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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 285588 2015-07-14 23:41:19Z 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="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" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader,
365	<filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable.  In addition,
366	<filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build
367	time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of
368	<literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the
369	load address by running <literal>go
370	  &dollar;{loadaddr}</literal> in
371	<literal>u-boot</literal>.</para>
372
373      <para revision="284094" arch="arm">A new module for creating
374	<filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry
375	Pi.</para>
376
377      <para revision="284094" arch="arm">The
378	<filename>rpi.dtb</filename> module is now installed to
379	<filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by
380	default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para>
381
382      <para revision="284096" arch="arm">A new module for creating
383	the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has
384	been added.</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&nbsp;&reg;
457	touchpads and the ClickPad&nbsp;&reg; mouse on newer
458	Lenovo&nbsp;&trade; 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>&nbsp;</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&trade; 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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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;&nbsp;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>&nbsp;</para>
733    </sect2>
734
735    <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
736      <title>Packaging Changes</title>
737
738      <para>&nbsp;</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;&nbsp;Documentation
746      Project sources and toolchain.</para>
747
748    <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
749      <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
750
751      <para>&nbsp;</para>
752    </sect2>
753
754    <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
755      <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
756
757      <para>&nbsp;</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;&nbsp;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