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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 271092 2014-09-04 11:15:38Z 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 <para revision="271069">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been updated 198 to support the &apple; Mac Mini 3,1.</para> 199 200 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 201 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 202 203 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 204 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 205 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 206 configuration.</para> 207 208 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 209 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 210 state.</para> 211 212 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 213 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 214 215 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 216 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 217 allowing guest operating systems to use 218 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 219 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 220 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 221 222 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 223 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 224 225 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 226 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 227 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 228 229 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been 230 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 231 232 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several 233 bug fixes, including:</para> 234 235 <itemizedlist> 236 <listitem> 237 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when 238 a guest virtual machine exits with an 239 <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote> 240 error.</para> 241 </listitem> 242 243 <listitem> 244 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym> 245 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para> 246 </listitem> 247 248 <listitem> 249 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual 250 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para> 251 </listitem> 252 253 <listitem> 254 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task 255 switching has been added.</para> 256 </listitem> 257 258 <listitem> 259 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel 260 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para> 261 </listitem> 262 263 <listitem> 264 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space 265 has been added.</para> 266 </listitem> 267 </itemizedlist> 268 </sect3> 269 270 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 271 <title>ARM Support</title> 272 273 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 274 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 275 276 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 277 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 278 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 279 the boot device, set the 280 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 281 u-boot environment variable.</para> 282 283 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 284 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 285 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 286 in most cases.</para> 287 288 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 289 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 290 291 <para>Support for hardware floating point was added to the 292 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 293 for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para> 294 295 <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now 296 works with <application>GCC</application>.</para> 297 298 <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the 299 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 300 for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para> 301 302 <para>Support was added for:</para> 303 304 <itemizedlist> 305 <listitem> 306 <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para> 307 </listitem> 308 309 <listitem> 310 <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 311 </listitem> 312 313 <listitem> 314 <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 315 </listitem> 316 317 <listitem> 318 <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para> 319 </listitem> 320 321 <listitem> 322 <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 323 </listitem> 324 325 <listitem> 326 <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para> 327 </listitem> 328 329 <listitem> 330 <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para> 331 </listitem> 332 </itemizedlist> 333 334 <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for 335 the RaspberryPi.</para> 336 337 <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym> 338 platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para> 339 340 <itemizedlist> 341 <listitem> 342 <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para> 343 </listitem> 344 345 <listitem> 346 <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para> 347 </listitem> 348 349 <listitem> 350 <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for 351 <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym> 352 storage)</para> 353 </listitem> 354 355 <listitem> 356 <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a 357 <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para> 358 </listitem> 359 360 <listitem> 361 <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para> 362 </listitem> 363 364 <listitem> 365 <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para> 366 </listitem> 367 </itemizedlist> 368 </sect3> 369 370 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 371 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 372 373 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 374 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 375 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 376 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 377 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 378 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 379 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 380 </sect3> 381 382 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 383 <title>Hardware Support</title> 384 385 <para> </para> 386 387 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 388 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 389 390 <para> </para> 391 392 </sect4> 393 394 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 395 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 396 397 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 398 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 399 driver.</para> 400 401 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 402 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 403 404 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 405 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 406 407 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 408 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 409 instead.</para> 410 411 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 412 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 413 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 414 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 415 416 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 417 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 418 419 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 420 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 421 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 422 423 <note> 424 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 425 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 426 multiple queues.</para> 427 </note> 428 429 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 430 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 431 driver.</para> 432 433 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 434 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 435 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 436 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 437 generating corrupt frames.</para> 438 439 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 440 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 441 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 442 443 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 444 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 445 driver.</para> 446 447 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 448 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 449 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 450 1.11.27.0.</para> 451 452 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 453 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 454 455 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 456 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 457 458 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 459 <tgroup cols="2"> 460 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 461 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 462 <thead> 463 <row> 464 <entry>Old Name</entry> 465 <entry>New Name</entry> 466 </row> 467 </thead> 468 469 <tbody> 470 <row> 471 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 472 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 473 </row> 474 475 <row> 476 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 477 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 478 </row> 479 480 <row> 481 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 482 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 483 </row> 484 485 <row> 486 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 487 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 488 </row> 489 490 <row> 491 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 492 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 493 </row> 494 495 <row> 496 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 497 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 498 </row> 499 500 <row> 501 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 502 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 503 </row> 504 505 <row> 506 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 507 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 508 </row> 509 510 <row> 511 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 512 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 513 </row> 514 </tbody> 515 </tgroup> 516 </informaltable> 517 518 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 519 old tunables before upgrading to 520 &os; &release.current;.</para> 521 522 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 523 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 524 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 525 526 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 527 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 528 cards.</para> 529 530 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 531 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 532 533 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 534 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 535 536 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet 537 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been 538 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 539 </sect4> 540 </sect3> 541 542 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 543 <title>Network Protocols</title> 544 545 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 546 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 547 stacks.</para> 548 549 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 550 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 551 fixed.</para> 552 553 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which 554 is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that 555 significantly improved its performance and 556 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 557 558 <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 559 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to 560 support redirection handling when an 561 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple 562 <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network 563 interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to 564 such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require 565 additional client-side configuration.