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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 285508 2015-07-13 20:07:34Z 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="283258">The &man.date.1; utility has been 228 updated to print the modification time of the file passed as 229 an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving 230 compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1; 231 utility behavior.</para> 232 233 <para revision="284523">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has 234 been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows 235 specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para> 236 237 <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated 238 with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root 239 directory within which the utility will operate.</para> 240 </sect2> 241 242 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 243 <title>Contributed Software</title> 244 245 <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 246 &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version 247 3.7.0.</para> 248 249 <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated 250 to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para> 251 252 <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to 253 version 2015e.</para> 254 255 <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been 256 updated to version 20150515.</para> 257 258 <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been 259 updated to version 5.23.</para> 260 261 <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been 262 updated to version 1.5.3.</para> 263 264 <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application> 265 utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para> 266 267 <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 268 been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para> 269 </sect2> 270 271 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 272 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 273 274 <para> </para> 275 </sect2> 276 277 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 278 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 279 Scripts</title> 280 281 <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script, 282 <filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize 283 the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename> 284 exists.</para> 285 </sect2> 286 287 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 288 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 289 Scripts</title> 290 291 <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 292 &man.periodic.8; script, 293 <filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added, 294 which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from 295 the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and 296 <literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the 297 system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para> 298 </sect2> 299 300 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 301 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 302 303 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library, 304 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para> 305 306 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been 307 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on 308 failure.</para> 309 </sect2> 310 311 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 312 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 313 314 <para> </para> 315 </sect2> 316 </sect1> 317 318 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 319 <title>Kernel</title> 320 321 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 322 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 323 categorized.</para> 324 325 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 326 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 327 328 <para> </para> 329 </sect2> 330 331 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 332 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 333 334 <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;" 335 arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are 336 now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 337 configuration by default.</para> 338 339 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor" 340 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option, 341 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables 342 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para> 343 344 <note> 345 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not 346 officially supported by &intel;.</para> 347 </note> 348 </sect2> 349 350 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 351 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 352 353 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 354 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 355 been turned off by default.</para> 356 357 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 358 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 359 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 360 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 361 362 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 363 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 364 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 365 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 366 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 367 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 368 timestamps for these operations.</para> 369 370 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 371 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 372 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 373 374 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 375 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been 376 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using 377 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. 378 A new kernel configuration option, 379 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para> 380 381 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 382 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes 383 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by 384 default.</para> 385 386 <note> 387 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and 388 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the 389 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add 390 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to 391 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para> 392 </note> 393 </sect2> 394 </sect1> 395 396 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 397 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 398 399 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 400 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 401 402 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 403 <title>Device Drivers</title> 404 405 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 406 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 407 </sect2> 408 409 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 410 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 411 412 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 413 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 414 </sect2> 415 416 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 417 <title>Network Drivers</title> 418 419 <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash 420 has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to 421 <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance 422 increase in packets-per-second.</para> 423 424 <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated 425 to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para> 426 427 <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The 428 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has 429 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and 430 &man.me.4;.</para> 431 432 <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added, 433 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in 434 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is 435 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited 436 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para> 437 </sect2> 438 </sect1> 439 440 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 441 <title>Hardware Support</title> 442 443 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 444 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 445 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 446 other sections of this document.</para> 447 448 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 449 <title>Hardware Support</title> 450 451 <para> </para> 452 </sect2> 453 454 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 455 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 456 457 <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has 458 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console 459 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para> 460 461 <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisior has been 462 updated to support &amd; processors with 463 <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware 464 extensions.</para> 465 466 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 467 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 468 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 469 470 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 471 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several 472 enhancements:</para> 473 474 <itemizedlist> 475 <listitem> 476 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel 477 support.</para> 478 </listitem> 479 480 <listitem> 481 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather 482 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para> 483 </listitem> 484 485 <listitem> 486 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug 487 fixes.</para> 488 </listitem> 489 </itemizedlist> 490 491 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 492 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum 493 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> 494 </sect2> 495 496 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 497 <title>ARM Support</title> 498 499 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 500 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 501 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 502 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 503 </sect2> 504 </sect1> 505 506 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 507 <title>Storage</title> 508 509 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 510 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 511 512 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 513 <title>General Storage</title> 514 515 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 516 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 517 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 518 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 519 520 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 521 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 522 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 523 524 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 525 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 526 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which 527 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as 528 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash 529 drives.</para> 530 531 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 532 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 533 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which 534 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to 535 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para> 536 </sect2> 537 538 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 539 <title>Networked Storage</title> 540 541 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 542 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 543 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 544 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 545 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 546 targets and portals without requiring active 547 discovery.</para> 548 </sect2> 549 550 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 551 <title>ZFS</title> 552 553 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 554 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 555 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 556 557 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 558 statistics are now visible through the 559 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 560 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 561 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 562 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 563 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 564 </sect2> 565 566 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 567 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 568 569 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 570 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 571 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 572 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 573 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 574 575 <para revision="282861">Support for the 576 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>, 577 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym> 578 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 579 </sect2> 580 </sect1> 581 582 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 583 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 584 585 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 586 boot-related changes.</para> 587 588 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 589 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 590 591 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 592 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 593 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 594 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 595 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 596 597 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 598 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 599 has been disabled by default.</para> 600 601 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class, 602 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to 603 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined 604 baudrate.</para> 605 606 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 607 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been 608 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>, 609 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by 610 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para> 611 </sect2> 612 613 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 614 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 615 616 <para> </para> 617 </sect2> 618 </sect1> 619 620 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 621 <title>Networking</title> 622 623 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 624 &os;.</para> 625 626 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 627 <title>Network Procols</title> 628 629 <para> </para> 630 </sect2> 631 </sect1> 632 633 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 634 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 635 636 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 637 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 638 installation tools.</para> 639 640 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 641 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 642 643 <para> </para> 644 </sect2> 645 646 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 647 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 648 649 <para> </para> 650 </sect2> 651 </sect1> 652 653 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 654 <title>Documentation</title> 655 656 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 657 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 658 659 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 660 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 661 662 <para> </para> 663 </sect2> 664 665 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 666 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 667 668 <para> </para> 669 </sect2> 670 </sect1> 671 672 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 673 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 674 675 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 676 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 677 678 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 679 <title>Integration Changes</title> 680 681 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 682 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support 683 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for 684 supported boards where a corresponding 685 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports 686 Collection.</para> 687 688 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 689 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now 690 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way 691 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para> 692 </sect2> 693 </sect1> 694</article> 695