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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 270470 2014-08-24 14:21:23Z 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="263122">Support for &man.hwpmc.4; has been added 161 for &powerpc; 970 class processors.</para> 162 163 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 164 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 165 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 166 controllers.</para> 167 168 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 169 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 170 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 171 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 172 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 173 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 174 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 175 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 176 177 <note> 178 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 179 the &os; version of 180 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 181 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 182 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 183 </note> 184 185 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 186 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 187 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 188 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 189 190 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 191 <title>Virtualization support</title> 192 193 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 194 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 195 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 196 configuration.</para> 197 198 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 199 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 200 state.</para> 201 </sect3> 202 203 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 204 <title>ARM support</title> 205 206 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 207 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 208 209 </sect3> 210 211 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 212 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 213 214 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 215 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 216 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 217 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 218 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 219 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 220 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 221 </sect3> 222 223 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 224 <title>Hardware Support</title> 225 226 <para> </para> 227 228 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 229 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 230 231 <para> </para> 232 233 </sect4> 234 235 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 236 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 237 238 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 239 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 240 driver.</para> 241 242 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 243 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 244 245 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 246 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 247 248 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 249 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 250 instead.</para> 251 252 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 253 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 254 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 255 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 256 257 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 258 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 259 </sect4> 260 </sect3> 261 262 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 263 <title>Network Protocols</title> 264 265 <para> </para> 266 267 </sect3> 268 269 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 270 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 271 272 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 273 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 274 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 275 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 276 partition, but the label provider in <filename 277 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 278 resized.</para> 279 280 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 281 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 282 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 283 components have been replaced.</para> 284 285 <para revision="268091">Support for the 286 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 287 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 288 </sect3> 289 290 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 291 <title>File Systems</title> 292 293 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 294 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 295 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 296 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 297 errors have been detected.</para> 298 </sect3> 299 </sect2> 300 301 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 302 <title>Userland Changes</title> 303 304 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 305 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 306 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 307 their parents.</para> 308 309 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 310 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 311 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 312 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 313 314 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 315 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 316 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 317 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 318 319 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 320 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 321 322 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 323 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 324 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 325 326 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 327 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 328 329 <para revision="263046">The timezone database has been updated to 330 version tzdata2014a.</para> 331 332 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 333 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 334 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 335 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 336 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 337 host system.</para> 338 339 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 340 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 341 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 342 343 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 344 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 345 ends event collection after the specified number of 346 seconds.</para> 347 348 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 349 includes files in the 350 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 351 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 352 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 353 354 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 355 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 356 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 357 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 358 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 359 360 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 361 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 362 363 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 364 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 365 366 <para> </para> 367 368 </sect3> 369 </sect2> 370 371 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 372 <title>Contributed Software</title> 373 374 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 375 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 376 377 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 378 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 379 380 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 381 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 382 </sect2> 383 384 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 385 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 386 387 <para> </para> 388 389 </sect2> 390 391 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 392 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 393 394 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 395 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 396 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 397 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 398 cross-built releases.</para> 399 </sect2> 400 401 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 402 <title>Documentation</title> 403 404 <para> </para> 405 406 </sect2> 407</sect1> 408 409<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 410 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 411 412 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 413 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 414 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 415 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 416 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 417 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 418 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 419 connectivity.</para> 420 421 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 422 base system from source code) from previous versions are 423 supported, according to the instructions in 424 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 425 426 <important> 427 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 428 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 429 files.</para> 430 </important> 431</sect1> 432</article> 433