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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 271052 2014-09-03 20:53:11Z 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 </sect3> 584 585 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 586 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 587 588 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 589 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O 590 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it 591 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM 592 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 593 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding 594 CPU bottlenecks in 595 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, 596 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para> 597 598 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 599 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 600 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 601 602 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 603 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support 604 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue, 605 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces 606 lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym> 607 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para> 608 609 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 610 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to 611 support automatic live partition resizing.</para> 612 613 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 614 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 615 616 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has 617 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 618 619 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 620 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 621 622 <para revision="264732">Support for 623 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; 624 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para> 625 626 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 627 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 628 629 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 630 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 631 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 632 controllers.</para> 633 634 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property 635 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8; 636 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow 637 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different 638 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>, 639 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para> 640 641 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 642 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for 643 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will 644 attach to the controller, by default. To enable 645 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> 646 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 647 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 648 649 <note> 650 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; 651 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and 652 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 653 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 654 </note> 655 656 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of 657 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8; 658 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 659 660 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an 661 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display 662 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as 663 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 664 665 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 666 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 667 668 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 669 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 670 671 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 672 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been 673 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> 674 driver.</para> 675 676 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 677 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 678 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 679 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 680 but the label provider in <filename 681 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 682 resized.</para> 683 684 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 685 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 686 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 687 components have been replaced.</para> 688 689 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has 690 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 691 692 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 693 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 694 695 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> 696 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel 697 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 698 699 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 700 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 701 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 702 partition size are not saved to disk until 703 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 704 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 705 706 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 707 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 708 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 709 images.</para> 710 711 <para revision="268091">Support for the 712 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 713 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 714 715 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 716 &man.loader.8; tunable, 717 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 718 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 719 class. When set to a non-zero value, 720 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 721 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 722 with the disk geometry.</para> 723 724 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to 725 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para> 726 <itemizedlist> 727 <listitem> 728 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE 729 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, 730 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands 731 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX 732 storage acceleration.</para> 733 </listitem> 734 <listitem> 735 <para revision="265642">The 736 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size 737 limitations were removed by supporting multiple 738 data moves per command.</para> 739 </listitem> 740 <listitem> 741 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 742 multiple worker threads for better 743 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 744 </listitem> 745 <listitem> 746 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by 747 several times by disabling some never used 748 functionality.</para> 749 </listitem> 750 <listitem> 751 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 752 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 753 128</para> 754 </listitem> 755 <listitem> 756 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> 757 integration for better performance.</para> 758 </listitem> 759 </itemizedlist> 760 761 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor" 762 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 763 updated to version 1.0.1.</para> 764 </sect3> 765 766 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 767 <title>File Systems</title> 768 769 <para revision="260338">The 770 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 771 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 772 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 773 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 774 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 775 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 776 subsystem.</para> 777 778 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 779 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 780 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 781 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 782 errors have been detected.</para> 783 784 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 785 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 786 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 787 788 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 789 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 790 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 791 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 792 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 793 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 794 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 795 796 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 797 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 798 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 799 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 800 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 801 802 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 803 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 804 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 805 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 806 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 807 808 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 809 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 810 811 <itemizedlist> 812 <listitem> 813 <para> 814 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 815 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 816 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 817 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 818 threshold.</para> 819 </listitem> 820 821 <listitem> 822 <para> 823 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 824 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 825 keep their active state</para> 826 </listitem> 827 </itemizedlist> 828 829 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 830 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 831 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 832 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 833 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 834 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 835 cached reads. The 836 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 837 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 838 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 839 tunable is 8192.</para> 840 841 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 842 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 843 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 844 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 845 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 846 847 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 848 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been 849 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility 850 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating 851 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The 852 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible 853 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered 854 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the 855 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para> 856 </sect3> 857 </sect2> 858 859 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 860 <title>Userland Changes</title> 861 862 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 863 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 864 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 865 their parents.</para> 866 867 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 868 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 869 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 870 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 871 872 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 873 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 874 To use a non-default location, set 875 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 876 location of the file.</para> 877 878 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 879 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 880 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 881 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 882 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 883 884 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 885 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 886 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 887 888 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 889 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 890 891 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 892 been updated to include aliases for 893 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 894 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 895 snap</command>.</para> 896 897 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 898 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 899 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 900 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 901 902 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 903 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 904 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 905 characters long.</para> 906 907 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 908 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 909 910 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 911 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 912 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 913 2822.</para> 914 915 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 916 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 917 918 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 919 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 920 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 921 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 922 points.</para> 923 924 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 925 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 926 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 927 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 928 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 929 930 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 931 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 932 933 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 934 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 935 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 936 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 937 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 938 939 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 940 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 941 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 942 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 943 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 944 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 945 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 946 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 947 948 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 949 and related image activator features have been merged from 950 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 951 952 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 953 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 954 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 955 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 956 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 957 host system.