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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 270560 2014-08-25 13:15:31Z 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 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 250 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 251 252 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 253 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 254 255 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 256 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 257 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 258 configuration.</para> 259 260 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 261 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 262 state.</para> 263 </sect3> 264 265 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 266 <title>ARM Support</title> 267 268 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 269 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 270 271 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 272 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 273 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 274 the boot device, set the 275 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 276 u-boot environment variable.</para> 277 278 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 279 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 280 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 281 in most cases.</para> 282 283 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 284 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 285 286 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 287 configuration file has been updated to include 288 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 289 </sect3> 290 291 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 292 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 293 294 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 295 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 296 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 297 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 298 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 299 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 300 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 301 </sect3> 302 303 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 304 <title>Hardware Support</title> 305 306 <para> </para> 307 308 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 309 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 310 311 <para> </para> 312 313 </sect4> 314 315 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 316 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 317 318 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 319 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 320 driver.</para> 321 322 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 323 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 324 325 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 326 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 327 328 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 329 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 330 instead.</para> 331 332 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 333 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 334 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 335 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 336 337 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 338 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 339 340 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 341 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 342 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 343 344 <note> 345 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 346 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 347 multiple queues.</para> 348 </note> 349 350 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 351 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 352 driver.</para> 353 354 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 355 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 356 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 357 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 358 generating corrupt frames.</para> 359 360 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 361 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 362 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 363 </sect4> 364 </sect3> 365 366 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 367 <title>Network Protocols</title> 368 369 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 370 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 371 stacks.</para> 372 </sect3> 373 374 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 375 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 376 377 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 378 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 379 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 380 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 381 but the label provider in <filename 382 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 383 resized.</para> 384 385 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 386 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 387 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 388 components have been replaced.</para> 389 390 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 391 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 392 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 393 partition size are not saved to disk until 394 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 395 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 396 397 <para revision="268091">Support for the 398 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 399 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 400 401 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 402 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 403 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 404 system.</para> 405 </sect3> 406 407 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 408 <title>File Systems</title> 409 410 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 411 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 412 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 413 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 414 errors have been detected.</para> 415 416 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 417 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 418 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 419 420 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 421 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 422 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 423 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 424 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 425 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 426 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 427 428 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 429 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 430 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 431 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 432 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 433 </sect3> 434 </sect2> 435 436 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 437 <title>Userland Changes</title> 438 439 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 440 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 441 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 442 their parents.</para> 443 444 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 445 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 446 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 447 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 448 449 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 450 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 451 To use a non-default location, set 452 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 453 location of the file.</para> 454 455 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 456 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 457 458 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 459 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 460 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 461 462 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 463 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 464 465 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 466 been updated to include aliases for 467 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 468 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 469 snap</command>.</para> 470 471 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 472 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 473 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 474 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 475 476 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 477 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 478 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 479 characters long.</para> 480 481 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 482 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 483 484 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 485 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 486 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 487 2822.</para> 488 489 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 490 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 491 492 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 493 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 494 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 495 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 496 points.</para> 497 498 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 499 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 500 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 501 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 502 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 503 504 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 505 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 506 507 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 508 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 509 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 510 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 511 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 512 513 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 514 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 515 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 516 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 517 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 518 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 519 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 520 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 521 522 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 523 and related image activator features have been merged from 524 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 525 526 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 527 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 528 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 529 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 530 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 531 host system.</para> 532 533 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 534 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 535 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 536 537 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 538 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 539 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 540 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 541 542 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 543 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 544 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 545 before <filename 546 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 547 548 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 549 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 550 551 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 552 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 553 554 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 555 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 556 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 557 558 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 559 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 560 ends event collection after the specified number of 561 seconds.</para> 562 563 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 564 been updated to avoid printing 565 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 566 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 567 568 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 569 has been updated to include optional 570 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 571 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 572 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 573 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 574 575 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 576 includes files in the 577 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 578 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 579 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 580 581 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 582 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 583 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 584 not directories, such as <filename 585 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 586 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 587 588 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 589 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 590 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 591 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 592 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 593 594 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 595 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 596 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 597 598 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 599 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 600 601 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 602 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 603 604 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 605 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 606 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 607 a network alias of 608 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 609 would not be created if 610 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 611 not defined.</para> 612 </sect3> 613 </sect2> 614 615 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 616 <title>Contributed Software</title> 617 618 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 619 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 620 621 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 622 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 623 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 624 625 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 626 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 627 628 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 629 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 630 631 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 632 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 633 634 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 635 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 636 637 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 638 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 639 </sect2> 640 641 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 642 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 643 644 <para> </para> 645 646 </sect2> 647 648 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 649 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 650 651 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 652 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 653 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 654 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 655 cross-built releases.</para> 656 </sect2> 657 658 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 659 <title>Documentation</title> 660 661 <para> </para> 662 663 </sect2> 664 </sect1> 665 666 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 667 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 668 669 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 670 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 671 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 672 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 673 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 674 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 675 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 676 connectivity.</para> 677 678 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 679 base system from source code) from previous versions are 680 supported, according to the instructions in 681 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 682 683 <important> 684 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 685 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 686 files.</para> 687 </important> 688 </sect1> 689</article> 690