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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 271266 2014-09-08 14:59:47Z 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 <para revision="271111">The &os;/&arch.powerpc64; default kernel 201 configuration, <filename>GENERIC64</filename>, has been 202 updated to enable the &man.vt.4; console driver for the 203 Sony® Playstation 3™ platform.</para> 204 205 <para revision="271116" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 206 &os;/&arch.powerpc; <literal>ofwfb</literal> driver, used to 207 provide a graphics console when the &man.vt.4; console driver 208 is used, has been modified to work with the <filename 209 role="package">x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb</filename> 210 port.</para> 211 212 <note> 213 <para>If using an <acronym>ATI</acronym> graphics card with 214 the &man.vt.4; driver, the <filename 215 role="package">x11-servers/xorg-server</filename> package 216 must be updated to version 1.12.4_8 or newer.</para> 217 </note> 218 219 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 220 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 221 222 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 223 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 224 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 225 configuration.</para> 226 227 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 228 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 229 state.</para> 230 231 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 232 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 233 234 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 235 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 236 allowing guest operating systems to use 237 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 238 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 239 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 240 241 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 242 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 243 244 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 245 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 246 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 247 248 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been 249 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 250 251 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several 252 bug fixes, including:</para> 253 254 <itemizedlist> 255 <listitem> 256 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when 257 a guest virtual machine exits with an 258 <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote> 259 error.</para> 260 </listitem> 261 262 <listitem> 263 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym> 264 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para> 265 </listitem> 266 267 <listitem> 268 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual 269 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para> 270 </listitem> 271 272 <listitem> 273 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task 274 switching has been added.</para> 275 </listitem> 276 277 <listitem> 278 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel 279 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para> 280 </listitem> 281 282 <listitem> 283 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space 284 has been added.</para> 285 </listitem> 286 </itemizedlist> 287 </sect3> 288 289 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 290 <title>ARM Support</title> 291 292 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 293 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 294 295 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 296 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 297 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 298 the boot device, set the 299 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 300 u-boot environment variable.</para> 301 302 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 303 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 304 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 305 in most cases.</para> 306 307 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 308 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 309 310 <para>Support for hardware floating point was added to the 311 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 312 for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para> 313 314 <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now 315 works with <application>GCC</application>.</para> 316 317 <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the 318 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 319 for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para> 320 321 <para>Support was added for:</para> 322 323 <itemizedlist> 324 <listitem> 325 <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para> 326 </listitem> 327 328 <listitem> 329 <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 330 </listitem> 331 332 <listitem> 333 <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 334 </listitem> 335 336 <listitem> 337 <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para> 338 </listitem> 339 340 <listitem> 341 <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 342 </listitem> 343 344 <listitem> 345 <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para> 346 </listitem> 347 348 <listitem> 349 <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para> 350 </listitem> 351 </itemizedlist> 352 353 <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for 354 the RaspberryPi.</para> 355 356 <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym> 357 platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para> 358 359 <itemizedlist> 360 <listitem> 361 <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para> 362 </listitem> 363 364 <listitem> 365 <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para> 366 </listitem> 367 368 <listitem> 369 <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for 370 <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym> 371 storage)</para> 372 </listitem> 373 374 <listitem> 375 <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a 376 <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para> 377 </listitem> 378 379 <listitem> 380 <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para> 381 </listitem> 382 383 <listitem> 384 <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para> 385 </listitem> 386 </itemizedlist> 387 </sect3> 388 389 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 390 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 391 392 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 393 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 394 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 395 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 396 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 397 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 398 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 399 </sect3> 400 401 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 402 <title>Hardware Support</title> 403 404 <para> </para> 405 406 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 407 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 408 409 <para> </para> 410 411 </sect4> 412 413 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 414 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 415 416 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 417 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 418 driver.</para> 419 420 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 421 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 422 423 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 424 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 425 426 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 427 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 428 instead.</para> 429 430 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 431 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 432 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 433 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 434 435 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 436 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 437 438 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 439 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 440 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 441 442 <note> 443 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 444 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 445 multiple queues.</para> 446 </note> 447 448 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 449 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 450 driver.</para> 451 452 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 453 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 454 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 455 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 456 generating corrupt frames.</para> 457 458 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 459 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 460 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 461 462 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 463 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 464 driver.</para> 465 466 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 467 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 468 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 469 1.11.27.0.</para> 470 471 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 472 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 473 474 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 475 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 476 477 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 478 <tgroup cols="2"> 479 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 480 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 481 <thead> 482 <row> 483 <entry>Old Name</entry> 484 <entry>New Name</entry> 485 </row> 486 </thead> 487 488 <tbody> 489 <row> 490 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 491 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 492 </row> 493 494 <row> 495 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 496 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 497 </row> 498 499 <row> 500 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 501 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 502 </row> 503 504 <row> 505 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 506 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 507 </row> 508 509 <row> 510 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 511 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 512 </row> 513 514 <row> 515 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 516 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 517 </row> 518 519 <row> 520 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 521 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 522 </row> 523 524 <row> 525 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 526 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 527 </row> 528 529 <row> 530 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 531 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 532 </row> 533 </tbody> 534 </tgroup> 535 </informaltable> 536 537 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 538 old tunables before upgrading to 539 &os; &release.current;.