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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 270492 2014-08-24 15:04:57Z 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="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has been 179 removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 180 181 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 182 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 183 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 184 controllers.</para> 185 186 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 187 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 188 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 189 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 190 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 191 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 192 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 193 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 194 195 <note> 196 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 197 the &os; version of 198 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 199 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 200 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 201 </note> 202 203 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 204 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 205 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 206 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 207 208 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 209 <title>Virtualization support</title> 210 211 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 212 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 213 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 214 configuration.</para> 215 216 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 217 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 218 state.</para> 219 </sect3> 220 221 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 222 <title>ARM support</title> 223 224 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 225 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 226 227 </sect3> 228 229 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 230 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 231 232 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 233 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 234 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 235 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 236 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 237 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 238 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 239 </sect3> 240 241 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 242 <title>Hardware Support</title> 243 244 <para> </para> 245 246 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 247 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 248 249 <para> </para> 250 251 </sect4> 252 253 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 254 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 255 256 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 257 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 258 driver.</para> 259 260 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 261 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 262 263 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 264 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 265 266 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 267 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 268 instead.</para> 269 270 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 271 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 272 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 273 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 274 275 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 276 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 277 </sect4> 278 </sect3> 279 280 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 281 <title>Network Protocols</title> 282 283 <para> </para> 284 285 </sect3> 286 287 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 288 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 289 290 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 291 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 292 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 293 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 294 partition, but the label provider in <filename 295 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 296 resized.</para> 297 298 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 299 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 300 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 301 components have been replaced.</para> 302 303 <para revision="268091">Support for the 304 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 305 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 306 </sect3> 307 308 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 309 <title>File Systems</title> 310 311 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 312 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 313 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 314 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 315 errors have been detected.</para> 316 317 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 318 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 319 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 320 </sect3> 321 </sect2> 322 323 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 324 <title>Userland Changes</title> 325 326 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 327 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 328 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 329 their parents.</para> 330 331 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 332 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 333 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 334 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 335 336 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 337 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 338 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 339 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 340 341 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 342 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 343 344 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 345 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 346 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 347 348 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 349 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 350 351 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 352 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 353 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 354 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 355 356 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 357 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 358 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 359 in a parsable format.</para> 360 361 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 362 updated to version 3.4.</para> 363 364 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 365 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 366 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 367 characters long.</para> 368 369 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 370 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 371 372 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 373 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 374 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 375 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 376 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 377 host system.</para> 378 379 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 380 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 381 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 382 383 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 384 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 385 ends event collection after the specified number of 386 seconds.</para> 387 388 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 389 includes files in the 390 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 391 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 392 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 393 394 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 395 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 396 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 397 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 398 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 399 400 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 401 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 402 403 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 404 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 405 406 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 407 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 408 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 409 a network alias of 410 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 411 would not be created if 412 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 413 not defined.</para> 414 </sect3> 415 </sect2> 416 417 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 418 <title>Contributed Software</title> 419 420 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 421 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 422 423 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 424 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 425 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 426 427 <para revision="263906">The timezone database has been updated to 428 version tzdata2014b.</para> 429 430 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 431 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 432 433 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 434 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 435 436 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 437 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 438 </sect2> 439 440 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 441 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 442 443 <para> </para> 444 445 </sect2> 446 447 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 448 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 449 450 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 451 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 452 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 453 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 454 cross-built releases.</para> 455 </sect2> 456 457 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 458 <title>Documentation</title> 459 460 <para> </para> 461 462 </sect2> 463</sect1> 464 465<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 466 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 467 468 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 469 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 470 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 471 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 472 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 473 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 474 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 475 connectivity.</para> 476 477 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 478 base system from source code) from previous versions are 479 supported, according to the instructions in 480 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 481 482 <important> 483 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 484 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 485 files.</para> 486 </important> 487</sect1> 488</article> 489