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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 270540 2014-08-25 10:44:02Z 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 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 228 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 229 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 230 images.</para> 231 232 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 233 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 234 235 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 236 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 237 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 238 configuration.</para> 239 240 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 241 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 242 state.</para> 243 </sect3> 244 245 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 246 <title>ARM Support</title> 247 248 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 249 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 250 251 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 252 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 253 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 254 the boot device, set the 255 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 256 u-boot environment variable.</para> 257 258 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 259 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 260 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 261 in most cases.</para> 262 263 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 264 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 265 </sect3> 266 267 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 268 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 269 270 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 271 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 272 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 273 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 274 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 275 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 276 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 277 </sect3> 278 279 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 280 <title>Hardware Support</title> 281 282 <para> </para> 283 284 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 285 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 286 287 <para> </para> 288 289 </sect4> 290 291 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 292 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 293 294 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 295 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 296 driver.</para> 297 298 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 299 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 300 301 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 302 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 303 304 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 305 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 306 instead.</para> 307 308 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 309 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 310 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 311 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 312 313 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 314 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 315 316 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 317 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 318 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 319 320 <note> 321 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 322 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 323 multiple queues.</para> 324 </note> 325 326 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 327 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 328 driver.</para> 329 330 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 331 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 332 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 333 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 334 generating corrupt frames.</para> 335 </sect4> 336 </sect3> 337 338 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 339 <title>Network Protocols</title> 340 341 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 342 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 343 stacks.</para> 344 </sect3> 345 346 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 347 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 348 349 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 350 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 351 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 352 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 353 but the label provider in <filename 354 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 355 resized.</para> 356 357 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 358 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 359 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 360 components have been replaced.</para> 361 362 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 363 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 364 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 365 partition size are not saved to disk until 366 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 367 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 368 369 <para revision="268091">Support for the 370 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 371 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 372 </sect3> 373 374 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 375 <title>File Systems</title> 376 377 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 378 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 379 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 380 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 381 errors have been detected.</para> 382 383 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 384 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 385 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 386 387 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 388 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 389 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 390 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 391 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 392 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 393 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 394 </sect3> 395 </sect2> 396 397 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 398 <title>Userland Changes</title> 399 400 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 401 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 402 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 403 their parents.</para> 404 405 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 406 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 407 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 408 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 409 410 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 411 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 412 To use a non-default location, set 413 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 414 location of the file.</para> 415 416 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 417 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 418 419 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 420 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 421 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 422 423 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 424 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 425 426 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 427 been updated to include aliases for 428 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 429 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 430 snap</command>.</para> 431 432 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 433 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 434 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 435 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 436 437 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 438 updated to version 3.4.</para> 439 440 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 441 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 442 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 443 characters long.</para> 444 445 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 446 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 447 448 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 449 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 450 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 451 2822.</para> 452 453 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 454 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 455 456 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 457 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 458 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 459 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 460 points.</para> 461 462 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 463 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 464 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 465 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 466 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 467 468 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 469 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 470 471 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 472 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 473 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 474 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 475 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 476 477 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 478 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 479 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 480 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 481 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 482 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 483 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 484 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 485 486 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 487 and related image activator features have been merged from 488 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 489 490 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 491 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 492 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 493 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 494 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 495 host system.</para> 496 497 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 498 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 499 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 500 501 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 502 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 503 ends event collection after the specified number of 504 seconds.</para> 505 506 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 507 includes files in the 508 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 509 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 510 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 511 512 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 513 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 514 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 515 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 516 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 517 518 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 519 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 520 521 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 522 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 523 524 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 525 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 526 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 527 a network alias of 528 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 529 would not be created if 530 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 531 not defined.</para> 532 </sect3> 533 </sect2> 534 535 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 536 <title>Contributed Software</title> 537 538 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 539 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 540 541 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 542 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 543 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 544 545 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 546 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 547 548 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 549 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 550 551 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 552 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 553 554 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 555 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 556 557 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 558 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 559 </sect2> 560 561 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 562 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 563 564 <para> </para> 565 566 </sect2> 567 568 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 569 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 570 571 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 572 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 573 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 574 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 575 cross-built releases.</para> 576 </sect2> 577 578 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 579 <title>Documentation</title> 580 581 <para> </para> 582 583 </sect2> 584 </sect1> 585 586 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 587 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 588 589 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 590 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 591 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 592 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 593 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 594 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 595 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 596 connectivity.</para> 597 598 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 599 base system from source code) from previous versions are 600 supported, according to the instructions in 601 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 602 603 <important> 604 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 605 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 606 files.</para> 607 </important> 608 </sect1> 609</article> 610