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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 285961 2015-07-28 15:03:56Z 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 while 357 maintaining a 32-bit physical address size elsewhere in the 358 kernel. The use of this option can enhance application-level 359 security by enabling the creation of <quote>no execute</quote> 360 mappings on modern &arch.i386; processors. Unlike the 361 <literal>PAE</literal> option, <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal> 362 preserves kernel binary interface (<acronym>KBI</acronym>) 363 compatibility with non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernels, 364 allowing non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernel modules and drivers 365 to work with a <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal>-enabled kernel. 366 Additionally, system limits are tuned for 4GB maximum 367 <acronym>RAM</acronym>, avoiding kernel virtual address space 368 (<acronym>KVA</acronym>) exhaustion.</para> 369 370 <para revision="282826">The <literal>SIFTR</literal> kernel 371 configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4; 372 statically into the kernel.</para> 373 374 <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;" 375 arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are 376 now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel 377 configuration by default.</para> 378 379 <para revision="283505" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader, 380 <filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable. In addition, 381 <filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build 382 time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of 383 <literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the 384 load address by running <literal>go 385 ${loadaddr}</literal> in 386 <literal>u-boot</literal>.</para> 387 388 <para revision="284094" arch="arm">A new module for creating 389 <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry 390 Pi.</para> 391 392 <para revision="284094" arch="arm">The 393 <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> module is now installed to 394 <filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by 395 default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para> 396 397 <para revision="284096" arch="arm">A new module for creating 398 the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has 399 been added.</para> 400 401 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor" 402 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option, 403 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables 404 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para> 405 406 <note> 407 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not 408 officially supported by &intel;.</para> 409 </note> 410 </sect2> 411 412 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 413 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 414 415 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym> 416 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have 417 been turned off by default.</para> 418 419 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 420 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been 421 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and 422 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para> 423 424 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor" 425 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has 426 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations 427 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, 428 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which 429 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision 430 timestamps for these operations.</para> 431 432 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> 433 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable 434 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> 435 436 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new 437 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been 438 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using 439 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. 440 A new kernel configuration option, 441 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para> 442 443 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 444 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes 445 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by 446 default.</para> 447 448 <note> 449 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and 450 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the 451 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add 452 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to 453 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para> 454 </note> 455 </sect2> 456 </sect1> 457 458 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 459 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 460 461 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 462 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 463 464 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 465 <title>Device Drivers</title> 466 467 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has 468 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> 469 470 <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated 471 to include improved support for newer Synaptics ® 472 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer 473 Lenovo ™ laptops.</para> 474 </sect2> 475 476 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 477 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 478 479 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been 480 updated to version 1.1.1.</para> 481 </sect2> 482 483 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 484 <title>Network Drivers</title> 485 486 <para revision="274486">The &man.pf.4; interface default hash 487 has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to 488 <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance 489 increase in packets-per-second.</para> 490 491 <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated 492 to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para> 493 494 <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The 495 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has 496 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and 497 &man.me.4;.</para> 498 499 <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added, 500 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in 501 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is 502 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited 503 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para> 504 505 <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated 506 to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para> 507 508 <para revision="284555" contrib="sponsor" 509 sponsor="&solarflare;">The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been 510 updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series 511 chipsets.</para> 512 </sect2> 513 </sect1> 514 515 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 516 <title>Hardware Support</title> 517 518 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 519 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 520 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 521 other sections of this document.</para> 522 523 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 524 <title>Hardware Support</title> 525 526 <para> </para> 527 </sect2> 528 529 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 530 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 531 532 <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has 533 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console 534 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para> 535 536 <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 537 updated to support &amd; processors with 538 <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware 539 extensions.</para> 540 541 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been 542 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for 543 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> 544 545 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 546 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several 547 enhancements:</para> 548 549 <itemizedlist> 550 <listitem> 551 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel 552 support.</para> 553 </listitem> 554 555 <listitem> 556 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather 557 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para> 558 </listitem> 559 560 <listitem> 561 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug 562 fixes.</para> 563 </listitem> 564 </itemizedlist> 565 566 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The 567 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum 568 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> 569 </sect2> 570 571 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 572 <title>ARM Support</title> 573 574 <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the 575 BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; 576 <literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has 577 been added.</para> 578 579 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420 580 Octa system has been added.</para> 581 582 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym> 583 option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by 584 &os;.</para> 585 586 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> 587 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> 588 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi 589 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> 590 591 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex 592 Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para> 593 594 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers 595 have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer 596 (<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access 597 Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial 598 Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para> 599 </sect2> 600 </sect1> 601 602 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 603 <title>Storage</title> 604 605 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 606 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 607 608 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 609 <title>General Storage</title> 610 611 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 612 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten, 613 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms 614 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para> 615 616 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 617 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling 618 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para> 619 620 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 621 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 622 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which 623 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as 624 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash 625 drives.</para> 626 627 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 628 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new 629 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which 630 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to 631 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para> 632 </sect2> 633 634 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 635 <title>Networked Storage</title> 636 637 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 638 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for 639 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on 640 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism 641 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find 642 targets and portals without requiring active 643 discovery.</para> 644 645 <para revision="275249" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support 646 for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>, 647 <literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options 648 have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para> 649 </sect2> 650 651 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 652 <title>ZFS</title> 653 654 <para revision="275490">A new tunable, 655 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added, 656 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para> 657 658 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> 659 statistics are now visible through the 660 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this 661 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> 662 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the 663 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal> 664 &man.sysctl.8;.</para> 665 </sect2> 666 667 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 668 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 669 670 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 671 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports 672 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>, 673 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal> 674 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para> 675 676 <para revision="282861">Support for the 677 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>, 678 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym> 679 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> 680 </sect2> 681 </sect1> 682 683 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 684 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 685 686 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 687 boot-related changes.</para> 688 689 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 690 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 691 692 <para revision="281323">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal> 693 has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para> 694 695 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to 696 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before 697 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add 698 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to 699 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para> 700 701 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 702 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms 703 has been disabled by default.</para> 704 705 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class, 706 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to 707 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined 708 baudrate.</para> 709 710 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 711 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been 712 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>, 713 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by 714 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para> 715 </sect2> 716 717 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 718 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 719 720 <para> </para> 721 </sect2> 722 </sect1> 723 724 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 725 <title>Networking</title> 726 727 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 728 &os;.</para> 729 730 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 731 <title>Network Procols</title> 732 733 <para> </para> 734 </sect2> 735 </sect1> 736 737 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 738 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 739 740 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 741 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 742 installation tools.</para> 743 744 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 745 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 746 747 <para> </para> 748 </sect2> 749 750 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 751 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 752 753 <para> </para> 754 </sect2> 755 </sect1> 756 757 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 758 <title>Documentation</title> 759 760 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 761 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 762 763 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 764 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 765 766 <para> </para> 767 </sect2> 768 769 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 770 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 771 772 <para> </para> 773 </sect2> 774 </sect1> 775 776 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 777 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 778 779 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 780 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 781 782 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 783 <title>Integration Changes</title> 784 785 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 786 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support 787 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for 788 supported boards where a corresponding 789 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports 790 Collection.</para> 791 792 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 793 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now 794 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way 795 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para> 796 </sect2> 797 </sect1> 798</article> 799