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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 271267 2014-09-08 14:59:49Z 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 <para revision="271128" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Several 220 performance enchancements to the &man.vt.4; driver have been 221 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 222 223 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 224 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 225 226 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 227 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 228 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 229 configuration.</para> 230 231 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 232 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 233 state.</para> 234 235 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 236 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 237 238 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 239 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 240 allowing guest operating systems to use 241 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 242 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 243 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 244 245 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 246 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 247 248 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 249 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 250 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 251 252 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been 253 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 254 255 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several 256 bug fixes, including:</para> 257 258 <itemizedlist> 259 <listitem> 260 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when 261 a guest virtual machine exits with an 262 <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote> 263 error.</para> 264 </listitem> 265 266 <listitem> 267 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym> 268 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para> 269 </listitem> 270 271 <listitem> 272 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual 273 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para> 274 </listitem> 275 276 <listitem> 277 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task 278 switching has been added.</para> 279 </listitem> 280 281 <listitem> 282 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel 283 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para> 284 </listitem> 285 286 <listitem> 287 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space 288 has been added.</para> 289 </listitem> 290 </itemizedlist> 291 </sect3> 292 293 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 294 <title>ARM Support</title> 295 296 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 297 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 298 299 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 300 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 301 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 302 the boot device, set the 303 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 304 u-boot environment variable.</para> 305 306 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 307 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 308 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 309 in most cases.</para> 310 311 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 312 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 313 314 <para>Support for hardware floating point was added to the 315 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 316 for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para> 317 318 <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now 319 works with <application>GCC</application>.</para> 320 321 <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the 322 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 323 for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para> 324 325 <para>Support was added for:</para> 326 327 <itemizedlist> 328 <listitem> 329 <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para> 330 </listitem> 331 332 <listitem> 333 <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 334 </listitem> 335 336 <listitem> 337 <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 338 </listitem> 339 340 <listitem> 341 <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para> 342 </listitem> 343 344 <listitem> 345 <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 346 </listitem> 347 348 <listitem> 349 <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para> 350 </listitem> 351 352 <listitem> 353 <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para> 354 </listitem> 355 </itemizedlist> 356 357 <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for 358 the RaspberryPi.</para> 359 360 <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym> 361 platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para> 362 363 <itemizedlist> 364 <listitem> 365 <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para> 366 </listitem> 367 368 <listitem> 369 <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para> 370 </listitem> 371 372 <listitem> 373 <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for 374 <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym> 375 storage)</para> 376 </listitem> 377 378 <listitem> 379 <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a 380 <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para> 381 </listitem> 382 383 <listitem> 384 <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para> 385 </listitem> 386 387 <listitem> 388 <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para> 389 </listitem> 390 </itemizedlist> 391 </sect3> 392 393 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 394 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 395 396 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 397 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 398 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 399 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 400 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 401 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 402 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 403 </sect3> 404 405 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 406 <title>Hardware Support</title> 407 408 <para> </para> 409 410 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 411 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 412 413 <para> </para> 414 415 </sect4> 416 417 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 418 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 419 420 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 421 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 422 driver.</para> 423 424 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 425 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 426 427 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 428 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 429 430 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 431 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 432 instead.</para> 433 434 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 435 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 436 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 437 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 438 439 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 440 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 441 442 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 443 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 444 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 445 446 <note> 447 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 448 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 449 multiple queues.</para> 450 </note> 451 452 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 453 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 454 driver.</para> 455 456 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 457 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 458 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 459 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 460 generating corrupt frames.</para> 461 462 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 463 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 464 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 465 466 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 467 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 468 driver.</para> 469 470 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 471 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 472 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 473 1.11.27.0.</para> 474 475 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 476 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 477 478 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 479 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 480 481 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 482 <tgroup cols="2"> 483 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 484 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 485 <thead> 486 <row> 487 <entry>Old Name</entry> 488 <entry>New Name</entry> 489 </row> 490 </thead> 491 492 <tbody> 493 <row> 494 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 495 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 496 </row> 497 498 <row> 499 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 500 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 501 </row> 502 503 <row> 504 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 505 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 506 </row> 507 508 <row> 509 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 510 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 511 </row> 512 513 <row> 514 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 515 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 516 </row> 517 518 <row> 519 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 520 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 521 </row> 522 523 <row> 524 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 525 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 526 </row> 527 528 <row> 529 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 530 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 531 </row> 532 533 <row> 534 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 535 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 536 </row> 537 </tbody> 538 </tgroup> 539 </informaltable> 540 541 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 542 old tunables before upgrading to 543 &os; &release.current;.</para> 544 545 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 546 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 547 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 548 549 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 550 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 551 cards.