</para> 540 541 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 542 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 543 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 544 545 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 546 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 547 cards.</para> 548 549 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 550 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 551 552 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 553 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 554 555 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet 556 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been 557 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 558 </sect4> 559 </sect3> 560 561 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 562 <title>Network Protocols</title> 563 564 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 565 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 566 stacks.</para> 567 568 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 569 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 570 fixed.</para> 571 572 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which 573 is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that 574 significantly improved its performance and 575 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 576 577 <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 578 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to 579 support redirection handling when an 580 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple 581 <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network 582 interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to 583 such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require 584 additional client-side configuration.</para> 585 586 <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 587 &man.sysctl.8;, 588 <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has 589 been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to 590 remove the attached disk device when the connection to the 591 target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the 592 connection is restored.</para> 593 594 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 595 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized 596 to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock 597 contention.</para> 598 599 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" 600 sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been 601 made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including 602 deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to 603 read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage 604 and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</para> 605 </sect3> 606 607 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 608 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 609 610 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 611 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O 612 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it 613 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM 614 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 615 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding 616 CPU bottlenecks in 617 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, 618 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para> 619 620 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 621 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 622 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 623 624 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 625 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support 626 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue, 627 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces 628 lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym> 629 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para> 630 631 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 632 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to 633 support automatic live partition resizing.</para> 634 635 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 636 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 637 638 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has 639 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 640 641 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 642 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 643 644 <para revision="264732">Support for 645 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; 646 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para> 647 648 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 649 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 650 651 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 652 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 653 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 654 controllers.</para> 655 656 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property 657 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8; 658 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow 659 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different 660 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>, 661 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para> 662 663 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 664 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for 665 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will 666 attach to the controller, by default. To enable 667 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> 668 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 669 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 670 671 <note> 672 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; 673 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and 674 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 675 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 676 </note> 677 678 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of 679 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8; 680 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 681 682 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an 683 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display 684 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as 685 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 686 687 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 688 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 689 690 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 691 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 692 693 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 694 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been 695 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> 696 driver.</para> 697 698 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 699 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 700 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 701 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 702 but the label provider in <filename 703 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 704 resized.</para> 705 706 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 707 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 708 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 709 components have been replaced.</para> 710 711 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has 712 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 713 714 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 715 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 716 717 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> 718 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel 719 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 720 721 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 722 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 723 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 724 partition size are not saved to disk until 725 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 726 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 727 728 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 729 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 730 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 731 images.</para> 732 733 <para revision="268091">Support for the 734 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 735 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 736 737 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 738 &man.loader.8; tunable, 739 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 740 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 741 class. When set to a non-zero value, 742 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 743 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 744 with the disk geometry.</para> 745 746 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to 747 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para> 748 <itemizedlist> 749 <listitem> 750 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE 751 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, 752 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands 753 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX 754 storage acceleration.</para> 755 </listitem> 756 <listitem> 757 <para revision="265642">The 758 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size 759 limitations were removed by supporting multiple 760 data moves per command.</para> 761 </listitem> 762 <listitem> 763 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 764 multiple worker threads for better 765 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 766 </listitem> 767 <listitem> 768 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by 769 several times by disabling some never used 770 functionality.</para> 771 </listitem> 772 <listitem> 773 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 774 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 775 128</para> 776 </listitem> 777 <listitem> 778 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> 779 integration for better performance.</para> 780 </listitem> 781 </itemizedlist> 782 783 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor" 784 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 785 updated to version 1.0.1.</para> 786 </sect3> 787 788 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 789 <title>File Systems</title> 790 791 <para revision="260338">The 792 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 793 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 794 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 795 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 796 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 797 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 798 subsystem.</para> 799 800 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 801 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 802 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 803 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 804 errors have been detected.