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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 270625 2014-08-25 20:37:10Z 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 <para revision="270130">Support for unmapped I/O has been added 257 to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> driver.</para> 258 259 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 260 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 261 262 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 263 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 264 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 265 configuration.</para> 266 267 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 268 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 269 state.</para> 270 271 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 272 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 273 274 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 275 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 276 allowing guest operating systems to use 277 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 278 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 279 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 280 281 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 282 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 283 284 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 285 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 286 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 287 </sect3> 288 289 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 290 <title>ARM Support</title> 291 292 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 293 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 294 295 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 296 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 297 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 298 the boot device, set the 299 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 300 u-boot environment variable.</para> 301 302 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 303 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 304 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 305 in most cases.</para> 306 307 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 308 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 309 310 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 311 configuration file has been updated to include 312 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 313 </sect3> 314 315 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 316 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 317 318 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 319 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 320 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 321 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 322 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 323 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 324 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 325 </sect3> 326 327 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 328 <title>Hardware Support</title> 329 330 <para> </para> 331 332 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 333 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 334 335 <para> </para> 336 337 </sect4> 338 339 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 340 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 341 342 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 343 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 344 driver.</para> 345 346 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 347 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 348 349 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 350 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 351 352 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 353 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 354 instead.</para> 355 356 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 357 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 358 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 359 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 360 361 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 362 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 363 364 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 365 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 366 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 367 368 <note> 369 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 370 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 371 multiple queues.</para> 372 </note> 373 374 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 375 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 376 driver.</para> 377 378 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 379 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 380 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 381 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 382 generating corrupt frames.</para> 383 384 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 385 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 386 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 387 388 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 389 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 390 driver.</para> 391 392 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 393 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 394 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 395 1.11.27.0.</para> 396 397 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 398 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 399 400 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 401 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 402 403 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 404 <tgroup cols="2"> 405 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 406 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 407 <thead> 408 <row> 409 <entry>Old Name</entry> 410 <entry>New Name</entry> 411 </row> 412 </thead> 413 414 <tbody> 415 <row> 416 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 417 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 418 </row> 419 420 <row> 421 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 422 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 423 </row> 424 425 <row> 426 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 427 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 428 </row> 429 430 <row> 431 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 432 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 433 </row> 434 435 <row> 436 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 437 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 438 </row> 439 440 <row> 441 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 442 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 443 </row> 444 445 <row> 446 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 447 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 448 </row> 449 450 <row> 451 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 452 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 453 </row> 454 455 <row> 456 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 457 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 458 </row> 459 </tbody> 460 </tgroup> 461 </informaltable> 462 463 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 464 old tunables before upgrading to 465 &os; &release.current;.</para> 466 467 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 468 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 469 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 470 </sect4> 471 </sect3> 472 473 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 474 <title>Network Protocols</title> 475 476 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 477 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 478 stacks.</para> 479 480 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 481 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 482 fixed.</para> 483 </sect3> 484 485 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 486 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 487 488 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 489 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 490 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 491 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 492 but the label provider in <filename 493 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 494 resized.</para> 495 496 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 497 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 498 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 499 components have been replaced.</para> 500 501 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 502 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 503 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 504 partition size are not saved to disk until 505 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 506 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 507 508 <para revision="268091">Support for the 509 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 510 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 511 512 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 513 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 514 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 515 system.</para> 516 517 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 518 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has 519 been increased from 32 to 128.</para> 520 </sect3> 521 522 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 523 <title>File Systems</title> 524 525 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 526 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 527 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 528 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 529 errors have been detected.</para> 530 531 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 532 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 533 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 534 535 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 536 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 537 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 538 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 539 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 540 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 541 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 542 543 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 544 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 545 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 546 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 547 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 548 549 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 550 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 551 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 552 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 553 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 554 555 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 556 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 557 558 <itemizedlist> 559 <listitem> 560 <para> 561 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 562 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 563 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 564 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 565 threshold.</para> 566 </listitem> 567 568 <listitem> 569 <para> 570 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 571 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 572 keep their active state</para> 573 </listitem> 574 </itemizedlist> 575 576 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 577 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 578 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 579 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 580 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 581 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 582 cached reads. The 583 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 584 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 585 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 586 tunable is 8192.</para> 587 </sect3> 588 </sect2> 589 590 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 591 <title>Userland Changes</title> 592 593 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 594 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 595 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 596 their parents.</para> 597 598 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 599 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 600 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 601 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 602 603 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 604 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 605 To use a non-default location, set 606 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 607 location of the file.</para> 608 609 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 610 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 611 612 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 613 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 614 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 615 616 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 617 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 618 619 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 620 been updated to include aliases for 621 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 622 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 623 snap</command>.</para> 624 625 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 626 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 627 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 628 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 629 630 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 631 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 632 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 633 characters long.</para> 634 635 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 636 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 637 638 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 639 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 640 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 641 2822.</para> 642 643 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 644 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 645 646 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 647 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 648 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 649 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 650 points.