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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 288890 2015-10-05 20:14:57Z 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 revision="286064">The &man.jail.8; utility has been 170 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which 171 ensures a clean environment in the target jail when used. 172 Additionally, &man.jail.8; will run a shell within the target 173 jail when run no commands are specified.</para> 174 175 <para revision="287122">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been 176 updated to include support for <literal>NTFS</literal> 177 filesystems in both <acronym>MBR</acronym> and 178 <acronym>GPT</acronym> partitioning schemes.</para> 179 </sect2> 180 181 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 182 <title>Contributed Software</title> 183 184 <para> </para> 185 </sect2> 186 187 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 188 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 189 190 <para> </para> 191 </sect2> 192 193 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 194 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 195 Scripts</title> 196 197 <para> </para> 198 </sect2> 199 200 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 201 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 202 Scripts</title> 203 204 <para> </para> 205 </sect2> 206 207 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 208 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 209 210 <para> </para> 211 </sect2> 212 213 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 214 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 215 216 <para> </para> 217 </sect2> 218 </sect1> 219 220 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 221 <title>Kernel</title> 222 223 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 224 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 225 categorized.</para> 226 227 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 228 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 229 230 <para> </para> 231 </sect2> 232 233 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 234 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 235 236 <para> </para> 237 </sect2> 238 239 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 240 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 241 242 <para> </para> 243 </sect2> 244 </sect1> 245 246 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 247 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 248 249 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 250 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 251 252 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 253 <title>Device Drivers</title> 254 255 <para> </para> 256 </sect2> 257 258 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 259 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 260 261 <para> </para> 262 </sect2> 263 264 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 265 <title>Network Drivers</title> 266 267 <para> </para> 268 </sect2> 269 </sect1> 270 271 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 272 <title>Hardware Support</title> 273 274 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 275 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 276 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 277 other sections of this document.</para> 278 279 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 280 <title>Hardware Support</title> 281 282 <para> </para> 283 </sect2> 284 285 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 286 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 287 288 <para> </para> 289 </sect2> 290 291 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 292 <title>ARM Support</title> 293 294 <para> </para> 295 </sect2> 296 </sect1> 297 298 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 299 <title>Storage</title> 300 301 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 302 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 303 304 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 305 <title>General Storage</title> 306 307 <para> </para> 308 </sect2> 309 310 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 311 <title>Networked Storage</title> 312 313 <para> </para> 314 </sect2> 315 316 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 317 <title>ZFS</title> 318 319 <para> </para> 320 </sect2> 321 322 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 323 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 324 325 <para> </para> 326 </sect2> 327 </sect1> 328 329 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 330 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 331 332 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 333 boot-related changes.</para> 334 335 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 336 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 337 338 <para> </para> 339 </sect2> 340 341 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 342 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 343 344 <para> </para> 345 </sect2> 346 </sect1> 347 348 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 349 <title>Networking</title> 350 351 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 352 &os;.</para> 353 354 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 355 <title>Network Protocols</title> 356 357 <para> </para> 358 </sect2> 359 </sect1> 360 361 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 362 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 363 364 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 365 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 366 installation tools.</para> 367 368 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 369 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 370 371 <para> </para> 372 </sect2> 373 374 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 375 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 376 377 <para> </para> 378 </sect2> 379 </sect1> 380 381 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 382 <title>Documentation</title> 383 384 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 385 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 386 387 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 388 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 389 390 <para> </para> 391 </sect2> 392 393 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 394 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 395 396 <para> </para> 397 </sect2> 398 </sect1> 399 400 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 401 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 402 403 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 404 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 405 406 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 407 <title>Integration Changes</title> 408 409 <para> </para> 410 </sect2> 411 </sect1> 412</article> 413