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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 271035 2014-09-03 16:46:33Z 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="260431">A new &man.sysctl.8;, 134 <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been 135 added, which allows controlling how long the system will wait 136 after &man.panic.9; before rebooting.</para> 137 138 <para revision="262861">The &man.vt.4; driver has been merged 139 from &os;-CURRENT. To enable &man.vt.4;, enter 140 <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal> at the &man.loader.8; 141 prompt during boot, or add <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to 142 &man.loader.conf.5; and reboot the system.</para> 143 144 <para revision="263122">Support for &man.hwpmc.4; has been added 145 for &powerpc; 970 class processors.</para> 146 147 <para revision="263197">Support for ADT7460 and ADT7467 fan 148 controllers found in newer PowerBooks™ and 149 iBooks™ has been added to the &man.iicbus.4; 150 driver.</para> 151 152 <para revision="263256">A panic triggered by removing 153 a &man.urtwn.4; device has been fixed.</para> 154 155 <para revision="263799">A potential deadlock in the &man.usb.4; 156 stack triggered by detaching USB devices that create character 157 devices has been fixed.</para> 158 159 <para revision="263869">Support for &amd; Family 16h sensor 160 devices has been added to &man.amdtemp.4;.</para> 161 162 <para revision="265610">The &man.uslcom.4; driver has been 163 updated to support 26 new devices.</para> 164 165 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper 166 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> 167 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo 168 Boost™ enabled has been fixed.</para> 169 170 <para revision="266436">The &man.uart.4; driver has been 171 updated to include support for the &intel; Lynx Point 172 KT <acronym>AMT</acronym> serial port.</para> 173 174 <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>Support for hardware floating point was added to the 289 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 290 for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para> 291 292 <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now 293 works with <application>GCC</application>.</para> 294 295 <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the 296 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 297 for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para> 298 299 <para>Support was added for:</para> 300 301 <itemizedlist> 302 <listitem> 303 <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para> 304 </listitem> 305 306 <listitem> 307 <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 308 </listitem> 309 310 <listitem> 311 <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 312 </listitem> 313 314 <listitem> 315 <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para> 316 </listitem> 317 318 <listitem> 319 <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 320 </listitem> 321 322 <listitem> 323 <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para> 324 </listitem> 325 326 <listitem> 327 <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para> 328 </listitem> 329 </itemizedlist> 330 331 <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for 332 the RaspberryPi.</para> 333 334 <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym> 335 platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para> 336 337 <itemizedlist> 338 <listitem> 339 <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para> 340 </listitem> 341 342 <listitem> 343 <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para> 344 </listitem> 345 346 <listitem> 347 <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for 348 <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym> 349 storage)</para> 350 </listitem> 351 352 <listitem> 353 <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a 354 <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para> 355 </listitem> 356 357 <listitem> 358 <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para> 359 </listitem> 360 361 <listitem> 362 <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para> 363 </listitem> 364 </itemizedlist> 365 </sect3> 366 367 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 368 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 369 370 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 371 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 372 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 373 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 374 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 375 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 376 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 377 </sect3> 378 379 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 380 <title>Hardware Support</title> 381 382 <para> </para> 383 384 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 385 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 386 387 <para> </para> 388 389 </sect4> 390 391 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 392 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 393 394 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 395 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 396 driver.</para> 397 398 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 399 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 400 401 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 402 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 403 404 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 405 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 406 instead.</para> 407 408 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 409 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 410 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 411 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 412 413 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 414 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 415 416 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 417 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 418 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 419 420 <note> 421 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 422 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 423 multiple queues.</para> 424 </note> 425 426 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 427 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 428 driver.</para> 429 430 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 431 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 432 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 433 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 434 generating corrupt frames.</para> 435 436 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 437 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 438 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 439 440 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 441 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 442 driver.</para> 443 444 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 445 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 446 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 447 1.11.27.0.</para> 448 449 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 450 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 451 452 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 453 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 454 455 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 456 <tgroup cols="2"> 457 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 458 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 459 <thead> 460 <row> 461 <entry>Old Name</entry> 462 <entry>New Name</entry> 463 </row> 464 </thead> 465 466 <tbody> 467 <row> 468 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 469 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 470 </row> 471 472 <row> 473 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 474 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 475 </row> 476 477 <row> 478 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 479 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 480 </row> 481 482 <row> 483 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 484 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 485 </row> 486 487 <row> 488 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 489 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 490 </row> 491 492 <row> 493 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 494 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 495 </row> 496 497 <row> 498 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 499 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 500 </row> 501 502 <row> 503 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 504 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 505 </row> 506 507 <row> 508 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 509 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 510 </row> 511 </tbody> 512 </tgroup> 513 </informaltable> 514 515 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 516 old tunables before upgrading to 517 &os; &release.current;.</para> 518 519 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 520 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 521 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 522 523 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 524 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 525 cards.</para> 526 527 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 528 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 529 530 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 531 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 532 533 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet 534 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been 535 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 536 </sect4> 537 </sect3> 538 539 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 540 <title>Network Protocols</title> 541 542 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 543 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 544 stacks.</para> 545 546 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 547 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 548 fixed.</para> 549 550 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which 551 is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that 552 significantly improved its performance and 553 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 554 555 <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 556 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to 557 support redirection handling when an 558 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple 559 <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network 560 interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to 561 such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require 562 additional client-side configuration.</para> 563 564 <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 565 &man.sysctl.8;, 566 <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has 567 been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to 568 remove the attached disk device when the connection to the 569 target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the 570 connection is restored.</para> 571 572 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 573 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized 574 to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock 575 contention.</para> 576 577 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" 578 sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been 579 made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including 580 deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to 581 read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage 582 and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</para> 583 584 <para>New kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator code took 585 many fixes and performance optimizations.</para> 586 </sect3> 587 588 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 589 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 590 591 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 592 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O 593 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it 594 allows to avoid passing I/O requests to GEOM 595 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 596 executing them directly in the caller context. That allows 597 to avoid CPU bottlenecks in 598 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, 599 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para> 600 601 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 602 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 603 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 604 605 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 606 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support 607 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue. 608 Combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch that allows to 609 reduce lock congestion and improve <acronym>SMP</acronym> 610 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para> 611 612 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 613 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to 614 support automatic live partition resizing.