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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 270537 2014-08-25 10:43:56Z 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> 324 325 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 326 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 327 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 328 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 329 generating corrupt frames.</para> 330 </sect4> 331 </sect3> 332 333 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 334 <title>Network Protocols</title> 335 336 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 337 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 338 stacks.</para> 339 </sect3> 340 341 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 342 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 343 344 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 345 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 346 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 347 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 348 but the label provider in <filename 349 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 350 resized.</para> 351 352 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 353 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 354 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 355 components have been replaced.</para> 356 357 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 358 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 359 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 360 partition size are not saved to disk until 361 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 362 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 363 364 <para revision="268091">Support for the 365 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 366 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 367 </sect3> 368 369 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 370 <title>File Systems</title> 371 372 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 373 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 374 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 375 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 376 errors have been detected.</para> 377 378 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 379 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 380 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 381 382 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 383 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 384 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 385 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 386 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 387 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 388 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 389 </sect3> 390 </sect2> 391 392 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 393 <title>Userland Changes</title> 394 395 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 396 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 397 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 398 their parents.</para> 399 400 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 401 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 402 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 403 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 404 405 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 406 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 407 To use a non-default location, set 408 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 409 location of the file.</para> 410 411 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 412 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 413 414 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 415 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 416 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 417 418 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 419 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 420 421 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 422 been updated to include aliases for 423 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 424 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 425 snap</command>.</para> 426 427 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 428 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 429 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 430 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 431 432 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 433 updated to version 3.4.</para> 434 435 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 436 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 437 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 438 characters long.</para> 439 440 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 441 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 442 443 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 444 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 445 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 446 2822.</para> 447 448 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 449 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 450 451 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 452 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 453 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 454 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 455 points.</para> 456 457 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 458 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 459 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 460 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 461 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 462 463 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 464 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 465 466 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 467 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 468 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 469 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 470 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 471 472 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 473 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 474 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 475 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 476 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 477 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 478 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 479 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 480 481 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 482 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 483 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 484 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 485 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 486 host system.</para> 487 488 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 489 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 490 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 491 492 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 493 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 494 ends event collection after the specified number of 495 seconds.</para> 496 497 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 498 includes files in the 499 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 500 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 501 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 502 503 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 504 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 505 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 506 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 507 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 508 509 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 510 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 511 512 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 513 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 514 515 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 516 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 517 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 518 a network alias of 519 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 520 would not be created if 521 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 522 not defined.</para> 523 </sect3> 524 </sect2> 525 526 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 527 <title>Contributed Software</title> 528 529 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 530 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 531 532 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 533 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 534 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 535 536 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 537 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 538 539 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 540 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 541 542 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 543 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 544 545 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 546 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 547 548 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 549 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 550 </sect2> 551 552 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 553 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 554 555 <para> </para> 556 557 </sect2> 558 559 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 560 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 561 562 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 563 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 564 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 565 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 566 cross-built releases.</para> 567 </sect2> 568 569 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 570 <title>Documentation</title> 571 572 <para> </para> 573 574 </sect2> 575 </sect1> 576 577 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 578 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 579 580 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 581 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 582 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 583 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 584 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 585 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 586 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 587 connectivity.</para> 588 589 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 590 base system from source code) from previous versions are 591 supported, according to the instructions in 592 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 593 594 <important> 595 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 596 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 597 files.</para> 598 </important> 599 </sect1> 600</article> 601