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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 285568 2015-07-14 20:10:31Z 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="276686" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 307 &man.procctl.2; system call has been updated to include 308 a facility for non-&man.init.8; processes to be declared as 309 the reaper of child processes and their decendants.</para> 310 311 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been 312 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on 313 failure.</para> 314 </sect2> 315 316 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 317 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 318 319 <para revision="275807">The &linux; compatibility version has 320 been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>. The 321 <literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is 322 evaluated when building the <filename 323 role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related 324 ports.</para> 325 </sect2> 326 </sect1> 327 328 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 329 <title>Kernel</title> 330 331 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 332 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 333 categorized.</para> 334 335 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 336 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 337 338 <para revision="276068">A kernel panic triggered when destroying 339 a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has 340 been fixed.</para> 341 342 <para revision="284018">A kernel panic triggered when destroying 343 a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has 344 been fixed.</para> 345 </sect2> 346 347 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 348 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 349 350 <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;" 351 arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are 352 now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 353 configuration by default.</para> 354 355 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor" 356 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option, 357 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables 358 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para> 359 360 <note> 361 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not 362 officially supported by &intel;.</para> 363 </note> 364 </sect2> 365 366 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 367 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 368 369 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 370 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 371 been turned off by default.</para> 372 373 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 374 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 375 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 376 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 377 378 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 379 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 380 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 381 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 382 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 383 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 384 timestamps for these operations.</para> 385 386 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 387 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 388 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 389 390 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 391 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been 392 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using 393 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. 394 A new kernel configuration option, 395 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para> 396 397 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 398 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes 399 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by 400 default.</para> 401 402 <note> 403 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and 404 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the 405 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add 406 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to 407 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para> 408 </note> 409 </sect2> 410 </sect1> 411 412 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 413 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 414 415 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 416 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 417 418 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 419 <title>Device Drivers</title> 420 421 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 422 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 423 424 <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated 425 to include improved support for newer Synaptics ® 426 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer 427 Lenovo ™ laptops.</para> 428 </sect2> 429 430 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 431 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 432 433 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 434 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 435 </sect2> 436 437 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 438 <title>Network Drivers</title> 439 440 <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash 441 has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to 442 <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance 443 increase in packets-per-second.</para> 444 445 <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated 446 to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para> 447 448 <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The 449 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has 450 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and 451 &man.me.4;.</para> 452 453 <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added, 454 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in 455 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is 456 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited 457 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para> 458 459 <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated 460 to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para> 461 </sect2> 462 </sect1> 463 464 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 465 <title>Hardware Support</title> 466 467 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 468 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 469 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 470 other sections of this document.</para> 471 472 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 473 <title>Hardware Support</title> 474 475 <para> </para> 476 </sect2> 477 478 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 479 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 480 481 <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has 482 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console 483 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para> 484 485 <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 486 updated to support &amd; processors with 487 <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware 488 extensions.</para> 489 490 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 491 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 492 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 493 494 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 495 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several 496 enhancements:</para> 497 498 <itemizedlist> 499 <listitem> 500 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel 501 support.</para> 502 </listitem> 503 504 <listitem> 505 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather 506 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para> 507 </listitem> 508 509 <listitem> 510 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug 511 fixes.</para> 512 </listitem> 513 </itemizedlist> 514 515 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 516 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum 517 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> 518 </sect2> 519 520 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 521 <title>ARM Support</title> 522 523 <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the 524 BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; 525 <literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has 526 been added.</para> 527 528 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420 529 Octa system has been added.</para> 530 531 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym> 532 option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by 533 &os;.</para> 534 535 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 536 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 537 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 538 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 539 </sect2> 540 </sect1> 541 542 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 543 <title>Storage</title> 544 545 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 546 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 547 548 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 549 <title>General Storage</title> 550 551 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 552 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 553 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 554 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 555 556 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 557 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 558 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 559 560 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 561 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 562 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which 563 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as 564 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash 565 drives.</para> 566 567 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 568 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 569 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which 570 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to 571 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para> 572 </sect2> 573 574 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 575 <title>Networked Storage</title> 576 577 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 578 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 579 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 580 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 581 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 582 targets and portals without requiring active 583 discovery.</para> 584 </sect2> 585 586 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 587 <title>ZFS</title> 588 589 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 590 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 591 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 592 593 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 594 statistics are now visible through the 595 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 596 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 597 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 598 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 599 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 600 </sect2> 601 602 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 603 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 604 605 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 606 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 607 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 608 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 609 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 610 611 <para revision="282861">Support for the 612 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>, 613 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym> 614 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 615 </sect2> 616 </sect1> 617 618 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 619 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 620 621 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 622 boot-related changes.</para> 623 624 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 625 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 626 627 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 628 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 629 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 630 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 631 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 632 633 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 634 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 635 has been disabled by default.</para> 636 637 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class, 638 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to 639 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined 640 baudrate.</para> 641 642 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 643 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been 644 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>, 645 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by 646 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para> 647 </sect2> 648 649 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 650 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 651 652 <para> </para> 653 </sect2> 654 </sect1> 655 656 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 657 <title>Networking</title> 658 659 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 660 &os;.</para> 661 662 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 663 <title>Network Procols</title> 664 665 <para> </para> 666 </sect2> 667 </sect1> 668 669 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 670 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 671 672 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 673 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 674 installation tools.</para> 675 676 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 677 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 678 679 <para> </para> 680 </sect2> 681 682 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 683 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 684 685 <para> </para> 686 </sect2> 687 </sect1> 688 689 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 690 <title>Documentation</title> 691 692 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 693 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 694 695 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 696 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 697 698 <para> </para> 699 </sect2> 700 701 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 702 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 703 704 <para> </para> 705 </sect2> 706 </sect1> 707 708 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 709 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 710 711 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 712 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 713 714 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 715 <title>Integration Changes</title> 716 717 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 718 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support 719 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for 720 supported boards where a corresponding 721 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports 722 Collection.</para> 723 724 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 725 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now 726 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way 727 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para> 728 </sect2> 729 </sect1> 730</article> 731