</para> 566 567 <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 568 &man.sysctl.8;, 569 <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has 570 been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to 571 remove the attached disk device when the connection to the 572 target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the 573 connection is restored.</para> 574 575 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 576 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized 577 to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock 578 contention.</para> 579 580 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" 581 sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been 582 made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including 583 deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to 584 read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage 585 and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</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 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM 595 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 596 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding 597 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 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces 609 lock congestion and improves <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> 763 764 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor" 765 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 766 updated to version 1.0.1.</para> 767 </sect3> 768 769 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 770 <title>File Systems</title> 771 772 <para revision="260338">The 773 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 774 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 775 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 776 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 777 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 778 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 779 subsystem.</para> 780 781 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 782 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 783 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 784 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 785 errors have been detected.</para> 786 787 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 788 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 789 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 790 791 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 792 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 793 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 794 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 795 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 796 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 797 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 798 799 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 800 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 801 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 802 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 803 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 804 805 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 806 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 807 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 808 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 809 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 810 811 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 812 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 813 814 <itemizedlist> 815 <listitem> 816 <para> 817 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 818 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 819 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 820 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 821 threshold.</para> 822 </listitem> 823 824 <listitem> 825 <para> 826 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 827 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 828 keep their active state</para> 829 </listitem> 830 </itemizedlist> 831 832 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 833 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 834 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 835 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 836 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 837 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 838 cached reads. The 839 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 840 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 841 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 842 tunable is 8192.</para> 843 844 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 845 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 846 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 847 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 848 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 849 850 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 851 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been 852 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility 853 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating 854 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The 855 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible 856 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered 857 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the 858 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para> 859 </sect3> 860 </sect2> 861 862 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 863 <title>Userland Changes</title> 864 865 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 866 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 867 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 868 their parents.</para> 869 870 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 871 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 872 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 873 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 874 875 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 876 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 877 To use a non-default location, set 878 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 879 location of the file.</para> 880 881 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 882 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 883 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 884 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 885 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 886 887 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 888 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 889 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 890 891 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 892 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 893 894 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 895 been updated to include aliases for 896 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 897 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 898 snap</command>.</para> 899 900 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 901 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 902 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 903 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 904 905 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 906 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 907 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 908 characters long.</para> 909 910 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 911 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 912 913 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 914 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 915 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 916 2822.</para> 917 918 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 919 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 920 921 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 922 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 923 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 924 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 925 points.</para> 926 927 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 928 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 929 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 930 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 931 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 932 933 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 934 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 935 936 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 937 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 938 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 939 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 940 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 941 942 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 943 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 944 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 945 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 946 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 947 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 948 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 949 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 950 951 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 952 and related image activator features have been merged from 953 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 954 955 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 956 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 957 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 958 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 959 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 960 host system.</para> 961 962 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 963 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 964 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 965 966 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 967 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 968 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 969 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 970 971 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 972 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 973 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 974 before <filename 975 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 976 977 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 978 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 979 980 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 981 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 982 983 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 984 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 985 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 986 987 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 988 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 989 ends event collection after the specified number of 990 seconds.</para> 991 992 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 993 been updated to avoid printing 994 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 995 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 996 997 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 998 has been updated to include optional 999 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 1000 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 1001 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 1002 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 1003 1004 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 1005 includes files in the 1006 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 1007 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 1008 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 1009 1010 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 1011 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 1012 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 1013 not directories, such as <filename 1014 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1015 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1016 1017 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1018 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1019 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1020 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1021 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1022 1023 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1024 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1025 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1026 1027 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1028 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1029 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1030 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1031 1032 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1033 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1034 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1035 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1036 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1037 web interface.