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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 322191 2017-08-07 19:45:31Z 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="320646">The &man.rcp.1;, &man.rlogin.1;, 199 &man.rsh.1;, &man.ruptime.1;, &man.rwho.1;, &man.rlogind.8;, 200 &man.rshd.8;, and &man.rwhod.8; utilities have been marked as 201 deprecated, and planned for removal in 202 &os; 12.0-RELEASE.</para> 203 204 <para revision="320824">The &man.gdb.1; and &man.kgdb.1; 205 utilities have been marked as deprecated, and planned for 206 removal from the base system in the future. A newer version 207 is available in the <filename 208 role="package">devel/gdb</filename> port.</para> 209 210 <para revision="321242">The &man.cron.8; utility has been 211 updated to add support for including files within <filename 212 class="directory">/etc/cron.d</filename> and <filename 213 class="directory">/usr/local/etc/cron.d</filename> by 214 default.</para> 215 216 <para revision="321234">The &man.syslogd.8; utility has been 217 updated to add the <literal>include</literal> keyword which 218 allows specifying a directory containing configuration files 219 to be included in addition to &man.syslog.conf.5;. The 220 default &man.syslog.conf.5; has been updated to include 221 <filename class="directory">/etc/syslog.d</filename> and 222 <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/syslog.d</filename> 223 by default.</para> 224 225 <para revision="321263">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 226 updated to support logging to &man.syslogd.8; in a format 227 compliant with RFC5424. For more details, see the description 228 for the <literal>T</literal> flag in 229 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 230 231 <para revision="321216">The &man.savecore.8; utility has been 232 updated to use <acronym>KiB</acronym> when outputting 233 information regarding total space, free space, etc.</para> 234 </sect2> 235 236 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 237 <title>Contributed Software</title> 238 239 <para revision="309512"><application>Subversion</application> 240 has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para> 241 242 <para revision="309848">&man.file.1; has been updated to version 243 5.29.</para> 244 245 <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated 246 to version 6.2.</para> 247 248 <para revision="312516">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version 249 5.2.3.</para> 250 251 <para revision="313796">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version 252 1.2.11.</para> 253 254 <para revision="316069">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version 255 4.2.8p10.</para> 256 257 <para revision="316350">Timezone data files have been updated to 258 version 2017b.</para> 259 260 <para revision="316958">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version 261 6.20.00.</para> 262 263 <para revision="321304">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to 264 version 3.3.2.</para> 265 </sect2> 266 267 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 268 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 269 270 <para revision="321202" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 271 default <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition created by 272 &man.bsdinstall.8; has been increased from 800KB to 273 200MB.</para> 274 </sect2> 275 276 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 277 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 278 Scripts</title> 279 280 <para> </para> 281 </sect2> 282 283 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 284 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 285 Scripts</title> 286 287 <para> </para> 288 </sect2> 289 290 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 291 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 292 293 <para revision="316040">The &man.kvm.close.3; function has been 294 updated to return the accumulated error from previous 295 &man.close.2; calls.</para> 296 </sect2> 297 298 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 299 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 300 301 <para revision="309258">The type <literal>max_align_t</literal> 302 is now defined for C11 compliance.</para> 303 </sect2> 304 305 <sect2 xml:id="userland-debug"> 306 <title>Userland Debugging</title> 307 308 <para revision="304017">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 309 thread creation and destruction, permitting more reliable 310 debugging of threaded processes.</para> 311 312 <para revision="304499">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 313 &man.vfork.2;, permitting reliable debugging across 314 &man.vfork.2; invocations.</para> 315 316 <para revision="306786">Process core dumps now include the 317 process ID (<acronym>PID</acronym>) and command line 318 arguments.</para> 319 </sect2> 320 </sect1> 321 322 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 323 <title>Kernel</title> 324 325 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 326 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 327 categorized.</para> 328 329 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-misc"> 330 <title>Miscellaneous Kernel Changes</title> 331 332 <para revision="321198">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated, 333 increasing the maximum framebuffer size.</para> 334 </sect2> 335 336 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 337 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 338 339 <para revision="317434">The &man.ipf.4; packet filter has been 340 updated to prevent <literal>keep state</literal> from 341 incorrectly implying <literal>keep frags</literal>, matching 342 the behavior documented in &man.ipf.5;.</para> 343 </sect2> 344 345 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 346 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 347 348 <para> </para> 349 </sect2> 350 351 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 352 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 353 354 <para revision="321024">The 355 <literal>kern.features.linux</literal> and 356 <literal>kern.features.linux64</literal> flags have been 357 added to the <literal>kern.features</literal> &man.sysctl.8;, 358 which when set to <literal>1</literal>, indicate the kernel 359 is configured with compatibility for 32-bit and/or 64-bit 360 linux binaries, respectively.</para> 361 </sect2> 362 </sect1> 363 364 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 365 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 366 367 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 368 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 369 370 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 371 <title>Device Drivers</title> 372 373 <para revision="306533" contrib="sponsor" 374 sponsor="&chelsio;">&man.devctl.8; now supports a "clear 375 driver" command as a complement to "set 376 driver".</para> 377 </sect2> 378 379 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 380 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 381 382 <para revision="319436">The &man.mpr.4; driver has been updated 383 to support tri-mode 384 (<acronym>SAS</acronym>/<acronym>SATA</acronym>/<acronym>PCIe</acronym>) 385 Broadcom® storage adapters.