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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 322182 2017-08-07 19:45:24Z 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> 175 176 <para revision="319243">The 177 <literal>WITH_RPCBIND_WARMSTART_SUPPORT</literal> 178 &man.src.conf.5; knob has been added, which when enabled 179 allows building &man.rpcbind.8; with 180 <literal>warmstart</literal> support.</para> 181 182 <para revision="321263">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 183 updated to support logging to &man.syslogd.8; in a format 184 compliant with RFC5424. For more details, see the description 185 for the <literal>T</literal> flag in 186 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 187 </sect2> 188 189 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs"> 190 <title>Userland Application Changes</title> 191 192 <para revision="298427">The &man.truss.1; utility has been 193 updated to include the <literal>-H</literal> flag, which logs 194 the thread ID of a thread invoking a system call.</para> 195 196 <para revision="308915">The &man.zfsbootcfg.8; utility has been 197 added, providing one-time &man.boot.config.5;-style options 198 for &man.zfsboot.8;.</para> 199 200 <para revision="319390">The &man.cxgbetool.8; utility has been 201 added, providing command-line access to features and debugging 202 facilities of &man.cxgbe.4; devices.</para> 203 204 <para revision="321242">The &man.cron.8; utility has been 205 updated to add support for including files within <filename 206 class="directory">/etc/cron.d</filename> and <filename 207 class="directory">/usr/local/etc/cron.d</filename> by 208 default.</para> 209 </sect2> 210 211 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 212 <title>Contributed Software</title> 213 214 <para revision="309512"><application>Subversion</application> 215 has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para> 216 217 <para revision="309848">&man.file.1; has been updated to version 218 5.29.</para> 219 220 <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated 221 to version 6.2.</para> 222 223 <para revision="312516">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version 224 5.2.3.</para> 225 226 <para revision="313796">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version 227 1.2.11.</para> 228 229 <para revision="316069">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version 230 4.2.8p10.</para> 231 232 <para revision="316350">Timezone data files have been updated to 233 version 2017b.</para> 234 235 <para revision="316958">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version 236 6.20.00.</para> 237 238 <para revision="321304">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to 239 version 3.3.2.</para> 240 </sect2> 241 242 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 243 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 244 245 <para> </para> 246 </sect2> 247 248 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 249 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 250 Scripts</title> 251 252 <para> </para> 253 </sect2> 254 255 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 256 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 257 Scripts</title> 258 259 <para> </para> 260 </sect2> 261 262 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 263 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 264 265 <para revision="316040">The &man.kvm.close.3; function has been 266 updated to return the accumulated error from previous 267 &man.close.2; calls.</para> 268 </sect2> 269 270 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 271 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 272 273 <para revision="309258">The type <literal>max_align_t</literal> 274 is now defined for C11 compliance.</para> 275 </sect2> 276 277 <sect2 xml:id="userland-debug"> 278 <title>Userland Debugging</title> 279 280 <para revision="304017">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 281 thread creation and destruction, permitting more reliable 282 debugging of threaded processes.</para> 283 284 <para revision="304499">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 285 &man.vfork.2;, permitting reliable debugging across 286 &man.vfork.2; invocations.</para> 287 288 <para revision="306786">Process core dumps now include the 289 process ID (<acronym>PID</acronym>) and command line 290 arguments.</para> 291 </sect2> 292 </sect1> 293 294 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 295 <title>Kernel</title> 296 297 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 298 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 299 categorized.</para> 300 301 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 302 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 303 304 <para revision="317434">The &man.ipf.4; packet filter has been 305 updated to prevent <literal>keep state</literal> from 306 incorrectly implying <literal>keep frags</literal>, matching 307 the behavior documented in &man.ipf.5;.</para> 308 </sect2> 309 310 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 311 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 312 313 <para> </para> 314 </sect2> 315 316 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 317 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 318 319 <para></para> 320 </sect2> 321 </sect1> 322 323 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 324 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 325 326 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 327 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 328 329 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 330 <title>Device Drivers</title> 331 332 <para revision="306533" contrib="sponsor" 333 sponsor="&chelsio;">&man.devctl.8; now supports a "clear 334 driver" command as a complement to "set 335 driver".</para> 336 </sect2> 337 338 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 339 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 340 341 <para revision="319436">The &man.mpr.4; driver has been updated 342 to support tri-mode 343 (<acronym>SAS</acronym>/<acronym>SATA</acronym>/<acronym>PCIe</acronym>) 344 Broadcom® storage adapters.</para> 345 </sect2> 346 347 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 348 <title>Network Drivers</title> 349 350 <para revision="309447" contrib="sponsor" 351 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbev.4; driver has been added, 352 providing support for Virtual Function devices 353 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T4 and T5 adapters.</para> 354 355 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 356 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 357 to provide support for Virtual Function devices 358 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T6 adapters.