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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 270495 2014-08-24 15:59:37Z 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> 280 281 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 282 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 283 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 284 285 <note> 286 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 287 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 288 multiple queues.</para> 289 </note> 290 </sect4> 291 </sect3> 292 293 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 294 <title>Network Protocols</title> 295 296 <para> </para> 297 298 </sect3> 299 300 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 301 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 302 303 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 304 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 305 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 306 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 307 partition, but the label provider in <filename 308 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 309 resized.</para> 310 311 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 312 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 313 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 314 components have been replaced.</para> 315 316 <para revision="268091">Support for the 317 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 318 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 319 </sect3> 320 321 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 322 <title>File Systems</title> 323 324 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 325 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 326 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 327 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 328 errors have been detected.</para> 329 330 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 331 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 332 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 333 </sect3> 334 </sect2> 335 336 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 337 <title>Userland Changes</title> 338 339 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 340 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 341 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 342 their parents.</para> 343 344 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 345 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 346 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 347 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 348 349 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 350 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 351 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 352 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 353 354 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 355 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 356 357 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 358 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 359 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 360 361 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 362 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 363 364 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 365 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 366 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 367 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 368 369 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 370 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 371 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 372 in a parsable format.</para> 373 374 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 375 updated to version 3.4.</para> 376 377 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 378 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 379 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 380 characters long.</para> 381 382 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 383 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 384 385 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 386 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 387 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 388 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 389 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 390 host system.</para> 391 392 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 393 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 394 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 395 396 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 397 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 398 ends event collection after the specified number of 399 seconds.</para> 400 401 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 402 includes files in the 403 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 404 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 405 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 406 407 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 408 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 409 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 410 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 411 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 412 413 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 414 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 415 416 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 417 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 418 419 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 420 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 421 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 422 a network alias of 423 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 424 would not be created if 425 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 426 not defined.</para> 427 </sect3> 428 </sect2> 429 430 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 431 <title>Contributed Software</title> 432 433 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 434 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 435 436 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 437 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 438 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 439 440 <para revision="263906">The timezone database has been updated to 441 version tzdata2014b.</para> 442 443 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 444 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 445 446 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 447 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 448 449 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 450 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 451 452 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 453 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 454 </sect2> 455 456 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 457 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 458 459 <para> </para> 460 461 </sect2> 462 463 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 464 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 465 466 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 467 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 468 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 469 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 470 cross-built releases.</para> 471 </sect2> 472 473 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 474 <title>Documentation</title> 475 476 <para> </para> 477 478 </sect2> 479</sect1> 480 481<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 482 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 483 484 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 485 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 486 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 487 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 488 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 489 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 490 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 491 connectivity.</para> 492 493 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 494 base system from source code) from previous versions are 495 supported, according to the instructions in 496 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 497 498 <important> 499 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 500 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 501 files.</para> 502 </important> 503</sect1> 504</article> 505