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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 270480 2014-08-24 14:21:41Z 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="263197">Support for ADT7460 and ADT7467 fan 164 controllers found in newer PowerBooks™ and 165 iBooks™ has been added to the &man.iicbus.4; 166 driver.</para> 167 168 <para revision="263256">A panic triggered by removing 169 a &man.urtwn.4; device has been fixed.</para> 170 171 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 172 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 173 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 174 controllers.</para> 175 176 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 177 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 178 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 179 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 180 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 181 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 182 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 183 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 184 185 <note> 186 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 187 the &os; version of 188 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 189 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 190 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 191 </note> 192 193 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 194 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 195 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 196 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 197 198 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 199 <title>Virtualization support</title> 200 201 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 202 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 203 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 204 configuration.</para> 205 206 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 207 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 208 state.</para> 209 </sect3> 210 211 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 212 <title>ARM support</title> 213 214 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 215 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 216 217 </sect3> 218 219 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 220 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 221 222 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 223 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 224 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 225 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 226 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 227 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 228 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 229 </sect3> 230 231 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 232 <title>Hardware Support</title> 233 234 <para> </para> 235 236 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 237 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 238 239 <para> </para> 240 241 </sect4> 242 243 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 244 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 245 246 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 247 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 248 driver.</para> 249 250 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 251 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 252 253 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 254 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 255 256 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 257 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 258 instead.</para> 259 260 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 261 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 262 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 263 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 264 265 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 266 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 267 </sect4> 268 </sect3> 269 270 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 271 <title>Network Protocols</title> 272 273 <para> </para> 274 275 </sect3> 276 277 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 278 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 279 280 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 281 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 282 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 283 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 284 partition, but the label provider in <filename 285 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 286 resized.</para> 287 288 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 289 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 290 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 291 components have been replaced.</para> 292 293 <para revision="268091">Support for the 294 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 295 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 296 </sect3> 297 298 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 299 <title>File Systems</title> 300 301 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 302 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 303 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 304 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 305 errors have been detected.</para> 306 </sect3> 307 </sect2> 308 309 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 310 <title>Userland Changes</title> 311 312 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 313 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 314 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 315 their parents.</para> 316 317 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 318 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 319 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 320 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 321 322 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 323 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 324 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 325 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 326 327 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 328 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 329 330 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 331 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 332 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 333 334 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 335 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 336 337 <para revision="263046">The timezone database has been updated to 338 version tzdata2014a.</para> 339 340 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 341 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 342 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 343 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 344 345 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 346 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 347 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 348 in a parsable format.</para> 349 350 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 351 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 352 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 353 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 354 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 355 host system.</para> 356 357 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 358 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 359 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 360 361 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 362 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 363 ends event collection after the specified number of 364 seconds.</para> 365 366 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 367 includes files in the 368 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 369 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 370 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 371 372 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 373 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 374 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 375 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 376 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 377 378 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 379 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 380 381 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 382 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 383 384 <para> </para> 385 386 </sect3> 387 </sect2> 388 389 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 390 <title>Contributed Software</title> 391 392 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 393 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 394 395 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 396 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 397 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 398 399 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 400 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 401 402 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 403 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 404 405 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 406 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 407 </sect2> 408 409 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 410 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 411 412 <para> </para> 413 414 </sect2> 415 416 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 417 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 418 419 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 420 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 421 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 422 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 423 cross-built releases.</para> 424 </sect2> 425 426 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 427 <title>Documentation</title> 428 429 <para> </para> 430 431 </sect2> 432</sect1> 433 434<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 435 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 436 437 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 438 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 439 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 440 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 441 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 442 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 443 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 444 connectivity.</para> 445 446 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 447 base system from source code) from previous versions are 448 supported, according to the instructions in 449 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 450 451 <important> 452 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 453 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 454 files.</para> 455 </important> 456</sect1> 457</article> 458