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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 272113 2014-09-25 16:48:19Z 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 <para revision="271816">Hardware context support has been 234 added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding 235 support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and 236 later.</para> 237 238 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 239 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 240 241 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V 242 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however 243 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 244 configuration.</para> 245 246 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 247 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5 248 state.</para> 249 250 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been 251 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 252 253 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized 254 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;, 255 allowing guest operating systems to use 256 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and 257 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as 258 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para> 259 260 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now 261 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para> 262 263 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;, 264 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to 265 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para> 266 267 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been 268 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 269 270 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several 271 bug fixes, including:</para> 272 273 <itemizedlist> 274 <listitem> 275 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when 276 a guest virtual machine exits with an 277 <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote> 278 error.</para> 279 </listitem> 280 281 <listitem> 282 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym> 283 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para> 284 </listitem> 285 286 <listitem> 287 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual 288 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para> 289 </listitem> 290 291 <listitem> 292 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task 293 switching has been added.</para> 294 </listitem> 295 296 <listitem> 297 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel 298 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para> 299 </listitem> 300 301 <listitem> 302 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space 303 has been added.</para> 304 </listitem> 305 </itemizedlist> 306 </sect3> 307 308 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 309 <title>ARM Support</title> 310 311 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename> 312 kernel configuration file has been added.</para> 313 314 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by 315 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is 316 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify 317 the boot device, set the 318 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal> 319 u-boot environment variable.</para> 320 321 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver 322 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device 323 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver 324 in most cases.</para> 325 326 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and 327 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 328 329 <para>Support for hardware floating point was added to the 330 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 331 for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para> 332 333 <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now 334 works with <application>GCC</application>.</para> 335 336 <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the 337 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files 338 for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para> 339 340 <para>Support was added for:</para> 341 342 <itemizedlist> 343 <listitem> 344 <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para> 345 </listitem> 346 347 <listitem> 348 <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 349 </listitem> 350 351 <listitem> 352 <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 353 </listitem> 354 355 <listitem> 356 <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para> 357 </listitem> 358 359 <listitem> 360 <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para> 361 </listitem> 362 363 <listitem> 364 <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para> 365 </listitem> 366 367 <listitem> 368 <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para> 369 </listitem> 370 </itemizedlist> 371 372 <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for 373 the RaspberryPi.</para> 374 375 <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym> 376 platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para> 377 378 <itemizedlist> 379 <listitem> 380 <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para> 381 </listitem> 382 383 <listitem> 384 <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para> 385 </listitem> 386 387 <listitem> 388 <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for 389 <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym> 390 storage)</para> 391 </listitem> 392 393 <listitem> 394 <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a 395 <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para> 396 </listitem> 397 398 <listitem> 399 <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para> 400 </listitem> 401 402 <listitem> 403 <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para> 404 </listitem> 405 </itemizedlist> 406 </sect3> 407 408 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 409 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 410 411 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added 412 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is 413 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel 414 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in 415 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By 416 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and 417 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para> 418 419 <para revision="271130" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 420 <filename class="directory">sys/boot/</filename> sources 421 have been rearranged, moving &man.libstand.3; to a directory 422 indicating the library is built as 32-bit.</para> 423 424 <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 425 &man.libstand.3; library has been updated to produce 426 a 64-bit shared library for the &os;/&arch.amd64; and 427 &os;/&arch.powerpc64; architectures.</para> 428 429 <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor" 430 sponsor="&ff;">Initial support for <acronym>UEFI</acronym> 431 boot has been added.</para> 432 433 <para revision="271136" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Three 434 new files are installed to <filename 435 class="directory">/boot</filename>, supporting 436 <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot:</para> 437 438 <itemizedlist> 439 <listitem> 440 <para><filename>boot1.efi</filename>: The 441 <acronym>UEFI</acronym> first stage bootstrap 442 file.</para> 443 </listitem> 444 445 <listitem> 446 <para><filename>boot1.efifat</filename>: 447 A <acronym>FAT</acronym> filesystem image containing 448 an <acronym>EFI</acronym> system partition.</para> 449 </listitem> 450 451 <listitem> 452 <para><filename>loader.efi</filename>: The third stage 453 bootstrap file.</para> 454 </listitem> 455 </itemizedlist> 456 457 <para revision="271880">Serial console and null console 458 support has been added to the <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot 459 loader.</para> 460 461 <para revision="272006">Support has been added to cache 462 &man.geli.8; passphrases during system boot. When a system 463 is configured with multiple <literal>GEOM_ELI</literal> 464 providers all using the same passphrase, the passphrase that 465 is cached after the first entry is used for the subsequent 466 <literal>GEOM_ELI</literal> provider. If the passphrase in 467 the cache is incorrect, then a prompt for the passphrase for 468 the next provider is displayed.</para> 469 </sect3> 470 471 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 472 <title>Hardware Support</title> 473 474 <para> </para> 475 476 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 477 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 478 479 <para> </para> 480 481 </sect4> 482 483 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 484 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 485 486 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and 487 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4; 488 driver.</para> 489 490 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver 491 has been updated to version 0.33.</para> 492 493 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593 494 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para> 495 496 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now 497 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used 498 instead.</para> 499 500 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver 501 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A 502 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports 503 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para> 504 505 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been 506 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 507 508 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple 509 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the 510 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para> 511 512 <note> 513 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have 514 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for 515 multiple queues.