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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 270499 2014-08-24 16:26:07Z 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 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 231 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 232 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 233 the boot device, set the 234 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 235 u-boot environment variable.</para> 236 </sect3> 237 238 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 239 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 240 241 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 242 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 243 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 244 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 245 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 246 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 247 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 248 </sect3> 249 250 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 251 <title>Hardware Support</title> 252 253 <para> </para> 254 255 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 256 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 257 258 <para> </para> 259 260 </sect4> 261 262 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 263 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 264 265 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 266 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 267 driver.</para> 268 269 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 270 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 271 272 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 273 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 274 275 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 276 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 277 instead.</para> 278 279 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 280 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 281 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 282 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 283 284 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 285 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 286 287 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 288 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 289 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 290 291 <note> 292 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 293 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 294 multiple queues.</para> 295 </note> 296 297 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 298 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 299 driver.</para> 300 </sect4> 301 </sect3> 302 303 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 304 <title>Network Protocols</title> 305 306 <para> </para> 307 308 </sect3> 309 310 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 311 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 312 313 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 314 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 315 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 316 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 317 partition, but the label provider in <filename 318 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 319 resized.</para> 320 321 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 322 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 323 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 324 components have been replaced.</para> 325 326 <para revision="268091">Support for the 327 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 328 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 329 </sect3> 330 331 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 332 <title>File Systems</title> 333 334 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 335 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 336 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 337 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 338 errors have been detected.</para> 339 340 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 341 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 342 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 343 </sect3> 344 </sect2> 345 346 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 347 <title>Userland Changes</title> 348 349 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 350 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 351 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 352 their parents.</para> 353 354 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 355 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 356 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 357 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 358 359 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 360 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 361 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 362 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 363 364 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 365 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 366 367 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 368 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 369 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 370 371 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 372 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 373 374 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 375 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 376 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 377 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 378 379 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 380 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 381 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 382 in a parsable format.</para> 383 384 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 385 updated to version 3.4.</para> 386 387 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 388 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 389 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 390 characters long.</para> 391 392 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 393 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 394 395 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been updated 396 to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which prints the 397 date and time output as specified in RFC 2822.</para> 398 399 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated to 400 version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 401 402 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 403 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 404 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 405 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 406 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 407 host system.</para> 408 409 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 410 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 411 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 412 413 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 414 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 415 ends event collection after the specified number of 416 seconds.</para> 417 418 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 419 includes files in the 420 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 421 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 422 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 423 424 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 425 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 426 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 427 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 428 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 429 430 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 431 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 432 433 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 434 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 435 436 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 437 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 438 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 439 a network alias of 440 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 441 would not be created if 442 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 443 not defined.</para> 444 </sect3> 445 </sect2> 446 447 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 448 <title>Contributed Software</title> 449 450 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 451 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 452 453 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 454 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 455 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 456 457 <para revision="263906">The timezone database has been updated to 458 version tzdata2014b.</para> 459 460 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 461 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 462 463 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 464 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 465 466 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 467 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 468 469 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 470 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 471 </sect2> 472 473 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 474 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 475 476 <para> </para> 477 478 </sect2> 479 480 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 481 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 482 483 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 484 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 485 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 486 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 487 cross-built releases.</para> 488 </sect2> 489 490 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 491 <title>Documentation</title> 492 493 <para> </para> 494 495 </sect2> 496</sect1> 497 498<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 499 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 500 501 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 502 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 503 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 504 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 505 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 506 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 507 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 508 connectivity.</para> 509 510 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 511 base system from source code) from previous versions are 512 supported, according to the instructions in 513 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 514 515 <important> 516 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 517 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 518 files.</para> 519 </important> 520</sect1> 521</article> 522