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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 270584 2014-08-25 16:25:14Z 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 <para revision="268046">The &man.oce.4; driver has been updated 253 with vendor-supplied fixes for big endian support, and 20GB/s 254 and 25GB/s link speeds.</para> 255 256 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 257 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 258 259 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 260 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 261 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 262 configuration.</para> 263 264 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 265 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 266 state.</para> 267 268 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 269 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 270 271 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 272 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 273 allowing guest operating systems to use 274 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 275 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 276 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 277 </sect3> 278 279 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 280 <title>ARM Support</title> 281 282 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 283 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 284 285 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 286 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 287 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 288 the boot device, set the 289 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 290 u-boot environment variable.</para> 291 292 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 293 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 294 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 295 in most cases.</para> 296 297 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 298 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 299 300 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 301 configuration file has been updated to include 302 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 303 </sect3> 304 305 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 306 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 307 308 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 309 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 310 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 311 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 312 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 313 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 314 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 315 </sect3> 316 317 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 318 <title>Hardware Support</title> 319 320 <para> </para> 321 322 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 323 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 324 325 <para> </para> 326 327 </sect4> 328 329 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 330 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 331 332 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 333 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 334 driver.</para> 335 336 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 337 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 338 339 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 340 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 341 342 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 343 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 344 instead.</para> 345 346 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 347 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 348 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 349 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 350 351 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 352 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 353 354 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 355 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 356 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 357 358 <note> 359 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 360 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 361 multiple queues.</para> 362 </note> 363 364 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 365 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 366 driver.</para> 367 368 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 369 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 370 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 371 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 372 generating corrupt frames.</para> 373 374 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 375 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 376 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 377 378 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 379 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 380 driver.</para> 381 382 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 383 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 384 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 385 1.11.27.0.</para> 386 </sect4> 387 </sect3> 388 389 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 390 <title>Network Protocols</title> 391 392 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 393 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 394 stacks.</para> 395 396 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 397 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 398 fixed.</para> 399 </sect3> 400 401 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 402 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 403 404 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 405 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 406 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 407 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 408 but the label provider in <filename 409 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 410 resized.</para> 411 412 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 413 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 414 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 415 components have been replaced.</para> 416 417 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 418 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 419 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 420 partition size are not saved to disk until 421 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 422 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 423 424 <para revision="268091">Support for the 425 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 426 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 427 428 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 429 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 430 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 431 system.</para> 432 </sect3> 433 434 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 435 <title>File Systems</title> 436 437 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 438 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 439 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 440 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 441 errors have been detected.</para> 442 443 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 444 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 445 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 446 447 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 448 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 449 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 450 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 451 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 452 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 453 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 454 455 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 456 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 457 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 458 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 459 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 460 </sect3> 461 </sect2> 462 463 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 464 <title>Userland Changes</title> 465 466 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 467 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 468 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 469 their parents.</para> 470 471 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 472 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 473 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 474 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 475 476 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 477 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 478 To use a non-default location, set 479 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 480 location of the file.</para> 481 482 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 483 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 484 485 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 486 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 487 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 488 489 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 490 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 491 492 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 493 been updated to include aliases for 494 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 495 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 496 snap</command>.</para> 497 498 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 499 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 500 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 501 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 502 503 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 504 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 505 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 506 characters long.</para> 507 508 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 509 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 510 511 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 512 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 513 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 514 2822.</para> 515 516 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 517 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 518 519 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 520 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 521 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 522 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 523 points.</para> 524 525 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 526 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 527 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 528 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 529 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 530 531 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 532 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 533 534 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 535 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 536 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 537 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 538 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 539 540 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 541 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 542 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 543 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 544 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 545 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 546 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 547 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 548 549 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 550 and related image activator features have been merged from 551 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 552 553 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 554 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 555 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 556 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 557 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 558 host system.</para> 559 560 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 561 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 562 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 563 564 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 565 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 566 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 567 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 568 569 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 570 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 571 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 572 before <filename 573 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 574 575 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 576 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 577 578 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 579 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 580 581 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 582 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 583 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 584 585 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 586 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 587 ends event collection after the specified number of 588 seconds.</para> 589 590 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 591 been updated to avoid printing 592 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 593 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 594 595 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 596 has been updated to include optional 597 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 598 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 599 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 600 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 601 602 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 603 includes files in the 604 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 605 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 606 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 607 608 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 609 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 610 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 611 not directories, such as <filename 612 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 613 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 614 615 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 616 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 617 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 618 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 619 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 620 621 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 622 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 623 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 624 625 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 626 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 627 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 628 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 629 630 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 631 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 632 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 633 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 634 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 635 web interface.</para> 636 637 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 638 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 639 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 640 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 641 642 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 643 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 644 has been fixed.</para> 645 646 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 647 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 648 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 649 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 650 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 651 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 652 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 653 654 <note> 655 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 656 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 657 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 658 </note> 659 660 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 661 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 662 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 663 664 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 665 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 666 667 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 668 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 669 670 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 671 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 672 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 673 a network alias of 674 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 675 would not be created if 676 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 677 not defined.</para> 678 679 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 680 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 681 before traversing the directory.</para> 682 </sect3> 683 </sect2> 684 685 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 686 <title>Contributed Software</title> 687 688 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 689 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 690 691 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 692 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 693 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 694 695 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 696 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 697 698 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 699 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 700 701 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 702 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 703 704 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 705 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 706 707 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 708 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 709 710 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 711 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 712 </sect2> 713 714 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 715 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 716 717 <para> </para> 718 719 </sect2> 720 721 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 722 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 723 724 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 725 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 726 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 727 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 728 cross-built releases.</para> 729 </sect2> 730 731 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 732 <title>Documentation</title> 733 734 <para> </para> 735 736 </sect2> 737 </sect1> 738 739 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 740 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 741 742 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 743 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 744 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 745 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 746 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 747 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 748 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 749 connectivity.</para> 750 751 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 752 base system from source code) from previous versions are 753 supported, according to the instructions in 754 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 755 756 <important> 757 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 758 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 759 files.</para> 760 </important> 761 </sect1> 762</article> 763