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1234370Sjasone<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2251300Sjasone<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 3234370Sjasone "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4234370Sjasone<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> 5234370Sjasone %release; 6234370Sjasone<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" "sponsor.ent"> 7234370Sjasone %sponsor; 8234370Sjasone<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" "vendor.ent"> 9234370Sjasone %vendor; 10234370Sjasone]> 11234370Sjasone<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 12234370Sjasone xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 13234370Sjasone 14234370Sjasone <info> 15234370Sjasone <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 16234370Sjasone 17234370Sjasone <author> 18234370Sjasone <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 19234370Sjasone </author> 20234370Sjasone 21234370Sjasone <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 270567 2014-08-25 14:13:24Z gjb $</pubdate> 22234370Sjasone 23234370Sjasone <copyright> 24234370Sjasone <year>2000</year> 25234370Sjasone <year>2001</year> 26234370Sjasone <year>2002</year> 27234370Sjasone <year>2003</year> 28234370Sjasone <year>2004</year> 29234370Sjasone <year>2005</year> 30251300Sjasone <year>2006</year> 31234370Sjasone <year>2007</year> 32234370Sjasone <year>2008</year> 33234370Sjasone <year>2009</year> 34234370Sjasone <year>2010</year> 35234370Sjasone <year>2011</year> 36234370Sjasone <year>2012</year> 37234370Sjasone <year>2013</year> 38234370Sjasone <year>2014</year> 39234370Sjasone <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 40234370Sjasone Project</holder> 41234370Sjasone </copyright> 42234370Sjasone 43234370Sjasone <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 44234370Sjasone &tm-attrib.freebsd; 45234370Sjasone &tm-attrib.ibm; 46234370Sjasone &tm-attrib.ieee; 47234370Sjasone &tm-attrib.intel; 48251300Sjasone &tm-attrib.sparc; 49234370Sjasone &tm-attrib.general; 50234370Sjasone </legalnotice> 51234402Sjasone 52234402Sjasone <abstract> 53234402Sjasone <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 54234370Sjasone a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 55234370Sjasone &release.branch; development line. This document lists 56234370Sjasone applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 57234370Sjasone release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 58235238Sjasone userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 59235238Sjasone presented.</para> 60235238Sjasone </abstract> 61235238Sjasone </info> 62235238Sjasone 63234370Sjasone <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 64234370Sjasone <title>Introduction</title> 65234370Sjasone 66234370Sjasone <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 67234370Sjasone &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 68234370Sjasone deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 69234370Sjasone upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 70235385Sjasone 71235385Sjasone <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 72235385Sjasone which these release notes apply represents the latest point 73235385Sjasone along the &release.branch; development branch since 74235385Sjasone &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 75235385Sjasone binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 76235385Sjasone found at <uri 77235385Sjasone xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 78235385Sjasone 79235385Sjasone <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 80235385Sjasone which these release notes apply represents a point along the 81235385Sjasone &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 82235385Sjasone the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 83235385Sjasone binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 84235385Sjasone found at <uri 85234370Sjasone xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 86235238Sjasone 87234370Sjasone <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 88234370Sjasone &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 89235238Sjasone found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 90234370Sjasone any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 91234370Sjasone other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 92234370Sjasone <link 93234370Sjasone xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 94234543Sjasone &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 95234370Sjasone xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 96234370Sjasone Handbook</link>.</para> 97234370Sjasone 98234370Sjasone <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 99234543Sjasone before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 100251300Sjasone <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 101234543Sjasone release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 102234543Sjasone information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 103245868Sjasone to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 104234543Sjasone &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 105242844Sjasone </sect1> 106234543Sjasone 107234543Sjasone <sect1 xml:id="new"> 108234543Sjasone <title>What's New</title> 109234543Sjasone 110234543Sjasone <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 111234370Sjasone features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 112242844Sjasone 113234370Sjasone <para>Typical release note items document recent security 114234370Sjasone advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 115234370Sjasone support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 116234370Sjasone contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 117234370Sjasone major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 118234370Sjasone the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 119234370Sjasone between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 120234370Sjasone advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 121234370Sjasone improvements.</para> 122234370Sjasone 123234370Sjasone <sect2 xml:id="security"> 124234370Sjasone <title>Security Advisories</title> 125251300Sjasone 126234370Sjasone <para> </para> 127234370Sjasone 128251300Sjasone </sect2> 129234370Sjasone 130234370Sjasone <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 131234370Sjasone <title>Kernel Changes</title> 132234370Sjasone 133234370Sjasone <para revision="260338">The 134234370Sjasone <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has been 135234370Sjasone re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, this can 136234370Sjasone easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU usage in 137234370Sjasone half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 138234370Sjasone <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 139234370Sjasone should be resolved due to several change in the VM 140234370Sjasone subsystem.</para> 141234370Sjasone 142234370Sjasone <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 143234370Sjasone &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 144234370Sjasone updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 145234370Sjasone 146234370Sjasone <para revision="260431">A new &man.sysctl.8;, 147234370Sjasone <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been 148234370Sjasone added, which allows controlling how long the system will wait 149234370Sjasone after &man.panic.9; before rebooting.</para> 150234370Sjasone 151234370Sjasone <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 152234370Sjasone updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 153234370Sjasone 154234370Sjasone <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has been 155234370Sjasone updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 156234370Sjasone 157234370Sjasone <para revision="262861">The &man.vt.4; driver has been merged 158234370Sjasone from &os;-CURRENT. To enable &man.vt.4;, enter 159234370Sjasone <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal> at the &man.loader.8; 160234370Sjasone prompt during boot, or add <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to 161234370Sjasone &man.loader.conf.5; and reboot the system.</para> 162234370Sjasone 163234370Sjasone <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has been 164234370Sjasone added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 165234370Sjasone 166234370Sjasone <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 167234370Sjasone updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 168234370Sjasone 169234370Sjasone <para revision="263122">Support for &man.hwpmc.4; has been added 170234370Sjasone for &powerpc; 970 class processors.</para> 171234370Sjasone 172235238Sjasone <para revision="263197">Support for ADT7460 and ADT7467 fan 173235238Sjasone controllers found in newer PowerBooks™ and 174235238Sjasone iBooks™ has been added to the &man.iicbus.4; 175234370Sjasone driver.</para> 176234370Sjasone 177235238Sjasone <para revision="263256">A panic triggered by removing 178234370Sjasone a &man.urtwn.4; device has been fixed.</para> 179234370Sjasone 180234370Sjasone <para revision="263799">A potential deadlock in the &man.usb.4; 181234370Sjasone stack triggered by detaching USB devices that create character 182234370Sjasone devices has been fixed.</para> 183234370Sjasone 184234370Sjasone <para revision="263869">Support for &amd; Family 16h sensor 185234370Sjasone devices has been added to &man.amdtemp.4;.</para> 186234370Sjasone 187234370Sjasone <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 188234370Sjasone been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 189234370Sjasone 190234370Sjasone <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 191234370Sjasone adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 192234370Sjasone 193234370Sjasone <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 194234370Sjasone &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 195234370Sjasone providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 196234370Sjasone controllers.