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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 285572 2015-07-14 20:10:41Z 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="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 <filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build 362 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 ${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 ® 438 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer 439 Lenovo ™ 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> </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™ 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="281323">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal> 649 has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para> 650 651 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 652 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 653 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 654 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 655 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 656 657 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 658 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 659 has been disabled by default.</para> 660 661 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class, 662 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to 663 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined 664 baudrate.</para> 665 666 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 667 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been 668 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>, 669 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by 670 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para> 671 </sect2> 672 673 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 674 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 675 676 <para> </para> 677 </sect2> 678 </sect1> 679 680 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 681 <title>Networking</title> 682 683 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 684 &os;.</para> 685 686 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 687 <title>Network Procols</title> 688 689 <para> </para> 690 </sect2> 691 </sect1> 692 693 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 694 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 695 696 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 697 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 698 installation tools.</para> 699 700 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 701 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 702 703 <para> </para> 704 </sect2> 705 706 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 707 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 708 709 <para> </para> 710 </sect2> 711 </sect1> 712 713 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 714 <title>Documentation</title> 715 716 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 717 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 718 719 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 720 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 721 722 <para> </para> 723 </sect2> 724 725 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 726 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 727 728 <para> </para> 729 </sect2> 730 </sect1> 731 732 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 733 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 734 735 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 736 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 737 738 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 739 <title>Integration Changes</title> 740 741 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 742 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support 743 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for 744 supported boards where a corresponding 745 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports 746 Collection.</para> 747 748 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 749 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now 750 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way 751 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para> 752 </sect2> 753 </sect1> 754</article> 755