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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 285613 2015-07-15 19:38:14Z delphij $</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
270      <para revision="285612">The <application>ntp</application>
271	suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3.</para>
272    </sect2>
273
274    <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
275      <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
276
277      <para>&nbsp;</para>
278    </sect2>
279
280    <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
281      <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
282	Scripts</title>
283
284      <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script,
285	<filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
286	the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
287	exists.</para>
288    </sect2>
289
290    <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
291      <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
292	Scripts</title>
293
294      <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
295	&man.periodic.8; script,
296	<filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
297	which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
298	the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
299	<literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
300	system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
301    </sect2>
302
303    <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
304      <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
305
306      <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
307	&man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
308
309      <para revision="276686" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
310	&man.procctl.2; system call has been updated to include
311	a facility for non-&man.init.8; processes to be declared as
312	the reaper of child processes and their decendants.</para>
313
314      <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
315	updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
316	failure.</para>
317    </sect2>
318
319    <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
320      <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
321
322      <para revision="275807">The &linux; compatibility version has
323	been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>.  The
324	<literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
325	evaluated when building the <filename
326	  role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
327	ports.</para>
328    </sect2>
329  </sect1>
330
331  <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
332    <title>Kernel</title>
333
334    <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
335      tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
336      categorized.</para>
337
338    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
339      <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
340
341      <para revision="276068">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
342	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has
343	been fixed.</para>
344
345      <para revision="284018">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
346	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has
347	been fixed.</para>
348    </sect2>
349
350    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
351      <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
352
353      <para revision="282065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
354	<literal>PAE_TABLES</literal> kernel configuration option has
355	been added for &os;/&arch.i386;, which instructs &man.pmap.9;
356	to use <acronym>PAE</acronym> format for page tables.</para>
357
358      <para revision="282826">The <literal>SIFTR</literal> kernel
359	configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4;
360	statically into the kernel.</para>
361
362      <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;"
363	arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are
364	now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
365	configuration by default.</para>
366
367      <para revision="283505" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader,
368	<filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable.  In addition,
369	<filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build
370	time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of
371	<literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the
372	load address by running <literal>go
373	  &dollar;{loadaddr}</literal> in
374	<literal>u-boot</literal>.</para>
375
376      <para revision="284094" arch="arm">A new module for creating
377	<filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry
378	Pi.</para>
379
380      <para revision="284094" arch="arm">The
381	<filename>rpi.dtb</filename> module is now installed to
382	<filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by
383	default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para>
384
385      <para revision="284096" arch="arm">A new module for creating
386	the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has
387	been added.</para>
388
389      <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
390	sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
391	<literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
392	multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
393
394      <note>
395	<para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
396	  officially supported by &intel;.</para>
397      </note>
398    </sect2>
399
400    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
401      <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
402
403      <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
404	and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
405	been turned off by default.</para>
406
407      <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
408	&man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
409	increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
410	the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
411
412      <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
413	sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
414	been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
415	using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
416	<literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
417	when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
418	timestamps for these operations.</para>
419
420      <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
421	and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
422	&man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
423
424      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
425	&man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
426	added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
427	&man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
428	A new kernel configuration option,
429	<literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
430
431      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
432	<literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
433	<literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
434	default.</para>
435
436      <note>
437	<para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
438	  <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
439	  <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
440	  <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
441	  &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
442      </note>
443    </sect2>
444  </sect1>
445
446  <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
447    <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
448
449    <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
450      device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
451
452    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
453      <title>Device Drivers</title>
454
455      <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
456	been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
457
458      <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated
459	to include improved support for newer Synaptics&nbsp;&reg;
460	touchpads and the ClickPad&nbsp;&reg; mouse on newer
461	Lenovo&nbsp;&trade; laptops.</para>
462    </sect2>
463
464    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
465      <title>Storage Drivers</title>
466
467      <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
468	updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
469    </sect2>
470
471    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
472      <title>Network Drivers</title>
473
474      <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash
475	has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to
476	<literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance
477	increase in packets-per-second.</para>
478
479      <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated
480	to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para>
481
482      <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
483	&man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
484	been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
485	&man.me.4;.</para>
486
487      <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
488	which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
489	a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network.  The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
490	analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
491	for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
492
493      <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated
494	to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para>
495
496      <para revision="284555" contrib="sponsor"
497	sponsor="&solarflare;">The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been
498	updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series
499	chipsets.</para>
500    </sect2>
501  </sect1>
502
503  <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
504    <title>Hardware Support</title>
505
506    <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
507      machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
508      as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
509      other sections of this document.</para>
510
511    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
