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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 271997 2014-09-22 20:04:59Z brueffer $</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> scalability.</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> 657 658 <para revision="263720" contrib="sponsor" 659 sponsor="&ff;">Support for hostname- and IP-based access 660 restriction has been added to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> 661 &man.ctld.8; daemon.</para> 662 663 <para revision="263725" contrib="sponsor" 664 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.ctld.8; daemon has been updated 665 to allow overriding the <quote>default</quote> 666 <literal>portal-group</literal> configuration.</para> 667 668 <para revision="263726" contrib="sponsor" 669 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.ctld.8; daemon now includes a new 670 <literal>auth-group</literal>, <quote>default</quote>, 671 defaulting to <literal>deny</literal>, which is possible 672 to override.</para> 673 </sect3> 674 675 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 676 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 677 678 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 679 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O 680 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it 681 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM 682 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 683 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding 684 CPU bottlenecks in 685 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, 686 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para> 687 688 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 689 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 690 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 691 692 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 693 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support 694 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue, 695 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces 696 lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym> 697 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para> 698 699 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 700 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to 701 support automatic live partition resizing.</para> 702 703 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 704 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 705 706 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has 707 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 708 709 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 710 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 711 712 <para revision="264732">Support for 713 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; 714 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para> 715 716 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 717 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 718 719 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 720 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 721 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 722 controllers.</para> 723 724 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property 725 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8; 726 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow 727 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different 728 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>, 729 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para> 730 731 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 732 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for 733 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will 734 attach to the controller, by default. To enable 735 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> 736 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 737 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 738 739 <note> 740 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; 741 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and 742 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 743 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 744 </note> 745 746 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of 747 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8; 748 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 749 750 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an 751 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display 752 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as 753 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 754 755 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 756 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 757 758 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 759 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 760 761 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 762 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been 763 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> 764 driver.</para> 765 766 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 767 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 768 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 769 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 770 but the label provider in <filename 771 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 772 resized.</para> 773 774 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 775 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 776 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 777 components have been replaced.</para> 778 779 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has 780 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 781 782 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 783 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 784 785 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> 786 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel 787 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 788 789 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 790 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 791 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 792 partition size are not saved to disk until 793 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 794 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 795 796 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 797 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 798 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 799 images.</para> 800 801 <para revision="268091">Support for the 802 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 803 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 804 805 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 806 &man.loader.8; tunable, 807 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 808 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 809 class. When set to a non-zero value, 810 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 811 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 812 with the disk geometry.</para> 813 814 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to 815 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para> 816 <itemizedlist> 817 <listitem> 818 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE 819 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, 820 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands 821 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX 822 storage acceleration.</para> 823 </listitem> 824 <listitem> 825 <para revision="265642">The 826 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size 827 limitations were removed by supporting multiple 828 data moves per command.</para> 829 </listitem> 830 <listitem> 831 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 832 multiple worker threads for better 833 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 834 </listitem> 835 <listitem> 836 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by 837 several times by disabling some never used 838 functionality.</para> 839 </listitem> 840 <listitem> 841 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 842 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 843 128.</para> 844 </listitem> 845 <listitem> 846 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> 847 integration for better performance.</para> 848 </listitem> 849 </itemizedlist> 850 851 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor" 852 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 853 updated to version 1.0.1.</para> 854 855 <para revision="271234">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been 856 added to the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 857 configuration on &arch.amd64; and &arch.i386; 858 architectures.</para> 859 </sect3> 860 861 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 862 <title>File Systems</title> 863 864 <para revision="260338">The 865 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 866 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 867 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 868 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 869 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 870 should be resolved due to several changes in the VM 871 subsystem.</para> 872 873 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 874 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 875 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 876 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 877 errors have been detected.</para> 878 879 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 880 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 881 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 882 883 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 884 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 885 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 886 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 887 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 888 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 889 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 890 891 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 892 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 893 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 894 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 895 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 896 897 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 898 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 899 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 900 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 901 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 902 903 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 904 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 905 906 <itemizedlist> 907 <listitem> 908 <para> 909 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 910 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 911 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 912 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 913 threshold.