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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 322312 2017-08-09 12:45:49Z 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.rlogind.8;, and &man.rshd.8; utilities have 200 been marked as deprecated, and planned for removal in 201 &os; 12.0-RELEASE.</para> 202 203 <para revision="320824">The &man.gdb.1; and &man.kgdb.1; 204 utilities have been marked as deprecated, and planned for 205 removal from the base system in the future. A newer version 206 is available in the <filename 207 role="package">devel/gdb</filename> port.</para> 208 209 <para revision="321242">The &man.cron.8; utility has been 210 updated to add support for including files within <filename 211 class="directory">/etc/cron.d</filename> and <filename 212 class="directory">/usr/local/etc/cron.d</filename> by 213 default.</para> 214 215 <para revision="321234">The &man.syslogd.8; utility has been 216 updated to add the <literal>include</literal> keyword which 217 allows specifying a directory containing configuration files 218 to be included in addition to &man.syslog.conf.5;. The 219 default &man.syslog.conf.5; has been updated to include 220 <filename class="directory">/etc/syslog.d</filename> and 221 <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/syslog.d</filename> 222 by default.</para> 223 224 <para revision="321263">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been 225 updated to support logging to &man.syslogd.8; in a format 226 compliant with RFC5424. For more details, see the description 227 for the <literal>T</literal> flag in 228 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para> 229 </sect2> 230 231 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> 232 <title>Contributed Software</title> 233 234 <para revision="309512"><application>Subversion</application> 235 has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para> 236 237 <para revision="309848">&man.file.1; has been updated to version 238 5.29.</para> 239 240 <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated 241 to version 6.2.</para> 242 243 <para revision="312516">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version 244 5.2.3.</para> 245 246 <para revision="313796">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version 247 1.2.11.</para> 248 249 <para revision="316069">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version 250 4.2.8p10.</para> 251 252 <para revision="316350">Timezone data files have been updated to 253 version 2017b.</para> 254 255 <para revision="316958">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version 256 6.20.00.</para> 257 258 <para revision="321304">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to 259 version 3.3.2.</para> 260 261 <para revision="321964"><application>bmake</application> has 262 been updated to version 20170720.</para> 263 </sect2> 264 265 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 266 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 267 268 <para revision="321202" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 269 default <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition created by 270 &man.bsdinstall.8; has been increased from 800KB to 271 200MB.</para> 272 </sect2> 273 274 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 275 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 276 Scripts</title> 277 278 <para> </para> 279 </sect2> 280 281 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 282 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 283 Scripts</title> 284 285 <para> </para> 286 </sect2> 287 288 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 289 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 290 291 <para revision="316040">The &man.kvm.close.3; function has been 292 updated to return the accumulated error from previous 293 &man.close.2; calls.</para> 294 </sect2> 295 296 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 297 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 298 299 <para revision="309258">The type <literal>max_align_t</literal> 300 is now defined for C11 compliance.</para> 301 </sect2> 302 303 <sect2 xml:id="userland-debug"> 304 <title>Userland Debugging</title> 305 306 <para revision="304017">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 307 thread creation and destruction, permitting more reliable 308 debugging of threaded processes.</para> 309 310 <para revision="304499">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 311 &man.vfork.2;, permitting reliable debugging across 312 &man.vfork.2; invocations.</para> 313 314 <para revision="306786">Process core dumps now include the 315 process ID (<acronym>PID</acronym>) and command line 316 arguments.</para> 317 </sect2> 318 </sect1> 319 320 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 321 <title>Kernel</title> 322 323 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 324 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 325 categorized.</para> 326 327 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-misc"> 328 <title>Miscellaneous Kernel Changes</title> 329 330 <para revision="321198">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated, 331 increasing the maximum framebuffer size.</para> 332 </sect2> 333 334 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 335 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 336 337 <para revision="317434">The &man.ipf.4; packet filter has been 338 updated to prevent <literal>keep state</literal> from 339 incorrectly implying <literal>keep frags</literal>, matching 340 the behavior documented in &man.ipf.5;.</para> 341 </sect2> 342 343 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 344 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 345 346 <para> </para> 347 </sect2> 348 349 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 350 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 351 352 <para revision="321024">The 353 <literal>kern.features.linux</literal> and 354 <literal>kern.features.linux64</literal> flags have been 355 added to the <literal>kern.features</literal> &man.sysctl.8;, 356 which when set to <literal>1</literal>, indicate the kernel 357 is configured with compatibility for 32-bit and/or 64-bit 358 linux binaries, respectively.</para> 359 </sect2> 360 </sect1> 361 362 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 363 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 364 365 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 366 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 367 368 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 369 <title>Device Drivers</title> 370 371 <para revision="306533" contrib="sponsor" 372 sponsor="&chelsio;">&man.devctl.8; now supports a "clear 373 driver" command as a complement to "set 374 driver".</para> 375 </sect2> 376 377 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 378 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 379 380 <para revision="319436">The &man.mpr.4; driver has been updated 381 to support tri-mode 382 (<acronym>SAS</acronym>/<acronym>SATA</acronym>/<acronym>PCIe</acronym>) 383 Broadcom® storage adapters.</para> 384 385 <para revision="321067">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been 386 updated to version 1.40.00.00, adding support for ARC-1884 387 <acronym>SATA</acronym> controllers.