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1232809Sjmallett<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2232809Sjmallett<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 3232809Sjmallett "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4232809Sjmallett<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> 5232809Sjmallett %release; 6232809Sjmallett<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" "sponsor.ent"> 7232809Sjmallett %sponsor; 8232809Sjmallett<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" "vendor.ent"> 9232809Sjmallett %vendor; 10232809Sjmallett]> 11232809Sjmallett<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 12232809Sjmallett xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 13232809Sjmallett 14232809Sjmallett <info> 15232809Sjmallett <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 16232809Sjmallett 17232809Sjmallett <author> 18232809Sjmallett <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 19232809Sjmallett </author> 20232809Sjmallett 21232809Sjmallett <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 270748 2014-08-28 09:40:44Z mav $</pubdate> 22232809Sjmallett 23232809Sjmallett <copyright> 24232809Sjmallett <year>2000</year> 25232809Sjmallett <year>2001</year> 26232809Sjmallett <year>2002</year> 27232809Sjmallett <year>2003</year> 28232809Sjmallett <year>2004</year> 29232809Sjmallett <year>2005</year> 30232809Sjmallett <year>2006</year> 31232809Sjmallett <year>2007</year> 32232809Sjmallett <year>2008</year> 33232809Sjmallett <year>2009</year> 34232809Sjmallett <year>2010</year> 35232809Sjmallett <year>2011</year> 36232809Sjmallett <year>2012</year> 37232809Sjmallett <year>2013</year> 38232809Sjmallett <year>2014</year> 39232809Sjmallett <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 40232809Sjmallett Project</holder> 41232809Sjmallett </copyright> 42232809Sjmallett 43232809Sjmallett <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 44232809Sjmallett &tm-attrib.freebsd; 45232809Sjmallett &tm-attrib.ibm; 46232809Sjmallett &tm-attrib.ieee; 47232809Sjmallett &tm-attrib.intel; 48232809Sjmallett &tm-attrib.sparc; 49232809Sjmallett &tm-attrib.general; 50232809Sjmallett </legalnotice> 51232809Sjmallett 52232809Sjmallett <abstract> 53232809Sjmallett <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 54232809Sjmallett a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 55232809Sjmallett &release.branch; development line. This document lists 56232809Sjmallett applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 57232809Sjmallett release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 58232809Sjmallett userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 59232809Sjmallett presented.</para> 60232809Sjmallett </abstract> 61232809Sjmallett </info> 62232809Sjmallett 63232809Sjmallett <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 64232809Sjmallett <title>Introduction</title> 65232809Sjmallett 66232809Sjmallett <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 67232809Sjmallett &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 68232809Sjmallett deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 69232809Sjmallett upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 70232809Sjmallett 71232809Sjmallett <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 72232809Sjmallett which these release notes apply represents the latest point 73232809Sjmallett along the &release.branch; development branch since 74232809Sjmallett &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 75232809Sjmallett binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 76232809Sjmallett found at <uri 77232809Sjmallett xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 78232809Sjmallett 79232809Sjmallett <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 80232809Sjmallett which these release notes apply represents a point along the 81232809Sjmallett &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 82232809Sjmallett the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 83232809Sjmallett binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 84232809Sjmallett found at <uri 85232809Sjmallett xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 86232809Sjmallett 87232809Sjmallett <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 88232809Sjmallett &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 89232809Sjmallett found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 90232809Sjmallett any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 91232809Sjmallett other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 92232809Sjmallett <link 93232809Sjmallett xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 94232809Sjmallett &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 95232809Sjmallett xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 96232809Sjmallett Handbook</link>.</para> 97232809Sjmallett 98232809Sjmallett <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 99232809Sjmallett before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 100232809Sjmallett <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 101232809Sjmallett release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 102232809Sjmallett information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 103232809Sjmallett to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 104232809Sjmallett &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 105232809Sjmallett </sect1> 106232809Sjmallett 107232809Sjmallett <sect1 xml:id="new"> 108232809Sjmallett <title>What's New</title> 109232809Sjmallett 110232809Sjmallett <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 111232809Sjmallett features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 112232809Sjmallett 113232809Sjmallett <para>Typical release note items document recent security 114232809Sjmallett advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 115232809Sjmallett support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 116232809Sjmallett contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 117232809Sjmallett major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 118232809Sjmallett the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 119232809Sjmallett between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 120232809Sjmallett advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 121232809Sjmallett improvements.</para> 122232809Sjmallett 123232809Sjmallett <sect2 xml:id="security"> 124232809Sjmallett <title>Security Advisories</title> 125232809Sjmallett 126232809Sjmallett <para> </para> 127232809Sjmallett 128232809Sjmallett </sect2> 129232809Sjmallett 130232809Sjmallett <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 131232809Sjmallett <title>Kernel Changes</title> 132232809Sjmallett 133232809Sjmallett <para revision="260431">A new &man.sysctl.8;, 134232809Sjmallett <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been 135232809Sjmallett added, which allows controlling how long the system will wait 136232809Sjmallett after &man.panic.9; before rebooting.</para> 137232809Sjmallett 138232809Sjmallett <para revision="262861">The &man.vt.4; driver has been merged 139232809Sjmallett from &os;-CURRENT. To enable &man.vt.4;, enter 140232809Sjmallett <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal> at the &man.loader.8; 141232809Sjmallett prompt during boot, or add <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to 142232809Sjmallett &man.loader.conf.5; and reboot the system.</para> 143232809Sjmallett 144232809Sjmallett <para revision="263122">Support for &man.hwpmc.4; has been added 145232809Sjmallett for &powerpc; 970 class processors.</para> 146232809Sjmallett 147232809Sjmallett <para revision="263197">Support for ADT7460 and ADT7467 fan 148232809Sjmallett controllers found in newer PowerBooks™ and 149232809Sjmallett iBooks™ has been added to the &man.iicbus.4; 150232809Sjmallett driver.</para> 151232809Sjmallett 152232809Sjmallett <para revision="263256">A panic triggered by removing 153232809Sjmallett a &man.urtwn.4; device has been fixed.</para> 154232809Sjmallett 155232809Sjmallett <para revision="263799">A potential deadlock in the &man.usb.4; 156232809Sjmallett stack triggered by detaching USB devices that create character 157232809Sjmallett devices has been fixed.</para> 158232809Sjmallett 159232809Sjmallett <para revision="263869">Support for &amd; Family 16h sensor 160232809Sjmallett devices has been added to &man.amdtemp.4;.</para> 161232809Sjmallett 162232809Sjmallett <para revision="265610">The &man.uslcom.4; driver has been 163232809Sjmallett updated to support 26 new devices.</para> 164232809Sjmallett 165232809Sjmallett <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 166232809Sjmallett functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 167232809Sjmallett &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 168232809Sjmallett Boost™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 169232809Sjmallett 170232809Sjmallett <para revision="266436">The &man.uart.4; driver has been 171232809Sjmallett updated to include support for the &intel; Lynx Point 172232809Sjmallett KT <acronym>AMT</acronym> serial port.</para> 173232809Sjmallett 174232809Sjmallett <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal> 175 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2; 176 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit 177 system.</para> 178 179 <para revision="266718">A bug that would prevent 180 a &man.jail.8; from setting the correct IPv4 source address 181 with some operations that required 182 <literal>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</literal> has been 183 fixed.