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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 270467 2014-08-24 14:21:17Z 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="262861">The &man.vt.4; driver has been merged 149 from &os;-CURRENT. To enable &man.vt.4;, enter 150 <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal> at the &man.loader.8; prompt 151 during boot, or add <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to 152 &man.loader.conf.5; and reboot the system.</para> 153 154 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has been 155 added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 156 157 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 158 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 159 160 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 161 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 162 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 163 controllers.</para> 164 165 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 166 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 167 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 168 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 169 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 170 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 171 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 172 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 173 174 <note> 175 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 176 the &os; version of 177 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 178 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 179 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 180 </note> 181 182 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 183 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 184 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 185 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 186 187 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 188 <title>Virtualization support</title> 189 190 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 191 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 192 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 193 configuration.</para> 194 195 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 196 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 197 state.</para> 198 </sect3> 199 200 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 201 <title>ARM support</title> 202 203 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 204 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 205 206 </sect3> 207 208 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 209 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 210 211 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 212 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 213 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 214 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 215 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 216 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 217 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 218 </sect3> 219 220 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 221 <title>Hardware Support</title> 222 223 <para> </para> 224 225 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 226 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 227 228 <para> </para> 229 230 </sect4> 231 232 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 233 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 234 235 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 236 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 237 driver.</para> 238 239 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 240 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 241 242 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 243 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 244 245 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 246 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 247 instead.</para> 248 249 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 250 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 251 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 252 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 253 254 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 255 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 256 </sect4> 257 </sect3> 258 259 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 260 <title>Network Protocols</title> 261 262 <para> </para> 263 264 </sect3> 265 266 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 267 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 268 269 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 270 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 271 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 272 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 273 partition, but the label provider in <filename 274 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 275 resized.</para> 276 277 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 278 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 279 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 280 components have been replaced.</para> 281 282 <para revision="268091">Support for the 283 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 284 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 285 </sect3> 286 287 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 288 <title>File Systems</title> 289 290 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 291 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 292 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 293 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 294 errors have been detected.</para> 295 </sect3> 296 </sect2> 297 298 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 299 <title>Userland Changes</title> 300 301 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 302 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 303 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 304 their parents.</para> 305 306 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 307 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 308 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 309 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 310 311 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 312 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 313 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 314 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 315 316 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 317 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 318 319 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 320 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 321 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 322 323 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 324 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 325 326 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 327 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 328 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 329 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 330 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 331 host system.</para> 332 333 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 334 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 335 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 336 337 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 338 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 339 ends event collection after the specified number of 340 seconds.</para> 341 342 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 343 includes files in the 344 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 345 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 346 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 347 348 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 349 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 350 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 351 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 352 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 353 354 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 355 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 356 357 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 358 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 359 360 <para> </para> 361 362 </sect3> 363 </sect2> 364 365 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 366 <title>Contributed Software</title> 367 368 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 369 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 370 371 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 372 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 373 374 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 375 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 376 </sect2> 377 378 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 379 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 380 381 <para> </para> 382 383 </sect2> 384 385 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 386 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 387 388 <para> </para> 389 390 </sect2> 391 392 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 393 <title>Documentation</title> 394 395 <para> </para> 396 397 </sect2> 398</sect1> 399 400<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 401 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 402 403 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 404 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 405 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 406 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 407 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 408 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 409 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 410 connectivity.</para> 411 412 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 413 base system from source code) from previous versions are 414 supported, according to the instructions in 415 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 416 417 <important> 418 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 419 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 420 files.</para> 421 </important> 422</sect1> 423</article> 424