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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<!ENTITY security SYSTEM "../../share/xml/security.xml"> 11<!ENTITY errata SYSTEM "../../share/xml/errata.xml"> 12]> 13<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 14 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 15 16 <info> 17 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 18 19 <author> 20 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 21 </author> 22 23 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 284843 2015-06-25 18:45:07Z gjb $</pubdate> 24 25 <!-- Last rev: 282497 --> 26 27 <copyright> 28 <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> 220 221 <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 222 &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version 223 3.7.0.</para> 224 </sect2> 225 226 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 227 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 228 229 <para> </para> 230 </sect2> 231 232 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 233 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 234 Scripts</title> 235 236 <para> </para> 237 </sect2> 238 239 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 240 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 241 Scripts</title> 242 243 <para> </para> 244 </sect2> 245 246 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 247 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 248 249 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library, 250 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para> 251 252 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been 253 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on 254 failure.</para> 255 </sect2> 256 257 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 258 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 259 260 <para> </para> 261 </sect2> 262 </sect1> 263 264 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 265 <title>Kernel</title> 266 267 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 268 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 269 categorized.</para> 270 271 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 272 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 273 274 <para> </para> 275 </sect2> 276 277 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 278 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 279 280 <para> </para> 281 </sect2> 282 283 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 284 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 285 286 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 287 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 288 been turned off by default.</para> 289 290 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 291 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 292 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 293 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 294 295 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 296 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 297 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 298 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 299 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 300 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 301 timestamps for these operations.</para> 302 303 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 304 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 305 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 306 </sect2> 307 </sect1> 308 309 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 310 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 311 312 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 313 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 314 315 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 316 <title>Device Drivers</title> 317 318 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 319 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 320 </sect2> 321 322 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 323 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 324 325 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 326 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 327 </sect2> 328 329 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 330 <title>Network Drivers</title> 331 332 <para> </para> 333 </sect2> 334 </sect1> 335 336 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 337 <title>Hardware Support</title> 338 339 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 340 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 341 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 342 other sections of this document.</para> 343 344 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 345 <title>Hardware Support</title> 346 347 <para> </para> 348 </sect2> 349 350 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 351 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 352 353 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 354 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 355 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 356 </sect2> 357 358 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 359 <title>ARM Support</title> 360 361 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 362 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 363 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 364 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 365 </sect2> 366 </sect1> 367 368 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 369 <title>Storage</title> 370 371 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 372 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 373 374 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 375 <title>General Storage</title> 376 377 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 378 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 379 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 380 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 381 382 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 383 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 384 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 385 </sect2> 386 387 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 388 <title>Networked Storage</title> 389 390 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 391 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 392 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 393 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 394 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 395 targets and portals without requiring active 396 discovery.</para> 397 </sect2> 398 399 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 400 <title>ZFS</title> 401 402 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 403 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 404 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 405 406 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 407 statistics are now visible through the 408 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 409 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 410 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 411 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 412 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 413 </sect2> 414 415 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 416 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 417 418 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 419 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 420 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 421 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 422 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 423 </sect2> 424 </sect1> 425 426 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 427 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 428 429 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 430 boot-related changes.</para> 431 432 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 433 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 434 435 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 436 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 437 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 438 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 439 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 440 </sect2> 441 442 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 443 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 444 445 <para> </para> 446 </sect2> 447 </sect1> 448 449 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 450 <title>Networking</title> 451 452 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 453 &os;.</para> 454 455 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 456 <title>Network Procols</title> 457 458 <para> </para> 459 </sect2> 460 </sect1> 461 462 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 463 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 464 465 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 466 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 467 installation tools.</para> 468 469 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 470 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 471 472 <para> </para> 473 </sect2> 474 475 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 476 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 477 478 <para> </para> 479 </sect2> 480 </sect1> 481 482 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 483 <title>Documentation</title> 484 485 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 486 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 487 488 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 489 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 490 491 <para> </para> 492 </sect2> 493 494 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 495 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 496 497 <para> </para> 498 </sect2> 499 </sect1> 500 501 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 502 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 503 504 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 505 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 506 507 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 508 <title>Integration Changes</title> 509 510 <para> </para> 511 </sect2> 512 </sect1> 513</article> 514