</para> 651 652 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 653 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 654 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 655 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 656 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 657 658 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 659 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 660 661 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 662 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 663 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 664 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 665 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 666 667 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 668 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 669 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 670 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 671 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 672 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 673 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 674 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 675 676 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 677 and related image activator features have been merged from 678 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 679 680 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 681 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 682 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 683 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 684 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 685 host system.</para> 686 687 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 688 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 689 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 690 691 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 692 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 693 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 694 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 695 696 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 697 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 698 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 699 before <filename 700 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 701 702 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 703 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 704 705 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 706 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 707 708 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 709 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 710 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 711 712 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 713 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 714 ends event collection after the specified number of 715 seconds.</para> 716 717 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 718 been updated to avoid printing 719 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 720 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 721 722 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 723 has been updated to include optional 724 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 725 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 726 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 727 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 728 729 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 730 includes files in the 731 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 732 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 733 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 734 735 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 736 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 737 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 738 not directories, such as <filename 739 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 740 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 741 742 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 743 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 744 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 745 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 746 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 747 748 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 749 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 750 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 751 752 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 753 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 754 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 755 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 756 757 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 758 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 759 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 760 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 761 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 762 web interface.</para> 763 764 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 765 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 766 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 767 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 768 769 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 770 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 771 has been fixed.</para> 772 773 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 774 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 775 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 776 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 777 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 778 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 779 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 780 781 <note> 782 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 783 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 784 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 785 </note> 786 787 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 788 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 789 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 790 791 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 792 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 793 794 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 795 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 796 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 797 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 798 799 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 800 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 801 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 802 803 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 804 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 805 also specifying <literal>-n 806 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 807 808 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 809 updated to include support for both fixed- and 810 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 811 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 812 813 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 814 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 815 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 816 817 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 818 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 819 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 820 821 <para>This update includes:</para> 822 823 <itemizedlist> 824 <listitem> 825 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 826 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 827 variables.</para> 828 </listitem> 829 830 <listitem> 831 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 832 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 833 </listitem> 834 835 <listitem> 836 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 837 which is used to pass the host path to 838 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 839 </listitem> 840 841 <listitem> 842 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 843 has been added.</para> 844 </listitem> 845 846 <listitem> 847 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 848 removed.</para> 849 </listitem> 850 </itemizedlist> 851 852 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 853 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 854 855 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 856 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 857 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 858 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 859 depending on the platform.</para> 860 861 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 862 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 863 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 864 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 865 value and a low number of packets to send has been 866 specified.</para> 867 868 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 869 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 870 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 871 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 872 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 873 874 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 875 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 876 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 877 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 878 added back.</para> 879 880 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 881 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 882 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 883 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 884 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 885 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 886 887 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 888 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 889 890 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 891 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 892 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 893 a network alias of 894 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 895 would not be created if 896 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 897 not defined.</para> 898 899 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 900 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 901 before traversing the directory.</para> 902 </sect3> 903 </sect2> 904 905 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 906 <title>Contributed Software</title> 907 908 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 909 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 910 911 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 912 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 913 914 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 915 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 916 917 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 918 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 919 920 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 921 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 922 923 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 924 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 925 926 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 927 updated to version 20140422.</para> 928 929 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 930 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 931 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 932 933 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 934 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 935 1.4.22.</para> 936 937 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 938 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 939 940 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 941 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 942 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 943 updated:</para> 944 945 <itemizedlist> 946 <listitem> 947 <para><application>apr</application> has been 948 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 949 </listitem> 950 951 <listitem> 952 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 953 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 954 </listitem> 955 956 <listitem> 957 <para><application>serf</application> has been 958 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 959 </listitem> 960 961 <listitem> 962 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 963 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 964 </listitem> 965 </itemizedlist> 966 967 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 968 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 969 970 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 971 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 972 </sect2> 973 974 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 975 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 976 977 <para> </para> 978 979 </sect2> 980 981 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 982 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 983 984 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 985 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 986 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 987 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 988 cross-built releases.</para> 989 </sect2> 990 991 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 992 <title>Documentation</title> 993 994 <para> </para> 995 996 </sect2> 997 </sect1> 998 999 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1000 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1001 1002 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1003 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1004 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1005 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1006 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 1007 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 1008 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1009 connectivity.</para> 1010 1011 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1012 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1013 supported, according to the instructions in 1014 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1015 1016 <important> 1017 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1018 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1019 files.</para> 1020 </important> 1021 </sect1> 1022</article> 1023