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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 285497 2015-07-13 18:54:06Z 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="278968" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 187 &man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the 188 <acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition 189 type.</para> 190 191 <para revision="281044">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3; 192 library that would prevent a directory from being included in 193 the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used 194 has been fixed.</para> 195 196 <para revision="281161" contrib="sponsor" 197 sponsor="&limelight;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, has 198 been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to 199 dump <acronym>RSS</acronym>/flow information.</para> 200 201 <para revision="281936" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 202 &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set 203 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and 204 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow 205 directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to 206 &man.tar.1;.</para> 207 208 <para revision="282278">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that 209 would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when 210 receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been 211 fixed.</para> 212 213 <para revision="282870" contrib="sponsor" 214 sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has 215 been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when 216 a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para> 217 218 <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 219 &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para> 220 221 <para revision="283875" contrib="sponsor" 222 sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;, 223 &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic 224 links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as 225 documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para> 226 227 <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated 228 with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root 229 directory within which the utility will operate.</para> 230 231 <para revision="283258">The &man.date.1; utility has been 232 updated to print the modification time of the file passed as 233 an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving 234 compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1; 235 utility behavior.</para> 236 237 <para revision="284523">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 238 updated to version 20150222, adding the <literal>-c</literal> 239 argument which allows specifying the capacity of the target 240 disk image.</para> 241 </sect2> 242 243 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 244 <title>Contributed Software</title> 245 246 <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 247 &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version 248 3.7.0.</para> 249 250 <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 251 to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para> 252 253 <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to 254 version 2015e.</para> 255 256 <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been 257 updated to version 20150515.</para> 258 259 <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been 260 updated to version 5.23.</para> 261 262 <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been 263 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 264 265 <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application> 266 utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para> 267 268 <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 269 been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para> 270 </sect2> 271 272 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 273 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 274 275 <para> </para> 276 </sect2> 277 278 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 279 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 280 Scripts</title> 281 282 <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script, 283 <filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize 284 the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename> 285 exists.</para> 286 </sect2> 287 288 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 289 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 290 Scripts</title> 291 292 <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 293 &man.periodic.8; script, 294 <filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added, 295 which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from 296 the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and 297 <literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the 298 system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para> 299 </sect2> 300 301 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 302 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 303 304 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library, 305 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para> 306 307 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been 308 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on 309 failure.</para> 310 </sect2> 311 312 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 313 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 314 315 <para> </para> 316 </sect2> 317 </sect1> 318 319 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 320 <title>Kernel</title> 321 322 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 323 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 324 categorized.</para> 325 326 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 327 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 328 329 <para> </para> 330 </sect2> 331 332 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 333 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 334 335 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor" 336 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option, 337 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables 338 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para> 339 340 <note> 341 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not 342 officially supported by &intel;.</para> 343 </note> 344 </sect2> 345 346 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 347 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 348 349 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 350 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 351 been turned off by default.</para> 352 353 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 354 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 355 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 356 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 357 358 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 359 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 360 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 361 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 362 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 363 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 364 timestamps for these operations.</para> 365 366 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 367 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 368 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 369 370 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 371 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been 372 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using 373 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. 374 A new kernel configuration option, 375 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para> 376 377 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 378 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes 379 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by 380 default.</para> 381 382 <note> 383 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and 384 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the 385 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add 386 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to 387 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para> 388 </note> 389 </sect2> 390 </sect1> 391 392 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 393 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 394 395 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 396 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 397 398 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 399 <title>Device Drivers</title> 400 401 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 402 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 403 </sect2> 404 405 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 406 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 407 408 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 409 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 410 </sect2> 411 412 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 413 <title>Network Drivers</title> 414 415 <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The 416 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has 417 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and 418 &man.me.4;.</para> 419 420 <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added, 421 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in 422 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is 423 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited 424 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para> 425 </sect2> 426 </sect1> 427 428 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 429 <title>Hardware Support</title> 430 431 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 432 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 433 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 434 other sections of this document.</para> 435 436 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 437 <title>Hardware Support</title> 438 439 <para> </para> 440 </sect2> 441 442 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 443 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 444 445 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 446 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 447 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 448 449 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 450 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several 451 enhancements:</para> 452 453 <itemizedlist> 454 <listitem> 455 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel 456 support.</para> 457 </listitem> 458 459 <listitem> 460 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather 461 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para> 462 </listitem> 463 464 <listitem> 465 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug 466 fixes.</para> 467 </listitem> 468 </itemizedlist> 469 470 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 471 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum 472 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> 473 </sect2> 474 475 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 476 <title>ARM Support</title> 477 478 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 479 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 480 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 481 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 482 </sect2> 483 </sect1> 484 485 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 486 <title>Storage</title> 487 488 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 489 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 490 491 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 492 <title>General Storage</title> 493 494 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 495 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 496 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 497 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 498 499 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 500 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 501 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 502 503 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 504 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 505 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which 506 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as 507 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash 508 drives.</para> 509 510 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 511 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 512 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which 513 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to 514 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para> 515 </sect2> 516 517 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 518 <title>Networked Storage</title> 519 520 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 521 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 522 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 523 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 524 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 525 targets and portals without requiring active 526 discovery.</para> 527 </sect2> 528 529 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 530 <title>ZFS</title> 531 532 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 533 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 534 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 535 536 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 537 statistics are now visible through the 538 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 539 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 540 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 541 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 542 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 543 </sect2> 544 545 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 546 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 547 548 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 549 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 550 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 551 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 552 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 553 554 <para revision="282861">Support for the 555 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>, 556 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym> 557 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 558 </sect2> 559 </sect1> 560 561 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 562 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 563 564 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 565 boot-related changes.</para> 566 567 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 568 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 569 570 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 571 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 572 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 573 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 574 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 575 576 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 577 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 578 has been disabled by default.</para> 579 580 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class, 581 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to 582 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined 583 baudrate.</para> 584 585 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 586 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been 587 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>, 588 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by 589 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para> 590 </sect2> 591 592 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 593 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 594 595 <para> </para> 596 </sect2> 597 </sect1> 598 599 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 600 <title>Networking</title> 601 602 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 603 &os;.</para> 604 605 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 606 <title>Network Procols</title> 607 608 <para> </para> 609 </sect2> 610 </sect1> 611 612 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 613 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 614 615 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 616 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 617 installation tools.</para> 618 619 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 620 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 621 622 <para> </para> 623 </sect2> 624 625 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 626 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 627 628 <para> </para> 629 </sect2> 630 </sect1> 631 632 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 633 <title>Documentation</title> 634 635 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 636 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 637 638 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 639 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 640 641 <para> </para> 642 </sect2> 643 644 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 645 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 646 647 <para> </para> 648 </sect2> 649 </sect1> 650 651 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 652 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 653 654 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 655 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 656 657 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 658 <title>Integration Changes</title> 659 660 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 661 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support 662 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for 663 supported boards where a corresponding 664 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports 665 Collection.</para> 666 667 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 668 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now 669 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way 670 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para> 671 </sect2> 672 </sect1> 673</article> 674