</para> 516 </note> 517 518 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano 519 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4; 520 driver.</para> 521 522 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has 523 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in 524 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is 525 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options 526 generating corrupt frames.</para> 527 528 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added 529 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and 530 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para> 531 532 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer 533 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4; 534 driver.</para> 535 536 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor" 537 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for 538 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 539 1.11.27.0.</para> 540 541 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been 542 updated to version 7.4.2.</para> 543 544 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been 545 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para> 546 547 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 548 <tgroup cols="2"> 549 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 550 <colspec colwidth="1*"/> 551 <thead> 552 <row> 553 <entry>Old Name</entry> 554 <entry>New Name</entry> 555 </row> 556 </thead> 557 558 <tbody> 559 <row> 560 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry> 561 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry> 562 </row> 563 564 <row> 565 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 566 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry> 567 </row> 568 569 <row> 570 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 571 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry> 572 </row> 573 574 <row> 575 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 576 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry> 577 </row> 578 579 <row> 580 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry> 581 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry> 582 </row> 583 584 <row> 585 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry> 586 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry> 587 </row> 588 589 <row> 590 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry> 591 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry> 592 </row> 593 594 <row> 595 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry> 596 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry> 597 </row> 598 599 <row> 600 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 601 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry> 602 </row> 603 </tbody> 604 </tgroup> 605 </informaltable> 606 607 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the 608 old tunables before upgrading to 609 &os; &release.current;.</para> 610 611 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has 612 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G 613 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 614 615 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 616 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G 617 cards.</para> 618 619 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been 620 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para> 621 622 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been 623 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para> 624 625 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet 626 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been 627 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 628 </sect4> 629 </sect3> 630 631 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 632 <title>Network Protocols</title> 633 634 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol 635 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 636 stacks.</para> 637 638 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow 639 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been 640 fixed.</para> 641 642 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which 643 is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that 644 significantly improved its performance and 645 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scalability.</para> 646 647 <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 648 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to 649 support redirection handling when an 650 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple 651 <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network 652 interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to 653 such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require 654 additional client-side configuration.</para> 655 656 <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 657 &man.sysctl.8;, 658 <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has 659 been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to 660 remove the attached disk device when the connection to the 661 target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the 662 connection is restored.</para> 663 664 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 665 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized 666 to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock 667 contention.</para> 668 669 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" 670 sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been 671 made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including 672 deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to 673 read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage 674 and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</para> 675 676 <para revision="263720" contrib="sponsor" 677 sponsor="&ff;">Support for hostname- and IP-based access 678 restriction has been added to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> 679 &man.ctld.8; daemon.</para> 680 681 <para revision="263725" contrib="sponsor" 682 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.ctld.8; daemon has been updated 683 to allow overriding the <quote>default</quote> 684 <literal>portal-group</literal> configuration.</para> 685 686 <para revision="263726" contrib="sponsor" 687 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.ctld.8; daemon now includes a new 688 <literal>auth-group</literal>, <quote>default</quote>, 689 defaulting to <literal>deny</literal>, which is possible 690 to override.</para> 691 </sect3> 692 693 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 694 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 695 696 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 697 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O 698 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it 699 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM 700 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread, 701 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding 702 CPU bottlenecks in 703 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads, 704 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para> 705 706 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 707 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been 708 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 709 710 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 711 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support 712 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue, 713 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces 714 lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym> 715 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para> 716 717 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8; 718 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to 719 support automatic live partition resizing.</para> 720 721 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been 722 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 723 724 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has 725 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para> 726 727 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has 728 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para> 729 730 <para revision="264732">Support for 731 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8; 732 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para> 733 734 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus 735 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para> 736 737 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 738 &man.mpr.4; device has been added, 739 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA 740 controllers.</para> 741 742 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property 743 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8; 744 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow 745 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different 746 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>, 747 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para> 748 749 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The 750 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for 751 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will 752 attach to the controller, by default. To enable 753 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> 754 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off 755 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> 756 757 <note> 758 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; 759 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and 760 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with 761 &man.mrsas.4;.