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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 271273 2014-09-08 15:00:01Z 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 <para revision="271205">The &os;/&arch.powerpc; ATI driver 229 has been updated to support enabling and disabling the 230 Radeon 9700 backlight, found in the 231 &apple; PowerBook™ G4.</para> 232 233 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 234 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 235 236 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 237 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 238 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 239 configuration.</para> 240 241 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 242 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 243 state.</para> 244 245 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 246 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 247 248 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 249 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 250 allowing guest operating systems to use 251 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 252 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 253 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 254 255 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 256 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 257 258 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 259 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 260 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 261 262 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been 263 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 264 265 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several 266 bug fixes, including:</para> 267 268 <itemizedlist> 269 <listitem> 270 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when 271 a guest virtual machine exits with an 272 <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote> 273 error.</para> 274 </listitem> 275 276 <listitem> 277 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym> 278 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para> 279 </listitem> 280 281 <listitem> 282 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual 283 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para> 284 </listitem> 285 286 <listitem> 287 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task 288 switching has been added.</para> 289 </listitem> 290 291 <listitem> 292 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel 293 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para> 294 </listitem> 295 296 <listitem> 297 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space 298 has been added.</para> 299 </listitem> 300 </itemizedlist> 301 </sect3> 302 303 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 304 <title>ARM Support</title> 305 306 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 307 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 308 309 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 310 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 311 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 312 the boot device, set the 313 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 314 u-boot environment variable.</para> 315 316 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 317 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 318 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 319 in most cases.</para> 320 321 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 322 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 323 324 <para>Support for hardware floating point was added to the 325 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 326 for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para> 327 328 <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now 329 works with <application>GCC</application>.</para> 330 331 <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the 332 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 333 for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para> 334 335 <para>Support was added for:</para> 336 337 <itemizedlist> 338 <listitem> 339 <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para> 340 </listitem> 341 342 <listitem> 343 <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 344 </listitem> 345 346 <listitem> 347 <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 348 </listitem> 349 350 <listitem> 351 <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para> 352 </listitem> 353 354 <listitem> 355 <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 356 </listitem> 357 358 <listitem> 359 <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para> 360 </listitem> 361 362 <listitem> 363 <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para> 364 </listitem> 365 </itemizedlist> 366 367 <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for 368 the RaspberryPi.</para> 369 370 <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym> 371 platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para> 372 373 <itemizedlist> 374 <listitem> 375 <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para> 376 </listitem> 377 378 <listitem> 379 <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para> 380 </listitem> 381 382 <listitem> 383 <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for 384 <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym> 385 storage)</para> 386 </listitem> 387 388 <listitem> 389 <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a 390 <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para> 391 </listitem> 392 393 <listitem> 394 <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para> 395 </listitem> 396 397 <listitem> 398 <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para> 399 </listitem> 400 </itemizedlist> 401 </sect3> 402 403 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 404 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 405 406 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 407 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 408 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 409 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 410 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 411 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 412 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 413 414 <para revision="271130" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 415 <filename class="directory">sys/boot/</filename> sources 416 have been rearranged, moving &man.libstand.3; to a directory 417 indicating the library is built as 32-bit.</para> 418 419 <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 420 &man.libstand.3; library has been updated to produce 421 a 64-bit shared library for the &os;/&arch.amd64; and 422 &os;/&arch.powerpc64; architectures.</para> 423 424 <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor" 425 sponsor="&ff;">Initial support for <acronym>UEFI</acronym> 426 boot has been added.</para> 427 428 <para revision="271136" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Three 429 new files are installed to <filename 430 class="directory">/boot</filename>, supporting 431 <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot:</para> 432 433 <itemizedlist> 434 <listitem> 435 <para><filename>boot1.efi</filename>: The 436 <acronym>UEFI</acronym> first stage bootstrap 437 file.</para> 438 </listitem> 439 440 <listitem> 441 <para><filename>boot1.efifat</filename>: 442 A <acronym>FAT</acronym> filesystem image containing 443 an <acronym>EFI</acronym> system partition.</para> 444 </listitem> 445 446 <listitem> 447 <para><filename>loader.efi</filename>: The third stage 448 bootstrap file.</para> 449 </listitem> 450 </itemizedlist> 451 </sect3> 452 453 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 454 <title>Hardware Support</title> 455 456 <para> </para> 457 458 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 459 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 460 461 <para> </para> 462 463 </sect4> 464 465 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 466 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 467 468 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 469 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 470 driver.</para> 471 472 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 473 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 474 475 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 476 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 477 478 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 479 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 480 instead.</para> 481 482 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 483 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 484 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 485 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 486 487 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 488 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 489 490 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 491 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 492 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 493 494 <note> 495 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 496 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 497 multiple queues.</para> 498 </note> 499 500 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 501 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 502 driver.</para> 503 504 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 505 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 506 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 507 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 508 generating corrupt frames.</para> 509 510 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 511 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 512 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 513 514 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 515 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 516 driver.</para> 517 518 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 519 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 520 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 521 1.11.27.0.</para> 522 523 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 524 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 525 526 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 527 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 528 529 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 530 <tgroup cols="2"> 531 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 532 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 533 <thead> 534 <row> 535 <entry>Old Name</entry> 536 <entry>New Name</entry> 537 </row> 538 </thead> 539 540 <tbody> 541 <row> 542 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 543 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 544 </row> 545 546 <row> 547 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 548 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 549 </row> 550 551 <row> 552 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 553 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 554 </row> 555 556 <row> 557 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 558 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 559 </row> 560 561 <row> 562 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 563 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 564 </row> 565 566 <row> 567 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 568 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 569 </row> 570 571 <row> 572 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 573 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 574 </row> 575 576 <row> 577 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 578 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 579 </row> 580 581 <row> 582 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 583 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 584 </row> 585 </tbody> 586 </tgroup> 587 </informaltable> 588 589 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 590 old tunables before upgrading to 591 &os; &release.current;.