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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 270639 2014-08-25 22:20:02Z 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> 518 519 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 520 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 521 </sect4> 522 </sect3> 523 524 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 525 <title>Network Protocols</title> 526 527 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 528 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 529 stacks.</para> 530 531 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 532 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 533 fixed.</para> 534 </sect3> 535 536 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 537 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 538 539 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 540 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 541 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 542 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 543 but the label provider in <filename 544 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 545 resized.</para> 546 547 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 548 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 549 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 550 components have been replaced.</para> 551 552 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 553 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 554 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 555 partition size are not saved to disk until 556 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 557 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 558 559 <para revision="268091">Support for the 560 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 561 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 562 563 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 564 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 565 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 566 system.</para> 567 568 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 569 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has 570 been increased from 32 to 128.</para> 571 572 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 573 &man.loader.8; tunable, 574 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 575 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 576 class. When set to a non-zero value, 577 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 578 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 579 with the disk geometry.</para> 580 </sect3> 581 582 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 583 <title>File Systems</title> 584 585 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 586 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 587 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 588 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 589 errors have been detected.</para> 590 591 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 592 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 593 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 594 595 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 596 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 597 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 598 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 599 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 600 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 601 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 602 603 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 604 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 605 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 606 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 607 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 608 609 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 610 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 611 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 612 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 613 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 614 615 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 616 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 617 618 <itemizedlist> 619 <listitem> 620 <para> 621 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 622 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 623 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 624 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 625 threshold.</para> 626 </listitem> 627 628 <listitem> 629 <para> 630 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 631 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 632 keep their active state</para> 633 </listitem> 634 </itemizedlist> 635 636 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 637 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 638 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 639 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 640 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 641 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 642 cached reads. The 643 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 644 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 645 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 646 tunable is 8192.</para> 647 648 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 649 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 650 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 651 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 652 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 653 </sect3> 654 </sect2> 655 656 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 657 <title>Userland Changes</title> 658 659 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 660 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 661 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 662 their parents.</para> 663 664 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 665 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 666 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 667 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 668 669 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 670 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 671 To use a non-default location, set 672 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 673 location of the file.</para> 674 675 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 676 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 677 678 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 679 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 680 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 681 682 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 683 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 684 685 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 686 been updated to include aliases for 687 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 688 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 689 snap</command>.</para> 690 691 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 692 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 693 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 694 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 695 696 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 697 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 698 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 699 characters long.</para> 700 701 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 702 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 703 704 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 705 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 706 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 707 2822.</para> 708 709 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 710 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 711 712 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 713 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 714 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 715 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 716 points.</para> 717 718 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 719 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 720 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 721 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 722 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 723 724 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 725 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 726 727 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 728 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 729 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 730 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 731 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 732 733 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 734 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 735 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 736 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 737 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 738 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 739 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 740 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 741 742 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 743 and related image activator features have been merged from 744 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 745 746 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 747 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 748 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 749 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 750 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 751 host system.</para> 752 753 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 754 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 755 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 756 757 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 758 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 759 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 760 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 761 762 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 763 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 764 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 765 before <filename 766 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 767 768 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 769 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 770 771 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 772 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 773 774 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 775 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 776 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 777 778 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 779 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 780 ends event collection after the specified number of 781 seconds.</para> 782 783 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 784 been updated to avoid printing 785 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 786 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 787 788 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 789 has been updated to include optional 790 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 791 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 792 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 793 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 794 795 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 796 includes files in the 797 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 798 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 799 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 800 801 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 802 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 803 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 804 not directories, such as <filename 805 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 806 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 807 808 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 809 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 810 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 811 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 812 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 813 814 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 815 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 816 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 817 818 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 819 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 820 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 821 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 822 823 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 824 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 825 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 826 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 827 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 828 web interface.</para> 829 830 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 831 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 832 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 833 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 834 835 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 836 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 837 has been fixed.</para> 838 839 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 840 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 841 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 842 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 843 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 844 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 845 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 846 847 <note> 848 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 849 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 850 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 851 </note> 852 853 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 854 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 855 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 856 857 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 858 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 859 860 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 861 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 862 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 863 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 864 865 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 866 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 867 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 868 869 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 870 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 871 also specifying <literal>-n 872 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 873 874 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 875 updated to include support for both fixed- and 876 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 877 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 878 879 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 880 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 881 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 882 883 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 884 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 885 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 886 887 <para>This update includes:</para> 888 889 <itemizedlist> 890 <listitem> 891 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 892 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 893 variables.</para> 894 </listitem> 895 896 <listitem> 897 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 898 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 899 </listitem> 900 901 <listitem> 902 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 903 which is used to pass the host path to 904 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 905 </listitem> 906 907 <listitem> 908 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 909 has been added.</para> 910 </listitem> 911 912 <listitem> 913 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 914 removed.</para> 915 </listitem> 916 </itemizedlist> 917 918 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 919 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 920 921 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 922 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 923 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 924 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 925 depending on the platform.</para> 926 927 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 928 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 929 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 930 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 931 value and a low number of packets to send has been 932 specified.</para> 933 934 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 935 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 936 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 937 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 938 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 939 940 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 941 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 942 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 943 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 944 added back.</para> 945 946 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 947 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 948 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 949 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 950 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 951 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 952 953 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 954 facility has been added to &man.pam.3; library.</para> 955 956 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 957 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 958 959 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 960 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 961 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 962 a network alias of 963 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 964 would not be created if 965 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 966 not defined.</para> 967 968 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 969 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 970 before traversing the directory.</para> 971 </sect3> 972 </sect2> 973 974 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 975 <title>Contributed Software</title> 976 977 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 978 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 979 980 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 981 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 982 983 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 984 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 985 986 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 987 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 988 989 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 990 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 991 992 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 993 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 994 995 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 996 updated to version 20140422.</para> 997 998 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 999 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1000 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1001 1002 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1003 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1004 1.4.22.</para> 1005 1006 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1007 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1008 1009 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1010 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1011 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1012 updated:</para> 1013 1014 <itemizedlist> 1015 <listitem> 1016 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1017 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1018 </listitem> 1019 1020 <listitem> 1021 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1022 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1023 </listitem> 1024 1025 <listitem> 1026 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1027 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1028 </listitem> 1029 1030 <listitem> 1031 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1032 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1033 </listitem> 1034 </itemizedlist> 1035 1036 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1037 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1038 1039 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1040 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1041 1042 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1043 has been removed from the &os; base system.</para> 1044 </sect2> 1045 1046 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1047 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1048 1049 <para> </para> 1050 1051 </sect2> 1052 1053 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1054 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1055 1056 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1057 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1058 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1059 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1060 cross-built releases.</para> 1061 </sect2> 1062 1063 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1064 <title>Documentation</title> 1065 1066 <para> </para> 1067 1068 </sect2> 1069 </sect1> 1070 1071 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1072 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1073 1074 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1075 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1076 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1077 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1078 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 1079 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 1080 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1081 connectivity.</para> 1082 1083 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1084 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1085 supported, according to the instructions in 1086 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1087 1088 <important> 1089 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1090 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1091 files.</para> 1092 </important> 1093 </sect1> 1094</article> 1095