> 639 640 <para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4 641 to 1.0.5.</para> 642 643 <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the 644 base system, but is still available from ports</para> 645 646 <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base system and 647 is installed as <application>svnlite</application>. <application>svnlite</application> 648 should only be used for checking out &os; source and committing, and does not 649 replace the full Subversion port.</para> 650 651 <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been updated to 5.11.</para> 652 653 <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has been 654 updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para> 655 656 <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to 5.1.2.</para> 657 658 <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been updated to 659 v458.</para> 660 661 <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from 662 to 5.7-20081102.</para> 663 664 <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated 665 to 6.4.</para> 666 667 <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to 668 the Micrampelis release.</para> 669 670 <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from 671 8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para> 672 673 <para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from 674 the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to 675 the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para> 676 677 <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8; 678 have been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application> 679 release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release. 680 If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8;, 681 then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to install a new /etc/localtime. 682 </para> 683 684 <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been 685 updated to 2.0.</para> 686 687 <para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated 688 from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para> 689 690 <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated to 2.1.2.</para> 691 692 <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide character locales.</para> 693 694 695 <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been 696 updated from 8.14.7 to 8.14.8.</para> 697 </sect2> 698 699 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 700 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 701 702 <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info, 703 pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been removed. 704 &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary packages. &man.pkg.7; 705 is the next generation &os; package manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para> 706 707 </sect2> 708 709 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 710 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 711 712 <para role="merged">The supported version of 713 the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment 714 (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been 715 updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para> 716 717 </sect2> 718 719 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 720 <title>Documentation</title> 721 722 <para/> 723 724 </sect2> 725</sect1> 726 727<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 728 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> 729 730 <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, 731 binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the 732 various security branches) are supported using the 733 &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will 734 update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or 735 SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release. 736 The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being 737 upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> 738 739 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 740 base system from source code) from previous versions are 741 supported, according to the instructions in 742 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 743 744 <important> 745 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after 746 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 747 files.</para> 748 </important> 749</sect1> 750</article> 751