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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 271270 2014-09-08 14:59:55Z 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 <para revision="271153">The default stack size 224 (<literal>KSTACK_PAGES</literal>) has been increased from 225 <literal>4</literal> to <literal>8</literal> for the 226 &arch.powerpc64; architecture.</para> 227 228 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 229 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 230 231 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 232 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 233 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 234 configuration.</para> 235 236 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 237 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 238 state.</para> 239 240 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 241 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 242 243 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 244 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 245 allowing guest operating systems to use 246 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 247 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 248 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 249 250 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 251 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 252 253 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 254 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 255 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 256 257 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been 258 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 259 260 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several 261 bug fixes, including:</para> 262 263 <itemizedlist> 264 <listitem> 265 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when 266 a guest virtual machine exits with an 267 <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote> 268 error.</para> 269 </listitem> 270 271 <listitem> 272 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym> 273 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para> 274 </listitem> 275 276 <listitem> 277 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual 278 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para> 279 </listitem> 280 281 <listitem> 282 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task 283 switching has been added.</para> 284 </listitem> 285 286 <listitem> 287 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel 288 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para> 289 </listitem> 290 291 <listitem> 292 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space 293 has been added.</para> 294 </listitem> 295 </itemizedlist> 296 </sect3> 297 298 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 299 <title>ARM Support</title> 300 301 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 302 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 303 304 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 305 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 306 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 307 the boot device, set the 308 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 309 u-boot environment variable.</para> 310 311 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 312 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 313 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 314 in most cases.</para> 315 316 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 317 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 318 319 <para>Support for hardware floating point was added to the 320 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 321 for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para> 322 323 <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now 324 works with <application>GCC</application>.</para> 325 326 <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the 327 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 328 for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para> 329 330 <para>Support was added for:</para> 331 332 <itemizedlist> 333 <listitem> 334 <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para> 335 </listitem> 336 337 <listitem> 338 <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 339 </listitem> 340 341 <listitem> 342 <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 343 </listitem> 344 345 <listitem> 346 <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para> 347 </listitem> 348 349 <listitem> 350 <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 351 </listitem> 352 353 <listitem> 354 <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para> 355 </listitem> 356 357 <listitem> 358 <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para> 359 </listitem> 360 </itemizedlist> 361 362 <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for 363 the RaspberryPi.</para> 364 365 <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym> 366 platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para> 367 368 <itemizedlist> 369 <listitem> 370 <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para> 371 </listitem> 372 373 <listitem> 374 <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para> 375 </listitem> 376 377 <listitem> 378 <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for 379 <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym> 380 storage)</para> 381 </listitem> 382 383 <listitem> 384 <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a 385 <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para> 386 </listitem> 387 388 <listitem> 389 <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para> 390 </listitem> 391 392 <listitem> 393 <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para> 394 </listitem> 395 </itemizedlist> 396 </sect3> 397 398 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 399 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 400 401 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 402 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 403 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 404 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 405 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 406 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 407 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 408 409 <para revision="271130" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 410 <filename class="directory">sys/boot/</filename> sources 411 have been rearranged, moving &man.libstand.3; to a directory 412 indicating the library is built as 32-bit.</para> 413 414 <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 415 &man.libstand.3; library has been updated to produce 416 a 64-bit shared library for the &os;/&arch.amd64; and 417 &os;/&arch.powerpc64; architectures.</para> 418 419 <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor" 420 sponsor="&ff;">Initial support for <acronym>UEFI</acronym> 421 boot has been added.</para> 422 423 <para revision="271136" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Three 424 new files are installed to <filename 425 class="directory">/boot</filename>, supporting 426 <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot:</para> 427 428 <itemizedlist> 429 <listitem> 430 <para><filename>boot1.efi</filename>: The 431 <acronym>UEFI</acronym> first stage bootstrap 432 file.</para> 433 </listitem> 434 435 <listitem> 436 <para><filename>boot1.efifat</filename>: 437 A <acronym>FAT</acronym> filesystem image containing 438 an <acronym>EFI</acronym> system partition.</para> 439 </listitem> 440 441 <listitem> 442 <para><filename>loader.efi</filename>: The third stage 443 bootstrap file.</para> 444 </listitem> 445 </itemizedlist> 446 </sect3> 447 448 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 449 <title>Hardware Support</title> 450 451 <para> </para> 452 453 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 454 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 455 456 <para> </para> 457 458 </sect4> 459 460 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 461 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 462 463 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 464 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 465 driver.</para> 466 467 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 468 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 469 470 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 471 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 472 473 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 474 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 475 instead.</para> 476 477 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 478 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 479 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 480 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 481 482 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 483 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 484 485 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 486 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 487 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 488 489 <note> 490 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 491 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 492 multiple queues.</para> 493 </note> 494 495 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 496 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 497 driver.</para> 498 499 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 500 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 501 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 502 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 503 generating corrupt frames.</para> 504 505 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 506 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 507 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 508 509 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 510 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 511 driver.</para> 512 513 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 514 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 515 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 516 1.11.27.0.</para> 517 518 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 519 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 520 521 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 522 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 523 524 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 525 <tgroup cols="2"> 526 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 527 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 528 <thead> 529 <row> 530 <entry>Old Name</entry> 531 <entry>New Name</entry> 532 </row> 533 </thead> 534 535 <tbody> 536 <row> 537 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 538 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 539 </row> 540 541 <row> 542 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 543 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 544 </row> 545 546 <row> 547 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 548 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 549 </row> 550 551 <row> 552 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 553 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 554 </row> 555 556 <row> 557 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 558 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 559 </row> 560 561 <row> 562 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 563 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 564 </row> 565 566 <row> 567 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 568 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 569 </row> 570 571 <row> 572 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 573 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 574 </row> 575 576 <row> 577 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 578 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 579 </row> 580 </tbody> 581 </tgroup> 582 </informaltable> 583 584 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 585 old tunables before upgrading to 586 &os; &release.current;.