</para> 592 593 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 594 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 595 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 596 597 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 598 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 599 cards.</para> 600 601 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 602 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 603 604 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 605 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 606 607 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet 608 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been 609 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 610 </sect4> 611 </sect3> 612 613 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 614 <title>Network Protocols</title> 615 616 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 617 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 618 stacks.</para> 619 620 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 621 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 622 fixed.</para> 623 624 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which 625 is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that 626 significantly improved its performance and 627 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 628 629 <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 630 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to 631 support redirection handling when an 632 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple 633 <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network 634 interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to 635 such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require 636 additional client-side configuration.</para> 637 638 <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 639 &man.sysctl.8;, 640 <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has 641 been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to 642 remove the attached disk device when the connection to the 643 target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the 644 connection is restored.</para> 645 646 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 647 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized 648 to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock 649 contention.</para> 650 651 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" 652 sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been 653 made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including 654 deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to 655 read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage 656 and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</para> 657 </sect3> 658 659 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 660 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 661 662 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 663 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O 664 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it 665 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM 666 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 667 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding 668 CPU bottlenecks in 669 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, 670 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para> 671 672 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 673 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 674 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 675 676 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 677 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support 678 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue, 679 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces 680 lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym> 681 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para> 682 683 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 684 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to 685 support automatic live partition resizing.</para> 686 687 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 688 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 689 690 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has 691 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 692 693 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 694 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 695 696 <para revision="264732">Support for 697 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; 698 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para> 699 700 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 701 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 702 703 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 704 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 705 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 706 controllers.</para> 707 708 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property 709 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8; 710 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow 711 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different 712 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>, 713 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para> 714 715 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 716 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for 717 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will 718 attach to the controller, by default. To enable 719 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> 720 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 721 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 722 723 <note> 724 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; 725 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and 726 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 727 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 728 </note> 729 730 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of 731 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8; 732 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 733 734 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an 735 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display 736 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as 737 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 738 739 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 740 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 741 742 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 743 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 744 745 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 746 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been 747 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> 748 driver.</para> 749 750 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 751 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 752 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 753 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 754 but the label provider in <filename 755 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 756 resized.</para> 757 758 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 759 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 760 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 761 components have been replaced.</para> 762 763 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has 764 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 765 766 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 767 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 768 769 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> 770 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel 771 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 772 773 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 774 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 775 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 776 partition size are not saved to disk until 777 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 778 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 779 780 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 781 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 782 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 783 images.</para> 784 785 <para revision="268091">Support for the 786 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 787 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 788 789 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 790 &man.loader.8; tunable, 791 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 792 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 793 class. When set to a non-zero value, 794 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 795 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 796 with the disk geometry.</para> 797 798 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to 799 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para> 800 <itemizedlist> 801 <listitem> 802 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE 803 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, 804 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands 805 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX 806 storage acceleration.</para> 807 </listitem> 808 <listitem> 809 <para revision="265642">The 810 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size 811 limitations were removed by supporting multiple 812 data moves per command.</para> 813 </listitem> 814 <listitem> 815 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 816 multiple worker threads for better 817 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 818 </listitem> 819 <listitem> 820 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by 821 several times by disabling some never used 822 functionality.</para> 823 </listitem> 824 <listitem> 825 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 826 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 827 128</para> 828 </listitem> 829 <listitem> 830 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> 831 integration for better performance.</para> 832 </listitem> 833 </itemizedlist> 834 835 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor" 836 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 837 updated to version 1.0.1.</para> 838 839 <para revision="271234">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been 840 added to the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 841 configuration on &arch.amd64; and &arch.i386; 842 architectures.</para> 843 </sect3> 844 845 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 846 <title>File Systems</title> 847 848 <para revision="260338">The 849 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 850 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 851 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 852 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 853 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 854 should be resolved due to several change in the VM 855 subsystem.</para> 856 857 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 858 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 859 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 860 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 861 errors have been detected.