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1258057Sbr<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2258057Sbr<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 3258057Sbr "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4258057Sbr<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> 5258057Sbr %release; 6258057Sbr<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" "sponsor.ent"> 7258057Sbr %sponsor; 8258057Sbr<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" "vendor.ent"> 9258057Sbr %vendor; 10258057Sbr<!ENTITY security SYSTEM "../../share/xml/security.xml"> 11258057Sbr<!ENTITY errata SYSTEM "../../share/xml/errata.xml"> 12258057Sbr]> 13258057Sbr<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 14258057Sbr xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 15258057Sbr 16258057Sbr <info> 17258057Sbr <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 18258057Sbr 19258057Sbr <author> 20266383Sian <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 21266383Sian </author> 22266383Sian 23258057Sbr <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 282497 2015-05-05 15:16:38Z gjb $</pubdate> 24258057Sbr 25258057Sbr <!-- Last rev: 282143 --> 26266331Sian 27266331Sian <copyright> 28258057Sbr <year>2015</year> 29 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 30 Project</holder> 31 </copyright> 32 33 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 34 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 35 &tm-attrib.ibm; 36 &tm-attrib.ieee; 37 &tm-attrib.intel; 38 &tm-attrib.sparc; 39 &tm-attrib.general; 40 </legalnotice> 41 42 <abstract> 43 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 44 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 45 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 46 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 47 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 48 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 49 presented.</para> 50 </abstract> 51 </info> 52 53 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 54 <title>Introduction</title> 55 56 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 57 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 58 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 59 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 60 61 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 62 which these release notes apply represents the latest point 63 along the &release.branch; development branch since 64 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 65 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 66 found at <uri 67 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 68 69 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 70 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 71 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 72 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 73 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 74 found at <uri 75 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 76 77 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 78 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 79 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 80 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 81 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 82 <link 83 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 84 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 85 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 86 Handbook</link>.</para> 87 88 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 89 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 90 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 91 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 92 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 93 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 94 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 95 96 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed 97 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 98 99 <para>Typical release note items document recent security 100 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 101 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 102 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 103 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 104 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 105 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 106 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 107 improvements.</para> 108 </sect1> 109 110 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 111 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 112 113 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 114 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 115 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 116 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 117 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 118 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 119 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 120 connectivity.</para> 121 122 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 123 base system from source code) from previous versions are 124 supported, according to the instructions in 125 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 126 127 <important> 128 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 129 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 130 files.</para> 131 </important> 132 </sect1> 133 134 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata"> 135 <title>Security and Errata</title> 136 137 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and 138 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para> 139 140 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 141 <title>Security Advisories</title> 142 143 &security; 144 </sect2> 145 146 <sect2 xml:id="errata"> 147 <title>Errata Notices</title> 148 149 &errata; 150 </sect2> 151 </sect1> 152 153 <sect1 xml:id="userland"> 154 <title>Userland</title> 155 156 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland 157 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para> 158 159 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config"> 160 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title> 161 162 <para revision="276991">The &man.termcap.5; file is installed 163 as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating 164 <filename>/etc/termcap.db</filename> by default, providing 165 a performance improvements to applications that use the 166 &man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and 167 &man.ncurses.3;.</para> 168 </sect2> 169 170 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs"> 171 <title>Userland Application Changes</title> 172 173 <para revision="275040">A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been 174 added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style 175 progress view from one or more input streams. A corresponding 176 library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added.</para> 177 178 <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been 179 updated to support capability mode provided by 180 &man.capsicum.4;.</para> 181 182 <para revision="277434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 183 &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to 184 determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para> 185 186 <para revision="281044">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3; 187 library that would prevent a directory from being included in 188 the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used 189 has been fixed.</para> 190 191 <para revision="281161" contrib="sponsor" 192 sponsor="&limelight;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, has 193 been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to 194 dump <acronym>RSS</acronym>/flow information.</para> 195 196 <para revision="281936" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 197 &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set 198 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and 199 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow 200 directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to 201 &man.tar.1;.</para> 202 203 <para revision="282278">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that 204 would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when 205 receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been 206 fixed.</para> 207 </sect2> 208 209 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 210 <title>Contributed Software</title> 211 212 <para revision="277592"><application>file</application> has been 213 updated to version 5.22.</para> 214 215 <para revision="280304"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 216 been updated to version 1.0.1m.</para> 217 218 <para revision="281687">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been 219 updated to version 20150410.