</para> 914 </listitem> 915 916 <listitem> 917 <para> 918 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 919 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 920 keep their active state</para> 921 </listitem> 922 </itemizedlist> 923 924 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 925 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 926 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 927 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 928 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 929 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 930 cached reads. The 931 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 932 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 933 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 934 tunable is 8192.</para> 935 936 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 937 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 938 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 939 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 940 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 941 942 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 943 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been 944 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility 945 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating 946 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The 947 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible 948 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered 949 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the 950 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para> 951 </sect3> 952 </sect2> 953 954 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 955 <title>Userland Changes</title> 956 957 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 958 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 959 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 960 their parents.</para> 961 962 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 963 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 964 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 965 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 966 967 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 968 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 969 To use a non-default location, set 970 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 971 location of the file.</para> 972 973 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 974 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 975 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 976 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 977 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 978 979 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 980 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 981 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 982 983 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 984 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 985 986 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 987 been updated to include aliases for 988 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 989 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 990 snap</command>.</para> 991 992 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 993 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 994 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 995 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 996 997 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 998 implementation has been updated. Support for $2b$ has 999 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 1000 characters long.</para> 1001 1002 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 1003 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 1004 1005 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 1006 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 1007 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 1008 2822.</para> 1009 1010 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 1011 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 1012 1013 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 1014 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 1015 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 1016 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 1017 points.</para> 1018 1019 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 1020 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 1021 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 1022 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 1023 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 1024 1025 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 1026 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 1027 1028 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 1029 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 1030 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 1031 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 1032 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 1033 1034 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 1035 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 1036 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 1037 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 1038 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 1039 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 1040 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 1041 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 1042 1043 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 1044 and related image activator features have been merged from 1045 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1046 1047 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 1048 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 1049 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 1050 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 1051 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 1052 host system.</para> 1053 1054 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 1055 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 1056 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 1057 1058 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1059 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 1060 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 1061 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 1062 1063 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 1064 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 1065 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 1066 before <filename 1067 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 1068 1069 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 1070 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 1071 1072 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 1073 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 1074 1075 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 1076 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 1077 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 1078 1079 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 1080 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 1081 ends event collection after the specified number of 1082 seconds.</para> 1083 1084 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 1085 been updated to avoid printing 1086 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 1087 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 1088 1089 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 1090 has been updated to include optional 1091 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 1092 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 1093 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 1094 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 1095 1096 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 1097 includes files in the 1098 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 1099 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 1100 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 1101 1102 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 1103 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 1104 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 1105 not directories, such as <filename 1106 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1107 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1108 1109 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1110 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1111 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1112 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1113 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1114 1115 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1116 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1117 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1118 1119 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1120 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1121 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1122 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1123 1124 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1125 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1126 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1127 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1128 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1129 web interface.</para> 1130 1131 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1132 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1133 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1134 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1135 1136 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1137 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1138 has been fixed.</para> 1139 1140 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1141 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1142 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1143 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1144 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1145 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1146 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1147 1148 <note> 1149 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1150 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1151 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1152 </note> 1153 1154 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1155 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1156 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1157 1158 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1159 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1160 1161 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1162 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1163 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1164 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1165 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1166 OUT</command>.