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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 285570 2015-07-14 20:10:36Z 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;
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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="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="283505">Support for booting relocatable kernels
356	has been extended to non-<acronym>EFI</acronym>
357	systems.</para>
358
359      <para revision="283505" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader,
360	<filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable.  In addition,
361	the <filename>ubldr.bin</filename> file is now created during
362	build time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of
363	<literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the
364	load address by running <literal>go
365	  &dollar;{loadaddr}</literal> in
366	<literal>u-boot</literal>.</para>
367      <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
368	sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
369	<literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
370	multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
371
372      <note>
373	<para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
374	  officially supported by &intel;.</para>
375      </note>
376    </sect2>
377
378    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
379      <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
380
381      <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
382	and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
383	been turned off by default.</para>
384
385      <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
386	&man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
387	increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
388	the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
389
390      <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
391	sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
392	been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
393	using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
394	<literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
395	when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
396	timestamps for these operations.</para>
397
398      <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
399	and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
400	&man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
401
402      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
403	&man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
404	added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
405	&man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
406	A new kernel configuration option,
407	<literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
408
409      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
410	<literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
411	<literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
412	default.</para>
413
414      <note>
415	<para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
416	  <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
417	  <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
418	  <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
419	  &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
420      </note>
421    </sect2>
422  </sect1>
423
424  <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
425    <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
426
427    <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
428      device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
429
430    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
431      <title>Device Drivers</title>
432
433      <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
434	been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
435
436      <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated
437	to include improved support for newer Synaptics&nbsp;&reg;
438	touchpads and the ClickPad&nbsp;&reg; mouse on newer
439	Lenovo&nbsp;&trade; laptops.</para>
440    </sect2>
441
442    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
443      <title>Storage Drivers</title>
444
445      <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
446	updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
447    </sect2>
448
449    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
450      <title>Network Drivers</title>
451
452      <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash
453	has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to
454	<literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance
455	increase in packets-per-second.</para>
456
457      <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated
458	to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para>
459
460      <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
461	&man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
462	been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
463	&man.me.4;.</para>
464
465      <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
466	which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
467	a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network.  The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
468	analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
469	for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
470
471      <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated
472	to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para>
473    </sect2>
474  </sect1>
475
476  <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
477    <title>Hardware Support</title>
478
479    <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
480      machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
481      as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
482      other sections of this document.</para>
483
484    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
485      <title>Hardware Support</title>
486
487      <para>&nbsp;</para>
488    </sect2>
489
490    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
491      <title>Virtualization Support</title>
492
493      <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
494	been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
495	devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
496
497      <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
498	updated to support &amd; processors with
499	<acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware
500	extensions.</para>
501
502      <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
503	updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
504	virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
505
506      <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
507	Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
508	enhancements:</para>
509
510      <itemizedlist>
511	<listitem>
512	  <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
513	    support.</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	  <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
518	    support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	  <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
523	    fixes.</para>
524	</listitem>
525      </itemizedlist>
526
527      <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
528	&man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
529	offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
530    </sect2>
531
532    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
533      <title>ARM Support</title>
534
535      <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the
536	BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8;
537	<literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has
538	been added.</para>
539
540      <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420
541	Octa system has been added.</para>
542
543      <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym>
544	option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by
545	&os;.</para>
546
547      <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
548	driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
549	frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
550	<acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
551
552      <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex
553	Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para>
554
555      <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers
556	have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer
557	(<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access
558	Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial
559	Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para>
560    </sect2>
561  </sect1>
562
563  <sect1 xml:id="storage">
564    <title>Storage</title>
565
566    <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
567      and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
568
569    <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
570      <title>General Storage</title>
571
572      <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
573	&man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
574	replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
575	with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
576
577      <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
578	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
579	non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
580
581      <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
582	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
583	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
584	allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
585	<acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
586	drives.</para>
587
588      <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
589	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
590	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
591	handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
592	<literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
593    </sect2>
594
595    <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
596      <title>Networked Storage</title>
597
598      <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
599	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
600	registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
601	<acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
602	which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
603	targets and portals without requiring active
604	discovery.</para>
605    </sect2>
606
607    <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
608      <title>ZFS</title>
609
610      <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
611	<literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
612	which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
613
614      <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
615	statistics are now visible through the
616	<literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
617	change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
618	&man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
619	<literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
620	&man.sysctl.8;.</para>
621    </sect2>
622
623    <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
624      <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
625
626      <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
627	&man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
628	limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
629	and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
630	to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
631
632      <para revision="282861">Support for the
633	<literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
634	and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
635	partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
636    </sect2>
637  </sect1>
638
639  <sect1 xml:id="boot">
640    <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
641
642    <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
643      boot-related changes.</para>
644
645    <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
646      <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
647
648      <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
649	support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
650	loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
651	<literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
652	&man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
653
654      <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
655	memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
656	has been disabled by default.</para>
657
658      <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
659	<literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
660	the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
661	baudrate.</para>
662
663      <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
664	arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
665	updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
666	<filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
667	default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
668    </sect2>
669
670    <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
671      <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
672
673      <para>&nbsp;</para>
674    </sect2>
675  </sect1>
676
677  <sect1 xml:id="network">
678    <title>Networking</title>
679
680    <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
681      &os;.</para>
682
683    <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
684      <title>Network Procols</title>
685
686      <para>&nbsp;</para>
687    </sect2>
688  </sect1>
689
690  <sect1 xml:id="ports">
691    <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
692
693    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
694      Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
695      installation tools.</para>
696
697    <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
698      <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
699
700      <para>&nbsp;</para>
701    </sect2>
702
703    <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
704      <title>Packaging Changes</title>
705
706      <para>&nbsp;</para>
707    </sect2>
708  </sect1>
709
710  <sect1 xml:id="doc">
711    <title>Documentation</title>
712
713    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
714      Project sources and toolchain.</para>
715
716    <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
717      <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
718
719      <para>&nbsp;</para>
720    </sect2>
721
722    <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
723      <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
724
725      <para>&nbsp;</para>
726    </sect2>
727  </sect1>
728
729  <sect1 xml:id="releng">
730    <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
731
732    <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
733      &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
734
735    <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
736      <title>Integration Changes</title>
737
738      <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
739	Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
740	building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
741	supported boards where a corresponding
742	<literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
743	Collection.</para>
744
745      <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
746	&os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
747	created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
748	the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
749    </sect2>
750  </sect1>
751</article>
752