512      <title>Hardware Support</title>
513
514      <para>&nbsp;</para>
515    </sect2>
516
517    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
518      <title>Virtualization Support</title>
519
520      <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
521	been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
522	devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
523
524      <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
525	updated to support &amd; processors with
526	<acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware
527	extensions.</para>
528
529      <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
530	updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
531	virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
532
533      <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
534	Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
535	enhancements:</para>
536
537      <itemizedlist>
538	<listitem>
539	  <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
540	    support.</para>
541	</listitem>
542
543	<listitem>
544	  <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
545	    support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
546	</listitem>
547
548	<listitem>
549	  <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
550	    fixes.</para>
551	</listitem>
552      </itemizedlist>
553
554      <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
555	&man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
556	offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
557    </sect2>
558
559    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
560      <title>ARM Support</title>
561
562      <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the
563	BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8;
564	<literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has
565	been added.</para>
566
567      <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420
568	Octa system has been added.</para>
569
570      <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym>
571	option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by
572	&os;.</para>
573
574      <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
575	driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
576	frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
577	<acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
578
579      <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex
580	Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para>
581
582      <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers
583	have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer
584	(<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access
585	Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial
586	Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para>
587    </sect2>
588  </sect1>
589
590  <sect1 xml:id="storage">
591    <title>Storage</title>
592
593    <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
594      and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
595
596    <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
597      <title>General Storage</title>
598
599      <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
600	&man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
601	replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
602	with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
603
604      <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
605	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
606	non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
607
608      <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
609	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
610	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
611	allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
612	<acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
613	drives.</para>
614
615      <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
616	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
617	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
618	handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
619	<literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
620    </sect2>
621
622    <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
623      <title>Networked Storage</title>
624
625      <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
626	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
627	registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
628	<acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
629	which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
630	targets and portals without requiring active
631	discovery.</para>
632
633      <para revision="275249" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support
634	for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>,
635	<literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options
636	have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para>
637    </sect2>
638
639    <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
640      <title>ZFS</title>
641
642      <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
643	<literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
644	which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
645
646      <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
647	statistics are now visible through the
648	<literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
649	change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
650	&man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
651	<literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
652	&man.sysctl.8;.</para>
653    </sect2>
654
655    <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
656      <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
657
658      <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
659	&man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
660	limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
661	and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
662	to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
663
664      <para revision="282861">Support for the
665	<literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
666	and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
667	partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
668    </sect2>
669  </sect1>
670
671  <sect1 xml:id="boot">
672    <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
673
674    <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
675      boot-related changes.</para>
676
677    <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
678      <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
679
680      <para revision="281323">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal>
681	has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para>
682
683      <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
684	support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
685	loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
686	<literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
687	&man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
688
689      <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
690	memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
691	has been disabled by default.</para>
692
693      <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
694	<literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
695	the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
696	baudrate.</para>
697
698      <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
699	arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
700	updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
701	<filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
702	default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
703    </sect2>
704
705    <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
706      <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
707
708      <para>&nbsp;</para>
709    </sect2>
710  </sect1>
711
712  <sect1 xml:id="network">
713    <title>Networking</title>
714
715    <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
716      &os;.</para>
717
718    <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
719      <title>Network Procols</title>
720
721      <para>&nbsp;</para>
722    </sect2>
723  </sect1>
724
725  <sect1 xml:id="ports">
726    <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
727
728    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
729      Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
730      installation tools.</para>
731
732    <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
733      <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
734
735      <para>&nbsp;</para>
736    </sect2>
737
738    <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
739      <title>Packaging Changes</title>
740
741      <para>&nbsp;</para>
742    </sect2>
743  </sect1>
744
745  <sect1 xml:id="doc">
746    <title>Documentation</title>
747
748    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
749      Project sources and toolchain.</para>
750
751    <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
752      <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
753
754      <para>&nbsp;</para>
755    </sect2>
756
757    <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
758      <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
759
760      <para>&nbsp;</para>
761    </sect2>
762  </sect1>
763
764  <sect1 xml:id="releng">
765    <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
766
767    <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
768      &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
769
770    <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
771      <title>Integration Changes</title>
772
773      <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
774	Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
775	building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
776	supported boards where a corresponding
777	<literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
778	Collection.</para>
779
780      <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
781	&os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
782	created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
783	the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
784    </sect2>
785  </sect1>
786</article>
787