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1210284Sjmallett<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2232812Sjmallett<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 3215990Sjmallett "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4210284Sjmallett<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> 5210284Sjmallett %release; 6215990Sjmallett<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" "sponsor.ent"> 7215990Sjmallett %sponsor; 8215990Sjmallett<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" "vendor.ent"> 9210284Sjmallett %vendor; 10215990Sjmallett]> 11215990Sjmallett<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 12210284Sjmallett xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 13215990Sjmallett 14215990Sjmallett <info> 15215990Sjmallett <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 16215990Sjmallett 17215990Sjmallett <author> 18232812Sjmallett <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 19215990Sjmallett </author> 20215990Sjmallett 21215990Sjmallett <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 270621 2014-08-25 20:37:03Z gjb $</pubdate> 22215990Sjmallett 23215990Sjmallett <copyright> 24215990Sjmallett <year>2000</year> 25215990Sjmallett <year>2001</year> 26215990Sjmallett <year>2002</year> 27215990Sjmallett <year>2003</year> 28215990Sjmallett <year>2004</year> 29232812Sjmallett <year>2005</year> 30215990Sjmallett <year>2006</year> 31215990Sjmallett <year>2007</year> 32215990Sjmallett <year>2008</year> 33215990Sjmallett <year>2009</year> 34215990Sjmallett <year>2010</year> 35215990Sjmallett <year>2011</year> 36215990Sjmallett <year>2012</year> 37215990Sjmallett <year>2013</year> 38210284Sjmallett <year>2014</year> 39210284Sjmallett <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 40210284Sjmallett Project</holder> 41210284Sjmallett </copyright> 42210284Sjmallett 43210284Sjmallett <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 44210284Sjmallett &tm-attrib.freebsd; 45215990Sjmallett &tm-attrib.ibm; 46210284Sjmallett &tm-attrib.ieee; 47210284Sjmallett &tm-attrib.intel; 48210284Sjmallett &tm-attrib.sparc; 49210284Sjmallett &tm-attrib.general; 50210284Sjmallett </legalnotice> 51210284Sjmallett 52210284Sjmallett <abstract> 53210284Sjmallett <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 54232812Sjmallett a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 55210284Sjmallett &release.branch; development line. This document lists 56210284Sjmallett applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 57210284Sjmallett release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 58210284Sjmallett userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 59210284Sjmallett presented.</para> 60210284Sjmallett </abstract> 61210284Sjmallett </info> 62210284Sjmallett 63210284Sjmallett <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 64210284Sjmallett <title>Introduction</title> 65210284Sjmallett 66210284Sjmallett <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 67210284Sjmallett &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 68210284Sjmallett deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 69210284Sjmallett 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> 396 397 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 398 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 399 400 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 401 <tgroup cols="2"> 402 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 403 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 404 <thead> 405 <row> 406 <entry>Old Name</entry> 407 <entry>New Name</entry> 408 </row> 409 </thead> 410 411 <tbody> 412 <row> 413 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 414 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 415 </row> 416 417 <row> 418 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 419 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 420 </row> 421 422 <row> 423 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 424 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 425 </row> 426 427 <row> 428 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 429 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 430 </row> 431 432 <row> 433 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 434 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 435 </row> 436 437 <row> 438 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 439 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 440 </row> 441 442 <row> 443 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 444 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 445 </row> 446 447 <row> 448 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 449 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 450 </row> 451 452 <row> 453 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 454 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 455 </row> 456 </tbody> 457 </tgroup> 458 </informaltable> 459 460 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 461 old tunables before upgrading to 462 &os; &release.current;.</para> 463 </sect4> 464 </sect3> 465 466 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 467 <title>Network Protocols</title> 468 469 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 470 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 471 stacks.</para> 472 473 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 474 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 475 fixed.</para> 476 </sect3> 477 478 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 479 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 480 481 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 482 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 483 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 484 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 485 but the label provider in <filename 486 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 487 resized.</para> 488 489 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 490 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 491 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 492 components have been replaced.</para> 493 494 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 495 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 496 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 497 partition size are not saved to disk until 498 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 499 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 500 501 <para revision="268091">Support for the 502 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 503 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 504 505 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 506 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 507 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 508 system.</para> 509 510 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 511 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has 512 been increased from 32 to 128.</para> 513 </sect3> 514 515 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 516 <title>File Systems</title> 517 518 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 519 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 520 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 521 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 522 errors have been detected.</para> 523 524 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 525 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 526 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 527 528 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 529 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 530 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 531 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 532 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 533 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 534 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 535 536 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 537 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 538 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 539 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 540 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 541 542 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 543 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 544 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 545 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 546 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 547 548 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 549 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 550 551 <itemizedlist> 552 <listitem> 553 <para> 554 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 555 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 556 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 557 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 558 threshold.</para> 559 </listitem> 560 561 <listitem> 562 <para> 563 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 564 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 565 keep their active state</para> 566 </listitem> 567 </itemizedlist> 568 569 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 570 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 571 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 572 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 573 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 574 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 575 cached reads. The 576 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 577 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 578 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 579 tunable is 8192.</para> 580 </sect3> 581 </sect2> 582 583 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 584 <title>Userland Changes</title> 585 586 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 587 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 588 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 589 their parents.</para> 590 591 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 592 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 593 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 594 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 595 596 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 597 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 598 To use a non-default location, set 599 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 600 location of the file.</para> 601 602 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 603 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 604 605 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 606 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 607 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 608 609 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 610 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 611 612 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 613 been updated to include aliases for 614 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 615 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 616 snap</command>.</para> 617 618 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 619 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 620 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 621 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 622 623 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 624 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 625 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 626 characters long.</para> 627 628 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 629 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 630 631 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 632 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 633 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 634 2822.</para> 635 636 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 637 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 638 639 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 640 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 641 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 642 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 643 points.</para> 644 645 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 646 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 647 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 648 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 649 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 650 651 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 652 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 653 654 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 655 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 656 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 657 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 658 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 659 660 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 661 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 662 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 663 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 664 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 665 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 666 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 667 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 668 669 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 670 and related image activator features have been merged from 671 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 672 673 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 674 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 675 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 676 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 677 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 678 host system.