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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 322185 2017-08-07 19:45:26Z 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 </sect2> 182 183 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs"> 184 <title>Userland Application Changes</title> 185 186 <para revision="298427">The &man.truss.1; utility has been 187 updated to include the <literal>-H</literal> flag, which logs 188 the thread ID of a thread invoking a system call.</para> 189 190 <para revision="308915">The &man.zfsbootcfg.8; utility has been 191 added, providing one-time &man.boot.config.5;-style options 192 for &man.zfsboot.8;.</para> 193 194 <para revision="319390">The &man.cxgbetool.8; utility has been 195 added, providing command-line access to features and debugging 196 facilities of &man.cxgbe.4; devices.</para> 197 198 <para revision="321242">The &man.cron.8; utility has been 199 updated to add support for including files within <filename 200 class="directory">/etc/cron.d</filename> and <filename 201 class="directory">/usr/local/etc/cron.d</filename> by 202 default.</para> 203 204 <para revision="321234">The &man.syslogd.8; utility has been 205 updated to add the <literal>include</literal> keyword which 206 allows specifying a directory containing configuration files 207 to be included in addition to &man.syslog.conf.5;. The 208 default &man.syslog.conf.5; has been updated to include 209 <filename class="directory">/etc/syslog.d</filename> and 210 <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/syslog.d</filename> 211 by default.</para> 212 213 <para revision="321263">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 214 updated to support logging to &man.syslogd.8; in a format 215 compliant with RFC5424. For more details, see the description 216 for the <literal>T</literal> flag in 217 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 218 219 <para revision="321216">The &man.savecore.8; utility has been 220 updated to use <acronym>KiB</acronym> when outputting 221 information regarding total space, free space, etc.</para> 222 </sect2> 223 224 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 225 <title>Contributed Software</title> 226 227 <para revision="309512"><application>Subversion</application> 228 has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para> 229 230 <para revision="309848">&man.file.1; has been updated to version 231 5.29.</para> 232 233 <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated 234 to version 6.2.</para> 235 236 <para revision="312516">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version 237 5.2.3.</para> 238 239 <para revision="313796">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version 240 1.2.11.</para> 241 242 <para revision="316069">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version 243 4.2.8p10.</para> 244 245 <para revision="316350">Timezone data files have been updated to 246 version 2017b.</para> 247 248 <para revision="316958">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version 249 6.20.00.</para> 250 251 <para revision="321304">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to 252 version 3.3.2.</para> 253 </sect2> 254 255 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 256 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 257 258 <para> </para> 259 </sect2> 260 261 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 262 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 263 Scripts</title> 264 265 <para> </para> 266 </sect2> 267 268 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 269 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 270 Scripts</title> 271 272 <para> </para> 273 </sect2> 274 275 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 276 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 277 278 <para revision="316040">The &man.kvm.close.3; function has been 279 updated to return the accumulated error from previous 280 &man.close.2; calls.</para> 281 </sect2> 282 283 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 284 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 285 286 <para revision="309258">The type <literal>max_align_t</literal> 287 is now defined for C11 compliance.</para> 288 </sect2> 289 290 <sect2 xml:id="userland-debug"> 291 <title>Userland Debugging</title> 292 293 <para revision="304017">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 294 thread creation and destruction, permitting more reliable 295 debugging of threaded processes.</para> 296 297 <para revision="304499">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 298 &man.vfork.2;, permitting reliable debugging across 299 &man.vfork.2; invocations.</para> 300 301 <para revision="306786">Process core dumps now include the 302 process ID (<acronym>PID</acronym>) and command line 303 arguments.</para> 304 </sect2> 305 </sect1> 306 307 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 308 <title>Kernel</title> 309 310 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 311 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 312 categorized.</para> 313 314 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 315 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 316 317 <para revision="317434">The &man.ipf.4; packet filter has been 318 updated to prevent <literal>keep state</literal> from 319 incorrectly implying <literal>keep frags</literal>, matching 320 the behavior documented in &man.ipf.5;.</para> 321 </sect2> 322 323 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 324 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 325 326 <para> </para> 327 </sect2> 328 329 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 330 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 331 332 <para></para> 333 </sect2> 334 </sect1> 335 336 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 337 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 338 339 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 340 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 341 342 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 343 <title>Device Drivers</title> 344 345 <para revision="306533" contrib="sponsor" 346 sponsor="&chelsio;">&man.devctl.8; now supports a "clear 347 driver" command as a complement to "set 348 driver".</para> 349 </sect2> 350 351 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 352 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 353 354 <para revision="319436">The &man.mpr.4; driver has been updated 355 to support tri-mode 356 (<acronym>SAS</acronym>/<acronym>SATA</acronym>/<acronym>PCIe</acronym>) 357 Broadcom® storage adapters.</para> 358 </sect2> 359 360 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 361 <title>Network Drivers</title> 362 363 <para revision="309447" contrib="sponsor" 364 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbev.4; driver has been added, 365 providing support for Virtual Function devices 366 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T4 and T5 adapters.