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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" 12 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 13 14 <info> 15 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 16 17 <author> 18 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 19 </author> 20 21 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 270529 2014-08-25 09:06:53Z gjb $</pubdate> 22 23 <copyright> 24 <year>2000</year> 25 <year>2001</year> 26 <year>2002</year> 27 <year>2003</year> 28 <year>2004</year> 29 <year>2005</year> 30 <year>2006</year> 31 <year>2007</year> 32 <year>2008</year> 33 <year>2009</year> 34 <year>2010</year> 35 <year>2011</year> 36 <year>2012</year> 37 <year>2013</year> 38 <year>2014</year> 39 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 40 Project</holder> 41 </copyright> 42 43 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 44 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 45 &tm-attrib.ibm; 46 &tm-attrib.ieee; 47 &tm-attrib.intel; 48 &tm-attrib.sparc; 49 &tm-attrib.general; 50 </legalnotice> 51 52 <abstract> 53 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 54 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 55 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 56 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 57 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 58 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 59 presented.</para> 60 </abstract> 61 </info> 62 63 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 64 <title>Introduction</title> 65 66 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 67 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 68 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 69 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 70 71 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 72 which these release notes apply represents the latest point 73 along the &release.branch; development branch since 74 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 75 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 76 found at <uri 77 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 78 79 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 80 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 81 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 82 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 83 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 84 found at <uri 85 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 86 87 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 88 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 89 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 90 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 91 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 92 <link 93 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 94 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 95 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 96 Handbook</link>.</para> 97 98 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 99 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 100 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 101 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 102 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 103 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 104 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 105 </sect1> 106 107 <sect1 xml:id="new"> 108 <title>What's New</title> 109 110 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 111 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 112 113 <para>Typical release note items document recent security 114 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 115 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 116 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 117 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 118 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 119 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 120 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 121 improvements.</para> 122 123 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 124 <title>Security Advisories</title> 125 126 <para> </para> 127 128 </sect2> 129 130 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 131 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 132 133 <para revision="260338">The 134 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has been 135 re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, this can 136 easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU usage in 137 half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 138 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 139 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 140 subsystem.</para> 141 142 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 143 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 144 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 145 146 <para revision="260431">A new &man.sysctl.8;, 147 <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been 148 added, which allows controlling how long the system will wait 149 after &man.panic.9; before rebooting.</para> 150 151 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 152 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 153 154 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has been 155 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 156 157 <para revision="262861">The &man.vt.4; driver has been merged 158 from &os;-CURRENT. To enable &man.vt.4;, enter 159 <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal> at the &man.loader.8; 160 prompt during boot, or add <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to 161 &man.loader.conf.5; and reboot the system.</para> 162 163 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has been 164 added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 165 166 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 167 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 168 169 <para revision="263122">Support for &man.hwpmc.4; has been added 170 for &powerpc; 970 class processors.</para> 171 172 <para revision="263197">Support for ADT7460 and ADT7467 fan 173 controllers found in newer PowerBooks™ and 174 iBooks™ has been added to the &man.iicbus.4; 175 driver.</para> 176 177 <para revision="263256">A panic triggered by removing 178 a &man.urtwn.4; device has been fixed.</para> 179 180 <para revision="263799">A potential deadlock in the &man.usb.4; 181 stack triggered by detaching USB devices that create character 182 devices has been fixed.</para> 183 184 <para revision="263869">Support for &amd; Family 16h sensor 185 devices has been added to &man.amdtemp.4;.</para> 186 187 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 188 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 189 190 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 191 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 192 193 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 194 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 195 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 196 controllers.</para> 197 198 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> option 199 is now able to be built both directly into the kernel or as 200 a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 201 202 <para revision="265610">The &man.uslcom.4; driver has been 203 updated to support 26 new devices.</para> 204 205 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 206 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 207 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 208 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 209 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 210 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 211 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 212 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 213 214 <note> 215 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 216 the &os; version of 217 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 218 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 219 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 220 </note> 221 222 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 223 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 224 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 225 Boost™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 226 227 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 228 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 229 230 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 231 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 232 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 233 configuration.</para> 234 235 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 236 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 237 state.</para> 238 </sect3> 239 240 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 241 <title>ARM Support</title> 242 243 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 244 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 245 246 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 247 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 248 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 249 the boot device, set the 250 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 251 u-boot environment variable.</para> 252 </sect3> 253 254 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 255 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 256 257 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 258 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 259 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 260 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 261 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 262 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 263 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 264 </sect3> 265 266 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 267 <title>Hardware Support</title> 268 269 <para> </para> 270 271 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 272 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 273 274 <para> </para> 275 276 </sect4> 277 278 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 279 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 280 281 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 282 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 283 driver.