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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 322541 2017-08-15 14:02:57Z 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> 263 264 <para revision="322244"><filename>pci_vendors</filename> has 265 been updated to version 2017.07.27.</para> 266 </sect2> 267 268 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> 269 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> 270 271 <para revision="321202" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The 272 default <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition created by 273 &man.bsdinstall.8; has been increased from 800KB to 274 200MB.</para> 275 </sect2> 276 277 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> 278 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> 279 Scripts</title> 280 281 <para> </para> 282 </sect2> 283 284 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> 285 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> 286 Scripts</title> 287 288 <para> </para> 289 </sect2> 290 291 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> 292 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> 293 294 <para revision="316040">The &man.kvm.close.3; function has been 295 updated to return the accumulated error from previous 296 &man.close.2; calls.</para> 297 </sect2> 298 299 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> 300 <title>ABI Compatibility</title> 301 302 <para revision="309258">The type <literal>max_align_t</literal> 303 is now defined for C11 compliance.</para> 304 </sect2> 305 306 <sect2 xml:id="userland-debug"> 307 <title>Userland Debugging</title> 308 309 <para revision="304017">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 310 thread creation and destruction, permitting more reliable 311 debugging of threaded processes.</para> 312 313 <para revision="304499">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for 314 &man.vfork.2;, permitting reliable debugging across 315 &man.vfork.2; invocations.</para> 316 317 <para revision="306786">Process core dumps now include the 318 process ID (<acronym>PID</acronym>) and command line 319 arguments.</para> 320 </sect2> 321 </sect1> 322 323 <sect1 xml:id="kernel"> 324 <title>Kernel</title> 325 326 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system 327 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise 328 categorized.</para> 329 330 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-misc"> 331 <title>Miscellaneous Kernel Changes</title> 332 333 <para revision="321198">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated, 334 increasing the maximum framebuffer size.</para> 335 </sect2> 336 337 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> 338 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> 339 340 <para revision="317434">The &man.ipf.4; packet filter has been 341 updated to prevent <literal>keep state</literal> from 342 incorrectly implying <literal>keep frags</literal>, matching 343 the behavior documented in &man.ipf.5;.</para> 344 </sect2> 345 346 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> 347 <title>Kernel Configuration</title> 348 349 <para> </para> 350 </sect2> 351 352 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> 353 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> 354 355 <para revision="321024">The 356 <literal>kern.features.linux</literal> and 357 <literal>kern.features.linux64</literal> flags have been 358 added to the <literal>kern.features</literal> &man.sysctl.8;, 359 which when set to <literal>1</literal>, indicate the kernel 360 is configured with compatibility for 32-bit and/or 64-bit 361 linux binaries, respectively.</para> 362 </sect2> 363 </sect1> 364 365 <sect1 xml:id="drivers"> 366 <title>Devices and Drivers</title> 367 368 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and 369 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para> 370 371 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> 372 <title>Device Drivers</title> 373 374 <para revision="306533" contrib="sponsor" 375 sponsor="&chelsio;">&man.devctl.8; now supports a "clear 376 driver" command as a complement to "set 377 driver".</para> 378 </sect2> 379 380 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> 381 <title>Storage Drivers</title> 382 383 <para revision="319436">The &man.mpr.4; driver has been updated 384 to support tri-mode 385 (<acronym>SAS</acronym>/<acronym>SATA</acronym>/<acronym>PCIe</acronym>) 386 Broadcom® storage adapters.</para> 387 388 <para revision="321067">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been 389 updated to version 1.40.00.00, adding support for ARC-1884 390 <acronym>SATA</acronym> controllers.</para> 391 </sect2> 392 393 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> 394 <title>Network Drivers</title> 395 396 <para revision="309447" contrib="sponsor" 397 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbev.4; driver has been added, 398 providing support for Virtual Function devices 399 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T4 and T5 adapters.</para> 400 401 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 402 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 403 to provide support for Virtual Function devices 404 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T6 adapters.</para> 405 406 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor" 407 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver now supports 408 devices using T6-based adapters which support 10, 25, 40, and 409 100 Gbps.</para> 410 411 <para revision="312359">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated 412 to provide support for Atheros® Killer E2400™ 413 Gigabit ethernet cards.</para> 414 415 <para revision="314019" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ms;">The 416 &man.alc.4; driver has been updated to provide support for 417 Atheros® Killer E2500™ Gigabit ethernet 418 cards.</para> 419 420 <para revision="316485">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added, 421 providing support for Cavium® Qlogic™ 45000 Series 422 adapters.