</para> 220 </sect2> 221 222 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 223 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 224 225 <para> </para> 226 </sect2> 227 228 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 229 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 230 Scripts</title> 231 232 <para> </para> 233 </sect2> 234 235 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 236 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 237 Scripts</title> 238 239 <para> </para> 240 </sect2> 241 242 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 243 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 244 245 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library, 246 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para> 247 248 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been 249 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on 250 failure.</para> 251 </sect2> 252 253 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 254 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 255 256 <para> </para> 257 </sect2> 258 </sect1> 259 260 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 261 <title>Kernel</title> 262 263 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 264 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 265 categorized.</para> 266 267 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 268 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 269 270 <para> </para> 271 </sect2> 272 273 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 274 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 275 276 <para> </para> 277 </sect2> 278 279 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 280 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 281 282 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 283 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 284 been turned off by default.</para> 285 286 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 287 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 288 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 289 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 290 291 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 292 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 293 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 294 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 295 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 296 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 297 timestamps for these operations.</para> 298 299 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 300 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 301 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 302 </sect2> 303 </sect1> 304 305 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 306 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 307 308 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 309 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 310 311 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 312 <title>Device Drivers</title> 313 314 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 315 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 316 </sect2> 317 318 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 319 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 320 321 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 322 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 323 </sect2> 324 325 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 326 <title>Network Drivers</title> 327 328 <para> </para> 329 </sect2> 330 </sect1> 331 332 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 333 <title>Hardware Support</title> 334 335 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 336 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 337 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 338 other sections of this document.</para> 339 340 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 341 <title>Hardware Support</title> 342 343 <para> </para> 344 </sect2> 345 346 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 347 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 348 349 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 350 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 351 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 352 </sect2> 353 354 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 355 <title>ARM Support</title> 356 357 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 358 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 359 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 360 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 361 </sect2> 362 </sect1> 363 364 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 365 <title>Storage</title> 366 367 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 368 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 369 370 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 371 <title>General Storage</title> 372 373 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 374 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 375 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 376 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 377 378 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 379 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 380 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 381 </sect2> 382 383 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 384 <title>Networked Storage</title> 385 386 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 387 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 388 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 389 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 390 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 391 targets and portals without requiring active 392 discovery.</para> 393 </sect2> 394 395 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 396 <title>ZFS</title> 397 398 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 399 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 400 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 401 402 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 403 statistics are now visible through the 404 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 405 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 406 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 407 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 408 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 409 </sect2> 410 411 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 412 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 413 414 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 415 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 416 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 417 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 418 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 419 </sect2> 420 </sect1> 421 422 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 423 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 424 425 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 426 boot-related changes.</para> 427 428 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 429 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 430 431 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 432 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 433 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 434 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 435 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 436 </sect2> 437 438 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 439 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 440 441 <para> </para> 442 </sect2> 443 </sect1> 444 445 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 446 <title>Networking</title> 447 448 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 449 &os;.</para> 450 451 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 452 <title>Network Procols</title> 453 454 <para> </para> 455 </sect2> 456 </sect1> 457 458 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 459 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 460 461 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 462 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 463 installation tools.</para> 464 465 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 466 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 467 468 <para> </para> 469 </sect2> 470 471 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 472 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 473 474 <para> </para> 475 </sect2> 476 </sect1> 477 478 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 479 <title>Documentation</title> 480 481 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 482 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 483 484 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 485 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 486 487 <para> </para> 488 </sect2> 489 490 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 491 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 492 493 <para> </para> 494 </sect2> 495 </sect1> 496 497 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 498 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 499 500 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 501 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 502 503 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 504 <title>Integration Changes</title> 505 506 <para> </para> 507 </sect2> 508 </sect1> 509</article> 510