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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 277039 2015-01-12 02:50:22Z gjb $</pubdate> 22 23 <!-- Last rev: 276986 --> 24 25 <copyright> 26 <year>2015</year> 27 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 28 Project</holder> 29 </copyright> 30 31 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 32 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 33 &tm-attrib.ibm; 34 &tm-attrib.ieee; 35 &tm-attrib.intel; 36 &tm-attrib.sparc; 37 &tm-attrib.general; 38 </legalnotice> 39 40 <abstract> 41 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 42 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 43 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 44 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 45 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 46 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 47 presented.</para> 48 </abstract> 49 </info> 50 51 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 52 <title>Introduction</title> 53 54 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 55 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 56 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 57 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 58 59 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 60 which these release notes apply represents the latest point 61 along the &release.branch; development branch since 62 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 63 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 64 found at <uri 65 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 66 67 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 68 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 69 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 70 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 71 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 72 found at <uri 73 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 74 75 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 76 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 77 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 78 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 79 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 80 <link 81 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 82 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 83 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 84 Handbook</link>.</para> 85 86 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 87 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 88 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 89 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 90 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 91 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 92 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 93 </sect1> 94 95 <sect1 xml:id="new"> 96 <title>What's New</title> 97 98 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 99 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 100 101 <para>Typical release note items document recent security 102 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 103 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 104 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 105 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 106 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 107 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 108 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 109 improvements.</para> 110 111 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 112 <title>Security Advisories</title> 113 114 <para> </para> 115 116 </sect2> 117 118 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 119 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 120 121 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 122 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 123 been turned off by default.</para> 124 125 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 126 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 127 128 <para> </para> 129 </sect3> 130 131 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 132 <title>ARM Support</title> 133 134 <para> </para> 135 </sect3> 136 137 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 138 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 139 140 <para> </para> 141 </sect3> 142 143 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 144 <title>Hardware Support</title> 145 146 <para> </para> 147 148 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 149 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 150 151 <para> </para> 152 </sect4> 153 154 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 155 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 156 157 <para> </para> 158 </sect4> 159 </sect3> 160 161 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 162 <title>Network Protocols</title> 163 164 <para> </para> 165 </sect3> 166 167 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 168 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 169 170 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 171 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 172 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 173 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 174 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 175 targets and portals without requiring active 176 discovery.</para> 177 178 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 179 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 180 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 181 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 182 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 183 </sect3> 184 185 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 186 <title>File Systems</title> 187 188 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 189 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 190 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 191 </sect3> 192 </sect2> 193 194 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 195 <title>Userland Changes</title> 196 197 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library, 198 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para> 199 200 <para revision="275040">A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been 201 added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style 202 progress view from one or more input streams. A corresponding 203 library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added.</para> 204 205 <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been 206 updated to support capability mode provided by 207 &man.capsicum.4;.</para> 208 209 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 210 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 211 212 <para> </para> 213 </sect3> 214 </sect2> 215 216 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 217 <title>Contributed Software</title> 218 219 <para> </para> 220 </sect2> 221 222 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 223 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 224 225 <para> </para> 226 </sect2> 227 228 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 229 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 230 231 <para> </para> 232 </sect2> 233 234 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 235 <title>Documentation</title> 236 237 <para> </para> 238 </sect2> 239 </sect1> 240 241 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 242 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 243 244 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 245 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 246 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 247 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 248 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 249 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 250 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 251 connectivity.</para> 252 253 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 254 base system from source code) from previous versions are 255 supported, according to the instructions in 256 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 257 258 <important> 259 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 260 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 261 files.</para> 262 </important> 263 </sect1> 264</article> 265