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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 270615 2014-08-25 19:45:42Z 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> 501 502 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 503 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 504 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 505 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 506 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 507 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 508 cached reads. The 509 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 510 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 511 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 512 tunable is 8192.</para> 513 </sect3> 514 </sect2> 515 516 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 517 <title>Userland Changes</title> 518 519 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 520 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 521 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 522 their parents.</para> 523 524 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 525 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 526 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 527 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 528 529 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 530 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 531 To use a non-default location, set 532 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 533 location of the file.</para> 534 535 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 536 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 537 538 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 539 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 540 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 541 542 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 543 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 544 545 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 546 been updated to include aliases for 547 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 548 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 549 snap</command>.</para> 550 551 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 552 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 553 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 554 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 555 556 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 557 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 558 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 559 characters long.</para> 560 561 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 562 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 563 564 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 565 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 566 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 567 2822.</para> 568 569 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 570 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 571 572 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 573 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 574 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 575 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 576 points.</para> 577 578 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 579 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 580 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 581 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 582 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 583 584 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 585 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 586 587 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 588 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 589 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 590 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 591 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 592 593 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 594 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 595 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 596 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 597 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 598 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 599 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 600 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 601 602 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 603 and related image activator features have been merged from 604 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 605 606 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 607 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 608 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 609 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 610 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 611 host system.</para> 612 613 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 614 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 615 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 616 617 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 618 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 619 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 620 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 621 622 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 623 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 624 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 625 before <filename 626 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 627 628 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 629 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 630 631 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 632 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 633 634 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 635 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 636 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 637 638 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 639 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 640 ends event collection after the specified number of 641 seconds.</para> 642 643 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 644 been updated to avoid printing 645 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 646 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 647 648 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 649 has been updated to include optional 650 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 651 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 652 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 653 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 654 655 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 656 includes files in the 657 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 658 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 659 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 660 661 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 662 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 663 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 664 not directories, such as <filename 665 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 666 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 667 668 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 669 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 670 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 671 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 672 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 673 674 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 675 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 676 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 677 678 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 679 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 680 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 681 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 682 683 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 684 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 685 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 686 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 687 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 688 web interface.</para> 689 690 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 691 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 692 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 693 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 694 695 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 696 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 697 has been fixed.</para> 698 699 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 700 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 701 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 702 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 703 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 704 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 705 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 706 707 <note> 708 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 709 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 710 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 711 </note> 712 713 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 714 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 715 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 716 717 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 718 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 719 720 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 721 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 722 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 723 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 724 725 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 726 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 727 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 728 729 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 730 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 731 also specifying <literal>-n 732 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 733 734 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 735 updated to include support for both fixed- and 736 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 737 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 738 739 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 740 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 741 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 742 743 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 744 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 745 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 746 747 <para>This update includes:</para> 748 749 <itemizedlist> 750 <listitem> 751 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 752 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 753 variables.</para> 754 </listitem> 755 756 <listitem> 757 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 758 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 759 </listitem> 760 761 <listitem> 762 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 763 which is used to pass the host path to 764 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 765 </listitem> 766 767 <listitem> 768 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 769 has been added.</para> 770 </listitem> 771 772 <listitem> 773 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 774 removed.</para> 775 </listitem> 776 </itemizedlist> 777 778 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 779 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 780 781 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 782 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 783 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 784 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 785 depending on the platform.</para> 786 787 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 788 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 789 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 790 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 791 value and a low number of packets to send has been 792 specified.</para> 793 794 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 795 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 796 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 797 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 798 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 799 800 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 801 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 802 803 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 804 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 805 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 806 a network alias of 807 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 808 would not be created if 809 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 810 not defined.</para> 811 812 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 813 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 814 before traversing the directory.</para> 815 </sect3> 816 </sect2> 817 818 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 819 <title>Contributed Software</title> 820 821 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 822 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 823 824 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 825 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 826 827 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 828 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 829 830 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 831 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 832 833 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 834 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 835 836 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 837 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 838 839 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 840 updated to version 20140422.</para> 841 842 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 843 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 844 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 845 846 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 847 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 848 1.4.22.</para> 849 850 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 851 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 852 853 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 854 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 855 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 856 updated:</para> 857 858 <itemizedlist> 859 <listitem> 860 <para><application>apr</application> has been 861 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 862 </listitem> 863 864 <listitem> 865 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 866 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 867 </listitem> 868 869 <listitem> 870 <para><application>serf</application> has been 871 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 872 </listitem> 873 874 <listitem> 875 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 876 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 877 </listitem> 878 </itemizedlist> 879 </sect2> 880 881 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 882 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 883 884 <para> </para> 885 886 </sect2> 887 888 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 889 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 890 891 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 892 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 893 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 894 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 895 cross-built releases.</para> 896 </sect2> 897 898 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 899 <title>Documentation</title> 900 901 <para> </para> 902 903 </sect2> 904 </sect1> 905 906 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 907 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 908 909 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 910 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 911 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 912 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 913 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 914 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 915 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 916 connectivity.</para> 917 918 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 919 base system from source code) from previous versions are 920 supported, according to the instructions in 921 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 922 923 <important> 924 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 925 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 926 files.</para> 927 </important> 928 </sect1> 929</article> 930