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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 270501 2014-08-24 16:26:10Z 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="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> option 190 is now able to be built both directly into the kernel or as 191 a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 192 193 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 194 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 195 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 196 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 197 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 198 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 199 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 200 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 201 202 <note> 203 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 204 the &os; version of 205 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 206 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 207 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 208 </note> 209 210 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 211 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 212 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 213 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 214 215 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 216 <title>Virtualization support</title> 217 218 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 219 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 220 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 221 configuration.</para> 222 223 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 224 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 225 state.</para> 226 </sect3> 227 228 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 229 <title>ARM support</title> 230 231 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 232 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 233 234 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 235 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 236 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 237 the boot device, set the 238 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 239 u-boot environment variable.</para> 240 </sect3> 241 242 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 243 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 244 245 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 246 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 247 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 248 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 249 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 250 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 251 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 252 </sect3> 253 254 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 255 <title>Hardware Support</title> 256 257 <para> </para> 258 259 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 260 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 261 262 <para> </para> 263 264 </sect4> 265 266 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 267 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 268 269 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 270 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 271 driver.</para> 272 273 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 274 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 275 276 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 277 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 278 279 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 280 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 281 instead.</para> 282 283 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 284 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 285 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 286 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 287 288 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 289 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 290 291 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 292 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 293 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 294 295 <note> 296 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 297 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 298 multiple queues.</para> 299 </note> 300 301 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 302 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 303 driver.</para> 304 </sect4> 305 </sect3> 306 307 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 308 <title>Network Protocols</title> 309 310 <para> </para> 311 312 </sect3> 313 314 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 315 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 316 317 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 318 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 319 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 320 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 321 partition, but the label provider in <filename 322 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 323 resized.</para> 324 325 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 326 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 327 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 328 components have been replaced.</para> 329 330 <para revision="268091">Support for the 331 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 332 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 333 </sect3> 334 335 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 336 <title>File Systems</title> 337 338 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 339 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 340 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 341 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 342 errors have been detected.</para> 343 344 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 345 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 346 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 347 </sect3> 348 </sect2> 349 350 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 351 <title>Userland Changes</title> 352 353 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 354 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 355 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 356 their parents.</para> 357 358 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 359 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 360 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 361 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 362 363 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 364 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 365 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 366 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 367 368 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 369 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 370 371 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 372 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 373 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 374 375 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 376 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 377 378 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 379 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 380 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 381 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 382 383 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 384 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 385 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 386 in a parsable format.</para> 387 388 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 389 updated to version 3.4.</para> 390 391 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 392 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 393 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 394 characters long.</para> 395 396 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 397 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 398 399 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been updated 400 to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which prints the 401 date and time output as specified in RFC 2822.</para> 402 403 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated to 404 version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 405 406 <para revision="265604">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 407 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which when 408 specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 409 points.</para> 410 411 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 412 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 413 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 414 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 415 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 416 host system.</para> 417 418 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 419 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 420 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 421 422 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 423 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 424 ends event collection after the specified number of 425 seconds.</para> 426 427 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 428 includes files in the 429 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 430 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 431 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 432 433 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 434 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 435 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 436 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 437 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 438 439 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 440 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 441 442 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 443 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 444 445 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 446 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 447 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 448 a network alias of 449 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 450 would not be created if 451 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 452 not defined.</para> 453 </sect3> 454 </sect2> 455 456 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 457 <title>Contributed Software</title> 458 459 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 460 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 461 462 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 463 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 464 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 465 466 <para revision="263906">The timezone database has been updated to 467 version tzdata2014b.</para> 468 469 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 470 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 471 472 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 473 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 474 475 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 476 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 477 478 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 479 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 480 </sect2> 481 482 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 483 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 484 485 <para> </para> 486 487 </sect2> 488 489 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 490 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 491 492 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 493 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 494 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 495 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 496 cross-built releases.</para> 497 </sect2> 498 499 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 500 <title>Documentation</title> 501 502 <para> </para> 503 504 </sect2> 505</sect1> 506 507<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 508 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 509 510 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 511 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 512 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 513 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 514 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 515 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 516 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 517 connectivity.</para> 518 519 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 520 base system from source code) from previous versions are 521 supported, according to the instructions in 522 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 523 524 <important> 525 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 526 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 527 files.</para> 528 </important> 529</sect1> 530</article> 531