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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 270533 2014-08-25 10:43:49Z 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> 252 253 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 254 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 255 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 256 in most cases.</para> 257 </sect3> 258 259 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 260 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 261 262 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 263 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 264 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 265 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 266 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 267 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 268 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 269 </sect3> 270 271 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 272 <title>Hardware Support</title> 273 274 <para> </para> 275 276 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 277 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 278 279 <para> </para> 280 281 </sect4> 282 283 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 284 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 285 286 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 287 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 288 driver.</para> 289 290 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 291 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 292 293 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 294 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 295 296 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 297 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 298 instead.</para> 299 300 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 301 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 302 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 303 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 304 305 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 306 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 307 308 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 309 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 310 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 311 312 <note> 313 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 314 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 315 multiple queues.</para> 316 </note> 317 318 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 319 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 320 driver.</para> 321 </sect4> 322 </sect3> 323 324 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 325 <title>Network Protocols</title> 326 327 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 328 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 329 stacks.</para> 330 </sect3> 331 332 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 333 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 334 335 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 336 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 337 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 338 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 339 but the label provider in <filename 340 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 341 resized.</para> 342 343 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 344 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 345 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 346 components have been replaced.</para> 347 348 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 349 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 350 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 351 partition size are not saved to disk until 352 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 353 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 354 355 <para revision="268091">Support for the 356 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 357 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 358 </sect3> 359 360 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 361 <title>File Systems</title> 362 363 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 364 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 365 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 366 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 367 errors have been detected.</para> 368 369 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 370 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 371 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 372 </sect3> 373 </sect2> 374 375 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 376 <title>Userland Changes</title> 377 378 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 379 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 380 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 381 their parents.</para> 382 383 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 384 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 385 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 386 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 387 388 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 389 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 390 To use a non-default location, set 391 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 392 location of the file.</para> 393 394 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 395 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 396 397 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 398 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 399 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 400 401 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 402 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 403 404 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 405 been updated to include aliases for 406 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 407 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 408 snap</command>.</para> 409 410 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 411 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 412 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 413 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 414 415 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 416 updated to version 3.4.</para> 417 418 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 419 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 420 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 421 characters long.</para> 422 423 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 424 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 425 426 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 427 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 428 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 429 2822.</para> 430 431 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 432 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 433 434 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 435 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 436 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 437 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 438 points.</para> 439 440 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 441 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 442 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 443 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 444 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 445 446 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 447 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 448 449 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 450 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 451 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 452 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 453 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 454 455 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 456 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 457 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 458 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 459 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 460 host system.</para> 461 462 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 463 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 464 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 465 466 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 467 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 468 ends event collection after the specified number of 469 seconds.</para> 470 471 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 472 includes files in the 473 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 474 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 475 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 476 477 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 478 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 479 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 480 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 481 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 482 483 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 484 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 485 486 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 487 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 488 489 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 490 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 491 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 492 a network alias of 493 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 494 would not be created if 495 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 496 not defined.</para> 497 </sect3> 498 </sect2> 499 500 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 501 <title>Contributed Software</title> 502 503 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 504 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 505 506 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 507 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 508 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 509 510 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 511 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 512 513 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 514 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 515 516 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 517 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 518 519 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 520 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 521 522 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 523 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 524 </sect2> 525 526 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 527 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 528 529 <para> </para> 530 531 </sect2> 532 533 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 534 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 535 536 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 537 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 538 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 539 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 540 cross-built releases.</para> 541 </sect2> 542 543 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 544 <title>Documentation</title> 545 546 <para> </para> 547 548 </sect2> 549 </sect1> 550 551 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 552 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 553 554 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 555 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 556 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 557 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 558 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 559 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 560 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 561 connectivity.</para> 562 563 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 564 base system from source code) from previous versions are 565 supported, according to the instructions in 566 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 567 568 <important> 569 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 570 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 571 files.</para> 572 </important> 573 </sect1> 574</article> 575