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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 285519 2015-07-14 01:32:20Z gjb $</pubdate>
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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>&nbsp;</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 revision="275807">The &linux; compatibility version has
315	been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>.  The
316	<literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
317	evaluated when building the <filename
318	  role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
319	ports.</para>
320    </sect2>
321  </sect1>
322
323  <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
324    <title>Kernel</title>
325
326    <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
327      tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
328      categorized.</para>
329
330    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
331      <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
332
333      <para revision="276068">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
334	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has
335	been fixed.</para>
336
337      <para revision="284018">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
338	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has
339	been fixed.</para>
340    </sect2>
341
342    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
343      <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
344
345      <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;"
346	arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are
347	now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
348	configuration by default.</para>
349
350      <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
351	sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
352	<literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
353	multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
354
355      <note>
356	<para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
357	  officially supported by &intel;.</para>
358      </note>
359    </sect2>
360
361    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
362      <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
363
364      <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
365	and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
366	been turned off by default.</para>
367
368      <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
369	&man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
370	increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
371	the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
372
373      <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
374	sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
375	been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
376	using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
377	<literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
378	when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
379	timestamps for these operations.</para>
380
381      <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
382	and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
383	&man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
384
385      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
386	&man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
387	added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
388	&man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
389	A new kernel configuration option,
390	<literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
391
392      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
393	<literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
394	<literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
395	default.</para>
396
397      <note>
398	<para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
399	  <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
400	  <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
401	  <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
402	  &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
403      </note>
404    </sect2>
405  </sect1>
406
407  <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
408    <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
409
410    <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
411      device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
412
413    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
414      <title>Device Drivers</title>
415
416      <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
417	been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
418    </sect2>
419
420    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
421      <title>Storage Drivers</title>
422
423      <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
424	updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
425    </sect2>
426
427    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
428      <title>Network Drivers</title>
429
430      <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash
431	has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to
432	<literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance
433	increase in packets-per-second.</para>
434
435      <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated
436	to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para>
437
438      <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
439	&man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
440	been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
441	&man.me.4;.</para>
442
443      <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
444	which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
445	a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network.  The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
446	analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
447	for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
448    </sect2>
449  </sect1>
450
451  <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
452    <title>Hardware Support</title>
453
454    <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
455      machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
456      as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
457      other sections of this document.</para>
458
459    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
460      <title>Hardware Support</title>
461
462      <para>&nbsp;</para>
463    </sect2>
464
465    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
466      <title>Virtualization Support</title>
467
468      <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
469	been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
470	devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
471
472      <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisior has been
473	updated to support &amd; processors with
474	<acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware
475	extensions.</para>
476
477      <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
478	updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
479	virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
480
481      <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
482	Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
483	enhancements:</para>
484
485      <itemizedlist>
486	<listitem>
487	  <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
488	    support.</para>
489	</listitem>
490
491	<listitem>
492	  <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
493	    support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	  <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
498	    fixes.</para>
499	</listitem>
500      </itemizedlist>
501
502      <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
503	&man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
504	offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
505    </sect2>
506
507    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
508      <title>ARM Support</title>
509
510      <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
511	driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
512	frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
513	<acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
514    </sect2>
515  </sect1>
516
517  <sect1 xml:id="storage">
518    <title>Storage</title>
519
520    <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
521      and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
522
523    <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
524      <title>General Storage</title>
525
526      <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
527	&man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
528	replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
529	with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
530
531      <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
532	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
533	non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
534
535      <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
536	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
537	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
538	allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
539	<acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
540	drives.</para>
541
542      <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
543	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
544	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
545	handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
546	<literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
547    </sect2>
548
549    <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
550      <title>Networked Storage</title>
551
552      <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
553	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
554	registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
555	<acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
556	which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
557	targets and portals without requiring active
558	discovery.</para>
559    </sect2>
560
561    <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
562      <title>ZFS</title>
563
564      <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
565	<literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
566	which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
567
568      <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
569	statistics are now visible through the
570	<literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
571	change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
572	&man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
573	<literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
574	&man.sysctl.8;.</para>
575    </sect2>
576
577    <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
578      <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
579
580      <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
581	&man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
582	limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
583	and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
584	to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
585
586      <para revision="282861">Support for the
587	<literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
588	and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
589	partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
590    </sect2>
591  </sect1>
592
593  <sect1 xml:id="boot">
594    <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
595
596    <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
597      boot-related changes.</para>
598
599    <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
600      <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
601
602      <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
603	support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
604	loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
605	<literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
606	&man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
607
608      <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
609	memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
610	has been disabled by default.</para>
611
612      <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
613	<literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
614	the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
615	baudrate.</para>
616
617      <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
618	arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
619	updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
620	<filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
621	default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
622    </sect2>
623
624    <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
625      <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
626
627      <para>&nbsp;</para>
628    </sect2>
629  </sect1>
630
631  <sect1 xml:id="network">
632    <title>Networking</title>
633
634    <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
635      &os;.</para>
636
637    <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
638      <title>Network Procols</title>
639
640      <para>&nbsp;</para>
641    </sect2>
642  </sect1>
643
644  <sect1 xml:id="ports">
645    <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
646
647    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
648      Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
649      installation tools.</para>
650
651    <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
652      <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
653
654      <para>&nbsp;</para>
655    </sect2>
656
657    <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
658      <title>Packaging Changes</title>
659
660      <para>&nbsp;</para>
661    </sect2>
662  </sect1>
663
664  <sect1 xml:id="doc">
665    <title>Documentation</title>
666
667    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
668      Project sources and toolchain.</para>
669
670    <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
671      <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
672
673      <para>&nbsp;</para>
674    </sect2>
675
676    <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
677      <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
678
679      <para>&nbsp;</para>
680    </sect2>
681  </sect1>
682
683  <sect1 xml:id="releng">
684    <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
685
686    <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
687      &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
688
689    <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
690      <title>Integration Changes</title>
691
692      <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
693	Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
694	building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
695	supported boards where a corresponding
696	<literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
697	Collection.</para>
698
699      <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
700	&os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
701	created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
702	the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
703    </sect2>
704  </sect1>
705</article>
706