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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 285585 2015-07-14 21:46:09Z 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> 376 377 <para revision="284094" arch="arm">A new module for creating 378 <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry 379 Pi.</para> 380 381 <para revision="284094" arch="arm">The 382 <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> module is now installed to 383 <filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by 384 default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para> 385 386 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor" 387 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option, 388 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables 389 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para> 390 391 <note> 392 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not 393 officially supported by &intel;.</para> 394 </note> 395 </sect2> 396 397 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 398 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 399 400 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 401 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 402 been turned off by default.</para> 403 404 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 405 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 406 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 407 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 408 409 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 410 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 411 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 412 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 413 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 414 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 415 timestamps for these operations.</para> 416 417 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 418 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 419 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 420 421 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 422 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been 423 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using 424 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. 425 A new kernel configuration option, 426 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para> 427 428 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 429 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes 430 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by 431 default.</para> 432 433 <note> 434 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and 435 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the 436 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add 437 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to 438 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para> 439 </note> 440 </sect2> 441 </sect1> 442 443 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 444 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 445 446 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 447 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 448 449 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 450 <title>Device Drivers</title> 451 452 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 453 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 454 455 <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated 456 to include improved support for newer Synaptics ® 457 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer 458 Lenovo ™ laptops.</para> 459 </sect2> 460 461 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 462 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 463 464 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 465 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 466 </sect2> 467 468 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 469 <title>Network Drivers</title> 470 471 <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash 472 has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to 473 <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance 474 increase in packets-per-second.</para> 475 476 <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated 477 to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para> 478 479 <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The 480 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has 481 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and 482 &man.me.4;.</para> 483 484 <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added, 485 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in 486 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is 487 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited 488 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para> 489 490 <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated 491 to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para> 492 493 <para revision="284555" contrib="sponsor" 494 sponsor="&solarflare;">The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been 495 updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series 496 chipsets.</para> 497 </sect2> 498 </sect1> 499 500 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 501 <title>Hardware Support</title> 502 503 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 504 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 505 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 506 other sections of this document.</para> 507 508 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 509 <title>Hardware Support</title> 510 511 <para> </para> 512 </sect2> 513 514 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 515 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 516 517 <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has 518 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console 519 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para> 520 521 <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 522 updated to support &amd; processors with 523 <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware 524 extensions.</para> 525 526 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 527 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 528 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 529 530 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 531 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several 532 enhancements:</para> 533 534 <itemizedlist> 535 <listitem> 536 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel 537 support.</para> 538 </listitem> 539 540 <listitem> 541 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather 542 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para> 543 </listitem> 544 545 <listitem> 546 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug 547 fixes.</para> 548 </listitem> 549 </itemizedlist> 550 551 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 552 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum 553 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> 554 </sect2> 555 556 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 557 <title>ARM Support</title> 558 559 <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the 560 BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; 561 <literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has 562 been added.</para> 563 564 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420 565 Octa system has been added.</para> 566 567 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym> 568 option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by 569 &os;.</para> 570 571 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 572 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 573 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 574 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 575 576 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex 577 Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para> 578 579 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers 580 have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer 581 (<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access 582 Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial 583 Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para> 584 </sect2> 585 </sect1> 586 587 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 588 <title>Storage</title> 589 590 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 591 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 592 593 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 594 <title>General Storage</title> 595 596 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 597 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 598 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 599 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 600 601 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 602 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 603 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 604 605 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 606 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 607 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which 608 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as 609 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash 610 drives.</para> 611 612 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 613 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 614 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which 615 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to 616 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para> 617 </sect2> 618 619 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 620 <title>Networked Storage</title> 621 622 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 623 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 624 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 625 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 626 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 627 targets and portals without requiring active 628 discovery.</para> 629 630 <para revision="275249" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support 631 for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>, 632 <literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options 633 have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para> 634 </sect2> 635 636 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 637 <title>ZFS</title> 638 639 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 640 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 641 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 642 643 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 644 statistics are now visible through the 645 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 646 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 647 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 648 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 649 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 650 </sect2> 651 652 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 653 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 654 655 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 656 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 657 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 658 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 659 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 660 661 <para revision="282861">Support for the 662 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>, 663 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym> 664 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 665 </sect2> 666 </sect1> 667 668 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 669 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 670 671 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 672 boot-related changes.</para> 673 674 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 675 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 676 677 <para revision="281323">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal> 678 has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para> 679 680 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 681 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 682 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 683 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 684 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 685 686 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 687 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 688 has been disabled by default.</para> 689 690 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class, 691 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to 692 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined 693 baudrate.</para> 694 695 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 696 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been 697 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>, 698 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by 699 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para> 700 </sect2> 701 702 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 703 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 704 705 <para> </para> 706 </sect2> 707 </sect1> 708 709 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 710 <title>Networking</title> 711 712 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 713 &os;.</para> 714 715 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 716 <title>Network Procols</title> 717 718 <para> </para> 719 </sect2> 720 </sect1> 721 722 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 723 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 724 725 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 726 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 727 installation tools.</para> 728 729 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 730 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 731 732 <para> </para> 733 </sect2> 734 735 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 736 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 737 738 <para> </para> 739 </sect2> 740 </sect1> 741 742 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 743 <title>Documentation</title> 744 745 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 746 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 747 748 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 749 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 750 751 <para> </para> 752 </sect2> 753 754 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 755 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 756 757 <para> </para> 758 </sect2> 759 </sect1> 760 761 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 762 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 763 764 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 765 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 766 767 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 768 <title>Integration Changes</title> 769 770 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 771 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support 772 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for 773 supported boards where a corresponding 774 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports 775 Collection.</para> 776 777 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 778 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now 779 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way 780 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para> 781 </sect2> 782 </sect1> 783</article> 784