</para> 762 </note> 763 764 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of 765 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8; 766 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para> 767 768 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an 769 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display 770 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as 771 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 772 773 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been 774 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para> 775 776 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been 777 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para> 778 779 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor" 780 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been 781 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal> 782 driver.</para> 783 784 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 785 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of 786 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where 787 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition, 788 but the label provider in <filename 789 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be 790 resized.</para> 791 792 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8; 793 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making 794 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its 795 components have been replaced.</para> 796 797 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has 798 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para> 799 800 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been 801 updated to version 3.2.5.</para> 802 803 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> 804 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel 805 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para> 806 807 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8; 808 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to 809 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the 810 partition size are not saved to disk until 811 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving, 812 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para> 813 814 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is 815 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;, 816 provides support for compressed, read-only disk 817 images.</para> 818 819 <para revision="268091">Support for the 820 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been 821 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 822 823 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and 824 &man.loader.8; tunable, 825 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been 826 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition 827 class. When set to a non-zero value, 828 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically 829 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment 830 with the disk geometry.</para> 831 832 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to 833 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para> 834 <itemizedlist> 835 <listitem> 836 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE 837 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>, 838 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands 839 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX 840 storage acceleration.</para> 841 </listitem> 842 <listitem> 843 <para revision="265642">The 844 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size 845 limitations were removed by supporting multiple 846 data moves per command.</para> 847 </listitem> 848 <listitem> 849 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and 850 multiple worker threads for better 851 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para> 852 </listitem> 853 <listitem> 854 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by 855 several times by disabling some never used 856 functionality.</para> 857 </listitem> 858 <listitem> 859 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of 860 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to 861 128.</para> 862 </listitem> 863 <listitem> 864 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal> 865 integration for better performance.</para> 866 </listitem> 867 </itemizedlist> 868 869 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor" 870 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 871 updated to version 1.0.1.</para> 872 873 <para revision="271234">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been 874 added to the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 875 configuration on &arch.amd64; and &arch.i386; 876 architectures.</para> 877 </sect3> 878 879 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 880 <title>File Systems</title> 881 882 <para revision="260338">The 883 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has 884 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, 885 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU 886 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and 887 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which 888 should be resolved due to several changes in the VM 889 subsystem.</para> 890 891 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor" 892 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, 893 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used, 894 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical 895 errors have been detected.</para> 896 897 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 898 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See 899 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para> 900 901 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been 902 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote> 903 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs). 904 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating 905 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives, 906 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal> 907 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para> 908 909 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread 910 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from 911 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows 912 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8; 913 overall import time in some workloads.</para> 914 915 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been 916 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring 917 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to 918 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored 919 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para> 920 921 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added 922 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para> 923 924 <itemizedlist> 925 <listitem> 926 <para> 927 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 928 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be 929 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab 930 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this 931 threshold.</para> 932 </listitem> 933 934 <listitem> 935 <para> 936 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The 937 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to 938 keep their active state</para> 939 </listitem> 940 </itemizedlist> 941 942 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8; 943 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased, 944 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable, 945 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been 946 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which 947 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for 948 cached reads. The 949 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable 950 allows overriding the default block size. The previous 951 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8; 952 tunable is 8192.</para> 953 954 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System 955 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support 956 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were 957 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have 958 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para> 959 960 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 961 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been 962 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility 963 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating 964 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The 965 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible 966 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered 967 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the 968 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para> 969 </sect3> 970 </sect2> 971 972 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 973 <title>Userland Changes</title> 974 975 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor" 976 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;, 977 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and 978 their parents.</para> 979 980 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 981 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead 982 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented 983 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 984 985 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8; 986 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;. 987 To use a non-default location, set 988 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the 989 location of the file.</para> 990 991 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test 992 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is 993 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by 994 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to 995 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 996 997 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library 998 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from 999 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1000 1001 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility 1002 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1003 1004 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 1005 been updated to include aliases for 1006 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs 1007 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs 1008 snap</command>.