</para> 958 959 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 960 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 961 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 962 963 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 964 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 965 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 966 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 967 968 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 969 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 970 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 971 before <filename 972 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 973 974 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 975 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 976 977 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 978 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 979 980 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 981 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 982 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 983 984 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 985 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 986 ends event collection after the specified number of 987 seconds.</para> 988 989 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 990 been updated to avoid printing 991 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 992 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 993 994 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 995 has been updated to include optional 996 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 997 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 998 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 999 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 1000 1001 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 1002 includes files in the 1003 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 1004 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 1005 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 1006 1007 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 1008 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 1009 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 1010 not directories, such as <filename 1011 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1012 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1013 1014 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1015 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1016 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1017 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1018 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1019 1020 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1021 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1022 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1023 1024 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1025 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1026 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1027 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1028 1029 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1030 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1031 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1032 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1033 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1034 web interface.</para> 1035 1036 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1037 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1038 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1039 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1040 1041 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1042 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1043 has been fixed.</para> 1044 1045 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1046 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1047 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1048 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1049 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1050 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1051 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1052 1053 <note> 1054 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1055 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1056 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1057 </note> 1058 1059 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1060 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1061 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1062 1063 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1064 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1065 1066 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1067 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1068 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1069 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1070 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1071 OUT</command>.</para> 1072 1073 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1074 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1075 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1076 1077 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1078 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1079 also specifying <literal>-n 1080 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1081 1082 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1083 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1084 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1085 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1086 1087 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1088 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1089 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1090 1091 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1092 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1093 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1094 1095 <para>This update includes:</para> 1096 1097 <itemizedlist> 1098 <listitem> 1099 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1100 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1101 variables.</para> 1102 </listitem> 1103 1104 <listitem> 1105 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1106 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1107 </listitem> 1108 1109 <listitem> 1110 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1111 which is used to pass the host path to 1112 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1113 </listitem> 1114 1115 <listitem> 1116 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1117 has been added.</para> 1118 </listitem> 1119 1120 <listitem> 1121 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1122 removed.</para> 1123 </listitem> 1124 </itemizedlist> 1125 1126 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1127 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1128 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1129 1130 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1131 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1132 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1133 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1134 depending on the platform.</para> 1135 1136 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1137 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1138 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1139 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1140 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1141 specified.</para> 1142 1143 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1144 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1145 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1146 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1147 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1148 1149 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1150 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1151 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1152 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1153 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1154 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1155 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1156 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1157 1158 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1159 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1160 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1161 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1162 added back.</para> 1163 1164 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1165 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1166 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1167 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1168 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1169 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1170 1171 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1172 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1173 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1174 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1175 1176 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1177 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1178 module.</para> 1179 1180 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been 1181 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are 1182 considered non-portable.</para> 1183 1184 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The 1185 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications 1186 installed in the <filename 1187 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it 1188 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename 1189 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para> 1190 1191 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been 1192 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better 1193 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para> 1194 1195 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1196 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1197 1198 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1199 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1200 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1201 a network alias of 1202 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1203 would not be created if 1204 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1205 not defined.</para> 1206 1207 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1208 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1209 before traversing the directory.</para> 1210 </sect3> 1211 </sect2> 1212 1213 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1214 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1215 1216 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1217 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1218 1219 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1220 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1221 1222 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1223 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1224 1225 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1226 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1227 1228 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1229 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1230 1231 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1232 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1233 1234 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1235 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1236 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1237 1238 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1239 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1240 1.4.22.</para> 1241 1242 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1243 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1244 1245 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1246 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1247 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1248 updated:</para> 1249 1250 <itemizedlist> 1251 <listitem> 1252 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1253 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1254 </listitem> 1255 1256 <listitem> 1257 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1258 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1259 </listitem> 1260 1261 <listitem> 1262 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1263 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1264 </listitem> 1265 1266 <listitem> 1267 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1268 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1269 </listitem> 1270 </itemizedlist> 1271 1272 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1273 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1274 1275 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1276 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1277 1278 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1279 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1280 &os; base system.</para> 1281 1282 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1283 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1284 </sect2> 1285 1286 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1287 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1288 1289 <para> </para> 1290 1291 </sect2> 1292 1293 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1294 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1295 1296 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1297 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1298 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1299 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1300 cross-built releases.</para> 1301 </sect2> 1302 1303 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1304 <title>Documentation</title> 1305 1306 <para> </para> 1307 1308 </sect2> 1309 </sect1> 1310 1311 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1312 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1313 1314 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1315 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1316 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1317 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1318 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1319 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1320 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1321 connectivity.</para> 1322 1323 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1324 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1325 supported, according to the instructions in 1326 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1327 1328 <important> 1329 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1330 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1331 files.</para> 1332 </important> 1333 </sect1> 1334</article> 1335