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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 285584 2015-07-14 21:46:06Z 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="282065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 351 <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal> kernel configuration option has 352 been added for &os;/&arch.i386;, which instructs &man.pmap.9; 353 to use <acronym>PAE</acronym> format for page tables.</para> 354 355 <para revision="282826">The <literal>SIFTR</literal> kernel 356 configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4; 357 statically into the kernel.</para> 358 359 <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;" 360 arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are 361 now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 362 configuration by default.</para> 363 364 <para revision="283505">Support for booting relocatable kernels 365 has been extended to non-<acronym>EFI</acronym> 366 systems.</para> 367 368 <para revision="283505" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader, 369 <filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable. In addition, 370 <filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build 371 time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of 372 <literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the 373 load address by running <literal>go 374 ${loadaddr}</literal> in 375 <literal>u-boot</literal>.</para> 376 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor" 377 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option, 378 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables 379 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para> 380 381 <note> 382 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not 383 officially supported by &intel;.</para> 384 </note> 385 </sect2> 386 387 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 388 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 389 390 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 391 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 392 been turned off by default.</para> 393 394 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 395 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 396 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 397 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 398 399 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 400 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 401 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 402 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 403 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 404 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 405 timestamps for these operations.</para> 406 407 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 408 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 409 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 410 411 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 412 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been 413 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using 414 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. 415 A new kernel configuration option, 416 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para> 417 418 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 419 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes 420 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by 421 default.</para> 422 423 <note> 424 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and 425 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the 426 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add 427 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to 428 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para> 429 </note> 430 </sect2> 431 </sect1> 432 433 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 434 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 435 436 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 437 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 438 439 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 440 <title>Device Drivers</title> 441 442 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 443 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 444 445 <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated 446 to include improved support for newer Synaptics ® 447 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer 448 Lenovo ™ laptops.</para> 449 </sect2> 450 451 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 452 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 453 454 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 455 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 456 </sect2> 457 458 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 459 <title>Network Drivers</title> 460 461 <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash 462 has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to 463 <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance 464 increase in packets-per-second.</para> 465 466 <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated 467 to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para> 468 469 <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The 470 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has 471 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and 472 &man.me.4;.</para> 473 474 <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added, 475 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in 476 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is 477 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited 478 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para> 479 480 <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated 481 to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para> 482 483 <para revision="284555" contrib="sponsor" 484 sponsor="&solarflare;">The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been 485 updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series 486 chipsets.</para> 487 </sect2> 488 </sect1> 489 490 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 491 <title>Hardware Support</title> 492 493 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 494 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 495 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 496 other sections of this document.</para> 497 498 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 499 <title>Hardware Support</title> 500 501 <para> </para> 502 </sect2> 503 504 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 505 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 506 507 <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has 508 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console 509 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para> 510 511 <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 512 updated to support &amd; processors with 513 <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware 514 extensions.</para> 515 516 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 517 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 518 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 519 520 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 521 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several 522 enhancements:</para> 523 524 <itemizedlist> 525 <listitem> 526 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel 527 support.</para> 528 </listitem> 529 530 <listitem> 531 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather 532 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para> 533 </listitem> 534 535 <listitem> 536 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug 537 fixes.</para> 538 </listitem> 539 </itemizedlist> 540 541 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 542 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum 543 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> 544 </sect2> 545 546 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 547 <title>ARM Support</title> 548 549 <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the 550 BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; 551 <literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has 552 been added.</para> 553 554 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420 555 Octa system has been added.</para> 556 557 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym> 558 option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by 559 &os;.</para> 560 561 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 562 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 563 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 564 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 565 566 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex 567 Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para> 568 569 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers 570 have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer 571 (<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access 572 Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial 573 Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para> 574 </sect2> 575 </sect1> 576 577 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 578 <title>Storage</title> 579 580 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 581 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 582 583 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 584 <title>General Storage</title> 585 586 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 587 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 588 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 589 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 590 591 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 592 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 593 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 594 595 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 596 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 597 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which 598 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as 599 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash 600 drives.</para> 601 602 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 603 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 604 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which 605 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to 606 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para> 607 </sect2> 608 609 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 610 <title>Networked Storage</title> 611 612 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 613 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 614 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 615 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 616 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 617 targets and portals without requiring active 618 discovery.</para> 619 620 <para revision="275249" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support 621 for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>, 622 <literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options 623 have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para> 624 </sect2> 625 626 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 627 <title>ZFS</title> 628 629 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 630 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 631 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 632 633 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 634 statistics are now visible through the 635 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 636 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 637 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 638 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 639 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 640 </sect2> 641 642 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 643 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 644 645 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 646 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 647 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 648 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 649 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 650 651 <para revision="282861">Support for the 652 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>, 653 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym> 654 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 655 </sect2> 656 </sect1> 657 658 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 659 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 660 661 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 662 boot-related changes.</para> 663 664 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 665 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 666 667 <para revision="281323">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal> 668 has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para> 669 670 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 671 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 672 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 673 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 674 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 675 676 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 677 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 678 has been disabled by default.</para> 679 680 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class, 681 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to 682 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined 683 baudrate.</para> 684 685 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 686 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been 687 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>, 688 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by 689 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para> 690 </sect2> 691 692 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 693 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 694 695 <para> </para> 696 </sect2> 697 </sect1> 698 699 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 700 <title>Networking</title> 701 702 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 703 &os;.</para> 704 705 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 706 <title>Network Procols</title> 707 708 <para> </para> 709 </sect2> 710 </sect1> 711 712 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 713 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 714 715 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 716 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 717 installation tools.</para> 718 719 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 720 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 721 722 <para> </para> 723 </sect2> 724 725 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 726 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 727 728 <para> </para> 729 </sect2> 730 </sect1> 731 732 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 733 <title>Documentation</title> 734 735 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 736 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 737 738 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 739 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 740 741 <para> </para> 742 </sect2> 743 744 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 745 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 746 747 <para> </para> 748 </sect2> 749 </sect1> 750 751 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 752 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 753 754 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 755 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 756 757 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 758 <title>Integration Changes</title> 759 760 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 761 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support 762 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for 763 supported boards where a corresponding 764 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports 765 Collection.</para> 766 767 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 768 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now 769 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way 770 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para> 771 </sect2> 772 </sect1> 773</article> 774