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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 270568 2014-08-25 14:13:26Z 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> 373 374 <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 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 628 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 629 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 630 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 631 632 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 633 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 634 635 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 636 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 637 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 638 a network alias of 639 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 640 would not be created if 641 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 642 not defined.</para> 643 </sect3> 644 </sect2> 645 646 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 647 <title>Contributed Software</title> 648 649 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 650 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 651 652 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 653 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 654 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 655 656 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 657 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 658 659 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 660 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 661 662 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 663 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 664 665 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 666 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 667 668 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 669 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 670 </sect2> 671 672 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 673 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 674 675 <para> </para> 676 677 </sect2> 678 679 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 680 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 681 682 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 683 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 684 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 685 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 686 cross-built releases.</para> 687 </sect2> 688 689 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 690 <title>Documentation</title> 691 692 <para> </para> 693 694 </sect2> 695 </sect1> 696 697 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 698 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 699 700 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 701 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 702 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 703 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 704 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 705 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 706 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 707 connectivity.</para> 708 709 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 710 base system from source code) from previous versions are 711 supported, according to the instructions in 712 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 713 714 <important> 715 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 716 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 717 files.</para> 718 </important> 719 </sect1> 720</article> 721