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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 270580 2014-08-25 16:25:06Z 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> 377 378 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 379 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 380 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 381 1.11.27.0.</para> 382 </sect4> 383 </sect3> 384 385 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 386 <title>Network Protocols</title> 387 388 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 389 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 390 stacks.</para> 391 392 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 393 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 394 fixed.</para> 395 </sect3> 396 397 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 398 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 399 400 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 401 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 402 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 403 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 404 but the label provider in <filename 405 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 406 resized.</para> 407 408 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 409 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 410 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 411 components have been replaced.</para> 412 413 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 414 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 415 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 416 partition size are not saved to disk until 417 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 418 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 419 420 <para revision="268091">Support for the 421 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 422 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 423 424 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 425 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 426 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 427 system.</para> 428 </sect3> 429 430 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 431 <title>File Systems</title> 432 433 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 434 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 435 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 436 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 437 errors have been detected.</para> 438 439 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 440 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 441 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 442 443 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 444 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 445 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 446 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 447 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 448 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 449 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 450 451 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 452 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 453 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 454 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 455 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 456 </sect3> 457 </sect2> 458 459 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 460 <title>Userland Changes</title> 461 462 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 463 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 464 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 465 their parents.</para> 466 467 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 468 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 469 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 470 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 471 472 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 473 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 474 To use a non-default location, set 475 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 476 location of the file.</para> 477 478 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 479 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 480 481 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 482 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 483 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 484 485 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 486 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 487 488 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 489 been updated to include aliases for 490 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 491 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 492 snap</command>.</para> 493 494 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 495 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 496 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 497 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 498 499 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 500 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 501 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 502 characters long.</para> 503 504 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 505 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 506 507 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 508 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 509 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 510 2822.</para> 511 512 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 513 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 514 515 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 516 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 517 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 518 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 519 points.</para> 520 521 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 522 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 523 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 524 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 525 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 526 527 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 528 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 529 530 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 531 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 532 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 533 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 534 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 535 536 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 537 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 538 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 539 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 540 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 541 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 542 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 543 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 544 545 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 546 and related image activator features have been merged from 547 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 548 549 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 550 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 551 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 552 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 553 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 554 host system.</para> 555 556 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 557 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 558 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 559 560 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 561 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 562 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 563 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 564 565 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 566 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 567 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 568 before <filename 569 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 570 571 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 572 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 573 574 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 575 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 576 577 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 578 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 579 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 580 581 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 582 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 583 ends event collection after the specified number of 584 seconds.</para> 585 586 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 587 been updated to avoid printing 588 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 589 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 590 591 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 592 has been updated to include optional 593 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 594 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 595 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 596 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 597 598 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 599 includes files in the 600 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 601 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 602 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 603 604 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 605 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 606 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 607 not directories, such as <filename 608 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 609 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 610 611 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 612 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 613 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 614 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 615 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 616 617 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 618 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 619 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 620 621 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 622 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 623 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 624 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 625 626 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 627 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 628 629 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 630 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 631 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 632 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 633 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 634 web interface.</para> 635 636 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 637 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 638 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 639 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 640 641 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 642 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 643 has been fixed.</para> 644 645 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 646 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 647 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 648 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 649 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 650 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 651 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 652 653 <note> 654 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 655 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 656 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 657 </note> 658 659 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 660 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 661 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 662 663 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 664 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 665 666 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 667 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 668 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 669 a network alias of 670 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 671 would not be created if 672 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 673 not defined.</para> 674 </sect3> 675 </sect2> 676 677 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 678 <title>Contributed Software</title> 679 680 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 681 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 682 683 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 684 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 685 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 686 687 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 688 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 689 690 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 691 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 692 693 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 694 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 695 696 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 697 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 698 699 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 700 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 701 </sect2> 702 703 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 704 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 705 706 <para> </para> 707 708 </sect2> 709 710 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 711 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 712 713 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 714 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 715 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 716 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 717 cross-built releases.</para> 718 </sect2> 719 720 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 721 <title>Documentation</title> 722 723 <para> </para> 724 725 </sect2> 726 </sect1> 727 728 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 729 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 730 731 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 732 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 733 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 734 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 735 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 736 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 737 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 738 connectivity.</para> 739 740 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 741 base system from source code) from previous versions are 742 supported, according to the instructions in 743 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 744 745 <important> 746 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 747 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 748 files.</para> 749 </important> 750 </sect1> 751</article> 752