</para> 587 588 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 589 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 590 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 591 592 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 593 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 594 cards.</para> 595 596 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 597 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 598 599 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 600 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 601 602 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet 603 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been 604 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 605 </sect4> 606 </sect3> 607 608 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 609 <title>Network Protocols</title> 610 611 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 612 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 613 stacks.</para> 614 615 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 616 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 617 fixed.</para> 618 619 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which 620 is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that 621 significantly improved its performance and 622 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 623 624 <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 625 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to 626 support redirection handling when an 627 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple 628 <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network 629 interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to 630 such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require 631 additional client-side configuration.</para> 632 633 <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 634 &man.sysctl.8;, 635 <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has 636 been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to 637 remove the attached disk device when the connection to the 638 target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the 639 connection is restored.</para> 640 641 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 642 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized 643 to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock 644 contention.</para> 645 646 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" 647 sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been 648 made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including 649 deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to 650 read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage 651 and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</para> 652 </sect3> 653 654 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 655 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 656 657 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 658 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O 659 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it 660 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM 661 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 662 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding 663 CPU bottlenecks in 664 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, 665 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para> 666 667 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 668 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 669 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 670 671 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 672 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support 673 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue, 674 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces 675 lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym> 676 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para> 677 678 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 679 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to 680 support automatic live partition resizing.</para> 681 682 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 683 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 684 685 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has 686 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 687 688 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 689 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 690 691 <para revision="264732">Support for 692 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; 693 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para> 694 695 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 696 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 697 698 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 699 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 700 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 701 controllers.</para> 702 703 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property 704 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8; 705 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow 706 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different 707 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>, 708 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para> 709 710 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 711 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for 712 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will 713 attach to the controller, by default. To enable 714 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> 715 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 716 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 717 718 <note> 719 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; 720 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and 721 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 722 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 723 </note> 724 725 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of 726 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8; 727 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 728 729 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an 730 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display 731 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as 732 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 733 734 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 735 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 736 737 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 738 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 739 740 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 741 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been 742 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> 743 driver.</para> 744 745 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 746 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 747 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 748 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 749 but the label provider in <filename 750 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 751 resized.</para> 752 753 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 754 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 755 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 756 components have been replaced.</para> 757 758 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has 759 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 760 761 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 762 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 763 764 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> 765 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel 766 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 767 768 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 769 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 770 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 771 partition size are not saved to disk until 772 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 773 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 774 775 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 776 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 777 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 778 images.</para> 779 780 <para revision="268091">Support for the 781 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 782 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 783 784 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 785 &man.loader.8; tunable, 786 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 787 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 788 class. When set to a non-zero value, 789 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 790 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 791 with the disk geometry.</para> 792 793 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to 794 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para> 795 <itemizedlist> 796 <listitem> 797 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE 798 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, 799 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands 800 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX 801 storage acceleration.</para> 802 </listitem> 803 <listitem> 804 <para revision="265642">The 805 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size 806 limitations were removed by supporting multiple 807 data moves per command.</para> 808 </listitem> 809 <listitem> 810 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 811 multiple worker threads for better 812 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 813 </listitem> 814 <listitem> 815 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by 816 several times by disabling some never used 817 functionality.</para> 818 </listitem> 819 <listitem> 820 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 821 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 822 128</para> 823 </listitem> 824 <listitem> 825 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> 826 integration for better performance.</para> 827 </listitem> 828 </itemizedlist> 829 830 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor" 831 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 832 updated to version 1.0.1.</para> 833 </sect3> 834 835 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 836 <title>File Systems</title> 837 838 <para revision="260338">The 839 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 840 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 841 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 842 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 843 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 844 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 845 subsystem.</para> 846 847 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 848 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 849 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 850 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 851 errors have been detected.