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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 270632 2014-08-25 22:19:48Z 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" contrib="sponsor" 257 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been added 258 to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> driver.</para> 259 260 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 261 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 262 263 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 264 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 265 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 266 configuration.</para> 267 268 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 269 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 270 state.</para> 271 272 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 273 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 274 275 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 276 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 277 allowing guest operating systems to use 278 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 279 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 280 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 281 282 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 283 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 284 285 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 286 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 287 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 288 </sect3> 289 290 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 291 <title>ARM Support</title> 292 293 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 294 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 295 296 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 297 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 298 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 299 the boot device, set the 300 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 301 u-boot environment variable.</para> 302 303 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 304 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 305 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 306 in most cases.</para> 307 308 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 309 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 310 311 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 312 configuration file has been updated to include 313 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 314 </sect3> 315 316 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 317 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 318 319 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 320 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 321 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 322 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 323 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 324 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 325 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 326 </sect3> 327 328 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 329 <title>Hardware Support</title> 330 331 <para> </para> 332 333 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 334 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 335 336 <para> </para> 337 338 </sect4> 339 340 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 341 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 342 343 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 344 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 345 driver.</para> 346 347 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 348 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 349 350 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 351 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 352 353 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 354 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 355 instead.</para> 356 357 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 358 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 359 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 360 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 361 362 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 363 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 364 365 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 366 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 367 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 368 369 <note> 370 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 371 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 372 multiple queues.</para> 373 </note> 374 375 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 376 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 377 driver.</para> 378 379 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 380 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 381 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 382 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 383 generating corrupt frames.</para> 384 385 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 386 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 387 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 388 389 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 390 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 391 driver.</para> 392 393 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 394 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 395 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 396 1.11.27.0.</para> 397 398 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 399 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 400 401 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 402 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 403 404 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 405 <tgroup cols="2"> 406 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 407 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 408 <thead> 409 <row> 410 <entry>Old Name</entry> 411 <entry>New Name</entry> 412 </row> 413 </thead> 414 415 <tbody> 416 <row> 417 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 418 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 419 </row> 420 421 <row> 422 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 423 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 424 </row> 425 426 <row> 427 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 428 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 429 </row> 430 431 <row> 432 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 433 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 434 </row> 435 436 <row> 437 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 438 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 439 </row> 440 441 <row> 442 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 443 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 444 </row> 445 446 <row> 447 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 448 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 449 </row> 450 451 <row> 452 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 453 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 454 </row> 455 456 <row> 457 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 458 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 459 </row> 460 </tbody> 461 </tgroup> 462 </informaltable> 463 464 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 465 old tunables before upgrading to 466 &os; &release.current;.</para> 467 468 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 469 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 470 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 471 </sect4> 472 </sect3> 473 474 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 475 <title>Network Protocols</title> 476 477 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 478 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 479 stacks.</para> 480 481 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 482 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 483 fixed.</para> 484 </sect3> 485 486 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 487 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 488 489 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 490 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 491 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 492 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 493 but the label provider in <filename 494 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 495 resized.</para> 496 497 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 498 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 499 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 500 components have been replaced.</para> 501 502 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 503 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 504 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 505 partition size are not saved to disk until 506 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 507 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 508 509 <para revision="268091">Support for the 510 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 511 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 512 513 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 514 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 515 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 516 system.</para> 517 518 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 519 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has 520 been increased from 32 to 128.</para> 521 </sect3> 522 523 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 524 <title>File Systems</title> 525 526 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 527 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 528 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 529 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 530 errors have been detected.</para> 531 532 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 533 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 534 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 535 536 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 537 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 538 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 539 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 540 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 541 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 542 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 543 544 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 545 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 546 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 547 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 548 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 549 550 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 551 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 552 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 553 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 554 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 555 556 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 557 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 558 559 <itemizedlist> 560 <listitem> 561 <para> 562 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 563 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 564 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 565 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 566 threshold.</para> 567 </listitem> 568 569 <listitem> 570 <para> 571 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 572 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 573 keep their active state</para> 574 </listitem> 575 </itemizedlist> 576 577 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 578 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 579 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 580 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 581 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 582 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 583 cached reads. The 584 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 585 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 586 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 587 tunable is 8192.</para> 588 589 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 590 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 591 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 592 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 593 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 594 </sect3> 595 </sect2> 596 597 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 598 <title>Userland Changes</title> 599 600 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 601 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 602 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 603 their parents.</para> 604 605 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 606 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 607 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 608 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 609 610 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 611 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 612 To use a non-default location, set 613 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 614 location of the file.</para> 615 616 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 617 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 618 619 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 620 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 621 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 622 623 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 624 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 625 626 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 627 been updated to include aliases for 628 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 629 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 630 snap</command>.</para> 631 632 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 633 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 634 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 635 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 636 637 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 638 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 639 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 640 characters long.</para> 641 642 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 643 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 644 645 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 646 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 647 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 648 2822.