</para> 615 616 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 617 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 618 619 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has 620 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 621 622 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 623 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 624 625 <para revision="264732">Support for 626 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; 627 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para> 628 629 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 630 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 631 632 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 633 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 634 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 635 controllers.</para> 636 637 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property 638 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8; 639 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow 640 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different 641 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>, 642 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para> 643 644 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 645 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for 646 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will 647 attach to the controller, by default. To enable 648 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> 649 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 650 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 651 652 <note> 653 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; 654 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and 655 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 656 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 657 </note> 658 659 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of 660 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8; 661 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 662 663 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an 664 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display 665 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as 666 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 667 668 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 669 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 670 671 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 672 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 673 674 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 675 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been 676 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> 677 driver.</para> 678 679 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 680 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 681 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 682 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 683 but the label provider in <filename 684 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 685 resized.</para> 686 687 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 688 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 689 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 690 components have been replaced.</para> 691 692 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has 693 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 694 695 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 696 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 697 698 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> 699 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel 700 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 701 702 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 703 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 704 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 705 partition size are not saved to disk until 706 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 707 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 708 709 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 710 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 711 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 712 images.</para> 713 714 <para revision="268091">Support for the 715 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 716 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 717 718 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 719 &man.loader.8; tunable, 720 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 721 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 722 class. When set to a non-zero value, 723 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 724 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 725 with the disk geometry.</para> 726 727 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to 728 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para> 729 <itemizedlist> 730 <listitem> 731 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE 732 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, 733 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands 734 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX 735 storage acceleration.</para> 736 </listitem> 737 <listitem> 738 <para revision="265642">The 739 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size 740 limitations were removed by supporting multiple 741 data moves per command.</para> 742 </listitem> 743 <listitem> 744 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 745 multiple worker threads for better 746 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 747 </listitem> 748 <listitem> 749 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by 750 several times by disabling some never used 751 functionality.</para> 752 </listitem> 753 <listitem> 754 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 755 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 756 128</para> 757 </listitem> 758 <listitem> 759 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> 760 integration for better performance.</para> 761 </listitem> 762 </itemizedlist> 763 </sect3> 764 765 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 766 <title>File Systems</title> 767 768 <para revision="260338">The 769 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 770 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 771 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 772 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 773 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 774 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 775 subsystem.</para> 776 777 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 778 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 779 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 780 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 781 errors have been detected.</para> 782 783 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 784 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 785 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 786 787 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 788 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 789 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 790 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 791 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 792 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 793 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 794 795 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 796 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 797 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 798 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 799 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 800 801 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 802 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 803 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 804 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 805 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 806 807 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 808 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 809 810 <itemizedlist> 811 <listitem> 812 <para> 813 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 814 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 815 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 816 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 817 threshold.</para> 818 </listitem> 819 820 <listitem> 821 <para> 822 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 823 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 824 keep their active state</para> 825 </listitem> 826 </itemizedlist> 827 828 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 829 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 830 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 831 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 832 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 833 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 834 cached reads. The 835 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 836 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 837 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 838 tunable is 8192.</para> 839 840 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 841 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 842 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 843 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 844 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 845 </sect3> 846 </sect2> 847 848 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 849 <title>Userland Changes</title> 850 851 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 852 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 853 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 854 their parents.</para> 855 856 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 857 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 858 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 859 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 860 861 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 862 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 863 To use a non-default location, set 864 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 865 location of the file.</para> 866 867 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 868 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 869 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 870 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 871 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 872 873 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 874 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 875 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 876 877 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 878 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 879 880 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 881 been updated to include aliases for 882 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 883 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 884 snap</command>.</para> 885 886 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 887 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 888 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 889 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 890 891 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 892 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 893 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 894 characters long.</para> 895 896 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 897 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 898 899 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 900 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 901 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 902 2822.</para> 903 904 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 905 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 906 907 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 908 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 909 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 910 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 911 points.</para> 912 913 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 914 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 915 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 916 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 917 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 918 919 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 920 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 921 922 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 923 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 924 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 925 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 926 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 927 928 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 929 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 930 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 931 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 932 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 933 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 934 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 935 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 936 937 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 938 and related image activator features have been merged from 939 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 940 941 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 942 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 943 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 944 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 945 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 946 host system.