</para> 852 853 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 854 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 855 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 856 857 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 858 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 859 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 860 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 861 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 862 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 863 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 864 865 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 866 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 867 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 868 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 869 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 870 871 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 872 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 873 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 874 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 875 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 876 877 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 878 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 879 880 <itemizedlist> 881 <listitem> 882 <para> 883 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 884 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 885 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 886 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 887 threshold.</para> 888 </listitem> 889 890 <listitem> 891 <para> 892 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 893 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 894 keep their active state</para> 895 </listitem> 896 </itemizedlist> 897 898 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 899 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 900 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 901 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 902 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 903 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 904 cached reads. The 905 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 906 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 907 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 908 tunable is 8192.</para> 909 910 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 911 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 912 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 913 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 914 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 915 916 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 917 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been 918 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility 919 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating 920 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The 921 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible 922 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered 923 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the 924 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para> 925 </sect3> 926 </sect2> 927 928 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 929 <title>Userland Changes</title> 930 931 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 932 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 933 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 934 their parents.</para> 935 936 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 937 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 938 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 939 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 940 941 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 942 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 943 To use a non-default location, set 944 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 945 location of the file.</para> 946 947 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 948 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 949 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 950 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 951 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 952 953 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 954 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 955 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 956 957 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 958 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 959 960 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 961 been updated to include aliases for 962 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 963 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 964 snap</command>.</para> 965 966 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 967 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 968 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 969 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 970 971 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 972 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 973 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 974 characters long.</para> 975 976 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 977 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 978 979 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 980 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 981 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 982 2822.</para> 983 984 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 985 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 986 987 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 988 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 989 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 990 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 991 points.</para> 992 993 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 994 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 995 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 996 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 997 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 998 999 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 1000 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 1001 1002 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 1003 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 1004 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 1005 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 1006 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 1007 1008 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 1009 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 1010 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 1011 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 1012 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 1013 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 1014 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 1015 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 1016 1017 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 1018 and related image activator features have been merged from 1019 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1020 1021 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 1022 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 1023 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 1024 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 1025 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 1026 host system.</para> 1027 1028 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 1029 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 1030 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 1031 1032 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1033 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 1034 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 1035 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 1036 1037 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 1038 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 1039 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 1040 before <filename 1041 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 1042 1043 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 1044 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 1045 1046 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 1047 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 1048 1049 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 1050 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 1051 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 1052 1053 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 1054 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 1055 ends event collection after the specified number of 1056 seconds.</para> 1057 1058 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 1059 been updated to avoid printing 1060 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 1061 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 1062 1063 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 1064 has been updated to include optional 1065 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 1066 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 1067 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 1068 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 1069 1070 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 1071 includes files in the 1072 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 1073 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 1074 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 1075 1076 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 1077 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 1078 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 1079 not directories, such as <filename 1080 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1081 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1082 1083 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1084 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1085 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1086 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1087 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1088 1089 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1090 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1091 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1092 1093 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1094 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1095 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1096 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1097 1098 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1099 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1100 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1101 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1102 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1103 web interface.</para> 1104 1105 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1106 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1107 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1108 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1109 1110 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1111 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1112 has been fixed.