</para> 1167 1168 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1169 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1170 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1171 1172 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1173 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1174 also specifying <literal>-n 1175 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1176 1177 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1178 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1179 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1180 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1181 1182 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1183 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1184 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1185 1186 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1187 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1188 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1189 1190 <para>This update includes:</para> 1191 1192 <itemizedlist> 1193 <listitem> 1194 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1195 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1196 variables.</para> 1197 </listitem> 1198 1199 <listitem> 1200 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1201 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1202 </listitem> 1203 1204 <listitem> 1205 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1206 which is used to pass the host path to 1207 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1208 </listitem> 1209 1210 <listitem> 1211 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1212 has been added.</para> 1213 </listitem> 1214 1215 <listitem> 1216 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1217 removed.</para> 1218 </listitem> 1219 </itemizedlist> 1220 1221 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1222 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1223 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1224 1225 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1226 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1227 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1228 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1229 depending on the platform.</para> 1230 1231 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1232 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1233 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1234 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1235 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1236 specified.</para> 1237 1238 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1239 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1240 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1241 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1242 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1243 1244 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1245 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1246 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1247 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1248 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1249 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1250 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1251 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1252 1253 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1254 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1255 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1256 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1257 added back.</para> 1258 1259 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1260 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1261 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1262 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1263 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1264 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1265 1266 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1267 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1268 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1269 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1270 1271 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1272 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1273 module.</para> 1274 1275 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been 1276 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are 1277 considered non-portable.</para> 1278 1279 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The 1280 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications 1281 installed in the <filename 1282 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it 1283 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename 1284 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para> 1285 1286 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been 1287 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better 1288 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para> 1289 1290 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1291 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1292 1293 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1294 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1295 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1296 a network alias of 1297 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1298 would not be created if 1299 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1300 not defined.</para> 1301 1302 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1303 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1304 before traversing the directory.</para> 1305 1306 <para revision="259141">A regression introduced in 1307 &os; 10.0-RELEASE that would prevent proper IPv6 1308 allocation via the &man.jail.8; &man.rc.8; startup script 1309 has been fixed.</para> 1310 1311 <para revision="264438">The &man.rc.8; restriction requiring 1312 &man.mdconfig.8; devices defined in &man.rc.conf.5; to be 1313 listed sequentially has been removed.</para> 1314 1315 <para revision="262566">The &man.sshd.8; &man.rc.d.8; startup 1316 script now generates <literal>ED25519</literal> &man.sshd.8; 1317 host keys if keys do not already exist when 1318 <literal>ssh_keygen_alg()</literal> is invoked.</para> 1319 1320 <para revision="271095">Support for &man.vt.4; keyboard maps 1321 has been added to the <filename>syscons</filename> 1322 &man.rc.d.8; startup script.</para> 1323 1324 <para revision="271260">Support for subdirectories within 1325 <filename 1326 class="directory">/etc/rc.conf.d/<replaceable>service</replaceable>/</filename> 1327 has been added the &man.rc.d.8;. This allows creating 1328 separate configuration files for services such as 1329 <filename>netif</filename>, for example, where each network 1330 interface can have a separate configuration file.</para> 1331 </sect3> 1332 </sect2> 1333 1334 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1335 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1336 1337 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1338 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1339 1340 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1341 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1342 1343 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1344 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1345 1346 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1347 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1348 1349 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1350 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1351 1352 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1353 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1354 1355 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1356 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1357 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1358 1359 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1360 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1361 1.4.22.</para> 1362 1363 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1364 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1365 1366 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1367 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1368 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1369 updated:</para> 1370 1371 <itemizedlist> 1372 <listitem> 1373 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1374 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1375 </listitem> 1376 1377 <listitem> 1378 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1379 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1380 </listitem> 1381 1382 <listitem> 1383 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1384 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1385 </listitem> 1386 1387 <listitem> 1388 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1389 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1390 </listitem> 1391 </itemizedlist> 1392 1393 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1394 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1395 1396 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1397 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1398 1399 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1400 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1401 &os; base system.</para> 1402 1403 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1404 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1405 </sect2> 1406 1407 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1408 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1409 1410 <para> </para> 1411 1412 </sect2> 1413 1414 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1415 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1416 1417 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1418 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1419 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1420 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1421 cross-built releases.</para> 1422 </sect2> 1423 1424 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1425 <title>Documentation</title> 1426 1427 <para> </para> 1428 1429 </sect2> 1430 </sect1> 1431 1432 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1433 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1434 1435 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1436 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1437 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1438 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1439 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1440 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1441 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1442 connectivity.</para> 1443 1444 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1445 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1446 supported, according to the instructions in 1447 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1448 1449 <important> 1450 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1451 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1452 files.</para> 1453 </important> 1454 </sect1> 1455</article> 1456