</para> 386 </sect2> 387 388 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 389 <title>Network Drivers</title> 390 391 <para revision="309447" contrib="sponsor" 392 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbev.4; driver has been added, 393 providing support for Virtual Function devices 394 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T4 and T5 adapters.</para> 395 396 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 397 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 398 to provide support for Virtual Function devices 399 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T6 adapters.</para> 400 401 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 402 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver now supports 403 devices using T6-based adapters which support 10, 25, 40, and 404 100 Gbps.</para> 405 406 <para revision="312359">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated 407 to provide support for Atheros® Killer E2400™ 408 Gigabit ethernet cards.</para> 409 410 <para revision="314019" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ms;">The 411 &man.alc.4; driver has been updated to provide support for 412 Atheros® Killer E2500™ Gigabit ethernet 413 cards.</para> 414 415 <para revision="316485">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added, 416 providing support for Cavium® Qlogic™ 45000 Series 417 adapters.</para> 418 419 <para revision="319270" contrib="sponsor" 420 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 421 to firmware version 1.16.45.0 for T4, T5, and T6 cards.</para> 422 </sect2> 423 </sect1> 424 425 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 426 <title>Hardware Support</title> 427 428 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 429 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 430 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 431 other sections of this document.</para> 432 433 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 434 <title>Hardware Support</title> 435 436 <para> </para> 437 </sect2> 438 439 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 440 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 441 442 <para revision="306520" contrib="sponsor" 443 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 444 &man.bhyve.4; resets functions via <acronym>FLR</acronym> when 445 a virtual machine is started and stopped.</para> 446 447 <para revision="306472" contrib="sponsor" 448 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 449 &man.bhyve.4; supports more dynamic configurations permitting 450 devices to be marked for passthrough or host use at 451 runtime.</para> 452 </sect2> 453 454 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 455 <title>ARM Support</title> 456 457 <para> </para> 458 </sect2> 459 </sect1> 460 461 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 462 <title>Storage</title> 463 464 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 465 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 466 467 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 468 <title>General Storage</title> 469 470 <para> </para> 471 </sect2> 472 473 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 474 <title>Networked Storage</title> 475 476 <para revision="318675">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client now 477 properly handles <literal>NFS4ERR_BAD_SESSION</literal> errors 478 received from an <acronym>NFS</acronym> server. Additionally, 479 the kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> client has been updated to 480 prevent creating new <acronym>TCP</acronym> connections when 481 <literal>ERESTART</literal> is received from 482 &man.sosend.9;.</para> 483 484 <para revision="321031">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client has 485 been updated to support <acronym>pNFS</acronym> 486 <literal>commit</literal> through the 487 <literal>DS</literal>.</para> 488 </sect2> 489 490 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 491 <title>ZFS</title> 492 493 <para></para> 494 </sect2> 495 496 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 497 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 498 499 <para> </para> 500 </sect2> 501 </sect1> 502 503 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 504 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 505 506 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 507 boot-related changes.</para> 508 509 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 510 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 511 512 <para> </para> 513 </sect2> 514 515 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 516 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 517 518 <para> </para> 519 </sect2> 520 </sect1> 521 522 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 523 <title>Networking</title> 524 525 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 526 &os;.</para> 527 528 <sect2 xml:id="network-general"> 529 <title>General Networking Changes</title> 530 531 <para revision="313558" contrib="sponsor" 532 sponsor="&dellemc;">The network stack has been modified to fix 533 incorrect or invalid <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses if 534 multiple threads emit a <acronym>UDP</acronym> 535 <literal>log_in_vain</literal> message concurrently.</para> 536 537 <para revision="317375" contrib="sponsor" 538 sponsor="&multiplay;">The <acronym>TCP</acronym> stack has 539 been changed to use the estimated <acronym>RTT</acronym> 540 instead of timestamps for receive buffer auto resizing.</para> 541 </sect2> 542 543 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 544 <title>Network Protocols</title> 545 546 <para revision="309340" contrib="sponsor" 547 sponsor="&dellemc;">Support for <acronym>GARP</acronym> 548 (gratuitous <acronym>ARP</acronym>) retransmit has been added. 549 A new &man.sysctl.8;, 550 <literal>net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count</literal>, has 551 been added, which sets the maximum number of retransmissions 552 when set to a non-zero value.</para> 553 </sect2> 554 </sect1> 555 556 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 557 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 558 559 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 560 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 561 installation tools.</para> 562 563 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 564 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 565 566 <para> </para> 567 </sect2> 568 569 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 570 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 571 572 <para> </para> 573 </sect2> 574 </sect1> 575 576 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 577 <title>Documentation</title> 578 579 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 580 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 581 582 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 583 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 584 585 <para> </para> 586 </sect2> 587 588 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 589 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 590 591 <para> </para> 592 </sect2> 593 </sect1> 594 595 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 596 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 597 598 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 599 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 600 601 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 602 <title>Integration Changes</title> 603 604 <para> </para> 605 </sect2> 606 </sect1> 607</article> 608