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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 270483 2014-08-24 14:21:47Z 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> 306 307 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 308 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 309 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 310 </sect3> 311 </sect2> 312 313 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 314 <title>Userland Changes</title> 315 316 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 317 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 318 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 319 their parents.</para> 320 321 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 322 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 323 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 324 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 325 326 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 327 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 328 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 329 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 330 331 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 332 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 333 334 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 335 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 336 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 337 338 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 339 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 340 341 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 342 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 343 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 344 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 345 346 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 347 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 348 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 349 in a parsable format.</para> 350 351 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 352 updated to version 3.4.</para> 353 354 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 355 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 356 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 357 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 358 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 359 host system.</para> 360 361 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 362 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 363 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 364 365 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 366 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 367 ends event collection after the specified number of 368 seconds.</para> 369 370 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 371 includes files in the 372 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 373 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 374 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 375 376 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 377 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 378 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 379 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 380 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 381 382 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 383 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 384 385 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 386 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 387 388 <para> </para> 389 390 </sect3> 391 </sect2> 392 393 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 394 <title>Contributed Software</title> 395 396 <para revision="263046">The timezone database has been updated to 397 version tzdata2014a.</para> 398 399 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 400 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 401 402 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 403 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 404 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 405 406 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 407 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 408 409 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 410 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 411 412 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 413 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 414 </sect2> 415 416 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 417 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 418 419 <para> </para> 420 421 </sect2> 422 423 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 424 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 425 426 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 427 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 428 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 429 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 430 cross-built releases.</para> 431 </sect2> 432 433 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 434 <title>Documentation</title> 435 436 <para> </para> 437 438 </sect2> 439</sect1> 440 441<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 442 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 443 444 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 445 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 446 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 447 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 448 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 449 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 450 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 451 connectivity.</para> 452 453 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 454 base system from source code) from previous versions are 455 supported, according to the instructions in 456 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 457 458 <important> 459 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 460 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 461 files.</para> 462 </important> 463</sect1> 464</article> 465