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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 270563 2014-08-25 13:15:37Z 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> 260 261 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 262 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 263 264 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 265 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 266 allowing guest operating systems to use 267 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 268 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 269 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 270 </sect3> 271 272 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 273 <title>ARM Support</title> 274 275 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 276 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 277 278 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 279 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 280 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 281 the boot device, set the 282 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 283 u-boot environment variable.</para> 284 285 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 286 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 287 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 288 in most cases.</para> 289 290 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 291 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 292 293 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 294 configuration file has been updated to include 295 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 296 </sect3> 297 298 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 299 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 300 301 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 302 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 303 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 304 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 305 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 306 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 307 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 308 </sect3> 309 310 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 311 <title>Hardware Support</title> 312 313 <para> </para> 314 315 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 316 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 317 318 <para> </para> 319 320 </sect4> 321 322 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 323 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 324 325 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 326 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 327 driver.</para> 328 329 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 330 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 331 332 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 333 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 334 335 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 336 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 337 instead.</para> 338 339 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 340 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 341 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 342 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 343 344 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 345 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 346 347 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 348 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 349 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 350 351 <note> 352 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 353 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 354 multiple queues.</para> 355 </note> 356 357 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 358 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 359 driver.</para> 360 361 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 362 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 363 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 364 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 365 generating corrupt frames.</para> 366 367 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 368 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 369 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 370 </sect4> 371 </sect3> 372 373 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 374 <title>Network Protocols</title> 375 376 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 377 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 378 stacks.</para> 379 </sect3> 380 381 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 382 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 383 384 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 385 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 386 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 387 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 388 but the label provider in <filename 389 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 390 resized.</para> 391 392 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 393 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 394 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 395 components have been replaced.</para> 396 397 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 398 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 399 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 400 partition size are not saved to disk until 401 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 402 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 403 404 <para revision="268091">Support for the 405 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 406 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 407 408 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 409 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 410 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 411 system.</para> 412 </sect3> 413 414 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 415 <title>File Systems</title> 416 417 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 418 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 419 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 420 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 421 errors have been detected.</para> 422 423 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 424 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 425 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 426 427 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 428 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 429 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 430 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 431 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 432 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 433 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 434 435 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 436 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 437 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 438 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 439 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 440 </sect3> 441 </sect2> 442 443 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 444 <title>Userland Changes</title> 445 446 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 447 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 448 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 449 their parents.</para> 450 451 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 452 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 453 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 454 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 455 456 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 457 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 458 To use a non-default location, set 459 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 460 location of the file.</para> 461 462 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 463 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 464 465 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 466 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 467 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 468 469 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 470 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 471 472 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 473 been updated to include aliases for 474 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 475 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 476 snap</command>.</para> 477 478 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 479 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 480 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 481 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 482 483 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 484 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 485 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 486 characters long.</para> 487 488 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 489 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 490 491 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 492 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 493 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 494 2822.</para> 495 496 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 497 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 498 499 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 500 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 501 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 502 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 503 points.</para> 504 505 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 506 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 507 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 508 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 509 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 510 511 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 512 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 513 514 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 515 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 516 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 517 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 518 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 519 520 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 521 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 522 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 523 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 524 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 525 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 526 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 527 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 528 529 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 530 and related image activator features have been merged from 531 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 532 533 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 534 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 535 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 536 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 537 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 538 host system.</para> 539 540 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 541 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 542 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 543 544 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 545 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 546 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 547 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 548 549 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 550 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 551 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 552 before <filename 553 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 554 555 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 556 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 557 558 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 559 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 560 561 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 562 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 563 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 564 565 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 566 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 567 ends event collection after the specified number of 568 seconds.</para> 569 570 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 571 been updated to avoid printing 572 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 573 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 574 575 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 576 has been updated to include optional 577 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 578 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 579 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 580 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 581 582 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 583 includes files in the 584 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 585 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 586 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 587 588 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 589 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 590 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 591 not directories, such as <filename 592 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 593 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 594 595 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 596 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 597 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 598 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 599 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 600 601 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 602 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 603 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 604 605 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 606 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 607 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 608 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 609 610 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 611 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 612 613 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 614 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 615 616 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 617 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 618 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 619 a network alias of 620 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 621 would not be created if 622 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 623 not defined.</para> 624 </sect3> 625 </sect2> 626 627 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 628 <title>Contributed Software</title> 629 630 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 631 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 632 633 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 634 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 635 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 636 637 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 638 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 639 640 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 641 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 642 643 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 644 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 645 646 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 647 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 648 649 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 650 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 651 </sect2> 652 653 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 654 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 655 656 <para> </para> 657 658 </sect2> 659 660 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 661 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 662 663 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 664 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 665 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 666 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 667 cross-built releases.</para> 668 </sect2> 669 670 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 671 <title>Documentation</title> 672 673 <para> </para> 674 675 </sect2> 676 </sect1> 677 678 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 679 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 680 681 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 682 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 683 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 684 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 685 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 686 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 687 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 688 connectivity.</para> 689 690 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 691 base system from source code) from previous versions are 692 supported, according to the instructions in 693 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 694 695 <important> 696 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 697 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 698 files.</para> 699 </important> 700 </sect1> 701</article> 702