</para> 423 424 <para revision="319270" contrib="sponsor" 425 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated 426 to firmware version 1.16.45.0 for T4, T5, and T6 cards.</para> 427 </sect2> 428 </sect1> 429 430 <sect1 xml:id="hardware"> 431 <title>Hardware Support</title> 432 433 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical 434 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well 435 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in 436 other sections of this document.</para> 437 438 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> 439 <title>Hardware Support</title> 440 441 <para> </para> 442 </sect2> 443 444 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> 445 <title>Virtualization Support</title> 446 447 <para revision="306520" contrib="sponsor" 448 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 449 &man.bhyve.4; resets functions via <acronym>FLR</acronym> when 450 a virtual machine is started and stopped.</para> 451 452 <para revision="306472" contrib="sponsor" 453 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with 454 &man.bhyve.4; supports more dynamic configurations permitting 455 devices to be marked for passthrough or host use at 456 runtime.</para> 457 </sect2> 458 459 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> 460 <title>ARM Support</title> 461 462 <para> </para> 463 </sect2> 464 </sect1> 465 466 <sect1 xml:id="storage"> 467 <title>Storage</title> 468 469 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems 470 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para> 471 472 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> 473 <title>General Storage</title> 474 475 <para> </para> 476 </sect2> 477 478 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> 479 <title>Networked Storage</title> 480 481 <para revision="318675">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client now 482 properly handles <literal>NFS4ERR_BAD_SESSION</literal> errors 483 received from an <acronym>NFS</acronym> server. Additionally, 484 the kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> client has been updated to 485 prevent creating new <acronym>TCP</acronym> connections when 486 <literal>ERESTART</literal> is received from 487 &man.sosend.9;.</para> 488 489 <para revision="321031">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client has 490 been updated to support <acronym>pNFS</acronym> 491 <literal>commit</literal> through the 492 <literal>DS</literal>.</para> 493 </sect2> 494 495 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> 496 <title>ZFS</title> 497 498 <para></para> 499 </sect2> 500 501 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> 502 <title>&man.geom.4;</title> 503 504 <para> </para> 505 </sect2> 506 </sect1> 507 508 <sect1 xml:id="boot"> 509 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 510 511 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other 512 boot-related changes.</para> 513 514 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> 515 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 516 517 <para> </para> 518 </sect2> 519 520 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> 521 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title> 522 523 <para> </para> 524 </sect2> 525 </sect1> 526 527 <sect1 xml:id="network"> 528 <title>Networking</title> 529 530 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in 531 &os;.</para> 532 533 <sect2 xml:id="network-general"> 534 <title>General Networking Changes</title> 535 536 <para revision="313558" contrib="sponsor" 537 sponsor="&dellemc;">The network stack has been modified to fix 538 incorrect or invalid <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses if 539 multiple threads emit a <acronym>UDP</acronym> 540 <literal>log_in_vain</literal> message concurrently.</para> 541 542 <para revision="317375" contrib="sponsor" 543 sponsor="&multiplay;">The <acronym>TCP</acronym> stack has 544 been changed to use the estimated <acronym>RTT</acronym> 545 instead of timestamps for receive buffer auto resizing.</para> 546 </sect2> 547 548 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> 549 <title>Network Protocols</title> 550 551 <para revision="309340" contrib="sponsor" 552 sponsor="&dellemc;">Support for <acronym>GARP</acronym> 553 (gratuitous <acronym>ARP</acronym>) retransmit has been added. 554 A new &man.sysctl.8;, 555 <literal>net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count</literal>, has 556 been added, which sets the maximum number of retransmissions 557 when set to a non-zero value.</para> 558 </sect2> 559 </sect1> 560 561 <sect1 xml:id="ports"> 562 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title> 563 564 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports 565 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and 566 installation tools.</para> 567 568 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure"> 569 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title> 570 571 <para> </para> 572 </sect2> 573 574 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 575 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 576 577 <para> </para> 578 </sect2> 579 </sect1> 580 581 <sect1 xml:id="doc"> 582 <title>Documentation</title> 583 584 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation 585 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 586 587 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 588 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 589 590 <para> </para> 591 </sect2> 592 593 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 594 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 595 596 <para> </para> 597 </sect2> 598 </sect1> 599 600 <sect1 xml:id="releng"> 601 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 602 603 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the 604 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para> 605 606 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> 607 <title>Integration Changes</title> 608 609 <para> </para> 610 </sect2> 611 </sect1> 612</article> 613