</para> 805 806 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 807 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 808 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 809 810 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 811 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 812 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 813 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 814 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 815 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 816 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 817 818 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 819 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 820 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 821 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 822 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 823 824 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 825 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 826 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 827 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 828 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 829 830 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 831 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 832 833 <itemizedlist> 834 <listitem> 835 <para> 836 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 837 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 838 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 839 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 840 threshold.</para> 841 </listitem> 842 843 <listitem> 844 <para> 845 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 846 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 847 keep their active state</para> 848 </listitem> 849 </itemizedlist> 850 851 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 852 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 853 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 854 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 855 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 856 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 857 cached reads. The 858 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 859 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 860 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 861 tunable is 8192.</para> 862 863 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 864 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 865 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 866 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 867 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 868 869 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 870 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been 871 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility 872 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating 873 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The 874 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible 875 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered 876 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the 877 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para> 878 </sect3> 879 </sect2> 880 881 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 882 <title>Userland Changes</title> 883 884 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 885 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 886 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 887 their parents.</para> 888 889 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 890 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 891 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 892 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 893 894 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 895 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 896 To use a non-default location, set 897 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 898 location of the file.</para> 899 900 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 901 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 902 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 903 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 904 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 905 906 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 907 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 908 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 909 910 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 911 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 912 913 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 914 been updated to include aliases for 915 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 916 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 917 snap</command>.</para> 918 919 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 920 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 921 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 922 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 923 924 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 925 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 926 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 927 characters long.</para> 928 929 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 930 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 931 932 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 933 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 934 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 935 2822.</para> 936 937 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 938 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 939 940 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 941 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 942 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 943 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 944 points.</para> 945 946 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 947 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 948 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 949 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 950 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 951 952 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 953 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 954 955 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 956 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 957 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 958 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 959 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 960 961 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 962 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 963 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 964 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 965 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 966 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 967 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 968 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 969 970 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 971 and related image activator features have been merged from 972 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 973 974 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 975 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 976 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 977 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 978 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 979 host system.</para> 980 981 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 982 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 983 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 984 985 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 986 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 987 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 988 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 989 990 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 991 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 992 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 993 before <filename 994 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 995 996 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 997 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 998 999 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 1000 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 1001 1002 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 1003 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 1004 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 1005 1006 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 1007 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 1008 ends event collection after the specified number of 1009 seconds.</para> 1010 1011 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 1012 been updated to avoid printing 1013 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 1014 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 1015 1016 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 1017 has been updated to include optional 1018 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 1019 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 1020 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 1021 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 1022 1023 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 1024 includes files in the 1025 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 1026 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 1027 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 1028 1029 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 1030 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 1031 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 1032 not directories, such as <filename 1033 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1034 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1035 1036 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1037 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1038 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1039 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1040 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1041 1042 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1043 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1044 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1045 1046 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1047 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1048 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1049 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1050 1051 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1052 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1053 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1054 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1055 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1056 web interface.</para> 1057 1058 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1059 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1060 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1061 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1062 1063 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1064 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1065 has been fixed.