article.xml revision 286756
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 286756 2015-08-14 00:19:09Z gjb $</pubdate> 24 25 <!-- First rev: 285831 --> 26 <!-- Last rev: 284813 --> 27 28 <copyright> 29 <year>2015</year> 30 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 31 Project</holder> 32 </copyright> 33 34 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 35 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 36 &tm-attrib.ibm; 37 &tm-attrib.ieee; 38 &tm-attrib.intel; 39 &tm-attrib.sparc; 40 &tm-attrib.general; 41 </legalnotice> 42 43 <abstract> 44 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 45 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 46 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 47 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 48 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 49 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 50 presented.</para> 51 </abstract> 52 </info> 53 54 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 55 <title>Introduction</title> 56 57 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 58 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 59 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 60 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 61 62 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 63 which these release notes apply represents the latest point 64 along the &release.branch; development branch since 65 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 66 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 67 found at <uri 68 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 69 70 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 71 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 72 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 73 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 74 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 75 found at <uri 76 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 77 78 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 79 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 80 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 81 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 82 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 83 <link 84 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 85 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 86 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 87 Handbook</link>.</para> 88 89 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 90 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 91 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 92 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 93 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 94 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 95 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 96 97 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed 98 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 99 100 <para>Typical release note items document recent security 101 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 102 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 103 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 104 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 105 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 106 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 107 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 108 improvements.</para> 109 </sect1> 110 111 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 112 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 113 114 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 115 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 116 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 117 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 118 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 119 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 120 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 121 connectivity.</para> 122 123 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 124 base system from source code) from previous versions are 125 supported, according to the instructions in 126 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 127 128 <important> 129 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 130 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 131 files.</para> 132 </important> 133 </sect1> 134 135 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata"> 136 <title>Security and Errata</title> 137 138 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and 139 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para> 140 141 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 142 <title>Security Advisories</title> 143 144 &security; 145 </sect2> 146 147 <sect2 xml:id="errata"> 148 <title>Errata Notices</title> 149 150 &errata; 151 </sect2> 152 </sect1> 153 154 <sect1 xml:id="userland"> 155 <title>Userland</title> 156 157 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland 158 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para> 159 160 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config"> 161 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title> 162 163 <para> </para> 164 </sect2> 165 166 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs"> 167 <title>Userland Application Changes</title> 168 169 <para> </para> 170 </sect2> 171 172 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 173 <title>Contributed Software</title> 174 175 <para> </para> 176 </sect2> 177 178 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 179 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 180 181 <para> </para> 182 </sect2> 183 184 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 185 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 186 Scripts</title> 187 188 <para> </para> 189 </sect2> 190 191 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 192 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 193 Scripts</title> 194 195 <para> </para> 196 </sect2> 197 198 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 199 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 200 201 <para> </para> 202 </sect2> 203 204 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 205 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 206 207 <para> </para> 208 </sect2> 209 </sect1> 210 211 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 212 <title>Kernel</title> 213 214 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 215 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 216 categorized.</para> 217 218 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 219 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 220 221 <para> </para> 222 </sect2> 223 224 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 225 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 226 227 <para> </para> 228 </sect2> 229 230 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 231 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 232 233 <para> </para> 234 </sect2> 235 </sect1> 236 237 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 238 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 239 240 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 241 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 242 243 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 244 <title>Device Drivers</title> 245 246 <para> </para> 247 </sect2> 248 249 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 250 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 251 252 <para> </para> 253 </sect2> 254 255 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 256 <title>Network Drivers</title> 257 258 <para> </para> 259 </sect2> 260 </sect1> 261 262 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 263 <title>Hardware Support</title> 264 265 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 266 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 267 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 268 other sections of this document.</para> 269 270 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 271 <title>Hardware Support</title> 272 273 <para> </para> 274 </sect2> 275 276 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 277 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 278 279 <para> </para> 280 </sect2> 281 282 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 283 <title>ARM Support</title> 284 285 <para> </para> 286 </sect2> 287 </sect1> 288 289 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 290 <title>Storage</title> 291 292 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 293 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 294 295 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 296 <title>General Storage</title> 297 298 <para> </para> 299 </sect2> 300 301 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 302 <title>Networked Storage</title> 303 304 <para> </para> 305 </sect2> 306 307 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 308 <title>ZFS</title> 309 310 <para> </para> 311 </sect2> 312 313 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 314 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 315 316 <para> </para> 317 </sect2> 318 </sect1> 319 320 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 321 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 322 323 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 324 boot-related changes.</para> 325 326 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 327 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 328 329 <para> </para> 330 </sect2> 331 332 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 333 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 334 335 <para> </para> 336 </sect2> 337 </sect1> 338 339 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 340 <title>Networking</title> 341 342 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 343 &os;.</para> 344 345 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 346 <title>Network Protocols</title> 347 348 <para> </para> 349 </sect2> 350 </sect1> 351 352 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 353 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 354 355 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 356 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 357 installation tools.</para> 358 359 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 360 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 361 362 <para> </para> 363 </sect2> 364 365 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 366 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 367 368 <para> </para> 369 </sect2> 370 </sect1> 371 372 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 373 <title>Documentation</title> 374 375 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 376 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 377 378 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 379 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 380 381 <para> </para> 382 </sect2> 383 384 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 385 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 386 387 <para> </para> 388 </sect2> 389 </sect1> 390 391 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 392 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 393 394 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 395 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 396 397 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 398 <title>Integration Changes</title> 399 400 <para> </para> 401 </sect2> 402 </sect1> 403</article> 404