</para> 197234370Sjasone 198234370Sjasone <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> option 199251300Sjasone is now able to be built both directly into the kernel or as 200251300Sjasone a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 201251300Sjasone 202251300Sjasone <para revision="265610">The &man.uslcom.4; driver has been 203251300Sjasone updated to support 26 new devices.</para> 204251300Sjasone 205251300Sjasone <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 206251300Sjasone &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 207251300Sjasone providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 208251300Sjasone &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 209251300Sjasone To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 210251300Sjasone <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 211251300Sjasone <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 212251300Sjasone &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 213251300Sjasone 214251300Sjasone <note> 215251300Sjasone <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 216251300Sjasone the &os; version of 217251300Sjasone <application>MegaCLI</application> and 218251300Sjasone <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 219251300Sjasone &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 220251300Sjasone </note> 221234370Sjasone 222234370Sjasone <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 223234370Sjasone functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 224234370Sjasone &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 225234370Sjasone Boost™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 226234370Sjasone 227251300Sjasone <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 228251300Sjasone built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 229251300Sjasone provides support for compressed, read-only disk 230251300Sjasone images.</para> 231251300Sjasone 232251300Sjasone <para revision="266436">The &man.uart.4; driver has been 233251300Sjasone updated to include support for the &intel; Lynx Point 234251300Sjasone KT <acronym>AMT</acronym> serial port.</para> 235251300Sjasone 236251300Sjasone <para revision="266718">A bug that would prevent 237251300Sjasone a &man.jail.8; from setting the correct IPv4 source address 238251300Sjasone with some operations that required 239251300Sjasone <literal>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</literal> has been 240251300Sjasone fixed.</para> 241251300Sjasone 242251300Sjasone <para revision="266911">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver has been 243251300Sjasone updated to support core events from the Atom™ 244251300Sjasone Silvermont architecture.</para> 245251300Sjasone 246234370Sjasone <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 247251300Sjasone updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 248234370Sjasone 249234370Sjasone <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 250235238Sjasone updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 251234370Sjasone 252234370Sjasone <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 253234370Sjasone <title>Virtualization Support</title> 254235238Sjasone 255235238Sjasone <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 256234370Sjasone has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 257234370Sjasone not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 258234370Sjasone configuration.</para> 259235238Sjasone 260245868Sjasone <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 261251300Sjasone supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 262234370Sjasone state.</para> 263234370Sjasone 264234370Sjasone <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 265234370Sjasone added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 266234370Sjasone 267234370Sjasone <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 268234370Sjasone <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 269234370Sjasone allowing guest operating systems to use 270234370Sjasone <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 271234370Sjasone <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 272242844Sjasone <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 273234370Sjasone </sect3> 274234370Sjasone 275235238Sjasone <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 276234370Sjasone <title>ARM Support</title> 277242844Sjasone 278234370Sjasone <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 279234370Sjasone kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 280234370Sjasone 281234370Sjasone <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 282234370Sjasone setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 283234370Sjasone not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 284234370Sjasone the boot device, set the 285234370Sjasone <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 286234370Sjasone u-boot environment variable.</para> 287234370Sjasone 288234370Sjasone <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 289234370Sjasone has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 290234370Sjasone Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 291234370Sjasone in most cases.</para> 292234370Sjasone 293234370Sjasone <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 294242844Sjasone &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 295234370Sjasone 296234370Sjasone <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 297235238Sjasone configuration file has been updated to include 298234370Sjasone <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 299235238Sjasone </sect3> 300235238Sjasone 301235238Sjasone <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 302234370Sjasone <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 303234370Sjasone 304234370Sjasone <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 305234370Sjasone to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 306234370Sjasone enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 307234370Sjasone selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 308234370Sjasone &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 309234370Sjasone default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 310234370Sjasone <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 311234370Sjasone </sect3> 312234370Sjasone 313234370Sjasone <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 314234370Sjasone <title>Hardware Support</title> 315234370Sjasone 316234370Sjasone <para> </para> 317234370Sjasone 318235238Sjasone <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 319235238Sjasone <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> 373 374 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 375 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 376 driver.</para> 377 </sect4> 378 </sect3> 379 380 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 381 <title>Network Protocols</title> 382 383 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 384 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 385 stacks.</para> 386 </sect3> 387 388 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 389 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 390 391 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 392 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 393 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 394 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 395 but the label provider in <filename 396 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 397 resized.</para> 398 399 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 400 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 401 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 402 components have been replaced.</para> 403 404 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 405 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 406 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 407 partition size are not saved to disk until 408 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 409 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 410 411 <para revision="268091">Support for the 412 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 413 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 414 415 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 416 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 417 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 418 system.</para> 419 </sect3> 420 421 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 422 <title>File Systems</title> 423 424 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 425 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 426 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 427 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 428 errors have been detected.</para> 429 430 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 431 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 432 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 433 434 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 435 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 436 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 437 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 438 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 439 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 440 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 441 442 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 443 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 444 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 445 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 446 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 447 </sect3> 448 </sect2> 449 450 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 451 <title>Userland Changes</title> 452 453 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 454 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 455 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 456 their parents.</para> 457 458 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 459 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 460 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 461 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 462 463 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 464 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 465 To use a non-default location, set 466 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 467 location of the file.