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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 270557 2014-08-25 13:15:24Z 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 <para revision="266718">A bug that would prevent 237 a &man.jail.8; from setting the correct IPv4 source address 238 with some operations that required 239 <literal>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</literal> has been 240 fixed.</para> 241 242 <para revision="266911">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver has been 243 updated to support core events from the Atom™ 244 Silvermont architecture.</para> 245 246 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 247 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 248 249 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 250 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 251 252 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 253 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 254 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 255 configuration.</para> 256 257 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 258 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 259 state.</para> 260 </sect3> 261 262 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 263 <title>ARM Support</title> 264 265 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 266 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 267 268 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 269 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 270 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 271 the boot device, set the 272 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 273 u-boot environment variable.</para> 274 275 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 276 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 277 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 278 in most cases.</para> 279 280 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 281 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 282 283 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 284 configuration file has been updated to include 285 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 286 </sect3> 287 288 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 289 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 290 291 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 292 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 293 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 294 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 295 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 296 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 297 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 298 </sect3> 299 300 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 301 <title>Hardware Support</title> 302 303 <para> </para> 304 305 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 306 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 307 308 <para> </para> 309 310 </sect4> 311 312 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 313 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 314 315 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 316 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 317 driver.</para> 318 319 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 320 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 321 322 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 323 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 324 325 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 326 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 327 instead.</para> 328 329 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 330 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 331 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 332 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 333 334 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 335 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 336 337 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 338 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 339 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 340 341 <note> 342 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 343 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 344 multiple queues.</para> 345 </note> 346 347 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 348 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 349 driver.</para> 350 351 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 352 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 353 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 354 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 355 generating corrupt frames.</para> 356 357 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 358 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 359 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 360 </sect4> 361 </sect3> 362 363 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 364 <title>Network Protocols</title> 365 366 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 367 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 368 stacks.</para> 369 </sect3> 370 371 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 372 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 373 374 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 375 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 376 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 377 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 378 but the label provider in <filename 379 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 380 resized.</para> 381 382 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 383 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 384 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 385 components have been replaced.</para> 386 387 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 388 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 389 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 390 partition size are not saved to disk until 391 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 392 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 393 394 <para revision="268091">Support for the 395 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 396 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 397 398 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 399 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 400 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 401 system.</para> 402 </sect3> 403 404 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 405 <title>File Systems</title> 406 407 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 408 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 409 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 410 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 411 errors have been detected.</para> 412 413 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 414 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 415 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 416 417 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 418 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 419 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 420 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 421 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 422 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 423 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 424 425 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 426 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 427 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 428 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 429 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 430 </sect3> 431 </sect2> 432 433 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 434 <title>Userland Changes</title> 435 436 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 437 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 438 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 439 their parents.</para> 440 441 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 442 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 443 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 444 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 445 446 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 447 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 448 To use a non-default location, set 449 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 450 location of the file.</para> 451 452 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 453 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 454 455 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 456 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 457 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 458 459 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 460 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 461 462 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 463 been updated to include aliases for 464 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 465 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 466 snap</command>.</para> 467 468 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 469 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 470 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 471 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 472 473 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 474 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 475 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 476 characters long.</para> 477 478 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 479 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 480 481 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 482 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 483 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 484 2822.</para> 485 486 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 487 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 488 489 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 490 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 491 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 492 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 493 points.</para> 494 495 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 496 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 497 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 498 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 499 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 500 501 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 502 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 503 504 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 505 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 506 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 507 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 508 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 509 510 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 511 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 512 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 513 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 514 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 515 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 516 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 517 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 518 519 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 520 and related image activator features have been merged from 521 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 522 523 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 524 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 525 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 526 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 527 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 528 host system.</para> 529 530 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 531 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 532 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 533 534 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 535 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 536 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 537 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 538 539 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 540 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 541 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 542 before <filename 543 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 544 545 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 546 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 547 548 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 549 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 550 551 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 552 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 553 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 554 555 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 556 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 557 ends event collection after the specified number of 558 seconds.</para> 559 560 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 561 been updated to avoid printing 562 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 563 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 564 565 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 566 has been updated to include optional 567 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 568 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 569 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 570 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 571 572 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 573 includes files in the 574 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 575 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 576 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 577 578 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 579 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 580 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 581 not directories, such as <filename 582 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 583 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 584 585 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 586 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 587 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 588 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 589 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 590 591 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 592 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 593 594 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 595 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 596 597 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 598 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 599 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 600 a network alias of 601 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 602 would not be created if 603 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 604 not defined.</para> 605 </sect3> 606 </sect2> 607 608 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 609 <title>Contributed Software</title> 610 611 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 612 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 613 614 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 615 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 616 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 617 618 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 619 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 620 621 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 622 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 623 624 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 625 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 626 627 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 628 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 629 630 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 631 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 632 </sect2> 633 634 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 635 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 636 637 <para> </para> 638 639 </sect2> 640 641 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 642 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 643 644 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 645 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 646 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 647 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 648 cross-built releases.</para> 649 </sect2> 650 651 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 652 <title>Documentation</title> 653 654 <para> </para> 655 656 </sect2> 657 </sect1> 658 659 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 660 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 661 662 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 663 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 664 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 665 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 666 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 667 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 668 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 669 connectivity.</para> 670 671 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 672 base system from source code) from previous versions are 673 supported, according to the instructions in 674 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 675 676 <important> 677 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 678 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 679 files.</para> 680 </important> 681 </sect1> 682</article> 683