</para> 649 650 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 651 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 652 653 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 654 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 655 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 656 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 657 points.</para> 658 659 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 660 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 661 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 662 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 663 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 664 665 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 666 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 667 668 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 669 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 670 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 671 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 672 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 673 674 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 675 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 676 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 677 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 678 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 679 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 680 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 681 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 682 683 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 684 and related image activator features have been merged from 685 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 686 687 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 688 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 689 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 690 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 691 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 692 host system.</para> 693 694 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 695 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 696 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 697 698 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 699 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 700 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 701 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 702 703 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 704 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 705 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 706 before <filename 707 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 708 709 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 710 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 711 712 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 713 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 714 715 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 716 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 717 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 718 719 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 720 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 721 ends event collection after the specified number of 722 seconds.</para> 723 724 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 725 been updated to avoid printing 726 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 727 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 728 729 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 730 has been updated to include optional 731 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 732 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 733 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 734 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 735 736 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 737 includes files in the 738 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 739 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 740 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 741 742 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 743 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 744 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 745 not directories, such as <filename 746 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 747 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 748 749 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 750 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 751 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 752 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 753 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 754 755 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 756 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 757 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 758 759 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 760 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 761 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 762 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 763 764 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 765 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 766 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 767 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 768 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 769 web interface.</para> 770 771 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 772 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 773 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 774 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 775 776 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 777 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 778 has been fixed.</para> 779 780 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 781 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 782 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 783 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 784 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 785 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 786 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 787 788 <note> 789 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 790 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 791 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 792 </note> 793 794 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 795 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 796 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 797 798 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 799 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 800 801 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 802 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 803 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 804 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 805 806 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 807 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 808 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 809 810 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 811 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 812 also specifying <literal>-n 813 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 814 815 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 816 updated to include support for both fixed- and 817 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 818 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 819 820 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 821 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 822 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 823 824 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 825 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 826 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 827 828 <para>This update includes:</para> 829 830 <itemizedlist> 831 <listitem> 832 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 833 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 834 variables.</para> 835 </listitem> 836 837 <listitem> 838 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 839 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 840 </listitem> 841 842 <listitem> 843 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 844 which is used to pass the host path to 845 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 846 </listitem> 847 848 <listitem> 849 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 850 has been added.</para> 851 </listitem> 852 853 <listitem> 854 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 855 removed.</para> 856 </listitem> 857 </itemizedlist> 858 859 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 860 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 861 862 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 863 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 864 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 865 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 866 depending on the platform.</para> 867 868 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 869 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 870 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 871 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 872 value and a low number of packets to send has been 873 specified.</para> 874 875 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 876 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 877 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 878 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 879 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 880 881 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 882 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 883 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 884 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 885 added back.</para> 886 887 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 888 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 889 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 890 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 891 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 892 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 893 894 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 895 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 896 897 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 898 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 899 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 900 a network alias of 901 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 902 would not be created if 903 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 904 not defined.</para> 905 906 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 907 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 908 before traversing the directory.</para> 909 </sect3> 910 </sect2> 911 912 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 913 <title>Contributed Software</title> 914 915 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 916 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 917 918 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 919 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 920 921 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 922 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 923 924 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 925 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 926 927 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 928 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 929 930 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 931 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 932 933 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 934 updated to version 20140422.</para> 935 936 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 937 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 938 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 939 940 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 941 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 942 1.4.22.</para> 943 944 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 945 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 946 947 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 948 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 949 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 950 updated:</para> 951 952 <itemizedlist> 953 <listitem> 954 <para><application>apr</application> has been 955 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 956 </listitem> 957 958 <listitem> 959 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 960 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 961 </listitem> 962 963 <listitem> 964 <para><application>serf</application> has been 965 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 966 </listitem> 967 968 <listitem> 969 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 970 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 971 </listitem> 972 </itemizedlist> 973 974 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 975 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 976 977 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 978 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 979 </sect2> 980 981 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 982 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 983 984 <para> </para> 985 986 </sect2> 987 988 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 989 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 990 991 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 992 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 993 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 994 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 995 cross-built releases.</para> 996 </sect2> 997 998 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 999 <title>Documentation</title> 1000 1001 <para> </para> 1002 1003 </sect2> 1004 </sect1> 1005 1006 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1007 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1008 1009 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1010 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1011 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1012 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1013 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 1014 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 1015 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1016 connectivity.</para> 1017 1018 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1019 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1020 supported, according to the instructions in 1021 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1022 1023 <important> 1024 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1025 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1026 files.</para> 1027 </important> 1028 </sect1> 1029</article> 1030