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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 270564 2014-08-25 13:15:40Z 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="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 250 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</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> 263 264 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 265 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 266 267 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 268 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 269 allowing guest operating systems to use 270 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 271 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 272 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 273 </sect3> 274 275 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 276 <title>ARM Support</title> 277 278 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 279 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 280 281 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 282 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 283 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 284 the boot device, set the 285 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 286 u-boot environment variable.</para> 287 288 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 289 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 290 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 291 in most cases.</para> 292 293 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 294 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 295 296 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 297 configuration file has been updated to include 298 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 299 </sect3> 300 301 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 302 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 303 304 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 305 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 306 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 307 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 308 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 309 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 310 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 311 </sect3> 312 313 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 314 <title>Hardware Support</title> 315 316 <para> </para> 317 318 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 319 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 320 321 <para> </para> 322 323 </sect4> 324 325 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 326 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 327 328 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 329 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 330 driver.</para> 331 332 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 333 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 334 335 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 336 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 337 338 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 339 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 340 instead.</para> 341 342 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 343 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 344 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 345 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 346 347 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 348 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 349 350 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 351 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 352 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 353 354 <note> 355 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 356 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 357 multiple queues.</para> 358 </note> 359 360 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 361 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 362 driver.</para> 363 364 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 365 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 366 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 367 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 368 generating corrupt frames.</para> 369 370 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 371 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 372 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 373 </sect4> 374 </sect3> 375 376 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 377 <title>Network Protocols</title> 378 379 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 380 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 381 stacks.</para> 382 </sect3> 383 384 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 385 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 386 387 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 388 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 389 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 390 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 391 but the label provider in <filename 392 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 393 resized.</para> 394 395 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 396 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 397 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 398 components have been replaced.</para> 399 400 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 401 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 402 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 403 partition size are not saved to disk until 404 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 405 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 406 407 <para revision="268091">Support for the 408 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 409 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 410 411 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 412 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 413 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 414 system.</para> 415 </sect3> 416 417 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 418 <title>File Systems</title> 419 420 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 421 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 422 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 423 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 424 errors have been detected.</para> 425 426 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 427 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 428 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 429 430 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 431 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 432 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 433 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 434 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 435 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 436 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 437 438 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 439 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 440 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 441 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 442 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 443 </sect3> 444 </sect2> 445 446 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 447 <title>Userland Changes</title> 448 449 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 450 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 451 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 452 their parents.</para> 453 454 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 455 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 456 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 457 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 458 459 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 460 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 461 To use a non-default location, set 462 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 463 location of the file.</para> 464 465 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 466 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 467 468 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 469 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 470 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 471 472 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 473 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 474 475 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 476 been updated to include aliases for 477 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 478 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 479 snap</command>.</para> 480 481 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 482 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 483 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 484 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 485 486 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 487 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 488 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 489 characters long.</para> 490 491 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 492 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 493 494 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 495 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 496 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 497 2822.</para> 498 499 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 500 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 501 502 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 503 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 504 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 505 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 506 points.</para> 507 508 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 509 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 510 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 511 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 512 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 513 514 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 515 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 516 517 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 518 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 519 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 520 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 521 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 522 523 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 524 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 525 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 526 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 527 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 528 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 529 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 530 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 531 532 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 533 and related image activator features have been merged from 534 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 535 536 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 537 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 538 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 539 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 540 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 541 host system.</para> 542 543 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 544 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 545 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 546 547 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 548 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 549 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 550 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 551 552 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 553 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 554 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 555 before <filename 556 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 557 558 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 559 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 560 561 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 562 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 563 564 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 565 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 566 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 567 568 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 569 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 570 ends event collection after the specified number of 571 seconds.</para> 572 573 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 574 been updated to avoid printing 575 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 576 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 577 578 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 579 has been updated to include optional 580 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 581 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 582 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 583 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 584 585 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 586 includes files in the 587 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 588 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 589 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 590 591 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 592 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 593 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 594 not directories, such as <filename 595 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 596 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 597 598 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 599 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 600 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 601 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 602 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 603 604 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 605 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 606 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 607 608 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 609 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 610 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 611 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 612 613 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 614 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 615 616 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 617 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 618 619 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 620 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 621 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 622 a network alias of 623 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 624 would not be created if 625 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 626 not defined.</para> 627 </sect3> 628 </sect2> 629 630 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 631 <title>Contributed Software</title> 632 633 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 634 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 635 636 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 637 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 638 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 639 640 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 641 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 642 643 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 644 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 645 646 <para revision="265983">The timezone database has been updated 647 to version tzdata2014c.</para> 648 649 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 650 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 651 652 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 653 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 654 </sect2> 655 656 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 657 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 658 659 <para> </para> 660 661 </sect2> 662 663 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 664 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 665 666 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 667 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 668 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 669 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 670 cross-built releases.</para> 671 </sect2> 672 673 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 674 <title>Documentation</title> 675 676 <para> </para> 677 678 </sect2> 679 </sect1> 680 681 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 682 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 683 684 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 685 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 686 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 687 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 688 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 689 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 690 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 691 connectivity.</para> 692 693 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 694 base system from source code) from previous versions are 695 supported, according to the instructions in 696 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 697 698 <important> 699 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 700 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 701 files.</para> 702 </important> 703 </sect1> 704</article> 705