</para> 388 </sect2> 389 390 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 391 <title>Network Drivers</title> 392 393 <para revision="309447" contrib="sponsor" 394 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbev.4; driver has been added, 395 providing support for Virtual Function devices 396 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T4 and T5 adapters.</para> 397 398 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 399 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 400 to provide support for Virtual Function devices 401 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T6 adapters.</para> 402 403 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 404 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver now supports 405 devices using T6-based adapters which support 10, 25, 40, and 406 100 Gbps.</para> 407 408 <para revision="312359">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated 409 to provide support for Atheros® Killer E2400™ 410 Gigabit ethernet cards.</para> 411 412 <para revision="314019" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ms;">The 413 &man.alc.4; driver has been updated to provide support for 414 Atheros® Killer E2500™ Gigabit ethernet 415 cards.</para> 416 417 <para revision="316485">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added, 418 providing support for Cavium® Qlogic™ 45000 Series 419 adapters.</para> 420 421 <para revision="319270" contrib="sponsor" 422 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 423 to firmware version 1.16.45.0 for T4, T5, and T6 cards.</para> 424 </sect2> 425 </sect1> 426 427 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 428 <title>Hardware Support</title> 429 430 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 431 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 432 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 433 other sections of this document.</para> 434 435 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 436 <title>Hardware Support</title> 437 438 <para> </para> 439 </sect2> 440 441 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 442 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 443 444 <para revision="306520" contrib="sponsor" 445 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 446 &man.bhyve.4; resets functions via <acronym>FLR</acronym> when 447 a virtual machine is started and stopped.</para> 448 449 <para revision="306472" contrib="sponsor" 450 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 451 &man.bhyve.4; supports more dynamic configurations permitting 452 devices to be marked for passthrough or host use at 453 runtime.</para> 454 </sect2> 455 456 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 457 <title>ARM Support</title> 458 459 <para> </para> 460 </sect2> 461 </sect1> 462 463 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 464 <title>Storage</title> 465 466 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 467 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 468 469 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 470 <title>General Storage</title> 471 472 <para> </para> 473 </sect2> 474 475 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 476 <title>Networked Storage</title> 477 478 <para revision="318675">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client now 479 properly handles <literal>NFS4ERR_BAD_SESSION</literal> errors 480 received from an <acronym>NFS</acronym> server. Additionally, 481 the kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> client has been updated to 482 prevent creating new <acronym>TCP</acronym> connections when 483 <literal>ERESTART</literal> is received from 484 &man.sosend.9;.</para> 485 486 <para revision="321031">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client has 487 been updated to support <acronym>pNFS</acronym> 488 <literal>commit</literal> through the 489 <literal>DS</literal>.</para> 490 </sect2> 491 492 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 493 <title>ZFS</title> 494 495 <para></para> 496 </sect2> 497 498 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 499 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 500 501 <para> </para> 502 </sect2> 503 </sect1> 504 505 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 506 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 507 508 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 509 boot-related changes.</para> 510 511 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 512 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 513 514 <para> </para> 515 </sect2> 516 517 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 518 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 519 520 <para> </para> 521 </sect2> 522 </sect1> 523 524 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 525 <title>Networking</title> 526 527 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 528 &os;.</para> 529 530 <sect2 xml:id="network-general"> 531 <title>General Networking Changes</title> 532 533 <para revision="313558" contrib="sponsor" 534 sponsor="&dellemc;">The network stack has been modified to fix 535 incorrect or invalid <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses if 536 multiple threads emit a <acronym>UDP</acronym> 537 <literal>log_in_vain</literal> message concurrently.</para> 538 539 <para revision="317375" contrib="sponsor" 540 sponsor="&multiplay;">The <acronym>TCP</acronym> stack has 541 been changed to use the estimated <acronym>RTT</acronym> 542 instead of timestamps for receive buffer auto resizing.</para> 543 </sect2> 544 545 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 546 <title>Network Protocols</title> 547 548 <para revision="309340" contrib="sponsor" 549 sponsor="&dellemc;">Support for <acronym>GARP</acronym> 550 (gratuitous <acronym>ARP</acronym>) retransmit has been added. 551 A new &man.sysctl.8;, 552 <literal>net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count</literal>, has 553 been added, which sets the maximum number of retransmissions 554 when set to a non-zero value.</para> 555 </sect2> 556 </sect1> 557 558 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 559 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 560 561 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 562 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 563 installation tools.</para> 564 565 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 566 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 567 568 <para> </para> 569 </sect2> 570 571 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 572 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 573 574 <para> </para> 575 </sect2> 576 </sect1> 577 578 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 579 <title>Documentation</title> 580 581 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 582 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 583 584 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 585 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 586 587 <para> </para> 588 </sect2> 589 590 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 591 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 592 593 <para> </para> 594 </sect2> 595 </sect1> 596 597 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 598 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 599 600 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 601 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 602 603 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 604 <title>Integration Changes</title> 605 606 <para> </para> 607 </sect2> 608 </sect1> 609</article> 610