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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 270493 2014-08-24 15:59:33Z 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="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 182 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 183 184 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 185 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 186 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 187 controllers.</para> 188 189 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 190 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 191 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 192 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 193 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 194 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 195 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 196 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 197 198 <note> 199 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 200 the &os; version of 201 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 202 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 203 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 204 </note> 205 206 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 207 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 208 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 209 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 210 211 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 212 <title>Virtualization support</title> 213 214 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 215 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 216 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 217 configuration.</para> 218 219 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 220 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 221 state.</para> 222 </sect3> 223 224 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 225 <title>ARM support</title> 226 227 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 228 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 229 230 </sect3> 231 232 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 233 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 234 235 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 236 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 237 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 238 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 239 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 240 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 241 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 242 </sect3> 243 244 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 245 <title>Hardware Support</title> 246 247 <para> </para> 248 249 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 250 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 251 252 <para> </para> 253 254 </sect4> 255 256 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 257 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 258 259 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 260 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 261 driver.</para> 262 263 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 264 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 265 266 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 267 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 268 269 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 270 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 271 instead.</para> 272 273 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 274 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 275 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 276 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 277 278 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 279 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 280 </sect4> 281 </sect3> 282 283 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 284 <title>Network Protocols</title> 285 286 <para> </para> 287 288 </sect3> 289 290 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 291 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 292 293 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 294 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 295 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 296 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 297 partition, but the label provider in <filename 298 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 299 resized.</para> 300 301 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 302 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 303 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 304 components have been replaced.</para> 305 306 <para revision="268091">Support for the 307 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 308 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 309 </sect3> 310 311 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 312 <title>File Systems</title> 313 314 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 315 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 316 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 317 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 318 errors have been detected.</para> 319 320 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 321 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 322 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 323 </sect3> 324 </sect2> 325 326 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 327 <title>Userland Changes</title> 328 329 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 330 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 331 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 332 their parents.</para> 333 334 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 335 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 336 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 337 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 338 339 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 340 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 341 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 342 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 343 344 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 345 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 346 347 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 348 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 349 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 350 351 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 352 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 353 354 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 355 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 356 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 357 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 358 359 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 360 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 361 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 362 in a parsable format.</para> 363 364 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 365 updated to version 3.4.</para> 366 367 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 368 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 369 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 370 characters long.</para> 371 372 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 373 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 374 375 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 376 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 377 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 378 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 379 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 380 host system.</para> 381 382 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 383 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 384 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 385 386 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 387 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 388 ends event collection after the specified number of 389 seconds.</para> 390 391 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 392 includes files in the 393 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 394 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 395 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 396 397 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 398 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 399 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 400 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 401 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 402 403 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 404 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 405 406 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 407 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 408 409 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 410 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 411 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 412 a network alias of 413 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 414 would not be created if 415 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 416 not defined.</para> 417 </sect3> 418 </sect2> 419 420 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 421 <title>Contributed Software</title> 422 423 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 424 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 425 426 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 427 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 428 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 429 430 <para revision="263906">The timezone database has been updated to 431 version tzdata2014b.</para> 432 433 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 434 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 435 436 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 437 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 438 439 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 440 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 441 </sect2> 442 443 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 444 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 445 446 <para> </para> 447 448 </sect2> 449 450 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 451 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 452 453 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 454 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 455 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 456 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 457 cross-built releases.</para> 458 </sect2> 459 460 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 461 <title>Documentation</title> 462 463 <para> </para> 464 465 </sect2> 466</sect1> 467 468<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 469 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 470 471 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 472 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 473 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 474 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 475 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 476 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 477 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 478 connectivity.</para> 479 480 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 481 base system from source code) from previous versions are 482 supported, according to the instructions in 483 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 484 485 <important> 486 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 487 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 488 files.</para> 489 </important> 490</sect1> 491</article> 492