</para> 184 185 <para revision="266911">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver has been 186 updated to support core events from the Atom™ 187 Silvermont architecture.</para> 188 189 <para revision="268046">The &man.oce.4; driver has been updated 190 with vendor-supplied fixes for big endian support, and 20GB/s 191 and 25GB/s link speeds.</para> 192 193 <para revision="270630">The &os; virtual memory subsystem 194 has been updated to implement <quote>fast path</quote> for 195 the page fault handler.</para> 196 197 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 198 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 199 200 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 201 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 202 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 203 configuration.</para> 204 205 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 206 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 207 state.</para> 208 209 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 210 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 211 212 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 213 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 214 allowing guest operating systems to use 215 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 216 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 217 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 218 219 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 220 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 221 222 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 223 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 224 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 225 226 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been 227 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 228 229 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several 230 bug fixes, including:</para> 231 232 <itemizedlist> 233 <listitem> 234 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when 235 a guest virtual machine exits with an 236 <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote> 237 error.</para> 238 </listitem> 239 240 <listitem> 241 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym> 242 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para> 243 </listitem> 244 245 <listitem> 246 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual 247 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para> 248 </listitem> 249 250 <listitem> 251 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task 252 switching has been added.</para> 253 </listitem> 254 255 <listitem> 256 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel 257 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para> 258 </listitem> 259 260 <listitem> 261 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space 262 has been added.</para> 263 </listitem> 264 </itemizedlist> 265 </sect3> 266 267 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 268 <title>ARM Support</title> 269 270 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 271 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 272 273 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 274 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 275 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 276 the boot device, set the 277 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 278 u-boot environment variable.</para> 279 280 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 281 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 282 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 283 in most cases.</para> 284 285 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 286 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 287 288 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel 289 configuration file has been updated to include 290 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para> 291 </sect3> 292 293 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 294 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 295 296 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 297 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 298 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 299 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 300 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 301 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 302 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 303 </sect3> 304 305 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 306 <title>Hardware Support</title> 307 308 <para> </para> 309 310 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 311 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 312 313 <para> </para> 314 315 </sect4> 316 317 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 318 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 319 320 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 321 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 322 driver.</para> 323 324 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 325 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 326 327 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 328 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 329 330 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 331 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 332 instead.</para> 333 334 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 335 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 336 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 337 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 338 339 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 340 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 341 342 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 343 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 344 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 345 346 <note> 347 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 348 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 349 multiple queues.</para> 350 </note> 351 352 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 353 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 354 driver.</para> 355 356 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 357 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 358 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 359 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 360 generating corrupt frames.</para> 361 362 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 363 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 364 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 365 366 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 367 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 368 driver.</para> 369 370 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 371 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 372 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 373 1.11.27.0.</para> 374 375 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 376 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 377 378 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 379 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 380 381 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 382 <tgroup cols="2"> 383 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 384 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 385 <thead> 386 <row> 387 <entry>Old Name</entry> 388 <entry>New Name</entry> 389 </row> 390 </thead> 391 392 <tbody> 393 <row> 394 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 395 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 396 </row> 397 398 <row> 399 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 400 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 401 </row> 402 403 <row> 404 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 405 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 406 </row> 407 408 <row> 409 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 410 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 411 </row> 412 413 <row> 414 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 415 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 416 </row> 417 418 <row> 419 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 420 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 421 </row> 422 423 <row> 424 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 425 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 426 </row> 427 428 <row> 429 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 430 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 431 </row> 432 433 <row> 434 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 435 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 436 </row> 437 </tbody> 438 </tgroup> 439 </informaltable> 440 441 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 442 old tunables before upgrading to 443 &os; &release.current;.</para> 444 445 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 446 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 447 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 448 449 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 450 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 451 cards.