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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 270624 2014-08-25 20:37:09Z 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> 396 397 <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> 463 464 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 465 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 466 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 467 </sect4> 468 </sect3> 469 470 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 471 <title>Network Protocols</title> 472 473 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 474 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 475 stacks.</para> 476 477 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 478 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 479 fixed.</para> 480 </sect3> 481 482 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 483 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 484 485 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 486 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 487 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 488 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 489 but the label provider in <filename 490 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 491 resized.</para> 492 493 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 494 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 495 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 496 components have been replaced.</para> 497 498 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 499 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 500 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 501 partition size are not saved to disk until 502 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 503 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 504 505 <para revision="268091">Support for the 506 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 507 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 508 509 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 510 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 511 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 512 system.</para> 513 514 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 515 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has 516 been increased from 32 to 128.</para> 517 </sect3> 518 519 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 520 <title>File Systems</title> 521 522 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 523 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 524 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 525 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 526 errors have been detected.</para> 527 528 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 529 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 530 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 531 532 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 533 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 534 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 535 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 536 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 537 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 538 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 539 540 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 541 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 542 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 543 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 544 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 545 546 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 547 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 548 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 549 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 550 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 551 552 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 553 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 554 555 <itemizedlist> 556 <listitem> 557 <para> 558 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 559 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 560 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 561 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 562 threshold.</para> 563 </listitem> 564 565 <listitem> 566 <para> 567 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 568 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 569 keep their active state</para> 570 </listitem> 571 </itemizedlist> 572 573 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 574 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 575 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 576 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 577 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 578 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 579 cached reads. The 580 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 581 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 582 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 583 tunable is 8192.</para> 584 </sect3> 585 </sect2> 586 587 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 588 <title>Userland Changes</title> 589 590 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 591 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 592 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 593 their parents.</para> 594 595 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 596 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 597 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 598 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 599 600 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 601 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 602 To use a non-default location, set 603 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 604 location of the file.</para> 605 606 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 607 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 608 609 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 610 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 611 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 612 613 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 614 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 615 616 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 617 been updated to include aliases for 618 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 619 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 620 snap</command>.</para> 621 622 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 623 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 624 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 625 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 626 627 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 628 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 629 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 630 characters long.</para> 631 632 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 633 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 634 635 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 636 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 637 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 638 2822.</para> 639 640 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 641 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 642 643 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 644 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 645 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 646 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 647 points.</para> 648 649 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 650 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 651 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 652 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 653 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 654 655 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 656 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 657 658 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 659 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 660 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 661 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 662 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 663 664 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 665 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 666 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 667 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 668 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 669 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 670 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 671 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 672 673 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 674 and related image activator features have been merged from 675 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 676 677 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 678 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 679 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 680 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 681 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 682 host system.</para> 683 684 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 685 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 686 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 687 688 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 689 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 690 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 691 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 692 693 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 694 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 695 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 696 before <filename 697 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 698 699 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 700 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 701 702 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 703 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 704 705 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 706 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 707 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 708 709 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 710 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 711 ends event collection after the specified number of 712 seconds.</para> 713 714 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 715 been updated to avoid printing 716 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 717 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 718 719 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 720 has been updated to include optional 721 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 722 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 723 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 724 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 725 726 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 727 includes files in the 728 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 729 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 730 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 731 732 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 733 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 734 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 735 not directories, such as <filename 736 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 737 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 738 739 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 740 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 741 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 742 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 743 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 744 745 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 746 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 747 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 748 749 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 750 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 751 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 752 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 753 754 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 755 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 756 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 757 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 758 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 759 web interface.</para> 760 761 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 762 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 763 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 764 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 765 766 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 767 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 768 has been fixed.</para> 769 770 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 771 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 772 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 773 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 774 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 775 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 776 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 777 778 <note> 779 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 780 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 781 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 782 </note> 783 784 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 785 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 786 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 787 788 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 789 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 790 791 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 792 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 793 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 794 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 795 796 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 797 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 798 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 799 800 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 801 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 802 also specifying <literal>-n 803 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 804 805 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 806 updated to include support for both fixed- and 807 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 808 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 809 810 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 811 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 812 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 813 814 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 815 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 816 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 817 818 <para>This update includes:</para> 819 820 <itemizedlist> 821 <listitem> 822 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 823 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 824 variables.</para> 825 </listitem> 826 827 <listitem> 828 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 829 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 830 </listitem> 831 832 <listitem> 833 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 834 which is used to pass the host path to 835 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 836 </listitem> 837 838 <listitem> 839 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 840 has been added.</para> 841 </listitem> 842 843 <listitem> 844 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 845 removed.</para> 846 </listitem> 847 </itemizedlist> 848 849 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 850 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 851 852 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 853 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 854 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 855 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 856 depending on the platform.</para> 857 858 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 859 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 860 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 861 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 862 value and a low number of packets to send has been 863 specified.</para> 864 865 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 866 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 867 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 868 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 869 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 870 871 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 872 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 873 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 874 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 875 added back.</para> 876 877 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 878 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 879 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 880 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 881 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 882 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 883 884 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 885 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 886 887 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 888 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 889 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 890 a network alias of 891 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 892 would not be created if 893 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 894 not defined.</para> 895 896 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 897 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 898 before traversing the directory.</para> 899 </sect3> 900 </sect2> 901 902 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 903 <title>Contributed Software</title> 904 905 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 906 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 907 908 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 909 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 910 911 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 912 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 913 914 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 915 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 916 917 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 918 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 919 920 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 921 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 922 923 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 924 updated to version 20140422.</para> 925 926 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 927 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 928 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 929 930 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 931 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 932 1.4.22.</para> 933 934 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 935 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 936 937 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 938 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 939 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 940 updated:</para> 941 942 <itemizedlist> 943 <listitem> 944 <para><application>apr</application> has been 945 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 946 </listitem> 947 948 <listitem> 949 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 950 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 951 </listitem> 952 953 <listitem> 954 <para><application>serf</application> has been 955 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 956 </listitem> 957 958 <listitem> 959 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 960 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 961 </listitem> 962 </itemizedlist> 963 964 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 965 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 966 967 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 968 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 969 </sect2> 970 971 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 972 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 973 974 <para> </para> 975 976 </sect2> 977 978 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 979 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 980 981 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 982 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 983 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 984 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 985 cross-built releases.</para> 986 </sect2> 987 988 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 989 <title>Documentation</title> 990 991 <para> </para> 992 993 </sect2> 994 </sect1> 995 996 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 997 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 998 999 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1000 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1001 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1002 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1003 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 1004 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 1005 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1006 connectivity.</para> 1007 1008 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1009 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1010 supported, according to the instructions in 1011 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1012 1013 <important> 1014 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1015 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1016 files.</para> 1017 </important> 1018 </sect1> 1019</article> 1020