</para> 1066 1067 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1068 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1069 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1070 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1071 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1072 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1073 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1074 1075 <note> 1076 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1077 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1078 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1079 </note> 1080 1081 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1082 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1083 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1084 1085 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1086 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1087 1088 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1089 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1090 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1091 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1092 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1093 OUT</command>.</para> 1094 1095 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1096 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1097 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1098 1099 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1100 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1101 also specifying <literal>-n 1102 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1103 1104 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1105 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1106 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1107 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1108 1109 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1110 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1111 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1112 1113 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1114 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1115 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1116 1117 <para>This update includes:</para> 1118 1119 <itemizedlist> 1120 <listitem> 1121 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1122 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1123 variables.</para> 1124 </listitem> 1125 1126 <listitem> 1127 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1128 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1129 </listitem> 1130 1131 <listitem> 1132 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1133 which is used to pass the host path to 1134 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1135 </listitem> 1136 1137 <listitem> 1138 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1139 has been added.</para> 1140 </listitem> 1141 1142 <listitem> 1143 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1144 removed.</para> 1145 </listitem> 1146 </itemizedlist> 1147 1148 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1149 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1150 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1151 1152 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1153 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1154 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1155 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1156 depending on the platform.</para> 1157 1158 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1159 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1160 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1161 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1162 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1163 specified.</para> 1164 1165 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1166 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1167 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1168 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1169 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1170 1171 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1172 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1173 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1174 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1175 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1176 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1177 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1178 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1179 1180 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1181 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1182 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1183 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1184 added back.</para> 1185 1186 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1187 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1188 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1189 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1190 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1191 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1192 1193 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1194 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1195 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1196 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1197 1198 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1199 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1200 module.</para> 1201 1202 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been 1203 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are 1204 considered non-portable.</para> 1205 1206 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The 1207 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications 1208 installed in the <filename 1209 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it 1210 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename 1211 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para> 1212 1213 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been 1214 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better 1215 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para> 1216 1217 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1218 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1219 1220 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1221 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1222 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1223 a network alias of 1224 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1225 would not be created if 1226 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1227 not defined.</para> 1228 1229 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1230 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1231 before traversing the directory.</para> 1232 1233 <para revision="259141">A regression introduced in 1234 &os; 10.0-RELEASE that would prevent proper IPv6 1235 allocation via the &man.jail.8; &man.rc.8; startup script 1236 has been fixed.</para> 1237 1238 <para revision="264438">The &man.rc.8; restriction requiring 1239 &man.mdconfig.8; devices defined in &man.rc.conf.5; to be 1240 listed sequentially has been removed.</para> 1241 1242 <para revision="262566">The &man.sshd.8; &man.rc.d.8; startup 1243 script now generates <literal>ED25519</literal> &man.sshd.8; 1244 host keys if keys do not already exist when 1245 <literal>ssh_keygen_alg()</literal> is invoked.</para> 1246 1247 <para revision="271095">Support for &man.vt.4; keyboard maps 1248 has been added to the <filename>syscons</filename> 1249 &man.rc.d.8; startup script.</para> 1250 </sect3> 1251 </sect2> 1252 1253 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1254 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1255 1256 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1257 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1258 1259 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1260 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1261 1262 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1263 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1264 1265 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1266 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1267 1268 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1269 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1270 1271 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1272 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1273 1274 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1275 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1276 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1277 1278 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1279 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1280 1.4.22.</para> 1281 1282 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1283 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1284 1285 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1286 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1287 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1288 updated:</para> 1289 1290 <itemizedlist> 1291 <listitem> 1292 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1293 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1294 </listitem> 1295 1296 <listitem> 1297 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1298 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1299 </listitem> 1300 1301 <listitem> 1302 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1303 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1304 </listitem> 1305 1306 <listitem> 1307 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1308 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1309 </listitem> 1310 </itemizedlist> 1311 1312 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1313 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1314 1315 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1316 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1317 1318 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1319 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1320 &os; base system.</para> 1321 1322 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1323 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1324 </sect2> 1325 1326 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1327 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1328 1329 <para> </para> 1330 1331 </sect2> 1332 1333 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1334 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1335 1336 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1337 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1338 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1339 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1340 cross-built releases.</para> 1341 </sect2> 1342 1343 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1344 <title>Documentation</title> 1345 1346 <para> </para> 1347 1348 </sect2> 1349 </sect1> 1350 1351 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1352 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1353 1354 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1355 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1356 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1357 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1358 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1359 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1360 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1361 connectivity.</para> 1362 1363 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1364 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1365 supported, according to the instructions in 1366 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1367 1368 <important> 1369 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1370 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1371 files.</para> 1372 </important> 1373 </sect1> 1374</article> 1375