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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 270637 2014-08-25 22:19:58Z 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> 515 516 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 517 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 518 </sect4> 519 </sect3> 520 521 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 522 <title>Network Protocols</title> 523 524 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 525 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 526 stacks.</para> 527 528 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 529 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 530 fixed.</para> 531 </sect3> 532 533 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 534 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 535 536 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 537 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 538 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 539 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 540 but the label provider in <filename 541 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 542 resized.</para> 543 544 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 545 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 546 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 547 components have been replaced.</para> 548 549 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 550 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 551 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 552 partition size are not saved to disk until 553 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 554 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 555 556 <para revision="268091">Support for the 557 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 558 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 559 560 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 561 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 562 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 563 system.</para> 564 565 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 566 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has 567 been increased from 32 to 128.</para> 568 </sect3> 569 570 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 571 <title>File Systems</title> 572 573 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 574 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 575 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 576 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 577 errors have been detected.</para> 578 579 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 580 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 581 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 582 583 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 584 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 585 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 586 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 587 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 588 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 589 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 590 591 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 592 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 593 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 594 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 595 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 596 597 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 598 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 599 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 600 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 601 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 602 603 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 604 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 605 606 <itemizedlist> 607 <listitem> 608 <para> 609 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 610 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 611 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 612 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 613 threshold.</para> 614 </listitem> 615 616 <listitem> 617 <para> 618 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 619 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 620 keep their active state</para> 621 </listitem> 622 </itemizedlist> 623 624 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 625 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 626 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 627 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 628 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 629 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 630 cached reads. The 631 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 632 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 633 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 634 tunable is 8192.</para> 635 636 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 637 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 638 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 639 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 640 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 641 </sect3> 642 </sect2> 643 644 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 645 <title>Userland Changes</title> 646 647 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 648 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 649 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 650 their parents.</para> 651 652 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 653 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 654 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 655 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 656 657 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 658 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 659 To use a non-default location, set 660 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 661 location of the file.</para> 662 663 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 664 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 665 666 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 667 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 668 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 669 670 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 671 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 672 673 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 674 been updated to include aliases for 675 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 676 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 677 snap</command>.</para> 678 679 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 680 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 681 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 682 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 683 684 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 685 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 686 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 687 characters long.</para> 688 689 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 690 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 691 692 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 693 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 694 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 695 2822.</para> 696 697 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 698 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 699 700 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 701 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 702 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 703 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 704 points.</para> 705 706 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 707 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 708 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 709 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 710 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 711 712 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 713 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 714 715 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 716 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 717 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 718 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 719 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 720 721 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 722 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 723 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 724 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 725 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 726 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 727 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 728 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 729 730 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 731 and related image activator features have been merged from 732 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 733 734 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 735 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 736 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 737 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 738 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 739 host system.</para> 740 741 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 742 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 743 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 744 745 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 746 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 747 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 748 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 749 750 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 751 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 752 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 753 before <filename 754 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 755 756 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 757 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 758 759 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 760 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 761 762 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 763 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 764 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 765 766 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 767 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 768 ends event collection after the specified number of 769 seconds.</para> 770 771 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 772 been updated to avoid printing 773 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 774 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 775 776 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 777 has been updated to include optional 778 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 779 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 780 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 781 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 782 783 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 784 includes files in the 785 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 786 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 787 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 788 789 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 790 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 791 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 792 not directories, such as <filename 793 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 794 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 795 796 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 797 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 798 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 799 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 800 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 801 802 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 803 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 804 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 805 806 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 807 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 808 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 809 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 810 811 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 812 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 813 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 814 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 815 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 816 web interface.</para> 817 818 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 819 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 820 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 821 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 822 823 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 824 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 825 has been fixed.</para> 826 827 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 828 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 829 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 830 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 831 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 832 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 833 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 834 835 <note> 836 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 837 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 838 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 839 </note> 840 841 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 842 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 843 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 844 845 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 846 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 847 848 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 849 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 850 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 851 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 852 853 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 854 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 855 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 856 857 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 858 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 859 also specifying <literal>-n 860 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 861 862 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 863 updated to include support for both fixed- and 864 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 865 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 866 867 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 868 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 869 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 870 871 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 872 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 873 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 874 875 <para>This update includes:</para> 876 877 <itemizedlist> 878 <listitem> 879 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 880 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 881 variables.</para> 882 </listitem> 883 884 <listitem> 885 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 886 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 887 </listitem> 888 889 <listitem> 890 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 891 which is used to pass the host path to 892 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 893 </listitem> 894 895 <listitem> 896 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 897 has been added.</para> 898 </listitem> 899 900 <listitem> 901 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 902 removed.</para> 903 </listitem> 904 </itemizedlist> 905 906 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 907 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 908 909 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 910 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 911 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 912 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 913 depending on the platform.</para> 914 915 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 916 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 917 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 918 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 919 value and a low number of packets to send has been 920 specified.</para> 921 922 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 923 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 924 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 925 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 926 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 927 928 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 929 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 930 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 931 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 932 added back.</para> 933 934 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 935 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 936 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 937 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 938 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 939 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 940 941 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 942 facility has been added to &man.pam.3; library.</para> 943 944 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 945 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 946 947 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 948 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 949 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 950 a network alias of 951 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 952 would not be created if 953 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 954 not defined.</para> 955 956 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 957 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 958 before traversing the directory.</para> 959 </sect3> 960 </sect2> 961 962 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 963 <title>Contributed Software</title> 964 965 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 966 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 967 968 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 969 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 970 971 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 972 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 973 974 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 975 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 976 977 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 978 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 979 980 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 981 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 982 983 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 984 updated to version 20140422.</para> 985 986 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 987 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 988 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 989 990 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 991 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 992 1.4.22.</para> 993 994 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 995 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 996 997 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 998 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 999 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1000 updated:</para> 1001 1002 <itemizedlist> 1003 <listitem> 1004 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1005 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1006 </listitem> 1007 1008 <listitem> 1009 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1010 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1011 </listitem> 1012 1013 <listitem> 1014 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1015 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1016 </listitem> 1017 1018 <listitem> 1019 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1020 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1021 </listitem> 1022 </itemizedlist> 1023 1024 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1025 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1026 1027 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1028 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1029 1030 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1031 has been removed from the &os; base system.</para> 1032 </sect2> 1033 1034 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1035 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1036 1037 <para> </para> 1038 1039 </sect2> 1040 1041 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1042 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1043 1044 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1045 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1046 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1047 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1048 cross-built releases.</para> 1049 </sect2> 1050 1051 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1052 <title>Documentation</title> 1053 1054 <para> </para> 1055 1056 </sect2> 1057 </sect1> 1058 1059 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1060 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1061 1062 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1063 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1064 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1065 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1066 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 1067 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 1068 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1069 connectivity.</para> 1070 1071 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1072 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1073 supported, according to the instructions in 1074 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1075 1076 <important> 1077 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1078 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1079 files.</para> 1080 </important> 1081 </sect1> 1082</article> 1083