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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 276586 2015-01-02 22:25:30Z 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 <year>2015</year> 40 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 41 Project</holder> 42 </copyright> 43 44 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 45 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 46 &tm-attrib.ibm; 47 &tm-attrib.ieee; 48 &tm-attrib.intel; 49 &tm-attrib.sparc; 50 &tm-attrib.general; 51 </legalnotice> 52 53 <abstract> 54 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 55 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 56 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 57 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 58 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 59 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 60 presented.</para> 61 </abstract> 62 </info> 63 64 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 65 <title>Introduction</title> 66 67 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 68 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 69 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 70 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 71 72 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 73 which these release notes apply represents the latest point 74 along the &release.branch; development branch since 75 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 76 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 77 found at <uri 78 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 79 80 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 81 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 82 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 83 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 84 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 85 found at <uri 86 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 87 88 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 89 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 90 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 91 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 92 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 93 <link 94 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 95 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 96 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 97 Handbook</link>.</para> 98 99 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 100 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 101 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 102 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 103 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 104 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 105 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 106 </sect1> 107 108 <sect1 xml:id="new"> 109 <title>What's New</title> 110 111 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 112 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 113 114 <para>Typical release note items document recent security 115 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 116 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 117 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 118 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 119 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 120 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 121 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 122 improvements.</para> 123 124 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 125 <title>Security Advisories</title> 126 127 <para> </para> 128 129 </sect2> 130 131 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 132 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 133 134 <para> </para> 135 136 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 137 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 138 139 <para> </para> 140 </sect3> 141 142 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 143 <title>ARM Support</title> 144 145 <para> </para> 146 </sect3> 147 148 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 149 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 150 151 <para> </para> 152 </sect3> 153 154 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 155 <title>Hardware Support</title> 156 157 <para> </para> 158 159 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 160 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 161 162 <para> </para> 163 </sect4> 164 165 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 166 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 167 168 <para> </para> 169 </sect4> 170 </sect3> 171 172 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 173 <title>Network Protocols</title> 174 175 <para> </para> 176 </sect3> 177 178 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 179 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 180 181 <para> </para> 182 </sect3> 183 184 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 185 <title>File Systems</title> 186 187 <para> </para> 188 </sect3> 189 </sect2> 190 191 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 192 <title>Userland Changes</title> 193 194 <para> </para> 195 196 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 197 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 198 199 <para> </para> 200 </sect3> 201 </sect2> 202 203 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 204 <title>Contributed Software</title> 205 206 <para> </para> 207 </sect2> 208 209 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 210 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 211 212 <para> </para> 213 </sect2> 214 215 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 216 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 217 218 <para> </para> 219 </sect2> 220 221 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 222 <title>Documentation</title> 223 224 <para> </para> 225 </sect2> 226 </sect1> 227 228 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 229 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 230 231 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 232 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 233 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 234 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 235 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 236 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 237 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 238 connectivity.</para> 239 240 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 241 base system from source code) from previous versions are 242 supported, according to the instructions in 243 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 244 245 <important> 246 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 247 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 248 files.</para> 249 </important> 250 </sect1> 251</article> 252