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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 270487 2014-08-24 15:04:48Z 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="263799">A potential deadlock in the &man.usb.4; 172 stack triggered by detaching USB devices that create character 173 devices has been fixed.</para> 174 175 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 176 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 177 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 178 controllers.</para> 179 180 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 181 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 182 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 183 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 184 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 185 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 186 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 187 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 188 189 <note> 190 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 191 the &os; version of 192 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 193 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 194 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 195 </note> 196 197 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 198 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 199 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 200 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 201 202 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 203 <title>Virtualization support</title> 204 205 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 206 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 207 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 208 configuration.</para> 209 210 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 211 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 212 state.</para> 213 </sect3> 214 215 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 216 <title>ARM support</title> 217 218 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 219 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 220 221 </sect3> 222 223 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 224 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 225 226 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 227 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 228 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 229 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 230 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 231 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 232 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 233 </sect3> 234 235 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 236 <title>Hardware Support</title> 237 238 <para> </para> 239 240 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 241 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 242 243 <para> </para> 244 245 </sect4> 246 247 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 248 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 249 250 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 251 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 252 driver.</para> 253 254 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 255 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 256 257 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 258 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 259 260 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 261 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 262 instead.</para> 263 264 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 265 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 266 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 267 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 268 269 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 270 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 271 </sect4> 272 </sect3> 273 274 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 275 <title>Network Protocols</title> 276 277 <para> </para> 278 279 </sect3> 280 281 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 282 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 283 284 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 285 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 286 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 287 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 288 partition, but the label provider in <filename 289 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 290 resized.</para> 291 292 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 293 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 294 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 295 components have been replaced.</para> 296 297 <para revision="268091">Support for the 298 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 299 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 300 </sect3> 301 302 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 303 <title>File Systems</title> 304 305 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 306 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 307 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 308 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 309 errors have been detected.</para> 310 311 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 312 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 313 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 314 </sect3> 315 </sect2> 316 317 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 318 <title>Userland Changes</title> 319 320 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 321 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 322 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 323 their parents.</para> 324 325 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 326 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 327 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 328 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 329 330 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 331 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 332 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 333 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 334 335 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 336 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 337 338 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 339 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 340 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 341 342 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 343 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 344 345 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 346 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 347 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 348 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 349 350 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 351 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 352 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 353 in a parsable format.</para> 354 355 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 356 updated to version 3.4.</para> 357 358 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 359 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 360 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 361 characters long.</para> 362 363 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 364 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 365 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 366 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 367 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 368 host system.</para> 369 370 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 371 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 372 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 373 374 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 375 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 376 ends event collection after the specified number of 377 seconds.</para> 378 379 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 380 includes files in the 381 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 382 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 383 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 384 385 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 386 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 387 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 388 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 389 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 390 391 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 392 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 393 394 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 395 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 396 397 <para> </para> 398 399 </sect3> 400 </sect2> 401 402 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 403 <title>Contributed Software</title> 404 405 <para revision="263046">The timezone database has been updated to 406 version tzdata2014a.</para> 407 408 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 409 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 410 411 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 412 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 413 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 414 415 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 416 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 417 418 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 419 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 420 421 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 422 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 423 </sect2> 424 425 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 426 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 427 428 <para> </para> 429 430 </sect2> 431 432 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 433 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 434 435 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 436 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 437 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 438 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 439 cross-built releases.</para> 440 </sect2> 441 442 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 443 <title>Documentation</title> 444 445 <para> </para> 446 447 </sect2> 448</sect1> 449 450<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 451 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 452 453 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 454 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 455 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 456 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 457 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 458 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 459 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 460 connectivity.</para> 461 462 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 463 base system from source code) from previous versions are 464 supported, according to the instructions in 465 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 466 467 <important> 468 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 469 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 470 files.</para> 471 </important> 472</sect1> 473</article> 474