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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 270491 2014-08-24 15:04:55Z 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="263869">Support for &amd; Family 16h sensor 176 devices has been added to &man.amdtemp.4;.</para> 177 178 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 179 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 180 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 181 controllers.</para> 182 183 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 184 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 185 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 186 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 187 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 188 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 189 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 190 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 191 192 <note> 193 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 194 the &os; version of 195 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 196 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 197 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 198 </note> 199 200 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 201 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 202 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 203 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 204 205 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 206 <title>Virtualization support</title> 207 208 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 209 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 210 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 211 configuration.</para> 212 213 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 214 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 215 state.</para> 216 </sect3> 217 218 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 219 <title>ARM support</title> 220 221 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 222 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 223 224 </sect3> 225 226 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 227 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 228 229 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 230 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 231 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 232 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 233 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 234 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 235 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 236 </sect3> 237 238 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 239 <title>Hardware Support</title> 240 241 <para> </para> 242 243 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 244 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 245 246 <para> </para> 247 248 </sect4> 249 250 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 251 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 252 253 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 254 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 255 driver.</para> 256 257 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 258 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 259 260 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 261 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 262 263 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 264 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 265 instead.</para> 266 267 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 268 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 269 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 270 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 271 272 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 273 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 274 </sect4> 275 </sect3> 276 277 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 278 <title>Network Protocols</title> 279 280 <para> </para> 281 282 </sect3> 283 284 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 285 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 286 287 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 288 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 289 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 290 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 291 partition, but the label provider in <filename 292 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 293 resized.</para> 294 295 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 296 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 297 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 298 components have been replaced.</para> 299 300 <para revision="268091">Support for the 301 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 302 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 303 </sect3> 304 305 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 306 <title>File Systems</title> 307 308 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 309 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 310 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 311 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 312 errors have been detected.</para> 313 314 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 315 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 316 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 317 </sect3> 318 </sect2> 319 320 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 321 <title>Userland Changes</title> 322 323 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 324 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 325 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 326 their parents.</para> 327 328 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 329 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 330 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 331 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 332 333 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 334 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 335 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 336 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 337 338 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 339 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 340 341 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 342 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 343 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 344 345 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 346 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 347 348 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 349 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 350 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 351 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 352 353 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 354 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 355 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 356 in a parsable format.</para> 357 358 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 359 updated to version 3.4.</para> 360 361 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 362 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 363 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 364 characters long.</para> 365 366 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 367 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 368 369 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 370 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 371 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 372 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 373 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 374 host system.</para> 375 376 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 377 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 378 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 379 380 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 381 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 382 ends event collection after the specified number of 383 seconds.</para> 384 385 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 386 includes files in the 387 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 388 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 389 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 390 391 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 392 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 393 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 394 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 395 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 396 397 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 398 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 399 400 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 401 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 402 403 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 404 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 405 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 406 a network alias of 407 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 408 would not be created if 409 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 410 not defined.</para> 411 </sect3> 412 </sect2> 413 414 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 415 <title>Contributed Software</title> 416 417 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 418 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 419 420 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 421 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 422 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 423 424 <para revision="263906">The timezone database has been updated to 425 version tzdata2014b.</para> 426 427 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 428 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 429 430 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 431 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 432 433 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 434 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 435 </sect2> 436 437 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 438 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 439 440 <para> </para> 441 442 </sect2> 443 444 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 445 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 446 447 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 448 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 449 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 450 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 451 cross-built releases.</para> 452 </sect2> 453 454 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 455 <title>Documentation</title> 456 457 <para> </para> 458 459 </sect2> 460</sect1> 461 462<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 463 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 464 465 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 466 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 467 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 468 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 469 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 470 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 471 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 472 connectivity.</para> 473 474 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 475 base system from source code) from previous versions are 476 supported, according to the instructions in 477 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 478 479 <important> 480 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 481 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 482 files.</para> 483 </important> 484</sect1> 485</article> 486