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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 270545 2014-08-25 11:46:35Z 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 <para revision="266436">The &man.uart.4; driver has been 233 updated to include support for the &intel; Lynx Point 234 KT <acronym>AMT</acronym> serial port.</para> 235 236 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 237 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 238 239 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 240 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 241 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 242 configuration.</para> 243 244 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 245 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 246 state.</para> 247 </sect3> 248 249 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 250 <title>ARM Support</title> 251 252 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 253 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 254 255 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 256 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 257 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 258 the boot device, set the 259 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 260 u-boot environment variable.</para> 261 262 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 263 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 264 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 265 in most cases.</para> 266 267 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 268 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 269 270 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 271 configuration file has been updated to include 272 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 273 </sect3> 274 275 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 276 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 277 278 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 279 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 280 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 281 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 282 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 283 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 284 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 285 </sect3> 286 287 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 288 <title>Hardware Support</title> 289 290 <para> </para> 291 292 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 293 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 294 295 <para> </para> 296 297 </sect4> 298 299 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 300 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 301 302 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 303 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 304 driver.</para> 305 306 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 307 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 308 309 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 310 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 311 312 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 313 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 314 instead.</para> 315 316 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 317 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 318 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 319 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 320 321 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 322 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 323 324 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 325 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 326 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 327 328 <note> 329 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 330 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 331 multiple queues.</para> 332 </note> 333 334 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 335 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 336 driver.</para> 337 338 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 339 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 340 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 341 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 342 generating corrupt frames.</para> 343 344 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 345 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 346 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 347 </sect4> 348 </sect3> 349 350 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 351 <title>Network Protocols</title> 352 353 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 354 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 355 stacks.</para> 356 </sect3> 357 358 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 359 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 360 361 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 362 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 363 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 364 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 365 but the label provider in <filename 366 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 367 resized.</para> 368 369 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 370 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 371 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 372 components have been replaced.</para> 373 374 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 375 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 376 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 377 partition size are not saved to disk until 378 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 379 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 380 381 <para revision="268091">Support for the 382 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 383 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 384 385 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 386 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 387 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 388 system.</para> 389 </sect3> 390 391 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 392 <title>File Systems</title> 393 394 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 395 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 396 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 397 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 398 errors have been detected.</para> 399 400 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 401 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 402 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 403 404 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 405 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 406 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 407 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 408 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 409 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 410 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 411 </sect3> 412 </sect2> 413 414 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 415 <title>Userland Changes</title> 416 417 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 418 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 419 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 420 their parents.</para> 421 422 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 423 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 424 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 425 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 426 427 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 428 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 429 To use a non-default location, set 430 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 431 location of the file.</para> 432 433 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 434 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 435 436 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 437 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 438 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 439 440 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 441 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 442 443 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 444 been updated to include aliases for 445 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 446 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 447 snap</command>.</para> 448 449 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 450 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 451 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 452 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 453 454 <para revision="263508">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 455 updated to version 3.4.</para> 456 457 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 458 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 459 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 460 characters long.</para> 461 462 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 463 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 464 465 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 466 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 467 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 468 2822.</para> 469 470 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 471 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 472 473 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 474 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 475 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 476 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 477 points.</para> 478 479 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 480 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 481 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 482 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 483 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 484 485 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 486 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 487 488 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 489 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 490 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 491 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 492 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 493 494 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 495 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 496 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 497 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 498 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 499 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 500 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 501 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 502 503 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 504 and related image activator features have been merged from 505 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 506 507 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 508 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 509 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 510 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 511 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 512 host system.</para> 513 514 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 515 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 516 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 517 518 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 519 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 520 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 521 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 522 523 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 524 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 525 ends event collection after the specified number of 526 seconds.</para> 527 528 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 529 includes files in the 530 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 531 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 532 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 533 534 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 535 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 536 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 537 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 538 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 539 540 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 541 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 542 543 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 544 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 545 546 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 547 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 548 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 549 a network alias of 550 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 551 would not be created if 552 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 553 not defined.</para> 554 </sect3> 555 </sect2> 556 557 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 558 <title>Contributed Software</title> 559 560 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 561 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 562 563 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 564 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 565 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 566 567 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 568 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 569 570 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 571 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 572 573 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 574 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 575 576 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 577 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 578 579 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 580 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 581 </sect2> 582 583 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 584 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 585 586 <para> </para> 587 588 </sect2> 589 590 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 591 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 592 593 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 594 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 595 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 596 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 597 cross-built releases.</para> 598 </sect2> 599 600 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 601 <title>Documentation</title> 602 603 <para> </para> 604 605 </sect2> 606 </sect1> 607 608 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 609 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 610 611 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 612 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 613 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 614 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 615 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 616 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 617 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 618 connectivity.</para> 619 620 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 621 base system from source code) from previous versions are 622 supported, according to the instructions in 623 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 624 625 <important> 626 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 627 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 628 files.</para> 629 </important> 630 </sect1> 631</article> 632