</para> 284 285 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 286 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 287 288 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 289 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 290 291 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 292 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 293 instead.</para> 294 295 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 296 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 297 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 298 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 299 300 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 301 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 302 303 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 304 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 305 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 306 307 <note> 308 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 309 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 310 multiple queues.</para> 311 </note> 312 313 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 314 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 315 driver.</para> 316 </sect4> 317 </sect3> 318 319 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 320 <title>Network Protocols</title> 321 322 <para> </para> 323 324 </sect3> 325 326 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 327 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 328 329 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 330 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 331 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 332 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 333 but the label provider in <filename 334 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 335 resized.</para> 336 337 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 338 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 339 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 340 components have been replaced.</para> 341 342 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 343 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 344 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 345 partition size are not saved to disk until 346 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 347 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 348 349 <para revision="268091">Support for the 350 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 351 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 352 </sect3> 353 354 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 355 <title>File Systems</title> 356 357 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 358 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 359 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 360 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 361 errors have been detected.</para> 362 363 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 364 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 365 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 366 </sect3> 367 </sect2> 368 369 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 370 <title>Userland Changes</title> 371 372 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 373 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 374 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 375 their parents.</para> 376 377 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 378 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 379 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 380 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 381 382 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 383 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 384 To use a non-default location, set 385 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 386 location of the file.</para> 387 388 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 389 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 390 391 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 392 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 393 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 394 395 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 396 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 397 398 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 399 been updated to include aliases for 400 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 401 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 402 snap</command>.</para> 403 404 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 405 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 406 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 407 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 408 409 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 410 updated to version 3.4.</para> 411 412 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 413 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 414 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 415 characters long.</para> 416 417 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 418 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 419 420 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 421 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 422 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 423 2822.</para> 424 425 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 426 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 427 428 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 429 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 430 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 431 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 432 points.</para> 433 434 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 435 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 436 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 437 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 438 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 439 440 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 441 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 442 443 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 444 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 445 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 446 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 447 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 448 host system.</para> 449 450 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 451 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 452 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 453 454 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 455 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 456 ends event collection after the specified number of 457 seconds.</para> 458 459 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 460 includes files in the 461 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 462 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 463 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 464 465 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 466 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 467 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 468 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 469 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 470 471 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 472 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 473 474 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 475 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 476 477 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 478 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 479 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 480 a network alias of 481 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 482 would not be created if 483 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 484 not defined.</para> 485 </sect3> 486 </sect2> 487 488 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 489 <title>Contributed Software</title> 490 491 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 492 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 493 494 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 495 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 496 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 497 498 <para revision="263906">The timezone database has been updated 499 to version tzdata2014b.</para> 500 501 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 502 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 503 504 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 505 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 506 507 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 508 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 509 510 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 511 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 512 </sect2> 513 514 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 515 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 516 517 <para> </para> 518 519 </sect2> 520 521 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 522 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 523 524 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 525 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 526 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 527 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 528 cross-built releases.</para> 529 </sect2> 530 531 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 532 <title>Documentation</title> 533 534 <para> </para> 535 536 </sect2> 537 </sect1> 538 539 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 540 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 541 542 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 543 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 544 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 545 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 546 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 547 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 548 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 549 connectivity.</para> 550 551 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 552 base system from source code) from previous versions are 553 supported, according to the instructions in 554 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 555 556 <important> 557 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 558 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 559 files.</para> 560 </important> 561 </sect1> 562</article> 563