</para> 452 453 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 454 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 455 456 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 457 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 458 459 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet 460 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been 461 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 462 </sect4> 463 </sect3> 464 465 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 466 <title>Network Protocols</title> 467 468 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 469 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 470 stacks.</para> 471 472 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 473 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 474 fixed.</para> 475 </sect3> 476 477 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 478 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 479 480 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 481 &man.geom.4; got I/O direct dispatch support. 482 When safety requirements are met, it allows to avoid passing 483 I/O requests to GEOM g_up/g_down thread, executing them directly 484 in the caller context. That allows to avoid CPU bottlenecks in 485 g_up/g_down threads, plus avoid several context switches per I/O. 486 </para> 487 488 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 489 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 490 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 491 492 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 493 &man.cam.4; got finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and 494 multi-queue support. 495 Combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch that allows to 496 reduce lock congestion and improve SMP scalability of the 497 SCSI/ATA stack. 498 </para> 499 500 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 501 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class got automatic live 502 resize support.</para> 503 504 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 505 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 506 507 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has been 508 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 509 510 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 511 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 512 513 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 514 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 515 516 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 517 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 518 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 519 controllers.</para> 520 521 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 522 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, 523 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The 524 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. 525 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add 526 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to 527 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 528 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 529 530 <note> 531 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and 532 the &os; version of 533 <application>MegaCLI</application> and 534 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 535 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 536 </note> 537 538 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of BIO_FLUSH operation 539 in &man.geom.8; <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 540 541 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; 542 utility now has a <literal>-o</literal> option, to 543 display "other" operatins (e.g. BIO_FLUSH).</para> 544 545 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 546 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 547 548 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 549 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 550 551 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 552 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been added 553 to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> driver.</para> 554 555 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 556 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 557 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 558 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 559 but the label provider in <filename 560 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 561 resized.</para> 562 563 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 564 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 565 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 566 components have been replaced.</para> 567 568 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has been 569 added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 570 571 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 572 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 573 574 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> option 575 is now able to be built both directly into the kernel or as 576 a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 577 578 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 579 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 580 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 581 partition size are not saved to disk until 582 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 583 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 584 585 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 586 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 587 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 588 images.</para> 589 590 <para revision="268091">Support for the 591 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 592 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 593 594 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 595 &man.loader.8; tunable, 596 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 597 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 598 class. When set to a non-zero value, 599 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 600 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 601 with the disk geometry.</para> 602 603 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">CAM Target Layer (CTL) 604 got many impromenets:</para> 605 <itemizedlist> 606 <listitem> 607 <para>Support for UNMAP, WRITE SAME, COMPARE AND WRITE, XCOPY 608 and some other SCSI commands was added to support VMWare VAAI 609 and Microsoft ODX storage acceleration.</para> 610 </listitem> 611 <listitem> 612 <para revision="265642">READ/WRITE size limitations were removed 613 by supporting multiple data moves per command.</para> 614 </listitem> 615 <listitem> 616 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 617 multiple worker threads for better SMP scapability.</para> 618 </listitem> 619 <listitem> 620 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by several 621 times by disabling some never used functionality.</para> 622 </listitem> 623 <listitem> 624 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 625 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 128</para> 626 </listitem> 627 <listitem> 628 <para revision="269429">Improved ZVOL integration for better 629 performance.</para> 630 </listitem> 631 </itemizedlist> 632 </sect3> 633 634 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 635 <title>File Systems</title> 636 637 <para revision="260338">The 638 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has been 639 re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, this can 640 easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU usage in 641 half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 642 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 643 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 644 subsystem.</para> 645 646 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 647 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 648 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 649 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 650 errors have been detected.</para> 651 652 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 653 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 654 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 655 656 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 657 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 658 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 659 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 660 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 661 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 662 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 663 664 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 665 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 666 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 667 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 668 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 669 670 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 671 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 672 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 673 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 674 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 675 676 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 677 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 678 679 <itemizedlist> 680 <listitem> 681 <para> 682 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 683 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 684 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 685 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 686 threshold.