</para> 679 680 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 681 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 682 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 683 684 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 685 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 686 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 687 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 688 689 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 690 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 691 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 692 before <filename 693 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 694 695 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 696 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 697 698 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 699 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 700 701 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 702 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 703 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 704 705 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 706 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 707 ends event collection after the specified number of 708 seconds.</para> 709 710 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 711 been updated to avoid printing 712 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 713 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 714 715 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 716 has been updated to include optional 717 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 718 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 719 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 720 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 721 722 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 723 includes files in the 724 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 725 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 726 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 727 728 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 729 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 730 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 731 not directories, such as <filename 732 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 733 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 734 735 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 736 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 737 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 738 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 739 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 740 741 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 742 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 743 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 744 745 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 746 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 747 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 748 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 749 750 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 751 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 752 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 753 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 754 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 755 web interface.</para> 756 757 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 758 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 759 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 760 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 761 762 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 763 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 764 has been fixed.</para> 765 766 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 767 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 768 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 769 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 770 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 771 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 772 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 773 774 <note> 775 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 776 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 777 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 778 </note> 779 780 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 781 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 782 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 783 784 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 785 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 786 787 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 788 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 789 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 790 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 791 792 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 793 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 794 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 795 796 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 797 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 798 also specifying <literal>-n 799 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 800 801 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 802 updated to include support for both fixed- and 803 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 804 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 805 806 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 807 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 808 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 809 810 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 811 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 812 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 813 814 <para>This update includes:</para> 815 816 <itemizedlist> 817 <listitem> 818 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 819 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 820 variables.</para> 821 </listitem> 822 823 <listitem> 824 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 825 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 826 </listitem> 827 828 <listitem> 829 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 830 which is used to pass the host path to 831 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 832 </listitem> 833 834 <listitem> 835 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 836 has been added.</para> 837 </listitem> 838 839 <listitem> 840 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 841 removed.</para> 842 </listitem> 843 </itemizedlist> 844 845 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 846 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 847 848 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 849 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 850 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 851 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 852 depending on the platform.</para> 853 854 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 855 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 856 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 857 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 858 value and a low number of packets to send has been 859 specified.</para> 860 861 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 862 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 863 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 864 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 865 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 866 867 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 868 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 869 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 870 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 871 added back.</para> 872 873 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 874 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 875 876 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 877 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 878 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 879 a network alias of 880 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 881 would not be created if 882 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 883 not defined.</para> 884 885 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 886 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 887 before traversing the directory.</para> 888 </sect3> 889 </sect2> 890 891 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 892 <title>Contributed Software</title> 893 894 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 895 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 896 897 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 898 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 899 900 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 901 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 902 903 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 904 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 905 906 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 907 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 908 909 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 910 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 911 912 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 913 updated to version 20140422.</para> 914 915 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 916 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 917 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 918 919 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 920 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 921 1.4.22.</para> 922 923 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 924 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 925 926 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 927 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 928 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 929 updated:</para> 930 931 <itemizedlist> 932 <listitem> 933 <para><application>apr</application> has been 934 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 935 </listitem> 936 937 <listitem> 938 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 939 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 940 </listitem> 941 942 <listitem> 943 <para><application>serf</application> has been 944 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 945 </listitem> 946 947 <listitem> 948 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 949 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 950 </listitem> 951 </itemizedlist> 952 953 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 954 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 955 </sect2> 956 957 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 958 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 959 960 <para> </para> 961 962 </sect2> 963 964 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 965 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 966 967 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 968 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 969 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 970 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 971 cross-built releases.</para> 972 </sect2> 973 974 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 975 <title>Documentation</title> 976 977 <para> </para> 978 979 </sect2> 980 </sect1> 981 982 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 983 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 984 985 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 986 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 987 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 988 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 989 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 990 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 991 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 992 connectivity.</para> 993 994 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 995 base system from source code) from previous versions are 996 supported, according to the instructions in 997 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 998 999 <important> 1000 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1001 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1002 files.</para> 1003 </important> 1004 </sect1> 1005</article> 1006