</para> 468 469 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 470 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 471 472 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 473 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 474 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 475 476 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 477 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 478 479 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 480 been updated to include aliases for 481 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 482 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 483 snap</command>.</para> 484 485 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 486 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 487 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 488 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 489 490 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 491 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 492 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 493 characters long.</para> 494 495 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 496 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 497 498 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 499 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 500 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 501 2822.</para> 502 503 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 504 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 505 506 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 507 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 508 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 509 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 510 points.</para> 511 512 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 513 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 514 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 515 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 516 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 517 518 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 519 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 520 521 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 522 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 523 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 524 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 525 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 526 527 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 528 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 529 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 530 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 531 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 532 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 533 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 534 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 535 536 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 537 and related image activator features have been merged from 538 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 539 540 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 541 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 542 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 543 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 544 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 545 host system.</para> 546 547 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 548 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 549 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 550 551 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 552 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 553 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 554 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 555 556 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 557 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 558 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 559 before <filename 560 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 561 562 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 563 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 564 565 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 566 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 567 568 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 569 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 570 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 571 572 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 573 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 574 ends event collection after the specified number of 575 seconds.</para> 576 577 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 578 been updated to avoid printing 579 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 580 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 581 582 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 583 has been updated to include optional 584 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 585 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 586 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 587 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 588 589 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 590 includes files in the 591 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 592 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 593 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 594 595 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 596 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 597 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 598 not directories, such as <filename 599 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 600 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 601 602 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 603 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 604 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 605 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 606 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 607 608 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 609 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 610 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 611 612 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 613 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 614 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 615 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 616 617 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 618 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 619 620 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 621 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 622 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 623 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 624 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 625 web interface.</para> 626 627 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 628 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 629 630 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 631 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 632 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 633 a network alias of 634 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 635 would not be created if 636 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 637 not defined.</para> 638 </sect3> 639 </sect2> 640 641 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 642 <title>Contributed Software</title> 643 644 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 645 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 646 647 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 648 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 649 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 650 651 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 652 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 653 654 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 655 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 656 657 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 658 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 659 660 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 661 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 662 663 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 664 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 665 </sect2> 666 667 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 668 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 669 670 <para> </para> 671 672 </sect2> 673 674 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 675 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 676 677 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 678 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 679 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 680 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 681 cross-built releases.</para> 682 </sect2> 683 684 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 685 <title>Documentation</title> 686 687 <para> </para> 688 689 </sect2> 690 </sect1> 691 692 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 693 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 694 695 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 696 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 697 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 698 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 699 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 700 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 701 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 702 connectivity.</para> 703 704 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 705 base system from source code) from previous versions are 706 supported, according to the instructions in 707 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 708 709 <important> 710 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 711 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 712 files.</para> 713 </important> 714 </sect1> 715</article> 716