</para> 947 948 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 949 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 950 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 951 952 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 953 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 954 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 955 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 956 957 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 958 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 959 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 960 before <filename 961 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 962 963 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 964 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 965 966 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 967 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 968 969 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 970 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 971 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 972 973 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 974 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 975 ends event collection after the specified number of 976 seconds.</para> 977 978 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 979 been updated to avoid printing 980 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 981 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 982 983 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 984 has been updated to include optional 985 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 986 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 987 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 988 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 989 990 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 991 includes files in the 992 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 993 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 994 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 995 996 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 997 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 998 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 999 not directories, such as <filename 1000 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1001 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1002 1003 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1004 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1005 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1006 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1007 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1008 1009 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1010 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1011 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1012 1013 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1014 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1015 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1016 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1017 1018 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1019 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1020 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1021 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1022 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1023 web interface.</para> 1024 1025 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1026 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1027 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1028 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1029 1030 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1031 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1032 has been fixed.</para> 1033 1034 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1035 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1036 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1037 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1038 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1039 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1040 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1041 1042 <note> 1043 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1044 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1045 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1046 </note> 1047 1048 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1049 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1050 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1051 1052 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1053 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1054 1055 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1056 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1057 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1058 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1059 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1060 OUT</command>.</para> 1061 1062 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1063 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1064 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1065 1066 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1067 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1068 also specifying <literal>-n 1069 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1070 1071 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1072 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1073 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1074 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1075 1076 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1077 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1078 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1079 1080 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1081 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1082 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1083 1084 <para>This update includes:</para> 1085 1086 <itemizedlist> 1087 <listitem> 1088 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1089 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1090 variables.</para> 1091 </listitem> 1092 1093 <listitem> 1094 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1095 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1096 </listitem> 1097 1098 <listitem> 1099 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1100 which is used to pass the host path to 1101 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1102 </listitem> 1103 1104 <listitem> 1105 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1106 has been added.</para> 1107 </listitem> 1108 1109 <listitem> 1110 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1111 removed.</para> 1112 </listitem> 1113 </itemizedlist> 1114 1115 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1116 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1117 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1118 1119 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1120 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1121 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1122 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1123 depending on the platform.</para> 1124 1125 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1126 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1127 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1128 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1129 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1130 specified.</para> 1131 1132 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1133 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1134 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1135 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1136 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1137 1138 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1139 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1140 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1141 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1142 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1143 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1144 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1145 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1146 1147 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1148 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1149 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1150 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1151 added back.</para> 1152 1153 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1154 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1155 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1156 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1157 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1158 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1159 1160 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1161 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1162 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1163 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1164 1165 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1166 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1167 module.</para> 1168 1169 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1170 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1171 1172 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1173 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1174 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1175 a network alias of 1176 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1177 would not be created if 1178 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1179 not defined.</para> 1180 1181 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1182 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1183 before traversing the directory.</para> 1184 </sect3> 1185 </sect2> 1186 1187 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1188 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1189 1190 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1191 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1192 1193 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1194 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1195 1196 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1197 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1198 1199 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1200 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1201 1202 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1203 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1204 1205 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1206 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1207 1208 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1209 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1210 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1211 1212 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1213 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1214 1.4.22.</para> 1215 1216 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1217 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1218 1219 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1220 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1221 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1222 updated:</para> 1223 1224 <itemizedlist> 1225 <listitem> 1226 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1227 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1228 </listitem> 1229 1230 <listitem> 1231 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1232 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1233 </listitem> 1234 1235 <listitem> 1236 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1237 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1238 </listitem> 1239 1240 <listitem> 1241 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1242 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1243 </listitem> 1244 </itemizedlist> 1245 1246 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1247 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1248 1249 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1250 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1251 1252 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1253 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1254 &os; base system.</para> 1255 1256 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1257 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1258 </sect2> 1259 1260 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1261 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1262 1263 <para> </para> 1264 1265 </sect2> 1266 1267 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1268 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1269 1270 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1271 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1272 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1273 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1274 cross-built releases.</para> 1275 </sect2> 1276 1277 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1278 <title>Documentation</title> 1279 1280 <para> </para> 1281 1282 </sect2> 1283 </sect1> 1284 1285 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1286 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1287 1288 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1289 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1290 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1291 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1292 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1293 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1294 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1295 connectivity.</para> 1296 1297 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1298 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1299 supported, according to the instructions in 1300 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1301 1302 <important> 1303 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1304 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1305 files.</para> 1306 </important> 1307 </sect1> 1308</article> 1309