</para> 862 863 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 864 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 865 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 866 867 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 868 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 869 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 870 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 871 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 872 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 873 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 874 875 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 876 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 877 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 878 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 879 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 880 881 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 882 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 883 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 884 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 885 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 886 887 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 888 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 889 890 <itemizedlist> 891 <listitem> 892 <para> 893 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 894 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 895 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 896 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 897 threshold.</para> 898 </listitem> 899 900 <listitem> 901 <para> 902 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 903 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 904 keep their active state</para> 905 </listitem> 906 </itemizedlist> 907 908 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 909 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 910 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 911 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 912 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 913 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 914 cached reads. The 915 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 916 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 917 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 918 tunable is 8192.</para> 919 920 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 921 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 922 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 923 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 924 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 925 926 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 927 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been 928 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility 929 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating 930 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The 931 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible 932 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered 933 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the 934 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para> 935 </sect3> 936 </sect2> 937 938 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 939 <title>Userland Changes</title> 940 941 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 942 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 943 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 944 their parents.</para> 945 946 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 947 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 948 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 949 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 950 951 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 952 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 953 To use a non-default location, set 954 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 955 location of the file.</para> 956 957 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 958 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 959 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 960 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 961 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 962 963 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 964 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 965 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 966 967 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 968 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 969 970 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 971 been updated to include aliases for 972 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 973 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 974 snap</command>.</para> 975 976 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 977 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 978 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 979 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 980 981 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 982 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has 983 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 984 characters long.</para> 985 986 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 987 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 988 989 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 990 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 991 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 992 2822.</para> 993 994 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 995 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 996 997 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 998 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 999 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 1000 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 1001 points.</para> 1002 1003 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 1004 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 1005 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 1006 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 1007 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 1008 1009 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 1010 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 1011 1012 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 1013 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 1014 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 1015 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 1016 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 1017 1018 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 1019 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 1020 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 1021 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 1022 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 1023 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 1024 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 1025 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 1026 1027 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 1028 and related image activator features have been merged from 1029 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1030 1031 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 1032 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 1033 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 1034 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 1035 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 1036 host system.</para> 1037 1038 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 1039 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 1040 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 1041 1042 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1043 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 1044 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 1045 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 1046 1047 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 1048 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 1049 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 1050 before <filename 1051 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 1052 1053 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 1054 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 1055 1056 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 1057 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 1058 1059 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 1060 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 1061 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 1062 1063 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 1064 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 1065 ends event collection after the specified number of 1066 seconds.</para> 1067 1068 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 1069 been updated to avoid printing 1070 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 1071 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 1072 1073 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 1074 has been updated to include optional 1075 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 1076 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 1077 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 1078 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 1079 1080 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 1081 includes files in the 1082 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 1083 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 1084 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 1085 1086 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 1087 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 1088 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 1089 not directories, such as <filename 1090 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1091 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1092 1093 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1094 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1095 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1096 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1097 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1098 1099 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1100 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1101 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1102 1103 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1104 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1105 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1106 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1107 1108 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1109 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1110 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1111 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1112 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1113 web interface.</para> 1114 1115 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1116 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1117 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1118 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1119 1120 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1121 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1122 has been fixed.