</para> 367 368 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 369 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 370 to provide support for Virtual Function devices 371 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T6 adapters.</para> 372 373 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 374 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver now supports 375 devices using T6-based adapters which support 10, 25, 40, and 376 100 Gbps.</para> 377 378 <para revision="312359">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated 379 to provide support for Atheros® Killer E2400™ 380 Gigabit ethernet cards.</para> 381 382 <para revision="314019" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ms;">The 383 &man.alc.4; driver has been updated to provide support for 384 Atheros® Killer E2500™ Gigabit ethernet 385 cards.</para> 386 387 <para revision="316485">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added, 388 providing support for Cavium® Qlogic™ 45000 Series 389 adapters.</para> 390 391 <para revision="319270" contrib="sponsor" 392 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 393 to firmware version 1.16.45.0 for T4, T5, and T6 cards.</para> 394 </sect2> 395 </sect1> 396 397 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 398 <title>Hardware Support</title> 399 400 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 401 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 402 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 403 other sections of this document.</para> 404 405 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 406 <title>Hardware Support</title> 407 408 <para> </para> 409 </sect2> 410 411 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 412 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 413 414 <para revision="306520" contrib="sponsor" 415 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 416 &man.bhyve.4; resets functions via <acronym>FLR</acronym> when 417 a virtual machine is started and stopped.</para> 418 419 <para revision="306472" contrib="sponsor" 420 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 421 &man.bhyve.4; supports more dynamic configurations permitting 422 devices to be marked for passthrough or host use at 423 runtime.</para> 424 </sect2> 425 426 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 427 <title>ARM Support</title> 428 429 <para> </para> 430 </sect2> 431 </sect1> 432 433 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 434 <title>Storage</title> 435 436 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 437 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 438 439 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 440 <title>General Storage</title> 441 442 <para> </para> 443 </sect2> 444 445 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 446 <title>Networked Storage</title> 447 448 <para revision="318675">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client now 449 properly handles <literal>NFS4ERR_BAD_SESSION</literal> errors 450 received from an <acronym>NFS</acronym> server. Additionally, 451 the kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> client has been updated to 452 prevent creating new <acronym>TCP</acronym> connections when 453 <literal>ERESTART</literal> is received from 454 &man.sosend.9;.</para> 455 </sect2> 456 457 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 458 <title>ZFS</title> 459 460 <para></para> 461 </sect2> 462 463 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 464 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 465 466 <para> </para> 467 </sect2> 468 </sect1> 469 470 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 471 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 472 473 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 474 boot-related changes.</para> 475 476 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 477 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 478 479 <para> </para> 480 </sect2> 481 482 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 483 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 484 485 <para> </para> 486 </sect2> 487 </sect1> 488 489 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 490 <title>Networking</title> 491 492 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 493 &os;.</para> 494 495 <sect2 xml:id="network-general"> 496 <title>General Networking Changes</title> 497 498 <para revision="313558" contrib="sponsor" 499 sponsor="&dellemc;">The network stack has been modified to fix 500 incorrect or invalid <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses if 501 multiple threads emit a <acronym>UDP</acronym> 502 <literal>log_in_vain</literal> message concurrently.</para> 503 504 <para revision="317375" contrib="sponsor" 505 sponsor="&multiplay;">The <acronym>TCP</acronym> stack has 506 been changed to use the estimated <acronym>RTT</acronym> 507 instead of timestamps for receive buffer auto resizing.</para> 508 </sect2> 509 510 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 511 <title>Network Protocols</title> 512 513 <para revision="309340" contrib="sponsor" 514 sponsor="&dellemc;">Support for <acronym>GARP</acronym> 515 (gratuitous <acronym>ARP</acronym>) retransmit has been added. 516 A new &man.sysctl.8;, 517 <literal>net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count</literal>, has 518 been added, which sets the maximum number of retransmissions 519 when set to a non-zero value.</para> 520 </sect2> 521 </sect1> 522 523 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 524 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 525 526 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 527 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 528 installation tools.</para> 529 530 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 531 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 532 533 <para> </para> 534 </sect2> 535 536 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 537 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 538 539 <para> </para> 540 </sect2> 541 </sect1> 542 543 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 544 <title>Documentation</title> 545 546 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 547 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 548 549 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 550 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 551 552 <para> </para> 553 </sect2> 554 555 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 556 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 557 558 <para> </para> 559 </sect2> 560 </sect1> 561 562 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 563 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 564 565 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 566 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 567 568 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 569 <title>Integration Changes</title> 570 571 <para> </para> 572 </sect2> 573 </sect1> 574</article> 575