</para> 1038 1039 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1040 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1041 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1042 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1043 1044 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1045 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1046 has been fixed.</para> 1047 1048 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1049 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1050 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1051 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1052 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1053 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1054 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1055 1056 <note> 1057 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1058 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1059 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1060 </note> 1061 1062 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1063 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1064 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1065 1066 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1067 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1068 1069 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1070 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1071 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1072 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1073 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1074 OUT</command>.</para> 1075 1076 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1077 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1078 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1079 1080 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1081 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1082 also specifying <literal>-n 1083 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1084 1085 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1086 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1087 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1088 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1089 1090 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1091 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1092 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1093 1094 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1095 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1096 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1097 1098 <para>This update includes:</para> 1099 1100 <itemizedlist> 1101 <listitem> 1102 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1103 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1104 variables.</para> 1105 </listitem> 1106 1107 <listitem> 1108 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1109 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1110 </listitem> 1111 1112 <listitem> 1113 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1114 which is used to pass the host path to 1115 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1116 </listitem> 1117 1118 <listitem> 1119 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1120 has been added.</para> 1121 </listitem> 1122 1123 <listitem> 1124 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1125 removed.</para> 1126 </listitem> 1127 </itemizedlist> 1128 1129 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1130 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1131 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1132 1133 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1134 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1135 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1136 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1137 depending on the platform.</para> 1138 1139 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1140 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1141 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1142 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1143 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1144 specified.</para> 1145 1146 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1147 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1148 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1149 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1150 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1151 1152 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1153 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1154 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1155 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1156 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1157 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1158 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1159 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1160 1161 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1162 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1163 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1164 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1165 added back.</para> 1166 1167 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1168 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1169 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1170 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1171 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1172 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1173 1174 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1175 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1176 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1177 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1178 1179 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1180 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1181 module.</para> 1182 1183 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been 1184 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are 1185 considered non-portable.</para> 1186 1187 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The 1188 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications 1189 installed in the <filename 1190 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it 1191 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename 1192 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para> 1193 1194 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been 1195 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better 1196 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para> 1197 1198 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1199 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1200 1201 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1202 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1203 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1204 a network alias of 1205 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1206 would not be created if 1207 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1208 not defined.</para> 1209 1210 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1211 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1212 before traversing the directory.</para> 1213 1214 <para revision="259141">A regression introduced in 1215 &os; 10.0-RELEASE that would prevent proper IPv6 1216 allocation via the &man.jail.8; &man.rc.8; startup script 1217 has been fixed.</para> 1218 1219 <para revision="264438">The &man.rc.8; restriction requiring 1220 &man.mdconfig.8; devices defined in &man.rc.conf.5; to be 1221 listed sequentially has been removed.</para> 1222 1223 <para revision="262566">The &man.sshd.8; &man.rc.d.8; startup 1224 script now generates <literal>ED25519</literal> &man.sshd.8; 1225 host keys if keys do not already exist when 1226 <literal>ssh_keygen_alg()</literal> is invoked.</para> 1227 </sect3> 1228 </sect2> 1229 1230 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1231 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1232 1233 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1234 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1235 1236 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1237 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1238 1239 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1240 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1241 1242 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1243 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1244 1245 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1246 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1247 1248 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1249 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1250 1251 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1252 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1253 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1254 1255 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1256 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1257 1.4.22.</para> 1258 1259 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1260 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1261 1262 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1263 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1264 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1265 updated:</para> 1266 1267 <itemizedlist> 1268 <listitem> 1269 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1270 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1271 </listitem> 1272 1273 <listitem> 1274 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1275 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1276 </listitem> 1277 1278 <listitem> 1279 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1280 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1281 </listitem> 1282 1283 <listitem> 1284 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1285 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1286 </listitem> 1287 </itemizedlist> 1288 1289 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1290 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1291 1292 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1293 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1294 1295 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1296 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1297 &os; base system.</para> 1298 1299 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1300 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1301 </sect2> 1302 1303 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1304 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1305 1306 <para> </para> 1307 1308 </sect2> 1309 1310 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1311 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1312 1313 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1314 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1315 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1316 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1317 cross-built releases.</para> 1318 </sect2> 1319 1320 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1321 <title>Documentation</title> 1322 1323 <para> </para> 1324 1325 </sect2> 1326 </sect1> 1327 1328 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1329 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1330 1331 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1332 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1333 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1334 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1335 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1336 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1337 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1338 connectivity.</para> 1339 1340 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1341 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1342 supported, according to the instructions in 1343 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1344 1345 <important> 1346 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1347 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1348 files.</para> 1349 </important> 1350 </sect1> 1351</article> 1352