</para> 552 553 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 554 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 555 556 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 557 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 558 559 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet 560 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been 561 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 562 </sect4> 563 </sect3> 564 565 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 566 <title>Network Protocols</title> 567 568 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 569 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 570 stacks.</para> 571 572 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 573 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 574 fixed.</para> 575 576 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which 577 is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that 578 significantly improved its performance and 579 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 580 581 <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 582 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to 583 support redirection handling when an 584 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple 585 <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network 586 interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to 587 such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require 588 additional client-side configuration.</para> 589 590 <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 591 &man.sysctl.8;, 592 <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has 593 been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to 594 remove the attached disk device when the connection to the 595 target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the 596 connection is restored.</para> 597 598 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 599 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized 600 to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock 601 contention.</para> 602 603 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" 604 sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been 605 made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including 606 deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to 607 read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage 608 and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</para> 609 </sect3> 610 611 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 612 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 613 614 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 615 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O 616 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it 617 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM 618 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 619 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding 620 CPU bottlenecks in 621 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, 622 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para> 623 624 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 625 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 626 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 627 628 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 629 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support 630 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue, 631 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces 632 lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym> 633 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para> 634 635 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 636 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to 637 support automatic live partition resizing.</para> 638 639 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 640 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 641 642 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has 643 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 644 645 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 646 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 647 648 <para revision="264732">Support for 649 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; 650 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para> 651 652 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 653 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 654 655 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 656 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 657 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 658 controllers.</para> 659 660 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property 661 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8; 662 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow 663 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different 664 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>, 665 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para> 666 667 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 668 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for 669 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will 670 attach to the controller, by default. To enable 671 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> 672 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 673 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 674 675 <note> 676 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; 677 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and 678 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 679 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 680 </note> 681 682 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of 683 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8; 684 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 685 686 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an 687 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display 688 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as 689 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 690 691 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 692 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 693 694 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 695 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 696 697 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 698 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been 699 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> 700 driver.</para> 701 702 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 703 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 704 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 705 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 706 but the label provider in <filename 707 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 708 resized.</para> 709 710 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 711 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 712 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 713 components have been replaced.</para> 714 715 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has 716 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 717 718 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 719 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 720 721 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> 722 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel 723 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 724 725 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 726 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 727 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 728 partition size are not saved to disk until 729 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 730 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 731 732 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 733 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 734 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 735 images.</para> 736 737 <para revision="268091">Support for the 738 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 739 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 740 741 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 742 &man.loader.8; tunable, 743 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 744 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 745 class. When set to a non-zero value, 746 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 747 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 748 with the disk geometry.</para> 749 750 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to 751 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para> 752 <itemizedlist> 753 <listitem> 754 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE 755 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, 756 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands 757 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX 758 storage acceleration.</para> 759 </listitem> 760 <listitem> 761 <para revision="265642">The 762 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size 763 limitations were removed by supporting multiple 764 data moves per command.</para> 765 </listitem> 766 <listitem> 767 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 768 multiple worker threads for better 769 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 770 </listitem> 771 <listitem> 772 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by 773 several times by disabling some never used 774 functionality.</para> 775 </listitem> 776 <listitem> 777 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 778 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 779 128</para> 780 </listitem> 781 <listitem> 782 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> 783 integration for better performance.</para> 784 </listitem> 785 </itemizedlist> 786 787 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor" 788 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 789 updated to version 1.0.1.</para> 790 </sect3> 791 792 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 793 <title>File Systems</title> 794 795 <para revision="260338">The 796 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 797 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 798 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 799 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 800 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 801 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 802 subsystem.</para> 803 804 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 805 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 806 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 807 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 808 errors have been detected.