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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 270593 2014-08-25 17:30:21Z 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> 277 278 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 279 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 280 281 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 282 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 283 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 284 </sect3> 285 286 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 287 <title>ARM Support</title> 288 289 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 290 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 291 292 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 293 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 294 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 295 the boot device, set the 296 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 297 u-boot environment variable.</para> 298 299 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 300 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 301 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 302 in most cases.</para> 303 304 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 305 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 306 307 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 308 configuration file has been updated to include 309 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 310 </sect3> 311 312 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 313 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 314 315 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 316 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 317 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 318 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 319 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 320 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 321 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 322 </sect3> 323 324 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 325 <title>Hardware Support</title> 326 327 <para> </para> 328 329 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 330 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 331 332 <para> </para> 333 334 </sect4> 335 336 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 337 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 338 339 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 340 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 341 driver.</para> 342 343 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 344 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 345 346 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 347 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 348 349 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 350 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 351 instead.</para> 352 353 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 354 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 355 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 356 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 357 358 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 359 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 360 361 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 362 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 363 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 364 365 <note> 366 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 367 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 368 multiple queues.</para> 369 </note> 370 371 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 372 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 373 driver.</para> 374 375 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 376 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 377 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 378 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 379 generating corrupt frames.</para> 380 381 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 382 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 383 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 384 385 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 386 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 387 driver.</para> 388 389 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 390 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 391 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 392 1.11.27.0.</para> 393 </sect4> 394 </sect3> 395 396 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 397 <title>Network Protocols</title> 398 399 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 400 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 401 stacks.</para> 402 403 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 404 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 405 fixed.</para> 406 </sect3> 407 408 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 409 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 410 411 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 412 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 413 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 414 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 415 but the label provider in <filename 416 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 417 resized.</para> 418 419 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 420 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 421 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 422 components have been replaced.</para> 423 424 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 425 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 426 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 427 partition size are not saved to disk until 428 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 429 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 430 431 <para revision="268091">Support for the 432 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 433 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 434 435 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 436 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 437 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 438 system.</para> 439 </sect3> 440 441 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 442 <title>File Systems</title> 443 444 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 445 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 446 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 447 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 448 errors have been detected.</para> 449 450 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 451 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 452 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 453 454 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 455 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 456 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 457 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 458 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 459 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 460 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 461 462 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 463 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 464 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 465 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 466 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 467 </sect3> 468 </sect2> 469 470 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 471 <title>Userland Changes</title> 472 473 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 474 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 475 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 476 their parents.</para> 477 478 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 479 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 480 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 481 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 482 483 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 484 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 485 To use a non-default location, set 486 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 487 location of the file.</para> 488 489 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 490 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 491 492 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 493 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 494 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 495 496 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 497 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 498 499 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 500 been updated to include aliases for 501 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 502 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 503 snap</command>.</para> 504 505 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 506 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 507 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 508 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 509 510 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 511 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 512 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 513 characters long.</para> 514 515 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 516 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 517 518 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 519 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 520 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 521 2822.</para> 522 523 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 524 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 525 526 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 527 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 528 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 529 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 530 points.</para> 531 532 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 533 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 534 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 535 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 536 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 537 538 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 539 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 540 541 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 542 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 543 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 544 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 545 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 546 547 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 548 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 549 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 550 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 551 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 552 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 553 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 554 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 555 556 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 557 and related image activator features have been merged from 558 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 559 560 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 561 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 562 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 563 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 564 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 565 host system.</para> 566 567 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 568 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 569 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 570 571 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 572 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 573 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 574 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 575 576 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 577 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 578 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 579 before <filename 580 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 581 582 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 583 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 584 585 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 586 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 587 588 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 589 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 590 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 591 592 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 593 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 594 ends event collection after the specified number of 595 seconds.</para> 596 597 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 598 been updated to avoid printing 599 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 600 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 601 602 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 603 has been updated to include optional 604 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 605 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 606 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 607 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 608 609 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 610 includes files in the 611 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 612 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 613 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 614 615 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 616 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 617 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 618 not directories, such as <filename 619 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 620 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 621 622 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 623 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 624 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 625 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 626 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 627 628 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 629 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 630 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 631 632 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 633 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 634 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 635 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 636 637 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 638 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 639 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 640 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 641 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 642 web interface.</para> 643 644 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 645 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 646 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 647 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 648 649 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 650 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 651 has been fixed.</para> 652 653 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 654 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 655 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 656 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 657 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 658 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 659 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 660 661 <note> 662 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 663 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 664 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 665 </note> 666 667 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 668 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 669 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 670 671 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 672 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 673 674 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 675 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 676 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 677 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 678 679 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 680 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 681 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 682 683 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 684 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 685 also specifying <literal>-n 686 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 687 688 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 689 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 690 691 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 692 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 693 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 694 a network alias of 695 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 696 would not be created if 697 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 698 not defined.</para> 699 700 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 701 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 702 before traversing the directory.</para> 703 </sect3> 704 </sect2> 705 706 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 707 <title>Contributed Software</title> 708 709 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 710 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 711 712 <para revision="263369" contrib="sponsor" 713 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 714 been updated to the r196322 snapshot.</para> 715 716 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 717 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 718 719 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 720 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 721 722 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 723 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 724 725 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 726 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para> 727 728 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 729 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 730 731 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 732 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 733 734 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 735 updated to version 20140422.</para> 736 </sect2> 737 738 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 739 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 740 741 <para> </para> 742 743 </sect2> 744 745 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 746 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 747 748 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 749 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 750 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 751 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 752 cross-built releases.</para> 753 </sect2> 754 755 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 756 <title>Documentation</title> 757 758 <para> </para> 759 760 </sect2> 761 </sect1> 762 763 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 764 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 765 766 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 767 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 768 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 769 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 770 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 771 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 772 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 773 connectivity.</para> 774 775 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 776 base system from source code) from previous versions are 777 supported, according to the instructions in 778 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 779 780 <important> 781 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 782 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 783 files.</para> 784 </important> 785 </sect1> 786</article> 787