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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 270634 2014-08-25 22:19:52Z 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> 288 289 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been 290 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 291 292 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several 293 bug fixes, including:</para> 294 295 <itemizedlist> 296 <listitem> 297 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when 298 a guest virtual machine exits with an <quote> 299 <acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote> 300 error.</para> 301 </listitem> 302 303 <listitem> 304 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym> 305 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para> 306 </listitem> 307 308 <listitem> 309 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual 310 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para> 311 </listitem> 312 313 <listitem> 314 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task 315 switching has been added.</para> 316 </listitem> 317 318 <listitem> 319 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel 320 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para> 321 </listitem> 322 323 <listitem> 324 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space 325 has been added.</para> 326 </listitem> 327 </itemizedlist> 328 </sect3> 329 330 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 331 <title>ARM Support</title> 332 333 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 334 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 335 336 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 337 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 338 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 339 the boot device, set the 340 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 341 u-boot environment variable.</para> 342 343 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 344 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 345 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 346 in most cases.</para> 347 348 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 349 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 350 351 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 352 configuration file has been updated to include 353 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 354 </sect3> 355 356 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 357 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 358 359 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 360 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 361 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 362 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 363 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 364 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 365 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 366 </sect3> 367 368 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 369 <title>Hardware Support</title> 370 371 <para> </para> 372 373 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 374 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 375 376 <para> </para> 377 378 </sect4> 379 380 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 381 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 382 383 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 384 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 385 driver.</para> 386 387 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 388 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 389 390 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 391 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 392 393 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 394 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 395 instead.</para> 396 397 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 398 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 399 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 400 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 401 402 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 403 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 404 405 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 406 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 407 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 408 409 <note> 410 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 411 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 412 multiple queues.</para> 413 </note> 414 415 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 416 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 417 driver.</para> 418 419 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 420 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 421 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 422 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 423 generating corrupt frames.</para> 424 425 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 426 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 427 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 428 429 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 430 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 431 driver.</para> 432 433 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 434 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 435 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 436 1.11.27.0.</para> 437 438 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 439 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 440 441 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 442 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 443 444 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 445 <tgroup cols="2"> 446 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 447 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 448 <thead> 449 <row> 450 <entry>Old Name</entry> 451 <entry>New Name</entry> 452 </row> 453 </thead> 454 455 <tbody> 456 <row> 457 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 458 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 459 </row> 460 461 <row> 462 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 463 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 464 </row> 465 466 <row> 467 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 468 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 469 </row> 470 471 <row> 472 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 473 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 474 </row> 475 476 <row> 477 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 478 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 479 </row> 480 481 <row> 482 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 483 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 484 </row> 485 486 <row> 487 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 488 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 489 </row> 490 491 <row> 492 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 493 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 494 </row> 495 496 <row> 497 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 498 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 499 </row> 500 </tbody> 501 </tgroup> 502 </informaltable> 503 504 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 505 old tunables before upgrading to 506 &os; &release.current;.</para> 507 508 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 509 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 510 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 511 512 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 513 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 514 cards.</para> 515 </sect4> 516 </sect3> 517 518 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 519 <title>Network Protocols</title> 520 521 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 522 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 523 stacks.</para> 524 525 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 526 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 527 fixed.</para> 528 </sect3> 529 530 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 531 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 532 533 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 534 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 535 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 536 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 537 but the label provider in <filename 538 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 539 resized.</para> 540 541 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 542 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 543 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 544 components have been replaced.</para> 545 546 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 547 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 548 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 549 partition size are not saved to disk until 550 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 551 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 552 553 <para revision="268091">Support for the 554 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 555 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 556 557 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 558 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 559 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 560 system.</para> 561 562 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 563 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has 564 been increased from 32 to 128.</para> 565 </sect3> 566 567 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 568 <title>File Systems</title> 569 570 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 571 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 572 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 573 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 574 errors have been detected.</para> 575 576 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 577 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 578 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 579 580 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 581 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 582 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 583 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 584 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 585 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 586 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 587 588 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 589 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 590 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 591 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 592 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 593 594 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 595 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 596 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 597 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 598 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 599 600 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 601 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 602 603 <itemizedlist> 604 <listitem> 605 <para> 606 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 607 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 608 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 609 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 610 threshold.</para> 611 </listitem> 612 613 <listitem> 614 <para> 615 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 616 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 617 keep their active state</para> 618 </listitem> 619 </itemizedlist> 620 621 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 622 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 623 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 624 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 625 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 626 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 627 cached reads. The 628 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 629 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 630 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 631 tunable is 8192.</para> 632 633 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 634 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 635 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 636 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 637 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 638 </sect3> 639 </sect2> 640 641 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 642 <title>Userland Changes</title> 643 644 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 645 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 646 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 647 their parents.</para> 648 649 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 650 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 651 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 652 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 653 654 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 655 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 656 To use a non-default location, set 657 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 658 location of the file.</para> 659 660 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 661 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 662 663 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 664 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 665 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 666 667 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 668 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 669 670 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 671 been updated to include aliases for 672 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 673 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 674 snap</command>.</para> 675 676 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 677 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 678 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 679 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 680 681 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 682 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 683 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 684 characters long.</para> 685 686 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 687 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 688 689 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 690 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 691 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 692 2822.