</para> 1009 1010 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has 1011 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs 1012 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified, 1013 prints the output in a parsable format.</para> 1014 1015 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format 1016 implementation has been updated. Support for $2b$ has 1017 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 1018 characters long.</para> 1019 1020 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been 1021 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para> 1022 1023 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been 1024 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which 1025 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC 1026 2822.</para> 1027 1028 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated 1029 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para> 1030 1031 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor" 1032 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 1033 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which 1034 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled 1035 points.</para> 1036 1037 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8; 1038 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent 1039 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f 1040 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal> 1041 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para> 1042 1043 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults 1044 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para> 1045 1046 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been 1047 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the 1048 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would 1049 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating 1050 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para> 1051 1052 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes 1053 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In 1054 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>, 1055 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from 1056 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the 1057 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and 1058 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from 1059 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para> 1060 1061 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility 1062 and related image activator features have been merged from 1063 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1064 1065 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 1066 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 1067 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 1068 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 1069 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 1070 host system.</para> 1071 1072 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 1073 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 1074 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 1075 1076 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1077 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When 1078 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations 1079 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para> 1080 1081 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been 1082 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates 1083 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename> 1084 before <filename 1085 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para> 1086 1087 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been 1088 updated to version 3.4.1.</para> 1089 1090 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format 1091 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para> 1092 1093 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for 1094 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors 1095 and larger amounts of available memory.</para> 1096 1097 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been 1098 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 1099 ends event collection after the specified number of 1100 seconds.</para> 1101 1102 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has 1103 been updated to avoid printing 1104 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename> 1105 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para> 1106 1107 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;, 1108 has been updated to include optional 1109 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap 1110 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem. 1111 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured 1112 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para> 1113 1114 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now 1115 includes files in the 1116 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and 1117 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> 1118 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> 1119 1120 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been 1121 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths 1122 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are 1123 not directories, such as <filename 1124 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename 1125 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para> 1126 1127 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> 1128 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows 1129 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 1130 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 1131 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 1132 1133 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy 1134 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from 1135 &man.bhyve.8;.</para> 1136 1137 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility 1138 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has 1139 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the 1140 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para> 1141 1142 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated 1143 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system 1144 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1; 1145 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced 1146 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla 1147 web interface.</para> 1148 1149 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been 1150 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which 1151 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and 1152 <literal>-C</literal>.</para> 1153 1154 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would 1155 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions 1156 has been fixed.</para> 1157 1158 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been 1159 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and 1160 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is 1161 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage 1162 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is 1163 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about 1164 threads rather than the process(es).</para> 1165 1166 <note> 1167 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used 1168 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for 1169 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para> 1170 </note> 1171 1172 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been 1173 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which 1174 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para> 1175 1176 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1177 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1178 1179 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor" 1180 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been 1181 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, 1182 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1183 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE 1184 OUT</command>.</para> 1185 1186 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been 1187 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which 1188 displays only physical providers when specified.</para> 1189 1190 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been 1191 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when 1192 also specifying <literal>-n 1193 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para> 1194 1195 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 1196 updated to include support for both fixed- and 1197 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym> 1198 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para> 1199 1200 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection 1201 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no 1202 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para> 1203 1204 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script, 1205 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>, 1206 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1207 1208 <para>This update includes:</para> 1209 1210 <itemizedlist> 1211 <listitem> 1212 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added, 1213 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment 1214 variables.</para> 1215 </listitem> 1216 1217 <listitem> 1218 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added, 1219 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para> 1220 </listitem> 1221 1222 <listitem> 1223 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added, 1224 which is used to pass the host path to 1225 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para> 1226 </listitem> 1227 1228 <listitem> 1229 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices 1230 has been added.</para> 1231 </listitem> 1232 1233 <listitem> 1234 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been 1235 removed.