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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 284844 2015-06-25 18:45:09Z 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> 207 208 <para revision="282870" contrib="sponsor" 209 sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has 210 been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when 211 a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para> 212 </sect2> 213 214 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 215 <title>Contributed Software</title> 216 217 <para revision="277592"><application>file</application> has been 218 updated to version 5.22.</para> 219 220 <para revision="280304"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 221 been updated to version 1.0.1m.</para> 222 223 <para revision="281687">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been 224 updated to version 20150410.</para> 225 226 <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 227 &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version 228 3.7.0.</para> 229 </sect2> 230 231 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 232 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 233 234 <para> </para> 235 </sect2> 236 237 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 238 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 239 Scripts</title> 240 241 <para> </para> 242 </sect2> 243 244 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 245 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 246 Scripts</title> 247 248 <para> </para> 249 </sect2> 250 251 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 252 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 253 254 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library, 255 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para> 256 257 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been 258 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on 259 failure.</para> 260 </sect2> 261 262 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 263 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 264 265 <para> </para> 266 </sect2> 267 </sect1> 268 269 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 270 <title>Kernel</title> 271 272 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 273 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 274 categorized.</para> 275 276 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 277 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 278 279 <para> </para> 280 </sect2> 281 282 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 283 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 284 285 <para> </para> 286 </sect2> 287 288 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 289 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 290 291 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 292 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 293 been turned off by default.</para> 294 295 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 296 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 297 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 298 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 299 300 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 301 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 302 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 303 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 304 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 305 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 306 timestamps for these operations.</para> 307 308 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 309 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 310 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 311 </sect2> 312 </sect1> 313 314 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 315 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 316 317 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 318 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 319 320 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 321 <title>Device Drivers</title> 322 323 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 324 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 325 </sect2> 326 327 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 328 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 329 330 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 331 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 332 </sect2> 333 334 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 335 <title>Network Drivers</title> 336 337 <para> </para> 338 </sect2> 339 </sect1> 340 341 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 342 <title>Hardware Support</title> 343 344 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 345 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 346 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 347 other sections of this document.</para> 348 349 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 350 <title>Hardware Support</title> 351 352 <para> </para> 353 </sect2> 354 355 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 356 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 357 358 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 359 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 360 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 361 </sect2> 362 363 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 364 <title>ARM Support</title> 365 366 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 367 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 368 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 369 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 370 </sect2> 371 </sect1> 372 373 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 374 <title>Storage</title> 375 376 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 377 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 378 379 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 380 <title>General Storage</title> 381 382 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 383 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 384 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 385 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 386 387 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 388 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 389 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 390 </sect2> 391 392 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 393 <title>Networked Storage</title> 394 395 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 396 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 397 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 398 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 399 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 400 targets and portals without requiring active 401 discovery.</para> 402 </sect2> 403 404 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 405 <title>ZFS</title> 406 407 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 408 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 409 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 410 411 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 412 statistics are now visible through the 413 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 414 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 415 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 416 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 417 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 418 </sect2> 419 420 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 421 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 422 423 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 424 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 425 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 426 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 427 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 428 </sect2> 429 </sect1> 430 431 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 432 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 433 434 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 435 boot-related changes.</para> 436 437 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 438 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 439 440 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 441 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 442 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 443 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 444 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 445 </sect2> 446 447 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 448 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 449 450 <para> </para> 451 </sect2> 452 </sect1> 453 454 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 455 <title>Networking</title> 456 457 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 458 &os;.</para> 459 460 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 461 <title>Network Procols</title> 462 463 <para> </para> 464 </sect2> 465 </sect1> 466 467 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 468 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 469 470 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 471 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 472 installation tools.</para> 473 474 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 475 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 476 477 <para> </para> 478 </sect2> 479 480 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 481 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 482 483 <para> </para> 484 </sect2> 485 </sect1> 486 487 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 488 <title>Documentation</title> 489 490 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 491 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 492 493 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 494 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 495 496 <para> </para> 497 </sect2> 498 499 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 500 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 501 502 <para> </para> 503 </sect2> 504 </sect1> 505 506 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 507 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 508 509 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 510 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 511 512 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 513 <title>Integration Changes</title> 514 515 <para> </para> 516 </sect2> 517 </sect1> 518</article> 519