</para> 687 </listitem> 688 689 <listitem> 690 <para> 691 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 692 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 693 keep their active state</para> 694 </listitem> 695 </itemizedlist> 696 697 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 698 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 699 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 700 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 701 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 702 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 703 cached reads. The 704 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 705 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 706 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 707 tunable is 8192.</para> 708 709 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 710 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 711 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 712 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 713 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 714 </sect3> 715 </sect2> 716 717 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 718 <title>Userland Changes</title> 719 720 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 721 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 722 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 723 their parents.</para> 724 725 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 726 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 727 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 728 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 729 730 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 731 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 732 To use a non-default location, set 733 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 734 location of the file.</para> 735 736 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 737 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para> 738 739 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 740 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 741 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 742 743 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 744 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 745 746 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 747 been updated to include aliases for 748 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 749 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 750 snap</command>.</para> 751 752 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 753 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 754 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 755 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 756 757 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 758 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 759 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 760 characters long.</para> 761 762 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 763 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 764 765 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 766 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 767 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 768 2822.</para> 769 770 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 771 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 772 773 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 774 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 775 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 776 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 777 points.</para> 778 779 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 780 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 781 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 782 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 783 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 784 785 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 786 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 787 788 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 789 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 790 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 791 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 792 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 793 794 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 795 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 796 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 797 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 798 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 799 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 800 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 801 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 802 803 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 804 and related image activator features have been merged from 805 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 806 807 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 808 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 809 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 810 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 811 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 812 host system.</para> 813 814 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 815 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 816 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 817 818 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 819 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 820 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 821 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 822 823 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 824 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 825 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 826 before <filename 827 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 828 829 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 830 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 831 832 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 833 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 834 835 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 836 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 837 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 838 839 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 840 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 841 ends event collection after the specified number of 842 seconds.</para> 843 844 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 845 been updated to avoid printing 846 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 847 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 848 849 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 850 has been updated to include optional 851 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 852 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 853 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 854 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 855 856 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 857 includes files in the 858 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 859 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 860 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 861 862 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 863 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 864 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 865 not directories, such as <filename 866 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 867 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 868 869 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 870 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 871 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 872 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 873 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 874 875 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 876 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 877 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 878 879 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 880 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 881 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 882 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 883 884 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 885 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 886 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 887 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 888 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 889 web interface.</para> 890 891 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 892 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 893 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 894 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 895 896 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 897 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 898 has been fixed.