</para> 1113 1114 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1115 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1116 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1117 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1118 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1119 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1120 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1121 1122 <note> 1123 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1124 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1125 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1126 </note> 1127 1128 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1129 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1130 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1131 1132 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1133 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1134 1135 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1136 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1137 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1138 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1139 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1140 OUT</command>.</para> 1141 1142 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1143 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1144 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1145 1146 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1147 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1148 also specifying <literal>-n 1149 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1150 1151 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1152 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1153 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1154 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1155 1156 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1157 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1158 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1159 1160 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1161 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1162 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1163 1164 <para>This update includes:</para> 1165 1166 <itemizedlist> 1167 <listitem> 1168 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1169 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1170 variables.</para> 1171 </listitem> 1172 1173 <listitem> 1174 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1175 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1176 </listitem> 1177 1178 <listitem> 1179 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1180 which is used to pass the host path to 1181 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1182 </listitem> 1183 1184 <listitem> 1185 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1186 has been added.</para> 1187 </listitem> 1188 1189 <listitem> 1190 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1191 removed.</para> 1192 </listitem> 1193 </itemizedlist> 1194 1195 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1196 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1197 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1198 1199 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1200 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1201 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1202 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1203 depending on the platform.</para> 1204 1205 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1206 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1207 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1208 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1209 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1210 specified.</para> 1211 1212 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1213 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1214 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1215 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1216 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1217 1218 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1219 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1220 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1221 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1222 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1223 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1224 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1225 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1226 1227 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1228 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1229 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1230 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1231 added back.</para> 1232 1233 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1234 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1235 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1236 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1237 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1238 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1239 1240 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1241 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1242 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1243 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1244 1245 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1246 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1247 module.</para> 1248 1249 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been 1250 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are 1251 considered non-portable.</para> 1252 1253 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The 1254 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications 1255 installed in the <filename 1256 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it 1257 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename 1258 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para> 1259 1260 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been 1261 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better 1262 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para> 1263 1264 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1265 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1266 1267 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1268 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1269 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1270 a network alias of 1271 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1272 would not be created if 1273 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1274 not defined.</para> 1275 1276 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1277 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1278 before traversing the directory.</para> 1279 1280 <para revision="259141">A regression introduced in 1281 &os; 10.0-RELEASE that would prevent proper IPv6 1282 allocation via the &man.jail.8; &man.rc.8; startup script 1283 has been fixed.</para> 1284 1285 <para revision="264438">The &man.rc.8; restriction requiring 1286 &man.mdconfig.8; devices defined in &man.rc.conf.5; to be 1287 listed sequentially has been removed.</para> 1288 1289 <para revision="262566">The &man.sshd.8; &man.rc.d.8; startup 1290 script now generates <literal>ED25519</literal> &man.sshd.8; 1291 host keys if keys do not already exist when 1292 <literal>ssh_keygen_alg()</literal> is invoked.</para> 1293 1294 <para revision="271095">Support for &man.vt.4; keyboard maps 1295 has been added to the <filename>syscons</filename> 1296 &man.rc.d.8; startup script.</para> 1297 </sect3> 1298 </sect2> 1299 1300 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1301 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1302 1303 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1304 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1305 1306 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1307 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1308 1309 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1310 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1311 1312 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1313 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1314 1315 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1316 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1317 1318 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1319 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1320 1321 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1322 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1323 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1324 1325 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1326 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1327 1.4.22.</para> 1328 1329 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1330 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1331 1332 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1333 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1334 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1335 updated:</para> 1336 1337 <itemizedlist> 1338 <listitem> 1339 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1340 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1341 </listitem> 1342 1343 <listitem> 1344 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1345 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1346 </listitem> 1347 1348 <listitem> 1349 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1350 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1351 </listitem> 1352 1353 <listitem> 1354 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1355 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1356 </listitem> 1357 </itemizedlist> 1358 1359 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1360 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1361 1362 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1363 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1364 1365 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1366 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1367 &os; base system.</para> 1368 1369 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1370 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1371 </sect2> 1372 1373 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1374 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1375 1376 <para> </para> 1377 1378 </sect2> 1379 1380 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1381 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1382 1383 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1384 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1385 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1386 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1387 cross-built releases.</para> 1388 </sect2> 1389 1390 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1391 <title>Documentation</title> 1392 1393 <para> </para> 1394 1395 </sect2> 1396 </sect1> 1397 1398 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1399 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1400 1401 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1402 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1403 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1404 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1405 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1406 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1407 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1408 connectivity.</para> 1409 1410 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1411 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1412 supported, according to the instructions in 1413 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1414 1415 <important> 1416 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1417 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1418 files.</para> 1419 </important> 1420 </sect1> 1421</article> 1422