</para> 809 810 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 811 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 812 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 813 814 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 815 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 816 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 817 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 818 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 819 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 820 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 821 822 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 823 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 824 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 825 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 826 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 827 828 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 829 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 830 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 831 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 832 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 833 834 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 835 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 836 837 <itemizedlist> 838 <listitem> 839 <para> 840 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 841 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 842 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 843 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 844 threshold.</para> 845 </listitem> 846 847 <listitem> 848 <para> 849 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 850 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 851 keep their active state</para> 852 </listitem> 853 </itemizedlist> 854 855 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 856 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 857 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 858 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 859 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 860 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 861 cached reads. The 862 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 863 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 864 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 865 tunable is 8192.</para> 866 867 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 868 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 869 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 870 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 871 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 872 873 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 874 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been 875 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility 876 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating 877 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The 878 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible 879 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered 880 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the 881 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para> 882 </sect3> 883 </sect2> 884 885 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 886 <title>Userland Changes</title> 887 888 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 889 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 890 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 891 their parents.</para> 892 893 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 894 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 895 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 896 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 897 898 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 899 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 900 To use a non-default location, set 901 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 902 location of the file.</para> 903 904 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 905 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 906 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 907 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 908 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 909 910 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 911 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 912 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 913 914 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 915 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 916 917 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 918 been updated to include aliases for 919 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 920 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 921 snap</command>.</para> 922 923 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 924 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 925 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 926 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 927 928 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 929 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 930 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 931 characters long.</para> 932 933 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 934 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 935 936 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 937 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 938 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 939 2822.</para> 940 941 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 942 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 943 944 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 945 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 946 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 947 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 948 points.</para> 949 950 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 951 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 952 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 953 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 954 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 955 956 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 957 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 958 959 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 960 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 961 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 962 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 963 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 964 965 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 966 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 967 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 968 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 969 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 970 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 971 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 972 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 973 974 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 975 and related image activator features have been merged from 976 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 977 978 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 979 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 980 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 981 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 982 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 983 host system.</para> 984 985 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 986 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 987 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 988 989 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 990 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 991 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 992 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 993 994 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 995 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 996 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 997 before <filename 998 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 999 1000 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 1001 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 1002 1003 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 1004 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 1005 1006 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 1007 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 1008 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 1009 1010 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 1011 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 1012 ends event collection after the specified number of 1013 seconds.</para> 1014 1015 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 1016 been updated to avoid printing 1017 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 1018 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 1019 1020 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 1021 has been updated to include optional 1022 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 1023 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 1024 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 1025 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 1026 1027 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 1028 includes files in the 1029 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 1030 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 1031 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 1032 1033 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 1034 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 1035 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 1036 not directories, such as <filename 1037 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1038 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1039 1040 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1041 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1042 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1043 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1044 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1045 1046 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1047 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1048 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1049 1050 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1051 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1052 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1053 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1054 1055 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1056 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1057 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1058 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1059 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1060 web interface.</para> 1061 1062 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1063 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1064 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1065 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1066 1067 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1068 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1069 has been fixed.</para> 1070 1071 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1072 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1073 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1074 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1075 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1076 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1077 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1078 1079 <note> 1080 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1081 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1082 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1083 </note> 1084 1085 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1086 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1087 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1088 1089 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1090 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1091 1092 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1093 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1094 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1095 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1096 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1097 OUT</command>.