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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 288891 2015-10-05 20:14:59Z 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 revision="286082">The &man.libarchive.3; library has been 185 updated to properly skip a sparse file entry in a &man.tar.1; 186 file, which would previously produce errors.</para> 187 </sect2> 188 189 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 190 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 191 192 <para> </para> 193 </sect2> 194 195 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 196 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 197 Scripts</title> 198 199 <para> </para> 200 </sect2> 201 202 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 203 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 204 Scripts</title> 205 206 <para> </para> 207 </sect2> 208 209 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 210 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 211 212 <para> </para> 213 </sect2> 214 215 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 216 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 217 218 <para> </para> 219 </sect2> 220 </sect1> 221 222 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 223 <title>Kernel</title> 224 225 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 226 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 227 categorized.</para> 228 229 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 230 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 231 232 <para> </para> 233 </sect2> 234 235 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 236 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 237 238 <para> </para> 239 </sect2> 240 241 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 242 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 243 244 <para> </para> 245 </sect2> 246 </sect1> 247 248 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 249 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 250 251 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 252 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 253 254 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 255 <title>Device Drivers</title> 256 257 <para> </para> 258 </sect2> 259 260 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 261 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 262 263 <para> </para> 264 </sect2> 265 266 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 267 <title>Network Drivers</title> 268 269 <para> </para> 270 </sect2> 271 </sect1> 272 273 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 274 <title>Hardware Support</title> 275 276 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 277 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 278 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 279 other sections of this document.</para> 280 281 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 282 <title>Hardware Support</title> 283 284 <para> </para> 285 </sect2> 286 287 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 288 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 289 290 <para> </para> 291 </sect2> 292 293 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 294 <title>ARM Support</title> 295 296 <para> </para> 297 </sect2> 298 </sect1> 299 300 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 301 <title>Storage</title> 302 303 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 304 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 305 306 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 307 <title>General Storage</title> 308 309 <para> </para> 310 </sect2> 311 312 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 313 <title>Networked Storage</title> 314 315 <para> </para> 316 </sect2> 317 318 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 319 <title>ZFS</title> 320 321 <para> </para> 322 </sect2> 323 324 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 325 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 326 327 <para> </para> 328 </sect2> 329 </sect1> 330 331 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 332 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 333 334 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 335 boot-related changes.</para> 336 337 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 338 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 339 340 <para> </para> 341 </sect2> 342 343 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 344 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 345 346 <para> </para> 347 </sect2> 348 </sect1> 349 350 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 351 <title>Networking</title> 352 353 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 354 &os;.</para> 355 356 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 357 <title>Network Protocols</title> 358 359 <para> </para> 360 </sect2> 361 </sect1> 362 363 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 364 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 365 366 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 367 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 368 installation tools.</para> 369 370 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 371 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 372 373 <para> </para> 374 </sect2> 375 376 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 377 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 378 379 <para> </para> 380 </sect2> 381 </sect1> 382 383 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 384 <title>Documentation</title> 385 386 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 387 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 388 389 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 390 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 391 392 <para> </para> 393 </sect2> 394 395 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 396 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 397 398 <para> </para> 399 </sect2> 400 </sect1> 401 402 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 403 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 404 405 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 406 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 407 408 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 409 <title>Integration Changes</title> 410 411 <para> </para> 412 </sect2> 413 </sect1> 414</article> 415