</para> 693 694 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 695 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 696 697 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 698 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 699 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 700 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 701 points.</para> 702 703 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 704 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 705 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 706 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 707 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 708 709 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 710 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 711 712 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 713 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 714 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 715 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 716 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 717 718 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 719 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 720 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 721 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 722 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 723 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 724 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 725 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 726 727 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 728 and related image activator features have been merged from 729 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 730 731 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 732 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 733 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 734 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 735 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 736 host system.</para> 737 738 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 739 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 740 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 741 742 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 743 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 744 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 745 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 746 747 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 748 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 749 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 750 before <filename 751 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 752 753 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 754 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 755 756 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 757 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 758 759 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 760 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 761 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 762 763 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 764 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 765 ends event collection after the specified number of 766 seconds.</para> 767 768 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 769 been updated to avoid printing 770 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 771 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 772 773 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 774 has been updated to include optional 775 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 776 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 777 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 778 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 779 780 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 781 includes files in the 782 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 783 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 784 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 785 786 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 787 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 788 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 789 not directories, such as <filename 790 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 791 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 792 793 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 794 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 795 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 796 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 797 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 798 799 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 800 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 801 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 802 803 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 804 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 805 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 806 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 807 808 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 809 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 810 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 811 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 812 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 813 web interface.</para> 814 815 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 816 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 817 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 818 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 819 820 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 821 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 822 has been fixed.</para> 823 824 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 825 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 826 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 827 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 828 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 829 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 830 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 831 832 <note> 833 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 834 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 835 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 836 </note> 837 838 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 839 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 840 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 841 842 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 843 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 844 845 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 846 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 847 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 848 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 849 850 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 851 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 852 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 853 854 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 855 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 856 also specifying <literal>-n 857 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 858 859 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 860 updated to include support for both fixed- and 861 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 862 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 863 864 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 865 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 866 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 867 868 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 869 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 870 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 871 872 <para>This update includes:</para> 873 874 <itemizedlist> 875 <listitem> 876 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 877 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 878 variables.</para> 879 </listitem> 880 881 <listitem> 882 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 883 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 884 </listitem> 885 886 <listitem> 887 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 888 which is used to pass the host path to 889 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 890 </listitem> 891 892 <listitem> 893 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 894 has been added.</para> 895 </listitem> 896 897 <listitem> 898 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 899 removed.</para> 900 </listitem> 901 </itemizedlist> 902 903 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 904 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 905 906 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 907 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 908 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 909 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 910 depending on the platform.</para> 911 912 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 913 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 914 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 915 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 916 value and a low number of packets to send has been 917 specified.</para> 918 919 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 920 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 921 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 922 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 923 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 924 925 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 926 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 927 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 928 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 929 added back.</para> 930 931 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 932 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 933 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 934 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 935 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 936 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 937 938 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 939 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 940 941 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 942 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 943 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 944 a network alias of 945 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 946 would not be created if 947 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 948 not defined.</para> 949 950 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 951 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 952 before traversing the directory.</para> 953 </sect3> 954 </sect2> 955 956 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 957 <title>Contributed Software</title> 958 959 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 960 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 961 962 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 963 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 964 965 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 966 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 967 968 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 969 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 970 971 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 972 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 973 974 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 975 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 976 977 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 978 updated to version 20140422.</para> 979 980 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 981 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 982 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 983 984 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 985 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 986 1.4.22.</para> 987 988 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 989 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 990 991 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 992 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 993 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 994 updated:</para> 995 996 <itemizedlist> 997 <listitem> 998 <para><application>apr</application> has been 999 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1000 </listitem> 1001 1002 <listitem> 1003 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1004 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1005 </listitem> 1006 1007 <listitem> 1008 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1009 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1010 </listitem> 1011 1012 <listitem> 1013 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1014 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1015 </listitem> 1016 </itemizedlist> 1017 1018 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1019 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1020 1021 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1022 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1023 </sect2> 1024 1025 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1026 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1027 1028 <para> </para> 1029 1030 </sect2> 1031 1032 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1033 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1034 1035 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1036 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1037 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1038 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1039 cross-built releases.</para> 1040 </sect2> 1041 1042 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1043 <title>Documentation</title> 1044 1045 <para> </para> 1046 1047 </sect2> 1048 </sect1> 1049 1050 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1051 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1052 1053 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1054 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1055 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1056 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1057 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 1058 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 1059 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1060 connectivity.</para> 1061 1062 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1063 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1064 supported, according to the instructions in 1065 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1066 1067 <important> 1068 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1069 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1070 files.</para> 1071 </important> 1072 </sect1> 1073</article> 1074