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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 288946 2015-10-06 18:51:41Z 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> 184 185 <para revision="287746">The &man.pciconf.8; utility has been 186 updated to use the PCI ID database from the <filename 187 role="package">misc/pciids</filename> package, if present, 188 falling back to the PCI ID database in the &os; base 189 system.</para> 190 191 <para revision="288710" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">A 192 new utility, &man.sesutil.8;, has been added, which is used 193 to manage &man.ses.4; devices.</para> 194 </sect2> 195 196 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 197 <title>Contributed Software</title> 198 199 <para revision="286082">The &man.libarchive.3; library has been 200 updated to properly skip a sparse file entry in a &man.tar.1; 201 file, which would previously produce errors.</para> 202 203 <para revision="286751">Timezone data files have been updated to 204 version 2015f.</para> 205 </sect2> 206 207 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 208 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 209 210 <para> </para> 211 </sect2> 212 213 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 214 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 215 Scripts</title> 216 217 <para> </para> 218 </sect2> 219 220 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 221 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 222 Scripts</title> 223 224 <para> </para> 225 </sect2> 226 227 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 228 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 229 230 <para> </para> 231 </sect2> 232 233 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 234 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 235 236 <para> </para> 237 </sect2> 238 </sect1> 239 240 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 241 <title>Kernel</title> 242 243 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 244 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 245 categorized.</para> 246 247 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 248 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 249 250 <para revision="288167" contrib="sponsor" 251 sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.kqueue.2; system call has been 252 updated to handle write events to files larger than 2 253 gigabytes.</para> 254 </sect2> 255 256 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 257 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 258 259 <para> </para> 260 </sect2> 261 262 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 263 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 264 265 <para revision="287037">The &man.uart.4; driver has been 266 updated to allow tuning packets per second captured during 267 runtime.</para> 268 </sect2> 269 </sect1> 270 271 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 272 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 273 274 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 275 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 276 277 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 278 <title>Device Drivers</title> 279 280 <para> </para> 281 </sect2> 282 283 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 284 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 285 286 <para revision="288732" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The 287 <acronym>CTL</acronym> High Availability implementation has 288 been rewritten.</para> 289 290 <para revision="288810">The &man.ctl.4; driver has been updated 291 to support CD-ROM and removable devices.</para> 292 </sect2> 293 294 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 295 <title>Network Drivers</title> 296 297 <para> </para> 298 </sect2> 299 </sect1> 300 301 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 302 <title>Hardware Support</title> 303 304 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 305 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 306 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 307 other sections of this document.</para> 308 309 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 310 <title>Hardware Support</title> 311 312 <para> </para> 313 </sect2> 314 315 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 316 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 317 318 <para revision="287802">The &man.xen.4; driver has been updated 319 to include support for <literal>blkif</literal> indirect 320 segment I/O.</para> 321 </sect2> 322 323 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 324 <title>ARM Support</title> 325 326 <para> </para> 327 </sect2> 328 </sect1> 329 330 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 331 <title>Storage</title> 332 333 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 334 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 335 336 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 337 <title>General Storage</title> 338 339 <para> </para> 340 </sect2> 341 342 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 343 <title>Networked Storage</title> 344 345 <para> </para> 346 </sect2> 347 348 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 349 <title>ZFS</title> 350 351 <para revision="287665" contrib="sponsor" 352 sponsor="&clusterhq;">The &man.zfs.8; <literal>l2arc</literal> 353 code has been updated to take <literal>ashift</literal> into 354 account when gathering buffers to be written to the 355 <literal>l2arc</literal> device.</para> 356 </sect2> 357 358 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 359 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 360 361 <para> </para> 362 </sect2> 363 </sect1> 364 365 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 366 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 367 368 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 369 boot-related changes.</para> 370 371 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 372 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 373 374 <para> </para> 375 </sect2> 376 377 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 378 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 379 380 <para> </para> 381 </sect2> 382 </sect1> 383 384 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 385 <title>Networking</title> 386 387 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 388 &os;.</para> 389 390 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 391 <title>Network Protocols</title> 392 393 <para> </para> 394 </sect2> 395 </sect1> 396 397 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 398 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 399 400 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 401 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 402 installation tools.</para> 403 404 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 405 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 406 407 <para> </para> 408 </sect2> 409 410 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 411 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 412 413 <para> </para> 414 </sect2> 415 </sect1> 416 417 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 418 <title>Documentation</title> 419 420 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 421 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 422 423 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 424 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 425 426 <para> </para> 427 </sect2> 428 429 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 430 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 431 432 <para> </para> 433 </sect2> 434 </sect1> 435 436 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 437 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 438 439 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 440 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 441 442 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 443 <title>Integration Changes</title> 444 445 <para> </para> 446 </sect2> 447 </sect1> 448</article> 449