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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 270503 2014-08-24 16:26:14Z 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="265610">The &man.uslcom.4; driver has been updated 194 to support 26 new devices.</para> 195 196 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 197 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 198 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 199 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 200 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 201 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 202 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 203 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 204 205 <note> 206 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 207 the &os; version of 208 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 209 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 210 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 211 </note> 212 213 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 214 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 215 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 216 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 217 218 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 219 <title>Virtualization support</title> 220 221 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 222 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 223 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 224 configuration.</para> 225 226 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 227 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 228 state.</para> 229 </sect3> 230 231 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 232 <title>ARM support</title> 233 234 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 235 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 236 237 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 238 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 239 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 240 the boot device, set the 241 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 242 u-boot environment variable.</para> 243 </sect3> 244 245 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 246 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 247 248 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 249 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 250 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 251 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 252 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 253 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 254 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 255 </sect3> 256 257 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 258 <title>Hardware Support</title> 259 260 <para> </para> 261 262 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 263 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 264 265 <para> </para> 266 267 </sect4> 268 269 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 270 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 271 272 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 273 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 274 driver.</para> 275 276 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 277 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 278 279 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 280 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 281 282 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 283 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 284 instead.</para> 285 286 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 287 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A and 288 AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports USB 289 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 290 291 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 292 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 293 294 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 295 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 296 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 297 298 <note> 299 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 300 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 301 multiple queues.</para> 302 </note> 303 304 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 305 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 306 driver.</para> 307 </sect4> 308 </sect3> 309 310 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 311 <title>Network Protocols</title> 312 313 <para> </para> 314 315 </sect3> 316 317 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 318 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 319 320 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" 321 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class 322 is now aware of resized partitions. This corrects an issue 323 where <command>geom resize</command> would resize the 324 partition, but the label provider in <filename 325 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 326 resized.</para> 327 328 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 329 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 330 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 331 components have been replaced.</para> 332 333 <para revision="268091">Support for the 334 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 335 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 336 </sect3> 337 338 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 339 <title>File Systems</title> 340 341 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 342 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 343 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 344 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 345 errors have been detected.</para> 346 347 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 348 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 349 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 350 </sect3> 351 </sect2> 352 353 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 354 <title>Userland Changes</title> 355 356 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 357 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 358 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 359 their parents.</para> 360 361 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 362 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 363 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented in 364 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 365 366 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 367 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 368 To use a non-default location, set <literal>rctl_rules</literal> 369 in &man.rc.conf.5; to the location of the file.</para> 370 371 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 372 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 373 374 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 375 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 376 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 377 378 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility has 379 been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 380 381 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 382 updated to include aliases for <command>snapshot</command>, 383 which allows use of <command>zfs list -t snap</command> and 384 <command>zfs snap</command>.</para> 385 386 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has been 387 updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs list</command>, 388 <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, prints the output 389 in a parsable format.</para> 390 391 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 392 updated to version 3.4.</para> 393 394 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 395 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 396 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 397 characters long.</para> 398 399 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 400 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 401 402 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been updated 403 to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which prints the 404 date and time output as specified in RFC 2822.</para> 405 406 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated to 407 version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 408 409 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 410 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 411 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which when 412 specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 413 points.</para> 414 415 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 416 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 417 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 418 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 419 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 420 host system.</para> 421 422 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 423 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 424 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 425 426 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 427 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 428 ends event collection after the specified number of 429 seconds.</para> 430 431 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 432 includes files in the 433 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 434 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 435 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 436 437 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 438 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 439 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 440 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 441 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 442 443 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been merged 444 from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 445 446 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 447 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 448 449 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 450 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 451 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 452 a network alias of 453 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 454 would not be created if 455 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 456 not defined.</para> 457 </sect3> 458 </sect2> 459 460 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 461 <title>Contributed Software</title> 462 463 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 464 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 465 466 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 467 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 468 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 469 470 <para revision="263906">The timezone database has been updated to 471 version tzdata2014b.</para> 472 473 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 474 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 475 476 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 477 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 478 479 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 480 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 481 482 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 483 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 484 </sect2> 485 486 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 487 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 488 489 <para> </para> 490 491 </sect2> 492 493 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 494 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 495 496 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 497 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 498 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 499 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 500 cross-built releases.</para> 501 </sect2> 502 503 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 504 <title>Documentation</title> 505 506 <para> </para> 507 508 </sect2> 509</sect1> 510 511<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 512 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 513 514 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 515 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 516 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 517 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 518 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 519 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 520 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 521 connectivity.</para> 522 523 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 524 base system from source code) from previous versions are 525 supported, according to the instructions in 526 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 527 528 <important> 529 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 530 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 531 files.</para> 532 </important> 533</sect1> 534</article> 535