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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 285613 2015-07-15 19:38:14Z delphij $</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> 269 270 <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> </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 ${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 ® 460 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer 461 Lenovo ™ 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> </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™ 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> </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> </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; 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> </para> 736 </sect2> 737 738 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 739 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 740 741 <para> </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; Documentation 749 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 750 751 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 752 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 753 754 <para> </para> 755 </sect2> 756 757 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 758 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 759 760 <para> </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; 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