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177542Swpaul<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 277542Swpaul<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 377542Swpaul "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 477542Swpaul<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> 577542Swpaul %release; 677542Swpaul]> 777542Swpaul<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 877542Swpaul<info> 977542Swpaul <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 1077542Swpaul 1177542Swpaul <author> 1277542Swpaul <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 1377542Swpaul </author> 1477542Swpaul 1577542Swpaul <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 264381 2014-04-12 20:49:07Z gjb $</pubdate> 1677542Swpaul 1777542Swpaul <copyright> 1877542Swpaul <year>2000</year> 1977542Swpaul <year>2001</year> 2077542Swpaul <year>2002</year> 2177542Swpaul <year>2003</year> 2277542Swpaul <year>2004</year> 2377542Swpaul <year>2005</year> 2477542Swpaul <year>2006</year> 2577542Swpaul <year>2007</year> 2677542Swpaul <year>2008</year> 2777542Swpaul <year>2009</year> 2877542Swpaul <year>2010</year> 2977542Swpaul <year>2011</year> 3077542Swpaul <year>2012</year> 3177542Swpaul <year>2013</year> 3277542Swpaul <year>2014</year> 3377542Swpaul <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> 34148145Strhodes </copyright> 3577542Swpaul 3677542Swpaul <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 3777542Swpaul &tm-attrib.freebsd; 3877542Swpaul &tm-attrib.ibm; 39134271Sbrueffer &tm-attrib.ieee; 4077542Swpaul &tm-attrib.intel; 41151046Strhodes &tm-attrib.sparc; 42151046Strhodes &tm-attrib.general; 43148220Strhodes </legalnotice> 44148145Strhodes 4577542Swpaul <abstract> 4677542Swpaul <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 47148145Strhodes a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 48148145Strhodes &release.branch; development line. This document lists 49151046Strhodes applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 50151046Strhodes release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 51148145Strhodes userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 52148145Strhodes presented.</para> 53148145Strhodes </abstract> 54148145Strhodes</info> 5577542Swpaul 5677542Swpaul<sect1 xml:id="intro"> 5777542Swpaul <title>Introduction</title> 5877542Swpaul 59134271Sbrueffer <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 6077542Swpaul &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 61134291Sbrueffer deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 62134291Sbrueffer upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 63134291Sbrueffer 64134291Sbrueffer <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which 6577542Swpaul these release notes apply represents the latest point along the 6677542Swpaul &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was 6777542Swpaul created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; 6877542Swpaul distributions along this branch can be found at <uri 6977542Swpaul xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 7077542Swpaul 7177542Swpaul <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 7278433Swpaul which these release notes apply represents a point along the 7377542Swpaul &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the 7477542Swpaul future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary 7577542Swpaul &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at 7677542Swpaul <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 7777542Swpaul 7879658Sru <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 7977542Swpaul &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 8077542Swpaul found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 8177542Swpaul any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) 8277542Swpaul &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link 8377542Swpaul xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 8477542Swpaul &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 8579355Sru xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para> 8679355Sru 8777542Swpaul <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before 8877542Swpaul installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 8977542Swpaul <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 9077542Swpaul release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 9177542Swpaul information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to 9277542Swpaul documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 9377542Swpaul &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 9477542Swpaul</sect1> 9577542Swpaul 9679658Sru<sect1 xml:id="new"> 9777542Swpaul <title>What's New</title> 9877542Swpaul 9977542Swpaul <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 10077542Swpaul features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 10177542Swpaul 10277542Swpaul <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories 10377542Swpaul issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new 10477542Swpaul commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software 105134271Sbrueffer upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or 106134271Sbrueffer release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot 107134271Sbrueffer list every single change made to &os; between releases; this 108134271Sbrueffer document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible 109134271Sbrueffer changes, and major architectural improvements.</para> 110134271Sbrueffer 111134271Sbrueffer <sect2 xml:id="security"> 112134271Sbrueffer <title>Security Advisories</title> 113134271Sbrueffer 114134271Sbrueffer <para> </para> 115134271Sbrueffer 11677542Swpaul </sect2> 11777542Swpaul 11877542Swpaul <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 11977542Swpaul <title>Kernel Changes</title> 12077542Swpaul 12177542Swpaul <para> </para> 12277542Swpaul 12377542Swpaul <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 12477542Swpaul <title>Virtualization support</title> 12577542Swpaul 12677542Swpaul <para> </para> 12777542Swpaul 12877542Swpaul </sect3> 12977542Swpaul 13077542Swpaul <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 13177542Swpaul <title>ARM support</title> 13277542Swpaul 13377542Swpaul <para> </para> 13477542Swpaul 13577542Swpaul </sect3> 13677542Swpaul 13777542Swpaul <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 13877542Swpaul <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 13977542Swpaul 140124302Sbrueffer <para> </para> 14177542Swpaul 14277542Swpaul </sect3> 14377542Swpaul 14477542Swpaul <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 14577542Swpaul <title>Hardware Support</title> 146202386Sru 14777542Swpaul <para> </para> 14877542Swpaul 14977542Swpaul <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 15077542Swpaul <title>Multimedia Support</title> 15177542Swpaul 15280898Ssheldonh <para> </para> 15377542Swpaul 15477542Swpaul </sect4> 15577542Swpaul 15677542Swpaul <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 15777542Swpaul <title>Network Interface Support</title> 158 159 <para> </para> 160 161 </sect4> 162 </sect3> 163 164 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 165 <title>Network Protocols</title> 166 167 <para> </para> 168 169 </sect3> 170 171 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 172 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 173 174 <para> </para> 175 176 </sect3> 177 178 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 179 <title>File Systems</title> 180 181 <para> </para> 182 183 </sect3> 184 </sect2> 185 186 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 187 <title>Userland Changes</title> 188 189 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 190 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 191 192 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 193 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 194 195 <para> </para> 196 197 </sect3> 198 </sect2> 199 200 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 201 <title>Contributed Software</title> 202 203 <para> </para> 204 205 </sect2> 206 207 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 208 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 209 210 <para> </para> 211 212 </sect2> 213 214 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 215 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 216 217 <para> </para> 218 219 </sect2> 220 221 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 222 <title>Documentation</title> 223 224 <para> </para> 225 226 </sect2> 227</sect1> 228 229<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 230 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 231 232 <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary 233 upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various 234 security branches) are supported using the &man.freebsd-update.8; 235 utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified 236 userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels 237 distributed as a part of an official &os; release. The 238 &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being 239 upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> 240 241 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 242 base system from source code) from previous versions are 243 supported, according to the instructions in 244 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 245 246 <important> 247 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after 248 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 249 files.</para> 250 </important> 251</sect1> 252</article> 253