</para> 1123 1124 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1125 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1126 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1127 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1128 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1129 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1130 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1131 1132 <note> 1133 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1134 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1135 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1136 </note> 1137 1138 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1139 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1140 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1141 1142 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1143 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1144 1145 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1146 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1147 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1148 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1149 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1150 OUT</command>.</para> 1151 1152 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1153 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1154 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1155 1156 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1157 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1158 also specifying <literal>-n 1159 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1160 1161 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1162 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1163 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1164 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1165 1166 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1167 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1168 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1169 1170 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1171 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1172 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1173 1174 <para>This update includes:</para> 1175 1176 <itemizedlist> 1177 <listitem> 1178 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1179 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1180 variables.</para> 1181 </listitem> 1182 1183 <listitem> 1184 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1185 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1186 </listitem> 1187 1188 <listitem> 1189 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1190 which is used to pass the host path to 1191 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1192 </listitem> 1193 1194 <listitem> 1195 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1196 has been added.</para> 1197 </listitem> 1198 1199 <listitem> 1200 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1201 removed.</para> 1202 </listitem> 1203 </itemizedlist> 1204 1205 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1206 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1207 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1208 1209 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1210 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1211 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1212 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1213 depending on the platform.</para> 1214 1215 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1216 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1217 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1218 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1219 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1220 specified.</para> 1221 1222 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1223 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1224 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1225 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1226 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1227 1228 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1229 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1230 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1231 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1232 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1233 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1234 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1235 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1236 1237 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1238 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1239 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1240 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1241 added back.</para> 1242 1243 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1244 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1245 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1246 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1247 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1248 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1249 1250 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1251 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1252 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1253 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1254 1255 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1256 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1257 module.</para> 1258 1259 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been 1260 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are 1261 considered non-portable.</para> 1262 1263 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The 1264 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications 1265 installed in the <filename 1266 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it 1267 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename 1268 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para> 1269 1270 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been 1271 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better 1272 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para> 1273 1274 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1275 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1276 1277 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1278 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1279 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1280 a network alias of 1281 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1282 would not be created if 1283 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1284 not defined.</para> 1285 1286 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1287 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1288 before traversing the directory.</para> 1289 1290 <para revision="259141">A regression introduced in 1291 &os; 10.0-RELEASE that would prevent proper IPv6 1292 allocation via the &man.jail.8; &man.rc.8; startup script 1293 has been fixed.</para> 1294 1295 <para revision="264438">The &man.rc.8; restriction requiring 1296 &man.mdconfig.8; devices defined in &man.rc.conf.5; to be 1297 listed sequentially has been removed.</para> 1298 1299 <para revision="262566">The &man.sshd.8; &man.rc.d.8; startup 1300 script now generates <literal>ED25519</literal> &man.sshd.8; 1301 host keys if keys do not already exist when 1302 <literal>ssh_keygen_alg()</literal> is invoked.</para> 1303 1304 <para revision="271095">Support for &man.vt.4; keyboard maps 1305 has been added to the <filename>syscons</filename> 1306 &man.rc.d.8; startup script.</para> 1307 1308 <para revision="271260">Support for subdirectories within 1309 <filename 1310 class="directory">/etc/rc.conf.d/<replaceable>service</replaceable>/</filename> 1311 has been added the &man.rc.d.8;. This allows creating 1312 separate configuration files for services such as 1313 <filename>netif</filename>, for example, where each network 1314 interface can have a separate configuration file.</para> 1315 </sect3> 1316 </sect2> 1317 1318 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1319 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1320 1321 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1322 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1323 1324 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1325 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1326 1327 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1328 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1329 1330 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1331 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1332 1333 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1334 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1335 1336 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1337 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1338 1339 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1340 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1341 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1342 1343 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1344 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1345 1.4.22.</para> 1346 1347 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1348 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1349 1350 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1351 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1352 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1353 updated:</para> 1354 1355 <itemizedlist> 1356 <listitem> 1357 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1358 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1359 </listitem> 1360 1361 <listitem> 1362 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1363 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1364 </listitem> 1365 1366 <listitem> 1367 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1368 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1369 </listitem> 1370 1371 <listitem> 1372 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1373 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1374 </listitem> 1375 </itemizedlist> 1376 1377 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1378 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1379 1380 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1381 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1382 1383 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1384 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1385 &os; base system.</para> 1386 1387 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1388 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1389 </sect2> 1390 1391 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1392 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1393 1394 <para> </para> 1395 1396 </sect2> 1397 1398 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1399 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1400 1401 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1402 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1403 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1404 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1405 cross-built releases.</para> 1406 </sect2> 1407 1408 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1409 <title>Documentation</title> 1410 1411 <para> </para> 1412 1413 </sect2> 1414 </sect1> 1415 1416 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1417 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1418 1419 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1420 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1421 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1422 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1423 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1424 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1425 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1426 connectivity.</para> 1427 1428 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1429 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1430 supported, according to the instructions in 1431 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1432 1433 <important> 1434 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1435 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1436 files.</para> 1437 </important> 1438 </sect1> 1439</article> 1440