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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 319330 2017-05-31 13:33:13Z 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 revision="313206">The &man.inetd.8; utility is now built 166 without <literal>libwrap</literal> support when 167 <literal>WITHOUT_TCP_WRAPPERS</literal> is set in 168 &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 169 170 <para revision="316046">The &man.libthr.3; library and related 171 files are now evaluated and removed by the 172 <literal>delete-old-libs</literal> target when upgrading the 173 system if <literal>WITHOUT_LIBTHR</literal> is 174 set in &man.src.conf.5;.</para> 175 </sect2> 176 177 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs"> 178 <title>Userland Application Changes</title> 179 180 <para revision="308915">The &man.zfsbootcfg.8; utility has been 181 added, providing one-time &man.boot.config.5;-style options 182 for &man.zfsboot.8;.</para> 183 </sect2> 184 185 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 186 <title>Contributed Software</title> 187 188 <para revision="309512"><application>Subversion</application> 189 has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para> 190 191 <para revision="309848">&man.file.1; has been updated to version 192 5.29.</para> 193 194 <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated 195 to version 6.2.</para> 196 197 <para revision="312516">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version 198 5.2.3.</para> 199 200 <para revision="313796">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version 201 1.2.11.</para> 202 203 <para revision="315433">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to 204 version 3.3.1.</para> 205 206 <para revision="316069">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version 207 4.2.8p10.</para> 208 209 <para revision="316350">Timezone data files have been updated to 210 version 2017b.</para> 211 212 <para revision="316958">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version 213 6.20.00.</para> 214 </sect2> 215 216 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 217 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 218 219 <para> </para> 220 </sect2> 221 222 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 223 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 224 Scripts</title> 225 226 <para> </para> 227 </sect2> 228 229 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 230 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 231 Scripts</title> 232 233 <para> </para> 234 </sect2> 235 236 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 237 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 238 239 <para> </para> 240 </sect2> 241 242 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 243 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 244 245 <para> </para> 246 </sect2> 247 </sect1> 248 249 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 250 <title>Kernel</title> 251 252 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 253 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 254 categorized.</para> 255 256 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 257 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 258 259 <para revision="317434">The &man.ipf.4; packet filter has been 260 updated to prevent <literal>keep state</literal> from 261 incorrectly implying <literal>keep frags</literal>, matching 262 the behavior documented in &man.ipf.5;.</para> 263 </sect2> 264 265 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 266 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 267 268 <para> </para> 269 </sect2> 270 271 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 272 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 273 274 <para></para> 275 </sect2> 276 </sect1> 277 278 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 279 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 280 281 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 282 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 283 284 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 285 <title>Device Drivers</title> 286 287 <para> </para> 288 </sect2> 289 290 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 291 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 292 293 <para></para> 294 </sect2> 295 296 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 297 <title>Network Drivers</title> 298 299 <para revision="311507" contrib="sponsor" 300 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 301 to firmware version 1.16.26.0 for T4, T5, and T6 cards.</para> 302 303 <para revision="312359">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated 304 to provide support for Atheros® Killer E2400™ 305 Gigabit ethernet cards.</para> 306 307 <para revision="314019" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ms;">The 308 &man.alc.4; driver has been updated to provide support for 309 Atheros® Killer E2500™ Gigabit ethernet 310 cards.</para> 311 312 <para revision="316485">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added, 313 providing support for Cavium® Qlogic™ 45000 Series 314 adapters.</para> 315 </sect2> 316 </sect1> 317 318 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 319 <title>Hardware Support</title> 320 321 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 322 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 323 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 324 other sections of this document.</para> 325 326 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 327 <title>Hardware Support</title> 328 329 <para> </para> 330 </sect2> 331 332 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 333 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 334 335 <para></para> 336 </sect2> 337 338 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 339 <title>ARM Support</title> 340 341 <para> </para> 342 </sect2> 343 </sect1> 344 345 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 346 <title>Storage</title> 347 348 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 349 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 350 351 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 352 <title>General Storage</title> 353 354 <para> </para> 355 </sect2> 356 357 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 358 <title>Networked Storage</title> 359 360 <para> </para> 361 </sect2> 362 363 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 364 <title>ZFS</title> 365 366 <para></para> 367 </sect2> 368 369 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 370 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 371 372 <para> </para> 373 </sect2> 374 </sect1> 375 376 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 377 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 378 379 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 380 boot-related changes.</para> 381 382 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 383 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 384 385 <para> </para> 386 </sect2> 387 388 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 389 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 390 391 <para> </para> 392 </sect2> 393 </sect1> 394 395 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 396 <title>Networking</title> 397 398 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 399 &os;.</para> 400 401 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 402 <title>Network Protocols</title> 403 404 <para revision="309340" contrib="sponsor" 405 sponsor="&dellemc;">Support for <acronym>GARP</acronym> 406 (gratuitous <acronym>ARP</acronym>) retransmit has been added. 407 A new &man.sysctl.8;, 408 <literal>net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count</literal>, has 409 been added, which sets the maximum number of retransmissions 410 when set to a non-zero value.</para> 411 </sect2> 412 </sect1> 413 414 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 415 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 416 417 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 418 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 419 installation tools.</para> 420 421 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 422 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 423 424 <para> </para> 425 </sect2> 426 427 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 428 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 429 430 <para> </para> 431 </sect2> 432 </sect1> 433 434 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 435 <title>Documentation</title> 436 437 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 438 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 439 440 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 441 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 442 443 <para> </para> 444 </sect2> 445 446 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 447 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 448 449 <para> </para> 450 </sect2> 451 </sect1> 452 453 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 454 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 455 456 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 457 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 458 459 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 460 <title>Integration Changes</title> 461 462 <para> </para> 463 </sect2> 464 </sect1> 465</article> 466