</para> 1236 </listitem> 1237 </itemizedlist> 1238 1239 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1, 1240 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from 1241 &os;-CURRENT.</para> 1242 1243 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals 1244 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have 1245 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in 1246 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console, 1247 depending on the platform.</para> 1248 1249 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been 1250 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum 1251 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents 1252 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small 1253 value and a low number of packets to send has been 1254 specified.</para> 1255 1256 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 1257 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the 1258 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal> 1259 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to 1260 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para> 1261 1262 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling 1263 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application> 1264 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application> 1265 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to 1266 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for 1267 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the 1268 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal> 1269 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para> 1270 1271 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been 1272 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which 1273 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session 1274 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and 1275 added back.</para> 1276 1277 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been 1278 updated to support specifying the NFS version as 1279 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair 1280 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to 1281 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is 1282 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para> 1283 1284 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor" 1285 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type 1286 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>, 1287 providing sequential packet support.</para> 1288 1289 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote> 1290 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8; 1291 module.</para> 1292 1293 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been 1294 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are 1295 considered non-portable.</para> 1296 1297 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The 1298 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications 1299 installed in the <filename 1300 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it 1301 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename 1302 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para> 1303 1304 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been 1305 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better 1306 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para> 1307 1308 <para revision="271967">Support for adding empty partitions has 1309 been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para> 1310 1311 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 1312 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 1313 1314 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename> 1315 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement 1316 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, 1317 a network alias of 1318 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal> 1319 would not be created if 1320 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was 1321 not defined.</para> 1322 1323 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been 1324 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists 1325 before traversing the directory.</para> 1326 1327 <para revision="259141">A regression introduced in 1328 &os; 10.0-RELEASE that would prevent proper IPv6 1329 allocation via the &man.jail.8; &man.rc.8; startup script 1330 has been fixed.</para> 1331 1332 <para revision="264438">The &man.rc.8; restriction requiring 1333 &man.mdconfig.8; devices defined in &man.rc.conf.5; to be 1334 listed sequentially has been removed.</para> 1335 1336 <para revision="262566">The &man.sshd.8; &man.rc.d.8; startup 1337 script now generates <literal>ED25519</literal> &man.sshd.8; 1338 host keys if keys do not already exist when 1339 <literal>ssh_keygen_alg()</literal> is invoked.</para> 1340 1341 <para revision="271095">Support for &man.vt.4; keyboard maps 1342 has been added to the <filename>syscons</filename> 1343 &man.rc.d.8; startup script.</para> 1344 1345 <para revision="271260">Support for subdirectories within 1346 <filename 1347 class="directory">/etc/rc.conf.d/<replaceable>service</replaceable>/</filename> 1348 has been added the &man.rc.d.8;. This allows creating 1349 separate configuration files for services such as 1350 <filename>netif</filename>, for example, where each network 1351 interface can have a separate configuration file.</para> 1352 </sect3> 1353 </sect2> 1354 1355 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 1356 <title>Contributed Software</title> 1357 1358 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated 1359 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para> 1360 1361 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 1362 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para> 1363 1364 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 1365 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para> 1366 1367 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application> 1368 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para> 1369 1370 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and 1371 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para> 1372 1373 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been 1374 updated to version 20140422.</para> 1375 1376 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor" 1377 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has 1378 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para> 1379 1380 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and 1381 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version 1382 1.4.22.</para> 1383 1384 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 1385 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para> 1386 1387 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of 1388 <application>Subversion</application> included in the 1389 &os; base system and its dependencies have been 1390 updated:</para> 1391 1392 <itemizedlist> 1393 <listitem> 1394 <para><application>apr</application> has been 1395 updated to version 1.5.1.</para> 1396 </listitem> 1397 1398 <listitem> 1399 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been 1400 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 1401 </listitem> 1402 1403 <listitem> 1404 <para><application>serf</application> has been 1405 updated to version 1.3.7.</para> 1406 </listitem> 1407 1408 <listitem> 1409 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been 1410 updated to version 1.8.10.</para> 1411 </listitem> 1412 </itemizedlist> 1413 1414 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been 1415 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para> 1416 1417 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has 1418 been updated to version 1.7.</para> 1419 1420 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application> 1421 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the 1422 &os; base system.</para> 1423 1424 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated 1425 to version tzdata2014f.</para> 1426 </sect2> 1427 1428 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 1429 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 1430 1431 <para> </para> 1432 1433 </sect2> 1434 1435 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 1436 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 1437 1438 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has 1439 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the 1440 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as 1441 part of the release build, regardless of native- or 1442 cross-built releases.</para> 1443 1444 <para revision="271470" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 1445 <filename class="directory">release/</filename> scripts have 1446 been updated to produce <acronym>UEFI</acronym>-capable and 1447 <acronym>BIOS</acronym>-capable CD-ROM ISOs as well as memory 1448 stick images for the &os;/&arch.amd64; architecture.</para> 1449 </sect2> 1450 1451 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 1452 <title>Documentation</title> 1453 1454 <para> </para> 1455 1456 </sect2> 1457 </sect1> 1458 1459 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 1460 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 1461 1462 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 1463 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 1464 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 1465 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 1466 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 1467 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 1468 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 1469 connectivity.</para> 1470 1471 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 1472 base system from source code) from previous versions are 1473 supported, according to the instructions in 1474 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 1475 1476 <important> 1477 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 1478 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 1479 files.</para> 1480 </important> 1481 </sect1> 1482</article> 1483