</para> 1098 1099 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1100 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1101 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1102 1103 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1104 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1105 also specifying <literal>-n 1106 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1107 1108 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1109 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1110 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1111 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1112 1113 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1114 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1115 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1116 1117 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1118 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1119 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1120 1121 <para>This update includes:</para> 1122 1123 <itemizedlist> 1124 <listitem> 1125 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1126 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1127 variables.</para> 1128 </listitem> 1129 1130 <listitem> 1131 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1132 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1133 </listitem> 1134 1135 <listitem> 1136 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1137 which is used to pass the host path to 1138 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1139 </listitem> 1140 1141 <listitem> 1142 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1143 has been added.</para> 1144 </listitem> 1145 1146 <listitem> 1147 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1148 removed.</para> 1149 </listitem> 1150 </itemizedlist> 1151 1152 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1153 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1154 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1155 1156 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1157 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1158 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1159 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1160 depending on the platform.</para> 1161 1162 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1163 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1164 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1165 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1166 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1167 specified.</para> 1168 1169 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1170 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1171 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1172 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1173 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1174 1175 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1176 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1177 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1178 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1179 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1180 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1181 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1182 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1183 1184 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1185 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1186 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1187 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1188 added back.</para> 1189 1190 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1191 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1192 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1193 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1194 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1195 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1196 1197 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1198 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1199 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1200 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1201 1202 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1203 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1204 module.</para> 1205 1206 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been 1207 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are 1208 considered non-portable.</para> 1209 1210 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The 1211 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications 1212 installed in the <filename 1213 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it 1214 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename 1215 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para> 1216 1217 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been 1218 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better 1219 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para> 1220 1221 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1222 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1223 1224 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1225 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1226 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1227 a network alias of 1228 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1229 would not be created if 1230 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1231 not defined.</para> 1232 1233 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1234 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1235 before traversing the directory.</para> 1236 1237 <para revision="259141">A regression introduced in 1238 &os; 10.0-RELEASE that would prevent proper IPv6 1239 allocation via the &man.jail.8; &man.rc.8; startup script 1240 has been fixed.</para> 1241 1242 <para revision="264438">The &man.rc.8; restriction requiring 1243 &man.mdconfig.8; devices defined in &man.rc.conf.5; to be 1244 listed sequentially has been removed.</para> 1245 1246 <para revision="262566">The &man.sshd.8; &man.rc.d.8; startup 1247 script now generates <literal>ED25519</literal> &man.sshd.8; 1248 host keys if keys do not already exist when 1249 <literal>ssh_keygen_alg()</literal> is invoked.</para> 1250 1251 <para revision="271095">Support for &man.vt.4; keyboard maps 1252 has been added to the <filename>syscons</filename> 1253 &man.rc.d.8; startup script.</para> 1254 </sect3> 1255 </sect2> 1256 1257 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1258 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1259 1260 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1261 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1262 1263 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1264 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1265 1266 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1267 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1268 1269 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1270 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1271 1272 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1273 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1274 1275 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1276 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1277 1278 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1279 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1280 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1281 1282 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1283 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1284 1.4.22.</para> 1285 1286 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1287 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1288 1289 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1290 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1291 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1292 updated:</para> 1293 1294 <itemizedlist> 1295 <listitem> 1296 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1297 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1298 </listitem> 1299 1300 <listitem> 1301 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1302 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1303 </listitem> 1304 1305 <listitem> 1306 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1307 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1308 </listitem> 1309 1310 <listitem> 1311 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1312 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1313 </listitem> 1314 </itemizedlist> 1315 1316 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1317 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1318 1319 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1320 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1321 1322 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1323 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1324 &os; base system.</para> 1325 1326 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1327 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1328 </sect2> 1329 1330 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1331 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1332 1333 <para> </para> 1334 1335 </sect2> 1336 1337 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1338 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1339 1340 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1341 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1342 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1343 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1344 cross-built releases.</para> 1345 </sect2> 1346 1347 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1348 <title>Documentation</title> 1349 1350 <para> </para> 1351 1352 </sect2> 1353 </sect1> 1354 1355 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1356 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1357 1358 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1359 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1360 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1361 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1362 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1363 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1364 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1365 connectivity.</para> 1366 1367 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1368 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1369 supported, according to the instructions in 1370 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1371 1372 <important> 1373 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1374 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1375 files.</para> 1376 </important> 1377 </sect1> 1378</article> 1379