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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 "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" 5 "http://www.FreeBSD.org/release/XML/share/xml/release.ent"> 6 %release; 7<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" 8 "http://www.FreeBSD.org/release/XML/share/xml/sponsor.ent"> 9 %sponsor; 10<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" 11 "http://www.FreeBSD.org/release/XML/share/xml/vendor.ent"> 12 %vendor; 13<!ENTITY security PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Security Advisory List//EN" 14 "http://www.FreeBSD.org/release/XML/share/xml/security.xml"> 15<!ENTITY errata PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Errata List//EN" 16 "http://www.FreeBSD.org/release/XML/share/xml/errata.xml"> 17]> 18<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 19 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 20 21 <info> 22 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 23 24 <author> 25 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname> 26 </author> 27 28 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 296450 2016-03-07 10:56:38Z hrs $</pubdate> 29 30 <!-- First rev: 285831 --> 31 <!-- Last rev: 284813 --> 32 33 <copyright> 34 <year>2016</year> 35 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 36 Project</holder> 37 </copyright> 38 39 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 40 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 41 &tm-attrib.ibm; 42 &tm-attrib.ieee; 43 &tm-attrib.intel; 44 &tm-attrib.sparc; 45 &tm-attrib.general; 46 </legalnotice> 47 48 <abstract> 49 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 50 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 51 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 52 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 53 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 54 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 55 presented.</para> 56 </abstract> 57 </info> 58 59 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 60 <title>Introduction</title> 61 62 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 63 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 64 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 65 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 66 67 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 68 which these release notes apply represents the latest point 69 along the &release.branch; development branch since 70 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 71 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 72 found at <uri 73 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 74 75 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 76 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 77 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 78 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 79 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 80 found at <uri 81 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 82 83 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 84 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 85 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 86 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 87 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 88 <link 89 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 90 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 91 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 92 Handbook</link>.</para> 93 94 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 95 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 96 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 97 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 98 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 99 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 100 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 101 102 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed 103 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 104 105 <para>Typical release note items document recent security 106 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 107 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 108 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 109 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 110 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 111 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 112 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 113 improvements.</para> 114 </sect1> 115 116 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 117 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 118 119 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 120 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 121 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 122 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 123 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 124 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 125 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 126 connectivity.</para> 127 128 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 129 base system from source code) from previous versions are 130 supported, according to the instructions in 131 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 132 133 <important> 134 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 135 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 136 files.</para> 137 </important> 138 </sect1> 139 140 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata"> 141 <title>Security and Errata</title> 142 143 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and 144 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para> 145 146 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 147 <title>Security Advisories</title> 148 149 &security; 150 </sect2> 151 152 <sect2 xml:id="errata"> 153 <title>Errata Notices</title> 154 155 &errata; 156 </sect2> 157 </sect1> 158 159 <sect1 xml:id="userland"> 160 <title>Userland</title> 161 162 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland 163 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para> 164 165 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config"> 166 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title> 167 168 <para> </para> 169 </sect2> 170 171 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs"> 172 <title>Userland Application Changes</title> 173 174 <para> </para> 175 </sect2> 176 177 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 178 <title>Contributed Software</title> 179 180 <para> </para> 181 </sect2> 182 183 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 184 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 185 186 <para> </para> 187 </sect2> 188 189 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 190 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 191 Scripts</title> 192 193 <para> </para> 194 </sect2> 195 196 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 197 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 198 Scripts</title> 199 200 <para> </para> 201 </sect2> 202 203 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 204 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 205 206 <para> </para> 207 </sect2> 208 209 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 210 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 211 212 <para> </para> 213 </sect2> 214 </sect1> 215 216 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 217 <title>Kernel</title> 218 219 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 220 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 221 categorized.</para> 222 223 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 224 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 225 226 <para></para> 227 </sect2> 228 229 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 230 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 231 232 <para> </para> 233 </sect2> 234 235 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 236 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 237 238 <para></para> 239 </sect2> 240 </sect1> 241 242 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 243 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 244 245 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 246 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 247 248 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 249 <title>Device Drivers</title> 250 251 <para> </para> 252 </sect2> 253 254 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 255 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 256 257 <para></para> 258 </sect2> 259 260 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 261 <title>Network Drivers</title> 262 263 <para> </para> 264 </sect2> 265 </sect1> 266 267 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 268 <title>Hardware Support</title> 269 270 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 271 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 272 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 273 other sections of this document.</para> 274 275 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 276 <title>Hardware Support</title> 277 278 <para> </para> 279 </sect2> 280 281 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 282 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 283 284 <para></para> 285 </sect2> 286 287 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 288 <title>ARM Support</title> 289 290 <para> </para> 291 </sect2> 292 </sect1> 293 294 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 295 <title>Storage</title> 296 297 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 298 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 299 300 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 301 <title>General Storage</title> 302 303 <para> </para> 304 </sect2> 305 306 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 307 <title>Networked Storage</title> 308 309 <para> </para> 310 </sect2> 311 312 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 313 <title>ZFS</title> 314 315 <para></para> 316 </sect2> 317 318 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 319 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 320 321 <para> </para> 322 </sect2> 323 </sect1> 324 325 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 326 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 327 328 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 329 boot-related changes.</para> 330 331 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 332 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 333 334 <para> </para> 335 </sect2> 336 337 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 338 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 339 340 <para> </para> 341 </sect2> 342 </sect1> 343 344 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 345 <title>Networking</title> 346 347 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 348 &os;.</para> 349 350 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 351 <title>Network Protocols</title> 352 353 <para> </para> 354 </sect2> 355 </sect1> 356 357 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 358 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 359 360 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 361 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 362 installation tools.</para> 363 364 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 365 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 366 367 <para> </para> 368 </sect2> 369 370 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 371 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 372 373 <para> </para> 374 </sect2> 375 </sect1> 376 377 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 378 <title>Documentation</title> 379 380 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 381 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 382 383 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 384 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 385 386 <para> </para> 387 </sect2> 388 389 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 390 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 391 392 <para> </para> 393 </sect2> 394 </sect1> 395 396 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 397 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 398 399 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 400 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 401 402 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 403 <title>Integration Changes</title> 404 405 <para> </para> 406 </sect2> 407 </sect1> 408</article> 409