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8<info>
9  <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
10
11  <author>
12    <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
13  </author>
14
15  <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 264382 2014-04-12 20:50:31Z gjb $</pubdate>
16
17  <copyright>
18    <year>2000</year>
19    <year>2001</year>
20    <year>2002</year>
21    <year>2003</year>
22    <year>2004</year>
23    <year>2005</year>
24    <year>2006</year>
25    <year>2007</year>
26    <year>2008</year>
27    <year>2009</year>
28    <year>2010</year>
29    <year>2011</year>
30    <year>2012</year>
31    <year>2013</year>
32    <year>2014</year>
33    <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
34  </copyright>
35
36  <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
37    &tm-attrib.freebsd;
38    &tm-attrib.ibm;
39    &tm-attrib.ieee;
40    &tm-attrib.intel;
41    &tm-attrib.sparc;
42    &tm-attrib.general;
43  </legalnotice>
44
45  <abstract>
46    <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
47      a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
48      &release.branch; development line.  This document lists
49      applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
50      release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
51      userland.  Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
52      presented.</para>
53  </abstract>
54</info>
55
56<sect1 xml:id="intro">
57  <title>Introduction</title>
58
59  <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
60    &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
61    deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
62    upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
63
64  <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which
65    these release notes apply represents the latest point along the
66    &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was
67    created.  Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type;
68    distributions along this branch can be found at <uri
69      xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
70
71  <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
72    which these release notes apply represents a point along the
73    &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the
74    future &release.next;.  Information regarding pre-built, binary
75    &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at
76    <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
77
78  <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
79    &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution.  It can be
80    found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
81    any of its mirrors.  More information on obtaining this (or other)
82    &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link
83      xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
84	&os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
85      xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para>
86
87  <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
88    installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
89    <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
90    release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
91    information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
92    documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
93    &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
94</sect1>
95
96<sect1 xml:id="new">
97  <title>What's New</title>
98
99  <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
100    features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
101
102  <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories
103    issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new
104    commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software
105    upgrades.  They may also list changes to major ports/packages or
106    release engineering practices.  Clearly the release notes cannot
107    list every single change made to &os; between releases; this
108    document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible
109    changes, and major architectural improvements.</para>
110
111  <sect2 xml:id="security">
112    <title>Security Advisories</title>
113
114    <para>&nbsp;</para>
115
116  </sect2>
117
118  <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
119    <title>Kernel Changes</title>
120
121    <para>&nbsp;</para>
122
123    <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
124      <title>Virtualization support</title>
125
126      <para>&nbsp;</para>
127
128    </sect3>
129
130    <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
131      <title>ARM support</title>
132
133      <para>&nbsp;</para>
134
135    </sect3>
136
137    <sect3 xml:id="boot">
138      <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
139
140      <para>&nbsp;</para>
141
142    </sect3>
143
144    <sect3 xml:id="proc">
145      <title>Hardware Support</title>
146
147      <para>&nbsp;</para>
148
149      <sect4 xml:id="mm">
150	<title>Multimedia Support</title>
151
152	<para>&nbsp;</para>
153
154      </sect4>
155
156      <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
157	<title>Network Interface Support</title>
158
159	<para>&nbsp;</para>
160
161      </sect4>
162    </sect3>
163
164    <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
165      <title>Network Protocols</title>
166
167      <para>&nbsp;</para>
168
169    </sect3>
170
171    <sect3 xml:id="disks">
172      <title>Disks and Storage</title>
173
174      <para>&nbsp;</para>
175
176    </sect3>
177
178    <sect3 xml:id="fs">
179      <title>File Systems</title>
180
181      <para>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</para>
196
197    </sect3>
198  </sect2>
199
200  <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
201    <title>Contributed Software</title>
202
203    <para>&nbsp;</para>
204
205  </sect2>
206
207  <sect2 xml:id="ports">
208    <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
209
210    <para>&nbsp;</para>
211
212  </sect2>
213
214  <sect2 xml:id="releng">
215    <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
216
217    <para>&nbsp;</para>
218
219  </sect2>
220
221  <sect2 xml:id="doc">
222    <title>Documentation</title>
223
224    <para>&nbsp;</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">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
233    (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
234    using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
235    procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
236    unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an
237    official &os; release.  The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility
238    requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
239    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