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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 285818 2015-07-23 18:11:52Z 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> 269 270 <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 with 357 32-bit physical addresses. Unlike the <literal>PAE</literal> 358 option, <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal> preserves kernel binary 359 interface (<acronym>KBI</acronym>) compatibility with 360 non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernels, allowing 361 non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernel modules and drivers to work 362 with a <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal>-enabled kernel. 363 Additionally, system limits are tuned for 4GB maximum 364 <acronym>RAM</acronym>, avoiding kernel virtual address space 365 (<acronym>KVA</acronym>) exhaustion.</para> 366 367 <para revision="282826">The <literal>SIFTR</literal> kernel 368 configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4; 369 statically into the kernel.</para> 370 371 <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;" 372 arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are 373 now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 374 configuration by default.</para> 375 376 <para revision="283505" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader, 377 <filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable. In addition, 378 <filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build 379 time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of 380 <literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the 381 load address by running <literal>go 382 ${loadaddr}</literal> in 383 <literal>u-boot</literal>.</para> 384 385 <para revision="284094" arch="arm">A new module for creating 386 <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry 387 Pi.</para> 388 389 <para revision="284094" arch="arm">The 390 <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> module is now installed to 391 <filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by 392 default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para> 393 394 <para revision="284096" arch="arm">A new module for creating 395 the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has 396 been added.</para> 397 398 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor" 399 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option, 400 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables 401 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para> 402 403 <note> 404 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not 405 officially supported by &intel;.</para> 406 </note> 407 </sect2> 408 409 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 410 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 411 412 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 413 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 414 been turned off by default.</para> 415 416 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 417 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 418 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 419 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 420 421 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 422 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 423 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 424 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 425 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 426 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 427 timestamps for these operations.</para> 428 429 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 430 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 431 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 432 433 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 434 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been 435 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using 436 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. 437 A new kernel configuration option, 438 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para> 439 440 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 441 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes 442 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by 443 default.</para> 444 445 <note> 446 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and 447 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the 448 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add 449 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to 450 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para> 451 </note> 452 </sect2> 453 </sect1> 454 455 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 456 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 457 458 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 459 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 460 461 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 462 <title>Device Drivers</title> 463 464 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 465 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 466 467 <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated 468 to include improved support for newer Synaptics ® 469 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer 470 Lenovo ™ laptops.</para> 471 </sect2> 472 473 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 474 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 475 476 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 477 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 478 </sect2> 479 480 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 481 <title>Network Drivers</title> 482 483 <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash 484 has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to 485 <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance 486 increase in packets-per-second.</para> 487 488 <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated 489 to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para> 490 491 <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The 492 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has 493 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and 494 &man.me.4;.</para> 495 496 <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added, 497 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in 498 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is 499 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited 500 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para> 501 502 <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated 503 to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para> 504 505 <para revision="284555" contrib="sponsor" 506 sponsor="&solarflare;">The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been 507 updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series 508 chipsets.</para> 509 </sect2> 510 </sect1> 511 512 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 513 <title>Hardware Support</title> 514 515 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 516 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 517 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 518 other sections of this document.</para> 519 520 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 521 <title>Hardware Support</title> 522 523 <para> </para> 524 </sect2> 525 526 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 527 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 528 529 <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has 530 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console 531 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para> 532 533 <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 534 updated to support &amd; processors with 535 <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware 536 extensions.</para> 537 538 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 539 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 540 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 541 542 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 543 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several 544 enhancements:</para> 545 546 <itemizedlist> 547 <listitem> 548 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel 549 support.</para> 550 </listitem> 551 552 <listitem> 553 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather 554 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para> 555 </listitem> 556 557 <listitem> 558 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug 559 fixes.</para> 560 </listitem> 561 </itemizedlist> 562 563 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 564 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum 565 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> 566 </sect2> 567 568 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 569 <title>ARM Support</title> 570 571 <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the 572 BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; 573 <literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has 574 been added.</para> 575 576 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420 577 Octa system has been added.</para> 578 579 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym> 580 option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by 581 &os;.</para> 582 583 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 584 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 585 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 586 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 587 588 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex 589 Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para> 590 591 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers 592 have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer 593 (<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access 594 Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial 595 Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para> 596 </sect2> 597 </sect1> 598 599 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 600 <title>Storage</title> 601 602 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 603 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 604 605 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 606 <title>General Storage</title> 607 608 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 609 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 610 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 611 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 612 613 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 614 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 615 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 616 617 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 618 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 619 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which 620 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as 621 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash 622 drives.</para> 623 624 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 625 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 626 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which 627 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to 628 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para> 629 </sect2> 630 631 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 632 <title>Networked Storage</title> 633 634 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 635 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 636 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 637 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 638 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 639 targets and portals without requiring active 640 discovery.</para> 641 642 <para revision="275249" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support 643 for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>, 644 <literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options 645 have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para> 646 </sect2> 647 648 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 649 <title>ZFS</title> 650 651 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 652 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 653 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 654 655 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 656 statistics are now visible through the 657 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 658 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 659 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 660 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 661 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 662 </sect2> 663 664 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 665 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 666 667 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 668 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 669 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 670 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 671 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 672 673 <para revision="282861">Support for the 674 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>, 675 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym> 676 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 677 </sect2> 678 </sect1> 679 680 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 681 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 682 683 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 684 boot-related changes.</para> 685 686 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 687 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 688 689 <para revision="281323">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal> 690 has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para> 691 692 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 693 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 694 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 695 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 696 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 697 698 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 699 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 700 has been disabled by default.</para> 701 702 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class, 703 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to 704 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined 705 baudrate.</para> 706 707 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 708 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been 709 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>, 710 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by 711 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para> 712 </sect2> 713 714 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 715 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 716 717 <para> </para> 718 </sect2> 719 </sect1> 720 721 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 722 <title>Networking</title> 723 724 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 725 &os;.</para> 726 727 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 728 <title>Network Procols</title> 729 730 <para> </para> 731 </sect2> 732 </sect1> 733 734 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 735 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 736 737 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 738 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 739 installation tools.</para> 740 741 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 742 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 743 744 <para> </para> 745 </sect2> 746 747 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 748 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 749 750 <para> </para> 751 </sect2> 752 </sect1> 753 754 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 755 <title>Documentation</title> 756 757 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 758 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 759 760 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 761 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 762 763 <para> </para> 764 </sect2> 765 766 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 767 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 768 769 <para> </para> 770 </sect2> 771 </sect1> 772 773 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 774 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 775 776 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 777 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 778 779 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 780 <title>Integration Changes</title> 781 782 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 783 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support 784 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for 785 supported boards where a corresponding 786 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports 787 Collection.</para> 788 789 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 790 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now 791 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way 792 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para> 793 </sect2> 794 </sect1> 795</article> 796
