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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 270536 2014-08-25 10:43:55Z 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> 257 258 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 259 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 260 </sect3> 261 262 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 263 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 264 265 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 266 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 267 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 268 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 269 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 270 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 271 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 272 </sect3> 273 274 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 275 <title>Hardware Support</title> 276 277 <para> </para> 278 279 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 280 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 281 282 <para> </para> 283 284 </sect4> 285 286 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 287 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 288 289 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 290 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 291 driver.</para> 292 293 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 294 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 295 296 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 297 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 298 299 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 300 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 301 instead.</para> 302 303 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 304 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 305 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 306 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 307 308 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 309 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 310 311 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 312 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 313 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 314 315 <note> 316 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 317 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 318 multiple queues.</para> 319 </note> 320 321 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 322 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 323 driver.</para> 324 </sect4> 325 </sect3> 326 327 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 328 <title>Network Protocols</title> 329 330 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 331 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 332 stacks.</para> 333 </sect3> 334 335 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 336 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 337 338 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 339 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 340 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 341 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 342 but the label provider in <filename 343 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 344 resized.</para> 345 346 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 347 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 348 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 349 components have been replaced.</para> 350 351 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 352 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 353 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 354 partition size are not saved to disk until 355 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 356 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 357 358 <para revision="268091">Support for the 359 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 360 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 361 </sect3> 362 363 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 364 <title>File Systems</title> 365 366 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 367 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 368 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 369 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 370 errors have been detected.</para> 371 372 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 373 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 374 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 375 376 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 377 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 378 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 379 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 380 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 381 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 382 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 383 </sect3> 384 </sect2> 385 386 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 387 <title>Userland Changes</title> 388 389 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 390 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 391 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 392 their parents.</para> 393 394 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 395 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 396 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 397 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 398 399 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 400 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 401 To use a non-default location, set 402 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 403 location of the file.</para> 404 405 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 406 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 407 408 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 409 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 410 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 411 412 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 413 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 414 415 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 416 been updated to include aliases for 417 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 418 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 419 snap</command>.</para> 420 421 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 422 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 423 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 424 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 425 426 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 427 updated to version 3.4.</para> 428 429 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 430 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 431 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 432 characters long.</para> 433 434 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 435 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 436 437 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 438 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 439 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 440 2822.</para> 441 442 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 443 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 444 445 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 446 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 447 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 448 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 449 points.</para> 450 451 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 452 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 453 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 454 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 455 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 456 457 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 458 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 459 460 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 461 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 462 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 463 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 464 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 465 466 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 467 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 468 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 469 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 470 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 471 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 472 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 473 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 474 475 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 476 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 477 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 478 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 479 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 480 host system.</para> 481 482 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 483 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 484 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 485 486 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 487 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 488 ends event collection after the specified number of 489 seconds.</para> 490 491 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 492 includes files in the 493 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 494 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 495 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 496 497 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 498 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 499 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 500 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 501 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 502 503 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 504 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 505 506 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 507 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 508 509 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 510 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 511 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 512 a network alias of 513 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 514 would not be created if 515 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 516 not defined.</para> 517 </sect3> 518 </sect2> 519 520 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 521 <title>Contributed Software</title> 522 523 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 524 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 525 526 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 527 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 528 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 529 530 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 531 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 532 533 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 534 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 535 536 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 537 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 538 539 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 540 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 541 542 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 543 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 544 </sect2> 545 546 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 547 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 548 549 <para> </para> 550 551 </sect2> 552 553 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 554 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 555 556 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 557 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 558 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 559 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 560 cross-built releases.</para> 561 </sect2> 562 563 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 564 <title>Documentation</title> 565 566 <para> </para> 567 568 </sect2> 569 </sect1> 570 571 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 572 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 573 574 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 575 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 576 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 577 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 578 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 579 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 580 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 581 connectivity.</para> 582 583 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 584 base system from source code) from previous versions are 585 supported, according to the instructions in 586 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 587 588 <important> 589 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 590 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 591 files.</para> 592 </important> 593 </sect1> 594</article> 595