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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 319325 2017-05-31 13:33:09Z gjb $</pubdate> 29 30 <copyright> 31 <year>2017</year> 32 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 33 Project</holder> 34 </copyright> 35 36 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 37 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 38 &tm-attrib.ibm; 39 &tm-attrib.ieee; 40 &tm-attrib.intel; 41 &tm-attrib.sparc; 42 &tm-attrib.general; 43 </legalnotice> 44 45 <abstract> 46 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 47 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 48 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 49 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 50 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 51 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 52 presented.</para> 53 </abstract> 54 </info> 55 56 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 57 <title>Introduction</title> 58 59 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 60 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 61 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 62 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 63 64 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to 65 which these release notes apply represents the latest point 66 along the &release.branch; development branch since 67 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, 68 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 69 found at <uri 70 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 71 72 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 73 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 74 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and 75 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, 76 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be 77 found at <uri 78 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 79 80 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 81 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 82 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 83 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or 84 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the 85 <link 86 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 87 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 88 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 89 Handbook</link>.</para> 90 91 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata 92 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 93 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 94 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 95 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections 96 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 97 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 98 99 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed 100 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para> 101 102 <para>Typical release note items document recent security 103 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware 104 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or 105 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to 106 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly 107 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; 108 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security 109 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural 110 improvements.</para> 111 </sect1> 112 113 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 114 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title> 115 116 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 117 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 118 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 119 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 120 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as 121 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; 122 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet 123 connectivity.</para> 124 125 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 126 base system from source code) from previous versions are 127 supported, according to the instructions in 128 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 129 130 <important> 131 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after 132 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 133 files.</para> 134 </important> 135 </sect1> 136 137 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata"> 138 <title>Security and Errata</title> 139 140 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and 141 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para> 142 143 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 144 <title>Security Advisories</title> 145 146 &security; 147 </sect2> 148 149 <sect2 xml:id="errata"> 150 <title>Errata Notices</title> 151 152 &errata; 153 </sect2> 154 </sect1> 155 156 <sect1 xml:id="userland"> 157 <title>Userland</title> 158 159 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland 160 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para> 161 162 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config"> 163 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title> 164 165 <para> </para> 166 </sect2> 167 168 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs"> 169 <title>Userland Application Changes</title> 170 171 <para> </para> 172 </sect2> 173 174 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 175 <title>Contributed Software</title> 176 177 <para revision="309512"><application>Subversion</application> 178 has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para> 179 180 <para revision="309848">&man.file.1; has been updated to version 181 5.29.</para> 182 183 <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated 184 to version 6.2.</para> 185 186 <para revision="312516">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version 187 5.2.3.</para> 188 189 <para revision="313796">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version 190 1.2.11.</para> 191 192 <para revision="315433">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to 193 version 3.3.1.</para> 194 195 <para revision="316069">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version 196 4.2.8p10.</para> 197 198 <para revision="316350">Timezone data files have been updated to 199 version 2017b.</para> 200 201 <para revision="316958">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version 202 6.20.00.</para> 203 </sect2> 204 205 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 206 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 207 208 <para> </para> 209 </sect2> 210 211 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 212 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 213 Scripts</title> 214 215 <para> </para> 216 </sect2> 217 218 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 219 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 220 Scripts</title> 221 222 <para> </para> 223 </sect2> 224 225 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 226 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 227 228 <para> </para> 229 </sect2> 230 231 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 232 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 233 234 <para> </para> 235 </sect2> 236 </sect1> 237 238 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 239 <title>Kernel</title> 240 241 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 242 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 243 categorized.</para> 244 245 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 246 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 247 248 <para></para> 249 </sect2> 250 251 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 252 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 253 254 <para> </para> 255 </sect2> 256 257 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 258 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 259 260 <para></para> 261 </sect2> 262 </sect1> 263 264 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 265 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 266 267 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 268 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 269 270 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 271 <title>Device Drivers</title> 272 273 <para> </para> 274 </sect2> 275 276 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 277 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 278 279 <para></para> 280 </sect2> 281 282 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 283 <title>Network Drivers</title> 284 285 <para revision="311507" contrib="sponsor" 286 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 287 to firmware version 1.16.26.0 for T4, T5, and T6 cards.</para> 288 289 <para revision="312359">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated 290 to provide support for Atheros® Killer E2400™ 291 Gigabit ethernet cards.</para> 292 293 <para revision="314019" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ms;">The 294 &man.alc.4; driver has been updated to provide support for 295 Atheros® Killer E2500™ Gigabit ethernet 296 cards.</para> 297 298 <para revision="316485">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added, 299 providing support for Cavium® Qlogic™ 45000 Series 300 adapters.</para> 301 </sect2> 302 </sect1> 303 304 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 305 <title>Hardware Support</title> 306 307 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 308 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 309 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 310 other sections of this document.</para> 311 312 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 313 <title>Hardware Support</title> 314 315 <para> </para> 316 </sect2> 317 318 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 319 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 320 321 <para></para> 322 </sect2> 323 324 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 325 <title>ARM Support</title> 326 327 <para> </para> 328 </sect2> 329 </sect1> 330 331 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 332 <title>Storage</title> 333 334 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 335 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 336 337 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 338 <title>General Storage</title> 339 340 <para> </para> 341 </sect2> 342 343 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 344 <title>Networked Storage</title> 345 346 <para> </para> 347 </sect2> 348 349 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 350 <title>ZFS</title> 351 352 <para></para> 353 </sect2> 354 355 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 356 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 357 358 <para> </para> 359 </sect2> 360 </sect1> 361 362 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 363 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 364 365 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 366 boot-related changes.</para> 367 368 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 369 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 370 371 <para> </para> 372 </sect2> 373 374 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 375 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 376 377 <para> </para> 378 </sect2> 379 </sect1> 380 381 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 382 <title>Networking</title> 383 384 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 385 &os;.</para> 386 387 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 388 <title>Network Protocols</title> 389 390 <para> </para> 391 </sect2> 392 </sect1> 393 394 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 395 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 396 397 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 398 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 399 installation tools.</para> 400 401 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 402 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 403 404 <para> </para> 405 </sect2> 406 407 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 408 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 409 410 <para> </para> 411 </sect2> 412 </sect1> 413 414 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 415 <title>Documentation</title> 416 417 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 418 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 419 420 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 421 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 422 423 <para> </para> 424 </sect2> 425 426 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 427 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 428 429 <para> </para> 430 </sect2> 431 </sect1> 432 433 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 434 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 435 436 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 437 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 438 439 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 440 <title>Integration Changes</title> 441 442 <para> </para> 443 </sect2> 444 </sect1> 445</article> 446