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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 270612 2014-08-25 18:52:51Z 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> 393 394 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 395 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 396 </sect4> 397 </sect3> 398 399 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 400 <title>Network Protocols</title> 401 402 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 403 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 404 stacks.</para> 405 406 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 407 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 408 fixed.</para> 409 </sect3> 410 411 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 412 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 413 414 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 415 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 416 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 417 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 418 but the label provider in <filename 419 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 420 resized.</para> 421 422 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 423 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 424 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 425 components have been replaced.</para> 426 427 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 428 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 429 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 430 partition size are not saved to disk until 431 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 432 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 433 434 <para revision="268091">Support for the 435 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 436 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 437 438 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 439 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 440 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 441 system.</para> 442 443 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 444 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has 445 been increased from 32 to 128.</para> 446 </sect3> 447 448 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 449 <title>File Systems</title> 450 451 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 452 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 453 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 454 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 455 errors have been detected.</para> 456 457 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 458 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 459 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 460 461 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 462 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 463 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 464 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 465 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 466 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 467 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 468 469 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 470 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 471 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 472 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 473 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 474 475 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 476 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 477 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 478 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 479 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 480 481 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 482 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 483 484 <itemizedlist> 485 <listitem> 486 <para> 487 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 488 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 489 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 490 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 491 threshold.</para> 492 </listitem> 493 494 <listitem> 495 <para> 496 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 497 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 498 keep their active state</para> 499 </listitem> 500 </itemizedlist> 501 </sect3> 502 </sect2> 503 504 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 505 <title>Userland Changes</title> 506 507 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 508 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 509 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 510 their parents.</para> 511 512 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 513 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 514 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 515 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 516 517 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 518 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 519 To use a non-default location, set 520 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 521 location of the file.</para> 522 523 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 524 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 525 526 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 527 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 528 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 529 530 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 531 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 532 533 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 534 been updated to include aliases for 535 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 536 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 537 snap</command>.</para> 538 539 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 540 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 541 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 542 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 543 544 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 545 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 546 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 547 characters long.</para> 548 549 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 550 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 551 552 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 553 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 554 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 555 2822.</para> 556 557 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 558 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 559 560 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 561 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 562 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 563 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 564 points.</para> 565 566 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 567 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 568 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 569 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 570 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 571 572 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 573 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 574 575 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 576 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 577 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 578 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 579 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 580 581 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 582 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 583 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 584 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 585 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 586 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 587 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 588 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 589 590 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 591 and related image activator features have been merged from 592 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 593 594 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 595 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 596 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 597 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 598 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 599 host system.</para> 600 601 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 602 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 603 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 604 605 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 606 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 607 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 608 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 609 610 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 611 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 612 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 613 before <filename 614 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 615 616 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 617 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 618 619 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 620 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 621 622 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 623 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 624 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 625 626 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 627 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 628 ends event collection after the specified number of 629 seconds.</para> 630 631 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 632 been updated to avoid printing 633 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 634 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 635 636 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 637 has been updated to include optional 638 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 639 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 640 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 641 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 642 643 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 644 includes files in the 645 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 646 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 647 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 648 649 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 650 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 651 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 652 not directories, such as <filename 653 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 654 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 655 656 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 657 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 658 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 659 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 660 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 661 662 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 663 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 664 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 665 666 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 667 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 668 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 669 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 670 671 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 672 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 673 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 674 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 675 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 676 web interface.</para> 677 678 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 679 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 680 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 681 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 682 683 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 684 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 685 has been fixed.</para> 686 687 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 688 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 689 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 690 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 691 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 692 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 693 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 694 695 <note> 696 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 697 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 698 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 699 </note> 700 701 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 702 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 703 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 704 705 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 706 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 707 708 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 709 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 710 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 711 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 712 713 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 714 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 715 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 716 717 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 718 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 719 also specifying <literal>-n 720 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 721 722 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 723 updated to include support for both fixed- and 724 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 725 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 726 727 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 728 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 729 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 730 731 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 732 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 733 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 734 735 <para>This update includes:</para> 736 737 <itemizedlist> 738 <listitem> 739 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 740 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 741 variables.</para> 742 </listitem> 743 744 <listitem> 745 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 746 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 747 </listitem> 748 749 <listitem> 750 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 751 which is used to pass the host path to 752 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 753 </listitem> 754 755 <listitem> 756 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 757 has been added.</para> 758 </listitem> 759 760 <listitem> 761 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 762 removed.</para> 763 </listitem> 764 </itemizedlist> 765 766 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 767 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 768 769 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 770 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 771 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 772 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 773 depending on the platform.</para> 774 775 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 776 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 777 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 778 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 779 value and a low number of packets to send has been 780 specified.</para> 781 782 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 783 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 784 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 785 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 786 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 787 788 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 789 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 790 791 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 792 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 793 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 794 a network alias of 795 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 796 would not be created if 797 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 798 not defined.</para> 799 800 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 801 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 802 before traversing the directory.</para> 803 </sect3> 804 </sect2> 805 806 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 807 <title>Contributed Software</title> 808 809 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 810 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 811 812 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 813 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 814 815 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 816 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 817 818 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 819 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 820 821 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 822 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 823 824 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 825 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 826 827 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 828 updated to version 20140422.</para> 829 830 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 831 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 832 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 833 834 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 835 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 836 1.4.22.</para> 837 838 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 839 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 840 </sect2> 841 842 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 843 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 844 845 <para> </para> 846 847 </sect2> 848 849 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 850 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 851 852 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 853 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 854 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 855 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 856 cross-built releases.</para> 857 </sect2> 858 859 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 860 <title>Documentation</title> 861 862 <para> </para> 863 864 </sect2> 865 </sect1> 866 867 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 868 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 869 870 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 871 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 872 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 873 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 874 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 875 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 876 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 877 connectivity.</para> 878 879 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 880 base system from source code) from previous versions are 881 supported, according to the instructions in 882 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 883 884 <important> 885 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 886 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 887 files.</para> 888 </important> 889 </sect1> 890</article> 891