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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 285341 2015-07-09 22:44:28Z gjb $</pubdate> 24 25 <!-- Last rev: 284813 --> 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> 212 213 <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 214 &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para> 215 216 <para revision="283875" contrib="sponsor" 217 sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;, 218 &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic 219 links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as 220 documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para> 221 222 <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated 223 with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root 224 directory within which the utility will operate.</para> 225 </sect2> 226 227 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 228 <title>Contributed Software</title> 229 230 <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 231 &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version 232 3.7.0.</para> 233 234 <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been 235 updated to version 20150515.</para> 236 237 <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been 238 updated to version 5.23.</para> 239 240 <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been 241 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 242 243 <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application> 244 utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para> 245 246 <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 247 been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para> 248 </sect2> 249 250 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 251 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 252 253 <para> </para> 254 </sect2> 255 256 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 257 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 258 Scripts</title> 259 260 <para> </para> 261 </sect2> 262 263 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 264 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 265 Scripts</title> 266 267 <para> </para> 268 </sect2> 269 270 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 271 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 272 273 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library, 274 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para> 275 276 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been 277 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on 278 failure.</para> 279 </sect2> 280 281 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 282 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 283 284 <para> </para> 285 </sect2> 286 </sect1> 287 288 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 289 <title>Kernel</title> 290 291 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 292 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 293 categorized.</para> 294 295 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 296 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 297 298 <para> </para> 299 </sect2> 300 301 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 302 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 303 304 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor" 305 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option, 306 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables 307 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para> 308 309 <note> 310 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not 311 officially supported by &intel;.</para> 312 </note> 313 </sect2> 314 315 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 316 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 317 318 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 319 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 320 been turned off by default.</para> 321 322 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 323 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 324 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 325 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 326 327 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 328 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 329 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 330 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 331 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 332 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 333 timestamps for these operations.</para> 334 335 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 336 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 337 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 338 339 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 340 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been 341 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using 342 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. 343 A new kernel configuration option, 344 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para> 345 346 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 347 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes 348 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by 349 default.</para> 350 351 <note> 352 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and 353 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the 354 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add 355 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to 356 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para> 357 </note> 358 </sect2> 359 </sect1> 360 361 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 362 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 363 364 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 365 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 366 367 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 368 <title>Device Drivers</title> 369 370 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 371 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 372 </sect2> 373 374 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 375 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 376 377 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 378 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 379 </sect2> 380 381 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 382 <title>Network Drivers</title> 383 384 <para> </para> 385 </sect2> 386 </sect1> 387 388 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 389 <title>Hardware Support</title> 390 391 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 392 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 393 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 394 other sections of this document.</para> 395 396 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 397 <title>Hardware Support</title> 398 399 <para> </para> 400 </sect2> 401 402 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 403 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 404 405 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 406 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 407 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 408 409 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 410 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several 411 enhancements:</para> 412 413 <itemizedlist> 414 <listitem> 415 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel 416 support.</para> 417 </listitem> 418 419 <listitem> 420 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather 421 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para> 422 </listitem> 423 424 <listitem> 425 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug 426 fixes.</para> 427 </listitem> 428 </itemizedlist> 429 430 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 431 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum 432 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> 433 </sect2> 434 435 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 436 <title>ARM Support</title> 437 438 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 439 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 440 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 441 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 442 </sect2> 443 </sect1> 444 445 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 446 <title>Storage</title> 447 448 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 449 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 450 451 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 452 <title>General Storage</title> 453 454 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 455 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 456 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 457 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 458 459 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 460 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 461 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 462 463 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 464 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 465 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which 466 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as 467 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash 468 drives.</para> 469 470 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 471 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 472 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which 473 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to 474 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para> 475 </sect2> 476 477 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 478 <title>Networked Storage</title> 479 480 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 481 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 482 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 483 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 484 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 485 targets and portals without requiring active 486 discovery.</para> 487 </sect2> 488 489 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 490 <title>ZFS</title> 491 492 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 493 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 494 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 495 496 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 497 statistics are now visible through the 498 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 499 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 500 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 501 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 502 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 503 </sect2> 504 505 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 506 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 507 508 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 509 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 510 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 511 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 512 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 513 </sect2> 514 </sect1> 515 516 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 517 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 518 519 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 520 boot-related changes.</para> 521 522 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 523 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 524 525 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 526 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 527 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 528 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 529 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 530 531 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 532 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 533 has been disabled by default.</para> 534 </sect2> 535 536 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 537 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 538 539 <para> </para> 540 </sect2> 541 </sect1> 542 543 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 544 <title>Networking</title> 545 546 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 547 &os;.</para> 548 549 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 550 <title>Network Procols</title> 551 552 <para> </para> 553 </sect2> 554 </sect1> 555 556 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 557 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 558 559 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 560 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 561 installation tools.</para> 562 563 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 564 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 565 566 <para> </para> 567 </sect2> 568 569 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 570 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 571 572 <para> </para> 573 </sect2> 574 </sect1> 575 576 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 577 <title>Documentation</title> 578 579 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 580 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 581 582 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 583 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 584 585 <para> </para> 586 </sect2> 587 588 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 589 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 590 591 <para> </para> 592 </sect2> 593 </sect1> 594 595 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 596 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 597 598 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 599 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 600 601 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 602 <title>Integration Changes</title> 603 604 <para> </para> 605 </sect2> 606 </sect1> 607</article> 608