</para> 899 900 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 901 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 902 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 903 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 904 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 905 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 906 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 907 908 <note> 909 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 910 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 911 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 912 </note> 913 914 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 915 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 916 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 917 918 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 919 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 920 921 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated 922 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which 923 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command> 924 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para> 925 926 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 927 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 928 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 929 930 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 931 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 932 also specifying <literal>-n 933 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 934 935 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 936 updated to include support for both fixed- and 937 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 938 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 939 940 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 941 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 942 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 943 944 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 945 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 946 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 947 948 <para>This update includes:</para> 949 950 <itemizedlist> 951 <listitem> 952 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 953 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 954 variables.</para> 955 </listitem> 956 957 <listitem> 958 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 959 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 960 </listitem> 961 962 <listitem> 963 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 964 which is used to pass the host path to 965 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 966 </listitem> 967 968 <listitem> 969 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 970 has been added.</para> 971 </listitem> 972 973 <listitem> 974 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 975 removed.</para> 976 </listitem> 977 </itemizedlist> 978 979 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1 980 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 981 982 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 983 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 984 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 985 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 986 depending on the platform.</para> 987 988 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 989 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 990 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 991 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 992 value and a low number of packets to send has been 993 specified.</para> 994 995 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 996 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 997 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 998 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 999 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1000 1001 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1002 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1003 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1004 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1005 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1006 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1007 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1008 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1009 1010 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1011 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1012 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1013 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1014 added back.</para> 1015 1016 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1017 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1018 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1019 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1020 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1021 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1022 1023 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1024 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1025 module.</para> 1026 1027 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1028 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1029 1030 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1031 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1032 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1033 a network alias of 1034 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1035 would not be created if 1036 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1037 not defined.</para> 1038 1039 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1040 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1041 before traversing the directory.</para> 1042 </sect3> 1043 </sect2> 1044 1045 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1046 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1047 1048 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1049 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1050 1051 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1052 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1053 1054 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1055 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1056 1057 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1058 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1059 1060 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated 1061 to version tzdata2014e.</para> 1062 1063 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1064 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1065 1066 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1067 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1068 1069 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1070 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1071 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1072 1073 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1074 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1075 1.4.22.</para> 1076 1077 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1078 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1079 1080 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1081 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1082 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1083 updated:</para> 1084 1085 <itemizedlist> 1086 <listitem> 1087 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1088 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1089 </listitem> 1090 1091 <listitem> 1092 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1093 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1094 </listitem> 1095 1096 <listitem> 1097 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1098 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1099 </listitem> 1100 1101 <listitem> 1102 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1103 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1104 </listitem> 1105 </itemizedlist> 1106 1107 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1108 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1109 1110 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1111 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1112 1113 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1114 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1115 &os; base system.</para> 1116 </sect2> 1117 1118 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1119 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1120 1121 <para> </para> 1122 1123 </sect2> 1124 1125 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1126 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1127 1128 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1129 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1130 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1131 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1132 cross-built releases.</para> 1133 </sect2> 1134 1135 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1136 <title>Documentation</title> 1137 1138 <para> </para> 1139 1140 </sect2> 1141 </sect1> 1142 1143 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1144 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1145 1146 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1147 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1148 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1149 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1150 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an 1151 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility 1152 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1153 connectivity.</para> 1154 1155 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1156 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1157 supported, according to the instructions in 1158 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1159 1160 <important> 1161 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1162 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1163 files.</para> 1164 </important> 1165 </sect1> 1166</article> 1167