</para> 359 360 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 361 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver now supports 362 devices using T6-based adapters which support 10, 25, 40, and 363 100 Gbps.</para> 364 365 <para revision="312359">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated 366 to provide support for Atheros® Killer E2400™ 367 Gigabit ethernet cards.</para> 368 369 <para revision="314019" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ms;">The 370 &man.alc.4; driver has been updated to provide support for 371 Atheros® Killer E2500™ Gigabit ethernet 372 cards.</para> 373 374 <para revision="316485">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added, 375 providing support for Cavium® Qlogic™ 45000 Series 376 adapters.</para> 377 378 <para revision="319270" contrib="sponsor" 379 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 380 to firmware version 1.16.45.0 for T4, T5, and T6 cards.</para> 381 </sect2> 382 </sect1> 383 384 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 385 <title>Hardware Support</title> 386 387 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 388 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 389 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 390 other sections of this document.</para> 391 392 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 393 <title>Hardware Support</title> 394 395 <para> </para> 396 </sect2> 397 398 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 399 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 400 401 <para revision="306520" contrib="sponsor" 402 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 403 &man.bhyve.4; resets functions via <acronym>FLR</acronym> when 404 a virtual machine is started and stopped.</para> 405 406 <para revision="306472" contrib="sponsor" 407 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 408 &man.bhyve.4; supports more dynamic configurations permitting 409 devices to be marked for passthrough or host use at 410 runtime.</para> 411 </sect2> 412 413 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 414 <title>ARM Support</title> 415 416 <para> </para> 417 </sect2> 418 </sect1> 419 420 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 421 <title>Storage</title> 422 423 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 424 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 425 426 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 427 <title>General Storage</title> 428 429 <para> </para> 430 </sect2> 431 432 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 433 <title>Networked Storage</title> 434 435 <para revision="318675">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client now 436 properly handles <literal>NFS4ERR_BAD_SESSION</literal> errors 437 received from an <acronym>NFS</acronym> server. Additionally, 438 the kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> client has been updated to 439 prevent creating new <acronym>TCP</acronym> connections when 440 <literal>ERESTART</literal> is received from 441 &man.sosend.9;.</para> 442 </sect2> 443 444 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 445 <title>ZFS</title> 446 447 <para></para> 448 </sect2> 449 450 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 451 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 452 453 <para> </para> 454 </sect2> 455 </sect1> 456 457 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 458 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 459 460 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 461 boot-related changes.</para> 462 463 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 464 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 465 466 <para> </para> 467 </sect2> 468 469 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 470 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 471 472 <para> </para> 473 </sect2> 474 </sect1> 475 476 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 477 <title>Networking</title> 478 479 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 480 &os;.</para> 481 482 <sect2 xml:id="network-general"> 483 <title>General Networking Changes</title> 484 485 <para revision="313558" contrib="sponsor" 486 sponsor="&dellemc;">The network stack has been modified to fix 487 incorrect or invalid <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses if 488 multiple threads emit a <acronym>UDP</acronym> 489 <literal>log_in_vain</literal> message concurrently.</para> 490 491 <para revision="317375" contrib="sponsor" 492 sponsor="&multiplay;">The <acronym>TCP</acronym> stack has 493 been changed to use the estimated <acronym>RTT</acronym> 494 instead of timestamps for receive buffer auto resizing.</para> 495 </sect2> 496 497 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 498 <title>Network Protocols</title> 499 500 <para revision="309340" contrib="sponsor" 501 sponsor="&dellemc;">Support for <acronym>GARP</acronym> 502 (gratuitous <acronym>ARP</acronym>) retransmit has been added. 503 A new &man.sysctl.8;, 504 <literal>net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count</literal>, has 505 been added, which sets the maximum number of retransmissions 506 when set to a non-zero value.</para> 507 </sect2> 508 </sect1> 509 510 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 511 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 512 513 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 514 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 515 installation tools.</para> 516 517 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 518 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 519 520 <para> </para> 521 </sect2> 522 523 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 524 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 525 526 <para> </para> 527 </sect2> 528 </sect1> 529 530 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 531 <title>Documentation</title> 532 533 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 534 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 535 536 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 537 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 538 539 <para> </para> 540 </sect2> 541 542 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 543 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 544 545 <para> </para> 546 </sect2> 547 </sect1> 548 549 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 550 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 551 552 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 553 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 554 555 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 556 <title>Integration Changes</title> 557 558 <para> </para> 559 </sect2> 560 </sect1> 561</article> 562