article.xml revision 288893
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 288893 2015-10-05 20:15:04Z 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> 179 180 <para revision="288202" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 181 &man.ar.1; utility now enables deterministic mode 182 (<literal>-D</literal>) by default. This behavior can be 183 disabled by specifying the <literal>-U</literal> flag.</para> 184 </sect2> 185 186 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 187 <title>Contributed Software</title> 188 189 <para revision="286082">The &man.libarchive.3; library has been 190 updated to properly skip a sparse file entry in a &man.tar.1; 191 file, which would previously produce errors.</para> 192 </sect2> 193 194 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 195 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 196 197 <para> </para> 198 </sect2> 199 200 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 201 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 202 Scripts</title> 203 204 <para> </para> 205 </sect2> 206 207 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 208 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 209 Scripts</title> 210 211 <para> </para> 212 </sect2> 213 214 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 215 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 216 217 <para> </para> 218 </sect2> 219 220 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 221 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 222 223 <para> </para> 224 </sect2> 225 </sect1> 226 227 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 228 <title>Kernel</title> 229 230 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 231 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 232 categorized.</para> 233 234 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 235 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 236 237 <para> </para> 238 </sect2> 239 240 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 241 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 242 243 <para> </para> 244 </sect2> 245 246 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 247 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 248 249 <para> </para> 250 </sect2> 251 </sect1> 252 253 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 254 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 255 256 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 257 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 258 259 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 260 <title>Device Drivers</title> 261 262 <para> </para> 263 </sect2> 264 265 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 266 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 267 268 <para> </para> 269 </sect2> 270 271 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 272 <title>Network Drivers</title> 273 274 <para> </para> 275 </sect2> 276 </sect1> 277 278 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 279 <title>Hardware Support</title> 280 281 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 282 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 283 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 284 other sections of this document.</para> 285 286 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 287 <title>Hardware Support</title> 288 289 <para> </para> 290 </sect2> 291 292 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 293 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 294 295 <para revision="287802">The &man.xen.4; driver has been updated 296 to include support for <literal>blkif</literal> indirect 297 segment I/O.</para> 298 </sect2> 299 300 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 301 <title>ARM Support</title> 302 303 <para> </para> 304 </sect2> 305 </sect1> 306 307 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 308 <title>Storage</title> 309 310 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 311 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 312 313 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 314 <title>General Storage</title> 315 316 <para> </para> 317 </sect2> 318 319 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 320 <title>Networked Storage</title> 321 322 <para> </para> 323 </sect2> 324 325 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 326 <title>ZFS</title> 327 328 <para> </para> 329 </sect2> 330 331 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 332 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 333 334 <para> </para> 335 </sect2> 336 </sect1> 337 338 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 339 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 340 341 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 342 boot-related changes.</para> 343 344 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 345 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 346 347 <para> </para> 348 </sect2> 349 350 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 351 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 352 353 <para> </para> 354 </sect2> 355 </sect1> 356 357 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 358 <title>Networking</title> 359 360 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 361 &os;.</para> 362 363 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 364 <title>Network Protocols</title> 365 366 <para> </para> 367 </sect2> 368 </sect1> 369 370 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 371 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 372 373 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 374 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 375 installation tools.</para> 376 377 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 378 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 379 380 <para> </para> 381 </sect2> 382 383 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 384 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 385 386 <para> </para> 387 </sect2> 388 </sect1> 389 390 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 391 <title>Documentation</title> 392 393 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 394 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 395 396 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 397 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 398 399 <para> </para> 400 </sect2> 401 402 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 403 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 404 405 <para> </para> 406 </sect2> 407 </sect1> 408 409 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 410 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 411 412 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 413 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 414 415 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 416 <title>Integration Changes</title> 417 418 <para> </para> 419 </sect2> 420 </sect1> 421</article> 422