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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<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" "sponsor.ent"> 7 %sponsor; 8<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" "vendor.ent"> 9 %vendor; 10]> 11<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 12<info> 13 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 14 15 <author> 16 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 17 </author> 18 19 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 270377 2014-08-22 20:32:29Z gjb $</pubdate> 20 21 <copyright> 22 <year>2000</year> 23 <year>2001</year> 24 <year>2002</year> 25 <year>2003</year> 26 <year>2004</year> 27 <year>2005</year> 28 <year>2006</year> 29 <year>2007</year> 30 <year>2008</year> 31 <year>2009</year> 32 <year>2010</year> 33 <year>2011</year> 34 <year>2012</year> 35 <year>2013</year> 36 <year>2014</year> 37 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> 38 </copyright> 39 40 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 41 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 42 &tm-attrib.ibm; 43 &tm-attrib.ieee; 44 &tm-attrib.intel; 45 &tm-attrib.sparc; 46 &tm-attrib.general; 47 </legalnotice> 48 49 <abstract> 50 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 51 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 52 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 53 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 54 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 55 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 56 presented.</para> 57 </abstract> 58</info> 59 60<sect1 xml:id="intro"> 61 <title>Introduction</title> 62 63 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 64 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 65 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 66 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 67 68 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which 69 these release notes apply represents the latest point along the 70 &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was 71 created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; 72 distributions along this branch can be found at <uri 73 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 74 75 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 76 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 77 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the 78 future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary 79 &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at 80 <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 81 82 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 83 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 84 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 85 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) 86 &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link 87 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 88 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 89 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para> 90 91 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before 92 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 93 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 94 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 95 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to 96 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 97 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 98</sect1> 99 100<sect1 xml:id="new"> 101 <title>What's New</title> 102 103 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 104 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 105 106 <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories 107 issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new 108 commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software 109 upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or 110 release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot 111 list every single change made to &os; between releases; this 112 document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible 113 changes, and major architectural improvements.</para> 114 115 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 116 <title>Security Advisories</title> 117 118 <para> </para> 119 120 </sect2> 121 122 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 123 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 124 125 <para revision="260338">The <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> 126 &man.sysctl.8; has been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with 127 enough RAM, this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or 128 reduce CPU usage in half. It was originally disabled due to 129 memory and <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, 130 which should be resolved due to several change in the VM 131 subsystem.</para> 132 133 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 134 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 135 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 136 137 <para revision="260431">A new &man.sysctl.8;, 138 <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been added, 139 which allows controlling how long the system will wait after 140 &man.panic.9; before rebooting.</para> 141 142 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 143 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 144 145 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has been 146 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 147 148 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 149 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 150 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 151 controllers.</para> 152 153 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 154 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 155 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 156 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 157 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 158 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 159 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 160 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 161 162 <note> 163 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 164 the &os; version of 165 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 166 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 167 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 168 </note> 169 170 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 171 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 172 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 173 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 174 175 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 176 <title>Virtualization support</title> 177 178 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 179 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 180 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 181 configuration.</para> 182 183 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 184 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 185 state.</para> 186 </sect3> 187 188 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 189 <title>ARM support</title> 190 191 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 192 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 193 194 </sect3> 195 196 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 197 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 198 199 <para> </para> 200 201 </sect3> 202 203 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 204 <title>Hardware Support</title> 205 206 <para> </para> 207 208 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 209 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 210 211 <para> </para> 212 213 </sect4> 214 215 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 216 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 217 218 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 219 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 220 driver.</para> 221 222 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 223 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 224 225 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 226 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 227 228 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 229 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 230 instead.</para> 231 232 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 233 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 234 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 235 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 236 </sect4> 237 </sect3> 238 239 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 240 <title>Network Protocols</title> 241 242 <para> </para> 243 244 </sect3> 245 246 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 247 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 248 249 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 250 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 251 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 252 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 253 partition, but the label provider in <filename 254 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 255 resized.</para> 256 257 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 258 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 259 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 260 components have been replaced.</para> 261 262 <para revision="268091">Support for the 263 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 264 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 265 </sect3> 266 267 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 268 <title>File Systems</title> 269 270 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 271 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 272 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 273 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 274 errors have been detected.</para> 275 </sect3> 276 </sect2> 277 278 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 279 <title>Userland Changes</title> 280 281 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 282 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 283 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 284 their parents.</para> 285 286 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 287 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 288 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 289 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 290 291 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 292 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 293 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 294 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 295 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 296 host system.</para> 297 298 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 299 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 300 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 301 302 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 303 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 304 ends event collection after the specified number of 305 seconds.</para> 306 307 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 308 includes files in the 309 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 310 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 311 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 312 313 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 314 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 315 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 316 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 317 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 318 319 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 320 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 321 322 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 323 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 324 325 <para> </para> 326 327 </sect3> 328 </sect2> 329 330 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 331 <title>Contributed Software</title> 332 333 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 334 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 335 336 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 337 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 338 339 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 340 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 341 </sect2> 342 343 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 344 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 345 346 <para> </para> 347 348 </sect2> 349 350 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 351 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 352 353 <para> </para> 354 355 </sect2> 356 357 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 358 <title>Documentation</title> 359 360 <para> </para> 361 362 </sect2> 363</sect1> 364 365<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 366 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 367 368 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 369 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 370 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 371 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 372 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 373 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 374 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 375 connectivity.</para> 376 377 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 378 base system from source code) from previous versions are 379 supported, according to the instructions in 380 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 381 382 <important> 383 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 384 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 385 files.</para> 386 </important> 387</sect1> 388</article> 389